Reply #5: we need a whole bunch of Karl Roves [View All]

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working at various levels

we need other infrastructure as well: media outlets (AAR is a great start), think tanks (the current so-called "liberal" think tanks are actually centrist-corporatist, more push-the-envelope pundits, a network of daily talking points.

we need to unite two or three or four constituencies, perhaps workers or environmentalists or civil libertarians in much the way the Right has coopted fundy religious wackos, anti-choice zealots and gun nuts.

we need a focused, small set of recurring six- or seven-word slogans designed to be repeated ad nauseum and to appeal to these constituencies.

we need to be willing to say anything and do anything to get elected.

and we need a bunch of Karl Roves--he's the major leaguer with a whole system of minor leaguers under him--hundreds of them around the country collaborating.