[rhombus]

In other words, pick your battles.

[Flintlock]

Missing the barf alert, aren’t we?

[Walts Ice Pick]

There is nothing wrong with Newt emphasizing Obama's Kenyan roots. Newt feels that white western Christian culture is under assault and he wishes to defend traditions that are important to him and his geographical roots.

As for the anticolonial stuff, well, our founding fathers were anticolonial.

[Don Corleone]

"We isolate an issue," he explained. "Then we isolate the enemy and we try and destroy them."

Pure Alinsky.

[ClearCase_guy]

I disagree with this thesis.I believe that Obama's political philosophy goes against everything this country stands for. He is anti-American, and we need to say so.

Obama got into office because he was "the other". A lot of guilty whites liked him because he was exotic -- it proved that they were not racist: that's why they voted for him. He was a change.

Now, we see him for what he is. The problem we see is that he is "the other". He's not American in his outlook. He wants to change the things that we like about our country.

I believe in emphasizing how very different Obama really is.

[counterpunch]

This is stupid.
You should attack on multiple fronts at once.
Don’t agree with the anti-0bama narrative? Well there are 10 more to choose from that may fit you better. Or at least there should be...

Democrats understand this. They always attack from a number of angles to fit different constituencies. They always have a backup plan, and a contingency for that, too. They work on multiple levels at once.

Republicans, on the other hand, have a vertical plan that consists of one line of attack that they hammer on no matter how little fruit it bears. Having only one line of attack and one battle plan makes it very easy for Demcrats to blunt. Which is probably why they are so much more electorally successful than they are ideologically popular.

[FrankR]

If you keep heading them off at the same pass, before long the stagecoach will take a different route.

Remember in November.

[Deb]

Geez, I heard this exact, word-for-word, argument against Newt yesterday on Morning Joe and I assume it continued all day on MSNBC.

What? Did a mass email go out from Media Matters?

Many people have traced Obama's leftist, political, world view to his father and grandfather's post-colonial history in Kenya. It appears that the Democrats intend to expand their Bush policy of attacks and 100% negative media coverage, to every Republican who appears anywhere and says anything.

[Vaduz]

A political operative is what we are trying to get rid of we need statesmen.