Sunday, June 18, 2006

Questions for the Media to Ask About Bait and Switch

A bait and switch is a form of fraud in which the fraudster lures in customers by advertising a good at an unprofitably low price, then reveals to potential customers that the advertised good is not available but that a substitute good is. The goal of the bait-and-switch is to convince some buyers to purchase the substitute good as a means of avoiding disappointment over not getting the bait, or as a way to recover sunk costs expended to try to obtain the bait. It suggests that the seller will not show the original product or product advertised but instead will demonstrate a more expensive product.

1. What percentage members of the GOP Central Committee voted to dump Damron and replace him with Dendahl?
2. What percentage of all Republicans on the Central committee knew this would be up for a vote?
3. Did Dendahl meet with bush when he was in Albuquerque on Friday?
4. Did Dendahl meet with Karl Rove when he was in Albuquerque on Friday?
5. Did Dendahl, bush and/or Rove discuss this coup when they were in town on Friday?
6. Did bush/Rove make any promises of campaign money to Dendahl?
7. Can the Republican central committee meet again with full participation and revote this issue?
8. Why was this meeting of the GOP central committe closed to the press and public?
9. Isn't this just an attempt to tarnish Governor Richardson's run for President in 2008 by conducting a outrageously negative smear campaign?
10. What would the GOP say if the Democrats had pulled a fast one like this?

Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.
Henry A. Wallace

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think you should capitalize the 'B' in Bush. You can dislike him, disagree with him, but it is immature to leave it lower-cased.

Jim Baca said...

I started doing that when he started the war. It is just a indication of my respect for him. Thanks for the comment though.

Anonymous said...

I'm wondering what the other 200 some members of the Repub central committee are thinking. I read somewhere only 100 out of 300 some were present. Is that a quorum or don't Repubs have such a requirement.

Rove's signature is all over this. After all, the Repubs are in distress mode these days, despite all the "good news" out of Iraq and the blather about the resurgence of bush that are being reported.