I got into politics only in January of this year after hearing about Obama and then following him through his website. Through that website I finally landed here and I have stayed here for a while. I am not politically savvy but I have tried to educate myself in the short time I have been here on the history of the parties and their candidates from the past. How do we use the power of knowledge to defeat the swift boat attacks that are going to come ?
Knowledge, passion, determination and strong support is something that all candidates desire from their supporters but seldom have. Reagan probably did and now Obama. So how do we make sure his grass root support works to make him president ?
I read a lot of opinions from people here, facts and other articles on the swift boating that happened to Kerry and I came to one conclusion, it was the Media. So how do we influence it ? For the most part you can't because otherwise Fox would not be in business. There are enough fringe elements that will support this militant behavior. Besides the TV channels there are the radio stations which are mostly bent conservative and in a vast majority. The problem is there are hundreds if not thousands of radio stations in the US besides the network TV stations and they have a dedicated and loyal audience and they hold an uncanny influence on the naive public. A lot of them believe everything the radio stations say while some others take it with a grain of salt but never truly follow up on it.
So the question is what kind of a grass roots level militant behavior towards this phenomenon can we strive to achieve ? The way I see it there are three approaches,
a) Talk about Obama's virtues.
b) Talk about how much of a contradiction McCain is as a conservative.
c) Talk about the Third Party (depending on the state)
Approach a) will probably almost never work. So the next thing to do is b) and to have talking points about why we dislike McCain and always having an alternate character to the nomination in place so we are not caught off-guard. I don't care who it is, whether it is Jindal or RiddleMeNot. The Idea is to be informed and seem passionate about the alternate candidate more then Mccain. Also have some thoughts about their downside since we don't want to sound biased. You have to be informed and seem genuine and push it like your life depends on it. The whole idea is to take the news off McCain onto someone none of us cares about.
And finally to end the talk get your head around c) which probably narrows down to Barr who we really care about to cause McCain problems. Find his strong points and push them.
Every conservative radio channel, every city, every state we have a bunch of people calling, spending time, taking valuable airtime talking about nonsense. We need a plan to cover the airwaves with BS. Spend 5 min to an hour each day talking nonsense none of us believe in.
This is the true Operation Chaos. Lets give the crazy bastard what he deserves.
Ultimately we need to form groups of people with similar agendas:
a) Supportive of some candidate in the Republican party ( at least 3, Mccain, Huckbee, Ron Paul and Romney)
b) Issues for each, with +s and -s.
c) Calling Schedule to be coordinated (so that follow ups and more confusion is a fact)
d) Confuse the audience.
I know some of you want to throw up but consider the result. It is not the means but the goal and it is time we democrats started playing to win.