Sooper Genius Anthony Weiner’s Path to Electoral Victory: Sell Republican Books!
I’m going to do something a bit daring today and write a post about Anthony Weiner that doesn’t involve his crotch. Last week, he laid out the Democrats’ plan to end the Republican majority in the House. It is, I admit, a clever plan. His idea is to use the Republican plans to save Medicare and Social Security against them and he’s doubly excited because those foolish, foolish young Republicans actually put their plans into a book. That you can buy!
House Republicans have laid out the pathway to their own decline, some liberal Democrats said this week.
“Young Guns,” a book authored last year by GOP leaders Eric Cantor (Va.), Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) and Paul Ryan (Wis.), was packaged as a blueprint for a new brand of conservatism under a Republican-controlled House.
But Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) said the book also provides a roadmap for the Democrats to retake the House in next year’s elections.
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“We should just give everyone a copy of it, because they also propose privatizing portions of Social Security,” he said. “I hope to get a spike in Amazon of people buying that book.”
So do I, because the plans to save two programs that do need to be saved are worth knowing. Heck, I’d encourage Weiner to get together with the Sooper Geniuses at the DNC and buy every American a copy of the book. Drop them from helicopters like they were turkeys at a WKRP Thanksgiving Day stunt. Buy the e-book rights and make the whole thing available on the web for free.
That’s a winning strategy, right there. If only the GOP has an effective social media team in place right now to take advantage of that. I bet they could make sections of the book available to anyone who wants it, complete with Anthony Weiner’s eager endorsements. They might even have people banging away on Facebook and Twitter and a hundred different blogs spreading the message that the Democrats’ plan, boiled down to its essence, is to let old people die.
Weiner’s goal here couldn’t be more clear. He’s not concerned about Medicare, even though it’s collapsing like a popsicle-stick bridge under an elephant parade (see Veronique de Rugy’s new spending projections for the very scary details). It doesn’t matter to him, or his cohort Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, that his party treats our senior citizens like drooling morons who will die unless the Democratic Party leads them to safety. He doesn’t even care that the “death panels” he insists do not exist are on their way (via memeorandum).
Nope. All he cares about is scaring the bejeezus out of enough voters to eke out a win for his side in November of 2012. That is his strategy — his entire strategy. That makes me just a tad bit angry. I hope it does the same to you.
Other Posts of Interest:
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- Republicans Find their Courage, Unanimously Vote Against the Democratic Vote-Buying Bill
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