This sounds like the Democrats circa 2004:
GOP Chair: “We’ve Done a Really Lousy Job of Branding and Marketing Who We Are”
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus says the GOP has an image problem. “We’ve done a really lousy job of branding and marketing who we are,” Priebus said on CBS. Most have an image of the GOP as a room full of “stuffy old guys” but the “reality is we have a very young party,” he added. Priebus went on CBS to talk about the long-anticipated RNC report that will be released Monday and will detail just how the GOP can reverse its fortunes after the November defeats.
Priebus, who calls the review “unprecedented,” outlined to CBS’ Bob Schieffer the three main recommendations for the next presidential election: Fewer debates, an earlier convention, and a shorter primary process. “I believe that our primary process is way too long,” he said. “I think our calendar needs to be looked at.” The primary process ultimately hurt the party and its eventual nominee because “while we were playing footsie” the Democrats “were spending potentially hundreds of millions of dollars on data, technology, voter outreach.” He said 23 debates is a “ridiculous” number and he’d cut it down to “maybe 7 or 8.” To improve its image, the party will spend $10 million as part of an outreach program that will send people to all corners of the country, with a particular focus on hiring new political directors to reach out to minority voting blocs.
I got a bad feeling about this cuz I really don’t care too much for the New & Improved Democratic Party™.
The Crawdad Hole 
I have the same bad feeling. They certainly need to improve things and be more focused and unified and be better at their message. Then again, they also need to make sure it’s not the message vs. the messenger. But becoming more slick and machine like, and getting good at the manipulative marketing crap, and, well, cheating, doesn’t sound good to me.
It sort of sounds like they’re buying into Dem messaging though. Suckers.
If you have a good product you don’t need slick-talking salesmen and fancy ads.
THIS
True but both parties have a crap product. Since most people find marketing offensive this might be a good time for an assault by a centrist 3rd party who talks straight to The People rather than kissing their corporate masters asses.
If you look back through the years you will see that this is all cyclical. The GOP dominates for a while, then the Democrats take over. Lather, rinse, repeat endlessly.
It’s called an oligarchy. The back and forth is to make the peasants think they have a choice.
sounds to me like that they are being reactive instead of proactive
((palmslap))
But, but, but…….. that means we special ones will not be in charge, so that ain’t happening.
They weren’t the right wimenz and minoritiz. Silly people.
They want minority and women puppets.
You know like the Dems have….
GOP Autopsy Report Is Out And It’s…Meh
—DrewM.
Here’s the report (pdf)
The short version is…Romney was a terrible candidate and his campaign was awful. They never say that but it’s clearly the subtext of everything.
After saying they aren’t a policy making board, they make one policy suggestion.
more at Ace of Spades
If Romney was a terrible candidate then who did they have that was better?
of all that ran I liked Romney for this time in the country
There was never any serious attempt to figure out which candidate could win the country. It was all which candidate can the EGOP best control. Because 2012 was an automatic GOP win, wasn’t it?
There was never meant to be a viable candidate from the powers that be. It was the Dems turn to continue. They like things the way they are. Actually, they probably would have been fine with Romney, but they didn’t support him and let the Dems run the show this time.
I don’t trust either party anymore, all they do is blow smoke up our asses for donations. Meh.
I was convinced of that when they (I believe both parties!) went to Rove’s defense over Sarah’s CPAC comments. Where was the GOP/RNC when the Dems were driving her family bankrupt and impeding her ability to govern her state with stupid lawsuits (all dismissed) ? Then the Dems went after her defense fund (same kind Bill Clinton properly set up for his legal fund) and made her return the money (I signed the check back to her PAC).
F you Democrats
F you Republicans
Honk!
Not disagreeing with Denise’s last two lines, but in a two party system isn’t the best question which party can you easiest influence? That’s where I’ve very reluctantly gone, but I’m open to alternatives..
As the klown says, it’s all “uniparty kabuki”.
HONK HONK
I’ll second that! FU Dems and Reps
WOW! they are going with the Democrat winning plan!
I am proactively embarrassed on behalf of USA
With hand gesturing like that he just mighr be Italian.
Via Legal Insurrection:
WTF?
Bomber billy ayres educational teaching.
divide and conquer
OMG! Few things leave me speechless.
“Black people don’t have control of any institutions of power, so they can’t be racist.”
And people buy this crap in a country with a black president, black attorney general, black SCOTUS Justice, black US representatives, 4 black cabinet members, and in some states and districts more locally elected black officials than white ones.
But nope – black people are powerless victims.
Shhh, don’t tell them facts. Facts just get in the way of their narrative.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21835261
republicans seen as stuffy old white men. well then why is the establishment not listening to the younger republicans like Cruz – Rubio – Rand _ Lee?
Why did they trash Sarah Palin and redistrict Allen West???
the republican establishment has become its own worse enemy.
The have the future in these people, but do not want to give up the power of the past. That power is weakening.
There is some good stuff in the report. They *do* need to do outreach and work on messaging. What they need to do is put the more liberty-minded people front and center, and tell the old guard to stand off to the side and smile and applaud. They need to do minority outreach that consists of more than apologetic shuffling and rote speechifying. They need to put up the moolah to send these vibrant young radical black and latino conservatives into minority communities to tell them how the Democrats have failed them utterly, and how job growth, and school choice, is better for them.
