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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis Is Classic! GOP "Autopsy" Report Says Voters See The Party As "Scary" and "Narrow Minded"
They didn't have to spend money and resources on an inner party report...they could have just asked us! We have seen the Republican Party like that for years!!
From The Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/18/rnc-growth-and-opportunity-project_n_2899594.html
RNC Growth And Opportunity Project Report: Voters See GOP As 'Scary,' 'Narrow Minded'
Coined the Growth and Opportunity Project, the document includes market research from voter focus groups around the country.
"Asked to describe Republicans, they said that the Party is 'scary,' 'narrow minded,' and 'out of touch' and that we were a Party of 'stuffy old men.' This is consistent with the findings of other post-election surveys," the report states.
Hours before the report was live, RNC Chair Reince Priebus leveled about the GOP's struggles in an interview on CBS' "Face The Nation," telling host Bob Schieffer that the party did a "lousy job" of marketing itself.
This is not short term view, Bob, I know everything isnt going to change in one year. If we dont start now were not going to have anymore success in four years, eight years, or twelve years, he said.
Within the same CBS interview, Priebus revealed several proposed changes for the next election cycle. Among the possibilities being considered: a shorter presidential nominating calendar, fewer primary debates and a $10 million minority outreach program to promote the GOP brand in local communities.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Leave it to the GOP to lie to themselves in order to look a little less offensive then the KKK (but not by much).
Dear GOP,
You are the KKK. Go out of business, plead for forgiveness and live a life of good and honesty. Before it is too late.
Berlum
(7,044 posts)...because they do not want to deal with the ugly reality of their twisted, anti-American, fear & hate-oozing SUBSTANCE.
The GOP needs a massive soul enema.
Blue Owl
(49,934 posts)Not to mention the RNC PR BS...
Warpy
(110,913 posts)by consolidating media and making sure it's pro corporate at best, extreme right wing at worst and there's a lot of worst out there. They've been great at getting people who aren't very bright to use their catch phrases and buzz words.
Marketing is the one thing they've done right.
The problem is that their ideas have been tried for almost 35 years and have proven disastrous, every single one of them. There is growing resentment about the stacked USSC and the gerrymandering that has kept lunatics in control of the House.
Bottom line, even though their marketing was spectacularly successful, people are noticing it was done to promote an inferior product, a product that will kill us if we buy it much longer.
They'll never admit that, of course. They're wedded to bad dogma which has failed repeatedly. They'd far rather blame the men who did their jobs well, the marketers.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)It took them about the same 35 years to turn that around, too.
Just because you get people to buy the manure you're peddling doesn't mean you succeeded at anything...and you just might have lost some customers in the process.
Warpy
(110,913 posts)to get as much fascism as they can before they're consigned to the wilderness for another 50 years or so, waiting for another gullible generation to meet another batch of slick admen selling salvation by giving it all to the rich.
magellan
(13,257 posts)Ganja Ninja
(15,953 posts)Yes that should help. No names, no faces, no pictures either! Keep it stealthy and try to sneak into office like you're doing a perp-walk. Don't give the public a reason to hate you before you're sworn in.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)They'd replace inefficient elections with quick selections made behind the doors of Koch Industries.
rox63
(9,464 posts)Does that mean the party is dead?
PennsylvaniaMatt
(966 posts)jmowreader
(50,453 posts)In 2012 we had the choice of the pizza guy who wanted to cut taxes and repeal Obamacare, the rich guy who wanted to cut taxes and repeal Obamacare, and a string of current and former congressmen who wanted to cut taxes and repeal Obamacare. And the voters saw one person with fourteen heads who'd sign anything Norquist put in front of him or her, and rose up to say they didn't want to be ruled by unelected trolls again.
The GOP's message is the rich don't have to pay taxes and the poor can glean fields to survive...most of the poor don't live where fields are and the people who own fields harvest it all now anyway. They might want to think about that.
SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)it's that we are marketing ourselves wrong.. That statement says it all. "The people say we suck, but we don't, they just don't understand us".
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)Let's not try to find candidates with two brain cells to rub together. Let's change our marketing instead! Lipstick on a pig indeed.
Trailrider1951
(3,409 posts)are DEMOCRATS!
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)Marketing, marketing marketing. The hell with the steak, we'll push the sizzle.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)After Tampa I knew it would take a miracle for them to gain any credibility from that point on.
Only the terminally willfully ignorant could take them seriously after that incredible meltdown.
sheshe2
(83,355 posts)Yup, that ought to do the job!
Thanks Matt.
Arkana
(24,347 posts)TlalocW
(15,359 posts)They just need to broaden their appeal to women and minorities! Just like they've been talking about doing for the past 30-40 years!
http://paulbibeau.blogspot.com/2013/02/will-gop-broaden-its-appeal-30-year.html#.USuE1DdgLIl
tanyev
(42,360 posts)I'm not disagreeing that a lousy job was done, mind you.
reteachinwi
(579 posts)He's the Houston area Tea Party leader.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10787074
librechik
(30,663 posts)I sure would
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)call themselves independents know. Both have the same issue with the republican party, they are liberal on social issues and are out of step with their former party.
mokawanis
(4,434 posts)I think Cantor made that point a while back. Total bullshit of course, but he seems to think the Republicans can win if they stick to the same old pathetic platform, as long as they put their real agenda on the back-burner and say whatever they think voters want to hear during campaigns. Once elected, they can do whatever they want. I think Scott Walker makes a good model for what Cantor was saying.
Danascot
(4,664 posts)More precisely they're a party of stuffy old white men.
Trailrider1951
(3,409 posts)You only autopsy things which are DEAD! And what killed it?
Quote: "Asked to describe Republicans, they said that the Party is 'scary,' 'narrow minded,' and 'out of touch' and that we were a Party of 'stuffy old men.' This is consistent with the findings of other post-election surveys," the report states. How about "rich assholes who think that they're too good to contribute to our country's society"? Job creators? FMTT. They been job creatin' since the Raygun administration...the only problem is, those jobs are overseas! Honorable mention goes to their racism, sexism, ageism, homophobia, and general cluelessness about who the average voter is in this country! Yup, no reality based ideas or ideals. The Democrats aren't perfect, but they are miles ahead of the competition!