How do Republicans get away with it?

They accuse us of being elitist, then Cindy McCain walks out wearing a $300,000 outfit and she gets away with it.

They accuse of us of destroying traditional values, then choose an adulterer for Pres and a woman whose family apparently practices premarital sex for VP, and they get away with it.

They accuse us of being radical and out of touch, and then choose a VP who spoke before a secessionist party and she gets away with it.

They accuse Obama's church of being anti-white, and then choose as VP someone who belonged to a church that's anti-Semitic, and she gets away with it.

They accuse us of hitting low on Sarah Palin, but throughout the last several months continuously hit lower, and they get away with it.

It seems as if the Independents permit the Republicans to engage in any game they want, while holding the Democrats to an entirely different standard. Why is that? How do the Democrats confront that?

Maybe the Democrats should run commercials that challenge the American people to hold both parties to the same standard?

Maybe the Democrats should run an ad that says, If the Republicans get elected, we are going to lose more than the 4,000 Americans we already lost. If you elect McCain, he will do what he knows best: Use our military first and our diplomats second.

Maybe the Democrats need to frighten people the way Republicans do. Maybe we need to update LBJ's daisy ad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63h_v6uf0Ao

we need to be out there on the blogs, the news websites, the water coolers, the dinner tables, the LTTEs, the message boards any where politics are talked about. we need to be making our case and framing the arguments correctly.

Any other questions?

Regulate.

and then regulate. These people are evil.

They're accused of being "liberal" which scares the media into being silent.

liberal=Jews
I don't know how they get away with flying the freedom banner and want a media that they can tell what to report.

the governing business. They are a giant ad agency, and the media buys their ads and plays them, and the stupid public buys the product.

Corporate whores.

It's a very smart strategy, and one I wish we would use more often.

The only thing they are competent at is running campaigns

Zero you say?

Does that answer your question? ;)

1983 = 50 companies
2004 = 5

Media Reform Information Center chart and notes:

http://www.corporations.org/media/?PHPSESSID=818003fb345bd243945820d8a8836d2d


The people own the airwaves, so I wish we would put more regulations back in there.

1. If the facts are against you, argue the law.
2. If the law is against you, argue the facts.
3. If the facts AND the law are against you, give the other side all hell.

It hits just about every nail on the head.

The sad part is that the 'pukes would see that list and accuse us of "whining" about the lunatic fringe media bias and would ratchet up the propaganda they spew on that media even more. Of course, as corporate heads, they own this same media and in a minute will tell you to "start or buy your own".

All I can say is thank god for the internet. They haven't figured out how to control that yet because it is too complex for them to figure out. But when they do, so long and good luck.... :nuke:

Every four years they do the same shit. If they attack, it's business as usual. If the Democrats attack, the Democrats are going negative or are desperate, and now they even have the audacity to say the Democrats are sexist, when there's is the party that blocked the ERA, denies women equal pay protection, dilutes discrimination laws, and even wants the law to regulate a woman's right over her own body. It's obscenely unfair.

Flame away - but it's true.

How else do they do it?
How do they get every one of their talking heads on every station saying the same exact thing?
They tell one lie after another, and NO ONE challenges it, except on the internets.

They attack community organizers, for heaven's sakes, and get away with it.

And at this very moment I have msnbc on and they are talking about how the Dems need to learn to attack Gidget without making it seem like it's they're going after her.

Why?

But maybe the danger is we risk alienate our base. Let's face it, most of us really don't like all the sleazy politics, and the only joy Sarah Palin is bringing us is a sort of vengeance after all their lies and distortions against Clinton, Gore, and Kerry. I sometimes wonder if Democratic campaign pollsters believe the people who say they would be less likely to vote for a candidate who runs negative ads, even though that's bullshit. Negative ads apparently work whether people like them or not.

and suddenly Fox News will become friendly to Democrats?

The sad thing is that liberals themselves fall for the bullshit about a liberal media. It does not exist. Aside from Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow, who is a liberal on television? In contrast, the GOP has an entire network devoted to propagating conservative idealogy.

So, Democrats need to stop waiting for some magical stategy or politician that will control the media. It will not happen. We could hire Karl Rove, and Big Media would still be pro-corporate. Its not a question of tactics. Its bias.

to those whose voting decisions are based on personalities, hot-button topics, emotionalism and mud-slinging.

They know they don't generally appeal to issue-oriented voters so they deny, denigrate and belittle important issues and those to whom those issues are important.

They know how propaganda works, who it appeals to and how it increases their "base". The media plays their game because it's all about profits to them.

They depend on ignorance.

They don't play fair. It's all-out war to them.

They just happen to have an advantage right now that there are plenty of politically ignorant Americans who vote.

Democrats don't play their game because it's dishonest even though it works.

The only way around this mess is to prove that there are more voters who care about issues than who vote for personalities.