Common Leftist Attacks
TAKE ACTION: What are the most common attacks on Governor Palin you hear lately? We need to identify and then refudiate them
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Please help with an ongoing project to give people an idea of how to refudiate the consistent attacks made on Governor Palin by the Left, the GOP Cocktail Party establishment, and the agenda-driven media.
Can you name an attack you hear people make on the Governor, most often without any sort of evidence to back it up, or real explanation from the attacker why he feels this way?
Example: “She’s a quitter!”
Example: “She’s too polarizing!”
Example: “She’s unelectable!”
This afternoon, Justin’s helping me design some Debate Prep Cards I want to make that will tackle every one of these attacks you can list for me. I’ll take the time to make these as bullet points so that people can save them, print them out, and maybe cut them into slips they can keep in a recipe box to start preparing them to be surrogate speakers for the Governor after she officially announces her campaign.
I’ve have more information in an essay for each one, but I figure the cards would be a nice study aid just like I used all throughout school for most of my classes. You can keep little cards like this in your bag or in your purse, and whenever you have some time to kill, you can flip through them and start formulating your own “elevator speeches” for how you would convey these focused bursts of information to strangers in the few minutes you might have in front of them responding to one of the attacks on the Governor in person.
Things like this are hard work to put together, but with your help we can hopefully start stealing the Left’s thunder by neutralizing the attacks before they have a real chance to stick.
Can you think of a common attack you notice being repeated often and list a response you have found effective in refudiating it?
As always, be creative, so we can win one for the Saracuda with this!
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UPDATE: My friend CJK write in with the following additional request for good, solid Palin-related information:
Dear HillBuzz,
Saw your latest thread asking for help with refudiating (repudiating?) common barbs heard against Gov. Palin as a potential candidate. I’ve read Going Rogue and America By Heart, but have never seen a truly factual, objective short bio of Gov. Palin from which an individual might glean sufficient facts to develop the two-minute “elevator pitches” needed to respond to the standard clap-trap objections to Gov. Palin. During a quick scan of bios on the internet (Googled “Sarah Palin Bio”) it became apparent that most of these attempt, in some subtle and some not-so-subtle ways, to make Gov. Palin look bad. That includes the one on Wikipedia, which is one of the places where many of the less-informed appear to go to get their info on many subjects. It occurs to me that we really need to find (or draft up) a factual, objective short bio of Gov. Palin for use during the 2012 campaign, and as a source for the two-minute “elevator pitches.” Do you know whether any such short bios exist, or whether any are being written? Thanks again for all you do!
Love and prayers,
CJK
Do you know of an excellent, short bio of the Governor? If not what should be included and I will write one that can be told in an elevator speech.
Facebook Focus Group: More evidence of growing dissonace within the gay community as gays suffer in the Obamaconomy
Here’s another “Facebook Focus Group” exchange I lifted off Facebook, where members of the gay community here in Boystown got into a political discussion on someone’s “wall”. The originator of this exchange tried spouting the same tired old cliches against conservatives the Left always trots out — including referring to the majority of Americans as “teabaggers”, as directed by Anderson Cooper of CNN — but surprisingly other gay men chided him for this, refudiating his DNC-approved talking points.
It’s fascinating to see conservatism alive and well in the hearts of many gay people, even though the Left still has a monopoly here in Boystown because of decades of well-orchestrated propaganda that makes gay men in particular attack the conservative side of the aisle for being “evil” on social issues, ignoring the common beliefs these gay guys might have regarding fiscal responsibility.
When the gay community starts noticing and caring that Democrats have nearly spent this country into oblivion by way of bloated entitlement programs, the Democrat party has a real problem on its hands.
The only thing preventing the gay split from the Left, in fact, is the Cocktail Party GOP establishment’s profound stupidity in continuing to allow certain social issues to be used as wedges to keep gays away.
