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		By: kolnai		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2012/11/10/lessons-learned-from-this-election/#comment-457361</link>

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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[davisbr -

Damn straight.  (Love the Patton reference!)]]></description>
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<p>Damn straight.  (Love the Patton reference!)</p>
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		By: davisbr		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2012/11/10/lessons-learned-from-this-election/#comment-457354</link>

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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&lt;b&gt;@kolnai&lt;/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;Also, we know more than they do. We know everything about them. We can anticipate what they will say and do at every step — they are so arrogant that they make all their moves blatantly, right in the open, hubristically assuming that no one will ever catch on and sweep the leg. We simply never use what we know, still adhering to a noble chivalric code that the left killed off long ago. The left thinks, however, that we don’t know anything. They believe their own bullish*t (as some President once said) about us.&lt;/i&gt;

&lt;b&gt;This!!!&lt;/b&gt;

Parse that paragraph. Examine each individual sentence. 

Like musing a problem while reposing under a banyan&#039;s leaves, therein lies the essence of how to transform what is merely a pleasant afternoon&#039;s idyll to the equivalent of sitting under the Bodhi tree.

Its is a strategy level capsule of the methods we must employ to achieve tactical dominance in the field. 

A summary of an &lt;b&gt;Infanterie Greift An&lt;/b&gt; of politics, if you will.

&lt;i&gt;Rommel, you magnificent bastard. I read your book!&lt;/i&gt;

We&#039;ve read their book. It wasn&#039;t magnificent. It was do-able. We can do better. Having actually understood history, we&#039;re not doomed to repeat it. Enough of pussyfooting around. Let&#039;s just &lt;i&gt;end&lt;/i&gt; the bastard Left. 

...or they will destroy the Republic.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>@kolnai</b> <i>Also, we know more than they do. We know everything about them. We can anticipate what they will say and do at every step — they are so arrogant that they make all their moves blatantly, right in the open, hubristically assuming that no one will ever catch on and sweep the leg. We simply never use what we know, still adhering to a noble chivalric code that the left killed off long ago. The left thinks, however, that we don’t know anything. They believe their own bullish*t (as some President once said) about us.</i></p>
<p><b>This!!!</b></p>
<p>Parse that paragraph. Examine each individual sentence. </p>
<p>Like musing a problem while reposing under a banyan&#8217;s leaves, therein lies the essence of how to transform what is merely a pleasant afternoon&#8217;s idyll to the equivalent of sitting under the Bodhi tree.</p>
<p>Its is a strategy level capsule of the methods we must employ to achieve tactical dominance in the field. </p>
<p>A summary of an <b>Infanterie Greift An</b> of politics, if you will.</p>
<p><i>Rommel, you magnificent bastard. I read your book!</i></p>
<p>We&#8217;ve read their book. It wasn&#8217;t magnificent. It was do-able. We can do better. Having actually understood history, we&#8217;re not doomed to repeat it. Enough of pussyfooting around. Let&#8217;s just <i>end</i> the bastard Left. </p>
<p>&#8230;or they will destroy the Republic.</p>
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		By: Papa Dan		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2012/11/10/lessons-learned-from-this-election/#comment-457305</link>

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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It seems to me that conservative Big Money is going Galt. Its starting with many businesses proceeding with layoffs and scaling back on any kind of growth. This has been happening since O-care passed, but now with its implementation happening, it will be epic. Conservative Big Money is going to go into deeper hiding.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It seems to me that conservative Big Money is going Galt. Its starting with many businesses proceeding with layoffs and scaling back on any kind of growth. This has been happening since O-care passed, but now with its implementation happening, it will be epic. Conservative Big Money is going to go into deeper hiding.</p>
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		By: texexec		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2012/11/10/lessons-learned-from-this-election/#comment-457254</link>

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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:47:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&quot;And I have no idea how to get “organize and funded.” If that kind of activity was my forte, I wouldn’t be in academia talking about Plato for a living. But somebody has to know. And it’s probably them who we should be reaching out to — i.e., middlemen, as it were.&quot;

Maybe we should start by contacting folks still involved with Breitbart&#039;s site.

It really is time to stop talking about this and start start doing something.

As a small start, we can all get bumper stickers that say &quot;The media is lying to you&quot; at:

http://www.zazzle.com/the+media+is+lying+to+you+gifts

We need to get other peoples&#039; eyes on this message in the Wal-mart parking lot!  T-shirts are available too.

