You said — “It’s so important to you to dump and pile on this soldier. Why not dump and pile on the Thug In Chief who is quickly destroying our country?”
It doesn’t “pay off” — politically — to “dump and pile on” the person... It’s counterproductive for what you want to accomplish — in terms of the politics of the matter. The goal you have (and others) is to either block or modify the legislative proposals and minimize what is considered to be damage.
It may be fun to vent and sing out a long list of negative adjectives and “get it off your shoulders”, until the next time around, but that’s all that happens.
Once you get into a lot of personal attacks, concerning Obama, that takes the focus off the legislation and bills and gets the other side defensive in terms of the “personality” of Obama. You won’t win that one and you won’t get anyone to consider the “issues”. It will simply be attack — back and forth — and nothing more.
So, you’re self-defeating when you use that kind of language about the President and you take people (who are on the other side and whom you might need to defeat some legislation) — “off message” and “off the issue” that is important.
I would think you would know that, politically speaking.
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But, what is going on here, is really more for “singing to the choir” more than anything else. Everyone (in a certain group) is already convinced that anything that comes out of Obama’s mouth or his administration is to be followed immediately with a long list of negative adjectives — which does not help defeat the bills or get them modified.
It’s also a sign of impotence, when a certain group uses a lot of negative language towards a person in political office. The more shrill they get, the less they can do (from their own realization and understanding of their own impotence).
So, I’m saying to get something constructive done, politically speaking, and take on the issues, and do so in a manner that doesn’t just speak to fellow conservatives, but in a manner that can convince a few on the other side. You’re gonna need a few of them to help...
BUT, as usual, I don’t expect that many of these people will be smart about the issue, and instead, feel better hollering and screaming about Obama, than getting anything politically important done and accomplished.
P