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Here's what the script should have read: if you're thinking the exact same thoughts you were thinking in 1991 about the economy and public education, you're thinking like a new Republican.
LOL. Oh yeah, re-branding is suddenly going to make everyone forget what you actually DO in office. LOL.
Re-branding might work as long as they brought a Republican outsider in who didn't have a history.
Walk the talk and people will believe this, but until then? not happening.
The Dems successfully rebranded by going from the party that supported racism of whites against blacks to a Party that favors racism against whites in favor of everyone else...very successfully done.
The Republicans freed the slaves and have always been neutral on race....do they need to be like the Dems and support racism as well?
The Dems successfully rebranded by going from the party that supported racism of whites against blacks to a Party that favors racism against whites in favor of everyone else...very successfully done.
The Republicans freed the slaves and have always been neutral on race....do they need to be like the Dems and support racism as well?
That rebranding -- or pivot to put it more precisely -- took place over 50 years ago. The "ideas" being floated in this ad are nothing new. School choice and smaller government? How exactly is that any different than the old Republican platform?
That rebranding -- or pivot to put it more precisely -- took place over 50 years ago. The "ideas" being floated in this ad are nothing new. School choice and smaller government? How exactly is that any different than the old Republican platform?
Not much new but the republicans need a dynamic candidate more than they need to shift their platform since they have more elected officials than at any time in the last 90 years. But in the long run, they will need to adjust their platform if they are not able to attract Hispanic and Asian voters.
Not much new but the republicans need a dynamic candidate more than they need to shift their platform since they have more elected officials than at any time in the last 90 years. But in the long run, they will need to adjust their platform if they are not able to attract Hispanic and Asian voters.
I agree. The GOP platform doesn't offer much to me, but it's solid enough to run on even in 2016. If the Republicans could find a candidate that didn't seem like he was stuck in the past century, they'd do ok.
When you have to rebrand your party every election cycle, there's a fundamental problem that slapping a new bumper sticker on won't fix.
Hogwash. The Republicans don't have to rebrand the party every election cycle. This is just typical leftist trash talk, like saying the Republicans would never win another election back in 2012. Then they trounced the Democrats in 2014. The GOP did not brand itself as one thing in 2008, and another in 2010, and another in 2012, and another 2014, etc.
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Here's what the script should have read: if you're thinking the exact same thoughts you were thinking in 1991 about the economy and public education, you're thinking like a new Republican.
Trouble is, most of 'em are still using Reagan's playbook from 1981 (including his pandering "states rights" platform… even if The Gipper himself would be considered a "RINO" by today's standards)!
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