When You Can't Get It Out of Your Head

The strangest thing happened today.  In the middle of my day at work I began, for no apparent reason, to ruminate about the Demint quote from yesterday's blog.

This is the quote:

DeMint said he was "optimistic” about his re-election campaign, but he did say Greene’s nomination was concerning.

"It’s not healthy,” DeMint said. "I think the important thing is it’s not an embarrassment for our state and the Republican Party. We should consider the same people who nominated Alvin Greene, (Vincent) Sheheen and everybody else on that list.”  (Greenwood, SC Index Journal)


This is wrong on so many levels my head spins.  First of all, what's "not healthy?"  And by healthy do you mean sick physically, emotionally disturbed, or are you just attempting to begin to project a feeling of "dis-ease" to your listeners?

We still don't know what "it" is when he goes on to say the "important thing is it's not an embarrassment.

If "it" means "Greene's nomination", what could be unhealthy about a candidate on a ballot winning a primary nomination?  Because he then goes on to smear us (presumably) Democratic voters by saying "We should consider the same people who nominated Alvin Greene, Sheheen and everybody else on that list."

Okay, I'm still confused, but now I'm getting a little steamed.  It seems that we the Democratic voters are being accused of possibly embarrassing (Demint's) state and the Republican party.  And not only has (Demint's) state and the Republican party been lumped together, it seems that ALL the candidates -- "everybody else on that list" -- are interchangeable as well.

As I said yesterday, Demint's Jello-speak (no offense to Jello) has the effect of making one's eyes glaze over while being totally incapable of disagreeing with anything he says.  Because it makes no sense.  

So in the interest of "know thy enemy", pay attention to what Jim Demint says.  He is above all an ad-man.  It is his second nature to be disingenuous, to control people through vague but emotionally charged accusations.

If Alvin Greene's nomination to the U.S. Senate is "concerning" -- I assume Demint meant to say it concerns him, but in the interest of being all-inclusive wants all his listeners to be concerned, I say maybe he is right to be concerned.  It may be that in November he'll be back to being an ad-man.

Alvin Greene

because he's

Better than Demint