The long game
To win that game, to create an electorate more deeply committed to true liberty and resistant to the sort of cultural scare tactics the president’s campaign team used so effectively, there are three areas to which conservatives need to commit intellectual and financial resources—three areas that our intelligentsia and funders, in their impractical practicality, too often ignore.
The mainstream news media. Major news outlets, like ABC, NBC, CBS, and the still influential New York Times have now become so ideologically corrupt that they are engaging in the sort of Nixonian cover-ups they once prided themselves on exposing. Their studied creation of non-scandal scandals and non-gaffe gaffes on the right and their active suppression of such true scandals as Fast and Furious and Benghazi on the left amount to journalistic malpractice on behalf of the state. The late Andrew Breitbart understood the depth and extent of the problem better than the cooler establishment heads who wrinkled their noses at him. He declared a guerrilla war on the media in the name of truth. …
The entertainment industry. Conservatives think when they have won an argument in the newspapers, the fight is over. Leftists know their Hippocrates. They know they can rewrite history in novels, on TV, and in the movies, and a generation later, their false versions will be accepted as truth. …
Religion for intellectuals. Normally, I would have said number three was “reforming the academy,” but I believe this is where the fight for the academy is centered.
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I’m going to get banned from HotAir for foul language before these next 4 years are over… and I’m not even a troll!
Glenn Jericho on November 8, 2012 at 9:27 PM
Agreed; strategic planning is needed.
But we also need tactical plans. We need a bold approach to win the Senate in 2014.
davidk on November 8, 2012 at 9:29 PM
I thought our long game was to give up and let them have everything?
I’m so confused.
eforhan on November 8, 2012 at 9:29 PM
By the end of the 2008 campaign season, I found that I had developed an intense dislike that bordered on hatred for Barack Obama. He is foolish, vain, unprincipled, and shallow.
Now, after the 2012 election, I find that I have developed an intense dislike that borders on hatred for the majority of the electorate in this country. They are foolish, vain, unprincipled, and shallow.
It is what it is.
ElectricPhase on November 8, 2012 at 9:32 PM
We are engaged in a moral battle that requires a destruction of the shifting sands of post-modernism.
If you don’t understand what I just said, spend less time with the NFL and Hotair and educate yourself. Then you can pass on the benefit of your knowledge to the “low information” voter. Or the non-voter who doesn’t understand the implication of a Marxist country.
davidk on November 8, 2012 at 9:38 PM
Amen. We need to build a Fifth Column and infiltrate, buy, and control these cultural institutions. And once we get in and have control, we have to be as ruthless in weeding out left-wing heretics as they are of weeding us out. The Left is a secular religion that needs to be fought effectively.
Punchenko on November 8, 2012 at 9:38 PM
But it can be other than what it is.
davidk on November 8, 2012 at 9:39 PM
Summary:
If only TV shows and the media and the movies didn’t deny the Judeo-Christian fact that legitimate rape does not cause pregnancy, Romney would have won.
Oh, and did I mention Bush is actually Batman? Yeah, that too.
lester on November 8, 2012 at 9:43 PM
This was very good.
Rocks on November 8, 2012 at 9:43 PM
Why don’t you try being honest for once in your life? You know that’s not what he meant. It was a stupid statement but it doesn’t mean he thinks rape is a legitimate act. Can you be honest? Or will you burst into flames if you tell the truth?
jawkneemusic on November 8, 2012 at 9:47 PM
Good luck with that.
Everything in our society from k-12 to higher education….the workplace….the news media….arts and entertainment all place Diversity on an unassailable pedestal. It is demanded that we worship it. If anyone doesn’t see the self evident burning truth that Diversity trumps all, that person is worse than a child molester.
Even my kids regularly throw back at me that my opinion is no more valid than any other. After everything I’ve tried to teach them. The conditioning is just too pervasive.
ElectricPhase on November 8, 2012 at 9:49 PM
Do you ever read the stuff you write?
davidk on November 8, 2012 at 9:50 PM
I understand your frustration.
Whenever I try to talk at that level with friends and family, their eyes either roll or glaze.
It’s like a co-worker said after the first debate, “I don’t know. And I don’t want to know.”
davidk on November 8, 2012 at 9:53 PM
Honesty and the left?
Good luck with that.
Left Coast Right Mind on November 8, 2012 at 9:56 PM
My brother’s sig on his official email add. at Caterpillar:
davidk on November 8, 2012 at 9:57 PM
As well as a long game, we need a short game to at least get a bit of relief. Popping the student loan bubble will do a whole lot towards getting some relief on the higher education front.
