Silly Campaign Tricks: Will Those Who Blasted Romney Blast Obama?

I linked to Proof Positive earlier in the Patriotic Pinup post regarding this story from the LA Times

Like buzzing flies drawn to the center of a room, two small planes with trailing banners circled in the blue sky above Mitt Romney as he kicked off a five-day tour of small-town America at a New Hampshire farm.

The unfriendly plane – “Romney’s Every Millionaire Counts Tour,” its banner screamed – seemed to be chasing the friendly one with a more mundane message: “Romney for President 2012.”

Round and round they went.

Let’s remember, many on the Left, and a few on the Right, had fits over Romney’s Bus taunting Obama supporters. The Mahablog, one of my favorite Lefty blogs, mentions me in a post entitled The Children Are Easily Amused

I realize most of us would look on the circling bus episode and think, “WTF?” It looks silly and desperate. But Josh Marshall nails this — what looks like a pointless, juvenile stunt to most people speaks to the very heart and soul of movement conservatism. Because, basically, all movement conservatism amounts to any more is a great acting-out of juvenile rebellion. And the children are eating it up.

At Outside The Beltway, Doug Mataconis had a fit over the bus issue

If you’ve spent any amount of time working on a political campaign, you’ll know that much of on-the-ground campaigning can often involve juvenile idiocy.

Waiting for Maha and Doug, among others, to call out Team Obama in 3..2…2…..2….2….

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