GOP chair pins 2012 loss on debates, branding

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Why the GOP Can’t Learn

It’s as if they didn’t learn a thing from the 2012 elections. Republicans are on the same suicide mission as before - - trying to block immigration reform (if they can’t scuttle it in the Senate, they’re ready to in the House), roll back the clock on abortion rights (they’re pushing federal and state legislation to ban abortions in the first 22 weeks), and stop gay marriage wherever possible.

As almost everyone knows by now, this puts them the wrong side of history. America is becoming more ethnically diverse, women are gaining economic and political power, and young people are more socially libertarian than ever before.

Why can’t Republicans learn?

It’s no answer to say their “base” — ever older, whiter, more rural and male — won’t budge. The Democratic Party of the 1990s simply ignored its old base and became New Democrats, spearheading a North American Free Trade Act (to the chagrin of organized labor), performance standards in classrooms (resisted by teachers’ unions) and welfare reform and crime control (upsetting traditional liberals).

The real answer is the Republican base is far more entrenched, ins utionally, than was the old Democratic base. And its power is concentrated in certain states — most of the old Confederacy plus Arizona, Alaska, Indiana, and Wisconsin — which together exert more of a choke-hold on the Republican national party machinery than the old Democrats, spread widely but thinly over many states, exerted on the Democratic Party.

These Republican states are more genous and con uously less like the rest of America than the urbanized regions of the country that are growing more rapidly. Senators and representatives from these states naturally reflect the dominant views of their cons uents — on immigration, abortion, and gay marriage, as well as guns, marijuana, race, and dozens of other salient issues.

But these views are increasingly out of step with where most of the nation is heading.

This state-centered, relatively genous GOP structure effectively prevents the Party from changing its stripes. Despite all the post-election rhetoric about the necessity for change emanating from GOP leaders who aspire to the national stage, the national stage isn’t really what the GOP is most interested in or attuned to. It’s directed inward rather than outward, to its state cons uents rather than to the nation.

This structure also blocks any would-be “New Republicans” such as Chris Christie from gaining the kind of power inside the party that a New Democrat like Bill Clinton received in 1992. The only way they’d be able to attract a following inside the Party would be to commit themselves to policies they’d have to abandon immediately upon getting nominated, as Mitt Romney did with disastrous results.

It’s true that by 1992 Democrats were far more desperate to win the presidency — having been in the wilderness for twelve years — than today’s GOP appears to be. Nonetheless it’s doubtful the GOP will be willing to eschew its old base even if it loses the presidency again in 2016, because without its collection of relatively genous states, there just isn’t much of a GOP.

The greater likelihood is a steady eclipse of the Republican Party at the national level, even as it becomes more entrenched in particular states. Those states can be expected to become regressive islands of backwardness within a nation growing steadily more progressive.

The GOP’s national role will be primarily negative — seeking to block, delay, and filibuster measures that will eventually become the law of the land in any event, while simultaneously preaching “states’ rights” and praying for conservative majorities on the Supreme Court.

In other words, more of the same.

http://robertreich.org/

He's looking at you, Texians

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'Man's Brain' Has Him Voting Against Health Care Expansion

I hear the conversation being about 'free this is free, we need to take it and it's free and we need to do it now' and that's sort of the fundamental message that my brain receives," Fredette said. "Now, my brain being a man's brain sort of thinks differently, because I say, well, it's not if it's free is it really free because I say in my brain there's a cost to this."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3432207.html

yet another "freedom" asshole. Maine receives $1.40 from the feds for every $1 it pays.

Maine has 350K+ on Medicaid, probably 10Ks from his asshole's district.

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Texas Legislator Claims Rape Kits Are A Form Of Abortion

When Rep. Senfronia Thompson, D-Houston, called for an exemption for women who were victims of rape and incest, Rep. Jody Laubenberg, R-Parker, explained why she felt it was unnecessary.

“In the emergency room they have what’s called rape kits where a woman can get cleaned out,” she said, comparing the procedure to an abortion. “The woman had five months to make that decision, at this point we are looking at a baby that is very far along in its development.”

The remark about rape kits, which is not accurate, sparked widespread ridicule on social media sites. Laubenberg, who has difficulty debating bills, then simply rejected all proposed changes to her bill without speaking until the end of the debate.

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013...m-of-abortion/

TX Repug wimmens is as anti-wimmen as TX Repug bubbas.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

I though that was such an interesting thread in terms of political strategy I made. Now it has turned into boutox masturbation any time a GOP type says something stupid.

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Repugs think marketing/rebranding is their problem, but what I've been posting here, GFY, shows their actual actions, policies are more extreme/losing than ever, even worse than the 2012 campaign. They won't win any blue states, and could lose some purple states.

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there's ALWAYS more from the same-old-brand Repugs

Majority Of Texans Don’t Support The Abortion Restrictions Moving Through The Legislature


Most Texas residents don’t support Senate Bill 5, the omnibus anti-abortion bill currently advancing in the legislature, according to a new bipartisan poll. In fact, 80 percent of Texans don’t want their lawmakers to be considering abortion-related bills during the special session that Gov. Rick Perry (R) convened at the beginning of the month.SB 5 combines several attacks on women’s reproductive into one omnibus measure. It would impose unnecessary burdens on abortion providers, force most of the abortion clinics in the state to close their doors, and criminalize abortions after 20 weeks (although one Senate version of the legislation removed the 20-week ban). Anti-choice lawmakers hope that the special session will give them the opportunity to push through SB 5, since its separate provisions failed to advance during the regular legislative session this year.

