Posted on 05/13/2008 4:41:47 PM PDT by pissant
Oh, dear Lord. The hapless Republican establishment has gone and made a public embarrassment of itself again. Can your hearts take much more of this?
Mine can’t:
Hoping to get things moving in a positive direction, House Republicans will on Wednesday begin rolling out their own policy agenda, trying to showcase their differences with Democrats on issues such as health care, the economy, energy and national security.
In a memo to be sent to Republican members today, the leadership hints at a new slogan building on the change message that has already been shown to have political resonance with a public unhappy with the nation’s direction.
It looks like Republicans will counter the Democratic push for change from the years of the Bush administration with their own pledge to deliver, drum roll please, “the change you deserve.” The first element of the party agenda developed over the past few months by the leadership and select party members will focus on family issues.
“Through our “Change You Deserve” message and through our “American Families Agenda,” House Republicans will continue our efforts to speak directly to an American public looking for leaders who will offer real solutions for the challenges they confront every day,” said the memo prepared for lawmakers.e of this?
Conservatives have spent the entire campaign season eviscerating Democrat candidates who’ve tattooed themselves with the empty “change” slogan. So what do the brain-dead strategists and p.r. market wizards of the GOP go and do?
Wrap themselves in “change.”
What about self-preservation? What about sovereignty? What about consistent adherence to constitutional principles?
Nope. We get more insipid “change.”
The crack research staff at GOP HQ somehow missed that “Change You Deserve” is the marketing slogan for Effexor, an anti-depressant.
Brilliant.
The GOP lemmings deserve everything they’re going to get in November.
Fine. Now: support the assertion, by all means, if you can.
No, that’s BS also. I did not insult you. So piss off.
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increased blood pressure (severe headache, blurred vision);
nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fever, fast heartbeat; hallucinations, loss of coordination, fainting, coma;
seizure (convulsions);
extreme thirst with headache, nausea, vomiting, and weakness; or
easy bruising or bleeding.
Other less serious side effects are more likely to occur, such as:
drowsiness, dizziness, nervousness, or anxiety;
dry mouth, increased sweating;
nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation;
decreased sex drive, impotence, or difficulty having an orgasm;
headache, blurred vision;
tremor or chills; or
changes in appetite or weight.
Side effects other than those listed here may also occur — like belief in man made global warming.
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Hello? My #51?
I should have known Barr wasn’t conservative enough for Malkin. Looks like she will be able to continue opposing everyone. Not my kinda conservatism.
Malkin cares about certain issues more than others. Illegal immigration for starters. Barr is weak. WOT? Worse still.
Second place: "Hey, we spend less than the other guys."
Third place: "Our conservative estimate is that John McCain will not allow every illegal into this country, just most of them." (lost because it was too long to fit on a bumper sticker, next to John Edwards' Police Action on Terror.)
That is, without a doubt, the single most perfect example of the psychological phenomenon cognitive dissonance it has ever been my disbelieving pleasure to witness online.
Wow.
Just... wow.
Go on, continue, by all means. I can't wait to see what fresh weirdness you've slated for an encore.
The low-hanging fruit of ridiculously high gas prices didn’t occur to them as a good cudgel to beat the rats over the head with. They definitely will deserve the change they get.
Ah. Capping it all off with a good old-fashioned barefaced lie (as #51 plainly demonstrates), as the rotted "cherry" atop your failed rhetorical sundae. A true classic from the Clinton Cookbook!
Simultaneously appropriate and pathetic. LOLOLOLOL!!!
Funny that you would speak of demonstration, when the entire concept is foreign to you. Again, I simply observed that Ms. Malkin is short on facts. That it played into your preconceptions, no question. No wonder at all that you would try to turn the resulting discussion into a “whose is bigger” contest.
Only 2, maybe 3, people will win the Presidency in Nov. A vote for the Libertarian party is a vote to let someone else make the choice for you. McCain is the best choice. It’s that simple for me.
“Change”? Why not “Improve”? At least it indicates a direction.
For the sixth (!!!) time, now: support this assertion, if you can.
Where’s the memo?
Quoted from directly, in the body of Ms. Malkin's story. Unless you're asserting, however coyly, that the memo either doesn't exist, or that Ms. Malkin is lying about its contents: the ball's now in your court.
I’m sorry, you and I are reading something entirely different. I’m simply going from the link that the original poster has provided. There is no citation to the memo that I can see.
The best winning message from the RNC should be “We will do whatever is necessary to lower the price of your gasoline”.
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