Mark McKinnon Quotes - Page 2

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• Every day I am being told to sign up for Tumblr, Yammer, Friendfeed, Plaxo, Last.fm, ping.fm or the hot social-media tool du jour that happened to get mentioned on Mashable.com. It is like a social-media arms race. Each one of these new tools is like a cool new night club. Hot today, gone tomorrow, replaced with something else.

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  Night, Media, Race

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• Democrats love to criticize Republicans on guns, but they are generally mute when it comes to taking on Hollywood or the gaming industry.

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  Gun, Hollywood, Republican

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• I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms.

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  Fighting, Careers, Reform

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• Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics.

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  Hypocrisy, Letters, Scarlet

  "What Really Did Tom Daschle In". www.thedailybeast.com. February 3, 2009.

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• Negativity drove me out of politics in the mid-Nineties.

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  Negativity

  "The Best Reason to Support Obama: Mark McKinnon" by, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 19, 2008.

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• Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength - not his weaknesses - to place him immediately on the defensive.

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  Military, Games, Political

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• I'm saying it loud: I'm a Republican who supports gay rights.

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  Gay, Rights, Support

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• Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the downing of the helicopter in Mogadishu, Somalia, the suicide attack on the USS Cole, and, of course, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

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  Suicide, Marine, Hostage Crisis

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• I think the press has an interest in communicating to its viewers or readers, and their viewers or readers drive profit for those news organizations, so I think those news organizations have a certain bias toward their own readers. Yeah, I think they are a special interest. Of course they are.

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  Thinking, Organization, Special

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• I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader.

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  Government, Taxation, Regulation

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• There's no question that many factors contribute to voters' perceptions about debates and who wins and who loses.

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  Winning, Perception, Voters

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• Reasonable people can reasonably disagree on policy.

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  People, Policy, Reasonable

  "Mark McKinnon: An Unfair Attack on Mitt Romney's NAACP Speech" by Mark McKinnon, www.thedailybeast.com. July 14, 2012.

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• It's just madness. First email. Then instant message. Then MySpace. Then Facebook. Then LinkedIn. Then Twitter. It's not enough anymore to 'Just do it.' Now we have to tell everyone we are doing it, when we are doing it, where we are doing it and why we are doing it.

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  Messages, Firsts, Linkedin

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• A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.

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  Democracy, Process, Messy

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• America as we know it will end unless we end Medicare as we know it.

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  America, Ends, Medicare

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