tip for Dems: Write your aggressive post-Mueller-testimony Press Release NOW

[EveHammond13]

and it will and must say Yes Collusion and Yes Obstruction. Period.

Get your UNIFIED press release ready to launch simultaneously from every Dem press office. FLOOD THE ZONE with OUR message. Have your short, pithy talking points ready NOW. Show emotion. Show outrage. Have your words ready.

Don't meekly flounder and dither after the testimony standing around with your thumbs up your nose while the GOP spin machine launches an F5 tornado of lies at you, the media and the public. That tornado is coming. You must be prepared to fight it with something even bigger.

No matter what happens at that hearing, you CAN and you MUST grab the PR bull by the horns and FORCE YOUR MESSAGE OUT REGARDLESS.

Take a page from the Bill Barr playbook.

Write the conclusion first, before all else. Write it now.

We can't afford to play nice and paint by the numbers. Plus we're right.

I took this from somewhere - sorry I can't remember where right now but:

Instead of focusing on redactions, Democrats should "have proclaimed the actual truth: This report makes the unquestionable case that the president regularly and audaciously violated his oath and committed the most serious high crimes and misdemeanors.”

Missed opportunity talking point: "The Mueller Report is a smoking gun."

Missed opportunity talking point: "The GOP is the #CoverUpCaucus."

Can we get it right this time please. This is important.

[Hoyt]

1. Totally agree with a UNIFIED message. A bunch of uncoordinated messages --

too often in an attempt to bolster the messanger’s political ambitions— is a waste of time.

Unless Mueller surprises us with something new, I like your recommendation of characterizing the Mueller Report as a “smoking gun.” That report, being as wishy washy as it is, doesn’t get close to trump’s violation of his oath, dereliction of duty, undermining foreign relations, encouraging racism, nepotism, emoluments, etc.

[EveHammond13]

2. the phrase "herding cats" comes to mind. I am so glad we are not the Borg like

the GOP. We aren't GOP-type "Good Germans." BUT DAMMIT we need to learn what works for public messaging and do it!

[CrispyQ]

3. The dems have been in reactionary mode since Nixon, &

they have let hate radio go unchallenged for 35 years. They don't seem to value framing the debate, or capturing the narrative. I wish someone in dem leadership had read George Lakoff's "Moral Politics" back when it came out. It would still help, but they are far behind the 8-ball in framing, or marketing if you will. The dems are good at policy but suck at politics & they don't seem to recognize there's a difference.

[EveHammond13]

4. +1000

his attempts to gently teach them what to do have apparently been rebuffed. for decades.