Archive for January 22nd, 2010
The Red, Blue, Green, and Gold: January 22nd Edition
H/t Chrissy the Hyphenated for the Buzz Teamz Logo
Here are today’s Team Action Items. There is absolutely no formality with these team assignments. If you want to participate in Action Items, just pick a team and do something to further that team’s item for the day. The way we are structuring this is to keep the Team colors coordinated with certain activities — Red = phone calls/letter writing/faxing, etc.; Blue = Blogging, pasting links, research, distribution of information; Green = fundraising (either FOR a candidate, or working to convince donors to stop contributing to Liberals); Gold = Psy-Ops (hitting the Left with their own medicine, using creative subversion to goad them into making mistakes, overplaying their hand, and destroying themselves).
Report back on this thread any luck that you have on your team. This is a new process for us, to actually write down each day the kind of things we do ourselves on a regular basis, without ever really telling most of you out there. We’ve always assumed people just do these things on their own, but now we understand there’s a need for some direction — for people who want to get involved, get off their butts and do something, but who need a focus.
Well, the four of us here will each come up with a Team idea each day. Kevin leads the Red Team, Sebastian takes Blue, Robby is in charge of Green, and Panda will have at it with Gold (because if anyone can think outside the box and get into the mind of crazies, it’s Panda).
Because we are children of the 80s, we can’t help getting a Captain Planet vibe off this, so think of each Team as having its own special powers, which we hope will grow the more people participate in this. You can hit every team assignment if you want, or just pick one to focus on. It’s going to be a lot of work. For us, personally, it means rethinking how we do things around here, getting more organized, and fleshing out longterm plans and goals for our activism. It also means recruiting all of you in a way that harnesses ALL of your unique strengths. We need a way to tap into all of that if we are going to defeat the Left once and for all, as a ragtag band of moderates, conservatives, and independents who will increasingly hone our skills to the point that we become better at all of this than any of the George Soros and DNC paid trolls and goblins ever were.
We can beat them at their own game, but only if we work hard and practice our skills every day. The Red, Blue, Green, and Gold is an evolving, experimental project. It lives and dies with your feedback and energy. We can commit to providing a strategic framework, and will take ownership of our individual teams, but we need your help to make them effective.
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Red Team: Focus on Evan Bayh today. He’s the critical voice in Democrat circles right now. Democrats respect Bayh, and the position he’s in, in Indiana. We personally really like Bayh, and got to talk to him up close many times when he was campaigning for Hillary Clinton in 2008. Bayh, more than anyone, should have stood up in the week before Christmas and told Reid and the other Liberals that they should not have handled Healthcare bills the way they did, trying to ram things through the Senate in the dead of night, in total secret. It is now time for Evan Bayh to redeem himself, or risk alienating everyone who supported him, guaranteeing we campaign for the Republican in the Senate race this coming November. Either Bayh steps up and becomes a voice of reason and caution that is desperately needed in the Senate right now, or he should be defeated with the rest of the Democrats up for re-election this year. It’s time the Dems who claim they are Moderates and Centrists to PROVE IT, and pull the party back to the center, exerting moderation. Write to Bayh, call him, email him, fax him. Make sure he understands this is his moment to show leadership, raise his voice louder than Harry Reid’s, and challenge the Liberals who are trying to drive this country into the ground.
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BLUE TEAM: Focus on researching George Soros and his Secretaries of State Project, which we started working on yesterday. We need to wake America up in terms of what Soros is up to, and the first step towards that is mapping out his plans for ourselves and getting our own heads into the game figuring out what we can do to stop him. Start collecting as much information for us as possible so we can build a timeline of what Soros has been doing. Let’s get our creative types involved to put this data into graphics people can easily understand. Can we put up a chart with various disasters like the September 2008 economic crash and show what Soros was doing at that time? Middle America needs to know who this man is, just as Middle Earth needed to understand the danger of Sauron. If we can rally people against Soros, and then reveal all the links Soros has to the Liberals he installed in office, we can start to bring him down. So, get on that research, start looking at that Secretaries of State Project, and let’s start creating images we can use to get people to understand this better.
H/t Katie
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GREEN TEAM: If we want to defeat Liberals in 2010 and 2012, we need to teach all of you everything we know about fundraising. There will be times, like with Scott Brown, where we need to collectively money bomb and raise funds for a candidate offensively. But, the majority of our time should be spent cutting off the funding sources to the Left. This is something we have never seen Moderates and Conservatives do, but it’s one of the prime Alinsky Methods the Left employs. If the Left wants to hurt you, they do things to take away your job, drain your funds, make you unemployable and destitute, and thus remove you as an obstacle. We need to use these methods against the Left, by convincing the major donors to Liberals to stop giving them any more money. Today, let’s focus on Claire McCaskill, one of our worst Senators. Let’s figure out where her campaign money comes from — who is donating to her? Use FEC records to figure this out. The individuals who consistently bundle for her or contribute the maximum under law are the ones we want to look at. Corporations are less inclined to listen to the public than private individuals are. If people who host large fundraisers for McCaskill suddenly start receiving thousands of letters a day telling them (politely) to stop, and noting what a terrible Senator McCaskill is, then they will stop holding those fundraisers for her. These people don’t want what they are doing to be made public, and do not want to receive mail from the public because they are raising money for McCaskill. For corporations, we need to make it know that every dollar spent buying their products or services is money going to McCaskill. So, people need to stop doing that. If we target key Liberals who the White House listens to, and who are known to talk to other Senators, and who react poorly to any crisis (like McCaskill), then rattling their fundraising operations will scare the absolute living daylights out of them.
