Straight from a liveblog on the Shad Plank with Mudflap Saunders, we get a peak at what Marky Mark’s strategy for the fall will be and we shouldn’t be surprised…
Mudcat – Gilmore knows he’s got to hit and hit hard. You damned right I see Gilmore getting nasty. I think it’s his nature. Some of the attacks will have absolutely no basis in truth. By Labor Day, he’s going to be telling you guys that Mark was the dude behind the grassy knoll.
This is the basic gameplan that Marky Mark runs on every time:
1. Set up your opponent as being a meaney.
2. When criticized over legitimate policy or faced with some personal embarassment, shrug it off as being your opponent being typically “nasty.”
3. Say that attacks never fed or educated a child or got someone out of a traffic jam and proclaim that you will approach things differently without every giving any details beyond those platitudes.
The most interesting part in Mudflap’s comment is this:
Some of the attacks will have absolutely no basis in truth. [emphasis added]
Obviously, they are expecting that the dirt that drove Marky Mark from the presidential race or something of a lesser degree at least to come out. Because the attacks that will come WILL have a basis in truth. That should make everyone in Marky Mark’s camp very, very nervous — especially those who know what all the skeletons are.
Filed under: 2008 Elections, Marky Mark, Virginia Politics
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“Set up your opponent as being a meany.”
Isn’t that the game plan for EVERY candidate?
Can someone explain to me why Gilmore would need to say a single lie when the truth is just as juicy??
Precisely, John.
And Mo, that is NOT the game plan of “EVERY candidate.” Just empty suits like Marky Mark. In fact, most candidates prefer to debate on substantive policy differences, but, like good news, the media doesn’t cover that sort of thing and instead prefer the horserace and scandal.
Gov. Gilmore said it very well at the debate too:
When Mark Warner calls someone a meany, he’s trying to distract people from looking for the facts and, in essence, he’s being negative himself.
Oh Riley, it would appear that the facts are much more juicy than a lie could be.