If the Republican Party purely branded itself as the fiscally conservative party and conducted itself strongly this way on all matters — whether there is a stunt, manufactured crisis conjured up by the White House or not — there would be a lot of gays who’d stop listening to the brainwashing and would start voting in their own economic best interests.
Just read the exchange below and see how much potential there is to bring naturally conservative gay guys over to the Republican side of the ballot, if only the Cocktail Party GOP establishment was smart enough to adjust the Republican Party’s branding.
Facebook as Focus Group: Leftists believe Republicans are making Obama look bad to win 2012 election
Recently, I discovered Facebook is the single most valuable tool for mining insights into the thinking patterns (an oxymoron extraordinaire in this case) of the Left.
I monitor the postings of people here in Boystown, looking for their political conversations, to see what the meme is this week in terms of justifying the Obama presidency…or rationalizing how “The One”, as Oprah shilled him, and the false messiah, as the lamestream media built him up to be, has failed so spectacularly in delivering all that promised hopeychange unto Americans.
In the lastest exchange I came across, someone in the middle ventured into a conspiracy theory that Republicans are deliberately trying to make Obama look bad so that a GOP candidate will win the 2012 election. Sister mister, ain’t nobody out there making Obama look bad, okrrrrr. Aunt Fancy’s doing a great job of that on his own.
Here’s the exchange:
How do you debate people who seek to attack Governor Sarah Palin?
Our good friend Patricia sent in the following email exchange that recently transpired between a neighbor, Anne, and herself, with Anne engaging in attacks on Governor Sarah Palin that seem oddly familiar…because they’re almost word-for-word lifted from the media’s usual talking points.
Patricia is no shrinking violet and didn’t take any gruff from Anne. She defended Governor Palin and debated Anne in a calm and reasoned way, which drove Anne into emotional territory where she stooped to expletives and other irrationality that just made her look foolish (more so than usual, according to Patricia).
I’ve reprinted the exchange below to give you an idea how YOU too can counter these tired and familiar attacks on Governor Palin, whether they come to you in email exchanges or happen in the grocery store, at the park, or in the coffee room at the office.
You’re going to keep seeing this same garbage recycled repeatedly for the next year…so it’s important to get in your own mindset to refudiate it.
Wink.
Poll: 85% of Republican Voters Care More About Government Spending, The Economy and National Security Than Social Issues
H/T ImpeachObamaCampaign.com
Long-time Hillbuzz readers know that we are fighting a war against three enemies: Leftists, The Lamestream Media and Islamofascism. And by “we,” we mean Americans who love our country, work for a living, save for retirement, love the American Dream, respect the rule of law, and honor the Constitution’s limits on government power.
In most cases, The Lamestream Media and The Left are one and the same–98% of Washington Bureau reporters vote for Democrats. And to save our country, we must never forget that virtually all political reporting in America is agenda-driven.
Most members of the Washington Press Corp(se) sincerely believe (or strongly suspect) that all Conservatives are reactionary, raaaaacist, selfish, ignorant, buck-toothed, misogynistic, gullible, Pinto-up-on-cinderblocks, Bible-thumping bigots.
You must never, ever forget this when you’re reading news stories about Sarah Palin, Herman Cain, Ron Paul, Mittens Romney or T-Paw, or any other potential GOP or Tea Party candidate.
Case in point. This past week, the Gallup organization conducted a telephone poll of 971 randomly surveyed Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The results of this poll are available here.
Gallup asked participants to rate the issues that are most important to them. They are (in order):
- Government spending and power (36%)
- Business and the economy (31%)
- National defense and foreign policy (15%)
- Social issues (15%)
In other words, 85% of Republicans and Republican-leaning Independents care more about everything and anything else than they care about social issues.
To put it another way, social issues are the #1 concern of only 15% of the likely Republican voters surveyed.
The poll also asked to rank GOP candidate preference by issue. So among that 15% social-issues-sliver of Americans, 23% favor Sarah Palin, versus the 18% who favor Mittens Romney.
