Democrats don't have a policy problem. They have a marketing problem.

The Week ^ | June 22, 2017 | Paul Waldman

[48th SPS Crusader]

No, they have policy problems!

[Maverick68]

Everyone is wrong but me (heh..).
The Democrats problem is Social Media.
The MSMedia used to control the message lock, stock and barrel. The advent of Social Media have made it possible for Conservatives to fight the false narrative and outright LIES in real-time......Truth to a Democrat is like a crucifix to Dracula....or a Democrat.

[Tucker39]

I beg to differ. Their policy, such as it was, in 2008 was pure anti-American, anti-Capitalist, anti-Christian destruction of America as it was Founded. But they had a slick, Kenyan, muslim BS artist to SELL IT. And Barnum was proven right. In Spades!

[Sivad]

Blah blah blah.....No, Democrats have a policy problem,
too. Only college professor types want to go that hard
left as a society.

[BobL]

Absolutely! The list is so long...I just didn’t want to spend the day on it.

[Caipirabob]

You can’t sell “suck”.

[a fool in paradise]

“How can we lie to them THIS time?”

Stalinists lie. Always

And playing up the “racist-sexist-homophobe-xenophobe-deplorable” meme doesn’t work so well anymore.

“Oh they vote against their own personal financial interests because of religious superstition and xenophobia.... blah blah blah”

[a fool in paradise]

. The Republican campaign, in contrast, was intensely tribal. Their message, hammered home on TV and in direct mail, was in essence that Karen Handel should be elected because SanFranciscoNancyPelosiKathyGriffinAnarchistLiberalDemocraticHippies!!! (just look at this ad, or this one).

heavily outspendt by California fruitcakes meddling in the Georgia election and somehow it was "wrong" to point this out. Truth hurts.

[poconopundit]

Great comment, JustaTech...

[VTenigma]

Democrats don’t have a policy problem. They have a marketing problem.

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Okaay, keep telling yourself that. Delusion is not just a river in Egypt.

[poconopundit]

Excellent analysis, Mazda!

[MNJohnnie]

Americans like the particular things Democrats want to do: Raise the minimum wage, have strong worker protections, protect the safety net, address climate change, protect abortion rights, guarantee secure health coverage, make college more affordable,

Ah NO they do not. This is exactly WHY the Dems have to rabidly lie and pretend to be Republicans during elections years. Americans DO NOT want this big state nanny mindset of the far Left.

[poconopundit]

LOL! Your comment... and your tagline. Former Mass. resident.

[Flick Lives]

What Republicans do have is a small number of policy mantras they repeat endlessly, distillations of their ideas that are so simple even the most distracted and ignorant voter can understand them. Cut taxes.

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Insulting and demeaning voters. A Leftist speciality.

[Flick Lives]

I suspect that a lot of Democrats wish that politics didn’t have to be so simple-minded...

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And again, the writer insults the voters as just too stupid to understand the brilliance of the Left.

[poconopundit]

The picture you posted of Ossoff provides a strong clue that he's an utter fraud.  Can you guess what that was?

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It's the American flag.  Leftists are not that fond of the American flag.  But Ossoff's team had two small American flags dropped into the picture.  And it was there to bait Republicans and true Americans.

They did the same thing in this Ossoff publicity shot below.

On the right, the lib holds the flag very tenuously in his hand, as if to say, "Oh.. err... this flag makes me uncomfortable, but if it will help Jon get elected, I'll put the flag in front of me for 30 seconds."

The other guy with the flag was more courageous.  He hid his face with it.

Being in Georgia, I heard a lot of Ossoff ads n the radio.  In not one of those ads did I hear the words "Democrat" or "Trump".

Real Americans see through this phoniness.

Ossoff was a non-mulatto Obama.  Tall, no real life accomplishments, no past, "I'm-above-politics", and highly scripted.  Even his sentence structures and voice cadence fit the spit-polished Obama to a T.

Humble, kind, ready-to-shine your shoes with a smile! And then as you leave, he steals your wallet.

All the signals were there to raise alerts.  And so his closeness to Obama may have been unconsciously detected so even Never-Trumpers could not pull the lever for this Wolf in Grandma's pajamas.

[LS]

Which is to say that . . . Yes, they have a policy problem.

[Liz]

Sounding like Obama (gag)——the kiss of death.

This guy must weigh all of 75 pounds-——a camera adds 10 pounds....so in person he must look like a toothpick.

[Maverick68]

The Dems have a camouflage problem.

[gogeo]

Oh, I don't agree.

Voters don't think you are serious.

Time to double down, show them you mean it.