Slate reports that Reince “RNC PR BS” Priebus has a new Growth and Opportunity Project marketing campaign scheduled for rollout:
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus says the GOP has an image problem. “We’ve done a really lousy job of branding and marketing who we are,” Priebus said on CBS. Most have an image of the GOP as a room full of “stuffy old guys” but the “reality is we have a very young party,” he added. Priebus went on CBS to talk about the long-anticipated RNC report that will be released Monday and will detail just how the GOP can reverse its fortunes after the November defeats.
Priebus, who calls the review “unprecedented,” outlined to CBS’ Bob Schieffer the three main recommendations for the next presidential election: Fewer debates, an earlier convention, and a shorter primary process… The primary process ultimately hurt the party and its eventual nominee because “while we were playing footsie” the Democrats “were spending potentially hundreds of millions of dollars on data, technology, voter outreach.” He said 23 debates is a “ridiculous” number and he’d cut it down to “maybe 7 or 8.” To improve its image, the party will spend $10 million as part of an outreach program that will send people to all corners of the country, with a particular focus on hiring new political directors to reach out to minority voting blocs.
Rinse (Reince) & repeat: The Greedy Old Perverts don’t need better candidates, just better salesmanship! Assuming the GOP, and our poor beset republic, survive the Austerity Bombers and their pet Sabbathday Gasbags until 2016:
“It’s always a good thing to engage in more conversation,” Boehner, an Ohio Republican, said on ABC… Boehner insists Obama “got his tax hikes on January 1” and now any “talk about raising revenue is over. It’s time to deal with the spending problem.”…
Yet Republican Sen. Bob Corker sounded a tad more flexible than Boehner when he was asked about potential compromises. “I think Republicans, if they saw true entitlement reform, would be glad to look at tax reform that generates additional revenue,” the senator from Tennessee told Fox News.
In his meetings with lawmakers last week, Obama told Democrats they should be more willing to revise entitlement programs in return for Republicans giving in on the revenue front. Corker said that if Obama “gets serious” about “true entitlement reform” Republicans might be willing to compromise on tax reform, although he insisted it would have to be through closing loopholes and not tax increases.
“Nihilists! Fuck me!… “
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