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Wednesday, September 3, 2008
McCain to Open Culture War Floodgates
Wow, I just read one of the most disturbing articles in recent memory over on the Huffington Post that outlined, in frightening detail, the culture war flashpoint strategy that McCain will need to employ to win the election. I encourage you to read it, if only to recognize some of the unreal irrationalism that will be thrown at us for the next two months:
John McCain's convention gambit is now a culture war strategy. It depends for its execution on conflict with journalists, and with bloggers (the "angry left," Bush called them last night) along with confusion between and among the press, the blogosphere, and the Democratic party. It revives cultural memory: the resentment narrative after Chicago '68 but with the angry left more distributed. It dispenses with issues and seeks a trial of personalities. It bets big time on backlash.
At the center of the strategy is the flashpoint candidacy of Sarah Palin, a charismatic figure around whom the war can be brought to scale, as it were. In fact the Politico is reporting just that: Palin reignites culture wars.
I have no idea if the ignition system will work; nor do I claim that "this is what they were thinking" when they made the decision to nominate Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Other interpretations may turn out to be truer than mine. This post is my look at the bets McCain and company seem to be placing. I am not recommending the strategy. I am not predicting it will succeed. I think it was improvised, like my description here...
Posted by Metavirus at 9/03/2008 12:40:00 PM
Tags: Abortion , Culture War , Election 2008 , General Election , John McCain , LGBT Issues , Sarah Palin
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