Republican columnist doesn't know a phallic symbol when he sees one
OK, I'll play along.
Tell me Ross, what was the Leaning Tower of Pisa doing in a Repubican ad for presidential campaign John McCain?
It's like these guys take pride in being ignorant!
Instant political operator
Thank goodness for Joe Trippi, who explains how political operators work.
In today's piece, the former Dean insider explains how to introduce race without getting your candidate too dirty!
First you help inject race into the campaign and raise its focus as an issue (as the McCain campaign did yesterday with a little door opening from Obama himself).
Second - this unleashes energy and anger in the African American community (energy that often the African American candidate, Obama, can not control). Leaders like James Clyburn take to the airwaves - and cable channels have two African Americans debate who is or isn’t raising race. In any case black faces dominate the cable airwaves and some of those faces are angry.
Third - McCain then appears to speak in front of an all black audience. White swing voters think “see, he isn’t racist”. And if the crowd applauds so much the better, if it boos him for tactics real or imagined white swing voters see a white guy “who is at least trying” and angry blacks who are not being duly appreciative of his effort.
