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Too much to ask
It appears that Hillary Clinton has hired an Evangelical consultant.
Aside from the patent absurdity of this concept, it acknowledges the condescending attitude political candidates have for Ma and Pa Public.
We are after all, stupid.
SO stupid, that given the right promotional material, we can be wooed to endorse those who are at odds with our beliefs.
Politics. It's such a nice little game.
I don't suppose it is possible to have everyone running for office unequivocally lay out their stands on various issues and then let the votes fall where they may...
That would be too honest.
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Aside from the patent absurdity of this concept, it acknowledges the condescending attitude political candidates have for Ma and Pa Public.
We are after all, stupid.
SO stupid, that given the right promotional material, we can be wooed to endorse those who are at odds with our beliefs.
Politics. It's such a nice little game.
I don't suppose it is possible to have everyone running for office unequivocally lay out their stands on various issues and then let the votes fall where they may...
That would be too honest.
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posted by Ma Hoyt | 1:32 PM
2 Comments:
Ma, you expect too much.
It's worked before, you know. Why else would Baptist churches buy out showings of an exceptionally gory R-rated movie full of Roman Catholic imagery? Or why would evangelical leaders play up 'The Da Vinci Code,' posting "responses" to its silliest plot points on a website paid for by the movie's marketing department? Or why would evangelicals complain that Rick Warren's AIDS conference had a Democratic senator as a speaker, but not complain about the gay White House employee there? Good marketing can make strange things happen.
And in Hillary Clinton's case, we're going to hear the following a lot: "The abortion rate was actually lower during my husband's presidency than under the current administration." Mark my words.
More importantly, "evangelicalism" is actually an awfully broad audience. Clinton will be trying to get the more Democratically inclined members of that group out to vote for her -- probably in the primary too, where she will be perceived as a more conservative candidate than many of her opponents. But in the general election, she doesn't actually have to get evangelicals to vote for her at all; she just needs to make them slightly less enthusiastic about getting out on election day to vote for her Republican opponent. A slight drop in the intensity of evangelical hatred of her would be politically valuable.
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