A Republican Method

Have you heard about the ad that was played on TV (Full story here). Apparently the protege of Karl Rove (the mastermind behind the Republican's and more specifically George W. Bush's) success has produced a dandy of a commercial. Scott Howell produced a commercial in support of Republican Bob Corkor against Democrat Harold Ford Jr. for the senate seat of Tennessee. The ad starts off discussing some of the failures of Harold For Jr. Slowly it introduces this blond white who claims to have met Ford in the Playboy Mansion. A the end of the commercial the woman character whispers "Harold, call me" and winks. Now this might not look like anything special. But with a little bit of history about the South in the U.S. and you will understand why this is a typical set up job.Follow me here okay...The ad is targeted towards the traditional southerns the ones who are uncomfortable with racial mixing among others. See historically the south has had problems with white women having any sort of relationship with black men. The ad is made to bring out that uneasiness and fear into the mostly white voters to energize the Republican base. See its so subtle. There is no mention that Ford Jr. is black or that there is any relationship between the white blond woman who winks at him and Ford but the whole set up brings out that feeling (you know there are many stories about black men being lynched for looking or having a relationship with a white woman back in the day even if the she was the one who initialized and wished for the relationship). In any case, this is just the beginning. Here is where the Republican machine is a genius. They have placed uneasiness without actually stating it. Thus you can't point out that what they did was wrong, but you get the point.

Anyways the true genius of this method is that its not the actual point, its just a set up for the dumbasses who will react to it in a stupid ways ......ENTER THE DEMOCRATS....the Republicans are not that great, they just keep wining because of the stupid reactionary style that has become the Democratic Party. The Democrats will get antagonized by these ads by the Republicans and reply with a public lashing that would leave Americans who might not have agreed with the Republican ad to sympathize with the Republicans.

Its hard to explain, its something that has to be experienced over a period of time to understand. The Republicans are like the quiet, self assured, confident, proper, yet uncompromising student in a classroom. The Democrats are the talkative, politically correct, afraid to offend, whinny, have to explain everything they do and why they do it so that at the end people will say "yeah he is a good kid". Lets say the Democrat student has a lisp. Everyone knows that it bothers him to be reminded of it. If they are to work on a project to be presented together, the Republican student can antagonize the Democrat by giving him to present the portion of the presentation that have words filled with the letters S and TH. Now it might embarrass and enrage the Democrat student. It is a mere setup. The Democrat student will yell and bitch at the Republican for being low (magnifying a deep insecurity or historic problem that is not necessarily his fault but still a bit shameful)....and here is the problem. Infront of the class and the teacher the Democrat will look like the irrational and overly sensitive fool and the Republican student will just sit back and take the criticism as if he has no idea what the Democrat student is talking about....I know its confusing, but I think you get the gist of it.

This is how this Karl Rove machine works, Method #1: they expose insecurities and non-graceful memories, with it they touch on the voters insecurities and possibily their prejuidices to help tilt the votes towards Rove's candidate.

Method #2: Infurirate the opposing canadidate by chipping away at their credibility and character and when the opponent cries foul play then the opponent loses their cool, says something in reflex that he/she shouldn't have said and the public decides the saner candidate might be better (Rove's candidate). The Republican Machine at its best and the Democrats at their worst. Don't believe me, look what they did to Howard Dean - on the right hand side. (Thanks for the two million replays by Foxnews of his freaky celebration that eventually made him look like a loose cannon)

Here is a cool analysis by this guy on youtube.com, check it out.
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