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'Cooling Out' the Voters

Buford14 Wrote: Oct 30, 2012 9:38 AM

Adding toi Mr. Butler's more thing I a offended over: I Am offended that you relieved General Ham who was in charge of our military in that area because he advised Panetta he had a rescue force in the process of saddling up to go to Benghazi. He was told to stand down. General Ham replied he was going to launch the rescue. Within 2 minutes he was arrested and relieved of his duties by his 2nd in command. General Ham is recognized as a real leader of men and has had an outstanding career in our Army. He felt the order to stand down was not a legal order and being an honorable man who really believes his oath he was going to disregard it. A Navy admiral in charge of a carrier group was also relieved at he same approximate time....

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'Cooling Out' the Voters

Confidence men know that their victim -- "the mark" as he has been called -- is eventually going to realize that he has been cheated. But it makes a big difference whether he realizes it immediately, and goes to the police, or realizes it after the confidence man is long gone.

So part of the confidence racket is creating a period of uncertainty, during which the victim is not yet sure of what is happening. This delaying process has been called "cooling out the mark."

The same principle applies in politics. When the accusations that led to the impeachment...