Pigs in A Blanket

When the campaign manager for presidential candidate John McCain, Rick Davis, said this election would not be about issues but about personalities – you knew where McCain’s campaign strategy was headed.



It would be about character assassination and the good old Republican playbook of “distract and attack.”

That's what’s happening in the Lipstick on the Pig controversy. Again, the Republicans think the American people are stupid. And maybe the Republicans are betting Americans will be, when they vote in November. However, I hope not! It is clear that if the focus is on the issues that concern Americans—the Republicans would loose hands down.

But if you work to disqualify Obama by derision and charge him with playing the race and gender card – you might cause him to fight defensively and not offensively—changing the main focus of his campaign: Change.

Further investigation reveals John McCain used this same folksy metaphor when he criticized Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on health care.

Someone once wrote: “The secret to success is knowing who to blame for your failures.”
In other words shift the focus. I believe with the Lipstick on the Pig—that’s what the Republicans intend to do.

Beware; the worse is yet to come.