Know your lib friends II

 

Know your adversary Part II

What you have to realize is that liberals come in many stripes.  But most share this common trait. Libs just know they are smarter.  They are so smart that often they don’t even have to engage a conservative in disagreement.  Many don’t have an argument.  They just buy into whatever part of liberalism they choose.  And when someone wants to engage them they just pass them off as an ignoramous.  “You’re stupid!” the pundits on television say.  Isn’t that how a six-yr.-old argues?  Unable to advance a cogent and convincing case, they just holler about stupidity.  Or they come up with little buzz phrases and repeat them numerous times as if that somehow proves the point.

            Don’t laugh.  The power of repetition in brainwashing is proven.  Clarence Thomas was supported by 69% of women after his testimony, but a year later after Hill was lauded and magnified innumerable times, Thomas had slipped to 44%.  Repetition of a slogan is not the only tactic.  Semantic bedlam, where the lib argues over fine points to try to throw the other guy off, is also common.  “It depends on what your definition of IS is.”

            It gets kinda stretched.  Eisenhower was “dumb”.  Nixon was dumber and Ford dumber still.  Reagan was really dumb and the two Bushes were dumbest of all.  Keeps getting worse.  So why then have the R’s won 7 out of the last 11 elections?  What amazes most of us is that Ike put together the largest allied military in history, pulled of the Normandy invasion and served two highly successful terms.  Think what he could have done if he’d have been smart!  So why, I must ask, do the R’s keep running dumb guys?  Isn’t this a dumb strategy?  But of course the libs think no one comes close to the IQ of FDR.  You know, the guy who passed all those unconstitutional New Deal laws.  The guy who so threatened business that his two recession recoveries were, up until Obama, the only two recessions in US history that lasted longer than 24 months. The guy who couldn’t figure out the Japanese were going to take us to war and bomb Pearl Harbor.  Smart guy.

            Reagan “was so dumb he couldn’t tie his shoes,” according to the NY Times. John Kerry said Bush 41 was even dumber than Dan Quayle. Everybody from Letterman to the Washington Post thought Reagan was stupid. Hmm.  Only President since the civil war who had a college degree in economics and understood monetarism and supply side econ. Used it to put together the longest 4.5% growth era in modern American history.  Ended the cold war by economically competing with USSR and they realized they couldn’t win.  Gore Vidal said “President Reagan’s library burned down.  Both books.” Al Gore said Reagan’s ideas were “unfathomably dumb”.   The blabocracy kept harping on his lack of mental acumen.  Turned out, 49 states re-elected him.  Katie Couric called him an “airhead.”  That must make her a Helium Head.

            Okay, I shouldn’t have picked on Gore. We know he got Ds at Yale.  He said, “A zebra cannot change its spots.”  Obama, of course is the smartest man in history.  IRS targeting? “I didn’t know.” Benghazi? “I wasn’t clear on what happened.” Website? “didn’t know about the glitches.” NSA? “Had no idea.” Fast & Furious? “didn’t know until I saw it in the newspaper.”

            So what do we do about smarty Dems piping slogans and sound bites?  Find the self-incriminating part of their logic and turn it back on them.  But don’t do it in a threatening way.  Just ask as a dumb and humble person.   Like “If US citizens must have their phone records monitored against terrorists, why did we put the border fence on hold?” They smile and say you are glad we both agree in principle.  Let them off easily.  You won't convince them.  Just leave them with a friendly doubt.  And remember this.  The goal of a campaign is not to activate the opposition voters, so the closer you get to the election, the more Aw shucks, friendly you should be.