I already have one on my old but classic Mercedes Benz.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;And I have no idea how to get “organize and funded.” If that kind of activity was my forte, I wouldn’t be in academia talking about Plato for a living. But somebody has to know. And it’s probably them who we should be reaching out to — i.e., middlemen, as it were.&#8221;</p>
<p>Maybe we should start by contacting folks still involved with Breitbart&#8217;s site.</p>
<p>It really is time to stop talking about this and start start doing something.</p>
<p>As a small start, we can all get bumper stickers that say &#8220;The media is lying to you&#8221; at:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.zazzle.com/the+media+is+lying+to+you+gifts" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.zazzle.com/the+media+is+lying+to+you+gifts</a></p>
<p>We need to get other peoples&#8217; eyes on this message in the Wal-mart parking lot!  T-shirts are available too.</p>
<p>I already have one on my old but classic Mercedes Benz.</p>
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		By: kolnai		</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[texexec -

That is the whole question.  I think a lot of the monied conservatives are still living in a kind of old-timey political vision, one where targeted funding for partisan policy organizations and think tanks and the occasional ad blitz on behalf of some proposition or another is sufficient to constitute &quot;moving and shaking.&quot;

Conservatives are constitutionally reluctant to plunge into the fever swamps of liberal polemics and propaganda, and, like drunks admitting we&#039;re alcoholics, we need to start frankly acknowledging that this is a weakness, not a strength.  It seems to us like taking the high road, fighting with honor, but it&#039;s proven to be more like unilaterally disarming.

There&#039;s no honor in serving ourselves up like lambs for the slaughter.  This is what the Big Money needs to understand, and does not (speaking of which - and I&#039;ll come to Breitbart in a moment - if we can ever get our initiatives off the ground, we should consider keeping the allusion to him, calling them, if only amongst ourselves, something like &quot;Operation Big Money,&quot; or just &quot;Big Money&quot;).    

There&#039;s no dishonor in what we&#039;re proposing.  It&#039;s mere jiu-jitsu, allowing the dissemination of leftist fighting tactics to attain so much force that they self-destruct.  Hitherto our style has been defensive, trying to block and knock away and absorb the blows they hurl at us.  We&#039;ve developed extremely thick skin as a result, and this can be to our benefit - leftists do not know how dangerous we can be if we allow ourselves to play by their rules.  We&#039;re not coddled and we never have been.  Culturally, we&#039;ve been virtual punching bags for a generation or more.  

The left has never had to deal with such adversity.  They&#039;re soft (albeit absolutely unscrupulous).  If we start aiming our blows at their bellies and and throats, they&#039;ll fold like cheap lawn chairs.    

Also, we know more than they do.  We know everything about them.  We can anticipate what they will say and do at every step - they are so arrogant that they make all their moves blatantly, right in the open, hubristically assuming that no one will ever catch on and sweep the leg.  We simply never use what we know, still adhering to a noble chivalric code that the left killed off long ago.  The left thinks, however, that we don&#039;t know anything.  They believe their own bullish*t (as some President once said) about us.

Out toughness that they do not understand, their softness that they do not see, our comprehensive knowledge of the their M.O. down to the last detail, which they think we&#039;re too stupid to ever garner - these are battlefield advantages that we have right now.    

Finally, we have a model warrior, our own Leonidas who showed the barbarians what we were capable of before he fell, ultimately lacking the institutional and financial support to drive the bastards into the sea.  Breitbart emobodied the kind of fighter that lies dormant in many conservatives.  Tougher, wiser, more observant than the leftists, and ready to demonstrate it.  James O&#039;Keefe, too, is a Breitbartian warrior, one of his original &quot;300&quot; who has survived and is still doing battle.  

Why is our Big Money allowing O&#039;Keefe to run around like a guerrilla with no army behind him?  We haven&#039;t even begun to scratch the surface discovering what kind of havoc he could wreak if properly supported.  

I say all of this because the case simply makes itself.  It is not a hard sell.  It&#039;s simple.  This is where we are, these are our advantages.  Let us exploit them to the fullest.  

