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Posted by Kevmo to plain talk On News/Activism 11/07/2007 6:47:17 PM CST · 9 of 9 If I was in charge of the GOP, I could run a 12 year old and beat Hillary. The trick is to run a real conservative.

Well I don't share your view that Hillary is easily beatable. The dems are an organized machine. They were able to get a majority of people in this country to vote for Al Gore. Kerry almost got elected.

So picking a conservative is a good start but if the conservative is not able to communicate and connect with the masses then it goes nowhere. Hunter? NBC/Wall Street Journal poll I just went through shows him with about 1% of the vote. He just hasn't gotten any traction. The way the primaries work I don't see how he could possibly prevail. So it's kind of theoretical case to make for Hunter.

11 posted on 11/07/2007 7:47:56 PM PST by plain talk
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So it’s kind of theoretical case to make for Hunter.
***Just like it’s a theoretical case for the 12 year old.

What do you think the MSM is going to do as soon as there is a republican nominee? Pick one, any one. It is a guaranteed certainty that they will go negative on him. ABC has NEVER written a positive story about GWB.

With that much weight pushing the wrestler towards you, you need to be able to use that weight against him. Going for the middle doesn’t work. Ask Bob Dole. Knowing that to be the case, we need to formulate a strategy that depends upon the media going out of their way to step on the republican.

You did not address the examples brought up: Prop 187 and Bill Sali.

So, let’s start with the 12yearOld conservativeNoName. The media immediately starts talking about how he doesn’t know nuthin’, he’s too young, he’s wrong on immigration, choice, taxes, War, a whole slew of things. Before the media even cued up on him you never even heard of this 12 year old. Now you know his positions on a whole slew of issues, without him spending one dime. Then the 12 year old starts debating, saying things like, “there you go again”. And pointing out how obvious and simple it is that the democrap is wrong. America notices, the media continues down its path of painting this 12yearOld as the incarnation of Hitler’s love child with Satan. Pretty soon, America starts realizing that the media is way off, that to call this 12yearold a bigot is to call America a bigot, and they vote accordingly. And the 12YearOldNoName that you never heard of, who polled less than 1% a year before the election, can win it just by deftly using the media and having genuine conservative positions. The strategy does NOT work with johnny-come-lately conservative positions nor nuanced “States Rights but ProLife” type of positions, nor flipflopped positions.

So try to process this. Get over the fact that someone has less than 1%. WE KNOW. It doesn’t mean what you think it means.


12 posted on 11/07/2007 8:04:29 PM PST by Kevmo (We should withdraw from Iraq — via Tehran. And Duncan Hunter is just the man to get that job done.)
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