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[MADem]

87. I'd rather not see any of them overexposed.

There is an arc to these things. Britney Spears can tell you all about it. She started out as the "IT" girl who could command any price, but she was dogged and pursued and her every mistake was blown up to be more than it was, and she ended up having a breakdown. South Park even did a parody about it.

That's a rather dire example, but in terms of politics, even politicians can be over-exposed. GWBush's popularity didn't just go in the toilet because of his POLICIES, it was because all of the networks and the cable newsers would cut away from Days of Our Lives or Oprah or some cooking/wedding/Real Housewives show to show his dumb ass waddling off a plane and grunting in front of a pre-vetted crowd of cheering, drooling assholes. He never said much of anything, but they covered it ANYWAY. After a while, enough was enough. People just didn't want to SEE him. They didn't want Tom Ridge or some other asshole telling us we were in Threatcon ORANGE. They were tired of it all.

Exposure is a tricky thing--there's just enough, and there's too much. And there's also timing.

Right now, it's the Republicans' time to rip each other to shreds. We don't need to take the news media''s attention away from that all-important effort. They should be focused like one of those LASER BEAMS on which Republican is childishly insulting the other--and they should report it all, relentlessly. The more sound bites--that WE can use, later--the better.

The Republican Party has the equivalent of super-delegates, too. They will control who gets out of the gate. It's not gonna be Trump. It's not gonna be Carson. It's not gonna be Fiorina--they're all too stupid and the Klown Kar party hierarchy doesn't like them. Judging by the way his peers told Ted "Grampa Munster" Cruz to STFU the other day, I'd say it ain't gonna be him, either. Rubio, Jeb (even though he's tanking now--he has MONEY to ride it out), even Fuckerbee have a better shot than those three.