” ...leftists really dont want to end the controversy and figure that theyre getting more political mileage out of this whole issue than they would if they ended it...
” ....especially with the large volume of articles by the leftists about the birth certificate issue”
That theory makes sense only if one looks at the ‘large volume of articles’ in the past month or so. It has only been recently that it has been discussed by anyone in the media, including Fox. Then a sudden deluge. It’s now been on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox, plus written articles in everything from the WaPo to Vanity Fair.
They appear to have changed tactics midstream from ignoring it completely to speaking/writing in an effort to make ‘birthers’ appear as nothing but kooks. In the meanwhile, the more they talk about it, the more people become aware of the issue. Doesn’t make a lot of sense as a strategy.
You said — They appear to have changed tactics midstream from ignoring it completely to speaking/writing in an effort to make birthers appear as nothing but kooks. In the meanwhile, the more they talk about it, the more people become aware of the issue. Doesnt make a lot of sense as a strategy.
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Yes, it does appear to be a change in strategy and I noted that it was a “change” elsewhere. It seems to be a “developing strategy” actually. You know how some things work... you gradually come upon them or you stumble upon them. I think it may be that way with this, more recently.
I wrote the following elsewhere..., in a thread in which an article was trying to “tag” someone with this label of being a birther, while they were actually trying to distance themselves from it. It was like the article was “using” the birther designation to sidetrack the real issues that were being spoken about, by this conservative.
So, the comment I said elsewhere...
The leftists dont want the issue to go away. Its too useful to them. I posted the following in another thread about what someone said is panic setting in. What I see, instead, is a strategy developing by the leftists...
Well, heres how it would work..., if youre a conservative and you have ever said anything about the birth certificate issue, those leftists are going to know about it. And then, lets say youre giving some reasoned points on some legislation being pushed by Obama...
If it starts sounding too good or they cant counter it then its time to shift over to the Obama birth certificate issue and the leftists will be the ones who raise it.
Then they try to paint that person *as* one of those who believes that Obama is not qualified to be President, because he has not shown a proper birth certificate.
At that point, theyve just gotten you off your points in regards to Obamas legislation that youre trying to get out to the public and over into whether you think that Obama is qualified to be President or not.
The public sees and hears this, they forget all about the points you were making on the legislation that Obama is pushing and now the public thinks the whole issue was about whether Obama is qualified to be President or not.
The leftists love to get the conservatives over into that topic, because it means that this particular conservative cant talk about the legislation that he originally wanted to talk about.
Thats how it works...
And thats why the leftists are loving the Obama Birth Certificate Issue as a good issue for them to beat on and divert any conversation away from something else.
I think the birther issue is going to be useful to them...
As I said, this appears to be a “developing” strategy right now... (i.e, just recently)