So Hardball had a segment tonight called “Swiftboat 2.0” in which David Brody “made the connection” for us between calling Romney weird and calling him a Mormon.
See how this works? Ben Smith and JMart tell everyone that no one on team Obama made any mention of religion, but secretly, they (Ben and JMART) think it is about religion. A few hours later, and the conventional wisdom in the beltway is that Team Obama is attacking Romney for being a Mormon, and equating it to the ugly, prolonged, and still onging campaign to smear John Kerry.
And the Obama team has said NOTHING. Just Ben Smith and the Politico hacks think that it is what it is about. But that’s enough. Meanwhile, the Romney campaign doesn’t even need codetalkers like Smith and Martin- they just go all in, and the Politico thinks nothing of it. Those aren’t dog whistles, those are steam boat whistles.
And then the willing assist from the true progressives willing to do whatever is necessary to get someone (ANYONE) to listen to them.
I need to lose weight and start working out before 2012 because I am going to stroke out.