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Someone has to put their foot down [1]
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Date: 2022-10-17
For kicks, I watched the debate between Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (GA-14) and Marcus Flowers, her opponent. Just a couple of days ago I’d endured the state’s Senate debate between Sen. Raphael Warnock and tarnished celebrity Herschel Walker (who’d brazenly claimed that he was already representing citizens of Georgia), so I figured that this couldn’t be as grueling.
Yet it appears to me that MTG and Walker must share consultants in common, because their debate stances were the same. Don’t just stay on offense: that’s passe. That’s Newt Gingrich’s playbook. No, now the strategy is, attack, even wildly, and always cut off the opponent.
If it’s your turn to talk. If it’s not your turn to talk. If it’s your turn to ask your opponent a question. If it’s your turn to answer your opponent’s question.
No matter what: interrupt, distract, switch gears, and above all, attack .
At no point was Flowers able to have both a clean beginning of a response and a clean ending—most times, he had neither. Greene was preemptive and retaliatory.
A choice point in the debate came when she was challenged on her cutesy clarification question (reminiscent of the stalling technique employed by entrants in spelling bees when they’re furiously trying to conjure an answer). The challenger was one of the moderators, Josh Rowe, a local news anchor with WTVC. He asked her how she vetted what she claimed to be true. Green attempted to follow up by asking what might qualify as “controversial” about her various comments. Rowe pointed out that she’d used that maneuver in other debate venues. That instant he became her enemy.
The fireworks start at 15:00.
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