DPF on Holiday
I’m taking a small three day holiday with friends. Not sure what the Internet connectivity will be like where I will be, but suspect I’ll still blog a bit, but probably less than normal until Tuesday.
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March 8th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Not good enough DPF, as you are against statutory days off (Easter) then you should be here blogging, I would hate to think that we on the right would develop the same double standards as the low life socialists.
March 8th, 2008 at 10:19 am
Well, bit of a bummer. I was hoping there’d be something up about Fran’s column on Key.
“Warm fuzzies can only get you so far” she says. Come the real election campaign, looks like the hardened troops in charge of Labour’s Smear and Vilification division will make short work of this politically shallow novice. Shame really, with such widespread disapproval of Klark/ Labour out there, and an apparent readiness of the voting public to give Key a go, the Nat’s really needed someone who could step up to the plate.
It is so easy to articulate a rational counter position on Auckland Airport, yet apparently Key and his advisers can’t come up with one. Neither do they know what to do about TOW claims it seems. Pretty piss poor really. It takes good organisation and management to run a successful political campaign. Key’s campaign is succeeding on the superficial level, but foundering on real policy.
Labour always said this would happen. Given this prediction, you’d think the National strategists would be prepared. Do they even have a clue?
If the Nat’s brains trust still does not understand that Klark/ Kullen/ Labour’s primary plans for regaining ground and winning the election are centered on the personal and political destruction of John Key, then they’re not even close to doing their job. If the Nat’s brains trust does not yet have a strategy in place to counter the left’s strategy on Key then they should fold their tents right now.
The left’s obsession with power combined with their customary amorality and complete lack of principles means that any force that stands in their way has to have an extremely strong base, be well organised, and most of all, be prepared for the blitzkrieg of lowlife smear tactics, false allegations, lies and propaganda that the Labour party will undoubtedly use as their campaign spearhead.
The Nats absolutely must have a counter strategy. Do they even begin to understand what is necessary? Maybe some of them do, but it doesn’t look like the Key faction does.
March 8th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Now that’s a good idea. Why not run with that, DPF? If you are unable to blog for a bit, let others make suggestions like Redbaiters one above, and turn it into an official thread…….
March 8th, 2008 at 10:25 am
And Redbaiter, you said it………but I hope you are wrong. “Cometh the hour, cometh the man……” (Not sure who that famous quote is from).
But if you’re right, I reckon the Nat’s best bet would be to bring back big Jen……..
March 8th, 2008 at 10:27 am
bring back big Jen – Hard to do with a knife protruding from her back.
March 8th, 2008 at 10:41 am
You are right Redbaiter
Cancerous and corrosive was just the warm up.
Hence their attempt to make “slippery” stick the other day
Maybe Clark and Goff need a few adjectves attached to their names
Fool Goff
UNderclark
March 8th, 2008 at 10:53 am
“But if you’re right, I reckon the Nat’s best bet would be to bring back big Jen……..”
Well, one obvious strategy is to go for some wide exposure on Labour’s plans. The left have always used personal denigration and side issues as a means to sway the public to vote for them and against any challenger. They always try to make some personal issue the key point in the campaign. For example, the “Brash lied and plotted with the Exclusive Brethren” campaign during the last election. A complete fabrication, but due to a large extent to Labour’s plants in the media, and the gullibility of the public, most people believed it, and it did the trick for them.
National needs to shine some light on this fundamentally dishonest strategy. Make the public aware of exactly what the left’s objective is, and try and get them to recognise how they (the voters) are being manipulated by cynical Labour party strategists and their media allies.
Head them off at the pass would seem to be the most obvious counter strategy. A few TV commercials highlighting past smear campaigns and ending with the question, “Labour love the politics of personal destruction. What will they try on John Key this election?”.
It could be fleshed out with references to their usual tactics of swamping the electorate with lies and propaganda at the expense of discussion on the destructive outcomes of the left’s political policies, but the basic message would have to focus on pre-empting Labour’s usual strategy of personal destruction. Get the public on side. Forewarn them that the focus of Labour’s election campaign will be a series of vicious and nasty attacks on John Key.
It’ll get the Nats on side with the voters and put Labour off side, when the left go down that road. As they will. As they have to. Its always all they have.
March 8th, 2008 at 10:57 am
“Maybe Clark and Goff need a few adjectves attached to their names”
Fire with fire? Do the Nats have the fire?
Soviet Helen. Kommissar Kullen. Glib Goff.
March 8th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Is Cullen Te Undertaaker
March 8th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Redbaiter, I agree completely about the lies from the Clarkists that turn into the received wisdom of the ignorant masses. The media are very responsible. Have you followed Michael Bassett’s comments on this?
