Be that as it may, it seems to me we could make this into a fun game, playing with Obama. McConnell, as one example, could say to the Senate Democrats on Dec. 28th (assuming they are still in session) “I have secured an agreement from all Republicans neither to filibuster nor oppose your bill. You may move ahead in confidence, knowing you have a majority”. This will put the Dem’s in a bind, since they know Obama’s proposals stink to high heaven even by Democrat standards, but how can they oppose it? It’s the “everyone but Reid take one step back. Ok, you are the volunteer.”
We can start running political ads in solidly blue districts on solidly left wing media outlets like ABC, off and on over the next two and four years.
Philadelphia ad: Zoom to focus on MLK, Jr. (with subtitles for those who mute it): “Did you know Martin Luther King, Jr. was a lifelong Republican? Did you know all the lynchings in the South were done by Democrats, and that the Republican Party was founded SPECIFICALLY to end Slavery? Did you know that former KKK member Robert Byrd, a Democrat, was one of the longest serving members of Congress, and that he was praised as a great man by no less than Bill Clinton?”
Then we could play with more and less daring phrases. More daring: “yes, the Democrats give you an allowance. But have they given you a job that honors your dignity as a human being?” That may resonate with some. Again, these things can and should be focus group tested in an intelligent way.
You could have a succession of images of people in KKK uniforms, with the caption “Democrat” underneath. You could play the Malcolm X piece where he calls black people who vote Democrat “chumps and race traitors”. Simple images would be what are needed here. The woman who was so excited about her Obamaphone is not going to respond well to nuance. And none is needed. We are right: Democrats kill every flower of innovation that tries to sprout outside their direct control.
The overall point I’m making is that we can begin countering the propaganda. I would donate to that cause. What people need to understand is that propaganda, to be effective, has to be total. It has to be the Truman Show, where nobody tells them it’s fake. When you let cracks of light through, the risk increases that the whole edifice will come crashing down.
I read that in many districts in Phillie, not ONE vote was recorded for Romney. Getting 100 would then be an improvement. And those people are, occasionally, speaking up against the blatant use and abuse of the black vote by people who do NOTHING, or next to nothing–$200 in cell phone money, when it costs $30,000 or more a year to live decently, and no jobs paying that are being created–for them.
Large swings can come from small beginnings. I read also that according to Dick Morris, the political ads in the last election did something close to nothing. Why not invest that money starting now, on changing hearts and minds?
Here is another idea. Zoom to face of man in a suit (or whatever tests well in a focus group), who looks in the camera and says “I was going to expand my business, but when I ran the math factoring in Obama’s tax increases and particularly the cost of Obamacare. I couldn’t justify it. Would YOU work 80 hours a week for the same amount of money you could make working 40? Me neither. That’s ten jobs paying $40,000 you will never see.” Make it a real business owner. Then another 5 in quick succession. Me, neither. Me, neither. etc. This is rough, but something showing jobs NOT created, which is the statistic that is real, but unrecorded.
The thing is, the complicit media can be flanked through paid ads. You can reach people you would not otherwise reach.