Why isn’t someone vetting journalists the way they vet Republican candidates?
Sekhmet on November 8, 2012 at 9:59 PM
Yup, the nose wrinklers wants to be invited by the smug crowd.
the_nile on November 8, 2012 at 10:02 PM
Don’t forget data mining, resource management tools, voter research and advertising (messaging) research.
hawksruleva on November 8, 2012 at 10:18 PM
But they’d care if we told them in the right way. Liberals woo the youth vote with a message of rebellion. Of course, liberals don’t actually WANT rebellion, but they create the illusion that liberalism=freedom, and the GOP means “the man” trying to control me.
The same is true for every other demographic. Their job is actually harder, because it takes different, competing messages to appeal to each group. We could appeal to all of them with the same core concepts, tweaked for each audience.
hawksruleva on November 8, 2012 at 10:22 PM
In the best Samual Jackson voice I can muster, “Burn it the F down!”
The parasites are never going to get it unless you make it hurt!
Thomas More on November 8, 2012 at 10:25 PM
I’m honest, and so was Akin. He actually firmly believes in what he said and he’s not alone. It’s not a new misconception that he invented either.
He didn’t say rape is legitimate. He said legitimate rape doesn’t cause pregnancy because of vagina magical defense system. You changed what he said and what I quoted.
Between you, Akin and I there’s only one dishonest, and it’s not Akin or me.
lester on November 8, 2012 at 10:29 PM
I’m willing to learn how to “tweak” the message.
I’m not smart enough to figure that one out.
davidk on November 8, 2012 at 10:31 PM
Short answer: Yes.
Long answer: Yes, I do.
(PS: My answer to the other comment included the somehow inappropriate term referring to women parts and seems to be in pending approval state)
lester on November 8, 2012 at 10:31 PM
I just don’t understand why local Republicans do not organize at all. California had voter turnout in the 50′s of percent. Fresno County, a Republican area, it was in the 30′s of percent. Simply getting an additional 15% of voters to the polls, in other words, just getting turnout up to 70% or so would be enough to swamp the Democrats. Some states have over 80% turnout of eligible voters.
There was ZERO GOTV in California even for state candidates. I received exactly zero calls asking me if I was going to bother to vote. I received no calls from candidates. I did receive what appeared to be one failed attempt at a robo-call that just said “test 1, test 2, test 3 …” and several “dead” calls where I answered and there was nobody there.
The reason why California is “blue” is because the Republicans don’t even TRY here. I heard not a peep about how I could help, where I could go, nothing about being a poll monitor, nothing about helping make phone calls, etc. Zip, zilch, nada, nothing.
crosspatch on November 8, 2012 at 10:32 PM
The traditional American culture which was the foundation of our society and which made this nation great in the first place has been slowly eroded and poisoned over the last few decades by entities that could truthfully be referred to as domestic enemies. The culture we have arrived at today and ever rapidly moving towards will almost certainly be fatal to our nation in the long term.
The Long Game?
I don’t want to startle you but the other side took the ball and went home.
Game over man. Game over…
HotAirian on November 8, 2012 at 11:16 PM
One thing has become clear…some out of the box thinking is required for 2016.
The internet brought citizen journalists. It may be time for citizen activists on the conservative side. Not just the Tea Party, but some guerrilla tactics like they use on the left. I wish I could find a link to the ‘Voter Report Card’ that they sent out. Creepy, but apparently effective in getting young people to the polls.
I know it was a goofy idea that I posted a while back, about sending people a ‘bill’ for their share of the national debt and updating it monthly. I mean with people’s names and addresses on it. I know people out there have better, more effective ideas than this. Something is needed to wake people up, and clearly traditional methods are not doing it.
Crowdsourcing is the way to go on this. The internet is an amazing tool for organizing. There are some brilliant thinkers on our side. Microtargeting works.
The point is to stay within the law, but outside of the GOP establishment. Undermine peoples’ faith in the Democrats to govern and do it in a new way. Channel the disgust and anger away from the circular firing squad and toward the enemy.
Mitsouko on November 9, 2012 at 12:43 AM
It is over…there is no counter to giving away the treasury. These voters could care less about opportunity, freedom, and self motivation. They are leeches and have been conditioned to get their nectar from daddy Gov. The sooner the entire system collapses, the better.
trs on November 9, 2012 at 7:59 AM