Jophiel wrote:
angrymnk wrote:
It apparently works too. There are people out there trained to recoil at the name itself. It is odd how good Republics are at messaging.
Sure. Classic example is that you can get clear majority approval for all the facets of the ACA but if you ask "Do you like Obamacare" you have a clear partisan split.
While I'm sure there are conservatives who recoil at the name itself, I suspect a large portion of that is the "all aspects of the ACA" being polled failing to actually include the 800lb gorilla that is "mandate that everyone have health insurance" (combined with a set of things that must be covered which some conservatives may not like). The other aspects aren't that significant to conservatives as long as we're free to buy or not buy the insurance that we want.
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That said, even at the most cynical, there's plenty of reasons why the Republicans wouldn't want to touch this: The guy who killed bin Laden has made victory laps and is a hero, the conspiracy is that Pakistan has had bin Laden since 2006 (well back into Bush's term), this kills the "torture helped give the information we needed to kill bin Laden!" argument, etc. Ignoring facts and sources and all that, there's no win for anyone to make much out of this.
Yeah. Because it's somewhat ridiculous to even suggest that Hersh's reasons involve being 'anti-Obama', or partisan at all, for that matter. He's been a pretty equal opportunity conspiracy theorist/revealer along the way.