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June 09, 2013 09:15 AM UTC
21 Comments
The only people with that bad of a memory are either crooks or severe stoners.
I doubt Gessler is a stoner.
Hey, this is all a smear against people with mental disabilities! If Reagan could serve at least half his first term and all of his second with early (and increasingly not so early) stage dementia, that proves that mental capacity is irrelevant and leftie meanies shouldn't be picking on those so afflicted.
Bullshit, Bullshit . . .
. . . anyone who's worked on behalf of the State knows that there's absolutely nothing they do that's ever that memorable. Back off, huh?!?
Gessler in a landslide !!!!!!!
[Signed ArapaGOP — in his usual unpaid weekend abstentia]
Big difference between memory you use for day to day tasks and memory you use when each word is going to be scrutinized in statewide, and potentially nationwide, media.
Let's say you are 95% sure something didn't happen. How do you answer a question on whether it happened? Or say that you are asked to provide details of a conversation that occurred months ago and you can't remember all aspects of it. How are you supposed to recount it?
Very few people have a photographic memory of every event in their life – especially an event that appears quite mundane at the time it occurs but gets drawn into great scrutiny weeks after the fact.
Yeah. We can't expect him to hold up under direct questions. Its not like he's an attorney or anything…
And we all know Eliot's attitude toward direct questions.
Of course this makes Gessler look shifty, no matter what percentages EF wants to play with and if EF takes the same attitude toward answering questions or addressing opponents' points when he runs for something, he'll look shifty, too.
He can argue whether that's fair or not all he wants but it's the way it is. People don't assess candidates and their character in hair-splitting lawyerly terms. It's not as if Gessler is looking to run for a safe congressional seat where the right initial, R or D, guarantees victory no matter how dim or sleazy you come across.
This, along with so much other material, will definitely find its way into debates, interviews and ads that will cause Gessler problems. He drips so much shifty sleaze, Dems really should be able to make it noticeable even to low info apolitical voters.
Thank you, my thoughts exactly. They're holding Gessler to a ridiculous standard.
Leave Scotty Alone!
Honey badger can't hold up under scrutiny, he's just a delicate wallflower after all. He doesn't need this; there is some political function he could be attending on the taxpayers' nickels instead. Mean meanie mean meanies. The Sleeping Giant ain’t going to put up with these terribly unfair questions of its public servants!
Amen, Brother Moderatus!
It is ridiculous to expect a Republican to be able to tell the truth.
Preposterous? Astounding? Beyond belief? Finally Immoderatus gets it.
Did you attend this meeting on this date?
I don't recall.
Did you fly into Tampa?
I don't recall.
If the standard of recall is unreasonable, why does Gessler apologize?
I agree there is a difference between normal remembering and remembering in a
depositioncampaign. I think we have all seen the difference.Campaign memory example: Yes, but when I said that, I …
…didn't know the cameras were on.
… didn't mean what it sounds like I meant.
… wasn't a candidate at that time.
It's ok – the non-story story here is Gessler is not going to be indicted, there will be no lawsuits, and his gubernatorial campaign is begun. But you have to admit, the soundtrack works.
It’s totally unreasonable to expect an adult human being to have memories of activities from months previous. Terrible terrible unfair liberals in your smear of a fine public servant that just wants to be free…to go to political functions on the taxpayers' nickels and not have to remember it!
Seriously, guvs, you guys are so meanie mean!!
Posting this on a Sunday when the Groper isn't around to say, Pols, you are so meanie mean! Gessler is just misunderstood!!! And, landslide. . . .
And. . .
Sunday is the Lord's day and a day of rest. That's what I do on Sunday, not respond to stupid out of context video clips.
And this is so lame. Why didn't you include his actual responses, Pols? He said a LOT more than "I don't know."
Actually, according to the Laws Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai, its Saturday. You should have been laboring here Sunday already. Heathen.
Do you make your cattle work on Saturday too, while you lazed about on Sunday?
… bet your ass!!!
No, no, no… you're thinking of the old version of the Bible…the new, improved GOP Bible has whatever they want to keep in it, at any given time, and any inconvenient passages are removed, ignored, forgotten, or "subject to interpretation" (I'm looking in your direction, Levites….).
My understanding is that only Jews are supposed to follow Shabbos – technically speaking if you aren't Jewish you aren't supposed to follow it (which is why converts to Judaism are supposed to break Shabbos each Shabbos while the conversion is pending)
That might be according to some, but a number of related religions have taken on the Sabbath in their own light. Some spend the day at church. Some follow the Jewish prohibition against work. Some have specific traditions for the holy day. And, of course, some practice it on a Sunday and others on Saturday.
I'd be surprised if AGOP really follows the "day of rest" thing to the extent that Orthodox Jewish people do. I'm guessing on Sundays he turns on the lights on his own, drives the car, cooks (or has someone of the same faith cook for him), and possibly even does work around the house. He doesn't really post on Saturday either, so..
Maybe AGOP simply has a Monday-Friday job posting to Pols for a couple of hours a day.
Idea for cute ad. Montage of Gessler testimony interspersed with this Schultz video. That is if a sufficient number of non-codgers saw the re-runs and would know anything about the show and character.