And I have no idea how to get &quot;organize and funded.&quot;  If that kind of activity was my forte, I wouldn&#039;t be in academia talking about Plato for a living.  But somebody has to know.  And it&#039;s probably them who we should be reaching out to - i.e., middlemen, as it were.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>texexec &#8211;</p>
<p>That is the whole question.  I think a lot of the monied conservatives are still living in a kind of old-timey political vision, one where targeted funding for partisan policy organizations and think tanks and the occasional ad blitz on behalf of some proposition or another is sufficient to constitute &#8220;moving and shaking.&#8221;</p>
<p>Conservatives are constitutionally reluctant to plunge into the fever swamps of liberal polemics and propaganda, and, like drunks admitting we&#8217;re alcoholics, we need to start frankly acknowledging that this is a weakness, not a strength.  It seems to us like taking the high road, fighting with honor, but it&#8217;s proven to be more like unilaterally disarming.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s no honor in serving ourselves up like lambs for the slaughter.  This is what the Big Money needs to understand, and does not (speaking of which &#8211; and I&#8217;ll come to Breitbart in a moment &#8211; if we can ever get our initiatives off the ground, we should consider keeping the allusion to him, calling them, if only amongst ourselves, something like &#8220;Operation Big Money,&#8221; or just &#8220;Big Money&#8221;).    </p>
<p>There&#8217;s no dishonor in what we&#8217;re proposing.  It&#8217;s mere jiu-jitsu, allowing the dissemination of leftist fighting tactics to attain so much force that they self-destruct.  Hitherto our style has been defensive, trying to block and knock away and absorb the blows they hurl at us.  We&#8217;ve developed extremely thick skin as a result, and this can be to our benefit &#8211; leftists do not know how dangerous we can be if we allow ourselves to play by their rules.  We&#8217;re not coddled and we never have been.  Culturally, we&#8217;ve been virtual punching bags for a generation or more.  </p>
<p>The left has never had to deal with such adversity.  They&#8217;re soft (albeit absolutely unscrupulous).  If we start aiming our blows at their bellies and and throats, they&#8217;ll fold like cheap lawn chairs.    </p>
<p>Also, we know more than they do.  We know everything about them.  We can anticipate what they will say and do at every step &#8211; they are so arrogant that they make all their moves blatantly, right in the open, hubristically assuming that no one will ever catch on and sweep the leg.  We simply never use what we know, still adhering to a noble chivalric code that the left killed off long ago.  The left thinks, however, that we don&#8217;t know anything.  They believe their own bullish*t (as some President once said) about us.</p>
<p>Out toughness that they do not understand, their softness that they do not see, our comprehensive knowledge of the their M.O. down to the last detail, which they think we&#8217;re too stupid to ever garner &#8211; these are battlefield advantages that we have right now.    </p>
<p>Finally, we have a model warrior, our own Leonidas who showed the barbarians what we were capable of before he fell, ultimately lacking the institutional and financial support to drive the bastards into the sea.  Breitbart emobodied the kind of fighter that lies dormant in many conservatives.  Tougher, wiser, more observant than the leftists, and ready to demonstrate it.  James O&#8217;Keefe, too, is a Breitbartian warrior, one of his original &#8220;300&#8221; who has survived and is still doing battle.  </p>
<p>Why is our Big Money allowing O&#8217;Keefe to run around like a guerrilla with no army behind him?  We haven&#8217;t even begun to scratch the surface discovering what kind of havoc he could wreak if properly supported.  </p>
<p>I say all of this because the case simply makes itself.  It is not a hard sell.  It&#8217;s simple.  This is where we are, these are our advantages.  Let us exploit them to the fullest.  </p>
<p>And I have no idea how to get &#8220;organize and funded.&#8221;  If that kind of activity was my forte, I wouldn&#8217;t be in academia talking about Plato for a living.  But somebody has to know.  And it&#8217;s probably them who we should be reaching out to &#8211; i.e., middlemen, as it were.</p>
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		By: ziontruth		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2012/11/10/lessons-learned-from-this-election/#comment-457222</link>

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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 12:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Davisbr, thanks for posting my comment here. I&#039;m scratching my head in bewilderment at the mysterious behavior of forum software, but no matter, any way is good.

Kolnai, you&#039;re welcome. My perspective isn&#039;t always cheerful, unfortunately, but I can&#039;t resist finding patterns and analogies.

And so, just as I thought, the Left&#039;s Race Card Machine isn&#039;t going to stop just because they won a second term any more than the Ottoman Turks laid down their arms once they had finally conquered Constantinople. Here&#039;s the latest from Weasel Zippers: &lt;a href=&quot;http://weaselzippers.us/2012/11/11/libs-attack-papa-johns-founder-as-racist-for-warning-obamacare-related-costs-may-lead-to-cutbacks/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Libs Attack Papa John&#039;s Founder As &quot;Racist&quot; For Warning Obamacare-Related Costs May Lead To Cutbacks&lt;/a&gt;.

