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Winterblues Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-17-09 10:43 AM
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A truism Republicans figured out decades ago and Liberals still don't get.
"The Squeaky wheel Gets the Grease" Rush, Beck, Hannity, Coulter, Maulkin, O'Really, the list goes on and on.....Tea Baggers are just the latest. Our wheels don't seem to Squeak they run so smoothly.:shrug:
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drm604 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-17-09 10:46 AM
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1. The problem is that our wheels, for the most part, don't own the media. n/t
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Winterblues Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-17-09 10:48 AM
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2. Then we need to do what Murdoch did.
Buy our own Media.
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drm604 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-17-09 11:15 AM
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5. What we need to do is breakup the existing media conglomerates.
There's very little available to be bought until we do that.
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BoneDaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-17-09 10:49 AM
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3. Correct
Liberals keep thinking that rationality and common sense will win the day. Unfortunately Spurgeon's quote is true:

"A lie travels round the world while Truth is putting on her boots"
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-17-09 10:55 AM
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4. Doesn't matter how many of us 'squeak', no one will acknowledge our existence.
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OHdem10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-17-09 11:19 AM
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6. Absolutely---GOP demands and gets to be on TV daily. Democrats
run as fast as they can away from TV. The Squeakers get
their message out.
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anonymous171 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-17-09 11:21 AM
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7. Liberals don't understand a lot of things about politics.
Like how Politics is war, and that our enemies should be given no quarter. That is why they lose all the time.
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