{"id":7374,"date":"2009-12-22T06:29:44","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T11:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7374"},"modified":"2009-12-21T20:39:13","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T01:39:13","slug":"poot-the-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7374","title":{"rendered":"Poot The Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Rock the Vote” is urging <\/a>supporters of socialized, government healthcare rationing to go all Lysistrata on their purported pro-free-market paramours:<\/p>\n

Just when every tactic in the book had been seemingly exhausted in the health care debate, Rock the Vote<\/a> comes along with a new one: if you want health care reform, don’t sleep with anyone who opposes it until his or her mind is changed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The youth advocacy group is pushing the campaign in a Web video and pledge on its Web site, which asks supporters to “hold out” for health care.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The campaign isn’t just absurd; it’s an example of incredibly poor market research.\u00a0 Given that most lefties, especially the young ones, regard politics as their religion, “not being a fellow statist” is often as not a showstopper for young relationships; a young Barbara Boxer supporter is staggeringly unlikely to be dating someone with an independent streatk anywhere in his\/her mind.<\/p>\n

But I have a better idea:\u00a0\u00a0 People who support the free market?\u00a0 You <\/em>withhold sex from people who support <\/em>Obamacare!\u00a0 Because liberals crave instant gratification and lack conservatives’ calm and patience, they’ll cave in long before you do.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Oh, yes – and American Left?\u00a0 Stay classy.\u00a0 Really:<\/p>\n

The subtlety of the online pledge, though, is completely undone by the video, which employs zero rhetorical devices, except for a couple of bleeps, to get its message bluntly across.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We pledge ourselves to the health and liberty of young Americans and to government for the people … and to never f—ing you if you are against us,” the team of actors in the video says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We will vote against you, work against you, and once again, just in case you forgot, never ever, never ever, never ever, never ever f— you.”\u00a0.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fear not, commercial starlets (a couple of flavor-of-the-month actors from some current flash-in-the-pan series); pretty soon, you’ll discover your agents and management have taken care of that for you.\u00a0 And then you’ll be doing the same thing on one casting couch or another until your plastic surgery gives out, and you won’t give a Flaming Pelosi what the casting agent’s take on healthcare will be.<\/p>\n

(And if I were <\/em>a young person, I’d be pissed that the Left figured I was such a slave to my desires that that would work on me anyway).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Rock the Vote” is urging supporters of socialized, government healthcare rationing to go all Lysistrata on their purported pro-free-market paramours: Just when every tactic in the book had been seemingly exhausted in the health care debate, Rock the Vote comes along with a new one: if you want health care reform, don’t sleep with anyone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7375,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7374\/revisions\/7375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}