Slog - Comments on The Dino Rossi Strategy

Comment by Phenics

Phenics — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:07:48 -0800

Net Neutrality as a big issue for the Northwest Washington is a given. Also a given, is that The East Coast Washington repubs want the issue to get out of the newspapers and back into closed door agreements.

Since Mc G. gets his marching orders from the national repubs, via the state repubs, it should not come as a surprise that Mc G.'s political radar is focused around the East Coast Washington issues, and not the Northwest issues. Dems have a much better handle on local issues of national importance then do the repubs, which is why state repubs (anywhere in the county) tend to shut down the sound-bite machine for a few days while they confer for local messaging which is in concordance with the national media sound bites.

Comment by Goldy

Goldy — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 13:03:02 -0800

Rossi was able to pursue the Rossi strategy because a complacent Gregoire campaign allowed him to. A half-million dollars of negative TV ads in the final two weeks of the campaign and there never would have been a recount.

The problem with the Rossi strategy is that when you leave yourself undefined, you risk allowing others to define you. That's exactly what happened to David Irons in the final few weeks of the county executive race. That's exactly what's gonna happen to McGavick.

Comment by Publicus

Publicus — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:18:02 -0800

Goes double for Reichert. What's with this
blowjob delivered by the Seattle Times' Alicia Mundy (6/26)? Yeah, OK...the guy captured Ridgeway (though not single-handedly and after releasing him a decade ago). But it's increasingly obvious that he wasn't shit for actually *administering* a law-enforcement agency. He's starting to look like Raymond Shaw in The Manchurian Candidate....