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Democrats don't have a policy problem. They have a marketing problem.
The Week ^ | June 22, 2017 | Paul Waldman

Posted on 06/23/2017 12:50:37 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: Jemian

I think that you can only play the gaslighting game for a finite period of time before the target of the deception becomes aware of the situation.

The American people are famous for doing the right thing, after they’ve tried everything else.


21 posted on 06/23/2017 3:23:20 AM PDT by Samurai_Jack (War is cruelty, there is no use trying to reform it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.)
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To: Noamie

My high school newspaper wouldn’t have published that trash.


22 posted on 06/23/2017 3:26:28 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: GOPJ; Bikkuri; Jane Long; DollyCali; MinuteGal; jsanders2001; V K Lee; HarleyLady27; ...
This prototypical "humble and kind" Democrat in Georgia actually lost..........ROTFLOL.


23 posted on 06/23/2017 3:33:29 AM PDT by Liz
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is the tiredest rationalization and most powerful delusion of all for the Communist Democrat Party.


24 posted on 06/23/2017 3:38:12 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The problem is that they have to spend time explaining all those things

If you have to explain why eating a crap sandwich is good for you, marketing is not your problem.

25 posted on 06/23/2017 3:48:48 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

While Democrat have policy it is repugnant to all but the most depraved individuals


26 posted on 06/23/2017 3:50:29 AM PDT by okie 54
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

While Democrat have policy it is repugnant to all but the most depraved individuals


27 posted on 06/23/2017 3:50:33 AM PDT by okie 54
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If they want to start to win Republican districts, they need to rebuild the CONSERVATIVE branch of the party. Voters in red States do not want to be controlled by Globalists or be wannabe dictators.


28 posted on 06/23/2017 3:51:06 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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To: Trillian
The maniacal response to anything the Republicans strive to do with health care is not pleasant. They're probably succeeding in ginning up their Democrat base, but not impressing everyone who wants the problem they created solved.

In all of their rantings yesterday, not one of them suggested an idea that would help solve the problems in medical care.

29 posted on 06/23/2017 3:51:45 AM PDT by grania (Deplorable and Proud of It!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sorry, there is no marketing problem here. It’s an ideological problem with all the tenets of the French revolution and 1917 Russia, which has been proven not to work 100% of the time.

The main question to ask is, “how come every time a Republican is elected, the first thing out of the Democrats mouth is he should be impeached?” Do Republicans actually think this would change if Trump decided to go back to business and Pence came into office?


30 posted on 06/23/2017 3:53:30 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("“In America, we don’t worship government, we worship God.”" DJT)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey! Paul Waldman. The 80’s called. They want their excuse back.


31 posted on 06/23/2017 3:54:31 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

(first sentence)
“Democrats continued their 2017 run of being unable to win special elections in strongly Republican districts on Tuesday.”

It didn’t take him long to lie. Trump won the ‘strongly Republican district’ on Tuesday by a whole 1.5%, and I’m sure this clown knows it. The district was a toss-up with Trump on the ballot, and Trump was not only on the ballot Tuesday, he was front and center.

The fact that an incumbent wins his seat by 20 points in a state that the Dems left for dead last year DOES NOT make it a Republican district, it makes it a ‘typical’ district with an entrenched incumbent.

Well, there was no incumbent this week for the Congressional seat, just as there was no incumbent for the White House last year - and the Republican did BETTER than Trump...and again, this clown knows it.


32 posted on 06/23/2017 3:56:41 AM PDT by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It is the same policy they have been peddling for years and years. Tax the rich. The poor are only poor because of the rich. Tax breaks for the poor (oh wait they are no longer taxed). Whites are evil.


33 posted on 06/23/2017 3:58:41 AM PDT by pas
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Democrats don’t need to worry about their agenda; what they need is a better way to sell it.”

I think most people here would just LOVE it if the Dems and the media would do just the above. Then we could have a fair debate about their positions, such as:

1) Open Borders
2) Expanded Welfare
3) Assigned doctors/hospitals (i.e., single payer)
4) Shutdown of industry
5) Massive wealth transfers to despots (Paris Climate Deal)
6) Emptying Jails (to make room for the next one)
7) Jailing people for political speech opposing them
8) Extermination of Israel

...to name a few of their positions.


34 posted on 06/23/2017 4:02:54 AM PDT by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"What the Democrats need is better marketing. That's really about it."

Sure... Dip that turd in chocolate sauce...that's sure to make it more palatable..

35 posted on 06/23/2017 4:03:32 AM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: Paladin2
"Not many voters want to transform America into Venezuela."

Or even Illinois...

36 posted on 06/23/2017 4:06:00 AM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: BobL

9)Use Climate Change as a political weapon.


37 posted on 06/23/2017 4:07:30 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Liz
it's the dogs... they just won't eat it.
38 posted on 06/23/2017 4:10:17 AM PDT by Chode (My job is not to represent the world. My job is to represent the United States of America-#45 DJT)
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To: Paladin2

Many do considering how much of the vote was for Hillary last election. Even with fraud votes, she still was around 50 percent of those who voted. And plenty who did not bother voting are also liberal as well.


39 posted on 06/23/2017 4:11:06 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: School of Rational Thought

I was going to ask the other posters who pointed out the “messaging not message” disconnect about how long the Dimocrats have been pulling that piece of propaganda out and dancing it around like Weekend At Bernie’s.


40 posted on 06/23/2017 4:15:50 AM PDT by angryoldfatman
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