Five Things Republicans Must Do to Crush the Left in the Propaganda War
Well, well, well, elections actually do have consequences, don’t they? Millions of Americans are indeed suffering the real consequences of the Republican Party’s mealy-mouthed, yellow-streaked performance during campaign ’08.
Oh sure, both the Democrats and the willfully myopic media are most to blame for the Obama presidency, but it is high time that the Republican Party hotshots do a little introspecting of their own.
How is it that the American electorate knew so little about Barack Obama that they could stay stoned on hope-dope all the way to the voting booth? How is it that Jeremiah Wright’s racist, anti-Semitic tirades had not been heard by every man and woman in America before election day? What yellow-bellied nincompoops permitted the Democratic Party to turn the presidency of the United States of America into a garish, iconographic, messianic ego trip for a single individual with no qualifications but a teleprompter and a real-world resume fit for the back of a postage stamp?
Election ’08 was a clear case of Republican abdication. It was a propaganda war fought banana-republic style and John McCain was all but missing in action. Barack Obama didn’t have to win. All he had to do was show up for his coronation. Heck, the guy didn’t even have to put an American flag in his lapel or lift hand to heart during the national anthem. He just had to show his face, remind Republicans at every weak moment that he was black and the whole lot of hotshots sang his praises almost as much as his Democrat enablers.
Now, we’re clinging to the cliff’s edge with one chance to pull ourselves back from the brink of history’s dustbin. We can all see Greece from our bedroom windows and Republicans must get their act together and start winning the propaganda war. PDQ.
Here are five essentials that will turn the tide.
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Your column is perfect, except for the fact that the name of its Author is not revealed (at 2.24 PM ET, Oct. 10th).
So I appoint the secret Author…
Chief of the GOP propaganda machine for 2012.
They do need you.
PS
“Secret” unless your name is “by”. Which would be another point in your favor.
I say play the ‘It’s FREE to Swipe Yo EBT’ video on FOX News everyday til election day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzspsovNvII
You must have missed this tagline at the bottom:
Kyle-Anne Shiver is an independent journalist. She welcomes your comments at http://www.kyleanneshiver.com. I’m guessing she is the author of this very well written article.
‘By’ would be an interesting name though.
I am getting tired of Pundits on the right referring to a So Called Purity Test.
It is not a purity test it is a Loyalty Test. So I am going to add a sixth, and also the most important item to this list.
Above all, MEAN WHAT YOU SAY!
I defy anyone to find the words “Pro Rated” stated in the campaigns during September or October of 2010. Never said it. But the promised 100 billion in cuts suddenly became Sixty Billion due to those two words that were never uttered. (it was later negotiated down to next to nothing as a result of Democrats realizing that the republicans didn’t mean it when they said it.)
This country needs a reversal of direction, that is to say we need to correct course from South Bound to North Bound. Changing from South Bound to South South East is going to demoralize the base and set up a repeat of 2006.
What killed republicans in 2006 was Democrats sounding more republican than republicans. And those who make up the Tea Party Now were the same people calling talk radio and telling the host “Republicans Deserve to Loose.”
Of all the lessons republicans have learned the two lessons that still seem to be lost on them are 1) “Read My Lips!” and 2) Christine O’Donnell (we don’t want a candidate who will take the MSM’s word as to what we want.)
jd
Every politician should be required to take, not only the present oath of office but also take the oath similar to that administered to witnesses in a court of law. If the person refuses to take the oath, that person should never be elected.
I do solemnly swear or affirm I will tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth in regards to all aspects of my elected or appointed office and duties. If I violate this oath I will resign immediately, so help me God.
There are members of both the general public and in politics that will claim I am naïve for even suggesting such a requirement of public officials. I will take this idea to an even higher level. Any person who would support a politician that refused to take this oath is part of the problem themselves.
It would be interesting to ask each candidate to take that oath during any debates and see who balks at the idea.
“Loose” is the opposite of tight”. “Lose” is the opposite of “win” or “gain”. One does not “loose” an election, but may “lose” one. This seems to appear daily on the blogs on this site.
Unless, and until, PJM provides an edit function, one thing we do not need here is a Gramar Nazzi.
I know the difference, but I am typing in the immediate mode and sometimes don’t notice until after the post is made.
OK now your name has been revealed.
Oooooooh, scary . . .
You might want to look for the answer before advertising your lack of, shall we say, ‘sophistication’.
Damn Well Said! This is the message that Reince Priebus and the other “Get Along and Go Along” figures who run the RNC should be putting out every day. It is true – Far too much of the GOP is terror stricken at dealing with the villification churned out by the MSM and lefty spin specialists. This is s fight where conservatives not only need to be right – They need to be BRAVE!
A good example of this is Herman Cain. He is currently receiving the standard media villificaiton for saying that the “Occupy Wall Street” crowd (the little dears) should get off their butts and work if they want to be rich. Naturally the usual suspects are coming at him with pitchforks and torches for his “mean-spiritedness.” Cain, to his credit, has not backed off.
Realizing that you are in a war is the first step to winning. I wish that more people on the Right would understand this.
My problem with The Herminator is that he recently declined to support Romney if Romney is the nominee. I’ve sent Herman Cain money. He needs to get a little more team spirit or at least learn not to speak ill of fellow Republicans. Differ, yes, seperate himself out, yes, but don’t tell the Party that we are not worthy if we choose someone else.
Romney is obnoxious, and I’d venture to say he never got over the fact that he lost the West Virginia caucus last time- something that gave him the clue that he wouldn’t be winning the nomination even if McCain dropped dead. Everybody else’s delegates would go to Huckabee rather than Romney, because Romney is obnoxious. But, since Romney’s ego doesn’t allow him to admit that he burned his bridges and people think he’s obnoxious, he can’t change.
That’s the ticket jackass! Name calling is so productive! How do you like it you obnoxious piece of nothing. Class envy I call people like you.
He declines to support Romney? I put that on the Plus side of the balance sheet. It shows me the man does not compromise his principles or play the “go along to get along” game.
Romney is nothing but a RINO in shining armor.
I refuse to support Romney as well. Newt too for that matter. They are both progressive at heart, conservative as a second thought process. Frequently getting stuck defending their progressive stances, and sometimes, but not always backing down. As president, once they stake a progressive stance as acceptable, there is no retreat from that position in policy.
I guess you will be very proud when Obama gets re-elected then! You stuck to your principles and Obama destroys the country once and for all. Congratulations!
I dunno. I guess in 2014 and 2016 when the consequences of putting a progressive R into the office of the president occur you will just simply completely forget that it was you that ushered him into office. The damage the next run of progressive Ds cause this nation will be about as reversible as the first three years of Obama will be.
I see the pattern, I can read history, I can understand what repeating the folly of Bush II will most likely cause to happen.
I thought Herman declined to support PERRY bc of his stance on immigration…
So the Rat House elected John Boehner as Speaker. How did he use his Power? He began by weeping and sobbing. Is this leadership or a session with the View? And he didn’t cut expenses, unless you measure it with a microscope. Ok he did reinstate the DC scholarship program, other than that weepy John has been a huge disappointment.
The Rat Senate elected Mitch McConnell as their leader. What did this get us? Ok, he only has so much power but I’ll call Mr. Nice guy, “Mumbles”.
Neither of these guys is awe inspriing. And, neither communicates very effectively. And neither one really fights for constitutional gov’ment.
The one person that could cut through the clutter that is DC politics and marxist media megaphone was Sarah Palin. She called out Obamacare with its “Death Panels”. She is correct and she took a stab through the heart of Obamacare with its rationing. Then she led the marxist media on a grand chase of her bus tour and not providing them with an itinery. The image was priceless.
So who does the Pary want for leaders? The likes of Bob Dole and John McLame. McLame, too mumbled and looked pathetic during the 2008 financial crisis. And he would not use Obama’s history of radicalism against him. It almost looked like John threw the election he as so bad.
You almost wonder, do the Republicans really want to win? And what do they want to accomplish when they do win?
“You almost wonder, do the Republicans really want to win? And what do they want to accomplish when they do win?”
There are actually two kinds of republicans out there currently;
1) Those who want to elect Republicans for the sole purpose of Electing Republicans
2) Those who want to elect Republicans for the purpose of Accomplishing Something.
The lesson of Christine O’Donnell is found in the Type 2 people. They are not interested in electing anyone with an R after thier name. They are also found in the Tea Party who had to drag the Republican party kicking and screaming to a Major Victory in 2010.
Simply put, type 1 Republicans don’t want to accomplish anything and will become agitated when thier plans for Winning are distupted. Never forget taht Jim Jeffords and Arlin Spectre were elected under the type 1 strategy. (how did that all work out again?)
Type 1 Republicans have no problem with the status quo, only who’s running it. To the type 2 republicans running a democrat mess better than a democrat isn’t good enough any more. 2006 was the beginning of that resurgence. The Establishment may yet create a third party if they don’t figure it out.
