High Ground Underground

CPAC & Campaign Workshop At CPAC, Romney humbly said we need to learn from our & his mistakes, and take back the country.  An interesting contrast to Obama’s arrogance.  Speaking of that learning, on Feb. 9 I attended an all-day campaign workshop given in L.A. by the Leadership Institute of Washington, D.C. ( http://www.leadershipinstitute.org/ ) to sharpen the skills of candidates, campaign managers, staffers & activists (I now count myself in the latter category).  Some very experienced presenters from the recent presidential campaign, and some who’d been in the business for over 30 years.  I took 10 pages of notes, on the modules that were titled:  campaign structure & organization, managing volunteers, strategic research, voter ID and targeting, building coalitions, developing your message, public relations & earned media, keys to precinct organization, door-to-door, phones, basics of online activism, keys to election day,...

The DNC was rich with material – not substance, but blog material.  I watched as much as I could stomach and then some, but not all.  One pundit called it soaring in rhetoric, but the rubber doesn’t hit the road.  And as Romney said, their party's over & they awake w. a hangover -- the jobs report. One place to start would be the bumper sticker Biden so proudly trotted out:  “Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive!”  Great for people w. sound bite intellectual capacity.  For others, here are some facts. Bin Laden Dead Regarding OBL, which they continue to tout because they have hardly anything else to tout, here’s something I don’t think I’ve heard elsewhere.  If you recall, when Kalid Sheikh Mohamed was taken alive, the Pakistanis played a key part in that – a cooperative effort.  We had good relations with them under Bush.  And of course the waterboarding followed, which gave the information that save...