.....;Posted on 03/17/2014 1:35:06 PM PDT by virgil283
Ted Cruz has been earning himself somewhat of a “bad-boy” reputation in political circles these days. He’s been characterized as a bully by his colleagues and the left has demonized Cruz as a rogue Tea Party Terror bent on destroying the fine, upstanding, hard-working men and women of Congress.
Recently mysterious posters of Cruz photoshopped onto a tattooed torso with a cigarette in his mouth began popping up all over Los Angeles..... Apparently Sabo’s art has inspired others to pay their own form of tribute to the GOP’s bad boy. This work of art popped up on YouTube just this morning and features Cruz photoshopped onto some of the most iconic pictures of decades past. Could this be the beginning of one of the most effective (or infective, as it were) political campaigns in recent years?...."
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Just two comments on the youtube page.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDRXS4ACR7k
GooDDaDDy101 4 hours ago
That's a fact...You are about to start the biggest Conservative cultural Push Back in the last 40 years...You couldn't have picked a better warrior for Liberty...Well done....
Scarlett O'hara 2 hours ago
I've never thought of Ted Cruz as sexy until, I saw that awesome poster of Cruz. Now a video. Now I can't think about him without thinking how sexy he is. Mmm mm mmm Cruzing with Teddy!
meaningless tripe
Before you spit, think about this. They are mocking Cruz (and failing), to be sure, but they are doing more to market him to a reluctant crowd than we ever could. If Ted’s laughing, I am too.
I am about done. If conservatives want to get ghetto count me out
Don’t get too steamed...it is way to early in the season to do that. This isn’t something Cruz is doing. Cruz isn’t “going ghetto,” but somebody else is doing it to mock him. I think it’s going to backfire.
I hope you’re not suggesting if Cruz gets the “barrio vote” you won’t vote for him.
This is great!!! We are finally playing the game the way the democrats do - building the image, forcing it out there through means outside their media. These posters should be in every city in America. If we can brand him and the teaparty in this rebellious light, we can ensure the defeat of the marxists and that everyone under 30 will rise up with us. The most patriotic thing one can do today, is to make as many copies of this poster as you can afford and hang them in your town.
its not mocking us - its mocking the liberals! YOu have to look at it from the urban ghetto point of view. This is freaking genius. I know a lot of old conservatives have issues with this and would rather have dainty portraits of the founding fathers in hosiery and tricornered hats - but that DOESN”T WORK!!!! We have to target the youth, their natural sense of rebellion. Just like the libs did with the hippies in the 60s.
I will stay home. I am finished. This is garbage it is disgusting. It is gutter sewage. It is demeaning.
go ahead and be just like them because I thought the point was not to be like them. Maybe to be hip and current he should be getting a BJ - target those youth like you said - I will stay home
Here’s the deal.
This is the most important thing to know.
Under our current culture of Left media and uninterested voters (that voted for 0Bama):
The Message is dead if the Messenger is a known Republican/Conservative.
The Messenger will be shot down in the most brutal attacks in order to kill the message.
Therefore, as I’ve stated before and have been saying for years now, we need to adopt a form of “Culture Jamming”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_jamming
It can’t work if the messages are discovered to be from a deep pocketed conservative etc.. Again, it’s the messenger problem that needs to be overcome.
I recently read a 40 plus page excerpt that gets into the ideology of traditionally “culture jamming” efforts as well as it’s effectiveness in undermining the “establishment”.
Keep in mind, there is a sea change occurring on what is believed to be the “Establishment”. It’s shifting from “Old White Republicans” to “Government” and its efforts to control individuals.
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I did not say anything like that. I said we should not lower our standards for votes and now you call me racist??
I will stay home thank you
“In addition, there is, IMHO, an opportunity to capture these young voters given the NSA, IRS, 0bamacare crap.”
Yep. Nutty Ron Paul figured this out.
embracing hedonism for votes is just stupid
Whoa! Hold it right there. You know better than that, you are baiting me, and it’s beneath you. I called you no such thing.
You are the one who first used the word “ghetto” in this conversation, not me. You said, “I am about done. If conservatives want to get ghetto count me out”
I merely asked if that means if Cruz gets that vote, are you going to refuse to support him? Before you slam that door, don’t you think you should find out who’s doing this is?
AI think we need some of this attitude to win. I love the posters and pictures. It is soooo anti-GOPestablishment. It’s what we need. We need less of being offended...We need to go on offense. This is offense...eff’em
Well, if Cruz was a commie lib Democrat, you’d be hearing non-stop cries of “Racism!”.
Put up the Cruz as a tatoo street guy versus Obama throwing a baseball. The comparison will doom the Democrats as a party of Pansies and Limp Wristed Cowards.
Democrats: Cruzzing for a Bruzzing!
I’ve been on this issue for a number of years and it would be wise for other conservatives to understand what and who we are fighting.
We are fighting a culture that doesn’t care. A culture of indifference.
A Culture that casts their votes based on “Peer Pressure”.
Peer Pressure that is first formed in the MSM and consists of sound bites and images in which the casual viewer is left with this,.
Conservatives/Republicans/Tea Party = Bad, Racist, Wealthy bigoted, etc etc etc..
Never an attempt to address the “Message”, always an effort to kill the “Messenger”.
And they are really good at this, because their audience not only has no clue, they don’t want a clue.
Not from a Conservative.
But they vote, they don’t think for themselves, but move in “group think” and are more concerned about how their peers see them.
Any effort to change the minds of these people CAN NOT COME FROM A CONSERVATIVE !!!!
They will and have been destroyed over and over again without the message ever being heard.
The Conservative message is much like a “Salesman”, and the automatic defense mechanisms kick into gear. “Your trying to sell me something, I sense it, I don’t like it, go away”.
Culture Jamming is an effort to tap into what people want and are thinking without saying it in an “overt” way.
The message can only be received if it hits some fundamental nerve and it seems as if it is “their idea”.
This is what this poster does and other efforts can do.
Images and music are the best media to reach these people on a “Human Level”.
Conservatives haven’t been very good at this in the past.
“Times they are a changin”
Culture Jamming:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_jamming
More here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=Y4auF2ysN0wC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
joining them in the gutter is not the answer
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