Posted on 11/05/2011 2:45:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Via Mediaite, the perfect ending to a week his campaign spent trying to warn people about resisting media narratives. Even if he were guilty of harassment, I think this soundbite would still annoy the left more.
Here’s the Times article he mentions, which is boring yet useful as a preview of Democratic messaging in case Cain does somehow win the nomination. He, Mark Block, and a few other campaign advisors have been affiliated with Americans for Prosperity over the years (this clip comes from today’s AFP American Dream Summit), so Obama and the DNC have at least three talking points right off the bat. In order from dumbest/laziest to least dumb and lazy: (1) Cain knows and likes two prominent members of the one percent and, well, that’s just ain’t right; (2) if he’s tapped into AFP, Cain’s not nearly as much of an “outsider” as he’d have you believe (the NYT helpfully includes this point overtly in its article lest the reader miss it); and (3) Cain’s inexperience will lead him to be dominated by special interests like “the Kochtopus” (but unlike labor!) if he’s elected president. Frankly, if all they want to do is energize liberals, they don’t even need to bother with talking points. All they have to do is mention “the Koch brothers” in the same sentence as Cain and let the Pavlovian fear and loathing work its magic on the progressive base. We all need an evil billionaire Soros-ian supervillain to fuel our political narratives, my friends. Here’s Cain having fun by embracing the left’s Lex Luthor.
I want to see Herman Cain win the White House. I want to see Leftist heads explode from the extreme anger. More fun than Gallagher doing Sledge-O-Matic. More fun than a GWAR show.
This guy Tommy Christopher is a first class jerk.
It has everything to do with Soros. The left is trying to make the Koch brothers the equivalent of their moneyman, Soros.
I imagine the present day Koch brothers are decent folks, but their family background in the 20s and 30s is interesting to say the least.
Why? Because the father of today’s Koch brothers built oil cracking plants in the USSR in the 20’s and 30’d after the big US oil companies tried to sue him out of business and he couldn’t use his new process in the US? Or because he came to despise communism after seeing the Soviet system first hand? You’re really reaching for a way to attack Cain if you have to resort to calling the Koch brothers commies. Sounds like a smear Rick Perry would make.
I know nothing about their affinity with communism, if indeed there was an affinity. I was referring to reported/alleged ties with Germany.
I thought the Bushes were the Nazis. The whole thing sounds like another RAT smear to me.
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