Vice-President Joe Biden’s interview on Meet The Press revealed one of the strategies the Obama campaign will be using in the upcoming general election: Splitting.
Biden insisted the Republican Party was not itself, but had been taken over by the Tea Partiers. He then minimized the outlandishness of such a possibility by saying the Democratic Party in 1972 was taken over by the liberals and that take-overs occurred as a matter of course in American political parties.
Whether his assertion was commonplace or not, the end result is an attempt to split the GOP. If main stream Republicans really believe their party has been “taken over”, they will be focusing some of their attention on their innards, the Tea Party, instead of the presidential race. If they really believe they have been taken over by the Tea Party, they will feel at odds with it and, if Biden is successful, less likely to support their party as intensely.
Splitting the other side is a strategy Republican Newt Gingrich touched on in one of the debates during the primary season. He pointed out that unemployment in higher than average in the Hispanic population and much higher than average in the African-American population. His rhetorical question followed: “So, what has Obama done for you?” That would be an attempt to split the AA voter from the President.
In psychiatry, splitters are dealt with, not just endured. They are dealt with by the two apparently split sides (main stream and Tea Party Republicans) confronting the splitter (Biden) and telling him clearly they are not split. Rather they say, they are of a single mind.
So, the GOP strategists need to see the splitting strategy on the wall, before it gathers steam. Then they have to counter it.
Can you immagine how the political ideas and aspirations envisioned by Abraham Lincoln and the exploration of the psychological mind explored by Sigmund Freud can be seen as one entity?
The GOP is splitting–it’s the establishment republicans that’re thwarting democracy at the state level, pulling all sorts of dirty tricks, etc., versus the Ron Paul camp. The GOP deserves to split. Ron Paul’s supporters deserve better. However, Romney supporters deserve to wallow in the fetid two-party one-party system, where the biggest players like Morgan Stanley, Monsanto, etc. make sure they’re on good terms with all possible candidates far before the election has even begun.
Ron Paul 2012.