Great Post…
We have to remember, Republicans are first and foremost politicians…they will, when its expedient, throw us under the bus to remain in office.
Most politicians just want to be on the “inside” at all costs. They fell into whichever party they are in quite early in their “career”, simply because that side “had the room” at that moment, presenting the path of least resistance for their greed and ego.
Like any gangbanger, politicians are geberally loyal to the gang that gave them a home. But what seperates a thief/thug in one gang from another, is about the same moral difference that seperate one politician from another. Not much at all. They are in it for themselves, not us. We the citizenry can generally expect harm from them, regardless of what “colors” they wear.
Bank on that. Carve it into stone.
One party may be purely evil, and the other somewhat less so, but no individual member of either side is ever to be trusted.
oops..
thats *generally* loyal
“In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
John Adams (1735 – 1826), Journal, 1772
Excellent post.
This gets to Ms. Shiver’s first point. It’s the only one she got wrong. Yes, we do too need to pound the snot out of some Republicans. The do-nothing establishment politicians need to be revealed for what they are. Why? Because they are NOT on our team, even if they wear our jersey.
“Moderate” Republicans fought against Reagan. They were afraid the Conservatives would take over the Party. Better a Dem than that! Why? Because those damned Conservatives will not play ball by our rules. They keep insisting on a different set of rules. We cannot win with those rules! Before you know it, we would lose all our perks and status and privileges. They gravy train would stop. We can always cut a deal with the Dems, but rarely with those damned Conservatives.
Type 1′s cannot stand type 2′s… and the feeling is mutual. They cannot both be Right. If the damned Dems had not gone to the extreme Left, then all those RINO’s would still be Dems and the choice would be clear.
One Word: “Cain”.
Cain. Oh, you mean like Greenspan and Bernanke. That is, you are supporting
the former Director of the Kansas City Federal Reserve.
Thanks coach we needed that.
We either go hard or go home … this is a new season and it’s just beginning.
Republicans do not fight back.
they’re too refined, too good, too clean, too stupid…
It appears they think that by being silent, having RINOS in office, they will ultimately win..NOT SO…
..The meek will NOT inherit the earth and the squeaky wheel does get the most attention
..they are meek and silent. These are a couple of major reasons we are in the mess we are in at this point in our nation. We do not pay attention, vote for the machine..or don’t vote..
I’m afraid of what the election will bring..esp., the time leading up to it. Democrats need to be brought to task and prosecuted!. Esp the holders of this nation
Only 15 more months ’til we remove the Marxist in the Oval Office & cancel “Amateur Hour” at the White House.
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
Winston Churchill
Too bad Obama & the rest of the Left wasted their time in college being indoctrinated by Commie Profs on Marx instead of learning from Churchill.
NOBAMA 2012
“Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink.” P.J.O’Rourke
Kyle-Anne is pretty close to the mark, but she should have added a caution flag. Expressions that ring the chimes on PJM don’t necessarilly ring a bell with the electorate. The truth plays well with the country, but in-your-face truth doesn’t.
We need a candidate who understands the basic conservative principles that have worked for 200 years, and who can defend them calmly and with clarity against all propaganda to the contrary. And he or she has to stay cool under fire and understand where the media is coming from. No question is ever asked without an ulterior motive. Conservatism is based on common sense, history, and tradition. Yet, over and over, we end up being portrayed as extremist and dangerous. Our candidate HAS to be able to turn the tables on the rabid dogs of the marxist press. It is the most important factor because without that ability, the best potential office seeker can quickly turn into the worst possible candidate, as happened in 2008 and many times before that.
Newt is the guy who is better at it than anyone. Too bad he has so many negatives.
I’ve been a moderate to liberal on many issues for almost 30 years, but I have always been a libertarian. I voted libertarian before it was cool. The ticket I would like to see is Cain/Gingrich or Gingrich/Cain. Except for the past 20 or so years, the personal flaws of candidates was not as important as their public flaws and strengths. If we vote on a candidates personal mores we will never have a candidate. That is why I hated the republicann pursuit of Clinton, you set a standared that very few candidates can over come with a complicit media as we had with Obama. The MSM (I was one for a few years) will never give a republican a break. Thats why the author’s statements are so true. As a trial lawyer, you always hit the negatives head on. Gingrich screwed around on his earlier wives, (I don’t condone it) but how many preachers and moralist can stand there a say they have not sinned!
My favorite “sinners” are the Jimmy Sawggarts of the world. A truely sothern tradition (see Flannery O’Conner.)
Your post gets close to what is the real liability of elected and appointed Republicans: They need to be nice. If they’re not nice, they get called partisan and mean-spirted at best and racist/facist/misogynist at worst by the lapdog media. Now in the main, Democrats from all but the Bluest or Blackest districts are publicly pretty nice, too. Though he lets the mask that covers his inner Strelnikov slip now and again, even Comrade Obama is usually nice except in front of very friendly audiences when he thinks nobody else is listening.
But what the Democrats have and the Republicans don’t is a cadre of smart, brutal, and ruthless political operatives, really apparatchniks, that can do all the wet work and make sure none of the blood spatter gets on their elected and appointed officials. Not only do Republicans not really have many such people, they generally don’t like to have them around, e.g., almost as many people on the conservative/Republican side of the ditch hate Rove as on the left side – and Rove is actually far too nice to really do much good against a skilled communist-trained Democrat operative.
I spent twenty years representing a public employer in dealing with its unions which ranged from boozy old-time trade unionists to outright Alinsky-disciple communists, in the last years mostly the latter. In the early years I was a non-political technocrat that worked for both Republicans and Democrats, though it got real hard to work for Democrats as they completed their conversion to the socialist workers party in all but name in the ’90s, and I ended my career as staff to a Republican legislature and finally a Republican appointee. I carried a lot of water for Republican officeholders in a very dirty business. The one problem my governor didn’t have was labor issues with the big lefty unions – and I didn’t do it by being nice to them. But, even though I kept them out of trouble with labor, I’ll guarantee you that should I show up at some Republican grip and grin, within the first five minutes some Republican officeholder or staffer would say, “here comes trouble.”
The answer is complex. We don’t have the shadow government of non-profits, foundations, unions and other front groups that the Democrats have, so when a Republican loses an office, everybody has to go back to Podunk to sell cars or real estate. Consequently, staffers and consultants on our side of the ditch tend to pull their punches and try not to burn bridges. That makes them “insufficiently ruthless,” to borrow Gen. Sherman’s phrase. Unless and until Republicans will learn to value the hard=handed men and women AND provide places of employment for them when we’re out of power, we can talk all we want about “fighting” them, but we’re facing a professional military with an ill-trained militia.
You are stating the strengths of the Dems and their thoroughly corrupt system… and recommending that we emulate it. Of course, I disagree. I refuse to become them in order to beat them.
We should not have sinecures for the staffers for when their guy is out of office. If they want their jobs, then they better fight very hard to keep them. That includes keeping their guy focused, on-message… and honest! It also means making sure they are backing the right horse, not just any old nag.
If we want to beat them, then we have to control where the battle is fought. If we get down to their level, those idiots will beat us with experience. We have to force them to fight on our ground, with reason, arguments, and proven policies.
“Never try to wrestle with a pig. You’ll both just get dirty, and the pig likes it.”
The Left are pigs. They like dirty.
Then I hope “purists” like you are happy in the “People’s Republic of Amerikkka”
You don’t have to become one of them to understand them and to deal effectively with their strategies and tactics, but you do have to be able to deal with them, or they will deal with you. Right now, they’re dealing with you, and unfortunately me too, pretty effectively. Get a clue: we’re losing!
When one is toilet training a child, and the child always smears poop on the walls and floor, after a few sessions of tender education, less subtle methods must be tried. Send them to bed without supper and give them a good spanking, to boot.
Arguing with libs is pointless: they don’t employ logic. Citing it to them merely annoys them. It is enough to simply deride them, in public, if possible. Liberals take a position because they like it, then build a shaky foundation to kinda support it. Because they come from disciplines that have no objective tests or criteria, they get to specify results, and leave the methods to the little people.
Where do you think these retarded regulations come from? 60 MPG for cars, why not 120? Why not 200? Their response is “Great idea!”. They have never learned that destroying things is always easier than making them. They do not understand or accept entropy. If they can stop you from doing something by fiat, then they feel that they can make you do something by the same fiat. Everything is simple. They don’t know how it’s done, but how hard can it be?
Engineers do it all the time. They’ll figure it out. Just pass a law.
Just how do you use logic against these fools? These people are wingnuts, and yes, I mean every single enabling, scummy, democrat. Every one. They need to be destroyed, not cajoled.
Yes, Republicans are definately losing the battle with the Democrats. The Republicans have very few spokespersons who know how to speak.
Good luck finding the candidate who agrees with you 100% of the time and who is as pure as you require. If you find that person, ascend directly to heaven.
