The author has created a false dichotomy that will lead to disaster if the right follows the Obama Derangement Syndrome approach. The opposite choice is not the straw man “high road” approach.
The left owns the channels of communication. If the radical leftists called Bush a chimp, how much play did it get? Zero. If you call Obama a chimp, how much play do you think it will get? The entire conservative movement will be so marginalized as to produce an “open season” in the public eye.
It’s fine, I guess, to say that Obama is “not my president,” but the technique of converting the sentiment to action has to be quieter and more subtle than screaming like a leftist.
Amen.
Interesting point. Why not reply directly to the author? She might answer you.
>>>The left owns the channels of communication. If the radical leftists called Bush a chimp, how much play did it get? Zero. If you call Obama a chimp, how much play do you think it will get? The entire conservative movement will be so marginalized as to produce an “open season” in the public eye.<<<
You’re right. It’s already happening, in the street, on the blogs, on the news. Anyone who questions 0bama is labeled a sore loser, nutty, extremist.
If conservatives ever want to be elected again, they/we are going to have to start with basics again. It’s no good to tell people that 0bama’s going to ruin the country because they won’t believe you; they don’t want to believe you.
I think maybe start reminding people, one at a time if need be, that for the most part, people live conservative lives. I plan to gently remind the liberals I know that they live the same as I do; work hard, pay taxes, spend time with their children. Contrasting 0bama’s policies with the way they live doesn’t work, because most democrats have their heads in the clouds on how they think the world should be.
But if we can contrast how they live and how it mirrors the way conservatives live, maybe they can make the connection on their own that conservatism isn’t the evil thing they’ve been told.