You have captured a lot of good tactical stuff here.
I would emphasize the fact that this is an information war. Just ask the simple question: “What did Bush do” and everyone hears the same mantra “Bush lied, people died”. Who needs a Manchurian Candidate when you have a Manchurian Country? The other side is very good at planting these messages and nurturing them, and we stand around with thumbs up our butts. Here’s another one: Why has it been tough for Obama to make change? Answer: “because of the mess he inherited”....
We hear this crap and cringe, but for the average person - this is ALL they hear. It’s all the media presents (thanks to JournoList, they all use exactly the same words at the same time) and it’s crafted to be memorable and something that sticks in the brain when repeated over and over, just like any great advertising slogan.
It’s PsyOps. They’ve been using these techniques and we haven’t....why is that?
They have NPR, the Main Steam Media, the unionized teachers, the university professors, the movie and music entertainment industry and every democrat politician delivering and reinfocing the same message day in day out.
What do we have? Hannity reading off his endless mantra of talking points, having become so boring that even conservatives wish Alan Colmes was back on his show...
Rush? Sure if you’re home during the day and can listen to AM radio or download a podcast. Yeah, that’s going to offset the Daily Show, the View, and Piddly Diddy alright...
We need better rules of engagement, better tactics, and some leadership that gets it.
Many conservatives are going off half cocked. We have to get through this term with Obama, if God wills, and stand for principles - encourage Boehner not to blubber and brown nose Obama. Although, it might be the wise thing for Republicans to vote “present”, just let Obama go, and then when reality sets in, Obama will not be able to keep on with the “it’s Bush’s fault” mantra. If he does that, then shame him loud and clear with “IT’S THE OBAMA ECONOMY NOW!!!” over and over until people hear it. Continuing to join and help the Democrats keep on racking up the debt and then blaming the Republicans because a few of them joined in and voted for their recklessness. - I am NOT concerned with the death of the Republican Party as I am about the death and shame of America.
Get it across to the women in America that NO PRESIDENT can do ANYTHING to take their precious abortion away from them. Never mind that most likely more of them have died at “legal” abortion clinics than ever died in back alley abortions! ONCE AND FOR ALL . . REPEAT . . REPEAT . . REPEAT UNTIL THEY GET IT!!!
DEAL WITH OBAMACARE as best as they can. The country’s liberals voted for it overwhelmingly (I guess), so let them get an education in the school of hard knocks, and when they WHINE about this or that, just say TOUGH.
Unemployment under Obama’s going to be a stinker; TOUGH.
TOUGH, TOUGH, TOUGH, TOUGH, TOUGH!! “See Barack about it!”
Of course, I’m a nobody and who’s gonna listen to me. I’m just fed up and venting.