Posted on 05/03/2009 8:05:24 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
(CNN) — House Minority Whip Eric Cantor tells CNN's John King that the GOP still has a lot to learn from President Obama.
"President Obama is a great communicator. We understand that," he said in an interview that aired on CNN's State of the Union Sunday. "He's also been very adept at adopting the technology of today to access the youth vote and the younger population of this country. That's the future, and I believe we've got a lot to learn. The Republican Party can't keep doing things the way it always has in terms of technology."
Cantor, along with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, held the kick off event Saturday for the National Council for a New America, a high-profile Republican effort to engage a diverse group of voters.
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Zero worship alert!
Barf Hurl Puke ALERT
More slobbering and drooling from the Communist News Network.
Well, we'll have to look elsewhere for Senator Webb's replacement!
Up until that second TARP vote in October, my hopes had been so high for Cantor.
What a bunch of tired BS. The GOP emails, tweets, facebooks, and does all the other tech communication stuff the Rats do.
- the Tea Parties
- Talk Radio
- the reasons Sarah Palin drew massive crowds last fall
http://republicanwhip.house.gov/newsroom/2009/04/national-council-for-a-new-america-formed.html
National Council for a New America Formed
...
Our National Panel of Experts:
Governor Haley Barbour
Governor Jeb Bush
Governor Bobby Jindal
Senator John McCain
Governor Mitt Romney
...
Sincerely,
John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Mike Pence, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, John Carter, Pete Sessions, David Dreier, Kevin McCarthy, Roy Blunt
Mitch McConnell, Jon Kyl, Lamar Alexander, John Cornyn, John Thune
I tried to post a rebuke of the video but they won't let it be shown.
What these guys have apparently learned is that dissent and disagreement will be ignored and deleted. That is what Obama's campaign did.
Cantor has taken a huge dive in my estimation.
Cantor under the bus already? This carping is so tiresome.
OMG. And Reagan learned a lot from Jimmah Carter too.
Grow some cojones, Cantor.
I was never enthralled w/Cantor. He seemed like an opportunist w/out the smarts to recongnize an opportunity.
But in one way he is right we should be like 0bama:
0bama is a life long socialist who has never wavered from his beliefs. He may have ‘fudged’ a little in the election but once in he immediately went about implementing his beliefs regardless of what anyone might think.
We need to be like 0bama; steadfast in our beliefs, ruthless in dealing with our enemies, determined to get our policies done, and quick to deal with those who get in our way and unforgiving to those who might want to betray us.
Although, I don’t think that’s what Cantor had in mind.
That TARP vote put Obama in office, and teaming with any Bush or McCain to rebuild the Republican Party in their image is costly indeed.
Cantor and the others are making a big mistake by thinking that it is just the technology that is the key, or even by regarding Bambi as a “great communicator.” The latter is patently false, because he has nothing to communicate, or at any rate, he takes great pains to conceal his true objectives (which did slip out once in a while during the campaign, and were quickly swept under the rug) and isn’t trying to communicate them at all. As for Twitter or whatever new communications strategy you name, that was also not the key; it’s good at notifying people of events, etc., but not “communicating” a message.
Something that the GOP will simply not acknowledge is that the key to the Dem victory was the media. The content of the GOP message in the last campaign was not a lot different from that of the Dems; the difference was that the press and communications media had fallen in behind Bambi and functioned as a giant free advertising campaign, probably the most massive in history. (Also, in terms of paid-for advertising, don’t forget that the Dems had much more money for it than the GOP.)
The media is never going to be on the side of the GOP. During the Bush years, media personalities found out exactly how powerful they were, destroying both Bush and the country by sustained, daily, unrelenting attacks and distortions. Getting Bambi elected - with their daily, unremitting, hyperbolic praise and adulation - solidified and crowned their efforts. Essentially, it is lame brains like Oprah, an assortment of movie stars, and TV and press reporters and editors who control politics now. And even Twittering 24 hours a day won’t overcome that.
What they don't seem to understand is that they will never get liberals to vote for them by acting, talking and agreeing with liberals. Earth calling Cantor...people who like liberal ideas will vote for Democrats not RINOs.
Why do Cantor and other RINOs think if they dress and act like donkeys the donkeys will suddenly see the light and become conservative? Didn't the example of McCain teach them anything? This is just plain stupid.
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