Posted on 09/22/2022 4:54:15 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The Arizona gubernatorial candidate and the Republican attorney general candidate were not going to accept the reporter’s premise.
A huge rhetorical error is to get entangled in your opponent’s fake premise. We all recognize that problem with the hypothetical “when did you stop beating your wife” question, but Republican politicians often find themselves playing defense against a fundamentally flawed question. Kari Lake, however, does not do that. Her response to a reporter’s loaded question about Blacks and police shows how to avoid this rhetorical trap.
Lake, who is running against Katie Dobbs to be governor of California. appeared at a press conference against an Arizona Police Association backdrop. An unseen reporter fired off a loaded question:
Kari, a lot of people of color feel like they are unfairly targeted by police. Are they wrong to feel that way? And regardless of if there’s any merit there, what can you as governor do to improve the perception of police?
Most Republican politicians when asked such a question would have begun a stumbling defense about how most police are good people, but it’s up to everyone to make sure to protect the minority community from bad police, and blah, blah, blah. In other words, they would have accepted the premise while, at the same time, trying to walk away from it. It’s a normal human response, but a bad one if you’re running for office.
Kari Lake doesn’t respond that way. She immediately questioned the reporter’s premise: “A lot of people of color? How many people of color have you talked to about that?”
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I agree 100%. You either have this ability or you don't. You also have to take the attitude that the media will NEVER be your friend, if you are conservative.
The conservative voters love it when a candidate socks it to the media. That's why Trump steamrollered over a dozen professional politicians in the 2016 primaries. When Trump went after the likes of Megyn Kelly in that first debate, everybody recoiled in horror and thought Trump would be finished. Actually, it was the key to his victory.
By comparison, candidates like Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio looked very feckless and weak because they were trying to ingratiate themselves with the hostile media.
Let the Stupid Party and the head of the Stupid Party in your state know this.
And yer local newspaper.
I think it comes from the fact that neither Pres Trump, Pres Reagan and Kari Lake aren’t/weren’t politicians. They weren’t trained and coached on how to answer something without answering it. Talk in circles and show your compassion.
They talk straight. Nothing more, nothing less.
In the real world and private sector, not politics, if you spend your days talking like a politician you aren’t going to last long. No one has time to listen to drivel.
Question asked. Question answered. And you don’t allow someone else to lead you around by the nose.
I thought it was Arizona
“Lake, who is running against Katie Dobbs to be governor of California
??????”
Spell check? California, Arizona, quite close /s
Election “experts” are surrogates to take the place of political savvy.
If a candidate can create their own image of toughness and judgement, they don’t need a lot of consultant advice.
If they can stay in the news loop, they don’t need a lot of ad buys.
Folks who see something of Donald Trump in Kari Lake are probably mistaken when it comes to political principle and administrative competence. Lake has principles and can articulate them; Trump is a fierce administrative infighter with one guide- MAGA.
When it comes to efficient campaign activity, they do look a lot alike to me.
Kari Lake in due course could well be elected first Republican woman President.
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