Still clueless
Dave Johnson at Seeing the Forest despairs of the people who ran the Kerry campaign:
She – and the Kerry campaign — didn’t and still don’t “get it.” They STILL don’t even have a clue what Bush and the Right are about. The “blogosphere” knew the minute that smear came out what was up, and the course it would run! We knew it would come. We knew who would spread it. We even knew what the “movement” ground troops would say to the talk-show hosts and in the forum comments, helping the momentum — they would understand it was untrue but would also wink and nod and understand the “use” of it and pretend to believe it. We knew that the smear would have professionally-framed, carefully- worded, focus-group-tested tag-lines. We knew that it would come in phases. We knew that “new information’ would overwhelm anyone trying to refute any single lie with facts and details. … In fact, we bloggers had been talking about “the smear” that would come for TWO YEARS before this specific Swift Boat smear even came out.
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Why were the people even in the Kerry campaign if they didn’t understand how the Right works now, who is running it, who is funding it, their goals and their strategies and methods?