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Stacey Campfield to Bredesen: stop hiding behind your wife’s skirt
Posted By katie allison granju
Rep. Campfield isn’t happy with the cost or project management for the renovations to the Governor’s Mansion:
Phil is saying that all the opposition to his underground party bunker is just political. According to Phil it is all just a dirty political attack on his wife used to get at him.
Good job hiding behind your wife’s skirt.
The wife shield is a old political tactic used to hide from criticism or questions that may be valid and needs responding to. This tactic is also often used by female candidates in races as well. It worked great for Hillary Clinton in her first senate race. When her opponent asked her if she would sign a no new tax pledge(as I recall) and took one over to her, her staff and followers called it an attack. Had it been two males nothing would have been said. From then on anything else he said or did was an attack on a poor defenseless woman.
I imagine now Phil will do the same thing and try to spin any questions or valid criticisms about the bunker as an attack on his wife. The goal is that it gets to the point that no matter how he dodges these questions people will say “He is so good protecting his wife from these dirty, evil, political attacks.”
Dec 18th, 2007
