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Maybe Romney Could Borrow The Logo For His Next Campaign

Brand is everything; that old advertising shibboleth that you can’t sell a thing if the product is rubbish is here turned on its head. As far as Wolff-Olins is concerned, you don’t even need a product in the first place, just a brand — a fiction, an idea, a notion to flog in the marketplace. ~Rod Liddle

It seems to me that the Wolff-Olins approach to marketing is Romney’s approach to campaigning.  Romney isn’t superficial and dishonest, you see, he’s just “trying to invent new ways to move the world forward.”  Liddle sums up this kind of communication:

A mode of communication which somehow manages to be simultaneously disingenuous and sincere. 

about the author

Daniel Larison is a senior editor at TAC, where he also keeps a solo blog. He has been published in the New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and Culture11, and was a columnist for The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter.

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