The most important thing, the dominantly important thing, is to defeat Obama. You can’t get to step 2 if you don’t get past step 1.
I wish I could be part of that team.
I have the right mindset.
I am *NOT* a “compassionate conservative.” Nor am I a libertarian.
I’m the other kind of right-winger.
On those online political tests, I scored as “authoritarian conservative.” The two public figures whose scores were closest to mine were Rudy Giuliani and Augusto Pinochet.
Excellent analogy with the well trained military and poorly trained militia.
“He just had to show his face, remind Republicans at every weak moment that he was black?”
And Obozo isn’t even “black”…1/2 White & 1/4 Middle Eastern & 1/4 Black…at best…
Dems: “You ’re against Obama because he’s black!”
America “No, we ELECTED Obama because he’s black; we’re against him because he’s INCOMPETENT!”
That “Runaway Slave” thing (under #2) is brilliant. Why doesn’t C. L. Bryant have a show on FOX? Or at least a series of specials, an antidote to CNN’s “Black in America” series…
And you don’t “fight” Alinsky-ism. That’s like fighting gravity. There are only 13 RULES FOR RADICALS, they are simple and brilliant and they work both ways.
Especially devastating RULE # 5: RIDICULE IS MAN’S MOST POTENT WEAPON.
Well, as a theoretical possibility, Alinskyite tactics might work both ways, but you’re really hard pressed to find a bunch or real estate agents, small business owners, and members of the JayCees and Rotary willing to get together to have a bean dinner before all appearing at a public hearing.
Republicans need to know Alinsky so as to recognize and call out the tactic, and, yes, ridicule works well. What works best when dealing with Alinskyites in groups is ignoring them. The gist of Alinskyite tactics is to provoke otherwise sane, rational people to do something stupid and preferably somehting that can be turned violent. If their act of provocation doesn’t provoke, they do ever more provocative things and as they get crazier lose more and more support first from the independents and other enablers and finally even from the useful idiots. Then you can spring and do something to hurt the leadership. It does no good to hurt the poor little fools that follow; they’re a dime a dozen and the leadership couldn’t care less about them unless they’re a cute female, and then they don’t care long. You have to hurt leaders. When you can take out leaders and show that they can’t protect themselves, followers get hard to find, see, e.g., the CIA’s Operation Phoenix in Vietnam or its antithesis the Kenyan mau-mau. You don’t defeat communists by hurting the proletariat, you hurt communists by hurting communist leaders, even, especially, the ones that don’t even know they’re communists.
This is the First time I’ve seen this trailer! You’re right, Rule, this needs to get more airtime on Fox, Breitbart’s Bigs…everywhere.
Here I thought the genius of the Tea Party was realizing and saying out loud that Democrats and Republicans in D.C. are in it together, a cabal of insiders feathering their own and the nests of those they are beholden to. Both had better shape up but the Republican raft is the one they would cling to since simultaneously changing both parties is beyond hope.
Asking “What would X do?” is a bad sign. If you don’t know what to do in a situation, then you shouldn’t be in it.
Unfortunately real life does not always allow one to avoid situations we do not immediately know how to deal with. So unless you are born omniscient, as apparently you assume everyone is, asking: “What would X do”? allows the rest of us to learn and to achieve some measure of success in dealing with these situations.
Because this question was asked and presented here, now many who don’t “Know” will “Know”.
Oh yes, let’s “fight”. I suppose that’s the neocon response to everything you don’t agree with….”fight”! I can see all you Bud Light drinkers, hanging out at your lame Friday Night Fish fry, talking about how you have to “fight” all attempts to help the poor and those without personal wellness coverage. How you have to “fight” to invade a country of brown skinned people, so a to kill their children. How you have to “fight” any attempt to restrict the annual murder of peaceful elk roaming to ranges of Colorado. Again, I will not anger, but shall vent my frustration in a Haiku:
fighting neocons
Mike Tyson wannabes!
filthy rapists!
bite off an ear!
go to jail!
get faces tatooed
happy gay lovers of peace?
never…fight!
no anal here!
mayhem!
Not only are your words the mere dialogue of a troll, but you apparently don’t even understand what a HAIKU is. Props for making a fool out of yourself in front of the entire internet.
What is this “troll” accusation? What does that mean? You’re reading The Hobbit again, aren’t you Zamir? You’ve entered your own fantasy world of trolls, and hobbits, and dwarves, and a Mordor run by the neocons favorite evil person: Dick Cheney. His gay daughter is an orc, is that it? So very immature. And for the record, I have a degree in Poetry Artform, so I know what I’m doing.
What is this “troll” accusation? What does that mean?
Kinda new to the “interweb” thing, are you?
LovelyEarth is a parody of a Leftist troll. He is really, really good at it. He has been posting here for some time now. If you do not know it is parody, he will make your blood boil. If you do know, he is hilarious.
It is kind of an IQ test here; you’re either smart enough to know it is parody, or you’re not. There are a lot of “nots.”
A degree in “poetry artform”? What the hell is that, and no matter what it is, no wonder our universities are worthless now, with junk degrees like that. What did you minor in – Transcendental Reductionist Revisionism?
” I have a degree in Poetry Artform, so I know what I’m doing.”
LovelyEarth, you are pure gold! Do you ever do stand-up? I’d pay to see it.
Degree in poetry artform? Check your reference manuals. Look up haiku. You did it all wrong. Here, try this:
In elevators
Gas passed will find all of you
Eventually.
You don’t understand, it’s part of his genius!
I think every conservative agrees that the GOP has to take a strong stand against media attacks on the conservative movement. However, let me point out that the GOP swept everywhere except Colorado, California, Nevada(shot in foot), Delaware(shot in foot) and Washington despite the media viciously attacking the Tea Party; so it’s not that media messaging doesn’t matter, it’s that when the policies and environment are stacked against the Dems the GOP can still blow them out(’10) and even when its close (’04) the GOP can still pull out the win, despite the unfavourable media environment. So I think any change in conservative strategy with the media can’t be “we’re screwed if we don’t radically alter our approach” but more like “we can still win handily like in 2010, it’s just that we can’t afford to make as many mistakes than Democratic candidates can afford to make, and if we can change media perception that would be great but if we can’t then fine – we’ll still win”.
I must say I love the thought of #3, some type of media-messaging HQ. I know that it’s hard to get conservative op-eds into the Post or Times or on the alphabet networks, but the problem is our pundits are so disorganized and lack any coehesion. I mean, for instance right now every single conservative writer, politician, talking head, etc. should be tying every single issue that they talk/write about to Operation Gunwalker but the RNC has no unified front with which to do that. And this type of unity messaging is effective, look what Journolist did to Hillary Clinton, the media somehow made her seem like the bad guy after the Reverend Wright video and her perceived “racism” was a major problem for her trying to win the Black vote.
THe good thing is, and I think I sort of touched on this at the end of the first paragraph, is that Republicans are so behind this type of media manipulation (what? we have Fox, the WSJ and half the time the LA Times? – that’s it?), there is nowhere to go but up, so stay positive and keep in mind that any little progress we make on this issue is going to have far greater consequences than if we were “even” in this propoganda war with the libs.
I just gave myself a huge headache writing all of that, so I’ll to end my rant here. By the way Mrs. Shriver, keep up the good work with these types of articles.
Playing head games with media anchors can only provide entertainment for the vast field of wienies that enjoy witnessing public embarrassment of talking heads. Sorry but I had to let that go with the passing of William F Buckley known for his barbed rebuttals on televised debates.
The last performance I witnessed of his hour long effort was destroyed by a well timed smear by Charles Rangel in his closing statement based on a pure slanderous lie. Buckley looked scornfully around for any explanation from his team but without any answer. Nobody knew where the accusation came from nor that Rangel would clearly stoop to well timed pure fabrication to score a hit against Buckley’s adherence to documented truth. His explanation captured by an alert cameraman was that he was running out of time and had no other choice. The same desperation is becoming evident among all that are observing the fading of the media whitewash exposing their true colors to voters practicing eternal vigilance.
As proven by his long incumbency anchored in verbose rhetoric, voters in his district require nothing better as long as the pork lasts. Neither Rangel nor any other democrat holding party above patriotic truth get anything but whitewash from a complicit media. Neither was Rangel the first of his kind nor will he be the last if republicans continue falling for the compromise agenda hailed by TV media as the necessary panacea of all things good. History proves otherwise. Voters should have nausea from silver tongued debaters anyway and they need not wait for more debate entertainment or a 2012 election to see their biggest enemy come to heel. TV media expose their Achilles Heel with timed advertisements spaced amid the biased agenda cascade. Their bottom line is wide open for boycott attack on the very products and services that sustain their brassy attitude while pretending to investigate government corruption.
You don’t have to register to win that one and the ball is in your court for choking a huge parasite attached to all consumer hosts. If you pay for the ads by buying the items advertised then you should be inclined to influence the CEOs in the only way they understand. D C lawyers come next.
