The Simple Trap

Sun Tzu Quote of the Day: Hence that general is skillful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skillful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack. “Cory Booker's defense of Wall Street may hurt his status with liberals, but it won't hurt his bank account” There’s your headline from Mayor Booker’s Meet the Press appearance followed by several other Obama supporters repeating the same thing. Almost immediately the brain trust at team Romney grabbed the footage and threw a spot together titled “Stand with Cory”. Now for anyone who believes Mayor Booker did this by accident and Team Obama is taking him to the preverbal woodshed…..Yeah not so much. This is classic Clinton Strategy designed to deprive Romney of any oxygen. What’s everybody talking about…..Romney? Nope, Team Obama just grabbed a ton of free air time plus the bonus of getting asked a question about it at a national media event in Chicago. All the talking heads rushed to get a piece of the action and, once again surrogates came forward to get interviewed. This all costs Team Obama nada and, puts Mr. Romney in the awkward position of having to answer questions about what he did at Bain Capital. Notice nobody is saying he did anything illegal or wrong if you’re running the chop shop wing of a financial firm. Romney claims he created jobs and, now the worthless media will venture forth and accidentally do their job of verifying how many jobs. Mayor Booker played his part and, Romney’s team was dumb enough to grab the shiny object. At the end of the day he just put himself one step further from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Once again Mr. Romney under estimated his opponent and, took the bait laid in plain sight.