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Keeping a meme aloft is hard work in America’s constantly shifting political landscape. David “Axe” Axelrod must have thought the “Mitt’s weird!” message was in danger of sinking below the waves of Minnesota Not-Nice during yesterday’s FOX/GOP (but I repeat myself) debate in Iowa.
So Body Spray Dave did what all good campaign advisers do: he went on Morning Joke to “tamp down” the rumors that the Obama campaign, bereft of a decent economy or a motivated base, would organize itself around Mitt’s weirdness. With Michael Steele and, later, MJoe:
STEELE: Do you think taking it to the level of referring to Romney or any of the Republican candidates as “weird,” is that more personal or is that more a reality in terms of an issue you want to talk about? How do you guys plan to really define this discussion if the team is already throwing out stuff, we want to show America he’s weird. How about we just speak to the issues?
AXELROD: Michael, lets you and I make common cause right now. No one on my team believes that. And anyone who purports to be a source within the Obama camp who used that term and some of the other terms that were in that story according to unnamed sources should be ripped out of whoever’s Rolodex considers them sources. That doesn’t reflect our thinking. We have real legitimate differences with Mitt Romney, some of which I just spoke about.
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SCARBOROUGH: If the President found out or you found out or the Chief of Staff found out that somebody working for President Obama was trying to take that tack, would you all fire them?AXELROD: I would — if someone used words like ‘weird,’ I would certainly do that, yes.
Which means that sound you hear is about a dozen Rolodex cards getting torn up (is there an app for that? because people don’t actually have Rolodexes anymore, right?) in about a hundred different “newsrooms.”
Is this simply an attempt by Body Spray Dave to keep the meme aloft another news cycle, going into the crucial weekend of the Iowa straw poll? Or does he really not want the folks who revealed Team Obama’s re-election strategy to Politico talking to the media any longer?
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“Body Spray Dave” LOL! Recc’d
I also think it’s weird that a) Team Obama thinks Mitt Romney’s mom-jeans are tight and b) Mjoe thinks Mitt’s tight jeans are sexy …. but that’s probably another diary.
As it stands, the heads are still talking about Romney being weird, so that’s a win for Team Obama, amirite?
I guess I oughtta type “Body Spray Dave™” because it’s all mine, baby.
Dave and his boss are Republicans. As such, they are working for Romney. Any questions?
Well, sure, but the play must go on. So many folks have bought tickets! And so many livelihoods depend on the staged conflict.
I noticed lots of comments in mainstream media comment sections the past few days (a sewer indeed) peppered with “Romney’s weird” notes from folks who’d just drop in, leave their turd, and never reappear. Clearly the ‘bots got their orders, whether they are paid or unpaid.
Can Body Spray Dave turn them off? Does he really want to?
You should be in advertising ;)
I clicked on this because of the title. You are hereby perfect for marketing.
Well, thank you.
“Corporations are people too.” – Mork Romney
“….Peeeee…eeple, LLCs are Peeeee…ple…
They’re the LU-U-UCKIEST Peeeeeeple in the world…”
Body spray Dave????
how do we know that the bots are humans? wouldn’t they just be part of Axelrod’s persona management system?
If he were telling ordinary people not to call one another names I might be offended, but he’s saying party and campaign workers shouldn’t use such language. Too bad the Republicans can’t reach that high.
Here in America we have freedom of speech along with many other Rights. Give us your tired your poor your huddled masses yearning to be free and once here they can also speak freely and dream of their own American Dream. You can be a goth or a geek or a dweeby bureaucrat and it’s kewl. Just don’t burn down the city.
David Axelrod goes by the nickname “Axe.”
Axe body spray is a brand of grooming products for men:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Axe_body_spray#Products
Thus, Dave Body Spray.
Catchy, no? :)
Or rather, Body spray Dave. Even catchier.
“bereft of a decent economy or a motivated base”
Ya’ know I’m getting really pissed every time I hear one of these pundits say that the base will support Obama because they don’t have anywhere else to go. Bullshit. There is indeed-y an enthusiasm gap and Obama is not doing one damn thing to close it. Have they forgotten about the write-in option.
Ah, thank you for asking, DCB. I was feeling like the popular kids had left me out of their circle again.
“they don’t have anywhere else to go.”
