WHY WE LOST-An Essay From TCRLAF(vanity)

I donated as much as I could afford,(and even some I couldn't), to the candidates I thought could make the best use of it.

Yet, I told anyone that would listen why Republicans had to win. I took friends to the poll, and made phone calls to others.

And in our sphere, we didn't do badly. We kept our Statehouse seats, and we had a local candidate that nearly ended the carreer of a leading Racist Democrat Moonbat with little or no help from the national Party.

But that same National Party let us down. They let our sons and daughters doing the fighting down, they let everyone who donated time and money down...

We have faced a 24/7 propoganda onslaught from the left since the day the attacks on the Trade center.

Bush has TRIED to lead, but the Radical Left and the Dem Washington Elites refused to allow it. The media pushed LIE AFTER LIE, and we couldn't gain traction.

We allowed the Left and thier willing media allies to drive the Agenda, instead of driving it ourselves through ideas, logic, and a sense of hope.

An idiot behind me in line to vote yesterday was telling the guy in front of me that he was voting Dem because "Bush Lied" about Iraq.

We KNOW this is a LIE, we HAVE THE PROOF that this is a lie, and yet the Dem Media Machine has driven this point home so often that it is now an accepted FACT...

VOTE FRAUD has become a Dem Institutional Right, but it's REPUBLICANS that are acused of "Stolen Elections"..

We have been fighting against a 24/7 propoganda machine for 6 years now, that has been willing to use everything out of the Geobbel's playbook, from hatred and racism, to outright LIES to attack us, regardless of the cost in AMERICAN LIVES it has created, and our leaders in large part have simply failed to respond.

You can't win a "War of Ideas" if yours are not getting out, and our leaders have failed to use the bully pulpit to it's best advatage.

There was no unifying theme, no single idea that we could get behind, and trumpet, that didn't require an eyeglossing explanation of why it was the right thing.

We took for granted that the American sheeple were smart enough to figure it out, when we should have been COUNTER-CAMPAIGNING from the very beginning.

It's said that a lie travels around the world, before the TRUTH ever takes off.

If ANYTHING, this election should have told us how true that really is.

And you don't counter by RESPONDING to thier attacks, you counter by DRIVING the agenda forward, before they ever get a chance to lie...

We got complacent, and forgot that the way we won in the first place was "ATTACK,ATTACK,ATTACK!"

CNN should NEVER have gotten by with soliciting footage of Americans being killed from our enemies, for example.

In fact, they should have been AFRAID to show it, for fear that it would shut thier business down through boycotts! But they aren't, and it's because we cannot get the truth out above the din...

THAT is a leadership problem, more than anything else..

Again, we grow stones, or we pay a hefty price for not doing so...

"Bush Lied" about Iraq. We KNOW this is a LIE, we HAVE THE PROOF that this is a lie, and yet the Dem Media Machine has driven this point home so often that it is now an accepted FACT... "

Do you have any links to the proof, because the Dem Media have lots of links and articles that seem well researched, lie by lie, like this

http://www.motherjones.com/bush_war_timeline/archives/2008/08/bush_war_timeli.html

or this

http://downingstreetmemo.com/timeline/

So id like to see the proof that their proof are just lies, to rebuke them.

Thanks for the post and thanks for your work. I agree with your sentiments. I think we under estimate the power of the national media at our own peril. The media may be a shell of its former omnipotent self, but it still has the ability to create false realities through its 24/7 constant daily barrage of spouting the lies put out by the libs. After a couple of years, it has to have an effect on the otherwise uninformed masses. The truly remarkable performance of the economy following Bush's tax relief initiatives should have been a driving impetus in this election, but the MSM saw to it that such would not be the case.

My own experience at the polls was to listen to some nitwit rave about some nonsense he had read in the newspaper about one of the candidates. He must have repeated "It was in the newspaper" six times, and he made a ten minute wait seem like an hour. It made me nauseous to think that "here is the kind of idiot we depend upon to elect the people hold hold so much power".

Finally, the Republican Party Establishment is to blame as well. If they had done a better job in advancing a conservative, common sense agenda, instead of getting caught up in the trappings of high office and trying to appease the dimocRATS, then this media fueled debacle could not have been possible.

Here is the challenge for the next 2 years--Do not let the dims and the media get away with selling the idea that the Pubbies have to become "more moderate" to win, because the exact opposite is true. They better rally the base or else they will be on the back rows for a long time to come. Turning things over to the dims for any extended period of time will be a disaster.

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