With Bush, the connection is direct and obvious, and I'm inclined to think it will get attention, but I wish Dems would bring it up in their responses anyway. WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Biden's comments are a long way from pwnwage. Pwnwage would be something like 'President Loser.'
Or even - here's a novel idea - going on the rhetorical attack instead of waiting around for the other side to define the talking points.
Paragraphs of disagreement and factual explanation, or frank content-free outrage, are not pwnwage.
I like the Prescott Bush idea. Something along those lines would be more likely to work.
Then leave people to work out the implications for themselves.
It's character assassination without being personal. So calling a war-hero a flip-flopper implies their weakness without calling them weak out front.
I've been trying to find some books about practical rhetoric, and they're really hard to hunt down. There are plenty of tips for salesmen about how to screw over their customers more effectively with psychology, but hardly anything at all about winning debates.
Bush is just being Bush. Lying and being rhetorically insulting are the only things he knows how to do, so he may as well keep doing them. It might distract the peasants from thinking about the economy long enough to win McCain a few more points in the general.
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
The thing that nags at me is that they'll now pretend they have the right to call the dems on anything and everything in this new mood of "seriousness". Yet, I strongly believe they have no such right. They have to earn that right by smacking down McCain from now till November. No barbecues, no excusing his re-writing history, no bs. If they don't I think the dems have every right to blow them off, "You don't get to ask me that question till you kick the repugs for 5 years. In your own time.". keep to the Fen Causeway
Or maybe he's doing this to try to get himself an in-road with Dems for the seat. It's Tweety, so who knows? WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
He made Bush flying onto that mission accomplished carrier into some repressed Brokeback Mountain wet dream live on air.
Here's a president who's really nonverbal. He's like Eisenhower. He looks great in a military uniform. He looks great in that cowboy costume he wears when he goes West. I remember him standing at that fence with Colin Powell. Was [that] the best picture in the 2000 campaign
sorry, you don't get to be a Dem after being up Bush's ass like that, even if it was only in your dreams. keep to the Fen Causeway
When Bush was being manly and preznitentienal, he was ready to do his patritiotic flagpin-eating duty.
Now that the weapons pods have fallen off the R war machine, he's joining the queue to bayonet the survivors.
It's bizarre by UK standards because we expect people like Paxo to be equal opportunity muggers. So when someone is slithery and sycophantic one year and robustly sneering the next, it looks odd.
But I wouldn't be surprised if Tweety gets his orders from the Executive Suite. So expectations of consistency may be optimistic.
They're both kind of obnoxious. Both like to cut people off, although I think that's more a tactic to throw whomever he's interviewing off balance, in Pax's case, rather than a love of hearing himself talk, as in Tweet's case. WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
And it leaves McCain to either be associated with Bush or denounce him.
A plea for relevance maybe? WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
