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.
There. I fixed it.
If I were new to the country and language I’d probably be pretty convinced by all this talk that ‘change’ was a commodity that could be purchased by the dozen, pound, or cubic foot.
Don’t compliment this by calling it a rant. It’s a knee-jerk reaction (again, unless she knows something that we don’t and is unwilling to share).
By Michelle Malkin • May 12, 2008 09:34 AM
Many readers have e-mailed asking what I think of former Ga. Rep. Bob Barr’s presidential candidacy (he’s making an official announcement for the Libertarian Party nomination at 11am this morning).
Two words: Not much.
On immigration, he’s virtually indistinguishable from all the other remaining presidential candidates.
On homeland security, he’s joined with what Heather Mac Donald calls the “privocrats” in whipping up unfounded hysteria about intelligence-gathering efforts in a post-9/11 world.
On Iraq, he’s what Allahpundit calls the “poor man’s Ron Paul.”
And doesn’t the ACLU, for which Barr consults, already have enough candidates in the race?
“Islam Sucks”
“There are 57 Muslim Nations Obama could win in”
“No to OIC candidate Obama”
“3,000 Dead in NYC”
How come we have such good analysists and such crappy leadership?
“There are already have 57 Obamanations”
Back to the drawing board.
“GOP- Because jumping should never be an option”
All right, gentlemen. I'm the Public--"speak directly" to me--What are you going to do about the border, about drilling for domestic oil and gas, about taxes, about the corn/ethanol fiasco, about the North Koreans, and the Iranians, and the Syrians, and the Saudis. I'm listening, schmucks. Speak to me.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Michelle Malkin knows a great deal the typical Team Juan shills (and/or their willing online apologists) do not.
That's the problem right there, actually.
And we’re the ones who gave them the majority. Ungrateful bunch of (censored).
The word ‘’change’’ needs to go in the toilet alongside the words ‘’tolerance’’ and ‘’diversity’’.
The “change we deserve” is to take a big old vacuum cleaner & suck every single politician out of Washington DC! Put all new people in there - people that have been living in the REAL world - FOR A CHANGE.
Nonsense. And you’re falling for it.
The GOP is certainly changing.
"Falling" for what, pray tell? Be specific.
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