A Letter To The Editor From Rhino Times Reader Lynn Andrew
An interesting campaign technique has taken hold in our country over the last several years. I call it the “Do Nothing, Say Nothing” method. Perhaps the idea started with the Penguins in the movie Madagascar with their “smile and wave boys”. This method was used successfully by Joe Biden in 2020. Others are utilizing the technique, which is subtle, but I write to warn Americans. Beware of the candidate who will not engage with other candidates or with the media in any meaningful way. If someone goes out of their way to be evasive during the sales cycle, what do you think you will get after the sale is closed?
Let me detail this technique for you. The candidate simply shows up at public events and smiles and waves. They nod and utter trite phrases without content. They only accept appearances in friendly or neutral locations, never subjecting themselves to hard questions. Above all, they will never appear in a spontaneous Q&A session where they must depend exclusively on their own speaking skills and platform. Additionally, finding concrete written plans once they are elected is also impossible. Notice where they do not appear. The subtility in the technique lies not in what they do but what they don’t do. Pay close attention, this method is permeating our election season. There are candidates on multiple levels who are utilizing it.
These candidates are playing with your mind. They are allowing you to color in the details of their campaign. Your mind will fill in what you would like to see come to pass after Election Day. Don’t fall for it. Because they are not saying anything, promising anything or doing anything with content, their after-election actions won’t coincide with what you thought they would do. Then, they will proudly announce that they deceived no one. Remember the campaign season is a job interview, not a popularity contest. Who can do the job most effectively is what we seek to find.
Lynn Andrew
High Point
Trump showing up to unfriend interview at a convention of black journalist paid off really well. LOL. Just saying.
Sometimes it is better to just let your opponent speak and push voters in your direction.
But don’t you agree that it was commendable of Trump to put himself in a hostile environment and answer questions?
Harris won’t even put herself in a friendly environment (unless she has a big boy there to hold her hand).
No, not the way he handled it. It did him no favors. He clearly wasn’t there to win over anyone from that community (he likely was right to assume he couldn’t) and the message he delivered only fed into the Leftist narrative on his being a racist at heart. Just another dumb move by Trump helping him lose yet again.
They were extremely and unnecessarily rude. When I hear the Dems say we need to have a conversation about XY&Z this will come to mind. Proves they are not interested in pounding out differences. Kamala is the queen of “we need to have a conversation,” but it is just her way to sidestep a question or subject. She fools no one.
Shouldn’t politicians be held accountable for their rhetoric? Calling Kamala a DEI candidate deserved to be challenged by journalists…especially journalists of color. If Kamala called JD Vance a racist, she should be held accountable in the same way. (as far as I know she hasn’t…of course she doesn’t spend all night spew hate on social media like Trump does)
Trump should never have been there with some prep of what they would target him for so he could polish his talking points. Instead, he ranted about questioning Kamala’s race that just made him sound weird.
But you be you.
It is going to be interesting. Of course the Black power elite support Dems 100%. But the “Black” vote is starting to have something in common with the “union” vote. The leaders endorse Dems, but the members don’t always follow suit. When Trump signed a law in 2018 that revamped some of the federal prison sentencing laws, thousand of inmates were processed out – mostly nonviolence, drug possession convictions. It is anecdotal, but there were interviews and youtube videos of Black women celebrating the Orange Man. I’ve watched videos of on the street interviews asking “who will you vote for?” and these may all be edited, but it is common urban areas the white people are Kamala but a surprising number of Black citizens (female and male) support Trump. All of this reminds me how Trump got a surprising share of the union/blue collar vote in 2016. So by Trump going to the gather of Black leaders, he didn’t get their vote, but the non-elite Black Americans look at that and some give him credit for going to an unfriendly event. We’ll see how all of this turns out.
Austin, you are spot on. Trump will head into the lion’s den sword in hand. He is not afraid to answer questions from hostile journalists. Getting KH to do that would be like pulling teeth.
Yes, Greg.
If Trump cured cancer tomorrow the Democrats would still spit on him.
It says more about them than Trump.
Lynn, I thick that tactic you described comes from the DEI playbook. The majority of Democrats support and swear by it.
NO GUTS, NO GLORY! PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS THE GUTS to answer all questions from anyone…friend or foe, any time and any place. Ms. Harris (the cackling hen) and Tim Walz (her new man servant) are afraid to answer any question from anyone except the ONE AND ONLY ‘interview’ with softball questions from a liberal main stream media (MSM) outlet. Ms. Harris spoke for a total of about 18 minutes and TV viewers were ‘treated’ to an edited version of the ‘interview’. If Ms. Harris and Walz had any guts, ideas or plans for the future of our country, they too would answer questions from everyone, anytime. I get so sea sick and dizzy trying to keep track of her constantly changing statements that I almost throw up. She was absolutely against fracking…now she is for it. She thought closing the southern boarder was a vanity program by PRESIDENT TRUMP. While she puffs out her chest proclaiming Bidenomics is working, she also acknowledges that food and gas prices are up 20% to 50% but will address this on her first day in office. Please correct me if I am wrong….but isn’t she ALREADY IN OFFICE. Why do we have to wait until she is elected for her to do her job NOW. Joe Biden is sharp as a tack she tells us…until EVERYBODY CAN SEE he can’t string words together to make a coherent sentence. Why did she lie and hide this FACT? Why didn’t she step in to save our country? Was her personal aspirations more important that all citizens of our country? Sure looks so. I know I have just scratched the surface of the lies of Ms. Harris. But don’t take my word for anything. Do your own research. Look it up. Then decide for yourselves if you want to elect the lying Biden VP accomplice to continue lying to the country. We have had enough of Ms. Harris and her provably disastrous actions. VOTE FOR DONALD J. TRUMP TIME TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT…AGAIN
Odd. He never showed up to any conservative primary debates. Plus, he would have won in 2020 and would be leading by a great deal more in this election if he kept his mouth shut. Instead, he retweets or tweets his hate, lies and misinformation all night and day). A loser through and through.
I had hoped he learned from the Biden debate that keeping his mouth shut would make him look more presidential. Nope. That old dog has no new tricks. Just childish name calling, lies and misinformation.
The really sad aspect of this is so many view his childish rants as a positive and believe his lies and ignore the facts and data that don’t align with their view of the world. THAT is what is hurting this country.
Well said, Ken.
KAMALA is an anagram of AKA MAL (“Also Known As Mal”, which is Latin for evil).
“ The really sad aspect of this is so many view his childish rants as a positive and believe his lies and ignore the facts and data that don’t align with their view of the world. THAT is what is hurting this country.”
MIRROR MIRROR, ON THE WALL
What’s the point? All candidates say whatever will garner votes but, once elected, they develop amnesia and proceed to do whatever.