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Why We Lose: National Review Launches Victorian-Era Attack On Donald Trump
Breitbart ^ | 1/22/16 | JOHN NOLTE

Posted on 01/22/2016 11:17:23 AM PST by jimbo123

Whatever you might think of National Review's Thursday night attack on Donald Trump is beside the point. That's not what I'm here to talk about. Just forget about The Establishment versus... Trump versus... This has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with tactics and media savvy. There are many fine people at National Review, smart people, which is why the incredibly lame and heavy-handed execution of this "broadside" against Trump is something worth talking about.

Conservatives cannot win elections, most especially national elections, living in the 19th century. If you are going to go to the trouble of building what you believe is a Nuclear Bomb - and a full issue of National Review devoted to annihilating Trump is obviously crafted with that in mind - you have to also build a 21st century delivery device.

All that time, all that work, all that effort, all that organization, and by noon the next day, because of a terrible launch platform, National Review's nuke has already belly-flopped and disappeared into the sea.

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This is 2016. Opinions are not changed with the drop of a magazine filled with Very Important Thinkers espousing Very Big Thinks about How We Should All Think. This approach only backfires because it looks self-important, stuffy and conceited from good people who are none of those things.

If I may paraphrase the Coen Brothers: Nobody likes the high hat.

Drudge doesn't issue proclamations.

BuzzFeed doesn't issue proclamations.

The Mainstream Media doesn't issue proclamations.

Hearts and Minds are changed through Narratives - narratives built over time and tested with carefully-crafted storytelling, characters, caricatures, tweets, Facebook posts, attention-grabbing headlines, pictures, videos, and yes, even gifs.

The only message coming out of this National Review issue today is that A BUNCH OF FAMOUS CONSERVATIVES PILED ON DONALD

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


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To: jimbo123
The ossified GOPe Ivory Tower types are doing two things here:

1. They are acknowledging the inevitability of Trump's bid to be the GOP nominee.

2. They are inoculating themselves in the event that he screws-up, so that they can say 'I told you so',
censure him, or even take the lead in an impeachment process.
41 posted on 01/22/2016 11:49:06 AM PST by indthkr
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To: BigEdLB

They see their futures.

Hooker, temp book keeper, parts guy at the hardware store, confused barista, in that order.


42 posted on 01/22/2016 11:49:14 AM PST by Psalm 144 (The mill grinds exceedingly fine.)
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To: RitaOK

I didn’t notice the small print on the cover to start with either. Any list of authors that starts with Glenn Beck in my book disqualifies every name that follows. A better tactic would have been to leave Beck’s name off the cover. I didn’t always agree with William Buckley but I always admired him. In my opinion these yahoos are doing a lot of damage to his legacy and that is not right.


43 posted on 01/22/2016 11:49:37 AM PST by fireman15 (Check your facts before making ignorant statements.)
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To: WENDLE

You get the bill - or worse.


44 posted on 01/22/2016 11:50:19 AM PST by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown Are by desperate appliance relieved Or not at al)
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To: tennmountainman

“When did these NR hacks ban together to fight Obamacare?
When did they ban together to fight bailouts?

When did they ban together to get rid of Bonehead as Speaker?”

Exactly. These are the augurs who have presided over a quarter century of the eclipse of Reagan conservatism.


45 posted on 01/22/2016 11:53:12 AM PST by Psalm 144 (The mill grinds exceedingly fine.)
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To: BigEdLB

The eyes show the moment that they all realized the tribe has spoken. Its going to be Donald. LOL!


46 posted on 01/22/2016 11:54:56 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: nickcarraway

“Are we going to just sit by and let the GOP nominee get farther to the left each year?”

Not one of this cycle’s candidates have been as bad as Bishop Willard, mighty slayer of gentile fetuses, banner of guns, matchmaker of poofs, and assessor of proper tree proportions. Not one.


47 posted on 01/22/2016 11:57:47 AM PST by Psalm 144 (The mill grinds exceedingly fine.)
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To: fireman15

<< Any list of authors that starts with Glenn Beck in my book disqualifies every name that follows.>>

LOL! True that. Poor W.F. Buckley. I have a couple of his books and remember his splendid mind, in a different time. He would surely be in face-palm posture, over this scandal sheet rag that he built for thinkers and not oppo research hacks.

Thanks for your post. It’s right as rain.


48 posted on 01/22/2016 12:02:28 PM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: Ted Grant

And accomplish something??

Nah. They get paid off of stuff getting worse.


49 posted on 01/22/2016 12:04:57 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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50 posted on 01/22/2016 12:07:04 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (DEPORT OBOLA VOTERS)
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51 posted on 01/22/2016 12:07:53 PM PST by Bratch
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To: Psalm 144

The frontrunner is certainly worse than Romney. Graham too. And the new version of Kasich is pretty close.


52 posted on 01/22/2016 12:11:20 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: dragonblustar; WENDLE

Anything that Michael Medved and Megyn Kelly are for, I’m against. Hateful, both of them.


53 posted on 01/22/2016 12:11:51 PM PST by holyscroller ( Without God, America is one nation under)
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To: jimbo123

As the band ‘The Chocolate Watchband’ sang, “I’m not like everybody else!”

I was raised to be an individual.

I was educated in the ways of critical thinking and analysis.

My father instructed me to, “learn the English language well enough, to know when a politician, in all of his words, is lying to you.”

Therefore, when I state my support, for a cause or a person, it is after careful examination, and not ‘from the herd’.


54 posted on 01/22/2016 12:12:13 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: nickcarraway

I repeat, nothing is or has been worse than Willard, the stealth genocide candidate, and American author of socialized medicine. His only peers for odious deceiver are on the Democrat side, and precious few there.


55 posted on 01/22/2016 12:14:29 PM PST by Psalm 144 (The mill grinds exceedingly fine.)
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To: Bratch

Mitt happens.


56 posted on 01/22/2016 12:15:11 PM PST by Psalm 144 (The mill grinds exceedingly fine.)
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To: jimbo123
National Review Squanders Its Legacy; Disdains Founder Bill Buckley's Advice
57 posted on 01/22/2016 12:19:38 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Who can actually defeat the Democrats in 2016? -- the most important thing about all candidates.)
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58 posted on 01/22/2016 12:42:42 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (DEPORT OBOLA VOTERS)
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To: jimbo123

Many of us who are historically minded have talked long before this election about how the GOP has become the 21st century version of the Whigs. So Nolte’s comment about the delivery mechanism was especially interesting. One (not the only). Reason the Whigs died was they were in the 19th century using election practices that went out 30 years earlier.


59 posted on 01/22/2016 12:50:29 PM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: LibertarianLiz

I knew Styen (not Stein as I originally misprinted) had pretty much stopped writing for NR at the end of 2014. I believe it was a string of his articles that finally led to his departure-——https://occamsrazormag.wordpress.com/2014/01/13/has-mark-steyn-thrown-national-review-under-the-bus/


60 posted on 01/22/2016 12:51:54 PM PST by yadent
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