So the very "original thinking", "creative" Harper war room team has struck again... Trying to mimic the success of spontaneous American creativity (Obama fans singing songs about him), the Harpocrites have copied a popular song about Obama ("I've got a crush on Obama..."). The site it is located on is hosted by a Conservative...
Simple Con strategy: A blanket swath of pro-Harper advertising and other spurious stuff to basically drown out anything else... It seems to be working so far... but it IS EARLY.
The Republican advisers certainly had some input...
1) Spend years talking about how politicians all lie (when you're in Opposition there's lots of time to do this). At the same time this same message is carried by the media which is owned by right wing ideologues for the most part (you'll have to imagine which political parties "friendly" guys like Rupert Murdoch and His Lordship In Jail support). After a while anyone whom you ask parrots the same line about "all politicians" being liars... The media continues to reinforce this ad nauseum.
2) Once no-one trusts any politicians anymore you know you have a situation where no voter will believe stump speeches or platforms. Time for phase 3...
3) Since you (Republican-Conservatives around the world) control most all of the media, you can begin deluging the electorate with extremely slanted stories. You can force reporters to "edit" their stories if you don't like them. The small, and quite weakly-funded "public" media try to be balanced, but note ratings slip unless they "toe the line", so companies like NPR and CBC follow suit with the reporting that doesn't see any justification or credible back-up, the sensationalism, etc.
4) Now you bombard the public (during, or pre-election) with pro-you ads. You have the money. You have the media cooperation - so no-one calls your bluff on all the blatant lies. Your marketing experts have shown you psychological studies which display what occurs with repeated bombardment of a message on radio, TV, and print. The public may not like your brand. They may not like you. They may not agree with your ideology. BUT: they will have - in the backs of their minds, in their subconscious thoughts - a recollection of something that tells them "vote Conservative/Republican". Like the marketing guys say, "any publicity is good publicity"...
And the band plays on... Time for us to up our ads... get back into the public consciousness... If we don't do it over the next couple of weeks... We don't have an Obama to sell, but we can make him appear to be one. Image, image, image... We need to up the publicity game.
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