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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-05 03:34 PM
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So, what do we do AFTER Santorum is on The Daily Show tonight?
I suggest:

1) An immediate Letter to the Editor campaign

2) If you post about it online, be sure to "google-bomb" with SpreadingSantorum.com

3) Poison the well for his contributors.

Two major Santorum contributors are:

a) Wal-Mart
b) Outback Steakhouse

You guys here already have some great success going after Wal-Mart.

I would like to suggest combining an Anti-Wal-Mart campaign with an Anti-Santorum campaign.

The targeted audience will be Wal-Mart consumers. The desired result is to get them to stop shopping at Wal-Mart. We can reach them by using Freeway Blogging, handing out leaflets, putting fliers on windshields, and standing in front of stores with signs.

We could use existing anti-Wal-Mart fliers and include information about why Rick Santorum is evil, and why that's just one more reason not to shop at Wal-Mart.

Similarly, we could do the same sort of thing simultaneously with Outback Steakhouse.

The fliers could lead with the headlines:

Outback Steakhouse is Spreading Santorum
and
Wal-Mart is Spreading Santorum

We need not actually explain the "Santorum-as-a-Substance" connection, but if the protest gets picked-up by the media, then the media will do that for us.

Of course, some people going to Outback will know exactly what the "Spreading Santorum" protest signs mean. I don't know how hungry they'll feel.

Similarly, if we want to picket the heavily Republican Wendy's Restaurant chain, we could use signs that have pictures of bloody fingers on them.
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aden_nak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-05 03:45 PM
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1. Hose down the couch?
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Guckert Donating Member (946 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-05 03:45 PM
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2. clean your puke bucket.
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-05 03:48 PM
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3. Seriously though. Santorum's silliness will be in the spotlight
Do you remember that Jon Stewart's Crossfire appearance was downloaded by more peole than actually watched it on TV?

I think we need to take advantage of this window of opportunity while people are paying attention to it.
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benevolent dictator Donating Member (765 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-05 11:27 PM
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4. We've got anti-Wal*Mart flyers online here...
http://www.reformwalmart.org/Docs/walmartflyer.pdf

If you want them in word doc format DUmail me and I'll put them up there. Otherwise just feel free to take whatever from those.
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