Democrats Not Shaking In Their Boots Over RNC Changes
As the RNC sets out to expand outreach, Democratic reaction boils down to “we’ll believe it when we see it.”
posted on March 18, 2013 at 9:15pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Republican Party says it's ready to change. But so far, Democrats aren't shaking in their boots.
On Monday, RNC chairman Reince Priebus rolled out his party's Growth and Opportunity Project plan, aimed at identifying the mistakes the GOP made in 2012 and fixing them before 2016.
The big idea is this: the RNC needs to build up the infrastructure and messaging to engage voters beyond the white, old and male. Democratic campaign professionals, who enjoyed great success among just about all the voting blocs that don't fit that description last year, don't sound too worried.
"The 'we need women and Hispanics to stop thinking we hate them' message belies a core set of policies that are hostile to these demographics and can't be papered over by some rhetorical reboot," said Kelly Steele, a longtime Democratic operative who helped Sen. Harry Reid win another term in 2010. "Look at the fact [Sen.] Marco Rubio didn't utter a single word about immigration at CPAC, and that its audience was openly hostile to any reform."
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and shocking racism...that portion was played by Chris Matthews last night...where the white CPAC guy explained that white slaveholders in the the South actually "fed and housed" the slaves (I guess meaning the slaveholder was doing the slave a favor).
I was actually shocked by how "in yer face" that was to the black guy addressing the workshop.
With folks like these, they're stuck in a very bad "now" that they can't extricate themselves from. We shouldn't stop them from doing a perfectly fine job of destroying themselves...
will be the judge.
http://theobamadiary.com/
They can talk all they want and make it seem like they *care* but it will be harder than ever to paper over the fact that they, in all probabilities, will promote the exact same policies- In the states, they'll keep trying to rig the Electoral College in the states to make the Presidency more attainable (for them), implement new barriers to voting for college kids and minorities (anybody currently more likely to vote "D"
, keep pushing the transvaginal/fetal personhood bills to keep the womenfolk in line, keep LGBTs from having full equality, keep on busting unions and public employees, keep on pushing for the drug testing of the poor and unemployed, hunting down illegal immigrants, etc. At the federal level, they'll keep on obstructing President Obama's nominees for........everything and keep filibustering anything that might help the average person and, while I doubt that they will succeed in repealing Obamacare root and branch, they and their Republican brethren in the states will keep throwing roadblock after roadblock in front of its eventual full implementation. I mean, why spend all the time and efforts to come up with an (allegedly) superior replacement for Obamacare and/or get the public to support repealing Obamacare when you can just nullify it? Why work to get the public on your side to repeal/change Dodd-Frank when it's easier to nullify it by refusing to allow President Obama to choose an eminently qualified and unobjectionable person to head the agency that oversees consumer financial protection, which, apparently, they have some huge problem with- their desire to reach middle class voters notwithstanding? 
