The Clintons’ Tactics
I had thought to say “The Clintons’ Strategy,” but I think their latest efforts are just tactics - how they are going about achieving their strategy.
Neo-Neocon posts about the fickleness of the voting public. I’m in agreement that on a day-to-day basis they are very fickle. They know it doesn’t really count to answer a poll question, or “favor” or “oppose” a particular candidate. It’s one drop of rain, not the thunder burst of election day.
In the course of her post, she wonders about the behavior of the Clintons (don’t we all much of the time?). She speculates:
Or maybe they’ve decided to do a bad cop, good cop bit, with Bill as the bad cop.
That is exactly what they’ve done since Barrak Obama stunned them in Iowa. Hillary can use Bill to get Barrak off his message of hope and unity, without herself looking any the worse for it. If any of Bill’s mudslinging happens to stick to Obama, Hillary can use that “impromptu focus group result” to reshape her campaign and debate statements.
Admittedly, sometimes that blows up in her face, as in the two jiu jitsu moves she found herself the victim of: A Rezko picture with the Clintons pops up the day after she tries to smear Obama with him; and the “say anything” response to her Reagan smear. That last was aided by several bloggers noting that Bill used exactly the same tactic in 1992.
It very definitely is the “good cop - bad cop” tactic they’re using on Obama. Or should that be “bad cop - dirty cop?”
