Posted by
Noam D. Gear on Friday, May 15, 2009 8:35:00 PM
If you were shooting geese, where would you aim?
Would you aim at the center of the flock, which is the average location of flock?
Or would you aim slightly ahead of one goose, perhaps the lead goose?
Easy...you aim ahead of one goose—the lead goose. Okay, with that settled, we move onward we go into the tricky business of fighting liberals in the public arena of political discourse.
I fear that conservatives are wasting too much of our rhetorical ammunition shooting at the center of the flock--and hitting nothing. There are a many of us, but there are many thousands of liberal geese dropping their excrement on every aspect of the country. Many of the geese have names:
- Rampant Corruption
- Skyrocketing debt
- Moral degradation, and numbness to it
- Sycophantic media
- Education becoming indoctrination
- Defective Republicans participating at the edges or center of all of the above
- The list goes on for a thousand miles
We cannot continue to focus on all of them, lest we become mere makers of encyclopediae.
We will be known for having sat upon the sidelines and prattled upon our keyboards while our civilization crumbled.
We cannot focus on all of them. Focusing on everything is no focus at all.
We need to focus on one issue or one person, maybe two.
And then go after that person and that issue with everything we have…even if it isn’t the one person that 40% of us care about the most. If you wind up in the 40%, be patient, your goose will come sooner if you help us with the first one.
But which goose, which person, which issue should get our focus first?
Each day, when a liberal wakes up, they look for some person who lives according to a set of principles and they set about the task of smashing that person to pieces, if they can. Liberals have a reward system based upon the style and flair with which they can do the smashing. They get brownie points for how funny it is, how clever it is, how urbane and sophisticated they look while doing it. That is the source of smug smile printed in the permafrost flesh of Rachel Madow's "face". She knows she is winning the contest with other Liberals. Liberals get brownie points for debunking everything under the sun, except for themselves. I know there is nothing new here so far, but hang on.
What is new is that liberals have learned to spontaneously agree upon, identify, and smash a common target at the same time. They probably learned this skill from the Coyotes that raised them, who knows? Anyhow, they coordinate their attacks, and make them very effective that way. It isn’t clear to me whether it is an actual coordination, or more like simple mob behavior. But they do coordinate. And the sad fact is that conservatives need to coordinate more like they do.
It is time for conservatives to turn the tables. We need to identify the sacred institutions and people of the left, and begin to trash them, in a synchronous, coordinated and systematic fashion--exactly as they have done to us.
After seeing the “lead goose” get "shot out of the air", what goose wants to eagerly sign up to take his place? Who wants to be the next Rush Limbaugh, or Tom Delay? Look at the frivolous ethics complaints that rain down upon Sarah Palin. There is no coincidence there, just liberal malice that goes unanswered by the civil, gentle, and kind people of the right—especially the Christian right.
We conservatives have a problem with our focus. Because we have real jobs and real families and limited time, we fight our political battles with snips and snaps, here and there. No time for rhyme or reason. We don’t have time to wait for the perfect shot at the perfect target, so we shoot our guns at geese, and airplanes, and decoys, and clouds, and stars, and the sun, and whatever-the-hell else is passing over our heads.
We must stop all that.
We need to figure out one single "lead goose" and coordinate ourselves.
We need to shut off our televisions, put away our toys, and fight the people who are preparing to enslave our children with debt, disease, and poverty…and every other problem that will be foisted upon us by Liberals...so that they can "rescue" us from those same problems later. Without such problems in the world, Liberals wouldn’t be needed.
Liberals are firemen by day, and arsonists by night. Even a Pastor I know works hard at restoring the smashed lives of teenagers, while also supporting policies and people who did the smashing in the first place. It would be far better if the teenagers weren’t smashed in the first place, don’t you think?
Saul Alinski’s book, “Rules for Radicals” has coached the Democrats to “make it very personal”. Likewise, we need to make it personal. Within the one issue we pick, we need single out one person and go to work—making that person the “face” of the problem.
To be clear (so clear that Slowberman could understand), violence and hunting are only a metaphor here. As the left has done, we will use legal tools of influence only. We will use research, calls, protests, research, heckling, annoyance, research, letter writing, FOA, civil disobedience, ethics filings, law suits, web-clogging, trolling, exposure, research, more exposure, and then hopefully-at-last the utter discrediting of the liberal at hand…followed by the next. I have a new word for this process. I call it “Civics”. I hope it replaces television some day.
So...no more talk of broad, diffuse, and faceless issues. No more litanies of grievances, or burlap sacks full of complaints that lead to nowhere. We need to figure out who is the single most deserving person for the treatment we have received from the political left. So…I present you…
“THE LEAD GOOSE PROJECT”.
We need to nominate, vote upon, and agree upon a liberal “goose” that is fat, ugly, out in the open, loud, low, and likely to have many “bones in the closet”. Somebody for whom the establishment media will mount a reflexive defense at first…and then betray when the rest of the truth comes out. Note here that few liberals have enough money to purchase Human Condoms that protected the likes of Bill Clinton.
A Human Condom is a person who is paid to go on onto television and protect their master even after their master has soiled them on all surfaces—inside and out. Human Condoms include Lanny Davis, Paul Begala, James Carville, and Donna Brazile; and they are much more expensive than latex condoms. There are only a dozen or so Human Condoms in the whole country. Obama is wearing six of them, and so we may have the good fortune to find that the others are short supply.
[I excluded Keith Olberman here because he is more like a condom that somehow soiled itself…even without a master. Nobody really wants to pick him up and put him on, though he would be delighted for somebody to try.]
Our Lead Goose should be somebody who makes a big mess on their way out of power. Somebody who will clutch at other Liberals, and then lose their grip in the slime. I could go on, but you get the idea.
Please communicate this URL to friends by email, blog comments, phone…whatever.
I hope we could get the project onto HotAir or Rushbo. We need thousands of inputs before we announce the “regional quarter-finals” of the selection process.
Part of what will un-nerve the lead goose in the very early going will be the knowledge that they were selected from among thousands and selected by thousands…using a completely democratic process.
Invite each Conservative to participate by submitting nominations. Each nomination should shed some new light on the goose they nominate, if possible. I will tabulate inputs over time and keep you all abreast of progress.
Let the nominations pour in (below)!!!
All for now.
Thanks,
Noam