Abe Lincoln was a smart guy, but I was reminded, while reading this in a Kos post, that he could sometimes get it wrong:
Romney wants to test one of this nation’s most famous political maxims, as he attempts to fool all of the people all of the time.
(via Daily Kos)
Abe was right, as far as he went. But the fact is that you don’t need to fool all of the people all of the time. The Republican’s, and Romney’s, aim is more modest: to fool most of the people all of the time. But even that isn’t necessary. It suffices quite well to fool most of the people most of the time, and the fact is, they’ve succeeded admirably at that. It helps, of course, to have a base that you can fool all of the time.
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