Nattering nabobs of negativism

[babylonsister]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/at-cpac-republicans-become-nattering-nabobs-of-negativism/2012/02/10/gIQAYhI44Q_story.html?tid=pm_opinions_pop

Nattering nabobs of negativism

By Dana Milbank


“How many of you,” Scott Rasmussen asked the crowd at this week’s Conservative Political Action Conference, “have ever mocked or made fun of the president’s call for hope and change? Raise your hands.”

Most people in the Marriott Wardman Park hotel ballroom raised their hands. There were cheers and whoops.

“With all due respect,” the conservative pollster and commentator told them, “I’d like to say that’s really stupid.”

This time, there was uncomfortable laughter. “Voters are looking for hope and change as much today as they were in 2008,” Rasmussen explained, and “you ought to be encouraging Republican candidates, people you support, to offer that positive step forward.”

Rasmussen had put his finger on a major problem for Republicans in 2012, and conservatives in particular: At a time when the national mood has begun to improve, they remain nattering nabobs of negativism. At CPAC, any hint of a “positive step” was buried in vitriol.

This worked well for Republicans in 2010, because it matched the sour mood of the electorate. But now, with optimism and confidence finally on the rise, Republicans are left with an anger management problem. They risk leaving the impression that they are rooting against an economic recovery.

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Such nattering is exactly what Obama needs.

[DCKit]

1. "Winning!!12!!1!11" nt

[Lisa D]

2. Interesting article

Proving once again that Republicans are tone deaf. And for all their worshipping of Reagan, they seem to have forgotten his "Morning in America" theme that helped elect him. Let's hope they don't catch on anytime soon.

[Smarmie Doofus]

3. Sounds to me more like an effete corps of impudent snobs.

Or slobs.

[Hepburn]

4. Your thread made me want to get out...

....my Spiro Agnew watch from the Dirty Time Company!