Posted on 10/26/2008 5:55:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Zombietime considers the Democrats' meta-campaign and argues they have adopted the worst possible strategy; bluffing when they are going to have to show their hand on November 4. This is an in interesting read, perhaps the most interesting piece on strategy I have read this year.
Best of all, it points to Richard Nixon's answer to the problem of dealing with media bias.
In 1968, Richard Nixon did the exact reverse of what the Democrats are now doing. Instead of announcing bombastically that he and the Republicans had complete domination of the media and the electorate, his key campaign slogan was "The Silent Majority." Nixon knew full well that the atmosphere of the times made the Republican prospects looks pretty bleak. Youth culture and the social revolution of the 1960s were at a peak; left-wing ideology was soaring in popularity, a huge demographic of young post-war Baby-Boomers had just reached voting age and were thought to loathe the old-fashioned Republicanism; and the media had long had a serious vendetta against Nixon. Everything seemed aligned to ensure a handy victory for Humphrey and the Democrats. But Nixon sensed that behind the media frenzy about hippies and riots and drugs and revolution, there was, literally, a "silent majority" of staid conservative voters whose voices and viewpoints were being ignored. And all he needed to do was to reassure those voters that they existed across the country, even if the media and popular culture ignored them. And, to everyone's astonishment, Richard Nixon, who was considered by many to be a laughingstock, the last holdout of a pathetic dying breed of old fogeys, managed to pull out a razor-thin victory in what seemed like the most hostile possible social environment.
In 2008 there is no silent majority: there is the silenced majority. The unpolled majority. The media is so pro-Obama that the views and the concerns of McCain supporters are for the most part ignored or, at best, mocked. The goal is to foster disillusionment among them, a sense of isolation. To trick the Republicans into all staying home on election day because "there's no hope of winning." Maybe the Democrats can't avoid a showdown on November 4, but if they can convince enough McCain supporters to individually "fold" and not vote at all, then Obama can carry the day.
Update: The Jawas.
We've said it before, and it's true: the Obama Campaign effort is HEAVILY INVESTED in the idea that OBAMA IS INEVITABLE. This is just one more piece of the overall strategy. Do not buy this bill of goods.
Despite a FULL-COURT PRESS by the mainstream media, Ohio and Florida are now moving into the McCain column. Pennsylvania is trending to McCain, also.
DO NOT believe the hype, folks.
Get to your ass the polls. Get your family to the polls. Get your friends to the polls.
MAKE THIS HAPPEN.
HOLD THE LINE.
This is just as true for Republicans/PUMAs/Independents/conservative Democrats/the sane living in blue states. Every down ticket vote counts for or against a moonbat controlled Congress and a McCain presidency will go easier with a clear victory in the popular vote.
It’s a very dangerous bluff.
They are telling an already militant, thuggish constituency that they are going to get their wishes fulfilled in a large victory,
when in fact, they are just bluffing with a bad hand.
People will be killed by these skewed polls.
Nixon was also helped out by the riots in Chicago during the democratic convention. News coverage of the riots were his best campaign commercial.
the Obama Campaign effort is HEAVILY INVESTED in the idea that OBAMA IS INEVITABLE.
Didn’t exactly work out.
Nixon also had Wallace draining off the Goldwater states in the south. No mention of that.
Amen brother!!! Never surrender!!! Never fold!!! This election is the future of our nation for the next 20-30 years!!!
Christianity was born in an era of extreme persecution, we have no choice but to speak, there is no alternative.
There is a bit of obstinancy in most Americans. For the most part, they'll let things go until they start to feel "bossed around", or they see that someone feels entitled to power. Then, they feel compelled to push back.
I think that impulse saves us from time to time.
“Christianity was born in an era of extreme persecution, we have no choice but to speak, there is no alternative.”
So true. I remember reading something about Domitian (I think) officially recognizing Christians in ancient Rome, prompting some Church father to say “The world’s friendship has replaced its hatred as her (the Church’s) enemy.”
Persecution comes along and clarifies alot of the deadening effects of friendship with the world.
Obama’s camp is trying to keep Republicans home, and any independents that are leaning toward McCain. They are also trying to sooth the soft Democrats, which are many more than they are willing to admit. People have an internal fraud meter that usually kicks in when they are faced with having to make a final decision. Up until then, they vacilate back and forth because it doesn’t cost anything.
They might have even told people they were going to vote for Obama. Obama hopes that when they see that he is up in the polls it will prevent that alarm from going off and allow them to pull the lever for O. Very few Americans would be swayed to vote for someone just because he was up in the polls. Voting against him is not something that they would ever have to admit.
The other thing they are trying to do is make it look like McCain’s campaign suppressed voter turn out and stole the election. This will minimize the effectiveness of John McCain from day one. If you can’t defeat him silence him.
Bank on every media outlet to go from describing John as eratic to but instead as senile. THey will villify Sarah Palin as they did Dick Chaney and President Bush. We allowed them to do it. This time we must keep McCain from compromising and giving the Dems anything they want just to get along. We also must protect Sarah Palin from being villified day in and day out. She is the real deal and we could have a truly remarkable real conservative as President in 4 years as long as we declare war with the media outlets.
We now know how vicious the Dems are and how much is at stake. It is our Republic, constitution and our whole way of life. If we don’t want Bill Ayers running the Dept of Education we better work hard at getting the vote out and protecting our leaders.
Don't give it to him.
Make him steal it.
McCain should use the “UNPOLLED MAJORITY” slogan from here on, for that is truly what we are, as we certainly are not silent any longer, we just can’t be heard correctly with all the media static.
Yes we must defeat communism and socialism! I lived in Beijing, China about 10 years ago for work and I have traveled to the EU several times — so I KNOW communism when I see it and BHO is has communism deeply rooted in his core. As much as I enjoyed the excitement of my assignments in China I ALWAYS looked forward to landing on US soil — I had a ticket/passport home and I knew it. I think all these people supporting BHO need a brick from the Great Wall or the Berlin Wall to hit them in head and they will soon be throwing up the Kool-Aid once they truly understand they what they have done!
“Nixon was also helped out by the riots in Chicago during the democratic convention.”
Bill Ayers has experience naively sabatoging his own agenda across multiple generations apparently.
Folks what is being said here is HAVE FAITH!
McCain is going to win in a blowout.
Marxism is a failed ideology that is hanging by a thread, and we are the scissors, my FRiends.
While sitting, trapped by weather in the PAX terminal in Balad I penned THE SILENCED MAJORITY on October 25 and posted 11:56 p.m.
Same title - very similar topical area, but mine was much more of a reasoned rant if you will grant me that oxymoron - enjoyed your posting a great deal.
Thanks.
The author mentions the article you posted, IIRC.
That was Constantine who converted to Christianity.
Domitian was one of the more extreme persecutors of Christianity.
Thanks, I wasn’t sure and had trouble finding any reference to the quote on the web. I read it in some book and always remembered the quote and the concept that the world’s hatred and it’s friendship are both enemies of Christ.
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