Posted on 11/27/2002 10:10:33 AM PST by Hugin
I was reading last weeks Newsweek and came upon Jonathan Alter's article, "Down in the Dumps; MEMO TO: The Democratic Party. Mixed in with the other advice was the following paragraphs...
"Close the discipline gap. Republicans have long been better at developing a party line (for example "Tom Daschle is an obstructionist"), repeating it endlessly and using their allies in the conservative press and talk radio to drive the message home. You Democrats don't even send out emails to keep your folks on the same page.
To close the gap you need some Charlie Michaelsons. He was the long-forgotten publicist for the Democratic National Committe during the Hoover administration, who popularized "Hoovervilles" and otherwise drove home the point that the president was responsible for the bad economy. (And you thought spin was a new invention). But while the GOP has it's Michaelson types hard at work, yours are mostly sitting on the sidelines."
WIthin a few of days of this being printed we see Daschle, Gore, and Hillary all repeating this latest version of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy Theory. Of course Mr. Alter seems to have missed the last eight years where the Democrats marched in lockstep repeating the talking points of the Clinton spin machine. But in a unique twist it seems that the RAT politicians are now taking their talking points from the liberal media. However instead of really following Mr. Alter's suggestions and putting forth their own ideas in some kind of coherent fashion they have chosen to simply whine about the unfairness of the "conservative media". IMHO they have decided that since conservatives have been successful in pointing out that most news media is leftist, they will create the impression that there is now a conservaive bias in the media. Unfortunately for them, liberal bias is alive and well, and was nearly universal until recently. Further the American people know it. So their attempt at spinning themselves as victims of media bias won't work with anyone except the most rabid leftists in their base.
Exactly - to all but the most uninformed, their blather is completely inane - you have Carvile ranting about the Republicans practising the politics of personal destruction, and you have Gore complaining about billionaires directing their media companies - a pot/kettle/black situation if there ever was one.
This is a carefully planned strategy to go after all the cracker voters...those who are ignorant of the way things really are.
The hope apparently is that the new Dem message (attack the conservative voice) will stick with those ignorant of the differences in philosophies.
It's a persuasive strategy of innoculation...
From the lockbox.
"You have no longer any cause to fear danger from abroad . . . It is from within, among yourselves--from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power--that factions will be formed and liberty endangered. It is against such designs, whatever disguise the actors may assume, that you have especially to guard yourselves.
You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race. May He who holds in His hands the destinies of nations make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed and enable you, with pure hearts and pure hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time the great charge He has committed to your keeping."
--Andrew Jackson, Farewell Address, March 4, 1837
Hello Pot? Yeah, this is the kettle, and you're black!
What a truckload of Horse Crap!!! The dim's are definitely the most talented at towing the party line. The republican's, being the 'big tent' party has always had more dissention among it's ranks, and always had a tougher time getting everyone on the same page. The kool-aid kid dim's are getting more and more delusional by the day!! The dim's main problem is Bill and Hillary Clinton running the show. They seriously underestimate how poorly the Clinton's are regarded in flyover country. Don't tell them that though! If Slick, Hildebeast, and McAwful remain at the helm, we'll get to see a spectacular show come 2004!
And the bottom of the barrel is still there.
After all their lame "How long will a war cost?" and "How long will it last" asinine contribution to the debate went down in flames...
Sounds like a bad case of projection to me. They do it then accuse us of doing it. The difference is that the liberals really do have a "theme for the day (or week)" that they try to push while conservatives merely pick up on what is really happening (Daschle is an obstructionist etc.)
I swear, I posted the same thing before I even read your post ! !
Great minds think alike ! !
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