It really has gotten ridiculous around here. Apparently there is a school of thought that one can and should avoid saying anything but nice things about Republicans and their platforms (no matter how liberal their positions) and spout any old lie that paints the Democrat as the lowest being on earth. Just avoid all meaningful discussion about candidates' true records and throw a bunch of accusations out and see which one's stick. Repeat it enough times and see if it works.
Here's one: Jerry Brown's finance director went on to prison after being caught laundering drug money for the mob through Indian casinos.
Guess what? That one is actually TRUE.
The campaign hacks are LAZY. Brown's fiscal management was probably the most responsible part of his governing back in the 70s. OTHER parts of his record were Horrid! But Meg&Co try to paint him as a tax raiser (while ignoring the record-raising tax increases of her (R)predecessors). It insults the intelligence of people who have lived here all their lives and know California history.
Then we have the idiot Democrats who only know the Mulholland/Allred method of campaigning so we have to listen to weeks of crap about maids and such and never end up talking about issues. Had there been any real content to either campaign, this never could have made headlines for a week as there would be SOMETHING ELSE more relevant to discuss.
Jerry Brown's biggest fault was the people he hired and appointed to important posts and his role in the unionization of public employees. Hey Meg -- what about Rose Bird? And others. I haven't heard a peep about this from pubbies or the media.
Campaigns are no longer about educating voters on issues and candidate positions. They're all about using short soundbites (with nothing to back them up) to railroad the sheep into compliance. When the sheep won't comply, the campaign hacks attack the voters, even those mostly on 'their side'. Dale Carnegie would probably have a few words of sound advice. Too bad politicians and professional hacks all think they know better and treat voters as lowly serfs.
Hello, Tea Party!
“FR is NOT a GOP site, as I’ve told you before. It is a CONSERVATIVE site.
It really has gotten ridiculous around here. Apparently there is a school of thought that one can and should avoid saying anything but nice things about Republicans and their platforms (no matter how liberal their positions) and spout any old lie that paints the Democrat as the lowest being on earth. Just avoid all meaningful discussion about candidates’ true records and throw a bunch of accusations out and see which one’s stick. Repeat it enough times and see if it works. “
It seems to work. We keep getting the same old liberal repubicans, pushed by the GOP and the liberal media. Nothing has changed here, it’s the same EVERY election cycle. A few pick THE primary candidate and those who don’t fall in line or dare to suggest another prospect (no MATTER how good a record they ight have!) are slashed and burned. Been there, done that.
By golly, let's not look at the substance of the issues because we have faceless professional advisors/string-pullers giving us a slickly designed "must-have" product.
Not content with their paid advertisements, these backroom string-pullers send out their often-paid goons to propagandize their product on political websites and to denounce anybody who tries to pull back the Oz curtain.
It's patethic how transparent these goons are.
B U M P !!
It's part of the "just shut up and take it" attitude of those who think they can control the base by holding the swing vote. This of course means that they will go over to the other side if it suits them but it also means that when a conservative is nominated supporting the nominee suddenly means nothing. Hence, this pitch of "party unity" is both incredible and hypocritical. What is astonishing to me is that they can't fathom the lack of base support after backstabbing us so many times. No wonder they think they can substitute base support with money, so they have to go find rich candidates. Unfortunately, that means they get to wear a "party of big business" label that does us no good, especially when the left is the party of huge business. I guess they think we're just ungrateful.
There actually once were honest California Democrats. Remember Quentin Kopp?
Something may have gone wrong there too in a number of cases. I am seeing more and more of the Sharon Angle's , Rand Paul's and others that are backtracking on prior statements about Social Security reform, the fair tax and repealing Obama-care mandates. It is not just that they fold under political pressure, it is also that they have not thought out a way to articulate their beliefs beyond their primary voters. It is like they never thought beyond the primaries except try to deny they ever took those positions.
SS reform is really getting to me. Democrats are attacking Republicans for proposing SS reform, while claiming that SS is paying for itself (an outright lie, the SS IOUS are being redeemed by the treasury adding to the national debt ) and many of these ‘conservatives’ are running too scared to even point out why it makes sense to reform SS, why it is a problem.
Meg wouldn’t know about Rose Bird. This was during her sabbatical from actually giving the damn most citizens would about their government, in this case California Supreme Court Justices. There’s a mountain of information Meg knows nothing about. She was busy...
Now she’s not, she’s goy plenty of time on her hands, and literally hundreds of millions to burn off on a whim.
Must be nice...
Do you imagine she woke up one day and said, “Shazam, I could be governor?” Well, yes, essentially that’s it.
Well, on the good side we only have to wait four or eight years to see who the next idiot stick the Republican establishment has in store to defeat Conservatism in California.