You: Exactly, but they did that because we on the Right focussed on him and made him the story.
My full paragraph before your edit:
Well, I dont know what country you are living in, but the press got a hold of Joe the Plumber, tore him to shreds, Dem activists conducted illegal investigations and passed them to the press, who then made HIM the story and ignored the statement by that POS in the WH. Hannity did nothing to change the story (but throw a toy football like a girl). You seem to be in the blame conservatives first branch of the The Grand Old Potty.
Be a big boy and respond to full posts, not your own edits.
And when the Left started, which was nothing but smart at that point, we had no defence. Nobody could say the only reasonable thing, "Who cares who asked the question, look what Obama said!" No, supposed conservatives had made Joe the Plumber the story and so they could say and do nothing as the Left tore him down and helped Obama to the White House. Obama self-destructed when he answered without thinking, and we could have skewered him with it. However, in their zeal to celebrate this "regular guy" people on the Right undid themselves, and us with them. Fox set the trap and they caught us in it. It is these very kinds of stupid decisions and lack of clarity which leads to losses of major elections.
I am not saying that this mosque situation is one of these, but I think it may become one if we lose sight of the goals. The Dems love to set traps. How do we even know that this mosque was ever going to be built? Last I heard this group had $10,000 in their account. You can't build anything in lower Manhattan for that. You can't fix the windows with that. For all I know this is another bait and switch like the Sherrod video, and somebody is sitting back and waiting for just the right thing to happen and they will pull the pin on it. I am asking questions like just how much we really stand to win if we stop this potential mosque from being built, assuming it ever would have been built? What damage could we suffer in so doing? Will it be yet another Pyrrhic victory? I don't know, but I keep waiting for a Mel Gibson moment. You should prepare yourself.