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The Republicans have a communication problem. They just can’t seem to get their message across to voters.

Voters still perceive them as the party of big business and the wealthy.

Of course, maybe the voters ARE understanding their message.

See a Pubbie. Watch him fold.

Rush Goes On the Record with Fox News Channel's Greta Van Susteren (Dec 2011)

The Republican Party is trying to do something in this primary that is unprecedented. They're trying to split the conservative vote and win the primary with a moderate, with Romney. It's the other way around. You consolidate your base and then you move to the center in the general. The Republican establishment has decided they don't want any part of conservatism. And this is really not new. People are surprised to hear this, but the Republican Party formative event with conservatism is Goldwater's landslide defeat. That's what they think of when they think conservative. They don't think Reagan. They think Goldwater.

They believe what the inside-the-Beltway philosophy is about conservatives. They're racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, Southern hayseed hicks. They're pro-lifers. They're embarrassing to have to go to the convention with them. And they're just embarrassed to have those kind of people in the party. They're dumb. They're not erudite. They're not educated in Ivy League schools. We'll take their votes on election day, but we really don't want to hang around with them. We don't want anybody in Washington thinking that we're really that close to them and aligned with them. So in the process -- you know, it's a very sophisticated electorate. The Republican primary voter can sense that the Republican Party really doesn't like them, really doesn't want them, thinks that they are the route to defeat. That's the problem in a nutshell. The Republican establishment thinks that a conservative nominee is the route to defeat because they think Goldwater landslides are going to happen because they believe what the popular misconception the left has created of conservatives -- they think everybody thinks that.

What Rush doesn't say is that it was those GOP moderates who set out to see Goldwater defeated and they were led by George Romney who made his hatred of constitutionalsts very clear when he sought to have them ousted from the party.

“The Republicans have a communication problem. They just can’t seem to get their message across to voters.

Voters still perceive them as the party of big business and the wealthy.

Of course, maybe the voters ARE understanding their message.”

You make an interesting point. I thought that the GOP just didn’t have a message. Perhaps it is as you say. The message is out there, and people don’t like it.

Of course,maybe the voters ARE understanding their message.

They understand it, it's just that more and more people aren't buying the bulls**t anymore. Seriously...the idea that mitt romney, the architect of obamacare and the man who banned gun ownership would repeal the individual mandate and not infringe on gun rights didn't pass the giggle test unless you were a koolaid drinker or gullible child. And a running mate who voted for the biggest expansion of entitlements ever and bailouts for banksters put to rest any lie of them being fiscally responsible. They simply had no credibility.

“Of course, maybe the voters ARE understanding their message.”

The message with Romney was - pro-abortion, pro-gay marrage, pro-nationalized health care, anti-gun, bigger government. Lots of folks on this forum tried to tell the establishment voters among us that this was unacceptable, but were roundly insulted and dismissed as supporting Obama. We understood the Republican message just fine. Maybe it was the Romney supporters who did not understand what they were voting for.

The Republicans have a communication problem. They just can’t seem to get their message across to voters.

On the night Clint Eastwood gave his speech to the Republican convention supporting Mitt Romney, and the GOP ran a 30-minute video about Romney "introducing" him to the voters, TIME magazine talking head Mark Halperin ( son of Pentagon Papers traitor Morton Halperin) went on both Gwen Ifill's PBS convention-coverage show and Charlie Rose an hour and a half later (or so) to belittle Eastwood's "empty chair" speech as a "Bayonne supper club routine" and to make a couple of confident predictions.

One, said Halperin, the public would never see either the GOP video or Eastwood's speech; the Media would see to it. The major networks had trimmed convention coverage to exclude them, and the voters would see only Romney's bare acceptance speech, shorn of its context.

Next, he said, any message put out by the GOP or Romney would be "spun and refracted" through a host of prisms and Media "takes" into jumbled incoherence. No clear message, and no crisply-articulated message would reach the voters from the Republican Party.

Think about that one -- he was right, the JournoListers made it happen.

Voters still perceive them as the party of big business and the wealthy.

How's that possible, after TARP, the repeal of Glass-Steagall, and years of Bush-family-modulated access capitalism? < /s >