Playing Hard to Get

Some progressives argue that we can move President Obama and the Democratic Party by playing hard to get. That's a strategy I've seen work in the past. Doris Day used to do it to Rock Hudson. And it was amazingly successful, even in cases where Rock Hudson was gay.

Yes, today we're living in the age of Paris Hilton and hard-to-get wasn't the motto of (even) Elizabeth Taylor, but if the strategy worked in romantic comedies in the 1950s, why won't it work in American politics in 2012?

I have to admit that playing hard to get never worked for me or for anyone I know, but there's always a first time.