Why McCain's Lies Work For 99.999% of Rs

[stopbush]

They see it as a strength, as in "do whatever it takes to win" strength. It is the MAIN REASON most Rs support the bushes and mccains of the world, and why they don't trust Ds.

Rs will do anything to win a campaign, ergo, they'll do (à la Jack Bauer) whatever it takes to keep the country safe.

Ds apologize all the time for the littlest infraction, ergo, they're spineless and easily manipulated. They won't do whatever it takes.

Rove knows this, which is why he will continue to throw shit at the wall.

You've got understand the "win at all costs" mindset. It's the same mindset that infects sports fans who will accept their team winning, even if they won on an obvious bad call from the refs. It's the, "it wasn't pretty, but a win is a win" attitude. The "we'll take it however we can get it" mindset. The thought that "we stole that one" never enters their minds. They can always put the victory up to "the refs," or the fact that "the other team just didn't play hard enough."

So, pointing out the lies doesn't turn off Rs. Most will never vote for a black man or against an R, no matter how phony and mendacious. But pointing out the lies does effect indies, Ds and swing voters for whom personal integrity and honor do matter.

Which is why Obama's response is best when he ties mccain's lies to bush's lies, and the decent people in this country see mccain for what he really is - another bush, only worse.

Oh, yeah, and this: NEVER APOLOGIZE!!

[TlalocW]

1. I first ran into this attitude in high school

During one summer, I spent a month at the University of Kansas taking part in a college program for high school juniors and seniors, and we stayed in a dorm on the north side of campus. My roomie was from a rich, conservative suburb of Kansas City, and one day, I woke up to see him cutting out a picture of Pat and Richard Nixon from the newspaper and tacking it on the room's bulletin board. I asked him why, and he just started going off about what a great guy Richard Nixon was. I mentioned the whole resigning from office in disgrace thing, the bugging of Watergate, etc., and he got quite upset and excused it by loudly proclaiming you do what you have to to win.

At that point, he had picked up his tennis racket because he was leaving to meet someone to play a game, and I asked him if I could see it. He wanted to know why, and I said, "Well, I want to loosen the strings and maybe bend your racket because I've got a bet on your game that your opponent will win, and I want to do what I have to to win."

He never really talked to me all that much for the rest of the program after that.

TlalocW