# David Bossie becomes the Deputy Campaign Manager! **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 4, 2016, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bossie-becomes-the-deputy-campaign-manager/764997 "2016-09-04T05:23:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hulka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@hulka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hulka)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bossie-becomes-the-deputy-campaign-manager/764997/1 "2016-09-04T05:23:27Z")
Words literally fail. For those who don’t know who this “person” is, it won’t take long. Make sure you haven’t eaten, or are about to. I’ll allow you the great individual pleasure of finding out for yourselves the depths to which they are willing to sink… ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bossie-becomes-the-deputy-campaign-manager/764997/2 "2016-09-04T05:31:27Z")
I think this is a mistake (for Trump. It’s good news for the rest of us). I can see what Trump is thinking. Attacking Clinton seems to be the issue he’s getting the most success with. But I think he’s already gotten all the votes he can get out of that. Trump has been behind this whole campaign. He can’t just offer more of what he’s already done. What he’s been doing hasn’t been enough. He needs do something new to break him out of second place. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bossie-becomes-the-deputy-campaign-manager/764997/3 "2016-09-04T05:52:49Z")
How many “campaign managers” can one campaign really need? ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bossie-becomes-the-deputy-campaign-manager/764997/4 "2016-09-04T05:54:21Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > . . . Attacking Clinton seems to be the issue he’s getting the most success with. But I think he’s already gotten all the votes he can get out of that. . . . He can’t get any more votes that way…but he might smear Clinton with enough filth to draw down some of her support. By a strong negative-campaign strategy, he might alienate some sensitive voters, promoting a low overall voter turnout. It won’t gain him anything, but it will hurt Clinton, and, at this point, that’s the only thing he’s got. Nothing can rehabilitate him, but if he flings enough monkey poo, the entire election will be stunk up. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bossie-becomes-the-deputy-campaign-manager/764997/5 "2016-09-04T05:58:05Z")
I think it’s safe to say he’s already stunk up the election plenty, by all measures! If he launches a nothing but feces flinging strategy I think he risks driving away even more Republican voters! They’ll just stay home. They already find him kinda unpalatable, as it is! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bossie-becomes-the-deputy-campaign-manager/764997/6 "2016-09-04T06:21:20Z")
Why did he hire David Bosse? Because Lee Atwater is fucking _dead_, that’s why! ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bossie-becomes-the-deputy-campaign-manager/764997/7 "2016-09-04T07:48:01Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I can see what Trump is thinking. Attacking Clinton seems to be the issue he’s getting the most success with. But I think he’s already gotten all the votes he can get out of that. Oh, it won’t be enough for Trump to win, but it will ramp up the hatred of Hillary so that anyone who even thinks of working with her will be called treasonous and nothing will get done for another four years, and isn’t that what really counts? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bossie-becomes-the-deputy-campaign-manager/764997/8 "2016-09-04T13:00:45Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > He can’t get any more votes that way…but he might smear Clinton with enough filth to draw down some of her support. By a strong negative-campaign strategy, he might alienate some sensitive voters, promoting a low overall voter turnout. It won’t gain him anything, but it will hurt Clinton, and, at this point, that’s the only thing he’s got. I understand the principle. I’m just saying it’s probably already been played out. Any voter who’s going to be motivated by attacks against Clinton has already been convinced. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bossie-becomes-the-deputy-campaign-manager/764997/9 "2016-09-04T14:28:18Z")
Rachel Maddow (my favorite TV personality ever) did an interesting bit on the jerkwad. > **[Trump hires life-long Clinton attacker](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-hires-life-long-clinton-attacker-757313603951)** > > Rachel Maddow reviews the history of David Bossie, who has devoted his life to trying to invent and sell scandals about Bill and Hillary Clinton and has now been hired as Donald Trump's deputy campaign manager. It’s clear. Trump is doing anything and everything, short of hiring paid assassins, to win this election. And honestly, I’m not sure the last part isn’t part of his game plan. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bossie-becomes-the-deputy-campaign-manager/764997/10 "2016-09-04T14:35:46Z")
