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NEW LEADERSHIP, OLD SLOGAN
Julin and Kevia decide on an election theme:
Labor launches ‘New Leadership’ campaign
Hmmm ... reader Alan R.M. Jones has heard that slogan somewhere before:
Hey, it worked for them.
Umm..pardon me for being dense and all, but.. I thought the entire purpose behind changing leaders was to bring in new leadership?
I mean, what’s the alternative to the “New Leadership” campaign?
Elect me and I’ll be exactly like that guy I want to replace!
Now, that would be a unique angle for a campaign.
Grimmy,
Umm..pardon me for being dense and all, but.. I thought the entire purpose behind changing leaders was to bring in new leadership?
Apparently, the ALP couldn’t come up with a catchy, slogan-y reason for new leadership, so you get:
“We need New Leadership because… well, just because!”
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 09 15 at 01:09 PM • permalinkLeadership: Getting others to do what you want them to do because the unions bloody well said you will do it or suffer the consequences.
Posted by surfmaster on 2007 09 15 at 01:12 PM • permalinkRebecca,
The USS Mondale-Ferarro didn’t go down three times before sinking. It sank to the bottom right out of the yard, having never floated.
Some genius at the DNC decided that, in the fight for middle-of-the-road average-joe voters, it would be a brilliant idea to have the 1984 Democratic Convention in San Francisco (not exactly the spritual home of the middle-of-the-road average-joe voter.)
They then gave the keynote speech to that race-baiter Jesse Jackson, fresh off of his “hymie-town” troubles.
They nominated Walter Mondale. He was Vice President under Jimmy Carter. In other words, a man who learned how to be President from Smilin’ Jimmuh. (Kind of like saying you learned carpentry by watching Three Stooges movies.)
Finally, they chose Ferraro for VP just because she was a woman, having never bothered to pick up and read a New York city newspaper. (Her husband was a notorious slumlord involved in a series of lawsuits well before, and during, the 1984 campaign.)
Posted by David Crawford on 2007 09 15 at 02:47 PM • permalinkOn that button, Mondale looks like the Joker.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2007 09 15 at 03:31 PM • permalink‘They then gave the keynote speech to that race-baiter Jesse Jackson’. Jackson, keynote speaker .. for.. Jesse Jackson ..and Muhammah Gaddafi…and Fidel Castro.. I wonder if he has a contract with Hugo Chavez these days?
Last time they invited Carter and Michael Moore to two of the best seats in the house. They really know stable leadership in the Democratic Party.
Think of how MOndale must feel. An idiot like Jimmy Carter can win an election, a scumbag like Bill Clinton can win an election, but Mondale can’t.
That’s gotta be a crushing blow to the old ego.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 09 15 at 08:13 PM • permalink
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It sure did, didn’t it. (Reagan took 49 of 50 states. Mondale took only his home state of Minnesota.)