The outlines of President Obama’s political strategy are clear—to unleash, virtually on a daily basis, a series of dishonest and libelous attacks on Republicans while also coming across as likable, reasonable, a man who hovers above the political mud, a president ever in search of common ground.
This is the exact same strategy Lyndon Johnson employed against the Republicans in 1964, and which he implemented even as John F. Kennedy's body lay cooling in the Capitol Rotunda. Butter would not have melted, nor dry ice sublimated, in the execrable Johnson's mouth.
His whole strategy was visibly, ostentatiously to "rise above" politics, and to be seen as widely as possible "doing the People's business" while simultaneously his political operatives -- equivalents of today's moonbat 'RatRoots -- smeared, slimed, spied on, and provided "negative advance" (constant, noisy counterdemonstrations) targeting Republican nominee Barry Goldwater.
Johnson had a "Five O'Clock Group" that he met with daily, which is where he signed off on every sort of dirty-trick political scam imaginable. FBI wiretaps in Goldwater's campaign plane, phony demonstrations, counterdemonstrations, scummy flyers, and of course the infamous "hydrogen bomb obliterates little girl" TV ad, which aired only once -- on a Saturday night, at exactly 8PM CDT, when just about every TV in America would be tuned in.
Moonbat columnist Molly Ivins once revealed the price of her soul by describing LBJ. "He was a miserable human being," she wrote, "but he was so good on the issues!"
Note: LBJ won in a landslide, and the result was .... The Hundred Days of left-wing perversion and liberal entrenchment in American politics and daily life. Rotten schools, race riots, Stalinists taking over the 'Rat Party -- you name it, it all goes back to the Johnson campaign.
Well.....I hope those issues are fire-proof...cuz he's burnin' right now.