Can we build a candidate to run against Barack Obama?
Lol. You sure will try now, wont you? ;-)
I'm actually enjoying the Republican race. Not only in terms of entertainment but in terms of a sense of hope it gives me. In the past, even the recent past, I would have meant that in a cynical way. But I'm actually appreciating the quality of the debate between Romney, Gingrich and even Santorum. Yes, the first two of those are going at each other hard, but Gingrich is building a way of making the attacks more precise and meaningful, the way they went after each other in the Florida debate. Gingrich could have lit into him, which would have backfired, so he's trying a different approach (at least, outside of what his super PAC does) which required them to at least be more personable about it.
Even when Santorum went on MSNBC and explained why he didn't think it was his job to call out the old lady who went all "Mick" on Obama by declaring him illegitimate, he was comfortable and acting decently.
I don't know what's behind this newfound combination of comfort, candor and highmindedness, but it's definitely making their candidates and party more palatable to me. I don't know that I'd vote for any of them, but they definitely are making inroads with me by coming across in a way that seems more decent - and I tend to be pretty damn liberal.
I'm just one voice, so I don't know what that tells you. And I don't know who or what, if any one thing, exactly, is behind it. But it's definitely a positive development, regardless of how it ties into the party's short-term fortunes.
Maybe outsourcing the vitriol to the SuperPACs is giving them the space to be less vituperative to each other in person. Despite how incisive their attacks might still happen to be.
Can we build a candidate to run against Barack Obama?
ReplyDeleteLol. You sure will try now, wont you? ;-)
I'm actually enjoying the Republican race. Not only in terms of entertainment but in terms of a sense of hope it gives me. In the past, even the recent past, I would have meant that in a cynical way. But I'm actually appreciating the quality of the debate between Romney, Gingrich and even Santorum. Yes, the first two of those are going at each other hard, but Gingrich is building a way of making the attacks more precise and meaningful, the way they went after each other in the Florida debate. Gingrich could have lit into him, which would have backfired, so he's trying a different approach (at least, outside of what his super PAC does) which required them to at least be more personable about it.
Even when Santorum went on MSNBC and explained why he didn't think it was his job to call out the old lady who went all "Mick" on Obama by declaring him illegitimate, he was comfortable and acting decently.
I don't know what's behind this newfound combination of comfort, candor and highmindedness, but it's definitely making their candidates and party more palatable to me. I don't know that I'd vote for any of them, but they definitely are making inroads with me by coming across in a way that seems more decent - and I tend to be pretty damn liberal.
I'm just one voice, so I don't know what that tells you. And I don't know who or what, if any one thing, exactly, is behind it. But it's definitely a positive development, regardless of how it ties into the party's short-term fortunes.
Maybe outsourcing the vitriol to the SuperPACs is giving them the space to be less vituperative to each other in person. Despite how incisive their attacks might still happen to be.
ReplyDeleteJust a theory.