re: #9 Peacekeeper

I think he’s saying that they can’t out Obama Obama, so they have to go policy for now. Which is good because they’ve got no personality that can upstage Obama at this time.

I think that’s probably right, or maybe they’re saying that they don’t want to try to out-Obama Obama, because they don’t want the GOP to become the Party of Even Bigger Bullshit.

My sense is that they’re wrong on this one. They main key in the 2008 election should have been to point out the fact that Obama is a professional racist, a radical who supports a terrorist who wanted to murder 25 million Americans and overthrow the U.S. government. John McCain vetoed that approach. The secondary strategy should have been to mock Obama’s messianic narcissism, shattering his illusion of godliness. Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin did that very effectively at the GOP convention, I think. But again, John McCain made them stop.

Now that BHO is, well, you know what job he has, I think those strategies won’t work as well. So the only thing left is to try to out-Obama Obama. Substance doesn’t matter anymore. American politics is now about having better hair and makeup, better fonts, better graphic design artists, and tapping into powerful but irrelevant messages (“if you oppose me, you’re a racist!”) I think the GOP can only succeed by becoming the party of Even Bigger Bullshit.