Basketball 101. If you can't stop the other guy straight up, hack him. Foul him hard in a way to frustrate him, hurt him and make him think twice about coming down the lane again. And when you run out of fouls, the coach just puts in another hack. Doesn't matter who it is because hacking doesn't require skill.
Paul Ryan has a lot of ideas. Maybe some of them aren't that great, but we probably will never hear about that because the Democrats haven't set out to analyze them on their merits. They're just hacking. I guess they know they can't stop Ryan straight up because Obama has already called him the worst ever and Biden has claimed that Romney wants to put black people back in chains. Hack. Hack.
I know some smart guys who I think of as Smart Government Progressives. They believe that government can be a force of good in the lives of its citizens when in the hands of smart guys with a solid progressive agenda. The voted for Obama because they thought he was that smart guy. They are now disappointed.
I agree with the Smart Government Progressive idea as a concept but reject it as a practice. I do not believe it works because it fails to recognize and harness the natural self-interest of man. As a result, despite its best intentions, all forms of Smart Government Progressiveness are inevitably high-jacked by hacks, HackJacks who abandon progressive ideals and concentrate on maintaining power.
I won't try dissuade a committed Smart Government Progressive. I accept (maybe even admire) their quixotic search for a leader. But I will try to convince them of this: Obama, Biden, Reid and Pelosi are not those leaders. They are HackJacks. Keeping them in power simply because they claim to be progressive fellow travelers is illogical. It gets them no closer to their goal of Smart Government. If anything keeping HackJacks in power retards progress. If they truly want Smart Government as soon as possible, they should not vote for Obama/Biden.
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