Posted on 06/21/2017 1:32:57 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell
The Real Lesson of Ossoff's Defeat is the Bay Area Can't Buy an Election June 21, 2017 Daniel Greenfield
The left is having a sad day after losing in Georgia despite the $23 million that was squandered to buy an election for a lefty rich kid from outside a Republican district.
At the Washington Post, where democracy drowns in its own hateful saliva, the lesson is that Ossoff was just too "civil".
How do you get more civil than "Make Trump Furious"? And what better template is there for winning, what was supposed to be a stealth election in a basically Republican district than a lack of civility.
Here's the actual lesson. The Bay Area poured a fortune into a special election in another state without having a clue about the district. Its bright boys and girls poured their anger into organizing. And it backfired.
The Ossoff gang decided that the path to victory lay in targeting the demographics most likely to go for him. That was reasonable. But it meant non-stop door knocking on the homes of parents trying to reach their voting age kids.
And having the police called on them by the parents.
Swimming in money, Ossoff's people quickly managed to get themselves hated. National lefty media types poked fun at the anti-Ossoff ad showing lefty riots and San Francisco. They never really get it. Local voters felt like these same types of people were invading and harassing them with the Ossoff push. They even alienated their own target demographic.
"I have received non-stop calls, texts emails for two months solid. It's harassment honestly," local artist Sydney Daniel told Business Insider. "I liked Ossoff before but now I don't want to vote at all because of how obnoxious and ruthless they have been."
"Phone Calls, junk mail, emails, and guys coming up to my door banging for a vote," Rebecca Honness, a lifelong resident of the district, said as she described the aggressive campaigning. "That was truly scary... having someone knock on my door about an election. ... I've never had that happen before."
Monet Jackson, a local car saleswoman, said she's been inundated with campaign materials.
"I've had mail coming to my apartment door almost every day last week," Jackson told Business Insider. "Received multiple texts and phone calls to see if I've voted. I voted and still received a text the next day to see if I had voted."
This is what happens when you give a campaign a lot of money, but have no clue about the district. The aggressive GOTV tactics backfire.
Hunter Murphy, a local car technician said he sees election materials "everywhere" and described the ads as "downright childish."
Murphy's criticism of the election echoed what many told Business Insider — that not only the volume, but the nature of the election has tried their patience.
"I see ads nonstop," Murphy said. "My favorite one to hate is an ad that is done in a sort of lifestyles of the rich and famous parody, complete with shoddy Photoshop animations. It contains no information about the candidate whose campaign is attacking the other, and comes off as a high school prank meant to embarrass. And I get to see it multiple times a day."
That was a DCCC ad. Its goal was to make voters hate Handel. Instead it made them hate the DCCC.
For Daniel Lim, a local student, the ads are repetitive yet confusing. After a deluge of calls, targeted ads on music streaming services, and outreach from separate organizations, Lim questioned the tactics and money spent.
"I support Jon Ossoff but I definitely think that a more coordinated marketing campaign could have saved a lot of the campaign's money and time," he told Business Insider.
Sure, but it was as much about getting paid as anything else.
The special election boondoggle took liberal donors for a ride. It's delivered nothing but defeats and infuriated activists. But it funneled money to the right people. Meanwhile the Bay Area backers have discovered yet again that they can't just buy an election and that the organizing tactics that the activist left loves can easily backfire.
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Keep not learning that lesson, lefties.
Keep being smarter than everyone else.
Up the ante.
Infuriate.
It’s the path to glory.
The democRATs sure love their pajama boyz.
Well, so much for that arrogant assumption!!
Or at least to a solid 52 to 48 defeat.....
Jon Ossoff was the quintessential Democrat. He spent tons of other people’s money to achieve no result. Sort of like ObamaCare and all the other resource wasting DemocraPolicies of the past present and most likely the future.
The Real Lesson of Ossoff’s Defeat is the Bay Area Can’t Buy an Election
Great Title because Karen Handel managed to make “Nancy Piglosi” a yuge focus of her campaign!
News to Wicked Witch Pelosi, she is hated more than she might imagine or know! While she is busy bashing President Trump, she really ought to do some soul searching. She is despised throughout the nation and she is a campaign lightning rod to get out the Republican vote!
the real lesson is no more complicated than a pair of middle fingers aimed right at a bunch of people who worked very very hard to earn them
Shhhhh! Let the Left continue to believe in fairy tales.
Shhhhh! Let the Left continue to believe in fairy tales.
Look at the “Russian investigations”. They are putting so much into that, so much belief, so much hope, so much Elan Vital!
I have told some of the leftists I work with how stupid I think chasing the Russian ghosts is... and they start to agree with me, you can see them thinking... and then they say, “but there’s real evidence of collusion there, we can’t let that go”.
And I just say “ok”. Because I really don’t want to talk them out of it.
One problem with this analysis:
He is telling them what they did wrong. Not good to point out their mistakes so they can do better next time.
As for “At the Washington Post, where democracy drowns in its own hateful saliva, the lesson is that Ossoff was just too “civil”.
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The WaPo would prefer that he act like the shooter at the Virginia ball field.
...she really ought to do some soul searching....
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She can’t do that unless the devil sells it back to her.
The MSM’s take on the election:
“This is a referendum on Trump’s embattled Presidency.”
The real take on the election:
“This is a referendum on the Democrats childish behavior.”
The word that should have been most closely associated with Ossoff is “carpetbagger”. In the modern US, the term is used to refer to a ‘parachute candidate’, that is, an outsider who runs for public office in an area where they do not have deep community ties, or have lived only for a short time.
While Jon Ossoff was born in that district, as soon as he could, he got out of there and went to Washington, D.C., and he only looked back with the idea of getting elective office.
+1
Pelossoff!
As samtheman said, "Don’t worry about it. They are too stupid to learn."
It's not that they are stupid, i.e. DUH!; but stupid in that they believe they are SO right, that when things don't work out as expected, it is someone else's fault. I have seen them time and time again failing to realize that they have pushed the envelope too far and keep going right off the cliff.
What rock did Ossoff crawl from? How did this nobody become this democrat darling, out of nowhere? He looks and smells fishy.
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