Unfortunately, I am not tech savvy, but I think the gist of what you were saying is that we need GOP attack and rebuttal internet “machines.” The Dems have been able to flood the internet, constantly, with deliberately distorted attacks against our side.

Your posting clearly indicates that this problem continues and unless we begin to fill that void, we will be lost..

I came here this morning (and have stayed a while, reading) just especially to mock the old First Lady for her inability to find anyone in the State Department who could speak Russian.

It was not worthy of a diary, but my snark was bubbling up inside me.

And I would like to mock President Teleprompter for his long sinewy neck developed from the never-ending head pivots from one prompter to the other.

And I wanted a quick snarky post that would yearn for a Clinton moment. Yes, the moment when his teleprompter broke down at his State of the Union speech. And, yes, Clinton just rolled right on, but the Greatest Orator of Our Time would have to stop and regurgitate.

Please, PLEASE, PLEASE give us this great idea!!!!!!!

Proper grammar saves lives.

Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.

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Activists Taking Action: Unified Patriots

What do you guys think? Does it fit in with our new Take No Prisoners methods?

Proper grammar saves lives.

Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.

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Activists Taking Action: Unified Patriots

Yeah ok it isn’t a secret…. but i was lost for a title …………..

Libs see facts and make them their own by reading under the fact line and declaring that to be the story….

Example from today:

“Maybe he just got faulty intelligence?” Headline from http://www.dailykos.com/,

“Wash. Times: BLANKLEY: “Obama lied; the economy died”. Media Matters says it’s the new, dumb meme of the day.”

The lib rag has a source to get its credibility from. Repubs have NOTHING!!!! Now don’t get me wrong, Redstate is my favorite place on earth (well.. you know) but this is a discussion place. We need a place like Media Matters… yes I know there is Newsbusters, but they aren’t a source, they are a truth teller. We need sources. New sources. Cool sounding named sources. Well funded sources. But even without sources (on account I got sent down my own passion path, and for that I shall recover…) the ‘ Democrat News’ (or please someone give that thing a brand name) :

MEDIA MATTERS: [Blankley's 'Obama lied; the economy died', is the new dumb meme of the day': The [insert cleverly named extremely well funded Republican machine here] says, IT’S OBAMA’S COMING DEPRESSION! Obama’s lies are (list them here) and the resulting economic crash is ALL HIS FAULT.

All we have to do is follow the lib stories… turn it back to the truth and mock the spin libs have put on it by simple pointing out the truth. It will be very easy to tell the truth. Heck, liberals must have to go into group hugs since to come up with the spinned lines they do spew forth, (either that or that whole liberals are insane thing is right.)

My kindest thanks to your for your support of my post on calling on developers to provide the tools that GOP.com won’t provide.

I hope all of you who read this will indeed visit http://gopguerrillas.ning.com and get involved – even if it’s just with your thoughts and ideas.

I have always though of the republican party as possessing a ‘big tent’ although our leaders and many of us individually have articulated it poorly.

That’s why I think there is plenty of room for me to differ with your your statement that Republicans are not activists. I don’t differ hugely with you here. It’s very true that many of us are very private individuals and don’t get involved publicly. There are also many of us who do want to be activists.

Finally, and I place myself in this category, there are many of us who have recently changed our minds – we have decided to become activists. But we need the online Action Center tools to coordinate our efforts effectively.

Observe the Tea Parties that have already occurred. I think the next round of Tea Parties on April 15 are going to be a big nationwide event.

Your correct assertion about splinter groups on ninig.com (and many opther places) only supports one of my main points documented on previous posts and on http://gopguerrillas.ning.com/: without the tools we need, our efforts are diffused instead of focused. We surf around looking for a resource that is actually useful and never find a REAL Action Center that supports and coordinates grassroots effort.

To put it in scientific terms, right now we are observing the control group without an experimental group: the Action Center I want to develop. The GOP proved yesterday, with their RFP for a new GOP.com that a real Action Center is not in the offing. It’s not in there. The RFC is only 2 pages and pretty darned lame (see Erick’s ‘RNC Fail’ post.

