1. Also do people actually think drilling is the solution?
REALLY?
Yes, some people do. Because, you know, we believe AMERICA IS LAND OF PLENTY and that WE CAN INVENT INGENIOUS SOLUTIONS TO EVERYTHING and that these solutions are invariably QUICK, CONVENIENT, MASS-PRODUCED. Offshore drilling appears to fit that narrative, even though the actuality is almost certainly going to fall short - won't be quick, thus won't solve the immediate shortage (and isn't a good long-term fix, either), and there isn't all that much easily accessible oil out there.
2. I'm not sure you can have your surrogates blame all of America's current woes on "Liberal Washingon", then vow to end the partisan rancor on the next night and expect anyone to believe anything you or your surrogates say.
I've been thinking about Romney's speech, turning it over in my head. And I think I want to create a web page. It would have to be slickly designed, with a logo that says something like "Barack OBAMA: the real CONSERVATIVE".
The URL would be something like www.conservativesforobama.com, and there'd be about five pages of bulleted lists and copy blocks. The text would take Romney's odd definition of "conservative" and "liberal" (without mentioning that they were odd, or that that was actually what was going on - just in a Rovian way take it utterly for granted that the reader accepted the truism that "Washington=Liberal=Bad") and use that lens to define Obama as something called a "true conservative."
It'd have to be organized around things like his community organizing experience (only not using the words "community organizer," because they've become charged) - like with, say, a quote from a Habitat for Humanity volunteer extolling Obama's appreciation for hard work next to a gauzy photo of a man with a toolbelt and a hammer on a roof. "He understands what it is to do a hard day's work to help the little guy out."
I mean, like, a total psycho fluff job of absurdist doublespeak. It'd be totally awesome. |
