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2003-10-29 Home Front

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Posted by Atrus 2003-10-29 4:18:24 PM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Podesta insists that conservative institutions like the Heritage Foundation donât have better ideas, but are merely better at marketing.

Then why are you creating a new think tank instead of changing marketing firms / personnel?

He said he is confident his center can take over the marketplace of ideas with notable innovations such as a big media staff that will push the centerâs thoughts onto the Internet, television and radio.

So it's about ideas after all. I like it: a self-fisking concluding paragraph!

Posted by Raj 2003-10-29 4:36:45 PM|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2003-10-29 4:36:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 as long as they continue it wasn't the quality of their ideas that put off voters there'll be no resurgence in Dem fortunes..and that's fine ith me. A liberal thinktank? Doesn't that describe almost every Academic Institution (College) in America

Posted by Frank G 2003-10-29 4:37:45 PM|| 2003-10-29 4:37:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, yes... anyone who saw the Democratic debate would agree that it was unbalanced.

Posted by BH 2003-10-29 4:43:45 PM|| 2003-10-29 4:43:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 "The conservative movement has really built up an infrastructure of not just ideas, but the ability to kind of get out there and do the kind of hard communications work to sell to the American public," he added.

Maybe if liberals would cut the B/S and stop resorting to emotions to try selling their plans they might have better luck. (the assumption here being that their plans could actually be sold without an emotional hook)

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-10-29 4:50:16 PM|| 2003-10-29 4:50:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 They've lost confidence in themselves, or they wouldn't be trying to copy the right's successes. Does anyone really think that a liberal talk radio network will succeed? "More Michael Moore on the Al Franken show."

This reminds me of Bill Gates' version of innovation.

Posted by AST 2003-10-29 4:56:46 PM|| 2003-10-29 4:56:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I for one am willing to embrace those liberal ideas that this new center will.....Sorry can't stop laughing! I have a picture of Bill Clinton in a Playboy type setting (Ascot/smoking jacket) telling all present how taxing people will create jobs. Look over there: Monica is serving cocktails in a LARGE Playboy bunny suit. And in struts General Clark in his Camo Smoking jacket and cigarette holder (Picture FDR). Look for SNL to do a skit on this soon. Heck I have done most of their work for them! COPYRIGHT!

Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2003-10-29 6:00:52 PM|| 2003-10-29 6:00:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Podesta insists that conservative institutions like the Heritage Foundation donât have better ideas, but are merely better at marketing.

He's obviously influenced by Hollywood, the masters at marketing mediocrity...

Posted by Pappy 2003-10-29 7:34:30 PM|| 2003-10-29 7:34:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I thought the conservative think tanks were a result of the continuing liberal bent in the university system.

Posted by Yank 2003-10-29 8:27:57 PM|| 2003-10-29 8:27:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Liberal Think Tank: they've lost the battle already. Half their membership will have visions of a huge brain-shaped metal vehicle moving down a highway, while the other half will lie on the floor screaming, trying to rationalize thinking with the Democratic mainstay, feeling.

Let's face it - the Donks haven't had an original idea since FDR. Their one and ONLY idea is to make Government the be-all and end-all of EVERYTHING in America. They don't understand personal freedom, they don't understand the willingness to take risks in hopes of becoming fabulously wealthy (or at least well-off), they don't understand people's aversion to having half or more of their income robbed from them with nothing to say about how that money is spent, and they don't understand that most adults not only don't NEED the government holding their hand, the resent like hell the government TRYING.

This 'think tank' nonsense, the new NPR look-alike, the "liberal talk show network", and all the rest of the BS the donkeys are coming out with are just conclusive proof they have no clue about the current state of affairs among the people of this nation. They somehow cannot understand that they haven't failed to get their message out, but that the American people heard it, thought about it, laughed, and flushed it where it belongs. The Democratic Party in the United States is dead. Someone should tell them - after the next election.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-10-29 11:28:22 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-10-29 11:28:22 PM|| Front Page Top

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