by Rich Carroll

http://www.patriotscreed.com/

May 10, 2009

Boil-down the results of the 2008 election and here’s what you have:  Americans rejected an all-American born girl with a tremendous record of achievement as a state governor, and chose a non-American with zero experience and close ties to communists, terrorists, and Muslims.  The same voters rejected a conservative Mormon because of his religion, and elected a Marxist Muslim.  How hard will it be to sell mom, apple pie and the flag to 2010 voters who either do not know about mom, apple pie and the flag, or simply don’t care?

Such is the paradigm shift of our culture, and conservative hopefuls need to fully grasp they cannot sell achievement, history, facts or patriotism.  Today’s majority voter is woefully uneducated, poorly schooled in America’s history, and emotionally driven by celebrity attraction.  Future elected officials will need the whitest teeth, glitzy decorations and best rock bands to attract the “yay“ ballot from a culture  ranked 25th in the world in intelligence.  Lengthy, historical speech’s are out; vague promises are in.  Tell people what they want to hear.  Society Americana is really into buying the best lies.

Conservative political planners need to realize John Wayne is out; Brad Pitt is in, and drugs are the biggest cash crop in our agronomy nation.  Avoid the white, well educated, successful male combat veteran.  Female voters will perceive this candidate as a “bully,” probably intolerant of humans having sex with animals, and more likely to go to war (the dreaded campaign killer) than a metro sexual momma’s boy who has avoided any kind of fight his entire life.  Voters would prefer a piano playing nice weak guy over a steadfast, principled hard liner.  The ideal candidate will embrace ignorance, exuberantly making up for his paucity of knowledge with stridency and absurdity of his opinions.  Pick a candidate with a few individual quirks.  Public relations can make any quirk “cute.”  Voters will focus on these and ignore the hard, complex, maddening substance of policy and any wild-eyed conviction the candidate may actually have.

We also know that American voters are not bothered at all with a candidate who expresses a sneering condescension towards all those bible-thumpin, shot gun-pumpin “white hillbillies” and that proclaiming our sins and apologies to the world is a “good thing.”  During the last election the candidate who portrayed a clear contemptible hatred for the United States and our founding documents proved quite popular.  More than likely because those who enter the voting booth know less and less about our founding documents.

The conservative challenge to regain control and secure our future will be determined by how we pick and frame our candidate so that he or she appeals to people who crave “cool” and celebrity.  If this means sending text messages about upcoming appearances so be it.  If this means posting NCAA basketball picks online; do it.  Frame superficial over true depth and conviction.  We need to only tailor the messenger, not the message.  Individual and group identity politics is in.  Conservatives will need someone who can artificially appeal to every stray dog minority and grievance monger residing in America.  Perhaps a single Vietnamese mother with a black child;? A great example of yet another “victim of white society.”  We might get some of the left vote if we ran a Muslim Imam for President…find one; preferably one with radical ties.