PUNK ROCK REPUBLICAN

Thank you maxpowers518

“One of a speaker’s most effective weapons is the element of surprise, especially when he is a President. His press secretary will jump up and down and insist that the speech will not be adequately covered unless reporters get an advanced text. Many White House aides go even further, earning brownie points with the press by leaking out the essence of a speech to favored reporters. They always argue that this is the way to build up the audience. Exactly the opposite is true. If a speaker has a major statement to make, he should be the first to make it. That means no advance text and no leaks. The element of surprise will increase the size of the audience and massively expand the impact of the speech.
… On September 23, 1952, I was scheduled to appear on television to answer the false charge that a political fund for office expenses had been used for my personal benefit. The demand that I be dropped from the [Eisenhower] ticket swept the country like a firestorm. The media hounded my staff for an answer to the key question: Would I stay on the ticket or get off? I told the staff to answer with the truth - I had not yet decided and would announce my decision in the speech. The anticipation was immense. The audience was the biggest ever for a televised political speech, and the response by telegram, mail, and telephone was the biggest in history, too. Before the speech, most of the nation’s newspapers, including the major Republican ones, had come out for dropping me from the ticket. After the speech, because of the overwhelming favorable public reaction, the situation was reversed. Without the element of surprise, the audience would have been smaller and the impact less, and I might well have been dropped from the ticket.”
‘In The Arena’ by Richard Nixon.

Meanwhile why not cut to the chase and give this speech to the Taliban. Oh that’s right. They already know it too.

‘Obama Wants Afghan War Over In 3 Years, Officials Say [The Taliban Couldn Not Be Reached For Comment]’
By Ed Henry, Barbara Starr, Atia Abawi, Alan Silverleib, and Tom Cohen for CNN.

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