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So, what would Vince Lombardi do in a Republican debate? He would at least remember which damned team he is on! He wouldn’t attack his own teammates.
What if his teammates are the very Republicans who are helping to push the country into the ditch?
Look, primary debates are football games, too. Someone’s got to win and someone’s got to get the pants beat off of them for being weak, uncertain, untrained, whatever.
I’m for Cain, and I won’t mind one bit if he calls Romney and Perry confused do-goodies who need to straighten out their principles. “Heartless” to oppose the DREAM Act? Wow, with moral superiority like that Perry should (re)join the Democrats!
A better strategy: simply kill the Demoncrats. They are easily ID’d by their vile gaudy clothing, their constant sexual references, their multiple piercings, and by their constantly hanging out at sleazy nightclubs trying to score drugs.
Think of how great America could be without these demonic trash.
If every Republican killed one Demoncrat, we would have an America overwhelmingly powerful in the world, with a 10% growth rate, no crime, no child molestation, and hard-working people who, instead of having sex orgies, would spend all their time BUILDING.
All Demoncrats are parasites, like cockroaches. Would you let cockroaches live if your home were infested?
Also, without Demoncrats, some of us who have been deprived of the right to get married because of the messages of the infinitely powerful Communist media might be able to find love which we were denied by the devilish whisperings and coded messages of the cackling Satans of the Left.
Nice troll. It could have used a bit more fire and brimstone, but that will come with time.
NUTS
We get it Ken, your advocating the use of terrorism(fear, murder, mayhem as political tool), identical to the tactics of Obama/Holder as they have(well documented)conspired to supply assault weapons to gristle violent narco-terrorists in a thoughtful, yet misguided attempt to make us all safer. Sure, all of here at PJM are on board! Thanks for the great post….NOT.
Moby Alert!
Hmm. Moby sighting at 1:17 o’clock.
A good place to start would be for Republicans to simply start responding to Democrat’s perpetual series of lies as “Well, that’s just another Democrat lie” using the specific words “Democrat lie” over and over and over again.
This has the strength and benefit of actually being true. Democrats lie–shamelessly and continuously, and they are never, ever, EVER called on it. Certainly their allies in 90%+ of the “mainstream” media aren’t ever going to call them on it.
so far filbert you have the only practical answer that might work
studies prove that lies repeated enough, myths or gossips based upon nothing do have a lot of power merely by repetition. Hearing these words is enough to indoctrinatte the masses. TRUTH (sadly) is irrelevant in creating memory and forming belief.
Rebuttals of facts actually make matter worse. to debunk myths one must repeat the lie and myths and so actually worsens not lessons their power.The beleifs of inaccuarcies and lies, once formed ar almost impossible to, impervious to changing.
I read that study in regard to Israel trying to dislodge and disempower the very effective froths produced by the LEFT and Pallywood.
To those who said the LEFt are professional agents of “the biggest lies” and have perfected these indoctrination techniques, I agree. Although we seem to have a free media and independent class of journalism, all of us here know the 4th estate is far closer to a ministry of (dis) information run for the extreme LEFT and thier puppets the DEM party
The first thing the Republicans should do is innoculate themselves from the bamboozling Democrats. It was shocking that the minority leader of the Senate was again foiled by Reid’s latest switch of the rules. Are they ever going to learn that the US Senate is not their playpen? Democrat senators are not really their friends…they might be drinking buds but they cannot be trusted. If they are too goody two shoed to stand up for themselves, they should hire a PR firm with the guttsy zest for politics of a Chris Christy…plain talking, and knee crippling. It is not unreasonable to want the US to be governed in a fiscally conservative manner or that able bodies should work for what they get. Some of the emphasis on social morality IS too much to expect of everyone. Many Republicans should realizse that their values, religious and social, are not shared by everyone. They should settle without forever grousing, on candidates who will run the country in a frugal but efficient manner and let the people tke care of their own morality.
I became an Independent after the 2008 election because I was disgusted by the far right wing of the party. Their place should be emphasized. They are not the spokespeople of America.
“Many Republicans should realize that their values, religious and social, are not shared by everyone. They should settle without forever grousing, on candidates who will run the country in a frugal but efficient manner and let the people take care of their own morality.”
They are not shared by everyone? Really?
Do you have a husband and kids, Donna? Do you trust your husband? Would you tolerate him sleeping around? Should we elect such an adulterer? If you cannot trust him, how can we? Would you want your kids to be LGBT? Really? Or would you rather they marry and produce some grandkids for you? How about drugs and alcohol? Wouldn’t you rather your kids eschew drugs and use alcohol in moderation? How about morality? Do you think your kids should make their own porn flicks starring themselves, or would you rather they forgo porn entirely?
As for letting people take care of their own morality, I am all for it, except where I feel they just get all the information, hearing from both sides. If the good are silent, then all people will hear are the siren songs of immorality.
“All that is required for evil to succeed is for enough good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke
Are you a good person, Donna? You DO share our values, Donna. You just do not want to admit it… or you are not willing to stand up for those values.
We did not start this fight, but we will fight. We shall not be silenced and surrender. The customs of society were long in place, until the radicals decided to try to undermine our country by undermining our morality.
And just so we are clear, Donna, the morality and the gross lack of ethics in government are inextricably linked. Immoral people elect immoral people and we get immoral government. There is no such thing as a fiscally-conservative, immoral person. Perhaps they may be in their personal life, but once in government, they are easily seduced by the lure of power and government money. It takes a man of strong character to resist those siren songs.
“social morality” is nothing more than the foundation of our civil society and the republic. when you realize that, the scales will fall off your eyes. you will begin to understand everything that is happening.
for example: it incoherent to posit fiscal restraint and responsiblity without a base of social morality. in otherwords, morality is a *necessary* condition for fiscal restraint.
good luck to you in your philosophical pursuits.
For a minute there, I thought you were talking about Goebbels. Interesting how much those two have in common.
Well put and succinct game plan for the next 14 months. The truth is the occupier in chief never accomplished anything notewothy except being elected head of Harvard Law Review. Subsequently he has in turn been a professor who not teach or publish, a lawyer who did not practice law and both a at ate & U.S Senator who did note vote let alone legislate. Of course now we have a President who does not lead. Can you imagine any other candidate in their late forties citing their accomplishments in Grad school?
The truth is – he is the nations first affirmative action president and hopefully our last.
Anonymous wrote: “The meek will NOT inherit the earth”
It’s not the earth the meek inherit, it’s the dirt.
(apologies to Lerner & Lowe)
I nominate you, Ms. Shriver, and Kurt Schlichter of Big Government to be leaders of a Message War Office for the GOP. Please look into it. You could take as one of your mottoes the old Harry Truman quote (even though he was a Democrat): I never gave anybody hell. I just told the truth and they think it’s hell. You both would be superb.
http://biggovernment.com/kschlichter/2011/10/04/conservative-judo-how-to-fight-the-smears-and-take-the-offensive/
I have stopped being silent when I hear the stupid narrative out there in social situations. When a liberal relative posts a pic on FB that claims that Republicans raised the deficit more than Dems, I point out who was running congress and “out-spending” the revenue gains (like Tip O vs Reagan). Every time that something pops up, just neatly knock it down with a fact. Be nice and concise. Be firm. Stay mad (but keep it inside as a motivating fire, not outside as abuse). One of the big problems is that we let the narrative be pushed – Reagan raised taxes, Lincoln hated capitalism (and was gay), etc. etc. etc. – it never gets challenged. Ask questions, don’t get pulled into useless emotional debates (which is what most arguments with liberals turn into). So far my family hasn’t disowned me, and some of them have actually thanked me for speaking up. I think one of the problems is that we tend to think we’re all alone as we see the monolithic MSM. We’re not.
I don’t think the GoP elite even know what email is or a negative ad. Obama will run circles around them again in 2012. Obama henchmen will warn the public through the Media that the bad bad Republicans are being very negative. Just to get the GoP candidates and their advisers back on their heels for when Obama goes negative to the extreme and the media ignores it.
The GoP candidate needs to start defeating the media now. Palin had the right idea as did Trump.
And no for the millionth time I don’t want to be automatically subscribed to the Daily Digest. Such poor web design.
HUDDLE!
Excellent article –
Hopefully all of the candidates will read at least once.
Why isn’t Rudy Giuliani running for the Republican nomination for President of the United States? He would be a splendid president. He would certainly have been a better nominee in 2008 than the feckless Senator John Cain. (I worked in the Cain campaign, which was very weak. Cain did not even have a campaign office in Washington, D.C.!)
Rudy G. loves abortion and hates guns. Republican yes, conservative no.
Rudy was Mayor of New York, not Governor or Georgia or South Carolina. You go run for mayor of New York on a “make abortion illegal” and “make carry unless prohibited legal” platform and let us know how it turns out. You do need 270 Electoral votes to win and you can’t get them all from The South and the Intermountain West.
