The Republican junkyard dog strategy: whine and attack

[Fridays Child]

Just like gunpowder-fed junkyard dogs, Republicans howl with pain while they, simultaneously, attack. They are loud, vicious, and relentless.

Is there some reason that we can't fight just as dirty?

[Mythsaje]

1. We need to fight dirty,

but smarter. Like someone willing to use both martial arts AND street fighting techniques in a street fight. Don't just go for the throat...Kick 'em in the knee, punch 'em in the stomach, and stick your thumb in their eye.

Then loudly accuse them of attacking you...

:evilgrin:

[Fridays Child]

2. Exactly. It's what they do.

And it works.

[Mythsaje]

3. Yep...

exactly my point. The idea isn't to be 'over the top' but to hit precisely, on subjects they can't answer swiftly. If they try, they sound as if their brains have fallen out of their ears.

This bunch doesn't think well on their feet...they need to get together and compare talking points before they can answer a question.

What people need to do (particularly the press--the parts that haven't sold out completely) is ask a hard-hitting question. When they evade, ask another one about a totally different subject they don't want to talk about. When they side-step that one, ask another. Then go back to the first topic again.

It'll drive 'em nuts.

Imagine if Dean started asking the interviewers questions like "why doesn't 'support the troops' mean giving them the weapons and armor they need to succeed? Let me know when you get an answer to THAT question, will you?"

[Fridays Child]

4. From your keyboard to Gov. Dean's ears!

[chalky]

5. We don't HAVE to fight dirty. We just have to FIGHT.

And not give ONE. DAMN. INCH.

[Mythsaje]

6. Depends on what you consider

'dirty.'

Fighting isn't a game...particularly when you're fighting for life, liberty, or the pursuit of liberty. If you're being attacked by a mob, it's time to stop playing patty-cake and get down to serious butt-kicking.
If I was being mobbed, I sure as hell wouldn't be worried about the niceties of a 'fair fight.' I'd trip, gouge, bite, scratch, and batter anyone who came within reach.

Imagine this...

Dean's attacked verbally across the Corporate Media by Rove, Delay, Cheney, Limbaugh, and O'Reilly.

His response?

"Karl Rove can't defend his administration's policies, so all he's got left is to go on the attack."

"Delay needs to clean up his own house before he starts throwing rocks through someone else's windows."

"Cheney needs to remember that it was his company, Haliburton, that was supplying Hussein with WMD materials in the first place. Remember when Saddam was a FRIEND, Dick?"

"Rush Limbaugh? Hah. The first thing I do when I'm looking for some constructive criticism is go to a mean-spirited drug addict with delusions of grandeur. And in case you didn't catch it--that was sarcasm."

"O'Reilly isn't fooling anyone. He's so out of touch he could be transported back in time 300 years and never notice."

[chalky]

7. That ain't dirty. That's wielding the TRUTH.

Dirty is the crap THEY pull--the lies, the deceit, the stunts that turned the word "ROVE" into a verb.

We don't need to resort to that. Use the truth. Beat the HELL out of them with it. Fighting like that's not dirty fighting. It's doling out justice.

[calimary]

13. Love your responses.

Look, when we're in a gun fight, why must we take feather dusters?

I'm sick and tired of not fighting dirty.

I'm sick and tired of hearing all the people who whine that - oh, we can't do THAT! That lowers us to their level! That makes us no better than them!

Well, guess what? I WANT TO BE LIKE THEM.

What are they, when you get down to it?

They're WINNERS, dammit.

If that is what it takes to win, then so be it.

If you don't WIN, you don't govern.

If you don't govern, you don't make the rules, or decree changes in the rules. You don't get to say what kind of fight there is. You don't get to set the agenda and grab the attention and all the best seats and the biggest podiums with the most mikes.

YES. I want to be like them. I want to be a winner. If it means mudwrestling, then so be it. Let's get dirty. Otherwise, we'll just be doormats til we die.

[Mythsaje]

14. In a real fight

there are no rules. If you're being attacked by someone with a glaring weakness, you strike for that weakness. Not to do so is just stupidity.

If a Democrat says something the Reapers don't like, such as Durbin, as long as it's true, the Democrat should refuse to give ground on it. "What--and be an appeaser? Sorry, guys. Speaking truth to power is what I do. Don't like it? Tough nuggets. Now go away."

No retreat, no surrender. It's the only way to win this battle. The Reapers already know it. Now the Democrats have to figure it out, or the war is over.

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[Bake]

9. It's past time for that dog to be put down!

Just like any other rabid dog.

Bake

[Linette]

10. Not dirty, just smart

Read James Kroeger's The Republican Nemesis. It's not just that they're being mean and we need to be mean back. We can be relentless, but we've got to be more clever than the evil geniuses we are facing.

[newyawker99]

11. Hi Linette!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[chalky]

12. Welcome to DU, Linette!

:hi: