Some may regard me as a gadfly, OK, then somebody send me over to pester the Rethuglicans...
I wanted to relate a brief little riff about my attempts to communicate my message to one of the Dem campaigns. If you look at my Diary posts you will see a flock of them... stretching all the way back to old KOS.
Imagine yourself as an activist Dem, a real Red Meat Dem, a warthog who wants the Bushiter out of office.
This is meant to be instructional, not a bash so please think of this as 'It Happens Everyday to a Dem Campaign'.
Let's just say that you placed a call as I did to a Dem campaign that was not damaged in Iowa by the media.
Let's say you reached a very nice young man for the first time. Let's say you wanted to have someone pay attention to your KOS Diary Post, maybe read it and forward it up the 'chain of command'.
Let's say that one of the points you want to make is that the media can bash any Dem they left alone this past week.
In the conversation you say to the nice gentleman, "Your candidate benefited from the media's attention being on the Iowa race instead of on New Hampshire."
Let's say the nice gentleman gets a little upseat and denies that it is true! He doesn't say it is a smear, it's really not, but he is unhappy about those words... Well, my words came from CNN last night and this morning!
My point is made by a campaign that did not have the media flamethrower turned on them last week. But being ignored is not all that great either, folks!
The media whores are turning their attention to New Hamshire and all the campaigns there now... you betcha! And if you don't want them talking about your sweaters, or your wife's clothes, and you want to talk about your issues... well you get the idea!
Folks, my secret project is partly on making the media report accurately, completely and fully.
You know the way they did before they all got down on their knees for George W. Bush and the smear machine.
There is more to my 'secret project' than just that, and I need help.
Another hint might be... what would a DNC with a spine be doing right now... But how do you make it creditable?
How do you force the media towards telling the truth instead of just half-truths, and spin?
Please, Dem campaigns, listen up NOW!
If Republicans are the people that CNN is using as 'experts' on the Dem Nomination race, I smell a rat, no, an invasion of rats.
Some SMART CAMPAIGN is going to contact me: jgeorg109@yahoo.com or they are going to invite me to contact them... or George Soros will... somebody will get the message to the people that need to hear it!
That SMART CAMPAIGN will be glad they did... but I may not be able to tell you who it was. But I will tell you when it happens.
I hope it is the Dean or Clark campaigns... the most 'grassroots-y' of the bunch. But to be real honest, I'd be impressed by the Edwards campaign if they talked to me.
Well, off I go to see if anyone will talk to me at the Edwards campaign. Hmmm, I am back. I got my first answering machine... at the national campaign headquarters... so I tried the New Hampshire campaign HQ... and reached somebody very pleasant.
We shall see what we shall see...
RMD