GOP Fights to Rebrand the Party of No
Source: Time
To win, we need to be the party of solutions, says Nebraska GOP chairman JL Spray. Now that Republicans have pointed out problems on issues like immigration, student loans, and the budget, he adds: Lets start fixing some things.
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The gatherings purpose, said RNC officials who recently released a much-publicized autopsy of the 2012 election, was largely to begin reshaping negative perceptions of the GOP. At the meeting, the Republican National Committees 168 members sat through upbeat sessions with titles like How to say what we mean and show that we care, and Winning the Womens vote.
Those sessions were all the more important, Republicans say, because party officials keep making the wrong kinds of headlines. In the past month, Republican officials repudiated Alask Rep. Don Young for using the slur wetback, and Michigan national committeeman Dave Agema for posting on Facebook a story that decries filthy homosexuals.
Read more: http://swampland.time.com/2013/04/15/gop-fights-to-rebrand-the-party-of-no/
Let us know how it works out, will you......
Roy Rolling
(6,856 posts)The GOP, to solve two problems at once, just said they will now be known as "the party of NADA".
pinto
(106,886 posts)They are making "these communities" the issues...
Myrina
(12,296 posts)... yes we love rich old white men
... yes we love tax havens
... yes we love unfettered weapons in the hands of whackos across the country
... yes we love interfering in people's personal lives
... yes we will obliterate the separation of church and state
... yes we will let the military industrial complex do whatever the hell it pleases
... and on & on ...
Trajan
(19,089 posts)The idiotic masses are simply waiting for the carefully crafted, focus-group tested words and phrases that Frank Luntz trots out at times like these.
And the people will suck them down like mother's milk while the Democrats get that all too familiar Deer-in-the-headlights gaze that has helped them look like utter and completely disconnected fools when the chips are down.
Feeling rather hopeless right now ...
TekGryphon
(430 posts)... just what is motivating these people. They can't all be aristocrat henchmen. Some of them are too stupid and many aren't even remotely important enough to be worth exploiting.
Watching self-help seminars like this among Republicans provides a nice glimpse into their disturbed little minds.
Unfortunately it gets me closer to understanding them.
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)They really are that stupid.
Their whole world revolves around making sure no one gets more than they.
They hate because deep down, they know it's not getting any better for them, and they don't want anyone else to prosper either.
eggplant
(3,893 posts)NYC Liberal
(20,132 posts)Republicans certainly have ideas. We had 8 years of Republican "ideas". Republicans think women should be brood mares, that we should have an anti-gay amendment enshrined in the constitution, that we should just privatize everything, that corporations should get massive tax breaks paid for by the poor and middle class, etc.
No, the "party of no" label comes from their refusal to compromise with the majority after they lose elections. It comes from them blocking any idea that isn't theirs.