But Texas voters don’t actually want any more restrictions on abortion in their state. After conducting a survey among a representative sample of state residents between June 17 and 19, the polling firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner (GQR) found that

63 percent of registered voters think the Lone Star State already has enough anti-abortion laws on the books. Seventy one percent think the legislature should be more focused on the economy and jobs instead of social policies to police women’s reproductive rights.

Nearly three quarters of respondents said that personal medical decisions about whether to have an abortion should be made by a woman and her doctor, not by politicians.

Fifty seven percent said they don’t trust the Governor or the legislature to make choices about women’s health care.

And that opposition cuts across party lines: The support for women to make their own reproductive decisions remains strong among both Independents (76 percent) and Republicans (61 percent).

That opposition to the current legislative agenda is reflective in the massive numbers of protesters who have spoken out against SB 5 over the past week. On Thursday and Sunday, as the House considered SB 5, hundreds of women’s health advocates turned out to protest the abortion restrictions. Although those actions successfully delayed a vote on the bill, the House did eventually approve SB 5 on Monday morning. Senate Democrats have pledged to filibuster the legislation when it comes up for final passage in their chamber on Tuesday night — and, since the special session ends at midnight on Tuesday, they’re hoping to block it long enough to officially kill it for this year.

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013...s-oppose-sb-5/

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Repugs think marketing/rebranding is their problem, but what I've been posting here, GFY, shows their actual actions, policies are more extreme/losing than ever, even worse than the 2012 campaign. They won't win any blue states, and could lose some purple states.

This is individual GOP types saying stupid things. Why don't you make a "stupid things GOP types say" thread.

Branding is typically denoted as a marketing campaign. The OP was talking about the RNC chair making such a central effort to market the party.

Your next post has nothing to do with a marketing attempt either. It's just GOP types being unresponsive to their electorate.

You are the one that es about posts being in the right place. Well you are posting off topic.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

From the article in the OP:

"This is unprecedented, and it's something we had to do," said RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, previewing the report on "Face the Nation." He told host Bob Schieffer the "huge" effort will include significant changes to the most high profile Republican event of the campaign.

"I'm calling for a convention in June or July," Preibus said. "We're going to set up a commission that's going to make that decision. I'm going to be a part of that. I'm going to chair that commission, but no more August conventions."

He said an earlier convention will help the eventual nominee go in stronger and come out with more time to try to win the general election.

What does your masturbation have to do with that? Oh yeah it doesn't.

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From the article in the OP:



What does your masturbation have to do with that? Oh yeah it doesn't.

The tea bagger extremists run the GOP, dominate the Congressional Repugs, not the RNC, Priebus.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

The tea bagger extremists run the GOP, dominate the Congressional Repugs, not the RNC, Priebus.

Who was talking in the original post? This is not hard to figure out. I even quoted it for you.

I get that the primary system removes much control from the actual party itself but that is besides the point. The OP is about the RNC's efforts. You are jerking off about any stupid thing a Republican says. Do you want me to make another thread to jerk off in?

[TeyshaBlue]

He's already got his vapid VWRC thread to pleasure himself with.

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Who was talking in the original post? This is not hard to figure out. I even quoted it for you.

I get that the primary system removes much control from the actual party itself but that is besides the point. The OP is about the RNC's efforts. You are jerking off about any stupid thing a Republican says. Do you want me to make another thread to jerk off in?

"beside the point"? tea baggers/extremists control the Repug Congressional delegation. "beside the point"? They killed the farm bill, they will kill the immigration bill.

"any stupid thing a Republican says."

ok! the isolated, non-representative "rotten apple" bull ? Like TX Repugs passing the most extreme anti-woman bill in the US? TX is just a "stupid thing"

TB the fraudulent Tea baggers/Repug extremists are FINANCED by the VRWC

[FuzzyLumpkins]

"beside the point"? tea baggers/extremists control the Repug Congressional delegation. "beside the point"? They killed the farm bill, they will kill the immigration bill.

"any stupid thing a Republican says."

ok! the isolated, non-representative "rotten apple" bull ? Like TX Repugs passing the most extreme anti-woman bill in the US? TX is just a "stupid thing"

TB the fraudulent Tea baggers/Repug extremists are FINANCED by the VRWC

Yay a bunch of boutox memes that are completely besides the point.

I am getting now that you are clueless as to how political parties are structured. You have your meme's. I have the GOP charter and platform. The OP is about the RNC and it's chair changing it's marketing policy towards elections.

I will tell you what, I will make another thread for you to spam your in.

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"marketing policy towards elections."

yes, yes, we understand the RNC thinks Repugs only have a marketing problem, so LYING better about what they actually do, and trying to get the tea baggers to shut up until after an election, will fix the Repugs huge demographic problem.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

"marketing policy towards elections."

yes, yes, we understand the RNC thinks Repugs only have a marketing problem, so LYING better about what they actually do, and trying to get the tea baggers to shut up until after an election, will fix the Repugs huge demographic problem.

Well that is the subject of the thread and not the subject of your posts in this thread. I made you a new thread that actually is about what you are posting in here.

I would like a place to discuss RNC policy without having to sift through your bull .

[scott]

It's branding that's clearly THE issue for the GOP.

Signed,

The Texas GOP.

[Winehole23]

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