I vigorously disagree with you on one point: a web presence is only as good as it’s traffic. By ‘traffic’ I am going to assume that you mean all of the relevant web site metrics such as hit, page rank, frineds, backlinks, etc. etc. That is VERY TRUE for the type of Social Networking site that the GOP wants to build. But it’s not true for an Action Center.

The relevant metrics for an action center would be: how many voters were contacted? How many new voters registered? How many letters to Congresscritters facilitated? How many people driven to the polls on election day? How many public events scheduled? How many attended those? These are the metrics that a true Action Center wants to produce and raise.

I’ll point out at this point that Obama’s web site had an excellent action center. I know, I checked it out. online. I was in there. If you indicated that you wanted to make phone calls, you got a list of phone numbers to call – even in other states that were battlegrounds – and you could start calling RIGHT NOW. So I am not just talking about a meeting place for activists, I am talking about a work center or Action Center. One that actually supports and directs activities that have been proven to help immensely in winning elections.

I think a lot of these online splinter groups are created by folks who have an inchoate desire to be part of an Action Center – many of them are indeed articulating calls to action – but they just have not fully formed in their mind that an Action Center is what they really want.

So again, this supports my thesis that the absence of an Action Center causes some of the ‘splintering’ we see – what I have been calling the diffusion of effort.

I may disagree with you in certain specifics in how to apply this statement, but I certainly agree with your statement that it is time for us to work the web instead of using the web to work other Republicans!

Yes!

My goal is to use the web as a tool to work the streets, to work the vote, to work the neighborhoods, to work the incumbents and the candidates. There are lots of Republicans who want to do this if they can just get a little coordination, support and direction, and if they can find just a few other like-minded Republicans in their neighborhood so they can work in small (or big) local teams.

Indeed, Republicans should talk less with Republicans about other Republicans. I think both Rush and Steele should be saying ‘hey, there is room in my tent for that other guy. He probably speaks for some actual voters out there. And Steele certainly should have hyperventilated when his fellow travelers were called Nazis.

But my conversation is not much about Repub/Repub dialog. I want to foster the Repub-to-Voter dialog.

I’ll leave it to others to point out liberal mistakes. As soon as I have an Action Center to work from, I plan to be out there on the block with my team mates letting folks know in a friendly, non-argumentative, and respectful way, that I think my own GOP tent is big enough to include them if they like lower taxes, less government and the unlimited opportunities afforded by personal liberty. SImple as that.

Steele may not be able to change their mind, but a friendly neighbor may be able to change their vote.

Blog on. Comment On. We need that. We cannot do without it. But I am convinced that there are enough Republican Activist out there – even if they are brand new ones – that want an Action Center and will use one.

Again, my kindest thanks to you for giving such excellent stimulus to the discussion we need to have about this.

I feel my tent is big enough to include you and I hope the reverse it true.

Kindest Regards,

Ron Robinson
http://gopguerrillas.ning.com

So I forgot to put the link in the post above to the thing I was going to link to. So it must not have been important. Sorry ’bout that.

Lee, your analogy to water is a fit comparison. Eventually, even slow moving water will erode a substantial object. In this instance the object is the liberal conversation. As I’ve noticed with the liberal talking heads, pundits, etc they always stay on topic and attempt to push everything back on anything perceived as “Republican”.

During the past election the Repub’s were almost always countering the liberal discussion as defensive, instead of offensive. In other words they were reacting to the liberal talking points instead of bringing forth anything new to the discussion.

The general public hears the message being controlled and since it was being controlled by liberals the Republicans constantly found themselves on the defensive. That’s pretty weak IMO.

Have you thought about forming a donation widget to help fund this concept you describe?

This makes my point.

Center For American Progress Launching Big War Room To Drive Obama Agenda

Joining forces publicly, “The war room — a joint project of CAP Action Fund and Media Matters Action Network — will be headed by well-known liberal operative Tara McGuinness, who worked on John Kerry’s presidential campaign and was a major player in the anti-war movement during the Bush years.”

“The new war room — which is called Progressive Media — represents a serious ratcheting up of efforts to present a united liberal front in the coming policy wars. The goal of the war room will be to do hard-hitting research that boils down complex policy questions into usable talking points and narratives that play well in the media and build public support for the White House’s policy goals.”

So where is the Republican machine now? Are we still trying to figure out how to make the Party more hop-hop?

Passed in the dust.