If you go to Chuck-e-Cheese's, or whatever is the awful pizza and game arcade place in your burg, you'll usually find a full-size game of Whack-a-Mole that you can play. You can work up quite a lather swinging that mallet at those mole-heads which keep popping out of those holes.
The game is meant to not have any satisfying ending, unless your own sweat and body odor counts as a plus. Oh, I suppose you get points for mole-heads struck, and if you get enough points, a free game token, but it's not like you can win the game.
Life imitates games. In our case today, the Democratic Party has brought up a game of political whack-a-mole, and those tokens have been rolling into their slots (coffers) since summer, and those GOP mole-heads have just kept popping up to be whacked back down by the (D)onks and their willing partners on the Left, the MSM.
I blame the GOP for this stupid game, not the Democrats. It's the GOP who puts their candidates through this sort of idiocy, and it's the GOP who could put and end to the game, pull the plug on it, tomorrow, if they wanted to.
If you just got off the slow shuttle from Planet Zargon, having missed the first part of the election cycle, the game works like this: there are almost weekly "debates", held by the MSM and other orgs for the GOP candidates. After each one of these "debates" (not really debates, they are just talking-point exchanges, with no winner ever declared, just assumed), a "poll" is taken, almost always resulting in a new "front-runner" from among the 8 or so candidates. When that "front-runner" (the new "Mole") is announced, the MSM opens a salvo of light artillery, followed by the heavy artillery of the Obama war-machine. That's the "whack" in the Whack-a-Mole game. The Mole-du-jour is struck on the head, falls back down into the hole, and a new "poll" a few days later begins to show that "mole" slipping backwards in the polling. Then, another "debate" is held....and the cycle starts all over again.
Who gains what from the Game? Obama gains the most, his machine showing, time after time, that the GOP doesn't have its shit in one sock, to use an old military expression. Obama also gains from the Stupid Party being in the spotlight instead of him, since he can't stand close scruitiny. The "Mole-head" candidates get some increased exposure, brief as it may be, which usually boosts their campaign donations, but only for a brief time. The MSM gains almost as much as Obama, showing once again that their assumption of Kingmaker status is closer to the truth than not.
Let's be frank: much as we hate to think of it, the MSM, with all their apparatus for lying to us in place, is fully capable of steering this election to Obama, despite his sagging poll numbers. Therefore, if the GOP has it's head screwed on straight, it would see the MSM as it's main enemy, not Obama, and it would properly conclude that its main job as a political party is to prevent the MSM from being Kingmaker (again).
The GOP will never control the MSM, so they give up zero future gain by cutting the MSM off at the pass, to use a term that any Reagan-esque cowboys left in the GOP could understand. There's nothing to gain for the GOP in any of the MSM's propaganda apparat. In no measure would the MSM ever support a GOP political goal, at least not before claiming that they invented that goal first.
To fight the MSM properly (and thereby win the election), the GOP must make a point of denying "news" sources and political fodder to them.
That means that the GOP must leave the game parlor, having cut the cord that plugs in and powers the Whack-a-Mole game.
Yes, politics is really just that simple.