Moving music and haunting visuals inside an empty New Hampshire factory could manipulate some votes in a state that’s lost so many manufacturing jobs. But Harkin utters not a word about how he’d get them back.
Read Pat’s lips: his message is simple and hard hitting. In ‘88 Bush used the no-tax pledge to garrote Bob Dole; now Buchanan is trying to do the same thing to the president. For his audience, this is the reddest of red meat.
Hawking health care, his big issue, he’ right that Bush, the insurance industry and other Democrats aren’t pushing real reform. But he doesn’t let viewers know that he’d pay for his plan by raising payroll taxes.
