The Observer Journal - Observation Leading to Insight: How progressives attack - 1) depend on the Republican candidates having NOT done their homework; 2) use the Democrat party machine to steal votes; and 3) know the media will hammer any conservative gaffe for days and weeks

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How progressives attack - 1) depend on the Republican candidates having NOT done their homework; 2) use the Democrat party machine to steal votes; and 3) know the media will hammer any conservative gaffe for days and weeks

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Liberals typically denigrate and conservatives have a few options:

Know the far-left narratives forward and backwards
Take on the far-Left at every angle

Do the homework, truly study how the far-Left thinks:

A stand for law and order is fascism;
Opposing radical, far-left economics is racism;
Passionate political opposition is angry hate speech;
Compassion is not a private sector job but rather a government program;
Big government interference is compassion and free market capitalism has no compassion;
Conservatives organizing politically are always a street-mob and not civil rights activists;
Promoting personal responsibility is oppression of the disadvantaged;
And, finally, greed is bad but envy is good.

Expect these attacks, so be hyper prepared, smart and calm. Here's the bottom-line:

"QUAYLED and SCARY"
or
"BUSHED"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/18/kerry-charges-brown-with_n_427305.html

If you intend on being a conservative in public life, you'd better be hyper-prepared, having fully installed all the liberal narratives forwards and backwards. Remember Dan Quayle? Or how about Sarah Palin? Why study how progressives attack? Sarah vs Katie. Katie Couric is a prosecutorial Leftist. Democrat Martha Coakley is a prosecutorial Leftist. Just read Coakley's comments about Catholics. Nora O'Donnell is a prosecutorial Leftist. Palin had no clue who she was up against. Sarah Palin's advisers would have been wise to force Katie Couric to conduct her interview in front of a hand picked, thousand person, live, middle-America, audience. Limit the interview to one hour and demand that Sarah open the interview by introducing Katie to the crowd and firing up the hometown crowd. Scott Brown learned from Palin's mistakes and did not allow Nora O'Donnell or Katie Couric to define him. When a progressive Left attack stalls, this is how the Democrat Party adjusts and attacks again.

How progressives attack. Two types of attacks:

One:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-daou/liberal-bloggers-to-obama_b_429031.html

Two:

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/01/as-spotlight-shines-on-reid-re-election.html

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/martha_coakley_mindset_a_threat_to_american_freedom_says_critic/

Carefully read this thread because it's lays out the New Left strategy in detail:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0110/Democratic_Party_responds_to_Coakley_memo_Political_malpractice.html?showall

This is a must watch clip.

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/01/18/matthews-gets-tingle-up-his-leg-over-brown-win/