Welcome students to Liberal Letter Writing 101. In this course we will teach you how to write letters to your local newspapers and get in as many Democrat talking points in as few words as possible. Since most American papers edit for length and not for content, you can write as much off the wall and untrue stuff as you want as long as you are concise and on point.
Here are some topics to hit on:
1. Republicans attack the patriotism of Democrats. Anytime the Republicans point out the voting record of a Democrat as being weak on defense or homeland security immediately point out that they are questioning the patriotism of the Democrat. For example, if they say that John Kerry has voted against every major defense bill in his 19 years in Congress accuse them of saying John Kerry is unpatriotic.
2. Negative comments or advertising. If a Republican says that John Kerry should apologize for calling Bush and Cheney "crooks and liars" say that's what they did with Clinton. Accuse them of being a right wing attack machine and above all, never forget to bring up the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy that was out to get Bill Clinton and the Democrat Party. The American public loves conspiracy theories. Also say that it was the Republicans who started it. I know that sounds childish, but remember, the voters are stupid. They are not as smart as we liberals.
3. Bush lied. Hammer this home over and over. It doesn't matter that he didn't lie but was acting on the intelligence that was available at the time. Once again, it is for the good of the American people that we take over the government. We know what is best. We are smart and we want to do what feels right.
4. The Iraq War was illegal. It doesn't matter that Congress authorized the use of force. Germany, France, and the United Nations were against it. We should have listened to them. We want the rest of the world to like us. If we are nice to the rest of the world, they will be nice to us. Look at Spain. Now that they have elected a socialist government and will pull their troops out of Iraq, they will have no more problems with terrorism. Israel should learn from Spain.
5. The Republicans stole the 2000 election or better yet, the Supreme Court helped the Republicans steal the 2000 election. It doesn't matter that by every recount Bush still won Florida. It doesn't matter that the Florida Supreme Court composed entirely of Democrats tried to rewrite the Florida election laws and the USSC only told Florida to follow their own election laws. It sounds so much better to say that Bush, with the help of the USSC, stole the elections. We're fortunate enough to have the press on our side and it will continue to print this stuff over and over without ever calling us on it.
That is enough to cover on the first night of class.
If you are fortunate enough to live in a town that has a newspaper like the San Francisco Chronicle or the Atlanta Journal and Constitution you will have absolutely no trouble getting one of your letters published. As an example, here is a letter (third one down) published in the AJC written by former student, Beverly Conway of Greensboro who hit all five points in three paragraphs.
Sen. John Kerry should not apologize to the Bush administration for his remarks.The Republicans try to squelch all opposition by calling their critics "unpatriotic" or "negative." They had no problem with name-calling when President Clinton was in office, nor with using the Office of the Independent Counsel to bring down a president who committed no malfeasance in office --- unlike President Bush, who lied to the American people to lead us into an illegal war. They had no problem using the Supreme Court to steal the last presidential election.
Now they are about to turn their well-documented "right-wing conspiracy" against Kerry. This time, we Democrats are wise to them, and we're not going to let it happen.
Bravo! A+!
Posted by denny at March 16, 2004 08:44 PM