2. I know you’re responsible grown ups. But many of you have, or have been in, contact with teenagers. Channel your inner teen. Let them out of the basement and let them cut loose. Do what Mitt can’t do because he must be a grown up. Go all mocking and nasty. When the other side comes back at you – and they will – mock them mercilessly. Let them know not only are they not the cool kids anymore, but we are all laughing at their pocket protectors.
3. Just because you’re having fun teasing them on minor stuff, don’t forget the administration’s record. It’s indefensible. Remember Obama’s greatest nightmare is math. Remember the debt he’s piled on our children. Remember his socialist dreams of glory that led to a universal health care law that gives them power of life and death over a lot of us. Sure, mock Michelle Obama’s lunch initiative that is destroying innocent vegetables and starving children – but save a bit of high moralistic derision for her husband’s feckless handling of other nations, for his conviction that a world without the U.S. would be better. His actions are not only repugnant, they will be paid for with a river of blood by men and women whose boots he’s not fit to polish. We can be morally indignant and we should be. The moral high ground IS ours. Remind them of that. On their side, they have only corpses and ruin. Capitalism has lifted more people out of dire poverty than any other system in the history of man. Marxism has plunged more people into poverty and destroyed more countries than even feudal monarchy. Remind them of that.
Look, the reason the abortionpalooza of a Democratic convention gave Obama a bounce at all – to the extent it wasn’t made up in polls, which a lot of it was – is not the hagiographic treatment the MSM gave him: it’s you.
You looked at the polls and went all cowed and started talking about how Mitt was a bad candidate. And the MSM which, only a week before, had been talking about not being able to change the narrative, now realized THIS selective coverage and saturating the air waves worked. And they started doing it.
Since then you’ve been on the run. Even yesterday, after the release of that video which should mean the end of Obama’s presidency, many of you were saying: “We really shouldn’t say anything. This isn’t strong enough. The media will laugh at us.”
So?
Who cares? If the media laughs at us, laugh right back. Don’t shut up. Don’t back down. They don’t have the influence they used to and our influence is growing. Stop imagining they’re some arbiter of the right and just. You behave like medieval peasants afraid to revolt against their Lord. Stop that. You’re Americans. We eat aristocrats for lunch and spit them out for afternoon tea.
“But we have no influence” you whine. No? Oh, please. Then why did they nix the “lady parts” campaign. Who takes their “war on women” seriously? And, btw, doesn’t everyone know about the blue dress and Clinton, which happened the media had a lot more power than now?
Yes, the media will spin the debates. Spin right back. Who was it that said “Get in their faces”? Yeah, let’s take THAT advice.
They bring a television to the fight, we bring a computer.
Don’t back down. We’re fighting for the future. We’re fighting for our children’s future. And we must win.
Another excellent post, you’re on a roll. Keep it up.
Agreed. And every time Romney uses a dog whistle,
Obama’s stomach will growl.
I concur with GDI.
Punch back twice as hard (which will be labeled “violent”)
“Benghazi will be off the table as even a mention, and if Romney dares bring it up there will be an outcry about “attacking a president during a war” and how he’s undermining the investigations and how it is a “gaffe.””
Don’t forget, he’ll be politicizing a tragic death and campaigning on a corpse.
THANKS!! WE ARE READY!!!
Great advice. I would just add that once this in-your-face (hostile) mocking process starts, it has to continue until the left is destroyed. As soon as the right lets up, the left will resume its attacks. This is war just not with bullets.
Wow! Thanks Sarah.
They can vote to protect their “lady-parts”.
We can’t forget to work like we have “man-parts”.
Have conversations everywhere you go. Not aggressive, but true; I bring up the high cost of food we’ve been seeing. That gets people thinking which leads to talks about QE 3 forever and what causes inflation. Most people have no idea what QE 3 is, but they know it cost more to buy a hamburger for their child.
Stay positive, we’ve got this.
Sarah, your writing recently keeps calling to mind the scene in LOTR where Gandalf is telling the soldiers of Gondor, “Steady…Steady”.
You’re right. Mention what Voltaire said, “Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value-zero.” I talk about things in general terms, blaming the “idiots in Washington” without mentioning Obama by name, although he is currently the top idiot in Washington. Gas prices going up? “Yeah, those idiots in Washington, flushing money down the toilet on windmills and then they veto the XL pipeline.” Maybe they don’t know what the XL pipeline is and don’t want to seem dumb by asking, but they can go home and Google it…
“We eat aristocrats for lunch and spit them out for afternoon tea.”
That’s going to end up on a “Sarah Hoyt Quotes” page one of these days. Excellent quickie on the difference between the US and Europe.
(And that’s assuming we’re having afternoon tea and not dumping it all in the harbo(u-removed)r because we don’t approve of a tariff.
And more on topic. I agree. Especially about the mockery. So, they make fun of you, so what? There’s LOTS more to make fun of on their side – especially the stuff they are trying to hide.
