NewsBusters ^ | May 13, 2012 | P.J. Gladnick
Did you know that one of the reasons for the federal lawsuit against Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio was Obama political campaign strategy? Don't take my word for it. This assertion has been made by the Huffington Post editorial director Howard Fineman in his story excusing negative Obama campaign strategy by claiming they are merely taking pages from the GOP playbook:
Wedge Issues. The phrase is often misused.
It means forcing the other party to defend an idea, policy or person in such a
way that it divides the other party's base. The classic example, used for years
if not decades by Reagan, was welfare, which split white and black working-class
Democrats. Obama is trying to do the same thing to the GOP on immigration.
His administration just filed suit against Arizona's controversial and,
to many, egregiously anti-immigrant Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The goal is not just to
bring him in line, but to make Republicans defend him.
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