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Ain’t gonna work on me again.
we have options, here in DC I will be voting the DC Statehood Green line. We have options, just look for them in your state.
Only we Dirty Fucking Hippies are “weird.” I thought that that had long been agreed upon as a basic analytical principle in polite conversation.
Like calling Mittens weird is going to change someone’s opinion of him one way or another. The tealibangelicals are not going to vote for mittens because he is mormon not because he’s “weird”. Good Dawg obama and his handlers have become increadibly stupid.
Looks to me like AXE’s marketing slogan could apply to a certain allegedly squeaky clean politician, with the initials BO — THE CLEANER YOU ARE THE DIRTIER YOU GET
Mitts not weird, he’s as bland as oatmeal.
Mormonism is no stranger than any other religion, they all require a suspension of rational thought.
I thought Axe was what all the oversexed teen boys used to excess. I didn’t know grownups used Axe.
If I had a sawbuck for every time someone called me weird, I wouldn’t need social security.
Only truly weird people would think that calling a candidate weird would hurt the candidate.
What the hell is up with that?
I thought Axe was a deodorant. It smells pretty good, but the times I’ve used it I felt kind of like a man, just sayin.’
Mork from Orem.
Nahnooo, nahnoo…
Dag —Axe, BO, Win the Future, …
These guys really are master communicators!
It WAS weird that Romney proved Team Obama was right by weirdly referring to corporations as people. We all know that’s stupid; just because 5 not-very-conservative active Supremes said so doesn’t make it carved in stone.
As for “unnamed sources”, remember Sarah Palin’s monstrous aide Rebecca Mansour once worked as a volunteer for Obama. She was probably a stealth volunteer, as this so-called Obama unnamed source is. Or rather, was.
I’m glad I read down the page a ways before I asked the obvious. I’m out of the loop, too, don’t feel bad.
“enthusiasm gap”?
You know, insane people and easily-led people often get enthusiastic about 10-car pile-ups and carnival side-shows.
I imagine President Obama and his crew are trying to figure out a way to appeal to what he hopes are the majority of Americans; the sane ones who go to the carnival once with the kids, not every day it’s in town.
Granted, there’s a lot to be unhappy about right now, and it doesn’t seem like he and his crew have a different end result planned for us than the GOP does, despite the talk.
After all, what is this stupid “super committee” but a way for the rest of the House and Senate to say, “we had nothing to do with this horrible bad deal, it’s those 12 who did it”. Besides, the “super committee” is probably unconstitutional, because it’s certainly unrepresentative.
I blame everything on those sneaky, lying, scheming seekers after power and wealth, the fundamentalist evangelicals. They invented “the end justifies the means”.
well – c’mon – let’s get … “real” … someone like romney isn’t as obviously batshit nuts as palin and bachmann …
if all us DSHs write in “My Pet Rock”, 0bummer will still beat palin or bachmann … I think. Against someone who isn’t so nuts …
0bummer will be rolling in the dough on the lecture circuit! He could easily have a 9 figure net worth by 2016 – maybe he should help the romney’s beat the too whack-a-doodles …??
rmm
It is a neologism, new to this post, so no one should feel left out. Go forth and use it freely, this “Body Spray Dave!” Be the smart one in your set.
I thought it was pretty strange too, considering he works for the Socialist Kenyan Muslim pals-around-with-terrorists dude. Democrats can’t call the other fellah names now? When did that get to be a rule?
I had figured that “weird” was code for “Mormon.”
I think Team Obama were simply hoping for a different outcome to the GOP nominating process than the one the media seems engaged in now: Willard for Prez.
When you die, you get your own planet. That’s “weird” to most people. But I agree with your underlying point about suspension of rational thought. It’s simply that most people have boundaries around how much rational thought they are willing to suspend. Biscuits = Jesus; wine = his blood: these are okay.
Getting your own planet? That’s “weird.” That’s why I always thought “weird” was code.
Corporations aren’t people they are Superpeople. They negate individualism, and then transcend it. A person without a corporation to join in or serve is nothing, to government. Soon enough, another hundred years or so, there will not be government as has been understood for 10,000 years.
I am glad that the Obama read Reagan’s biography and remembered Reagan’s rule: Do not speak disparagingly of other Republicons.
LOL!