It remains to be seen whether they will.
They need to put the old bulls out to pasture and lets some young bloods take over.
I hope they nut the old bulls first.
Honk, honk!
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/03/boehner_to_keep_funding_obamacare.html
one change they need asap is get rid of boehner.
limp spagetti has more spine
backtrack must have pictures, and negatives on him
Washing my bedding today (spring cleaning) and my male cat comes in and chews me out because there are no blankets or sheets for him to lay on, just a bare mattress.
So I put a towel down and he curled up on it and went to sleep.
and you had the silly thought that YOU were the boss of the house
It’s been years since I was the boss of anything.
Near as I can tell they are now bashing Pope Frank for not volunteering to be a martyr during Argentina’s “Dirty War.”
http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/03/18/how-the-new-york-times-smeared-pope-francis-today/
But he didn’t risk his life to publicly denounce the Argentine government so he isn’t fit to be Pope!
Tell ya what, when these assholes are willing to go stand in the middle of the square in Egypt and commence with the denouncing, they can bitch. Until then, STFU.
It’s like with POW’s. Until you’ve been one you don’t get to judge the ones who were.
In case you were wondering what happened to all the guitar heroes:
US State Department says Syrian government forces firing rockets into Lebanon is “a significant escalation”
is this an ” OH SHIT” moment??
Don’t worry, I’m sure Lurch is on top of it.
Oh snap !
Rtwded and following. 🙂
awesome
Bahahaha!
Check out this website — doesn’t it give you a Julia-like vibe?
http://www.secondarytransition.org/
edit – apparently its for IEP (special ed ) students
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/03/18/nanny-bloomberg-wants-to-force-retail-stores-to-hide-their-cigarettes/
there is something mentally wrong with this guy??
he wants to be a mommy so badly
Small weenie.
Control freak and Small weenie.Double trouble. 😆
Control freak
Glad he isn’t mine. 🙂
Israel has the bad habit of doing something provocative right after a US presidential visit. Regardless of party. But in this case, the desire for a move that would embarrass Obama must be great. I’m thinking when air force one is just lifting off and up in the air, Israel will launch war with Iran. Or at least bomb some possible nuk facilities. Wouldn’t surprise me one bit.
Oh, and while we’re on anarchy watch, watch for bank runs around the world after the Cyprus fiasco. Geniuses I tells you.
I hope they really try to go thru with this rip-off in Cyprus. Let people see a small scale version of what would really happen on a large scale if they try confiscating wealth.
Very Interesting.
http://theulstermanreport.com/2013/03/17/when-it-comes-to-barack-obama-israelis-overwhelming-say-enemy/
another backtrack historic first
just to lighten things up. got this at Iowa Hawk
this is a real ad on the NYC subway
It’s a parody, a Comedy Central ad for one of it’s comedians. Pretty cool though, it would get my attention 😀
http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/other/288737-planned-parenthood-slams-gop-self-critique
does the GOP care what planned parenthood thinks?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/18/dems-preserve-us-mexico-food-stamp-partnership-while-usda-prepares-for-meat/
meat inspectors to be laid off
money for US- Mexico food stamp partnership OK
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/03/michael-steele-on-reince-priebus-no-message-no-focus-89017.html
a male cat fight????
Please…we all know men don’t have cat fights they discuss important issues of enormous world impact.
Men compare penises. This is sometimes known as a “cock fight”
“We’re not here to rebrand a party. We’re here to rebuild a country.”
-Sarah Palin
The cool thing about conservatives and even Republicans is that this current bunch does not share the same herd mentality we’ve seen in the past.
It is very interesting how liberals start off with an unpopular position on an issue and then at a strategic moment do a complete 180. As far as I can tell this makes them look magnanimous, thoughtful and “evolutionary”….open to change….UNLIKE conservatives who take a singular position and refuse to change….hope, and then change….it is the glorious way. Or in the case of Hillary perhaps she recently discovered that she is gay or that Chelsea is gay or, who knows, maybe even Bill is gay now…the whole family is gay!!!
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/18/hillary-clinton-endorses-same-sex-marriage/
Wasn’t that odd? I mean seriously, “breaking news?” WTH was that about?
Genuflecting to the great gay marriage cause is the first sign that a Democrat is running for office. Gays are maybe 3% of the population but Democrats take care to fluff them, women are 52% of voters but they can go to hell.
still will not vote for her. when she went to work for backtrack, I thought bad decision but her decision.
When she made the statement ” what difference does it make” on Benghazi I lost any respect I ever had for her
I just favorited ^^this^^
😀
http://www.wnd.com/2013/03/see…
Putin wants to boost military
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/0…
this is from the other day.
backtrack cancels final phase of Europe based missile defense system.
does anyone see anything wrong with this picture??
I wonder why BOs corporate masters think that is a good idea?
but meeeeeeshelle already invited the family of the young girl murdered in Chicago near their house
Well, that should make them feel lots better about losing their daughter. /s