( - promoted by Jay Stevens)
I posted this in a response to the navel-gazing over the recent primary. 270 rather innocently suggested that Gernant could have won should he find another scandal with which to scourge McDonald. He was castigated with the claims that McDonald has no skeletons and HOW DARE HE SUGGEST SUCH UNSEEMLY THINGS!!! Folks, this is politics, and it's very real.
A prediction:
We know that scandals don't have to be real. They can be fabricated at the drop of a hat. So, the key to political success is to avoid any ammunition for the other side. Dennis Rehberg has turned that into an art form. How many debates did he have with French? With Otjen? None? Typical. The debates he has with his opposition are always based on party identity, and always geared to venue. He panders to ideology, knowing that his supporters believe ideology trumps fact. Always. He will lie based on audience, well documented in the liberal blogs. He will change stance at the drop of a question. Well documented ion liberal blogs. And he will avoid any factual conflict at all. And then he will win.
Here's the real prediction. Dennis Rehberg will campaign on listening to the common man, when he hasn't done it for ten years. He will be promoted and lauded for that by the press and alternative media, with the absence of any critique that he hasn't listened to the common man in 10 years. He will, in speaking, contradict himself at least twice, and lie more times than any can predict. And none of it will matter. Because ideologues, just love the idea of an advocate even if they haven't any clue what they love about that advocacy. Dennis Rehberg is a richie rich supporter of white male privilege, and that's what the ideologues really truly and dearly love. He will lie to them profusely, and it won't matter because it will allow them to lie to themselves.
The Rehberg camp will go negative first; I'm expecting within another month. But it won't be Richie Rich doing it, and it won't be critically examined. When that is questioned, and it will be, the response will be that McDonald went negative first by questioning the actual stances and votes of Dennis Rehberg. You see the disconnect, I'm sure. IOKIYAAR.
Yes, the drunk ass dirty stain on the toilet paper wins this in a landslide. "The Left" will pat themselves on the back because they took out another DLC tool, who wasn't a progressive, wanting progress and all. The right will stupidly crow about their awesome victory over the "arrogant lefties". (To the dim like those in conservoland, that would be ironic. And it will happen.)
And the great cycle of life continues.
If there is one thing we might learn from this escapade in idiocy, it is what Rehberg's intentions are for 2012. That will be worth a look. |