I’m not a math wizard, but I think that means that less than 4% of Republicans favor Sarah Palin as their #1 choice for President thanks to her positions on social issues.
But you’ll note, that is not the headline of the article at Gallup.com (“Romney’s Appeal Spans the Issues, Palin Leads on Social Values.”) Nor is it the headline of most news stories generated by this poll.
I write headlines for a living. And here are just a few totally accurate headlines I could write based on the results of this Gallup poll.
Read these alternate headlines (all based on the exact same data) and pay attention to how they effect you emotionally. Then ask yourself why the Lamestream Media wouldn’t go with these headlines or write these stories.
- Poll: 85% of Republican Voters Care More About Government Spending, The Economy and National Security Than Social Issues (the headline I chose for this post)
- Non-Candidate Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney Tied Among Foreign Policy Voters
- Poll Confirms Tea Party Platform’s Appeals to GOP Voters
- Ron Paul #2 Choice Among Declared GOP Candidates
- Unknown GOP Candidate Herman Cain Within 3 Points of Mitt Romney Among Voters Concerned About Government Spending
- Herman Cain Beats Newt Gingrich on Foreign Policy, Say GOP Voters
- GOP Voters Favor Ron Paul Over Newt Gingrich and Tim Pawlenty on Business and Economy
- Non-Candidate Sarah Palin Ranked #2 Among GOP Voters Surveyed
- Tim Pawlenty’s Support In Single Digits On All Issues Among GOP Voters
- Herman Cain Ranked #2 Behind Mitt Romney on Government and Deficits by GOP Voters
And yet the media (mark my words) is going to play up Mittens Romney’s “broad-based GOP support” and pigeonhole Sarah Palin as the choice of the rabid religious right. They likely won’t mention Herman Cain at all (except to call him an Uncle Tom) or Ron Paul (except to call him a cranky old man).
Why?
Because the media is 100% in the tank for Barack Hussein Obama, and will do anything to make sure he is re-elected. Anything.
And a proven winner of a strategy is to divide and conquer.
In order to squeak out another term, the media and the Obama Regime (redundancy alert!) must create divisions and infighting among voters who are concerned about the size of government, the economy and Islamofacism, because generic GOP candidates always win against generic Democrat candidates in polls on these issues.
And social issues are the executioner’s axe they will use to divide and conquer.
The media works hard every day to convince GOP candidates that they have to focus on social issues like gay marriage and abortion to win. The 2010 midterm Democrat electoral bloodbath proved that this is a Big Lie. The winning platform was the Tea Party platform of smaller, Constitutional government, low taxes and massive spending cuts.
According to these poll results, you also hand the 2012 election to Obama when you use social issues as a “purity test” and threaten to stay home on Election Day to “teach the GOP a lesson” unless the GOP candidate promises to outlaw abortion on January 21st, 2013 (which the president couldn’t do, even if he or she wanted to.)
The truth is that the libertarian vote–estimated to be approximately 14% of the electorate–is key to Republican victory is 2012. As Ronald Reagan said, “I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.”
In the 2012 election, the libertarian vote will be the swing vote. Not the evangelicals or social issue Republicans.
Keep that in mind as you read stories and watch news coverage of GOP candidates. The Government-Controlled Media is desperate to divide the Obama-defeating voting block that is made up of the GOP, libertarians, Independents, and the Tea Party.
You aid and abet the lamestream media in this quest when you consume news headlines and poll results without thinking or analyzing the motives of the news outlets that are producing them, and then forward these news stories, Eeyore-like, to your friends and family.
Never forget it! If you are a member of The American Resistance, the people writing most of the stories about GOP candidates believe you are a reactionary, raaaaacist, selfish, ignorant, buck-toothed, misogynistic, gullible, Pinto-up-on-cinderblocks, Bible-thumping bigot.
So why on God’s green Earth would you let them pick your candidate for you?
