” It is time for Conservatives to begin to realize the board the game is being played on and play on it.”
Your right but it really makes me angry at the America we’ve become.
Conservatives will lose their identity and the reason we are conservative. Instead we will “market” our candidates like a can of green beans, using colors, celebrities, and relationships, instead of issues.
The one with best marketing campaign wins - not the the one with best ideas. Obama ran a terrible political campaign but a fantastic marketing campaign and won. Every indicator had him losing.... and he won. The old GOP sit around trying to figure it out and can’t seem to articulate why they lost.
We lost a really important election - and we now will have a different looking nation for decades because of it.
More importantly we learned a new way to win elections on a national level where the issues and results don’t matter which will change parties and platforms forever, and will have far reaching implications.
I think we should run both kinds of ads, ads to dummies, and ads to thinking, caring people. Different ads for different peoples, selectively on programs and the internet sites etc. that each might frequent. And most especially we must get our message out in ways that also appeal to people. Our message and appeal are not mutually exclusive of one another. We have to get much smarter and more sophisticated with our approach, but in the end let it be the same message.