Hey all.
I trust the blogging is going well. Keep it up, John McCain is counting on you! Well time for a new tip.
Have you come across a fellow poster who seems at first to be a reachable voter while posting about John McCain and his many virtues only to have this poster turn on you abruptly. Say this poster has some positive things to say about John McCain but wants you to admit a mistake that John McCain may have made before committing further toward voting for John McCain. Say this poster said something like this:
I like both John McCain and Barack Obama. But what I value most is someone who can admit a mistake and learn from it. Knowing everything we know now about how the Iraq war would go and how much it would cost don’t you think there was a better way to make America safer other than invading and occupying Iraq indefinitely?
Well what to do? Of course Iraq has not gone how the experts, such as John McCain, thought it would go. Should you say yes, it was worth it and that you’d make the same mistakes over if you had it to do again? Or should you say maybe we should have made some different decisions to make America Safe? You decide to tell this reachable voter what you think he wants to hear and say:
Well if we had to do it over again we should have made some decisions differently. It is unfortunate but we are on the right course now and John McCain know the right strategy now.
There, a perfectly reasonable middle of the road statement. It should be just what the reachable voter is looking looking for. But then all of a sudden this reachable voter isn’t so reachable aanymore and as a matter of fact he is downright hostile. Perhaps he says something like this in response:
So you admit John McCain made a mistake when it came to invading Iraq. How can we trust him now? Why should I trust him about anything including and especially national security. I don’t trust John McCain and you should not either because he was wrong about Iraq.
Well my friend you just got drawn into a Bait and “Switch.” And by Switch, I mean “to switch” as in the verb. So be careful out there. Some bloggers may not be who they seem to be. They may be waiting for you to take the bait so they can give you the Switch. Ouch!
Anyway, that is this week’s tip. Have fun, Stay safe.
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