Hillbuzz Blue Team Action Alert: Does White House Propaganda Job Violate Hatch Act and/or FEC Regulations?
H/T IOwnTheWorld.com
As a one-time civil servant, I am well aware of the local and State laws that are intended to prevent government employees from doing electioneering and/or partisan work while on the clock.
So I was stunned to read that the White House — not the Democrat National Committee or Obama’s campaign organization — had hired a civil servant to “squash negative stories” about The Messiah, Our Dear Leader, in “a more aggressive defense of the president and his policies as his re-election campaign gears up,” according to the Huffington Post.
Notice, the descriptions of this new position* don’t refer to the “Director of Progressive Media & Online Response” in terms of correcting inaccuracies (i.e. “fact checking”) but in terms of deleting opposition speech (i.e. “reality checking” and “liberty checking.”)
In other words, the position of “Director of Progressive Media & Online Response” is entirely partisan and election-related.
The White House’s new Troll In Chief, Jesse Lee, launched his official government twitter account with the photo of the killer robot you see above (which would also kind of be a copyright violation, wouldn’t it? When used for official government business, as opposed to “fair use” in satire?)
With just a little Googling, I managed to find references to The Hatch Act, which regulates election activities by government employees on the Federal level.
Here’s the language from the official form you use to report violations of the Hatch Act:
The Hatch Act prohibits federal, District of Columbia, some state and local and nonprofit organization employees from
engaging in certain types of political activities. See 5 U.S.C. §§ 7321- 7326 and 5 U.S.C. §§ 1501-1508.Federal Employees are generally prohibited from:
1. Using their official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with or affecting the result of an election.
2. Soliciting, accepting, or receiving political contributions (with some exceptions).
3. Running for nomination or as candidates for partisan political office.
4. Soliciting or discouraging the participation in political activity of any person who has business before their
employing agency.
5. Engaging in political activity while on duty, in any room or building occupied in the discharge of official duties,
while wearing a uniform or official insignia, or while using a vehicle owned or leased by the United States
government.
Now, I’m not a lawyer. But I do know that Hillbuzz is read by thousands of people in the Washington, DC area, where lawyers (especially election lawyers) are thick on the ground.
So someone out there can explain to us whether Jesse Lee’s new gig is a violation of the Hatch Act and/or Federal election laws.
Report Hatch Act Violations
And if it is, please feel free to submit your findings on this official form from the Office of Special Counsel.
Blue Team: Activate!
*Apparently the only job ever actually “saved or created” by the Obama administration, according to a commenter on TwitPic, which made us LOL.
Obama Regime Adds Taxpayer Funded Online Propaganda Czar to Support Re-Election Campaign
Hat tip to alert Hillbuzz reader In DC Troll for this remarkable tidbit at Media Bistro:
H/T ThePeoplesCube.com
The White House has named Jesse Lee to a new position within its communications department titled Director of Progressive Media & Online Response. According to The Huffington Post, Lee will essentially be responsible for building up Obama’s online presence as he prepares for his reelection bid, and squashing any negative stories.
Yes, you heard right! The most open and transparent American administration in history now has a paid-by-taxpayers staffer whose job it is to “monitor” “new media” outlets–like Hillbuzz, for example–to eliminate online criticism of The Won. Makes sense, when you think about it, since the Lamestream Media is already entirely in the tank for Barak Hussein Obama, who is not a Muslim. The only place you will find criticism accurate reporting about the Obama Regime is online or on talk radio.
This position isn’t funded by the Democrat National Committee or Teh Won’s re-election campaign. It’s an official White House position, a government job, funded by the taxpayers of America, to stifle your First Amendment rights.
Jesse Lee is apparently taking his new position very seriously, if his first tweet is any indication:
White House staffer Jesse Lee's first tweet.
How can this possibly be legal? How can a civil servant be working on a re-election campaign from inside the White House? This may be an excellent question for your Senators and Representative.
