Back around 2012 and the lead up to the Obama/Romney election, I was in D.C. a lot for both my primary job and a secondary job. The latter was a fairly popular political blog I had started (Shut down after DJT won in 2016) that had achieved some notoriety (peak was 50k unique views a day) with long-form essays on politics.
One of my contacts was a long time campaign manager who was working for the Romney campaign but who had spent most of his life working for or running Democrat campaigns.
A moment I'll never forget was at a D.C. restaurant/bar talking about his time campaigning for Democrats and him ranting about Dem voters. I'm paraphrasing a bit here but it's close. (Pardon the language, this guy was nearly as foul mouthed as I am)
"You can get those dumb MF'ers (Dem voters) to get riled up about anything. ANYTHING. Old broads whose ovaries went dryer than the Sahara two decades ago lose their GD minds over someone telling them they can't get an abortion after 5 months. You can rile them up about gay marriage being called a civil union instead of marriage. You can get these dumb MF'ers riled up about their GD shoes being too GD tight.
Give me a few million bucks in advertising and a halfways decent candidate, and I'll start the "Shoes are too damn tight" party. I'll get hundreds of people to attend the rallies and go into online forums. All I gotta say is that it's a Republican plot to give them corns and bunions."
Imagine a sweaty, moderately obese, salt & pepper haired old political hack practically shouting all of that in a quiet bar after 4 martinis. I still laugh out loud when I think of that speech.
Why do I bring this up? Because I'm sure at least some of you are reading Whoopi's latest comments in the article above saying "Surely Dem voters aren't stupid enough to actually believe what she's saying, right? Surely this is a bridge too far?"
Nope. There's not a damn thing you can't convince some of these people of if it's in the name of leftwing politics. Today it's President Trump annulling interracial marriages, tomorrow it's everyone's shoes being too damn tight because of that fascist, shoe-ruining Trump and we gotta do something about it.
Back around 2012 and the lead up to the Obama/Romney election, I was in D.C. a lot for both my primary job and a secondary job. The latter was a fairly popular political blog I had started (Shut down after DJT won in 2016) that had achieved some notoriety (peak was 50k unique views a day) with long-form essays on politics.
One of my contacts was a long time campaign manager who was working for the Romney campaign but who had spent most of his life working for or running Democrat campaigns.
A moment I'll never forget was at a D.C. restaurant/bar talking about his time campaigning for Democrats and him ranting about Dem voters. I'm paraphrasing a bit here but it's close. (Pardon the language, this guy was nearly as foul mouthed as I am)
"You can get those dumb MF'ers (Dem voters) to get riled up about anything. ANYTHING. Old broads whose ovaries went dryer than the Sahara two decades ago lose their GD minds over someone telling them they can't get an abortion after 5 months. You can rile them up about gay marriage being called a civil union instead of marriage. You can get these dumb MF'ers riled up about their GD shoes being too GD tight.
Give me a few million bucks in advertising and a halfways decent candidate, and I'll start the "Shoes are too damn tight" party. I'll get hundreds of people to attend the rallies and go into online forums. All I gotta say is that it's a Republican plot to give them corns and bunions."
Imagine a sweaty, moderately obese, salt & pepper haired old political hack practically shouting all of that in a quiet bar after 4 martinis. I still laugh out loud when I think of that speech.
Why do I bring this up? Because I'm sure at least some of you are reading Whoopi's latest comments in the article above saying "Surely Dem voters aren't stupid enough to actually believe what she's saying, right? Surely this is a bridge too far?"
Nope. There's not a damn thing you can't convince some of these people of if it's in the name of leftwing politics. Today it's President Trump annulling interracial marriages, tomorrow it's everyone's shoes being too damn tight because of that fascist, shoe-ruining Trump and we gotta do something about it.
That’s right. And stop calling me Shirley.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixljWVyPby0