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To: Hostage

I didn’t buy into anything. I heard Akin verbatim and I concluded that he was amazingly ignorant and sounded very callous toward rape victims.

The trap is always set for conservative candidates. That’s just the way it is. In order to win, a GOP candidate has to be clever enough to know the trap might be there and be prepared to avoid it.

Reality bites sometimes, but it’s what it is.


38 posted on 02/17/2013 5:25:31 AM PST by randita
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To: randita

What Akin said was uncalled for but his statements are brilliant when compared to what hundreds of democrats have said in the media including Harry Reid and Barack Obama.

You are taking the side of the media by circling the firing squad rather than circling the wagons. The media will ALWAYS set a trap for opposing candidates and if the trap doesn’t work they will make something up that is completely false as in what they did to Herman Cain.

You’re asking for perfection and you will never see it. You’re asking for candidates to kowtow to the media which is in fact the goal that the media has in mind for them. Therefore, you are part and parcel to the war waged by the leftist media against the right.

Look what they are doing to Cruz. You can see they are setting up Cruz for the fall:

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/02/16/NYT-Goes-Birther-Attacks-Canadian-Born-Cruz-Calls-Him-McCarthyite

Now Cruz has made no mistakes so far and likely he won’t make any. He is real smart. But he will be marginalized, you can bet on it.

The perspective you should consider taking is rather than comment or heckle on how less than perfect candidates should avoid falling in the traps set by leftist media, you should consider how the candidates can set traps for the media as in Dan Rather.

Another tactic is the ‘rumor’ attack. Candidates like Akin can get on the local TV shows and say “I’ve heard that [insert leftist pundit name] believes that women bodies shutdown during real rape” but in any event the number of women falsely accusing men of rape to actual rape is 22 to 1 [cite statistical source here]”. This is hearsay but it is used daily by the leftist media.

So you might single out each and every liberal mouthpiece you can think of and engineer a way of having them stick their own foot in their mouth. This is a far more productive effort than standing back in the gallery shooting peanuts at republican candidates.

When you demand that candidates avoid traps you end up getting Romney.

Stop playing defense and go on the offensive. Become an activist and go after the leftist media.


44 posted on 02/17/2013 8:51:04 AM PST by Hostage (Be Breitbart!)
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