Oh, Susannah!
Susannah
Who? (I'm being
facetious - I
did listen to her story, and it is a
sad tale, but true and well told.) Ms. Huff is
very well-spoken, she knows how to
play to the audience in front of her (as do all successful politicians), and she is not physically repulsive. That's the plus side. Getting back to my opening comment, "Susannah
Who?" is a statement of the minus side. She does
not have high name or facial recognition outside of Texas, nor is her story told throughout the land in song by wandering minstrels, or regaled in prose, or splashed upon the silver screen. Susannah Huff,
in spite of her personal excellence, is
unknown to the vast majority of people in this country. The GEICO Gecko is better known! "Bob" (the baby pimping ETrade on TV) has higher name recognition!
Whether you're selling a
product or an
idea, you will have greater success if you are well-known (granted, Charlie Manson, Sirhan B. Sirhan, and Rosie O'Donnell are all well-known, high recognition people -
none of whom would be good spokespersons for
anything. On the other side of the coin we have the Ron Popeil and the late Billy Mays, two of the
GREAT TV pitchmen of all time). Name recognition
alone is
not enough, though... there also has to be some
positivity attached to that recognition. Sometimes "Uncle Ted" gets a bit further into "left field" than he probably should, but - exercising his Constitutional right to do so - he says what's on his mind, and, when he's done we don't need a half-dozen "talking heads" to come on afterward to explain what he said. It was loud and clear. "Da Nuge", an avid hunter and gun owner, has said more in support of our RTKBA than
any other individual - including Wayne la Pierre. Is Ted "the best choice for the NRA?" Probably. For RKBA? Probably. For OC
in particular... based solely upon what I have seen
here in a couple of the previous posts,
maybe not. Personally,
I haven't seen or heard Ted explain his position on OC, so I won't champion him, nor will I badmouth him. Pax...
