Posted by
Dan Abbett on Friday, June 13, 2008 7:04:01 PM
If the left is good at anything, they excel at propaganda and obfuscation. They succeed in this area because they have a powerful tool we call the mainstream media. In combination with their grassroots operatives, websites, blogs and their media echo chamber, the right will in fact find it has limited volume in the din and roar of the liberal noise machine.
With the launching of their latest website, “fightthesmears.com,” the left has begun a full out program to label every criticism of Barack Obama as a smear, a racial slur, hate speech, baseless rumors or fear mongering. By so doing, they hope to deflect charges of any kind that negatively impact Sen. Obama and paint the organization or persons making the charge as having no credibility and guilty of gutter politics.
There also appears to be an effort by the left to monitor conservative blogs and websites and create as much agitation and angst as possible among conservatives who post comments to articles favoring the conservative perspective or message. What is clear is that there is an intentional effort to drown out or discredit any information coming from the right that can harm their chances in the November elections.
The campaign by the left to essentially shut down the voice of the right is compounded by the fact that the conservative members of the Republican Party are less than enamored with their candidate. Not only are conservatives dissatisfied with John McCain, they also happen to represent the party base. What is left are disgruntled Hillary Clinton supporters, so-called moderates and self-proclaimed independents. All of which, are quite susceptible to the liberal spin juggernaut.
The elections in November may prove historic in a number of ways. Not only will there be the first “Black” nominee ever for the office of president, the balance of power may not only shift left, it may gather a majority that can override the only effective tool Republicans now hold and that is the filibuster. Should that become the case, the Democrats would have control of four key issues: Success in Iraq, taxes, domestic oil exploration and most importantly the Supreme Court.
On Iraq, Barack Obama has already stated with clarity that he will begin a “phased” withdrawal of troops from Iraq, and plans to begin implementation as soon as he takes office. Such a move to establish a timeline for which al Queda, al Sadr and Iranian special groups could depend, would guarantee a strategy that could essentially be considered the “3 Rs.” Regroup, rearm and wreak havoc.
The Democrats also intend, at a minimum, to let the Bush tax cuts expire in 2010. Consider a shrinking paycheck, coupled with the ever-increasing price of gas, underscored by a policy that refuses to tap domestic sources of oil. Change? Believe it! A change in the very way we live from the price to heat our homes, our ability to travel, increases in the price of food, not to mention the negative impact to our quality of life.
Most important of all however, will be the pending makeup of the Supreme Court. The court’s most recent decision to essentially grant terrorist detainees access to the U.S. Court system is a key example. By the narrow decision of the liberal members of the court, they not only ignored precedent, they in essence overruled themselves in their previous ruling regarding military tribunals and thumbed their noses at the Constitution. Should the Democrats hold the power to not only nominate Supreme Court Justices but also hold a filibuster proof majority, judicial activism of this extreme could become the rule and not the exception.
This is what is at stake and the consequences that could result, should the Democrats be successful in silencing the voice of the right. That campaign is in full swing from demonizing talk radio, agitating conservative publications and websites, to media manipulation and attempts to make non-conforming outlets such as FOX News the focus of ridicule. Lest we find ourselves not only without a voice but a lid on our exercise of free speech, it is a time to lift up our voices, and loudly. As a footnote, we don’t necessarily have to be polite about it either.