Letters to the Editor
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not funny
It may seem funny to joke about this as a 1950s nerdball document, but the fact is, Republicans have been doing much better than Democrats on this type of nuts and bolts strategy for a long time. Would that the Democrats had such a book and knew how to use it.
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Pipes?
Where are the pipes? Isn't email a fax stuffed into a pipe?
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Peter Daou wrote a thesis of how to use the internet "blogs" for movement-building or campaigning
...and posted it at www.salon.com at about the time he started the Daou Report (Blog Report) after the 2004 campaign. The NRCC summary covers their way of managing it. Unfortunately, I could not find Daou's thesis in a quick search at Salon.com .
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The Republicans have a plan
The Liberals have hate mail, Joan Walsh and snarling. Maybe they need a better plan too. The whole approach of "You're a doodiehead doodiehead doodiehead!!" is maybe not the best approach they could mount. Sure the Republicans are awkward dorks what with these young people and their rock and roll music and such but the fact is most people really aren't that online savy.
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It's a strategy memo
And not a bad strategy at that. Control the message before the message controls you.
Hey, Schumer, Emmanuel, Carville, and the rest of you DLC'ers, you hear that? That's the sound of you being way too far behind. The American people aren't gonna hand you the keys to the kingdom, because as much as they distrust republicans, they trust you only SLIGHTLY more (especially when you go weak in the knees at the prospect of impeachment). The Republicans have a playbook. Do you?
Right now, the RNC is probably the most distrusted entity in the US behind Tobacco companies and Big Oil. This election is basically yours to take. And I swear, if anyone can screw it up, it's the DLC. So take this to heart. They play to win. We play not to lose, and it's a damn shame. They have a memo, and if they do what they do best, we'll all be eating these words come November of 08 when ROmney or Giuliani sit in the oval office and Republicans control Congress again.
So dems, grow a spine, get some message control out there, and let's pound these mouth-breathers back to political exile.
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Comedy Central
Wasn't that "Half-Hour News Hour" thing supposed to prove that Republicans aren't just doodieheads but are really funny doodieheads?
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Here's an idea...
The paradigmatic example of the failure to do is the 'macaca' moment. Conservative blogs, who had long been lauding Sen. George Allen, were annoyed by shifting justifications and turned on Allen with a vengeance.
You know how Allen could have avoided all of the fallout? BY NOT BEING A LYING RACIST. Seriously, I love how, when faced with the consequences of "shifting justifications", the GOP just looks for more efficient ways to be shifty. The only reason they need to shift justifications so often is because they're usually lying through their teeth in the first place.
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@RealName: The Conservatives Do NOT Have a Plan
The Republicans have a plan
The Liberals have hate mail, Joan Walsh and snarling. Maybe they need a better plan too. The whole approach of "You're a doodiehead doodiehead doodiehead!!" is maybe not the best approach they could mount.
A review of Al Gore's new book was linked on Free Republic yesterday. The commenters quickly dismissed the content of the book. Why? Because Al Gore is fat.
Free Republic is a fairly high-profile right-wing blog. I've seen some stupid comments on lefty blogs, but not that stupid.
Macs Mind and Stratosphere are frequently linked from the Blog Report. Both blogs are consistently wrong about almost everything.
Leaving the marginally centrist Huffington Post out of the picture, we see that the top-20 Site Meter sites lists The Daily Kos at #4 with an average of 443,877 daily visits. The only right-wing site in the top 20 is Instapundit with 182,507.
The left currently owns the web and we own it with good content. We also have a plan: keep it up.
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So how is that plan working, Winston?
Good things don't just fall on you because you're a nice person and you feel you deserve it, do they? I keep hearing about that next breakthrough just over the horizon but I am sorely disappointed in our elected Democrats and their grasp of power.
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When Republicans Marginalize Themselves
This new strategy is fascinating, desperate, and sad for a party that has taken 49 states twice is recent history.
We often talk of red states and blue states today as if these designations were always set in stone, yet unless you're from Minnesota your state was red in the recent past. That's right California, Massachussetts, New York, they've all sent Republicans to the White House. Any blue state out there has been surrendered by the Republicans by so strenghtening their base that their base defines their program and the rest of the nation recoils.
It's true that the DNC has a way with bungling, but any strength they have is the result of Republican bungling. And the fact that they are losing to the DNC which, they are right, has no ideas, shows that they have bungled their political capital badly.
Can you imagine what would have happened if the Reagan legacy had fallen into the hands of non-bastards? Sometimes I feel that if the Bush family and Gingrich hadn't done all they could to make "Not a Republican" a viable political stance that half the nation could take, there wouldn't be a Democratic Party.
Now, by focussing on their base and assuming any liberal outlet is their enemy, the RNC shows more and more that they've forgotten that they once dictated the terms of the American political scene, by putting forward a majority view and reaching out, not by keeping entrenched in a minority base and fighting over 1 to 2 percent of independents.
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Or maybe Republicans could stop creating their own version of the truth
and instead advocate policies that conform with you know, reality.
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I've had it with the whiners
Those who are "disappointed" that the war isn't over yet even though the Democrats control Congress. There's this little thing called the constitution, Snerdley. The President may not really be the Deciderer, but he has constitutional authority here. When the Democrats passed two measures that would have put a lid on the war, the President, as is his power, vetoed both. The Democrats, at that point, cannot end the war unless they get 14 or 15 Republicans to vote with them. The fact that they didn't rests on the Republicans -- and if they voted their consciences, the war would be over by now. They're the ones with the responsibility.
I never hear, in all this complaining, what the Democrats should have done next to make the complainer happy. Pass the same thing, over and over? Can't imagine that would be a winning strategy. Stop all funding? I don't think so. Contort our faces into a rictus and stamp our feet?
There's only one thing wrong with the Democrats in Congress. There aren't enough of them.