And, in its way, that's what I've been leading up to in all of this. The artificial creation of rhetorical bogeymen is a very dangerous tactic. (And, like that GI JOE box, you don't need an actual action figure. You just need language to tell your voting audience what's IN the box. Which may not exist at all, or is merely a series of gut language conditionings attached to the "action figure" you've created.)
Most of the interest in Iowa’s presidential caucuses Tuesday will inevitably be on which Republican candidates come out on top, but that hasn’t stopped President Obama’s re-election campaign from also spending some time on the Hawkeye State’s first-in-the-nation voting. Obama’s re-election campaign released a pair of online videos. One features a much less gray-haired Obama from 2008. It was the then-senator’s “closing argument” which Candidate Obama put out the night before the Iowa caucuses that year. “It’s...
What they DON'T seem to get is the part about the Richie Riches believing that they can finally take over a dispirited and disunified Republican Party. Maybe, if I blog for another several years, they will. But they DO begin to "get" that radical libertarianism is, for most Americans, left and right, a "bridge too far" in its application.
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