Remember Moveon.org's "Revenge of the Frist" commercial?
It was so corny as to induce cringes in me.
This was particularly depressing given that I was so impressed with their Super Bowl censored ad.
So, how does one create decent ads to describe Republicans and their policies?
The Super Bowl ad is one way: Cogent, intelligent, and evocative.
But to anyone who has read my newsletters, you know that this is simply not my style.
Harry S Truman once said that he never gave the Republicans hell, but that " I Just Told the Truth and They Thought it Was Hell".
I say go reverse Republican on their asses.
I'm not suggesting that we lie, just that we use their own forms and linguistic constructs against them.
You don't have to lie to be nasty and sneaky.
What do I mean?
It's continued below the fold.
The first thing we do is create an organization with a deceptive name, something like the "Coalition for Christian Traditional Values".
We go 501(c)3, donations are tax deductible, and ANONYMOUS.
Then we run the ads.
What do the adds say?
Things like this:
There are people who want to make war on Poverty. This is wrong. Poor people are sinners. If they weren't God would not make them poor.
Some people say that the tax cuts give the rich too much money. Rich people get their money from GOD. To tax them is to hate god.
There are people out there who will tell you that everyone deserves health insurance. They are communists who want to destroy our society and have people sleeping with cats."
Basically, I'm suggesting that we go even more over the top than Jack Chick, the Walt Disney of paranoid fundamentalism.
Most people are simply unwilling to believe the real agenda of these folks. It's just too insane to be believed, and no matter how much we shout as the coalition of the sane, it makes us sound crazy.
It's time to pretend to be them, and say what they really think.
Let people see them as the moral lepers they really are.