“You do need 270 Electoral votes to win and you can’t get them all from The South and the Intermountain West.”
Yes, you can. Give the Dems IA, MN, and all the usual Blue NE and the Left coast. The Pubs win OH and all the stuff you claim, and the total comes to 285. Pubs only need to win the Red States, as Bush did in ’04. He got 286, winning IA as well, but with the population shift from Blue to Red States, even IA isn’t needed.
Another thing, 286 House seats would also be huge, 40+ more than Pubs have now. The Red States represent 60 Senate seats, too. Just win the base, already. Do not alienate your base in an effort to win “independents”. K.I.S.S.
And we go back to the “irrepressible conflict” that we had during GWB; a starkly divided Nation where everything the President does meets a withering attack from the left and their media running dogs. And having both bodies of Congress doesn’t change that dynamic. I know that many think gridlock is good, but in the next Congress we can’t have gridlock; we must undo much of what Comrade Obama has done. Best case, we have a President who will sign Republican legislation. Worst case, we gut Comrade Obama’s budgets and bare our breasts to the storm. He’s no more anxious to stop Granny’s check than the Republicans are to see him do it; he’s just confident the Republican will fold as they always have. I remain to be convinced that the Republicans can hold a caucus together that has the guts to face down the left, whether or not we have the WH. There has simply never in my political life been any real caucus discipline on the R side. If some members, including a Senator and Representative from my state, came in one day and found that their office didn’t have windows and their seat flushed, they’d be reticent to go all mavericky.
The shift from Blue to Red isn’t an unmixed blessing as we in The West know all too well the effects of Californication. They flee Mexifornia’s taxes, regulation, stupidity, and crime and start trying to reinvent it all wherever they move to. There is also a lot of economic migration because of the stratospheric unemployment in some parts of the Country. I don’t know how many of those votes any conservative can count on. And finally, much of the growth in the Red states is urban dwellers and there is still a major migration from rural to urban areas in the Red states. Urban dwellers tend to be more liberal and even the more conserative ones in the suburbs and exurbs tend to be the squishy independents with lots of “security moms.” Additionally, urbanization enables the Ds to very effectively negate the conservative vote in the suburbs and rural parts of a state with voter fraud in the urban areas; they just stack up so many votes, by whatever means, in the cities that it doesn’t matter how the rest of the state votes. This is a particular issue in the doughnut cities of The South. I hope it was on purpose that that County Clerk in WI sandbagged all those votes from a strongly Republican county and we need to do much, much more of that. The key to most urban machine voter fraud is knowing how many votes they need so they can use their lists of voters who don’t exist and load up their vans of fake voters to go vote “right.” Sandbagging the count in Republican areas makes it much harder for them to do this without attracting too much attention.
In any event, a minimum winning coalition aimed at the narrowest possible victory avoids a lot of compromise on vital base issues, but it makes the Country almost ungovernable without very united and decisive Congressional and Executive leadership and nothing I’m seeing yet indicates to me that we can have that. That decisive stuff really isn’t in a lot of Republicans’ genes. I know that from having spent a fair share of time out on some limb a Republican governor or legislator sent me out on while others of my Republican “friends” were busily sawing off that limb behind me.
Order of value to America that applies to this election cycle.
1) Elect a rock solid conservative. You will get conservative policies, and a very likely follow on Republican presidency at the end of 8 years. Such as happened with Reagan to Bush.
2) Allow a hamstrung mega progressive president have his second term. Gridlock works to prevent damage to the country, and almost guarantees a conservative president next go around. Such as Carter to Reagan and Clinton to Bush.
3) Vote in a progressive Republican that will destroy the Republican brand in either one or two terms in office and lead to a mega progressive president, and possibly help usher in a period of no legislative control either. For example, the first Bush leading to Clinton and the Second Bush leading to super majorities in the House, the Senate and eventually the White House.
If they pick Romney, I am voting Obama.
If they pick Newt, I am voting Obama.
Those of you pushing for people like Rudy and Christie, I will vote Obama against them too.
I will only vote for the Republican nominee if it is a rock solid conservative that will not follow in the footsteps of Bush and Bush. Otherwise, 4 more years of Obama followed the almost certain 12 years of Republicans is far superior 4 or 8 years of a progressive Republican continuing the same policies, only slower followed by another Obama like Democrat for 4 or 8 years.
With all due respect, and no respect is actually due, you are an IDIOT. A Republican House could stop all appropriations, but it won’t. A Republican Congress could “gridlock” the government, but it won’t. Even Republicans would be screaming bloody murder when Granny’s check didn’t come.
And Obama and his communist band don’t really need the Congress; they can do it all with regulation and EO’s and dare the Republicans to do anything about it. What kind of fool does it take to vote for an avowed practicing communist as you’ve just said you would? You’re as big a traitor as Comrade Obama and he had the advantage of being about half smart, which you clearly aren’t. This is the problem with trying to govern with self-styled pure conservatives, libertarians, and Tea Partiers; the R stands for Republican not Redneck or Retarded. What an effin’ fool! Unfortunately, there are millions of you. Any patriotic American with an IQ over room temperature will vote for anyone who isn’t a Democrat in Nov. ’12.
Maybe your problem is that you are a little light on information and are simply only capable of thinking a month or two down the road about how your actions of today will effect your future.
I am looking at the time when my children first get the chance to vote. What is the world we are going to be leaving them to inherit.
Your right, Obama is going to do terrible things, and he will have exactly 4 years to do them and no support for them, and they will all be easily voided within 2 days of the a Republican president taking office, other than his lifetime appointments. every. last. one. of. his. executive. branch. dictates. can. be. removed. quickly. by. the. next. president.
A progressive (R) is going to do somewhat terrible things that jive closely with things Obama would do, and he will have the power of the legislative branch to back it up. Almost none of his bad policies will be able to be reversed by the next president, and specifically in any reasonable time frame. Things will fail to improve, the media will destroy the president and because the Congress will be aligned with the president, it will take a hammering in 2014 and 2016. In 2016 we will be electing a new and improved Obama that has experience and accomplishments. Not our current Obama, but the next installment of who wants to transform America. Then we can watch as the Democrats repeat 2009 through 2010 and ram their version of America down our throats. Why? Because people like you had to vote for the progressive (R) and scream it was the only way to go.
Progressive (R) on a long term basis is far worse for America than a neutered Obama. If you want to discuss this, then instead of calling me names, maybe you could make an argument that details what the end result of your vote for the progressive (R) would look like.
I have a pretty good idea, but if you have additional information that I have not already considered, please feel free to fill in the blanks.
Child, I had my name on the door in Republican governments for a very long time; might again. I became sick to death of self-styled true conservatives and SIVVs. “Pro-life” voters would vote for Genghis Khan if said he was anti-abortion without regard to the likelihood of his troops raping and killing the mother so that the question of abortion would be moot. FisCons would cut off Granny’s check without regard to the consequences.
Glenn Beck has done a terrible disservice to conservatives/Republicans by conflating the 19th Century homegrown American progressivism with the use of the term progressives as a synonym for communists that could be used in polite company in the ’30s. There aren’t any “progressive” Republicans in the sense that either Beck, you, or the Left use the term progressive. There are many Republicans who do believe in some use of the power of the state to accomplish goals that have the consent of the governed; that’s not “statism,” that’s republican democracy. There are many Republicans who aren’t religious and who don’t believe they’ve been “called” to enact religious doctrine into law. This is particularly true in the West where Republicans tend to be more libertarian and there tends to be more bars and whorehouses than churches.
You “true conservatives” need to understand that the ideas that play well at a Tea Party rally in The South or rural midwest cause people to recoil in much of the rest of the Country, especially the West and even the suburbs that we need to carry in Blue and Purple states. You can act on your self-styled “true conservative” values in a state election, maybe you’ll even win and you’ll have a “true conservative” state, but there’ll still be 49 other states that might choose to do it differently. The goal is 270 electoral votes, not “true conservative” ideological purity, for that leads only to more communist rule.
“There are many Republicans who do believe in some use of the power of the state to accomplish goals that have the consent of the governed; that’s not “statism,” that’s republican democracy.”
No, that is what the democratic Party is supposed to be. Let’s just do what is convenient in the short term. Who cares about that pesky Constitution? Those darned Conservatives and their limited government ideals and preachy morality. Sick of them.
Yep, spoken like a Democrat in Republican clothes. Do us a favor, and quit pretending you are a Republican. Go rejoin the Dems and drive out the lunatic far-Left. People are confused about what it is to be a Republican, because of all the damned Dem refugees in the ranks. You are Left of center, so go be a Dem.
The center of the country is not between the Dems and Pubs. It is between the “moderates” and Conservatives, right now. We need a Dem Party on the other side of the aisle with whom we can have reasonable discourse and reasonable disagreement, so that the solutions end up somewhere near the middle, slightly to the Right.
