Every appearance by a top Republican official or candidate should be recorded. Every one of them.
All it takes is one “Macaca” incident to transform a race or create one where one didn’t exist. As the Montana incident blogged earlier today showed, a video can knock out prospective candidates before they even enter.
And this is no longer about finding one big blunder to put on a campaign commercial. It’s about using video and (free) technologies like YouTube to build narratives about opponents, using their own words, at their own events.
It’s never too early to start.
We’ve got a long, difficult slog ahead of us next year. The more material we amass today, the better we’ll able to use that video to support our efforts next year.
Well, I’d say he should also be ordering them to shoot every moment of every appearance of every Democratic candidate — for why not create your own narrative rather than leave it to a bunch of GOP shooters? (via TechRepublican)
(So far) no candidate has had his words come back to haunt him on YouTube as much as Mitt Romney. It started with this video from his 1994 debate with Ted Kennedy espousing downright liberal positions on abortion and gay marriage.
Tonight, I went to YouTube looking for clips from the Republican debate (because I’m stuck in a hotel without MSNBC and MSNBC.com won’t serve the live feed to my Mac). Searching on “debate” for the latest clips what do I find instead? More Mitt moments. Here — horrors — he denies Reagan thrice before the cock crows:
The same user who put that up, “romneyrecord,” also put up a moment from the 1994 debate with Romney endorsing gay Boy Scouts. And then there’s this literary moment: Romney giving a good review to an L. Ron Hubbard novel. He makes clear he’s not converting to Tom Cruise’s church. So it’s more damning of his taste, perhaps. And here he flipflops: The Bible is his favorite book. Not the Book of Mormon? Oh, it’s complicated being Mitt.
