You know, the last time we picked our battles, we wound up focusing upon whether the President was being serviced by interns instead of the high probability that he had someone on his staff murdered. People understand that murder is wrong much more clearly than some illicit sexual relationships.
Now we should avoid the birth certificate issue which has a high probability of demonstrating that Obama's entire life is a fraud, in favor of some argument about socialized medicine. People understand being lied to. Ask Richard Nixon.
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Its not so much about “picking battles”.
Its about who fights which battle and who uses what tactics and PR methods.
The issue of zero’s BC seems to generate a significant amount of agitation among certain demographics. Its significant in the respect that those demographics exist in very high numbers in states that we should be targeting for state sovereignty measures. Those demographics are also the folks who we will depend on to support some of the more “extreme” measures the states will need to take to decouple themselves from this out of control fedgov.
Its perfectly legit and necessary to get the population worked up and in an agitated state. Things like this work perfectly for that task, but not EVERYONE in the ranks of our cause should be actively engaged in this type of PR. I think right now we have a good balance (for this issue at least) but I see a danger of it going a bit too mainstream, and therefore seriously degrading its effectiveness over the long haul. If the media wants to push it, we should be pulling back from it.. at least until the media moves on to other “hot spots”, it can always be picked back up again.