We Conservatives are not the problem, here, Art; You and your RINO ilk are.
Actually, what the “moderates” also known as uninformed, ignorant, lazy voters need to understand is that there are two and only two options available.
One option is a working option, and it is put forth by those who are conservatives who live in the real world and observe the real world.
One option is a non-working option, and it is put forth by those who are progressives who live in a fantasy world and dream about “the world as it should be”.
The moderates think that they have the solution to this diametrically opposed situation, split the baby in half and give each side half. The real world does not function like that, it is why the conservatives did not propose that.
Either you want to live in a functioning society that is vibrant and prosperous, or you want to live in a fantasy world where you are forced to constantly lie to yourself that things are perfect.
Gun laws. Every where that the people are allowed to freely own guns have lower crime rates. Real world says allow the people to own guns. Fantasy world says guns kill, so outlaw guns for everyone. Every place that practices this fantasy are the murder capitals of their region. Anything to the left of allowing people to freely own guns causes higher crime, so why would a moderate propose a middle ground?
So, moderates need to grow up and pick a side. Either you want a functioning government, or you are on the side of the progressives.
“There are many Republicans who do believe in some use of the power of the state to accomplish goals that have the consent of the governed;”
This is probably the spot where you got lost on the road to being a quality individual with respect to government policies. Do you know what consent of the governed is? In the United States of America it is the following. The Constitution of the United States of America. That is the consent of the governed. If it is not acceptable under that document, in the way that the original people who wrote and voted for it, then it is not an activity that has consent of the governed, no matter how popular it is at the moment.
The real problem is ignorant punks like you who’ve digested too much hemp and libertarian BS and think they know something about government. You’re actually harder to deal with rationally than the communists who know they’re communists on the Left side of the ditch. How dare you call me a RINO when your simply a stupid libertarian who doesn’t even know it. There are two parties in this Country: the stupid party and the evil party. You’ve got the stupid part down. The evil party is a WHOLE LOT better at staying in power.
You need to quit acting like you have anything to do with Republican politics and go officially join the libertarians. Oh, and take Ron Paul wiht you.
Its hard to reply to you.
Unlike a large portion of the American population, I never even experiemented with drugs. The worst I ever do is add a little liquor to my drinks for flavor. Such as chambord to my mountain dew. So, I am not some drug adled loser.
I also do not follow much of the precepts of the libertarian set of ideals. Ask around this web site and you will find many people see me as a stark raving lunatic when it comes to being against libertarianism.
I think people should be free to decide, but I think that moral truths should always trump individual rights. As in, when someone is doing something immoral, and causing harm to someone else, when that someone else retaliates to stop the harm, the immorality of the first person automatically negates any negative consequences that could have been imposed otherwise. It is why I do not like libertarians. I feel they want a world with out morals.
“If they pick Romney, I am voting Obama.
If they pick Newt, I am voting Obama.
Those of you pushing for people like Rudy and Christie, I will vote Obama against them too.
I will only vote for the Republican nominee if it is a rock solid conservative that will not follow in the footsteps of Bush and Bush.”
So. You’re saying ISMW that you would only be happy with either Obama or a “rock solid conservative.” This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Even the Bushes have not wreaked as much damage to this country in three terms of office (’41′s one term, Dubya’s two terms) as Obama has done in one term of office! You really should think this one through just a bit…..
It is going to take the Tea Party time to flush out the RINOs. We’d be far better off to be patient, support the Pubs we can & hope the process towards moving the Republican Party further to the right will move along more quickly than to simply throw up our hands in histrionic despair & foolishly pull the lever for Obama & his miserable ilk.
Bush I would have been a two term president as a conservative. instead we got two terms of Clinton.
Bush II gave us no child left behind. Medicare part D. The housing crisis (yes it was his fault, he saw it coming but was too interested in his compassionate conservatism to bother spending any effort on fixing it.) Let us not forget that Bush set the floor for spending in the Obama Administration with the TARP that did more harm than it did good. Becuase of his poor conservative record, he gave Obama a tremendous boost in potential to be elected by depressing the conservative turnout.
No compassionate conservatism Bush presidency, no Obama adminsitration at all.
So do not try and tell me how little damage Bush I and Bush II did to this nation. I can see a far bigger picture, and it shows a devastated nation as the results of their pathetic Republican governorship.
I hate to say it, but the Republicans will only know how to fight a real election when the younger generation starts running for higher office. When people like Paul Ryan, Rand Paul, and Marco Rubio start running for higher office, you will see a younger generation, brought up on Tea Party toughness, get in the blows needed to destroy the Democrats. Just look at what happened in 2010. When people are motivated by the truth, they can flatten their opponents with massive support. Regardless of what the Democrats say, they cannot defeat motivated people like Tea Party members. Tea Party members simply ignored all the names being hurled at them by the Democrats and built up a grass roots support that utterly devestated the Democrats. If we keep up the pressure like that, nothing can stop the Republicans, regardless of the names we are called. Democrats may own the media, but, at this rate, Republicans will own the ballot boxes in 2012.
Good job. You can only fight a massive media elite propaganda machine at the grass roots -one-on-one…and thank Steve Jobs for the Internet! (Well, good ways of accessing it.)I regularly get on the NYT, WaPo, Newsweek…and rudely interrupt the narrative. I have been on Bill Maher’s fanpage for a year starting nose-tweaking series like “You Might be a liberal if…” and “Progressive Newspeak word of the day.” They tried insulting me. hacking my account. One or two even tried debating. Now they started an “Unofficial Maher Fanpage” so they can bleat in their echo chamber with no discordant voice – over 100 left Maher’s fanpage….because of one person. Some are listening. Some are asking questions. Undoing the massive propaganda job the Leftist education system and Leftist media have foisted on a dumbed-down drugged-up generation is not easy. But it can be done.
Oh, and pray for America.
One more thing – we can throw the Left a bone and watch the havoc it creates. I speak of the need to give in on decriminalizing pot. Apart from massive decreases in the costs of the drug war that would ensue, massively cutting into the profits of the drug cartels, not to speak of reducing the human costs, for many inside the airhead crowd that lurk about on the Left, like college kids, this is ONE ISSUE that will make them switch sides. If Cain surprised everyone and announced he was for legalizing pot, it would be the end of any chance the Left would have to hold onto power. NOTE: I hate pot.
=^.^= hello B Moon (not to be confused with Moon Beam!)
funny you mention the pot thing- so just the other day my Facebook Obotics were in rage mode b/c the Obama Messiah is cracking down on medical marijuana in Cali a state that dared go aginst the federales – they did not connect any of the dots however- never accepted their part for putting O into Office, never cried when O”s DOJ persecuted Ariz for enforceing the laws on immigration, or butted their big controlling noses into other states enacting anti sharia laws- Ignored and never connected states rights versus federal mandate and selective (non)enforcement of the law.
Nope and not a one of them had the smallest clue that the lady they love to ridicule (Sarah P) and another prominant R advocated decriminalizing marijuana MONTHS AGO!!!
nope instead they will vent their anger at Obama’s betrayal of them and anger at his economic failures by voting for the stupid party- they have become Ron Paul fans.
The easily led are easily led.
free the slaves – AGAIN!
send this to everyone you know – especially blacks
http://www.runawayslavemovie.com/site/index.php?
Great! When the circular firing squad is done, let me know. You can see it on our debates; they turn on each other and leave Odummer out of it. Why? Why defend LE in either circumstance: he is either a troll or idiot on our side?
You all spend so much time analyzing (the left and our stupidity otherwise known as our ability to steal defeat from the jaws of victory) but very few of you have come up with a solution to the problem: How do we defeat the left’s propaganda machine, politics of personal destruction, MSM, and strangle hold on federal and state bureaucracies? And even if we defeat them electorally, how will we deal with them afterwards? Anyone here think the left will go away quietly? Non-violently?
The author has given us a problem to solve: find solutions to the left-NOT who can sound the most intellectual or imbibe in fanciful debate.
“… NOT who can sound the most intellectual or imbibe in fanciful debate.”
I disagree. I think being a good debater is essential to being a good President. Why? Because you have to cut through the BS. DC is filled with the very best BS-artists. You have to be able to destroy their positions while advancing your own. If you cannot, you will get nothing done.
It does not matter how good your policies are, how right you are, how decent, noble, and honorable you are. If you cannot make your case and close the sale, you will never get your legislation passed into law and your policies enacted.
A rule of business is, “Nothing happens until a sale is made.” This is true of government, as well. If you cannot debate well, you cannot govern well. You have to close the sale!
This is why the Pubs are known as the Stupid Party. Their positions are correct, but they cannot argue for them effectively. They cannot close the sale, because they cannot cut through the BS. They allow the Left to control the narrative.
This is changing. More and better Pubs have been elected. These worthies have shown themselves effective at articulating the goals and policies of the Right. They hammer home the truth. Christie, Ryan, Rubio, Rand Paul, Cantor, and many others. They make the sale. Shoot, Cantor is so good, even Dem aides in the debt-limit talks felt he was the adult in the room. They liked and respected him. He made the sale to the aides of the other side!
