If a tree falls in a forest, and no one is around to hear its fall, does it make a sound?
The message needs to be better, agreed. And your recipe for that message is very good. The problem is the media will ignore it or twist it to show how “uncaring” all the Republicans are.
Obama won 52% to McCains 47%. The media gave at least 15% to Obama, who only won 5-6%. So, if they hadn't been so blatantly biased this year what would the outcome have been?
Media bias is sometimes subtle. For example, many say Ross Perot's run in 1992 took enough votes from Senior Bush to give Clinton the election with only a plurality rather than a majority. Others argue that if Perot hadn't run, Bush would have lost more resoundingly. However, what was the intrinsic value of having TWO opponents gang up on you and focus their efforts on your problems, rather than a true three way fight? I can tell you I rarely heard Ross criticize Clinton. It was all anti-Bush, all the time, by the media. And they could say with a straight face, “Hey, we're only covering what the candidates say!” Too bad if it's two against one.
This time the media didn't even attempt to defend themselves as to their unfairness. As far as I could see, it was the worst bias ever.
RE . “The problem is the media will ignore it or twist it to show how “uncaring” all the Republicans are.”
You are stating the obvious. The media was 100% in the tank for BoB, worst than Clinton in 1992. But regardless we need a strategy. The media was forced to turn on Clinton in 1993+1994, most freepers forget that. And you dont want to give up, do you? 2010?
I say the only way to counter this negative doomsday demand bailout demand socialism is to sound the alarms about deficit ala 1992, and act non-partison (cynical) ala Ross Perot. I can see no other message that can compete with the doomsday alarm bells ringing, and Obama right now has the wind at his back. We also need to stir the Sheenan Moonbats to demand Obama do crazy stuff, we NEED him to go Chavis, and he is NOT now.
Some moonbats, we need more (they need our support LOL) :
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/3104
http://www.democratunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7899641
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Time%20for%20change/389
No, Al. The “pent-up demands” of the Democratic Party do not represent “political payback”. More accurately, those demands are aimed at getting our country back on the right track, which just prior to Election Day less than 30% of voters believed we were on.