"To emulate Carville and Begala for their enthusiasm is fine. Carefully studying them as opponents is necessary.
And you respond with this:
"See, I'm thinking that you may not be willing to understand and learn from Hitler just because he was a Nazi."
I'm not only irritated, but somewhat frightened.
I'm not only irritated, but somewhat frightened.
Are you saying one should not study or try to understand evil simply because it/they are evil? You don't advocate studying an opponent or enemy so as to be able to at least identify them or at best defeat them in the future? Remind me not to make you captain of the intramural FReeper softball team.
This is one reason too many conservatives get their butt's kicked in the media game. They're too principled to utilize time tested and effective mass communication techniques like repetition and simplicity in the way they deliver their message. The next time Daschle, Gephardt, Kennedy and Hillary all have simultaneous press conferences on the same morning, repeating the same sound bites, while Lott, Hastert and the other bumbling leaders of the GOP mumble incoherent and unconnected pitheries to no one in particular, I'll remember this exchange. Conservatives are tired of losing, it's time to try a new strategy.
Until conservatives wake up and at least recognize the modern facts of how and why the average Joe absorbs information, information that leads to opinions and voting patterns (however objectionable to one's high sense of principle, as personally satisfying if yet lacking in effectiveenss as that may be), we will ultimately be destined to occupy the second rung in the political ladder, punctuated only with the occasional win that fate has occasion to toss us.
BTW - I agree with your earlier statement...let's save this discussion for another thread, not one about the conference. Go ahead and start one, I'm sure others will jump in.