GOP candidates get their marching orders from 'strategists'

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http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/torture/gops-advice-to-candidates-dont-be-like-nancy-pelosi/

GOP’s Advice To Candidates: Don’t Be Like Nancy Pelosi


At a private, boot-camp style training session for several dozen Republican House candidates yesterday, national GOP strategists gave out their marching orders for the 2010 elections.

One key piece of advice, a source familiar with the classes says: Emphasize that Dems won in 2008 and make the races about Dem initiatives on the economy and health care.

A second directive: Don’t act like Nancy Pelosi did in her handling of the CIA-torture mess.

Around 35 candidates were schooled yesterday behind closed doors by operatives with the National Republican Congressional Committee, which runs the party’s efforts to win House seats. A list of the attendees is here.

The candidates were told to “remind Democrats that they actually won the 2008 election and to stop blaming Bush,” the source tells me. “Remind the voters and the press that they will have to defend a failed stimulus, a job killing energy tax, and are about to push a government takeover of the healthcare industry financed by a small business tax.”

The GOP operatives also pointed to Pelosi’s memorable press conference in which she accused the CIA of lying about torture “as an example of what NOT to in an interview or press conference,” the source says.

The marching orders reflect the extent to which the GOP is banking on the failure of the stimulus and health care reform, and the hope that Pelosi can be made radioactive on national security for Dem candidates. So if you hear some of this stuff coming from GOP candidates, you’ll know where it came from.

[Arugula Latte]

1. They don't seem to realize that Pelosi hasn't worked for them.

Remember the "*Gasp* San Francisco Values!" propaganda blitz? It was a dud.