[Mother Jones article on Bossie’s career](http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/09/meet-donald-trumps-new-deputy-campaign-manager-david-bossie). Bossie was an understudy to Floyd “Willie Horton” Brown in 1988. In 1992 Bush I filed a complaint against him with the FEC. So a) imagine what that took and b) those days are long gone, aren’t they? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bossie-becomes-the-deputy-campaign-manager/764997/11 "2016-09-04T15:27:35Z")
So, whatever happened to the big shake-up from Blightbart? Is he now the Deputy Assistant Campaign “Manager”? “Can’t anybody here play this game?” - Casey Stengel ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bossie-becomes-the-deputy-campaign-manager/764997/12 "2016-09-04T16:05:26Z")
As Bush father called him “the lowest kind of life” and the press back then helped discredit him in the past and got fired for his scumminess, I think that most of the media of today should be shamed into stopping the false equivalence that they are using now. Personnel is policy, and not reminding the people, or not caring, about the bottom of the barrel staff Trump has, is a disservice to all Americans. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bossie-becomes-the-deputy-campaign-manager/764997/13 "2016-09-04T19:07:28Z")
Trump has, I believe, finally hit rock bottom. Hiring a noted repulsive and (nearly) universally reviled smarm-master like Bossie reveals his complete lack of ethics and moral fiber. It also shows his willingness to shrug off the best advice of his campaign staff and once again go off script. The coming weeks should be a veritable shit-fest from this jackass. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bossie-becomes-the-deputy-campaign-manager/764997/14 "2016-09-04T19:11:22Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Trump has, I believe, finally hit rock bottom… I applaud your optimism. It is a characteristic most admirable about the young, and I commend you for sustaining it into your…maturity. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bossie-becomes-the-deputy-campaign-manager/764997/15 "2016-09-04T19:17:28Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Trump has, I believe, finally hit rock bottom. Hiring a noted repulsive and (nearly) universally reviled smarm-master like Bossie reveals his complete lack of ethics and moral fiber. It also shows his willingness to shrug off the best advice of his campaign staff and once again go off script. The coming weeks should be a veritable shit-fest from this jackass. And yet, nearly half of the voting population of the US will continue to cheer for him. It’s like lead-based paint is a staple in the American diet or something. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bossie-becomes-the-deputy-campaign-manager/764997/16 "2016-09-04T19:22:09Z")
Half? Dunno, but doubt it. Polls measure the voting public, the adherents of the Apathy Party are, as usual, underrepresented. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bossie-becomes-the-deputy-campaign-manager/764997/17 "2016-09-04T20:21:15Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > And yet, nearly half of the voting population of the US will continue to cheer for him. It’s like lead-based paint is a staple in the American diet or something. They haven’t seen this fucking slug in action yet, although I fear that you’re right. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bossie-becomes-the-deputy-campaign-manager/764997/18 "2016-09-04T22:24:26Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Rachel Maddow (my favorite TV personality ever) did an interesting bit on the jerkwad. > > [Life-long Clinton attacker hired to be Trump's Clinton attacker](http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-hires-life-long-clinton-attacker-757313603951) > > It’s clear. Trump is doing anything and everything, short of hiring paid assassins, to win this election. And honestly, I’m not sure the last part isn’t part of his game plan. The interesting thing about that was her point that people like Bossie often get into campaigns, but they are seldom given highly visible positions. There is always vermin under the rocks, but only Trump invites them to dinner. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2016, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bossie-becomes-the-deputy-campaign-manager/764997/19 "2016-09-05T02:23:24Z")
> [@Merneith](#): > > How many “campaign managers” can one campaign really need? People are only going to work so long until they realize that it isn’t just a paperwork problem, he really isn’t going to pay them their salary. Maybe now those Trump managers will start to sympathize with the cabinetmakers & casino employees – but I doubt it. ---
**Author:** ![soonerblue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soonerblue/32/3302_2.png) [@soonerblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soonerblue)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2016, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bossie-becomes-the-deputy-campaign-manager/764997/20 "2016-09-05T10:43:50Z")
> [@Merneith](#): > > How many “campaign managers” can one campaign really need? See, it’s taking more and more of them to hold him still while they try to apply the lipstick. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bossie-becomes-the-deputy-campaign-manager/764997.md?page=2)