GOP Rep. Patrick McHenry: “Our Goal Is To Bring Down Approval Numbers” For Dems

[babylonsister]

+1 for honesty, but they still don't have a plan, it seems.


http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/house-republicans/gop-rep-our-goal-is-to-bring-down-approval-numbers-for-dems/

GOP Rep: “Our Goal Is To Bring Down Approval Numbers” For Dems


GOP Rep. Patrick McHenry, a key player in helping craft the Republican message, has offered an unusually blunt description of the Republican strategy right now.

McHenry’s description is buried in this new article from National Journal (sub. only):

“We will lose on legislation. But we will win the message war every day, and every week, until November 2010,” said Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., an outspoken conservative who has participated on the GOP message teams. “Our goal is to bring down approval numbers for {Speaker Nancy} Pelosi and for House Democrats. That will take repetition. This is a marathon, not a sprint.”

McHenry’s spokesperson, Brock McCleary, tells me his boss is standing by the quote.

McHenry’s description of his party’s goal — to “bring down approval numbers” for Nancy Pelosi and House Dems — is being much talked about today among Congressional Dems. It’s likely that Dems will grab on to the quote today to bolster their charge that Congressional Republicans aren’t interested in playing a constructive role in governing and see their hope for political revival in the eventual failure of the Democratic majority’s policies.

[marmar]

1. Not the betterment of the country, not tackling the problems it faces.....

...... their goal is to bring down Dem approval numbers.


Evolution was unkind to Rep. McHenry. :freak:

[Deja Q]

6. He should take a cue from John McCain: "Country first".

[roguevalley]

23. check out this chickenshit. he's bad to the bone.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Patrick_McHenry

[WCGreen]

30. An Irish Nazi....

[roguevalley]

32. agreed. by the way, your father is a genius. :)

[benld74]

2. Unpatriotic Pr*k!

[Deja Q]

7. He is a prick. No need to censor it. He doesn't deserve the censoring if he's THAT jaded.

[ErinBerin84]

He's so lame

In his CPAC speech, he made a joke about Rahm being the devil. Classy.

[Democrats_win]

3. Good. I know it's foolish to worry the GOP would have a goal to help America.

The GOP remains the party of the Slave states. Slavery for women, slavery for workers, slavery to false religion.

[TwilightGardener]

4. America-hating obstructionist pricks. I don't use "treason" lightly, but in these awful times,

making a President's job more difficult solely for the sake of political advantage is treason to me.

[Deja Q]

5. What a pig. As has been said, what the fuck has happened to COUNTRY FIRST?!

You know, what John McCain eventually started to say during his campaign?

Oh, that's right, those were empty buzzwords. Typical repuke feces.

[CJCRANE]

8. AKA "catapulting the propaganda" nt

[Supersedeas]

26. repetition over substance -- leadership, not in the list of Republican attributes

[lpbk2713]

9. Parroting his party's leader ... "We want Obama to fail."

[Vinca]

13. OMFG - that picture is disturbing on so many levels.

:rofl:

[Marr]

10. Thanks, Patrick.

It makes everything so much easier when your opposition admits that they put party before country; their career before their constituents.

[Raven]

11. There you have it, in a nutshell. Not bring down unemployment rates or foreclosure rates,

Nope, too decent for these folks.

[sinkingfeeling]

12. A message designed to turn off every non-Republican in the country.

[babylonsister]

15. If that's what the message was designed for, it worked. nt

[PopSixSquish]

14. Poor Patrick is Upset that Rahm Doesn't Love Him Anymore

This is the same idiot who complained that the COS won't look him in the face now when they meet.

[reggie the dog]

16. this is exactly what Democrats should do

Destroy the opposition. The only think is the GOP have to destroy the country to destroy the Democrats whereas the Democrats have to save the country to crush the Republicans.

[HillWilliam]

17. That smarmy little weasel

McHenry (R-Closet) really doesn't want to stick his head so far out of his spider-hole. Young Mr Scandal has a lot to lose, nasty little specimen that he is. There are an aaaaaaaawful lot of unanswered questions surrounding Mr McHenry he doesn't want taken back up. I'm sure of it.

The little perv.

[noiretextatique]

18. another member of the irrelevant party

proves once again that the irrelevant party has no interest in "bipartisanship."

[tabbycat31]

19. anyone here in his district?

[Qutzupalotl]

20. The fact that they don't see the problem in this

is exactly why they will fail.

[maxrandb]

21. For those who say that "Limbaugh Doesn't Matter"

We'll be cleaning the rat bastards that fat-fuck helped get elected out of the government for a few more years. McHenry is one of those, just like fucking J.D. Heyworth of AZ. Fuck, ole' JD even looked and talked like Limbaugh.

[Liberal_Dog]

22. Well, The GOP Did An Outstanding Job Of Tanking Their Own Approval Numbers

I am really concerned about this. :rofl:

[Enthusiast]

34. But they will eventually

pull President Obama down. This is how it started with Bill Clinton. Eventually every word was an attack on Clinton.

[Enrique]

24. I hope the dems repeat this quote endlessly

debating on TV for example, the dem can respond to the republican argument by asking, do you really think that will work, or is this part of your strategy to "bring democrats' approval numbers down."

[The Gunslinger]

28. Exactly

But I wonder if these telling statements will make the main stream media at all.

[Cha]

25. I already knew that.

F- for Failure.

[Jim Lane]

27. "McHenry? I liked him better when he was getting shelled by the British."

One of the comments when Wonkette ran about this remark.

[Mr. Sparkle]

29. So rather than fixing the problems of the country, he wants to play dirty politics for the next ..

2 years. Talk about unamerican . What a lowlife.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

31. All this tells me is that the Republicans are so devoid of ideas

that they will stoop to this sort of BS.

It's the same sort of tactic that McCain used against Obama in the election. No ideas? Then attack...

It's stupid and wrong-headed.

[Beer Snob-50]

33. any republican who reads these comments

should have the decency to go and change their party affilation to independant. i would be embarassed to be a repuke right now.