I get the whole leftist 20 percenter world view thing that most people are stupid and should be treated as such. But are most people really THIS stupid? That's my reaction to the past week, when (1) an Obama ad has tried to scare people with the past statements of the now largely irrelevant right-winger buffoon Sarah Palin (is this 2008?) and (2) Obama even took time to blast one Rutherford B. Hayes -- a gop-er president in the late 1870s! (Links at bottom).Given this apparent new strategy, I'm gonna give my best predictions on where Obama and the leftist 20 percenters are going to go next with this line of lunacy. I can see, for example, upcoming campaign ads and presidential talking points along the following lines with respect to some very scary and highly relevant deranged right-wingers in 2012:
-Herman Cain: This guy is dead and buried as a viable candidate for just about any office in the future, but let's not let that stop us. Ad could say, "Vote republican -- and vote for a man like this who couldn't tell a Libya from his latest broad of the month."
-Clint Eastwood: "This known right-winger and gop-er sympathizer once appeared in a movie in which he made light of birth control by referring to a man by the name, 'prophylactic' -- now his party wants to ban your birth control."
-Pat Buchanan: The hook here is that he was once an also-ran presidential candidate. Ad could say, "republicans say you should fire President Obama, but just last month MSNBC had to fire this controversial former republican presidential candidate -- ask yourself, would MSNBC EVER fire Barack Obama?"
-Dan Quayle: Let's trot out his old potato misspelling and the dressing down that Lloyd Bentsen gave him in the 1988 vice presidential debate. Ad could say, "Look at this Fool -- this is the sort of choice that republicans offer you for the White House -- Tell them no."
-William F. Buckley Jr. (died 2008): Ad could say, "Before republicans ever even tried to put President Obama in their crosshairs, they had this radical right-winger out there putting democrats on the Firing Line -- Say yes to civility; say no to the republicans."
-Barry Goldwater (1964 gop-er presidential candidate; died 1998): "His great, great, great grandson says that 'Mr. Conservative' would today endorse Mitt Romney -- vote against Barry Goldwater; reelect Barack Obama."
-Chester A. Arthur (gop-er president in the 1880s; died 1886): "One of the most procrastinating and fattest fat-cat presidents in American history -- now his modern day gop-er fatty twin, Chris Christie, endorses Mitt Romney -- tell the right-wingers to lose some weight; vote to reelect President Obama."http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/03/obama-knocks-rutherford-b-hayes-117572.html
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2012/03/obama-team-raises-money-with-palin-ad/1#.T2Kq9sUge68
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