If your candidate won't talk to the press?

Question

After any election, constituents queue up to ask their elected officials for favors. And this goes on all day, every day. Of course, the officials also ask constituents for campaign contributions. All day, every day. That is the nature of the job.

So, if your candidate dodges reporters, or refuses to discuss a topic during the election, what makes you think he or she will give you the time of day after the election?

? · Accepted Answer

If I were in the press, I would not give the candidate any publicity if they refuse to hold a press conference or answer questions but that is why some candidates do because they dont have any sane answers or they dont know what to say, like Sharron Angle, Sarah Palin, Rand Paul, Christine O'Donnell. Their answers are so whacked out, their advisers prefer they shut up and let mainstream Repub establishment speak for them. What if those kind of people really got into office?

Madmunk · Answer

Does it matter who wins?  We need a return to "A government of the people, by
the people, for the people." 
====================================== 
  MOUSELAND 

 Mouseland was a place where the little mice lived and played, were born and
died. Much the same as you and I.

They had a congress.   Just like you and me.  On election day all the  mice voted 
and elected a government.

A government  of big, fat, black cats.

They passed good laws - that is, laws that were good for cats.  But not very good
for mice.  One law said  mouse holes had to be big enough so a cat could get his
paw in.  Another said   mice could only run at certain speeds - so a cat could get
his breakfast without too much effort.

All the laws were good laws.  For cats. 

 Life was getting harder and harder.  The mice decided something had to be done. 
So they went en masse to the polls.   They put in white cats.

Now the white cats had put up a terrific campaign.  They said,"One trouble   is the
round mouse holes.  We'll make square mouse holes."  They won. The square
mouse holes were twice as big as the round ones, and now a cat could get both
paws in. Life was tougher then ever.

(You see, my friends, the trouble wasn't colour.   The trouble was that they were
cats.)

Presently there came along one little Socialist mouse who had an idea.He said to
the other mice, "Look fellows, why do we keep electing a government made up of
cats?  Why don't we elect a government  of mice?  By the mice  for the mice!"  "Oh," they
screamed, "He's a Communist. Lock him up!"  So they put him in jail.

Morale: You can lock up a mouse or a man. But you can't lock up an idea. It's alive. NOW!

- Modified from a Tommy Douglas speech, 1944

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If your candidate won't talk to the press?

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