You ask, "how do we fight back?" Here are my answers:
The first step is to recognize the Blitzkrieg which is about to overwhelm us. I have been posting since before the election that Obama, as a Manchurian Marxist, is setting out to so jigger the electoral system that he will be immune from any backlash from the electorate. This author has described one way he is going about it. Typically, the Republicans have nothing with which to counter. The first step, I say again, is to recognize and accept the very real danger which is looming. Lately I've been saying in this context that the only thing the Republicans learned about 2008 election is that they learned nothing from the 2006 election. The imagery of Blitzkrieg is not far off the mark. The Republican Party, the conservative movement, and the nation as a whole should consider that it is in a place as perilous as England in 1940.
Second, take a lesson from Harry and Louise. The Republicans were handed a Harry and Louise issue by Barak Obama when he explicitly threatened to bankrupt the coal industry. Sarah Palin, embattled and unsupported as always, attempted to capitalize on this. McCain simply muffed it. Now Obama is taking on the oil industry, indeed all of energy, health care providers who handle one out of every seven dollars spent in America, the banks, insurance companies etc. It is safe to say that the list of industries mortally threatened by Obama is limited only by the ingenuity of Americans in finding occupations. Every one of these industries must be made to understand that their very existence as an independent entity free of government micro management is dependent on rousing the populace as the healthcare industry did against Hillary's health care plan with their Harry and Louise campaign. If we had a dynamic and charismatic leader of the Republican National Committee such as Newt Gingrich, he would be selling every one of these important industries on the need to go into the media against Obama. These industries will be reluctant because the Republicans have shown themselves to be untrustworthy so we need a world-class salesman. We have Michael Steele. All this can be managed up to but not across the line of illegality. These industries when one considers their vast resources and their great numbers easily mounts $1 billion worth of media blitz against the Democrat machine. They must be convinced to do so.
The Republican brand must be reestablished. It is very difficult to say about fiscal profligacy, for example, "we are sorry, we won't do it any more" and expect much of the electorate to be aroused on our behalf. There are issues which are polling 70%, 80%, and 90% and they all run against Obama and the Democrats. Any one of these issues, such as English as the official language and opposition to drivers licenses for illegals, can recondition the thinking of the electorate in favor of Republicans. They can reestablish the brand. So when Republicans claim they have repented on spending, the electorate is conditioned to go with them. Properly handled, these issues can put the Democrats on the wrong side of common sense on demonstrably popular issues. There is one Republican who has done polling to reveal these issues. His name is Newt Gingrich. Gingrich is also the man who found the issues which nationalized in 1992 election and put Republicans back in power after 40 years. One wonders what Michael Steele has polled?
A party in as pitiable a state as is the Republican Party today must seek to nationalize the election. I believe the electorate is very uneasy indeed very frightened which is often expressed as anger and probably will be so expressed in the upcoming tea parties. I believe the anger is a reaction to the fear. The politician that can articulate that fear can nationalize the election. I believe Newt Gingrich has the forensic skills and experience and the national stature to do that. But we have Michael Steele. Worse, we have no one else. So the first thing we must do is find a leader who can nationalize the election. Think of Winston Churchill in 1940 because nothing less will do.
