Our agenda, not theirs. In politics you're either on defense or on offense. Let's continue playing offense.
We should act instead of reacting.
Are we actually going to leave the brightest hopes of our weakened nemesis viable until they grow strong enough to beat us?
The most helpful thing liberals and progressives can do right now with their time and money is to neutralize GOP attackers so that our President and legislators can heal our economy, workforce, and environment.
We should neutralize key elected Rightists by doing enough op-res to expose and render them unelectable with substantive, well-managed efforts. Then expose the best fruits of op-res against the Right's more influential pundits, rising stars, and "business experts."
Take it to influential Rightists instead of debating their next low and divisive punch. Meanwhile, our President and legislators will rebuild America safer, fairer, healthier, and more prosperous.
OUR AGENDA, NOT THEIRS. OFFENSE, NOT DEFENSE.
As tempting as it would be to demolish the public personae of Limbaugh, Liddy, Bachman, and perhaps one or two more, let us leave the criminally-insane elite of the Right right in front of news cameras.
Cheney?
Try him publicly for war-crimes here in the United States. Mete out full and just punishment publicly to re-establish the rule of law, not Executives. (BTW, notice how the GOP is showing us young women--the daughters of McCain and Cheney, and, until recently, of Palin--instead of its legions of old, straight, white guys. There is no doubt that the GOP is working a strategy against progressives and Dems.)
The meanest portion of the GOP is on the ropes. We now need to expose how morally and legally craven even its brightest lights are. We need to publicize any and all criminality and harmful personal hypocrisy of this GOP subset's most credible and influential voices.
These Rightists are chipping away at progress and Obama and every electoral advantage we currently enjoy, and I for one am tired of wasting time discussing what these anti-Americans sink to next.
This is both politically smart and patriotic, as these few far-Right leaders clearly do not want to join our nation in working its way back from the brink of economic and environmental catastrophe.