The Republicans will never win if they don’t start educating their ‘spokespeople’ on TV. The Democrats have talking points - most of them lies - the uneducated Republican just sits there. They should be able to strike back with the truth.
Example: the Democrats say ObamaCare strengthens Medicare. The truth is, this is a big LIE. The CBO says that would be double-counting:
“To describe the full amount of HI trust fund savings as both improving the government’s ability to pay future Medicare benefits and financing new spending outside of Medicare would essentially double-count a large share of those savings and thus overstate the improvement in the government’s fiscal position.”
page 2, last paragraph: http://cbo.gov/ftpdocs/108xx/doc10868/12-23-Trust_Fund_Accounting.pdf
Sorry, repeating this in the hope some GOP leader will see it!
The RNC is so unimaginative. So effing dull,so apologetically explanatory.
They could tap into all kinds of narratives —’heroic rebellion’, Republicans as ‘anti-authoritarian’, many more.
The Left is beginning to lose people because of their repetitive rhetoric -— young people have heard it too much. In school, church, movies, they hear it all the time.
The in-your-face stance sure as hell worked for the Democrats.
God I am so sick of the dullness of the Republican approach. We desperately need something LIVELIER, something that speaks of courage, committment, even heroism.
People respond to that. there is a gut, instictual, immediate response to those things.
But the Republican National Committee plods on, clunk,clunk, clunk...