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Ed Rollins: GOP Needs To Be Less Old, Fat And White
Talking Points Memo ^ | July 10, 2012

Posted on 08/07/2012 5:48:46 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued

GOP strategist Ed Rollins, who last ran the early part of Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-MN) presidential run, told Fox News that his party needs to “broaden the base” if it wants to suceed into the future and needs to look less like, well, him.

“It is a bunch of old, white guys, and unfortunately, a lot of them are fat like me – like Haley Barbour, my former deputy, and others,” he said.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: diversity; gop; trends
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1 posted on 08/07/2012 5:48:48 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
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To: Clintonfatigued

And get rid of those filthy conservatives, huh Ed?


2 posted on 08/07/2012 5:50:17 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; Impy; GOPsterinMA; randita; Sun; MplsSteve; unkus

I may get flamed for saying this, but an important part of implementing good policy is having good public relations. Having nearly all of a party’s leadership and representatives as aging white men with weight problems is bad public relations. If you don’t believe me, look at how badly conservative women and conservative ethnic minorities are smeared and you’ll know that liberals are scared of them.


3 posted on 08/07/2012 5:52:29 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Obama and Company lied, the American economy died)
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To: Clintonfatigued

I think Ed Rollins is Right!I think I’m changing my voter affiliation to Independent.I Have had it with the GOP.


4 posted on 08/07/2012 5:53:10 PM PDT by puppypusher (The World is going to the dogs.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

How ironic....Ed Rollins is OLD, FAT, and WHITE


5 posted on 08/07/2012 5:54:15 PM PDT by MagUSNRET
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To: Clintonfatigued

Ed Rollins can shut the pie hole.


6 posted on 08/07/2012 5:56:02 PM PDT by sauropod (You can elect your very own tyranny - Mark Levin)
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To: Clintonfatigued
Ed, that would require two things:
7 posted on 08/07/2012 5:56:10 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (=)
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To: Clintonfatigued; cripplecreek
Ed Rollins..

PUTZ!

http://iusedtohavehair.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/putz1.png

No thanks Eddie, don't need Moderate POS like you steering good Conservatives down a dead end road again.

8 posted on 08/07/2012 5:56:29 PM PDT by KC_Lion (No more Grand Old Progressives! Vote Conservative-Libertarian-Tea Party!)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Maybe they should adopt gay marriage, or affirmative action, or obamacare into the GOP platform? Would that bring in enoungh skinny brown gays, Ed?


9 posted on 08/07/2012 5:56:46 PM PDT by BO Stinkss
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To: Clintonfatigued

I have a can of dark spray paint, Ed, would you like to use it first?

But seriously, Romney’s now looking at blowout, now that the midwest is in play - thanks to those fat, white guys, that Obama didn’t think he needed. Other states are moving Romney’s way strongly now - states that were supposed to be competitive - like NC and VA.

Sorry Ed, maybe 20 years from now we’ll become less competitive - but for now - owning the House, about to take the Senate and the White House, I would say that the Dems have the problem.


10 posted on 08/07/2012 5:57:33 PM PDT by BobL (Cruz'd to Victory - July 31, 2012)
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To: cripplecreek

Thr Irony is the conservatives such Palin, Jindhal, Cruz, Rubio are precisely what the Establishment does not want.


11 posted on 08/07/2012 5:57:33 PM PDT by RobbyS (Christus rex.)
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To: Clintonfatigued; All

Geeez with “friends” like this...

As opposed to what? Young, lazy, dirty, & stoopid?


12 posted on 08/07/2012 6:02:24 PM PDT by KGeorge
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To: Clintonfatigued
GOP: Ed Rollins Needs To Be Less Old, Fat And White.

And less of a chronic loser, loudmouth and dirtbag.

13 posted on 08/07/2012 6:06:11 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: sauropod

He is a cretin. Exactly the kind of political invertebrate that delivers sure fire losses with his mewling cowardice. Dems see Ed Rollins and really get to sharpening their knives.


14 posted on 08/07/2012 6:06:19 PM PDT by relictele
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To: Clintonfatigued

If we had had the guts to control immigration, this would be a non-issue.


15 posted on 08/07/2012 6:07:49 PM PDT by MachIV
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To: Clintonfatigued

But that’s exactly the way the left and media want it and they have worked VERY hard to keep it that way. A black Republican has to have incredible fortitude since it would be much easier to go with the flow and be a Democrat, where he’ll be subject to much less scrutiny.

Any minority or woman who gains national prominence in the Republican party eventually meets up with an avalanche of vicious attacks by the left and the leftist media (witness Sarah Palin, Herman Cain, Clarence Thomas, and even Colin Powell before he backed Obama).

Liberals fear what will happen once Republicans make more headway with minorities and women. So in consequence they have to do all they can to try to make sure that it doesn’t happen.

I’m not saying that Republicans couldn’t do better, but Democrats have a vested interest in making sure that Republicans continue to be perceived as the “old, fat and white” party.


16 posted on 08/07/2012 6:08:14 PM PDT by Humbug
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To: Clintonfatigued

He’s pretty much our Bob Shrum. Please tell me why we should listen to his suggestions?


17 posted on 08/07/2012 6:11:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Ed Rollins is and always will be a...
LOSER...


18 posted on 08/07/2012 6:13:17 PM PDT by matginzac
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To: Humbug; cripplecreek; fieldmarshaldj; Impy; GOPsterinMA; randita; justiceseeker93; ...

“Any minority or woman who gains national prominence in the Republican party eventually meets up with an avalanche of vicious attacks by the left and the leftist media (witness Sarah Palin, Herman Cain, Clarence Thomas, and even Colin Powell before he backed Obama).

Liberals fear what will happen once Republicans make more headway with minorities and women. So in consequence they have to do all they can to try to make sure that it doesn’t happen.”

Excellent point, which proves that Ed Rollins is right for once.


19 posted on 08/07/2012 6:14:44 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Obama and Company lied, the American economy died)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Has Ed looked in a mirror lately?


20 posted on 08/07/2012 6:16:13 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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