Obama White House Rips Senate Republicans For Their Treasonous Letter To Iran

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26. But that doesn't mean the rest of us can't use the "T-word." CALL 'em on it. MAKE 'em deny it.

Like LBJ did back in the day when he accused an opponent, early in his career, of sleeping with pigs. He knew it wasn't true. But that wasn't the point!!!

THE POINT WAS: Put It Out There And Make Him Deny It.

It's like - "don't think of a pink elephant." Um... well, that's now been put out there, in public, and for many, that's all they'll be thinking about - for WHATEVER reason and frankly, in psy-ops, you don't care about the reason. The reason is irrelevant. You just want it going through their minds. You want to poison the well. Muddy the waters. Muddy the thinking. The GOP does this all the time. I don't understand why our tribe doesn't fight that way more often, too.

It's like - "when did you stop beating your wife?" Subject at whom this is aimed usually has never raised a finger against his wife. But that question is now out there in the public arena, and you've just planted a seed and made a correlation that will poison the image of that hapless target. There'll be enough people who heard that, and it doesn't matter whether it's true or not. They just remember that, along with the mention of that person's name. Every time that name comes up in the campaign, SOMEBODY's gonna associate it with "...beating your wife."

It's shitty. Absolutely. But so is the world of politics. Nobody ever promised or guaranteed that politics would be immaculately clean and fair and upright and moral and all that other good stuff. It isn't. It's about winning. Winning at all costs. Like it or not, that IS the game. And if we don't play that way, we're gonna get rolled.

So I don't have any hesitation about throwing the "T-word" around. Hopefully enough seeds will be scattered and spread that one or two of 'em will finally take root. Cue the drumbeat argument. (Oh crap, calimary and that drumbeat thing that never works and maybe is technically not 100% perfectly accurate and is useless and we shouldn't even bother and blah-blah-blah... - as I've seen elsewhere on here.) And then you wind up with that starting to seep into some reporter's questions to the opponents about what appear to be accusations of treason. And then they have to address it and speak of it and thereby validate it, and you have now framed the issue in such a way that they are immediately on the defensive.

And you have thereby dealt that campaign a possibly fatal blow.

I think it's time we started questioning THEIR patriotism. I think it's HIGH time we do so. Hard. Viciously. Without mercy. And relentlessly. Nothing like throwing the "T-word" around to make that point.