"How do you define "politically effective"?"
Easy. The numbers of eyes and ears that are exposed to your message.
Power Line Blog.
Little Green Footballs.
Rush Limbaugh.
Sean Hannity.
Michael Savage.
Get the picture?
Do you remember 2004? The insurgents were killing American soldiers and Marines. The left-wing propagandists at CNN and CBS were breathlessly reporting every drop of blood that was spilled.
At the start of the campaign season, there was Michael Moore and "Farenheit 911," a propaganda film that would have made Reifenstahl blush. And what happened? Bush was re-elected with a majority of the popular vote -- more total votes than any candidate in history.
For the second election in a row, the president's party gained seats in both houses of Congress. Nobody had done that since FDR's Democrats in the 1930s.
How did we do that? We should be able to do something like that again.