None of this matters when your candidates are laughingstocks for the entire nation. When O’Donnell mentions witchcraft in a TV commercial, everyone is diminished. Saturday Night Live made her look like a fool! The psycho nonsense becomes the issue - Paladino threatening a reporter who did nothing will be the opposition’s message of irrationality. All psycho and no brain. People dressing as Nazis, probably for any reason unless they are staring in the Broadway show “The Producers”, is not a good idea - that candidate will most surely lose. If you need a plan to avoid this, then we are too far underwater.
This is a wide open battle with many eyes and ears tuned in, meaning people have to understand perception, they have to understand message, symbolism and presentation. There is a massive Dem-media distortion machine to focus on every possible weakness the TP brings. Every idiosyncrasy will be exaggerated, every strange statement, activity, action, costume, photograph, video, etc. Learn this and adapt, or become fodder for comedians and increase the growing perception that the Tea Party is made up of witches or guys who dress like Nazis, and that is not true.
Perception is reality.
However, we are in the middle of an election cycle right now, and what has been done is done. So, what do we do NOW?
We're playing defense in answer to *their* arguments. We must change the arguments to the issues. As Rush Limbaugh says, we must never accept the libs' arguments, so we must not accept their arguments going forward.
The voters will continue to believe the MSM and the Dems unless they gain a new perception of our candidates, COUPLED WITH accurate information from US.
I just hear you crying about what should have been done, without any solutions regarding where we go from here. It sounds like you're ready to give up on these people who, despite their being political neophytes, put themselves on the line for the good of our country. Though they may feel embarrassment, or perhaps humiliations, when they didn't have to risk exposure in the first place, *they* are not giving up. And OTOH, what the h3ll are you doing to help pull the election cycle out of the fire?
I just see you as jumping on the Dem/MSM bandwagon - the effect of what you're posting amounts to the same thing. Or is perception not always reality?