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The stupid party strikes again: “The Change You Deserve”
Michelle malkin.com ^ | 5/13/08 | Michelle Malkin

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.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: effexor; gop; michellemalkin; panic; rebranding; republicans; thestupidparty
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Lordy.
1 posted on 05/13/2008 4:41:48 PM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

We are really in trouble.


2 posted on 05/13/2008 4:43:02 PM PDT by Vision ("If God so clothes the grass of the field...will He not much more clothe you...?" -Matthew 6:30)
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To: Vision

It’s the change they deserve. LOL


3 posted on 05/13/2008 4:45:05 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant

Yeah it is DUMB. Focus is still on “Change”. Its the same stupid thing that Hillary’s Indiana supporters were yelling.....”Yes we will”. They fail to understand that by doint that they are still highlighting Obama’s slogans.


4 posted on 05/13/2008 4:45:19 PM PDT by The_Republican (Ovaries of the World Unite! Rush, Laura, Ann, Greta - Time for the Ovulation!)
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To: pissant

This is what you get when your policies derive from focus groups rather than principles.


5 posted on 05/13/2008 4:45:25 PM PDT by Interesting Times (Swiftboating, you say? Check out ToSetTheRecordStraight.com)
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To: pissant

Change!

Change!

Change!

All that you’ll have left in your pockets after washington gets through with you is...

Loose CHANGE!!!


6 posted on 05/13/2008 4:45:27 PM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg ("Shut the hell up, New York Times, you sanctimonious whining jerks!" - Craig Ferguson)
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To: pissant
MM nails it again. The Stupid Party is surrendering the “meme” battle to Obama. Every RNC-paid “change” ad, will be subliminally taken as a plug for Mr. Change, Barack Obama.
7 posted on 05/13/2008 4:46:09 PM PDT by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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To: pissant
What about consistent adherence to constitutional principles? Nope. We get more insipid “change.”

Actually, adherence to constitutional/conservative principles would be a HUGE change for the GOP. Alas, that's not the sort of change they're referring to.

8 posted on 05/13/2008 4:46:27 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: pissant
There's the proof. The Republican party HATES us.

Change You Deserve

9 posted on 05/13/2008 4:46:46 PM PDT by DManA
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To: The_Republican

GMTA.


10 posted on 05/13/2008 4:46:54 PM PDT by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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To: pissant
Most importantly, and according to Ms. Malkin, it's important that we not wait for the news (unless she knows something we don't), and simply react.
11 posted on 05/13/2008 4:46:59 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: pissant

I see the GOP is listening to Newt Gingrich again...


12 posted on 05/13/2008 4:47:21 PM PDT by DesScorp
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To: pissant
The GOP lemmings deserve everything they’re going to get in November.

"Surrender your principles; surrender your power." True, true.

13 posted on 05/13/2008 4:47:34 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (If McCain really CAN "win without conservatives," then why do you care if I vote for him or not?)
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To: pissant

Good. This is what you get when RINO’s are in charge.


14 posted on 05/13/2008 4:49:51 PM PDT by Fox_Mulder77
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To: pissant

An anti-GOP rant from Malkin. what a suprise. Has she endorsed Barr yet?


15 posted on 05/13/2008 4:50:09 PM PDT by Once-Ler (If 99% of elected officials fall into your definition of socialism, then give up. You lost already.)
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"House Republicans will on Wednesday begin rolling out their own policy agenda, trying to showcase their differences with Democrats"

Differences! There are Differences! Pinch me! Am I dreaming? Somebody alert the media!

16 posted on 05/13/2008 4:50:43 PM PDT by BloodOrFreedom
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To: Dr.Zoidberg

Believe it or not, “change” was a major theme during the 1992 Bill Clinton campaign. People forget that. Libs pull it out again every few years. It’s empty, meaningless, and vapid, just like most liberalism. Mondale was even using it back in 1984. Reagan countered with, “We are the change.”

Nobody remembers anything anymore, and our press works overtime to keep it that way.


17 posted on 05/13/2008 4:50:56 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: DesScorp

Newt lost me when he jumped on the “global warming” bandwagon.


18 posted on 05/13/2008 4:50:58 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (McCain......Obama......Hillary......in a nation of 300 million people, is this the best we can do?)
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To: pissant
I hope we clean house in November. When the GOP is interested in getting conservatives to vote, they can let us know. The party's contemptuous attitude has a lot of us reaching for the snooze button.

"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

19 posted on 05/13/2008 4:51:27 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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They have been dumbed down, clones of the Democratic party. Change to me is now a nauseating word that means zero, squat, nada! Here we are voting for a President, one just as bad as the other. hopeless, simply hopeless!
20 posted on 05/13/2008 4:52:56 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (I'd rather be hunting with dick than driving with Ted)
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