A caller on Rush's show just asked why Conservatives don't run ads explaining Conservatism during Prime Time popular shows.
Yeah. Why don't we?
The biggest problem for Conservatism is not that people don't believe in it, but that people don't know what it is, because we've allowed Liberals to define it.
Almost nothing that Liberals say about Conservatism is true. And most people, who are, in fact, Conservatives don't know they are, because they've never heard Conservatism accurately defined. I can testify. I was that person eight years ago. They don't think they're Conservatives because the Left has told them Conservatives are greedy, hard-hearted, religious fanatics who hate sex, and rock and roll, who hate black and brown people, who want to ban dancing and laughter, who love war, death, and profit over honor. Who hate children, and for a buck, would let every child in American die of starvation. Who love corporations who rape the little guy. Who love Sheriff Bubba who wants to lynch "niggers". Whose favorite music is Polka. Who are exlusive instead of inclusive, who are the haves who want to keep the have-nots down. Whose objection to taxes is that the don't want to pay their fair share....
I don't know about you, but I'm none of those things.
Why haven't we done a P.R. Campaign? An Ad Campaign?
Something modern, edgy, multiracial (kill them with their own ammo), that implies "rebel", "individuality" (which is big with kids...the more they conform to each other, the more they embrace the idea that they're "individuals"...remember?) If we can get them to really "Question Authority", by subtly showing them just who the real anti-freedom "authority" is...we've got them.
Use the Left's own rallying cries: Freedom, Civil Rights, Justice,
A good Ad Campaign could use the propaganda NewSpeak of the Left against them. Start talking to people about Freedom and Question Authority...and they're nodding their heads because the think they know what you mean...but then you show them what it really means...
...and you surprise them into a new way of thinking.
There shouldn't be a single reference to Conservatism or Republicans.
Why not run them during American Idol, or 24, or Heroes, or House, or Fringe, or Law & Order's 20 iterations?
Why are we not using the creativity and innovation we talk about all the time of the Free Market to sell our own ideas, which are a lot more necessary to the well being of our "customers" than new soap, new fast food, or new electronics?
We have to beat these bastards at their own game.
We need to "infiltrate" Popular Culture.
We're Neo. Liberal Popular Culture is the Matrix.
We can do this! All we need is a little creativity and a lot of money.
How hard can that be? (hehe)
The Gunslinger
Joebama American citizens 2024 print
9 months ago
Part of the problem is the conservative message is intellectual instead of emotional. Hard to run an ad with a doe-eyed bassett hound with the tagline "Liberals make puppies cry." That's their schtick. Also, trying to be inclusive of minorities and gun owners means running an ad with someone like Michael Clarke Duncan holding a 1911, saying, "I digs guns. Vote Republican."
ReplyDeleteMaybe I should rethink my marketing strategy.
Forwarded this blog to some "mainstream" conservative sites,hope it kindles something concrete,but...pessimistic part of me says there's a little "star-trip" snooty-thang with some of the biggies on the so-called Right who wanna protect their camera-time more than really do the Battle.Crossed-fingers...
ReplyDeleteLiberals haven't defined conservatism. George W. Bush, Tom Delay, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Sarah Palin, et al. have. And for most Americans, it doesn't look pretty.
ReplyDeleteNot to worry, though. These things go in cycles, and liberals will eventually screw it up. Only then will conservatives matter again.
The trouble is that most conservatives are conservative. They care nothing for freedom, just for a stable 1950's type social order.
ReplyDeleteA case in point is your recent gun store incident. Your average conservative will turn on you in a second in order to prove that they respect the law.
Liberals have feelings, conservatives have laws. Both sides are obsessed with forcing their views on others.
The problem is that when you use the term conservative, I understand that you mean that branch of the Republican party that supports freedom and the Constitution as the supreme law of the land. No one else does. They see what we would call the neocons.
We really need to do something with the labels or we are just going to get stuck in a box and ignored.
The problem is so many labels, liberal, conservative, libertarian, have been hijacked. We need something cool.
Årctic Wolf.....YES!
ReplyDeleteThat's what I was trying to say...
obviously badly...
"We need something cool."
Even here in these comments you see the problem: "conservative" conflated with "Republican"...even though I try to untangle the two constantly, but it's clearly hopeless.
TJ, I wasn't talking about Hollywood doing it, just talent. It's not all in L.A.
Velociman, I wanted very specifically to NOT say: "vote Republican". Just show a situation that everyone would disapprove of, and make it clear WITHOUT ACTUALLY SAYING IT, that Liberalism is the source, the cause, the mindset that promotes it.
I'm talking about a P.R. campaign, not an election campaign. I want to sell the message of freedom, not a party or a candidate.
Steve, your list is a Liberal's list...not "most Americans". You mistake your own bias for the opinion of "most people".
It is my opinion that McCain lost, not because he was Conservative, but because he was NOT Conservative.
Your list of Republicans, by the way, are not evil people, just one's the Liberal media crucified. Because you bought the bullshit doesn't mean the bullshit's true.
And except for Palin, they aren't Conservatives!
Points well taken. Conservatives do get a bad rap. Remember when the Soviet Union was collapsing? The media kept calling the stubborn communists "hard line conservatives." Well, yes. But they were trying to conserve communism, not liberty.
ReplyDeleteClassical Liberal is truthful, but liberals have abused the term "liberal". Libertarians are, well, libertarians and all the exotica that entails.
Neocons? Those are former communists who saw the error of their ways, but the media have hijacked the term to mean Bush/Zionist warmongers.
How about Dissidents? Dissidents are always good. From the Russian gulags to Tiannamen Square to the penal colony formerly known as Cuba, a dissident is always a freedom fighter against a totalitarian state. And, unfortunately, that's all we conservatives are at the moment.
Being a Dissident means your editorials, fiction, screenplays, etc., are by definition couched in terms of being antiestablishment, against the Man, cool. Truth to power, baby. That's what I'm talkin' 'bout.
I like the terms Republican and Liberal. That's what we are. That's what the rest of the world calls us. They want globalism, so be it.
ReplyDeleteObama opposed by a bunch of rabid Liberals is great copy. Truth in labeling has advantages.
The problem is that we really don't agree with each other. To use an LOTR analogy, the elves, dwarves, and men, really don't get along, but unless we all band together against Sauron, we are all doomed. We need to put aside our differences and oppose anything against the Constitution.
The differences we can deal with later. It's called the tenth amendment.