As you may know by now, I am deeply frustrated with the group of defeatist bloggers, opinion makers, and pundits who seem more than happy that Obama won so that they can secure book deal, issue snarky comments in retaliation for their guy not getting picked for something or other reasons known only to them. Well, since this Axis Of Defeatism doesn't even offer a blueprint for victory, instead hoping that hiding under the bedsheets and asking "exit questions", confident that they have enablers and defenders in their corner to fight back any critics, will work in 2016, I guess it falls to others to do so.

In that regard, I may have found a person who does have a plan, and it kinda makes sense: infiltrate Hollywood and Pop Culture as much as possible. And Breitbart makes the case better than I ever could.

OK. But how?

 

The Democratic Party resonates on the Internet because it resonates in pop culture. The Democratic Party resonates in pop culture because it has been committed to dominating it for over a generation.

Democrats are celebrities, rock stars, magazine covers and stadium concerts. Republicans are a small list of famous people who have to make public excuses for their affiliation.

Democrats throw parties, get models to show up, and Red Bull and Stoli pick up the tab. Republicans feature a no-host bar hoping an astronaut from the Mercury mission stops by.

Democrats pull off a star-studded, entertainment-laden Obama acceptance speech at Invesco Field. Republicans get a black dude to wear red, white and blue and perform a 1985-era patriotic rap song dressed as Uncle Sam.

The spectacular Will.I.Am song and video, "Yes We Can," could not be duplicated by Republicans if T. Boone Pickens airdropped his fortune on the RNC headquarters.

What the Republican Party needs to do now is figure out how to make up for 40 years of ignoring the net effect of film, television and music, and the youth culture that goes along with it. When will the people who make the big decisions and write the big checks realize the AM radio band is not enough?

As I've written and stated many times, college Republicans and other young conservative activists need to go Hollywood - in mind, spirit and even in location.

Retiring military personnel hot off of war duty need to head west to secure the Los Angeles front.

Producing screenplays - not legislation - is the answer. Performing songs - not whining - is the plan.

Simultaneously, closet conservatives in Hollywood need to come out and run for office. They have the requisite communication skills to compete in the Obama age.

The conservative movement has the best product to sell in the history of the world: freedom. The side that promotes freedom has the best writers. It has the best think tanks. Its Web sites have all the right social networking tools, and there's no shortage of 527s on its side, either.

And while our politicians are imperfect, they are manifestly less corrupt then their Democratic Party peers, and at least stand for something other than obstinate oppositionism.

My only question is this: how many on our side will be willing to engage in this? Or, will they be more content to write foppish treatises on The Big Ideas, hoping that that will excite people?

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