For months now we have been bombarded with all sorts of fuzzy and warm anecdotes about Clinton….in 2008 she sold herself as a tough no nonsense politician and that was a losing battle….this time around we are sold on the idea that she is warm and fuzzy where family is everything and that society needs to be more woman friendly…..this time around the “warm and fuzzy” sold her to the voters and now she is the Dems official candidate for president of the United States.
Even through the convention the powers that be keep selling her as this idyllic person all warm and fuzzy….her hubby gave a romance novel of a speech about their meeting and courtship….and most other speakers kept going along the same lines that she has been taunting since the beginning of the primary stuff…..
All that is just great but is it possible that she and her cronies have pushed that fairy tale too far?
Hillary Clinton already can be congratulated on accomplishing a major feat: She’s made it clear that a woman can be president, writes Dilbert creator Scott Adams on his blog. That glass ceiling is gone, whether she wins or loses in November, and “that’s a big, big deal.” But Adams thinks Clinton risks a big strategic mistake related to the concept of “selling past the close.” It’s the idea that “once the sale is made, you need to stop selling, because you have no chance of making things better, but you might give the buyer a reason to change her mind.” She’s already won this argument and thus there’s no need to keep hammering away at it. And yet she keeps doing so, which could alienate undecided male voters in a big way.
Adams contrasts the situation to President Obama’s eight years ago. Generally speaking, once the public was sold on the idea that a black man could be president, he moved on to topics other than race. Clinton, on the other hand, “keeps selling,” he writes. “And that’s an enormous persuasion mistake.” Adams makes the scientific case that the testosterone levels of men watching the convention are surely dropping—literally. The festivities are likely making them unhappy, even if they’re unsure why, and eventually they’ll make the association. After all, they’re observing a celebration of their “permanently diminished” role in society. All of which leaves him “wondering if this will be the first time in history that we see a candidate’s poll numbers plunge after a convention.” Click for the full post.
Maybe now the Dems will lay off the syrupy crap and get down to talking about solutions…..if not she may have turned off the voter….I mean after all she is not that likable….she cannot afford to lose any more likability.
Jim Finnegan, as the ultra-conservative editorial page editor of the New Hampshire Union Leader and a former boxer, used to say he would keep coming back to a topic and repeating the message “because I’ve seen too many dead causes get up and walk away.”
Just for another perspective.
Good one…..she is just trying to convince us of her warm and fuzzy side….I do not buy it….chuq
I’d rather have competent than warm and fuzzy. Think it’s OK to keep hammering away with that?
I agree…I personally do not care what her daughter thinks or what church she attends or any of the other warm and fuzzy crap….at her? Then yes it is.
Trust a cartoonist, which is another form of jester/comedian/social observer, to have one of the clearest views of the overall societal effects of current events… Taking over where Carlin left off, I hope…
Don’t get me started on her, or her opponent. Two thoughts, both old… “If a million people believe a foolish thing, it is still foolish.” Bertrand Russell, I think. Plus…. “Choosing between two evils is still choosing evil.” — Jerry Garcia
That’s the 2016 election, in a nutshell…
gigoid
Great analysis…..the old “screwed if do and screwed if we don’t”…….chuq
Huh … this Post would have me believe that male voters, and/or males in general, count in the shaping of a better tomorrow. And THEY absolutely DO NOT!
History is no fickle b*tch … every significant shift towards HUMANITY has always been the result of WOMAN. Either collectively or even single-handedly (as is the case for both: Rosa Parks and Malala Yousafzai).
There are but a few male modern day exceptions: Albert Einstein, Malcolm Little (better known as Malcolm X), Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Bob Dylan, Robert Nesta “Bob” Marley, Bob Geldof (of The Boomtown Rats fame), Paul Hewson (Bono, of U2 fame), Tupac Shakur (better known as 2Pac) and a few more.
However, the point being, if you took out the Artist there are very few men who were/are responsible for affecting real/positive/lasting change.
The fact that #KILLaryThePredatoryPick has joined the ranks of the Old Boys Club … well that has just left me with only complete disdain for her non-Complishments.
Trump gets his support from old white guys…they vote more than most….sad as it may be….
Good thing ALL Dinosaurs eventually go EXTINCT!!!
WE can only hope….LOL