![]() Reagan wasn’t afraid to be a Republican and to explain what that meant. He fed them the diet he wanted them to eat and even when they shit it out it contained the kernels of his message. He didn’t give a damn about their approval. That’s why he talked past them – to the people. President Ronald Reagan understood the media (and they were a lot more condensed, more centralized, and a lot stronger back then). But when he needed them, the media screwed John McCain. After the dust settled, he became cool again, especially when pissing on other Republicans… especially when pissing on Trump. ![]() The moment it became about him and Obama, John McCain became a troglodyte in the minds of the media. They only thought John McCain was cool when he was pissing on Bush. ![]() Except that there are no “cool” Republicans. “I’m a different kind of Republican.” They are a little backward, a little off, but I’m with it. Get back to us on it.Īnd that’s what the whole Hugin campaign was based on, wasn’t it? Say it loud, like ten million dollars’ worth of loud, and see how they like it. Invite them out to a restaurant, then tell the host: “I’m a different kind of member of this family, I’m not really one of them… They are a little, umm… backward.” And say it so they hear it. As an experiment, try some of that language next time you are in public with your wife and her family (or your husband and his). Ignore them, say you are embarrassed to be with them, that you are “different” from them… and they will reward you in kind. Excuses aside, New Jersey’s GOP establishment should understand that the days of Republicans “holding their noses” and voting are over. Oh the excuses! One year it is Christie’s fault, the next it is Trump’s, and in between, the dog ate it! New Jersey Republicans should set up their own public relations firm specializing in excuse-making. Unfortunately, they were precisely the voters that the Hugin campaign was aimed at.Ĭan we put aside the myth that Republican voters will come out no matter what, and dutifully vote Republican? That myth should have finally, once and for all, been discarded after the low turnout Assembly races in 2015, when Republicans AGAIN lost seats in the Legislature and were AGAIN provided with irrelevant excuses for having done so. Of course, this only works with those who are open to receiving a message from the likes of Tom Moran and MSNBC. Rather than shutting down Menendez, Hugin’s attacks were used by the media as evidence that he – Bob Hugin – was a “bad” man. That media still cuts it with the people who Bob Hugin wanted to convince: Democrats and liberal-leaners. That media ended up vouching for Bob Menendez, despite having formerly called for his resignation. A year when the media he wanted to appeal to was working to nationalize the election – to make it about Trump. They would have forgiven him everything.īut Bob ran as a Republican, and he ran this year. The media love rich members of the One Percent when they are Democrats (it is a capital sin when you are a Republican)… they love woke, right-on pharma folk of the proper political affiliation. $35 million… against Bob Menendez? Hugin had the issues right for a Democrat primary… and the media wouldn’t have pounced on a Democrat Bob Hugin the way they did a Republican Bob Hugin. ![]() The fact that he persevered with such confidence and grace makes him a heroic, somewhat tragic, figure.īob Hugin could have run in the Democrat primary. It was unfortunate that he found himself in a Republican primary… this year. ![]()
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