I’ve enjoyed hearing Steele try to explain that jobs created with government money aren’t jobs, just “work”. Government jobs go away eventually, unlike permanent private-sector jobs, and are therefore not real. This is the GOP chairman, mind.
Given that Steele barely beat Katon Dawson, a man who said he became Republican because Democrats forced his school to integrate…
Hmm…this reminds me of something…
So, it’s amnesty, then?
There is no such thing as GOP nuances. It’s black or white.
Are you against illegal immigration so that you will fight it till your last breath, or are you for giving all them illegals amnesty? Which is it, boy?
-Joe, realizes you’re Canadian
Frankly, it’s hard to say. A former Vermont governor who failed at his attempt for higher office did a reasonably good job in a similar position. I seem to recall an opposing party’s comments that he was useless. Time will tell, etc., and so on.
All the ones who oppose same sex marriage come immediately to mind. That’s sheer bigotry and malice.
[tangent]You’re aware that tectonics is an exceedingly slow and gradual process, right? I’d hate for this phrase to replace paradigm shift.
That analogy makes no sense. Dr. Dean had done his groundwork, convinced a lot of people about his 50-state approach (which worked, btw), got elected based on those merits, and succeeded. What merits, what plan, what attitude has Steele shown anyone so far? What real (not talking-point-type, like Moto has provided) qualification does he have other than race? How impressed have you been with him so far?
Based only on a pep-rally yell. Not on a demonstrated history, not to mention present, of uselessness.
Time is already under way.
In this savvy outreach strategy, who leaps to mind as an ideal GOP emissary to minority voters?
How about George “Macaca” Allen?
Note to the GOP: I think that whole Nixon and China thing was lightning in a bottle. You might not want to go back to that well just yet.
Perhaps Mr. Steele is a fan of the Warren Beatty film BULLWORTH? Which would mean that not only are his politics terrible, so is his taste in film.
My only regret about this story is that it comes 12 months too early. It would have been much better if Steele trotted out this brainstorm early in 2010 and made it the centerpiece of the Congressional races. Now, it will die an early and premature death and the Gop will still have an opportunity at a real viable strategy.
The though of seen John Boehner in full hiphop regallia is enough to make me give up watching MSNBC.
It is arrogant to reach out to your Party’s established scapegoats and actually expect a warm reception.
I doubt Republicans will win over urban youth. But The Heritage Foundation -–which I am convinced ran the country for eight years–is a heavily funded mass marketing machine. I can see the Right peddling a repackaged policy like school privatization. School choice appeals to urban blacks for obvious reasons. It’s also a wedge issue within the Democratic Party.
Maybe the marketing firm will manufacture a hip-hop movement for school choice. It will have to be manufactured because I can’t imagine urban young people gravitating to Sarah Palin or Mark Sanford.
Why should American Express pump untold millions into its My Life, My Card campaign featuring the likes of Wes Anderson, Tina Fey, and Beyoncé? Marketing works.
This pretty much comes down to “how stupid do you think people are?”
I don’t think voters are quite that stupid.
The product still matters. Remember New Coke? Didn’t they market that? How about McDonald’s Arch Deluxe. No marketing there? I’m quite sure I remember commercials for Atari’s E.T. game, but that’s reputedly filling up landfills somewhere.
I’m sure I could go on, but “marketing works” isn’t a statement you can make without qualification.
“This is not your father’s Republican party!”
Dammit, dammit. I wanted my first new car to be a Cutlass Supreme, just like Dad’s was.
I… I think I love you.
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I would think they would be lefties.
Steele seems to be taking ideas from the Daily Show.
Sure the product matters, but you seem to be acting on the assumption that everyone targeted by the re-branding will feel roughly as you do about Republican ideas, which probably isn’t the case. They only need to reach a small percentage of voters (or former non-voters) to start swinging elections.
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