“On a grand scale, nothing illustrates better this general tactic of playing the man, not the ball, than the brouhaha over the Exclusive Brethren. You will all recall their leaflets at the time of the 2005 election. I am more politically alert than most, but I missed them when delivered, and I had to painstakingly search through my waste-paper bin to find them. They would have had no impact on voters until Labour gave them legs. I analysed the one on the Greens, checking it against their manifesto. I concluded that all but one of the Brethren’s comments were fair. Did any newspaper, radio or TV journalist dissect any of those pamphlets? Not on your Nelly. To their eternal shame, journalists meekly took their lead from the Prime Minister who attacked the pamphlets’ authors, and their religion, never dealing with the issues they had raised. We now seem to inhabit a world where no one can debate things in a manner that Helen Clark doesn’t approve of.”
See the whole thing:
http://www.michaelbassett.co.nz/articleview.php?id=180
March 8th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Oh look the juviniles are out this morning. Oh Labour kicked our great leader Slip-Dippery Johns’ arse and you all cry foul.
Though shit boys National has thrown all sorts of lies and misinformation over seversal months. What did you expect, you throw stones someone throws them back.
Get over it you babies, more will be coming Slip-Dippery Johns’ way before these elections are over. Cry Babies!
March 8th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
A lot more is coming Helen’s way too John Dalley. I know what mud will stick and hurt the most. In her words “Bring it on.”
March 8th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Ah John Dully…Labour didn’t trip up Key. If anything, he caused a slight stumble himself. Stop telling fibs and get back to cataloguing your bellybutton fluff
March 8th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
If it is liarbours plan to attack JK personally throughout the campaign they will lose by more. The average kiwi does not like that sort of crap and can see it for what it is.
Perhaps Jk let himself “fall” into their so called trap to out their campaign plan. Remember JK did not get to where he is by being stupid. Dear I say it but I know some of the advice team on the inside would learnt something from the EB crap and if I am correct laying out the bait for Klark, Sullen and company.
Watch for Sullen to make a move early April on Klark as his tag team have been suggesting in recent posts in various mediums.
March 8th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
D4J – I know what mud will stick. OHHHH!! scary
Raffles – Labour is responding with kind and National doesn’t live in a Glasshouse, Yeah right.
Your desperation for power is starting to faulter. Iv’e said on previous posts, whatch the eys, a Jk give-away every time.
You might have “Flash Harry” fronting but behind the scene you have a bunch of wallies and a couple of walley-ettes directing the puppets hands.
March 8th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
Redbaiter: yes John Key is a politically shallow novice, but he’s learning fast, although not fast enough in the short time before the election. Who would you replace him with? Bill English would be best. It’s just not possible to have Don Brash or Jenny Shipley back again, although Don’s policies were excellent.
March 9th, 2008 at 1:54 am
Who would I replace him with? Dunno really. Bill English may be the best. Judith Collins? The problems of the Nats don’t start and end with its leader. Its a party that has been ideologically and strategically lost for some time. The “big tent” idea just hasn’t worked. It has diluted the party’s message, confused its core supporters, and weakened it politically to the extent where it has become merely a slightly less left wing branch of the Labour Party.
The Nats need to reassert their traditional commitment to Conservatism, and to proudly clearly and openly articulate Conservatism in terms that repudiate and neutralize the decade long hate and propaganda campaigns of the left. Anyone not prepared to endorse such a plan should be told to go away and join the Labour Party.
March 9th, 2008 at 2:10 am
Phil- Thanks for the link to the Basset article, a good read. His comments on the media campaign to denigrate the EBs at the expense of even the slightest objective analysis of their criticisms of the Greens/ Labour are spot on. The left’s almost complete control of mainstream journalism in this country has destroyed the credibility of that profession, perhaps for all time.
Take for example the claim that the EBs had failed to put their address, or printed a fake address on their pamphlet. This is a leftist lie, but one can search all one wants for any truthful reporting on the issue in the mainstream media. It just isn’t there. They’re blissfully content to run with the left’s lies smears and propaganda. If you’re seeking the truth, NZ’s cravenly partisan left wing media is the last place to look.
March 9th, 2008 at 6:48 am
(sunday morning..coming down..)
i find myself in agreement with redbaiter…(arrgghh!!..)
“..The problems of the Nats don’t start and end with its leader.
Its a party that has been ideologically and strategically lost for some time..”
phil(whoar.co.nz)
March 9th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
This from the guy who couldn’t find his own ass with both hands and a brace of bloodhounds.