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I was in a Virginia when the Macaca gaffe occurred. I followed Allen from his House beginnings all the way to his Senatorship. He was not a good candidate then, he was “ok”. It was after the first Macaca statement where he showed how untalented a candidate he was. Rather then ignore he kept digging. Rule of thumb in PR: If you feel you have to explain. Don’t! The more you explain the deeper the hole! He kept digging!
Like Ted, Like Allen, Like Moore the more you talk the more ridiculous you look! Its not fair but it the husting game!
And a endless deluge of historical facts don’t matter!
This isn’t grad school and no one is writing a paper.
People keep drawing the wrong conclusions about why we lose. We do not lose because we have "poor candidates." We lose, because ordinary or marginal candidates are deliberately attacked viciously until the public regards them as "poor candidates."
We should be trying to stick a sword through the guts of the existing media-weapon-system instead of constantly trying to find exceptional candidates that can finesse their way through it.
We can't get a Trump for every race. We have to settle for ordinary people who aren't so clever as to know how to defeat the media-weapon-monster.
If you keep expecting candidates to get everything absolutely right, you will end up with Democrat officeholders for which the media simply doesn't care if they get anything right.
Our problem is the media and backstabbers. Our problem is not "poor candidates." Chris McDaniel wasn't a poor candidate either, but he was destroyed.