GOP resorts to racism and yelling 'liberal' to try to keep the House

[babylonsister]

GOP resorts to racism and yelling ‘liberal’ to try to keep the House
By
Oliver Willis -
August 15, 2018


Running racist ads and yelling about 'liberals' appear to be all the GOP has left as they launch their desperate last-gasp effort to hold on to the House.

Republicans, desperate for a silver-bullet election strategy that will keep the House in their hands, have decided to reach back decades and attack Democrats for being “liberals.”

The old-school attack will be used alongside racist anti-immigrant ads that all but make it clear the party isn’t riding on the “red wave” Trump has tweeted about.

The Washington Post reports that the Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF), the chosen PAC of Speaker Paul Ryan and House Republican leadership, is unleashing a spate of ads that “hammer home, again and again, the idea that the Democratic nominee is a liberal.”

Corry Bliss, the CLF executive director, argued, “The word ‘liberal’ is deeply unpopular and represents everything people dislike about the Democratic agenda.”

Frankly, Bliss’s mindset is about 25 years out of date. As the Post notes, the ad campaign echoes the work of Republican campaigns from the early 1990s, not 2018.

It also comes as the gap between those who identify as “liberal” versus those who identify as “conservative” has narrowed to within single digits, after decades of conservatives having a double-digit advantage.

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[Hortensis]

1. Not nothing. Cons were trained to oppose everything

they were told was liberal long ago, and it's worked extremely well for their managers. On the voter side, that knee-jerk simplicity replaced any need to adhere to actual values, as well as the need to, you know, think.

[pwb]

2. So we yell Russia , Putin louder.

[cutroot]

3. Their minions have been well trained to respond to the crack of the lash.

[lpbk2713]

4. Yell back ...

Thieves and liars!

See if they can deny it.

[Freethinker65]

5. That is all they have to run on.

Tax cuts for the wealthy will not get the votes needed. Cutting pre-existing conditions and maternity care conditions will not get the votes needed. Selling public land will not get the votes needed. Letting polluters pollute will not get the votes needed. Cutting Social Security and Medicare will not get them the votes needed. Destroying public education will not get them the votes needed. Etc.

Scaring the base into voting is all they have.