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'Cooling Out' the Voters

william 3905 Wrote: Nov 05, 2012 4:08 AM

You know,Dr. Sowell, I didn't know those terms, but "confidence man" is the term I've used for Benghazi and almost everything this administration has brought forth. This is, without a doubt, the most secretive administration in our history, when even the origins and father of the President is strongly in doubt. What other person could get away with running for office while having ALL his records and papers from school and otherwise sequestered and hidden from the public. What is going on is evil--some of us who know the confidence man in 1997 easily recognized what was happening in 2007. Are the rest of America that slow? How stupid. Americans STILL can't recognize a southern film flammer. But BHO is so brazen.

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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...