While we contemplate Bill Gardner’s existential contemplation about when our first-in-the-universe primary circus will take place and begin to say goodbye to Republican not-so-much a presidential hopeful Sam Brownback (Sam, we hardly knew you here), here’s something to brighten up your day (in a perverse way).
In my daily link, Ken Silverstein of Harper’s chronicles the massive consulting artifice behind a majority of our major political campaigns. In this case, Silverstein follows the step-by-step process in the selling of Mitt Romney as a conservative and runs into so many layers of political consulting and manipulation that you almost feel sorry for the candidates.
Reminds me how some things never change: it seems like only yesterday when I was in high school (sometime near the end of the 2nd quarter of the 20th Century) reading The Selling of the President by Joe McGinnis about the packaging of Richard Nixon in 1968. Hard to believe it’s gotten worse but yes, Virginia, it has.
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