Saturday, December 29, 2007

Todays favorite story seems to be the implications of the Presidential candidates responses to the Bhutto assasination. As I called yesterday, the consensus is that every candidate spun it in a positive direction - except for the ridiculous Huckabee responses.

That said, fellow Republicans better be care and use this to argue that Huckabee has no idea what he is talking about IN GENERAL. Leaving it at 'he doesn't know much about foreign policy' isn't actually a winning argument. Most voters don't know much about international affairs so they don't see much reason to care if their President doesn't have an encyclopedic knowledge of georgraphy - so long as he knows we are good and the nebulous 'they' are bad (see Reagan and Bush II).

I promise there are plenty of examples on domestic issues to make the connection, because the 'crazy' or 'out of touch with reality' arguments do work well.

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