From Rush yesterday:
RUSH:..."This election is shaping up to be, if you listen to the way Mrs. Clinton is running things and portraying herself -- and you don't even have to read between the lines on this -- she's running a competence election." The whole point -- the Democrat focus with the Drive-Bys -- for the past how many months and years has been that Bush is incompetent. Katrina, the fires out in California, whatever it is, Bush is incompetent. Mrs. Clinton is running around saying, "I'm competent. I'm experienced. I'm this." Obama is trying to do the same thing. Okay, so the Democrats are doing what? They're running a competence election. Do we want to play on that field? Do we want to let them set the premise? Do we want to run a competence election? No! We want to run an election based on the future of the country: what it's going to look like if they win; what it will look like if we win.
We want to run on the vision of the greatness of America and American exceptionalism. We want to run on an inspiring message, not a message of fear!
A Golden Opportunity for the GOP 76 posted on
12/01/2007 10:05:40 AM PST by
Miss Didi
("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
Competence? When has Hillary demonstrated competence? In the health-care debacle? In managing scandals?
Likewise for Obama--what has he done to demonstrate competence? Winning election to the Senate against a last-minute out-of-state substitute opponent?
Bush isn't incompetent, except at defending himself from partisan attacks, but the media has made his supposed incompetence into conventional wisdom, so the Democrats can demonstrate that they are "competent" simply by being vitriolic in denouncing Bush.
Imagine if Bill Clinton had been President at the time of Hurricane Katrina. The state and local authorities would have made as bad a hash of the situation as they in fact did, but he would have milked the disaster for its PR value (remember the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing), and the conventional wisdom would be that the flooding was the fault of the Republican Congress not voting enough money for levee repairs.