PLAYBOY: Confessions Of A Tea Party Consultant

http://www.playboy.com/articles/rogues-of-k-street/index.html?page=1
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The campaign plan for one of the organizations I help uses the phrase black arts when talking about how we’ll win in the fall. It’s not a document filled with dirty tricks but a plan to create a nonprofit organization called Ensuring Liberty Corporation. It uses unconventional methods to get our message out and support grassroots conservatives: "Ensuring Liberty’s relationships run deep into the new media and use of cloud computing and innovation along with the black arts of campaign management. That is not to say that we will undertake actions that contravene any legal or ethical principles; however, the use of surprise, investigative journalism and other key experience will allow for rapid deployment of strategies that many candidates simply do not understand or take advantage of during their actual election campaign." Of course, the Tea Party is not as cohesive as anyone thinks. It’s not a party or even an organization. You have to understand the state of the Republican Party to understand how there can still be oxygen in the room for the Tea Party. Bush mangled the GOP brand into a grotesque form that conservatives haven’t recognized in five years.

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The mail you’ll see from me this fall won’t have much to say about gays or the unborn. We have new foils, such as the Troubled Asset Relief Program and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Leveraging rage about a bailout for mega-millionaires and an $800 billion "stimulus" that has barely moved unemployment below double figures is a cinch compared with explaining why Bobby and Joey’s marriage is bad for America. Designing a thank-you note from an imaginary Wall Street executive to working-class taxpayers is so much more rewarding than most other messaging campaigns. With new variable-print technology, the postcard can be personalized and won’t look as though it was printed overnight at Kinko’s.



lots more juicy:
http://www.playboy.com/articles/rogues-of-k-street/index.html?page=1

lost 100% of credibility is their willingness to go low, to lie, to exaggerate, to out-skeeve everyone else, to ridicule whenever possible and even when not, and to go to the mat on everything. They are way more on-message and having everything organized and framed. Dems are not in the same league in terms of framing and the fact that dems are in power and have decent approvals is stone-cold testimony that dems have the issues, hands down. I definitely don't want dems to go low a la Rove and Breitbart but we can be -- have to be -- much better about having a message and getting it out.

Dems were in a media ownership, media use, and message coordination hole and still are. Sounds like the Tea Party is going to the mat and we better get ready. Will be enquirer type journalism and politics from here on out. Add to that the fact that corporations can fund anything ANYTIME before the election and we've got problems. That's what the OP contained...a warning that the message cannot be countered...meaning that all kinds of videos, revelations, smears, maybe even movies, etc will be coming up right before elections.

Just look at the difference in Congress. Bush was committing egregious, obvious crimes and you couldn't get Dems to investigate with any depth, let alone do anything about it. Forget impeachment, they refused to even consider alot less. But Republicans don't even have control of Congress, and Darrell Issa is already saying that IF the GOP wins and he is chair of the Oversight committee he is going after Obama and Dems with a deluge of subpoenas. Not even in power yet, may not even be, but already preparing to wage war on Obama just like Clinton. If the GOP gets control of the House, it'll be crazy. If people don't think the GOP won't bring govt to a standstill and go after Obama with frivolous subpoenas and investigations they're stupid or naive. They'll try to impeach the guy for virtually nothing. And the establishment likes to act as if one side is an equal, responsible partner for the other. Republicans will go low every single time, doesn't matter if it hurts our country or not.

Do progressives have any kind of subterfuge type tactics similar to what they are describing for the GOP?

We just don't have any Reps to vote for. They all seem to be enjoying their cocktails with their Repub friends.

but I am totally mystified as to why someone would write and publish this article.