How to Run a Presidential Campaign
Let’s face it. Campaigning for President has become a narrow road laced with minefields. We’ve made the process all about avoiding any word, deed or notion that could possibly offend anyone.
Why?
A hundred years or so ago, the campaigns abounded with silly songs, limricks and absolute lies. We still managed to elect capable Presidents.
Who really cares if you have a bastard son someplace? Hey, so what if you matriculated publicly. Are you gonna kill Osama bin Laden? That’s what we really want.
Some folks are lazy or criminals or slobs. You used to be able to label people, and the voters understood. Everyone has a lazy SOB in their family or their neighborhood. No one minds you telling him to get off his ass and get a job like everyone else.
You can’t be a plain speaker any more. Silent Cal? Please… Teddy Roosevelt? A former soldier and a hunter? And not afraid to send in the Marines? Even JFK couldn’t get elected these days. “Ask not what your country can do for you?” The papers would rip him to shreds.
Oh, for the good old days.
Ma, ma, where’s my pa? Gone to the White House, ha, ha, ha.
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