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Gold Team: The Left needs to be encouraged to keep pushing Liberals right off the cliff. Essentially, the Gold Team needs to creatively convince the Left to keep running in the opposite direction of what Americans actually want. Tell them to ignore Massachusetts as a fluke and put all the blame on Martha Coakley’s terrible campaign. Tell them the reason voters are mad is because Liberals aren’t liberal enough. Prode and poke them into pushing the White House to be more Liberal, more out of touch with reality. It’s like giving Liza Minnelli another martini, and another after that, or dropping off more sandwiches to Oprah. Don’t argue with them. Don’t discourage them. ENCOURAGE them to be more and more crazy and out of touch.
Question of the Day: Are Democrats really stupid enough to try to ram through Healthcare Rationing via "reconciliation"?
There were conflicting reports yesterday whether Nancy Pelosi was stupid enough to actually think she could ram through Healthcare Rationing via “reconciliation” — a process where the House would just accept the Senate bill, without voting on it again, using housekeeping methods reserved for budget matters to force through the monstrous, pork-laden, unconstitutional Healthcare Rationing bill. Against the public’s will.
Are Democrats that stupid?
What will Republicans do if this is attempted?
What will happen to every Democrat in office if Pelosi goes through with this?
Our take on this is that Pelosi knows she won’t be Speaker after 2010. Even if, by some miracle, Democrats hold Congress, Pelosi will be asked to step aside. She can say it’s for health reasons if she wants. But, she and Reid will no longer be in leadership positions by this time next year. That’s a very good thing for this country, if not for the Republican party politically. Reid and Pelosi are 2/3 of Democrats’ own worst enemy (with the rest of that albatross sitting in the White House, dragging down any candidate he comes within 100 feet of).
Pelosi reminds us of a drunk, suffering from liver poisoning, insisting upon finishing that last bottle of scotch, “Because I paid for it!”, and because “I’m going to die anyway, so I might as well die drunk!”.
Pelosi knows she’s toast…so why not take the whole country down with her?
In her mind, she probably figures getting this monstrosity passed earns her a place in history books. Well, no matter what happens, she technically already has THAT…she was the first female Speake, and on many lists, she’s the worst Speaker we’ve ever had. So, children will be learning about (or pointing and laughing at) her for centuries to come.
There’s no need for her to tank the country to stroke her own ego.
But, we bet she’s going to try to do this. We’ve talked to her in person, and know just how bright she is. There’s only about a minute’s worth of sense in her head, and after that it’s just babble and nonsense, soaked in crazy.
What do you think she’ll do?
Friday Open Thread: January 22nd, 2010
What’s on your mind this Friday?
What articles are you reading?
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The Left is now calling for the death of actor Scott Baio, because he posted an unflattering photo of Michelle Obama on Twitter. To our knowledge, there are no flattering photos of our “fashion icon” current FLOTUS. The only fault for that is her own. So, posting any photo of her on Twitters seems to be grounds for a fatwa upon the infidels who do not worship at the altar of ‘The One”.
Who does this sound like?
It sounds like Muslims, and the way they perceive anything and everything as an affront to Islam worthy of death.
Liberals brand someone a RAAACIST! for daring to challenge the current administration on anything. Muslims call people infidels and declare all-out war on them for posting cartoons depicting Muhammad, or anything else they believe insults Islam.
Is it any wonder that Liberals are the strongest defenders of Islamic terrorists.
It makes perfect sense, since both groups use the same tactics, are about the same amount of crazy, and work from the Alinsky playbook to attack, try to kill, and viciously malign anyone they perceive opposes them.
Scott Baio? Really? SCOTT BAIO is worthy of a Liberal fatwa?
They put a fatwa out on us. Then Scott Baio. Who’s next? Chad Allen? The girl who played Punky Brewster? Random people from Burger King commercials?
Liberals only hurt themselves with stuff like this. Every day, more moderates and regular Americans wake up and realize just how vile the Left is…and this will, we promise you, lead to Librals being banished from office for the next 30 years.
So, keep it up, lunatics. Keep it up and suffer the consequences that will come.
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Here are some great articles from Robin in Berkley, who, like us, supported Hillary Clinton for president and was attacked ruthlessly by the Left for that. She, too, was called a RAAACIST! for not supporting Dr. Utopia. She, like us, has been attacked for backing Sarah Palin. The Left coordinates these attacks. It can’t be a coincidence that all of these different people, across the country, are all being attacked in EXACTLY THE SAME WAY. The Left seems to be working off a checklist:
(1) Call them a RAAACIST!
(2) Ruin their business, get them fired, make them lose their jobs so they have no money
(3) Make them unemployable by calling them a RAAACIST over and over again to fill up Google searches on their names with these attacks
(4) Threaten to kill them, kill their families, set fire to their homes, mutilate their animals, etc.
(5) Say they hope the victim gets AIDS and dies
Number five is what we typically get every day around here. It’s time all of us stop taking this stuff lying down, and instead call the Left out on its tactics. If “progressivism” is so wonderful, then why do its proponents have to behave like Brown Shirts, the way that they do?
Riddle us that, Batman.
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Here’s more creative tactics used against the Left. YaVaughnie Wilkins has launched a PR blitz in several cities around the world exposing her affair with Dr. Utopia’s friend and advisor, Charles Phillips. Billboards, websites, music videos, this woman is CREATIVE.
For our entire lives, the Left has dominated with tactics like this — using ridicule, multimedia platforms, and creativity to get their message across.
Seeing these same tricks used against them is not only a lot of fun — but it’s educational too.