Effective arguments using the truth is how we beat the Propaganda Press (TM). Make the sale.
“It does not matter how good your policies are, how right you are, how decent, noble, and honorable you are. If you cannot make your case and close the sale, you will never get your legislation passed into law and your policies enacted.”
Case in point: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Bush tried to do something about the run away lending situation 17 times. But he was unwilling to ‘lower’ himself to presenting the situation to the American People (As Reagan did several times he met an impasse) and allowed Bawney Fwank to set the narative and run rings around him.
So when the train wreck finally did occur, as he predicted it would, not only had he accomplished NOTHING to prevent it, he was handed the blame for it as well.
Big thoughts really are the conservative/Republican disease, though a successful Republican leader MUST be able to hold and articulate “big thoughts” well. That said though, you can get scintillating philosophical discussions from conservatives and Republicans; they just love to find chinks in each other’s ideological armor so they can pronounce each other apostates to be cast into the outer darkness. Trouble is, hardly any of them could find the light switchs and restrooms in a government office building or have a clue how they’ll get that shapeless bureaucratic mass to move once they take their hand off The Bible. Most conservatives/Republicans hate government and don’t want to know anything about how it works and how to make it do Republican things. Maybe that’s changing a bit as evidenced by the steps taken to rein in public employee unions in WI and OH, but I’d be willing to bet that the money laundries that feed federal and even lots of state money to those unions and the leftwing front groups allied with them are still running at full song. We control over half the state governments and I’m willing to bet not ONE Republican governor has given a serious look at what groups his government is funnelling money to; we feed the hand that bites us. What Republican goveror or AG has taken a look at public employee union dues schemes to see if they pass constitutional muster? I’m willing to bet the answer is zero. I know my state hasn’t, didn’t even do it when I was in charge of dealing with its unions because nobody had the guts or political capital for the existential fight. Give me a team of half decent government accountants/forensic auditors and I’ll guarantee you that I could put most any public union leader in the Country in jail and frog march the head of most any Democrat front group that receives public funds. And I’m not that special, anybody who knows their way around government could do it. Unfortunately, most of the people who know their way around governments are either Democrats or mercenaries who have to more or less get along with both sides to keep working.
Over the last 30 years Republicans have proven themselves superbly able to come up with ideas that resonate with the res publica and get themselves elected. Unfortunately, they’ve done a dismal job of actually governing once elected so they’ve been uncerimoniously thrown out of power twice in the Executive, and three or four times in one body of Congress or the other because of their lack of discipline and incompetent governance.
“…didn’t even do it when I was in charge of dealing with its unions because nobody had the guts or political capital for the existential fight.”
When you were “in charge,” did you do anything at all to encourage them to “fight”? Could you personally have done anything to promote or implement said “fight”?
Yeah, gotten myself made COS or Commisioner or been elected Governor – then maybe, only maybe because there are still powerful constituencies and a Legislature. It’s always so easy to you guys who’ve never done it. Making government do anything is like pushing a rope and there is almost NOTHING even a Governor or President can do unilaterally.
We kept the unions quietly under contract and not on the streets singing songs and carrying signs and pretty effectively kept them from having a motivated constituency in the ’04 General election one of our primary goals. After that, nobody felt like poking that dragon cause there were plenty of other dragons and that one wasn’t bothering us. If you’re going to take on a major Democrat constituency, you run and get elected on taking them on as was the case in WI and OH. If you don’t do that, when you provoke them and they strike back, you won’t have a friend in the World, including all those true conservatives who told you they’d be right behind you. Yeah, they’re right behind you; way behind you and looking for a reporter to tell how you should have done it and how they would have never have done something so divisive.
It would seem that your experiences point to the notion (which I think is the correct one) that Democrats, generally speaking, are more at home with direct confrontation as a means to get their way than Republicans are. It has always been a mystery to me as to what exactly accounts for this phenomenon. Assertions that conservatives prefer to be “polite,” “nice” etc., don’t seem to cut it, as they don’t seem to have any trouble at all succeeding in their endeavors only within the realm of the private sector; they remain very poor competitors in the public arena of ideas & policies. It’s a frustrating & disturbing thing……
Amen, amen, and amen. This is what I’m talkin’ about. The Democrats want to play a little smash-mouth? Let’s play smash-mouth. Mr. Speaker: follow, lead, or get the hell out of the way. And for gosh sake dry you eyes and get off the tanning bed. We got a war to fight here. And as for you, sub-Senate-leader McConnell, you cut the legs right out from under Cut-Cap-and-Balance with your half-assed Give-Obama-What-He-Wants-So-Republicans-Don’t-Get-Blamed-fot-It “alternative” — and where are we now? I am so sick of limbo-backed RINOs I could spit. MAN UP or step aside. Dammit. Thank you very much, Kyle-Anne, for this well-honed broadside against the a**-kissing, Peggy-Noonan elite. My batteries needed some recharging and your clear-spoken words have done the trick. Godspeed.
Ridicule deserves sarcasm and ridicule. When I encountered a troll over at HuffPo shilling for solar and berating advocates of thorium reactors for “thinking a thousand years’ deadly waste is a good thing,” I replied by saying, “Research (his user name) thinks infinity years’ deadly waste is a good thing,” citing the many toxic (and yes, even radioactive) components in solar panels, most of which will NEVER decay and remain toxic in any chemical form.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for publishing this. I sent this link to one of my conservative friends earlier today. After reading it, he finally realized that what I’ve been telling him for years is true–Republicans are batshit crazy. He said he had been thinking of leaving the GOP for quite some time due to the Tea Bag insanity, and this left him with no doubt that the entire party is beyond help. Thank you once again for making him see the light!
Your use of the old “tea bagger” label shed immediate light on your political bent. . . . begone troll, back into the darkness that spawned you. The Repubs are not “batshit crazy” but lacking in testicular fortitude, which enabled your messiah, the mighty “o”, to attempt his destruction of the United States. . .
like it was written out chapter and verse from our tea party bible.
thank you for this post. you, at least understand what we are trying to get the republicans to do. unfortunately, the didn’t/aren’t yet doing it.
You say that all Obama had to do was show up for his coronation because the Republicans were mealy mouthed? What you forgot to mention is the small fact that the Republicans did a fantastic job of taxing and spending our country into financial ruin for almost eight years prior to the election which led to economic chaos and near collapse. Just a minor historical fact to ponder for 2012…
So, out of the two parties, which do you think will be easier to stop “Tax and spend”?
That’s right! The Republican party being pushed by Tea partiers.
Since this is obviously an important issue to you, we’ll be waiting for you to show up at the next Tea Party rally.
Unfortunately, the Republican Party’s mealy-mouthed yellow-streakers may get their way and nominate McCain, Part II – otherwise known as Mitt Romney. I would almost rather see Obama re-elected than put this career office seeker and disingenuous “tell ‘em what they want to hear” flip-flopping RINO in the White House. At least with Obama, the leftist side of the political spectrum will get the blame it so richly deserves. He’s the Washington Insider’s candidate, the guy who poses no threat to the status quo, the candidate who will sell out the base every chance he gets. That’s why he’s the leads the pack in DC endorsements.
I often despair that the many Republicans (to say nothing of the country) have learned absolutely nothing over the past three or four years. I’m still holding out hope that Perry or Cain (despite his inexperience) will gather enough steam to derail Willard’s nomination. Our country may be able to hold on by its fingernails a little longer with Romney in office, but it will still fall – because, at the end of the day, Romney is a statist at heart, another establishment candidate who believes in big government and big government solutions.
Most likely, I will be branded a conspiracy nut, but here goes: the Dems’/liberals’ war on the Republican party/conservatives is won. Why didn’t the Secret Service arrest every vile person who had a part in making a movie depicting the assassination of a sitting President?
More than half our voters owe their livelihood to Big Gov. whether it be through no taxes, Welfare, Medicaid, employment in gov jobs, unemployment, union jobs, illegal immigrants,or money to prop up loser green jobs. (What a laugh Obamacrats and insolvent green job
companies must have as they drain the “green” from taxpayers). Add the government’s deafening voice through the lapdog media
and Holly Wooden Heads, and the victory is complete.
Unemployment benefits are our soup kitchens, masking dumb us from the awareness that we are already in a Depression.
The country is divided almost in half philosophically between the workers and the takers. A civil war will come sooner or later but
probably not until it is too late. The parasites are killing the host and the host just hopes it will get better some day. We are counting on a direction-reversing election that the Corrupticrats just won’t allow to happen. Obama’s self-declared army of union thugs are already fomenting violence against the Tea Party and Wall Street. It is just now beginning.
I am an aging babyboomer and won’t live to see peace in my lifetime, but a nation this divided must become two nations, or we will look like the nightmarish Russia of my youth.
