Tuesday was embarrassing, and maybe it’s not your fault. Maybe the message got away from you. Kitchen table. Gas prices. Inflation. You can tell them Dems did it or did it worse, but most people don’t care. Clearly. But the presidential season is upon us, or will be in a hot minute, and you need a strategy.
Yes, we can point out all the burdensome taxes and regulations and assaults on common sense and natural rights, but if Trump and Dems get more done than Trump and a GOP majority, you look pretty stupid. And useless.
Locally, we are probably victims of a national narrative hole we couldn’t find a ladder long enough to climb out of. Taking NH back won’t be nearly as difficult. Democrats will overreach often, and Kelly Ayotte can veto more bills than Chris Sununu, and every one is a messaging opportunity, but here’s another idea.
Dems will be Dems, and we need to capitalize on these Kodak moments. Every district, every race.
You have town and county committees and area chairs and the rest of it. Probably thousands of members in total. After the wipeout, a few hundred Democrats are elected, and each of them probably has social media and/or comments on local town or city forums. Facebook, X.com, Instagram, TikTok, Reels, any publicly accessible local groups and forums.
People will need something to do, so ask them to do this.
Pick a candidate, assign them a volunteer. Their job? Every few days or daily, if they feel like it, search for that Dem candidate’s nut job comments on the socials and screen grab them. Put the pics in a folder. Each volunteer takes a candidate (or two or three) and archives these goodies. Work out the details. Some folks will do more, some only one, and some will say they will and then won’t.
Figure it out.
If something looks viral-worthy today or this week, send it up the chain to an assigned county coordinator who can make the call and get it out to the state party or whoever.
Most of it won’t, but you’ll have a nice collection of crazy for nearly every elected Dem in the state and probably at least a few certain local loudmouth Dem Party members or activists (assign people to shadow their accounts too).
Leak them to the press. Doesn’t have to be me, but there are only a few outlets for this material. If you have talented individuals, they can write op-eds or use them on their own socials. Feel free to loop GraniteGrok in (steve@granitegrok.com).
I don’t have the bandwidth to set up and manage this myself, or I would, but going negative will be easy, and it works.
Democrats are nuts. Dems in power let their crazy out more often. Capture these Kodak moments, copy or download videos, create a candidate-by-candidate archive. Trust me, you’ll wish you’d done it sooner.
Alternatively, if any town or county committees like this idea enough to ask their members to shadow their local Dems, let me know. I’ll help however I can. I can direct you to free software to capture video. Hints and tips. Happy to help.
It’s game on. If you’re not playing, you are already setting yourself up to lose, and we need to take New Hampshire back.
