Monday, April 27, 2020

MY FOLLOW-UP APRIL 27 CAMPAIGN STRATEGY LETTER TO DEMOCRATIC PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE JOE BIDEN: HOW HE CAN SUCCESSFULLY EXPLOIT HIS IRISH HERITAGE IN THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN


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From: John McMillan
To: Joebiden Info ; policy@joebiden.com
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2020, 09:33:46 PM CDT
Subject: 4-27-20 another campaign strategy you can use: Your enthusiasm for Ireland

Dear Mr. Biden,

Another campaign strategy that that can boost voters' confidence in you will be your keen affinity you exhibit toward your ancestral homeland of Ireland.

Today I reviewed one online post that pointed out that Ireland, a heavily Catholic nation, has a more enlightened policy toward a woman's legal right to have an abortion than does the Republican Party in the United States.

When you highlight Ireland at its most rational and progressive, this can be a big advantage for you partly because American voters associate you with Irish heritage. 

 Your strategic highlighting of "the best" of Ireland, so to speak, will also cleverly address concerns by many American voters that a candidate for President with Irish heritage might be "superstitious" and "take their orders from the Catholic Church", so to speak.

If you could cite several or numerous points of keen affinity or enthusiasm you have toward Ireland and the Irish people, as well as toward honorable Irish-Americans, this could give you a very big advantage over President Trump. 

Many Americans adore the image of Ireland as a place to rejoice in the springtime---a season of the year in Ireland so legendary that it has even inspired a popular brand of underarm deodorant in the United States, called "Irish Spring" (registered trademark brand name) as I'm sure you are very aware. Irish Spring "Speedstick" underarm deodorant is distributed by Colgate-Palmolive Company of New York City, New York.

Another advantage to your being perceived as Irish in the Presidential campaign: American voters admire an underdog, and many of those same voters identify the people of Ireland as a courageous "underdog" nationality who had endured the humiliation of the Irish Potato Famine in an earlier century.

I also sense that if you highlight the admirable ZEAL AND EXUBERANT, ENERGETIC, 'NEVER-SAY-DIE' FEISTINESS AND COMPETITIVENESS of the Irish people WITHOUT calling attention to any negative aspect of that zeal, this will be EXTREMELY SUCCESSFUL FOR YOU IN THE CAMPAIGN.

However, it could be harmful to you in the campaign if American voters become preoccupied with unflattering stereotypes of Ireland, Irish citizens, and Irish Americans that they might unfairly associate with you yourself. Many American voters continue (to) believe---whether rightly or wrongly----that Irish people can be very militant or combative or violent or crude or volatile or excessively stubborn or petty, or xenophobic toward and hostile toward the British.

You can be very successful if you convince American voters that you represent the "BEST of the Irish heritage, without the 'WORST' of the Irish heritage as perceived by many American voters".

I think American voters will be charmed if you were to declare during a campaign speech that "I (Joe Biden) am so keen on Irish cooking that I crave the taste of Mulligan Stew." 

If you convince voters that you are very pleased with cultural contributions by the primary foreign nation that voters associate you with---Ireland---this will appeal greatly to them. It might even be helpful if you could point out that you have ways in which you and your wife inside your family home take a traditional Irish recipe and you and your wife add flavor to that Irish dish using an American twist to that culinary item. This would help to demonstrate to American voters that you are also INNOVATIVE, EVEN AS YOU EMBRACE IRISH HERITAGE.

It's also worth emphasizing that in your campaign you need to make it very clear to voters that you have taken a strong stand opposing Irish Mafia activities in the United States and in Ireland. If voters associate you with law-enforcement and obedience of the law, this will help you a lot in the polls on Election Day.

It would also help if you could cite some of your all-time favorite figures from Irish cultural and political history. This would demonstrate to voters that you have a truly in-depth scholarly knowledge of Ireland and are inspired by the contributions of those great figures from Irish history.

Your Ethnic Heritage Advantage, as it might be called, is very strong. President Trump, despite his German ancestry, has only rarely praised Germany or the political leadership of Germany. He has repeatedly chosen to offend the German people and the German government in almost every conceivable way. My recollection is, in fact, that some Germans have even compared Donald Trump to the infamous German dictator Adolph Hitler.

By contrast, I myself have never heard of any Irish political leaders or Irish citizens who have publicly expressed contempt for or hostility toward your role as a nationwide political leader in the United States.

Many voters distrust a political leader who exhibits a contempt toward his own ethnic or racial heritage. Conversely, American voters ARE likely to trust a political leader who exhibits a keen affinity toward one or more of the foreign nations of his ancestry, and toward traditions relating to his ethnic or racial identity.

Mr. Biden, I hope this campaign strategy of highlighting the best about (the) Ireland that you yourself know will help you to win the election.

Sincerely and Best Wishes from a supporter of yours in Austin, Texas,
John Kevin McMillan, an American citizen of English, Scottish, and German ancestry.
Home address ever since June 21, 2019:
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