&quot;Racist&quot; to present-day American Marxists is simply what &quot;Enemy Of The People&quot; was to their past Russian counterparts. It will continue its fruitful employment in the service of labeling the opposition and marking it for destruction. Bank on it.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Davisbr, thanks for posting my comment here. I&#8217;m scratching my head in bewilderment at the mysterious behavior of forum software, but no matter, any way is good.</p>
<p>Kolnai, you&#8217;re welcome. My perspective isn&#8217;t always cheerful, unfortunately, but I can&#8217;t resist finding patterns and analogies.</p>
<p>And so, just as I thought, the Left&#8217;s Race Card Machine isn&#8217;t going to stop just because they won a second term any more than the Ottoman Turks laid down their arms once they had finally conquered Constantinople. Here&#8217;s the latest from Weasel Zippers: <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/2012/11/11/libs-attack-papa-johns-founder-as-racist-for-warning-obamacare-related-costs-may-lead-to-cutbacks/" rel="nofollow">Libs Attack Papa John&#8217;s Founder As &#8220;Racist&#8221; For Warning Obamacare-Related Costs May Lead To Cutbacks</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;Racist&#8221; to present-day American Marxists is simply what &#8220;Enemy Of The People&#8221; was to their past Russian counterparts. It will continue its fruitful employment in the service of labeling the opposition and marking it for destruction. Bank on it.</p>
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		By: texexec		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2012/11/10/lessons-learned-from-this-election/#comment-457175</link>

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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&quot;Hey all,

Continuing the discussion of one of our suggestions for the future, what Curtis has wryly called “Occam’s List,” I think it’s a fire that catching on all over the conservative plains:

http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/11/post-election-breitbarting/

“Investigate the investigators,” says Jacobson.&quot;

Occam&#039;s Beard has suggested we attack the individual talk show hosts, anchors, newspaper writers, etc.

I have suggested attacking the news corporations financially (eg. not buying sponsor&#039;s products and telling them why).  If their companies are out of business, the so called journalists lose their jobs anyway.

Hell&#039;s Bells...let&#039;s do both.  How do we get organized  and funded so we can start?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Hey all,</p>
<p>Continuing the discussion of one of our suggestions for the future, what Curtis has wryly called “Occam’s List,” I think it’s a fire that catching on all over the conservative plains:</p>
<p><a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/11/post-election-breitbarting/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/11/post-election-breitbarting/</a></p>
<p>“Investigate the investigators,” says Jacobson.&#8221;</p>
<p>Occam&#8217;s Beard has suggested we attack the individual talk show hosts, anchors, newspaper writers, etc.</p>
<p>I have suggested attacking the news corporations financially (eg. not buying sponsor&#8217;s products and telling them why).  If their companies are out of business, the so called journalists lose their jobs anyway.</p>
<p>Hell&#8217;s Bells&#8230;let&#8217;s do both.  How do we get organized  and funded so we can start?</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 07:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hey all, 

Continuing the discussion of one of our suggestions for the future, what Curtis has wryly called &quot;Occam&#039;s List,&quot; I think it&#039;s a fire that catching on all over the conservative plains:

http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/11/post-election-breitbarting/

&quot;Investigate the investigators,&quot; says Jacobson.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey all, </p>
<p>Continuing the discussion of one of our suggestions for the future, what Curtis has wryly called &#8220;Occam&#8217;s List,&#8221; I think it&#8217;s a fire that catching on all over the conservative plains:</p>
<p><a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/11/post-election-breitbarting/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/11/post-election-breitbarting/</a></p>
<p>&#8220;Investigate the investigators,&#8221; says Jacobson.</p>
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		By: Whiskeysplace		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2012/11/10/lessons-learned-from-this-election/#comment-457075</link>

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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 06:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Look, lets get real.

Obama STUFFED the ballots. And hacked voting machines to kill Republican votes. 

No, he didn&#039;t win. He cheated. That&#039;s why internals for Romney showed him winning. The polls could not pick up the illegal street voters and the hacked voting machines.

No way Obama wins with lower turnout, this economy, that many undecided (they NEVER break for the incumbent), energized Republican base, etc.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Look, lets get real.</p>
<p>Obama STUFFED the ballots. And hacked voting machines to kill Republican votes. </p>
<p>No, he didn&#8217;t win. He cheated. That&#8217;s why internals for Romney showed him winning. The polls could not pick up the illegal street voters and the hacked voting machines.</p>
<p>No way Obama wins with lower turnout, this economy, that many undecided (they NEVER break for the incumbent), energized Republican base, etc.</p>
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		By: kolnai		</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 05:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[davisbr - 

Thanks for posting that.

ziontruth - 

Thanks for writing that.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>davisbr &#8211; </p>
<p>Thanks for posting that.</p>
<p>ziontruth &#8211; </p>
<p>Thanks for writing that.</p>
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