Wednesday, April 30, 2014

New Strategies: The GOP Must Learn To Win DESPITE Obstacles

I believe we're at a tipping point in American politics, and I believe the ball is overwhelmingly in the GOP's court. It's their game to win or lose. At this early stage of the 2014 election cycle, many Conservative politicians and pundits are practically giddy, assuming prematurely that the Senate will flip in November. This may be just my 13th Congressional election cycle, but I've seen the Republicans lose enough "sure thing" elections to know that the Senate is far from in the bag. One very simple yet important way that Republicans can increase their chances of success in November is to stop harping on the "unfair" things going on around them and start finding ways to make gains despite perceived unfairness. If we stop taking about the things Democrats do to stack the cards against us and turn our focus to what we can do to turn the tide and circumvent their efforts, we will win. It's not calculus, it's just good old fashioned, unadulterated common sense. The first thing we need to change is how we present our message to the American people.

Democrats are quite practiced at creating truth out of thin air by repetitious lying. They repeat garbage over and over again, and after hearing it enough times people begin to believe it can't be anything but true. Democrats have the nerve and the arrogance to look us in the eyes and declare that the sky is green, and after a few hundred times people start thinking, "maybe it's me?" That's why people actually believe the Democrats are the civil rights party, even though the Republican party actually passed the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, with almost 0% support from Democrats, and the Democrats filibustered the 1964 civil right act. That's why people believe that Bill Clinton single-handedly created a budget surplus, even though he had a Republican Congress for 6 years laying the groundwork for balancing the budget, no major military commitments and a huge tech boom bolstering the economy. And the lie, lie repeat strategy is also why so many believed President Obama's now infamous promise (lie of the century)- "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan, PERIOD", even though we knew before the law was passed that millions would instantly be forced off their plans (the estimate in 2010 was around 9 million, which during the debate over Obamacare the President dismissed as a "small minority"). That being said, we can certainly have the argument about whether people should accept information as truth just because they've heard it a number of times, but when you stop and look at where we are as a nation, it's pretty obvious that there's a great disparity between the "ultra informed electorate" we Conservatives long for, and reality. We're just not there right now, and we won't get there overnight. So while we're here, let's keep striving for an informed electorate, but let's also take advantage of the tools we have at our disposal. Let's use strategies that we know work. Let's use the Democrats' tactics against them, and show them what happens when the party of ingenuity and elbow grease really puts it's mind to something.


Let's get something straight. I'm not suggesting Republicans should go running around lying about whatever the topic of the day may be. What I am suggesting is 2-fold: let's show the American people that the Democrats are the real liars, thieves, racists and sexists by seizing on their behaviors and words and repeating them over and over to the public. Many people start to believe lies after hearing them so many times, so it stands to reason that they should believe the truth after hearing it enough times as well, right? At the same time, we need to use the same strategy for spreading the positives of our Conservative message. We need to take to the airways every single chance we get and give the American people our message. We need to tell them what we stand for and why. We need to tell them why our way is better. And we need to present our plans for fixing the problems America faces. We must do this now, and do it often. For if we repeat our message enough, those undecided voters, and those who are thoroughly disappointed in their vote for Obama, will begin to see  a better choice. Not everyone is as tapped into up-to-the-minute politics as I am and many of you are. So they will rely on what they can remember when they go to the polls. We don't want them to remember the lies and the spin the Democrats are feeding them. We want them to remember our message, the Conservative message of individual liberty, small government and equal protection under the law. We can do this folks, and we can do it 10 times better than the Dems, any day of the week, with both hands tied behind our backs. Which is essentially where we're at if you factor in the mainstream media. If the GOP doesn't do this, they will not win the Senate this Fall. Note the date and time this post is published. I'll stand by that prediction, so feel free to call me out on it if I'm wrong.

God Bless.

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