They may HATE Clint’s empty chair–but the thing is, that was brilliant. It was 1) true and 2) funny.
One quibble: I dealt with little wannabe Obama union reps and apparatchik types for a couple of decades, and treating them like teenagers is ill-advised. Teenagers are mostly capable of rational thought if forced and can even sometimes identify their own interests – if not always act on that interest. During the days I spent in pretty much constant and at times existential conflict with lefty union reps, we had a simple rule: what would you do if your six year old said or did that? Lefties simply do not have the capability of either rational thought or emotional control that even most teenagers can demonstrate if they have to. Comrade Obama has never been confronted in his entire life. Lefties live in lefty places. Lefties go to lefty bars, lefty restaurants, lefty entertainment, they listen to lefty news and have lefty friends and associates; NOT ONE SINGLE STUPID IDEA THEY’VE EVER HAD HAS EVER BEEN CHALLENGED, and they don’t have an effin’ clue what to do when they’re threatened with a spanking or having their allowance cut off.
Excellent advice, Sarah!
Speaking of which, I just want to say—am I the only one getting sick of Obama’s great, big, stupid “What? Me, worry?” Alfred E. Newman grin? (I think that’s a good thing to start mocking!) “Benghazi? What? Me, worry?” “The national debt? What, me worry?”
I came to this post via Instapundit. It’s an interesting contrast to the “don’t be a racist (according to me)” and “I won’t vote for Romney if his supporters act distastefully (to me)” comments from another Instapundit guest-blogger, Ann Althouse. Not only on the same day, but just a few posts before the the one that brought me here.
I really don’t understand Althouse of late. She started a few days ago by making a really strange argument that showing the video of the “telephone lady” from Ohio once is OK, but showing it multiple times is proof of racism. Then this Drudge/Daily Caller video was submitted and, well, I guess the WI Republican party lost a vote in Madison.
I do understand this post. I, personally, like the points made and having lived in Europe for an extended period of time, I even understand it. I’m not sure I entirely agree that the actions indicated will work in all situations. People who are “likely” to vote Republican tend to think of themselves as serious, thoughtful voters (much like Althouse) – in contrast us so-called South Park Republicans, who are pretty much guaranteed to vote Republican and especially if the message presented is sarcastic and funny. Hey, much like this post
jdm:
And your point is. . . ???
(As for Althouse, she’s not running for office, so her arguments, strange or not, aren’t that important at the moment.)
The point was the contrast between two Instapundit guest bloggers. I thought I wrote that. I also wrote a secondary point about how I’m not sure how the activities proposed by Ms Hoyt, as much as I like them, will play to the “serious and thoughtful” voters. Sorry for not writing well enough for you.
As for Althouse’s importance, I can’t speak to that. She seems to think she represents a voting bloc. I hear that in elections, votes are important, but YMMV.
jdm, the “Serious” and “Thoughtful” voters told us, in 2008, that they were voting for Obama because, “He’s going to bring us all together!” (Yes, one of them actually told me that!)
If serious and thoughtful voters are going to be put off by people speaking up, and refusing to buy into the hype, then to heck with them. In that case, they’re neither thoughtful, nor serious.
Um, are you a mind reader? How do you know that Althouse thinks she represents a voting bloc, and what voting bloc do you think she thinks she represents? And why does this matter? (And, even if she does, that doesn’t necessarily make it true.)
Yeah, votes are important in elections—but why are Althouses’s thoughts about votes important? She’s not running for office, that I know of, and she doesn’t lead some powerful group called the “Althouse-ites”, or something like that; are you hinting that she posseses some dark power, to cloud mens’ minds, and force them to vote the way she wants them to?
I mean, seriously, if you have some bone to pick with Althouse (She dissed the Telephone Lady? She’s sabotaging votes in Madison?) why not go back to Instapundit, and pick it with her? Wouldn’t that be the serious and thoughtful thing to do?
Sarah, given how the debate went, and the near-unanimous opinions of big- and little-media commentators that Romney won decisively, how do you feel this morning? Is our fight still a “rearguard action” in your view?
I don’t see us “retreating in contact;” I see energy and determination, and a sense that the prize is within our reach. The negative voices will always get more air time and column-inches; it falls to us to give those voices the weight they really deserve.
A friend of a friend told me that she is “no longer speaking to me” because at a party where she was talking about the importance of the press (she’s a journalist in Chicago), I said, “Why should I trust you, you’re a reporter.” And it irritated her enough to storm out of the party, send me a nasty facebook message and un-friend me. Good riddance. If she can’t see why people wouldn’t trust that profession, then she is so blinded by her position she can’t possibly report real news.
Francis, we’ve won a victory for the moment—but the left is going to go on the attack again soon, you can be sure of that. We can’t let down our guard.
I think we’ll still have to fight some rearguard actions, even as we take the attack more openly to other fronts. What we can’t do is rest on our laurels, and think that the Left is now down for the count, and we needn’t fight on anymore.