Letter to Mitt - 10/01/12

Dear Mitt:

Hey, Big Guy, another week has gone by with nothing jumping off the page from your campaign. You're chasing your tail, Mitt, and if you never watched you dog chase it's tail, that exercise seldom ends with the dog going anywhere useful.

At this point, your advisors have probably said that you'll "kill Obama in the Debates".

Guess what, Big Guy, Obama probably knows that, and if you really DO put some dee-bate hurt on him, he has several October Surprises lined up to negate that "bump" for you.

I'm going to get vulgar here, Mitt: This ain't no farging beauty contest, and if it was, beauty being no more than skin deep, you/ve already lost. Obama's "look" is in fashion, yours isn't. You can't just match Obama's bamboozling, you have to have some of your own.

Look, Mitt, you don't have a demographics adviser, because if you did, he or she would have told you by now that the electorate is one dumb bunny, compared to the shrewd hare it was just 25-35 years ago when our education system actually educated the kiddies. The electorate today wants everything fed to it pre-digested, with results of  "programs" predicted in advance, and those "programs" are always predicted to succeed, aren't they, Mitt? History notwithstanding.

The electorate might listen to a few of your words about job creation, but since getting to the nub of the complex subject requires thought, prolonged, critical, sustained thought, they won't and/or can't do it. Obama comes along and says "give me enough money, and I will buy the jobs for you". Obama's jobs program is an economic sham, of course, and he doesn't have the money, but the lie has sound-bite qualities that your presentations on jobs don't. You give us lectures in economics, Obama gives us promises of spendable dollars. They are phony promises, but when the dumb electorate doesn't know that, that electorate will follow those lies to the voting booth and re-elect Obama.

Look, Big Guy, everyone who is going to vote for you because of your conservative economics is already in your column. To round up the few swing voters that your current campaign strategy hasn't gotten to yet, you have to do one of two things:

• You have to go negative the rest of the way, and hammer Obama flat, tell the folks that he is a liar, and do it every day for a month, or:
• You have to have something new, some wedge issue that will resonate, will knock Obama flat, AND keep Obama from getting back up again. I outlined that for you here.

If you can't manage either one of those two things, you've just wasted the money I gave you, and a lot of other folks' dough as well.

Hammer time, Mitt. It's hammer time. You know the hammer issues. Get them on the air. 

Comments

[William A. Komar]

I thought i was the only one Who thought this way. Republicans view politics as an oxfordian debating society where everybody has tea and biscuits afterward and rehashes the debate in a gentlemanly way. Democrats on the other to reverse Von Clausewitz view Politics as war by other means and after Vietnam they view it as a guerrilla war and the ONLY way to beat the Guerrilla is to become a better Guerrilla.