Yeah, fuck me but I don't think Big Bird, binders, or Romnesia will carry the election... [View all]

[cherokeeprogressive]

Ridicule and mockery aren't going to cut it, folks, they just aren't. Ridicule and mockery aren't good campaign strategies; they're ways to alienate those who haven't decided how they're going to vote yet. They're schoolyard strategies amounting to nothing more than a single day's talking point. Watching and listening for any misspoken word and parsing it to use against your opponent aren't going to swing an election when what people are aching to hear are solutions to the problems they've been facing for close to 8 years. ESPECIALLY when you can point to ways you've made their lives better in the last four years. Sooner or later people begin to wonder why you're talking about the opposition's single sentence gaffe rather then your own record.

When President Obama asks a crowd "Do you want me to save Big Bird?" like he did in Ohio on Oct 5th, he doesn't win any converts. Those in attendance were already committed to voting for him. The video goes around the world though. Big Bird isn't real. People know that. No new votes here.

President Obama needs to stand up and say "THIS IS WHAT I'VE DONE" and list his accomplishments. What romney said yesterday afternoon isn't going to last more than an hour or two. What President Obama says lasts longer because he's President.

We've been through Nugent, Bain, Dancing Horses, Offshore Accounts, Big Bird, and Binders. We've danced in the metaphoric streets thinking each and every one of those things were going to SINK his candidacy in short order. Now the Powers That Be have President Obama using the word romnesia and we're thinking THIS IS THE NEW BEST THING. It ain't. Romnesia says nothing about President Obama's 4 year record; it's just more mockery and ridicule.

Someone needs to point this out to President's team. It ain't working, and the harder they work to focus this election on ridiculing their opponent only seems to send the pre-election polls in the wrong direction.