Posted on 02/19/2009 7:27:51 AM PST by TADSLOS
Newly elected Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele plans an “off the hook” public relations offensive to attract younger voters, especially blacks and Hispanics, by applying the party's principles to “urban-suburban hip-hop settings.”
The RNC's first black chairman will “surprise everyone” when updating the party's image using the Internet and advertisements on radio, on television and in print, he told The Washington Times.
Having been elected to the job that the Bush White House and its political guru, Karl Rove, once denied him, Mr. Steele is running the show his way. To those who claimed he can't make the trains run on time, he has this message: “Stuff it.”
He stiff-armed an attempt to get him to elaborate on his public relations effort, saying he would be an idiot to give his opponents too much information, but indicated the Republican Party needs to break out of being considered a regional party.
”There was underlying concerns we had become too regionalized and the party needed to reach beyond our comfort” zones, he said, citing defeats in such states as Virginia and North Carolina. “We need messengers to really capture that region - young, Hispanic, black, a cross section ... We want to convey that the modern-day GOP looks like the conservative party that stands on principles. But we want to apply them to urban-surburban hip-hop settings.”
But, he elaborated with a laugh, “we need to uptick our image with everyone, including one-armed midgets.”
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The P.C. police are going to be all over that one.
Perhaps if McCain rapped his speech he would have won.
The fact is the GOP is losing ground state by state. States like California, New Jersey, New York all used to vote republican now most people view them and others as lost causes.
The failure to campaign among blacks and other minorities (because they weren’t voting republican anyway) has led to radicalized minorities which are a political cancer on our nation.
The GOP needs to explain to minorities why they should vote conservative republican. A tall order for sure.
he is trying to reach digital people with analogue talk.
if steele walks the walk rather than struts rino, we will bring them over DIGITALLY.
2008 election results
Ages 18-29 Obama 66% McCain 18%
Ages 30-44 Obama 52% McCain 29%
Ages 45-64 Obama 50% McCain 37%
Ages 65 up Obama 16% McCain 45%
The demographics are not good for the GOP. As long as conservative principles are represented well by the GOP, I don’t have a problem with updating the party image to appeal to the younger crowd. He says he will not change party platform, just its PR. Conservative values can be made more or less appealing depending on how they are presented. Why not try different marketing to appeal to different age groups?
Did my rapping work?
Fo shizzle, my nizzle
He cannot even get the lingo down.
It's "off the chain".
Word.
VirginiaMom
Well, he could start with that machosauce guy.
that is the funnest picture I’ve seen in a long time!
oh, my eyes
But this is what Steele is talking about, isn’t it?
So much for dignity. Glad I'm no longer a Republican.
All you folks need to stop whining about African Americans. Who says, we have to love hip hop culture? There are so many african americans who are very conservative and are closet Republicans. By appealing to the youngsters through GOOD HIP HOP, nothing is wrong. It will be wrong, when you START BENDING YOUR CONSERVATIVE MESSAGE. Attract these youngsters and more African Americans by our values through ANY medium that is possible. Folks, we are loosing a segment of population in a ratio of 5% to 95%. There is nothing wrong to get into this community and spread our values.
It looks like God has given those who run the Republican Party a spirit of delusion or deception. It is unbelievable. We could WIN IF the party returned to it's conservative roots and values and TOOK A STAND ON THEM FOR A CHANGE (yes I am yelling!). Instead, we had a buffoon trying to make the party "hip" to stupid people who wear their baggy jeans around their anlkes who only care about the government giving them free money!
The next thing you know Michael Steele and the GOP "leaders" will be coming out with their own 2 TRILLION dollar deadbeat givaway all in the name of trying to BUY votes from those who will N E V E R vote Republican. This whole thing is making me sick.
Yep. An overload of good ideas trapped in Ned Flanders’ body.
In other words - The GOP had too many Whites. We need to dumb down to get more Hip Hop voters.
Better to look to the music of James Brown and get the kids to look at Soul Brother Number One's MESSAGE as well as his beats (which are among the most sampled in hip hop).
"I don't want nobody to give me nothing, open up the door, I'll get it myself".
He spoke about self-reliance and told kids "don't drop out".
He had personal failings but he didn't encourage kids to make the same mistakes he had.
This is the best Steele can come up with? Republicans are doomed.
It’s a ludacris plan and it won’t work.
I just got an image of a gold toothed John McCain in droopy pants wearing a couple of pounds of gold around his neck.
Not pretty!
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