Norm Coleman has been pushing this whole “bipartisan,” “bringing people together” schtick hard. As well, Coleman repeatedly asked his supporters, starting last Friday to stop negativity. Yet, he can’t even get his own supporters to come together. How is he supposed to bring people that disagree together if he can’t even get his own supporters to come together?
Alternatively, is making a huge deal with a press conference and multiple press releases (including one today) denouncing negative ads actually a way of telling outside groups to keep up the good work? I mean, if Norm’s friends went positive, that would be coordination right?
So is this a complete Coleman failure or a nasty political move? You might think he is a slimeball but let’s be honest: Norm Coleman is not an idiot. This would be fantastic résumé bullet point when vying for the NRSC chair. If it’s failure or media savvy, unfortunately, the joke is on Minnesotans.
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Oh come on this is the best of both world for Norm the Weasel. It is as planned as his next visit with a drunken lobbyist and comes direct from crafty old New York Norm. First unleash a rude and angry attack at your opponent, then really roll around in the mud until people get tired of it, declare yourself aghast at the tactics and then react like your chaste self can not believe how dirty politics has become… because of your opponent.
The reason that it is not working is pretty simple, the Franken campaign has never done anything but respond to the attacks and go after the deeds of Norm. You aren’t throwing mud when you use his record as your source material. Think of that picture with Bush and Coleman arms around each other… at the time Norm had to suppress his maleness at being so to his lord and master. Now it doesn’t look so good… Norm the opportunist has just backed the wrong horse. It happens to all gamblers without a backbone or a shred of morals. Had no President Incompetent and his Republican minions like Norm not so totally screwed up our country, you would have seen that picture in Norm ads instead of Franken ads.
I think it would have helped if Norm had not picked the same ad agency as that idiot Kennedy did… Dallas is a long way from understanding Minnesota.
Good question Aaron, one that appears to be pondered in regard to many Republican candidates from McCain on down and throughout the nation as well. There seems to be a panicky struggling and treading of water in heavy seas… Who would have thought we’d see such flailing as a result of the damage done to the GOP brand. I would have thought it could not hit them so hard. I’d love to be a fly on the wall at Coleman HQ or to really know what’s going on in his head, but alas, he may not know himself. It’s possible.
amuseinc, that line about the suppression of Norm’s maleness? SHUDDER! Don’t DO that dude!