Governor Palin to GOP: Toughen Up

Yep:

Reflecting on the campaign, Palin said there were “a variety of reasons” Republicans lost in November, namely the faltering economy, but she seemed to place most of the blame on the press.

“Some in the media actually participated in not so much the ‘who-what-where-when-why’ objective reporting on candidates and positions, those five W’s that I learned when I had a journalism degree so many years ago in college, when the world of journalism was quite different than it is today,” she said.

“No, things have changed,” she continued. “But complaining? Or whining? Absolutely not. But I am going to call it like I see it. It doesn’t do any good to whine about any of this. But I can call it like I see it. Sometimes it gets me in a lot of trouble when I speak candidly, and I speak from the heart and I do such a thing. But I am going to.”

“And there was that media slant this go round,” she said. “And unless things change, the GOP had really better can stand together, ’cause we got that on the battlefield also. I call it like I see it and like I lived it on the campaign trail. Not complaining, but dealing with reality.”

“Those are the cards that are dealt us,” she said, “and we had better learn to play that hand and do things right and do things better.”

Just as we don’t get to go to war with the army we want, so we also don’t get to go into political battle with the MSM we want. The MSM is essentially a propaganda arm of the DNC and we’re just going to have to deal with that – and learn to use it against itself. MSMers are naturally lazy, intellectually incurious and, especially on top, very much self-absorbed – such traits are ripe for exploitation by a carefully crafted media campaign.

But even with the best possible media campaign, the plain fact of the matter is that the GOP will have to speak over the heads of the MSM in order to really reach the people – using the various New Media formats, we’re going to have to get the word out without the benefit of a carefully edited soundbite designed to be relentlessly drilled into the American mind by endless MSM repetition. We’re going to have to actually think our way through this – we’ll leave the mindless talking point stuff to the liberals.

The most important thing is to never complain – never let them think they’ve got our number. We have to show complete disdain for the views of the MSM and the Democrats. We have to figure out way to express in short bursts just how contemptible the Democrats are, from Obama on down. We have to show that we’re the party of the people, while they are the party of the incompetent, the corrupt and the ignorant. In things like the Obama Administration’s re-classifying the War on Terrorism as an “Overseas Contingency Operation”, we’re being handed all the ammunition we need to turn the tables on the Democrats and make everyone with a brain positively embarrassed to be within a country mile of a Democrat position.

We shall have them, and we shall conduct a genuine revolutionary change in America – of course, it will be a re-establishment of the Revolution of Washington and Jefferson as our paradigm. Right makes might – all we need now is the spirit to carry on the fight.