Just repeat Adlai’s cowardly college of communism and corruption. The party of Amnesty Abortion and Adultary. They sell Guns to the enemy. No PSA test? They are in favor of Cancer. come on it isn’t hard to be a demagogue. Just show them petting in the park while Obama and Pelosi cheer them on.
Republican legislators need to learn to fight back with enough ridicule to get themselves noticed.
For instance; The “Jobs Bill” Obama is trying to get pushed through is nothing but another tax bill. Republicans should come out with a Bill called the “American Prosperity Bill” for an antidote to this sham. Good God; We’re taxed enough, and you cannot tax us back to prosperity.
If the Jobs Bill actually worked, then leaving your freezer door open and flushing ice cubes down the toilet, could eradicate global warming.
This is the 90-somethingth comment so no one will see it. What the heck.
Liberals are so two-faced that everything we stand for has already been championed by some Liberal back in the day when George W. Bush was in the White House. Our Propaganda Czar only needs to find these quotes and show them now. Let’s say we choose the one with Hillary screeching that it’s American to protest. Flash it on the screen, say “You’re right, Hillary,” and then show all the quotes criticizing the Tea Party.
Thank you again Kyle-Anne, fine, strong language we all need to hear. Make yourselves STRONG people. Use STRONG language. Moderation is a principle for life-style adjustment; eat in moderation, drink in moderation, when it is applied to philosophy it is deadly. Compromise with darkness like socialism only ensures their victory. When our politicians find the courage to speak truthfully about this menace we will win. Do not be afraid to be STRONG.
Item #2. It is “message vs. messenger” house of cards argument. Saul Alinsky created a myth of aiming directly, front and center at “the messenger.” Why? Because the “message” then becomes discredited as was the “messenger” and the House of cards comes tumbling down.
So, what must a rising, new, refreshing “brand,” i.e., The Tea PARTY, do to re-direct an Alinskyite attack? Stay on message. By falling into a bottomless pit of keeping on trying to validate a “messenger,” merely exacerbates a prolonged, unsuccessful climbing out of a deep hole the “messenger” allowed themselves to get into in the first place.
Does anybody remember “The Lincoln-Douglas” format for debates? This is a start towards disarticulating Alinskyites attacks on the “messenger” by steering their efforts back to “the message.” Simple, beautiful and very effective. Works every time.
A little homework goes into prepping for this eventuality, but boy, does it result in a great finale.
As for We The Elite people of Washington DC, if The Tea PARTY with its “brand,” is able to maintain its momentum through these first few “skirmishes” it will succeed as a distinguishable “PARTY” able to do great and wonderful things We The People so desperately pine for.
Vote massively this 2012 Election, because massive fraud is visiting our Beloved USA. Cain Can. God Bless America.
Nicely written but off point. Somehow the strategies offered here and everywhere miss the MAIN thing a candidate can do, but MUST do, tell the truth of the usurper in office. It appears that every author mentions Alinsky, but follows his rules to the tee.
Here is the truth plain and simple, there is no confirmed legal documentation that barry soetero meets Constitutional eligibility requirements. What is confirmed is-
1. his birth record is forged
2. his SS# from Connecticut is fraudulent
3. his Selective Service registration is falsified
4. his records are sealed by his own Executive order#13489 less than 24 hrs. in office
5. two separate DNC nomination forms were sent to state election commissions
the one to Hawaii is the only one that includes the qualification clause
6. there is no US filing of a name change since he was adopted by Lolo Soetero
so the last legal name is barry soetero not Obama.
7. the courts have blocked every case filed for discovery as “no standing”
Many more FACTS can be listed. For any candidate to actually move ahead is by telling the truth. Barry Soetero (aka obama) is a fraud and putative POTUS.
The only reason it has gone on this far is the Alinsky rule book has been applied including this article. TRUTH is the Alinsky slayer and leadership will be not only respected but followed.
Well, you run on that platform and let us know how it all turns out.
Not that I don’t believe most of it is true, but that train left the station long ago. They managed to instal their Red Diaper Baby in the White House. Now we have to get him out while we still have something that looks like elections in this Country.
Oh, here we go again. It’s all about winning, is it? Nevermind if you lose your soul along the way. I would rather lose the election with my conscience intact and risk further damage to my country by Obama and his minions than sell it to an electable moderate RINO fake who will only slow the slide down the slippery slope to socialism.
The idiot bench is over to the right, far to the right.
Talk about “throwing the baby out with the bathwater.” You want to slit the baby’s throat first before she/he’s hurled out the window. Good job. Folks like you should have your voting rights revoked.
Slowing is not good enough. It’s like comparing having your whole hose burn down vs. one room at a time over the next year.
If only they would listen……I don’t think they will.
That’s right.
You can’t get them to listen to anything you say unless you can impress them by being more radical and incoherent then they are.
i.e.: “Occupy whatever”.
Fine article–well written, well considered and exactly correct. A copy of this should get into the hands of every candidate and every support staffer and they should be made to read it and memorize. The GOP allows the ‘crats and the mealy media to get them into the circular firing squad–again. How are the GOP persuaded to don PC muzzles? Is it to please the party of people who poop in the streets for art? To curry favor with a darkside media whose every effort is designed to destroy them? Enough with the rope-a-dope, GOP candidates! Show some fire–determination to restore constitutional government–and a firm commitment to America’s Judeo-Christian values. All in.
I am heartily tired of articles being chopped up an placed on multiple pages, forcing users to click on many pages, with the purpose of exposing us to multiple pages of ads, I suppose.
This article, for example, has only a couple of hundred words on the first page, and has a completely gratuitous page break after only a few paragraphs.
I suppose that’s how Pajamas Media monetizes their blog, though.
That’s right, PacRim Jim, wouldn’t that be a shame if the PJMedia made any money? Capitalist bloodsuckers, aren’t they? They should be kinda non-profit site, subsidized by the Tides Foundation, or Soros, or something, right?
I suppose you may have overlooked the “view as a single page” link or is the act of just one extra mouse click harder than five?
Nice article. Act like Vince— it’s still acting! The problem with all the analysis is that there really aren’t any policy suggestions to put a fence around the runaway gov. Why do we have to track all our wage-slave income with W-2′s and our investments and consulting with 1099-MISC? Because we WANT the government to intrude in our lives.? How many of the OWS clowns are getting their income on government EBT, SNAP, section 8, or other forms of ‘income, redistributed’? It is past time for ALL income to be reported so we can view
ALL government’s redistributions at city, county, state, and federal levels. Nothing would do more to box this in as creating the 1099-GOV. 1099-GOV 1099-GOV 1099-GOV
Desparate Dems Denying and Lying
Aside from lying and denying, reacting defensively and resorting to outlandishness are sure signs of politicians in trouble. When they lie, deny, get defensive and employ extreme rhetoric, it’s a certainty they’ve gotten a good, rancid whiff of looming defeat.
Based on their recent history, Democrats are evidently smelling electoral catastrophe. It’s one thing when the under-qualified, over-achieving Van Jones makes preposterous assertions, quite another when Democrats of consequence demonstrate palpable fear by their wild flailing.
Like former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, former Obama “Green Czar” Van Jones is expected to fabricate lies presented as truth and inanities cloaked as erudite expertise. We can readily dismiss Pelosi’s nutty declaration that women will be dying on floors in droves if House Republicans passed the Protect Life Act and disregard Jones’ praise of the “non-violent” Arab Spring as, respectively, the senseless ravings of an hysterical abortionist and the uninformed jabberings of a pretentious twit.
Less dismissible are the actions and utterances of the Senate Majority Leader and the Vice President even if we allow for their desperation.
Harry Reid has never been a guy to let reason and logic intrude on his ultra-liberal ideology.
He made his confusion vividly clear when he ignored the fact that America was not founded on the principle of public service employment but on free enterprise. The unemployment crisis won’t be solved by government hiring, as Reid believes, but by the private sector expanding and employing more people.
Someone should clue Majority Leader Reid that, contrary to current misconception, we are not yet a socialist nation dependent–and employed–by governments.
In an amazing display of detached reality, Reid said on the floor of the United States Senate, “It’s very clear that private-sector jobs have been doing just fine; it’s the public-sector jobs where we’ve lost huge numbers, and that’s what this [jobs] legislation is all about.”
Sen. Reid’s whereabouts for the past three years must be called into question. Is he totally oblivious of his country’s rock-solid unemployment rate of 9.1% and of the State of Nevada’s 13.4%?
Has he succumbed to the Democrat Party curse of denial in the face of the obvious, is he finally admitting the only way the Obama administration can get 14 million people back to work is by putting them on government payrolls, or is he just loony?
Maybe all of the above.
Vice President Joe Biden, the uncrowned prince of flubs, fluffs, and gaffes– second only to Obama the Gaffe Machine–is showing distinct signs that his advancing years or his own impending unemployment is affecting his brain. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5753.)
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