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Why We’re Losing the Messaging War


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The GOP talks a good game on spending but fails to deliver.

Jeff Landry

1/17/13

 

The Republican party has a serious problem, and it’s not that the party isn’t conservative enough. The problem is that Americans are having a hard time understanding what we stand for and whom we represent. Put plainly, it is an identity crisis.

 

This identity crisis recently almost cost John Boehner his speakership. Those who voted against him — and those who planned to vote against him — did so because they feel that the GOP is being pushed in a direction that requires abandonment of their conservative principles. They went to Congress to defend these principles, not compromise them.

 

These congressmen are finding it harder and harder to continue down the road that Speaker Boehner placed us on after the 2010 elections. We followed a path that began with a pledge to America to reduce government spending, but led to a debt-ceiling deal that gave the president trillions more to spend, and slashed the two areas of government he and Harry Reid really want to cut: defense and Medicare.

 

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Jeff Landry represented Louisiana’s third district in the House of Representatives from 2011 to 2013.

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Henninger: Where Is the GOP's Jay Carney?

Republicans need a party spokesman who is smart, articulate, credible and TV-savvy.

DANIEL HENNINGER

1/16/13

 

he day after President Obama's press conference this week on the debt ceiling—in which he repudiated talks with Republicans and denounced them as not wanting to help "kids in poverty" get "enough to eat"—there were news accounts of the event atop the front pages of The Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. The New York Times front page bannered a 4-by-7 inch photograph of Mr. Obama, beaming beneath a White House chandelier. The Republicans' congressional leadership and Mr. Obama's nominal opponents, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker John Boehner, floated deep down in the stories in thin paragraphs, like presidential pilot fish.

 

Media bias? No, media reality.

 

The whole wide world is living in an age of always-on messaging, and the Republican Party is living in the age of Morse code. It isn't that no one is listening to the GOP. There is nothing to hear.

 

Smarting from defeat by Barack Obama's made-in-Silicon-Valley messaging network, congressional Republicans in Washington are getting tutorials to bring them into a Twitterized world. I have a simpler idea: First join the 20th-century communication revolution by creating an office of chief party spokesman. One for the House and one for the Senate.

 

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Someone has been listening to Hugh Hewitt.

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The Allure of Moving On

 

By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | January 17th, 2013 at 11:39 AM

Bend over Republicans, here they come again.

Phil Klein is out with a column that I can only assume comes from House Republican Leadership talking points. I can only assume that because House Republican leaders and those close to them have been whispering about this scenario for about a month now to as many Republican strategists, pundits, and others as would listen.

They want to move on.

 

They want the next fight. So desperate are they to move on, in January of 2013, House Republicans want their base to know they think they’ll lose the House in November of 2014 unless they cave now so please let them cave.

 

Truth be told, it is alluring. Superficially, I see the merit. Basically, as Phil Klein writes,

Consider, then, “Maneuver X.” As modified to fit the current political environment, it would mean that Republicans remove all pressure. They should give Obama his debt limit increases without preconditions, and they shouldn’t allow any government shutdowns. Scissors-32x32.png

 

http://www.redstate.com/2013/01/17/the-allure-of-moving-on/

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A Train By Any Other Name

Speed Gibson

1/17/13

 

Can we talk? Not really. Not if we're Republicans it seems. We constantly stumble over words and pull our punches. When we occasionally do resonate, like Sarah Palin did with "death panels" we seem not to notice. Everybody in America knew exactly what she meant. Most everyone at least quietly knew she was right. But when the Democrats and their media howled and went after her personally, even war heroes like John McCain lost his voice. "Harry and Louise" scuttled whatever chance HillaryCare had. The "swiftboaters" obviously took a lot of wind out of John Kerry's sails despite outrageously false coverage and characterization by that same Democratic media cabal. And yet Romney ... you know what happened. Again.

 

 

 

Messaging is short and sweet these days, no make that short and caustic. To survive, the GOP must do what the Democrats do, including some plain old name calling. I offer this example, that we start referring to the seemingly unstoppable Southwest LRT multi-billion dollar boondoggle as the more descriptive Solyndra Commuter Rail Line.

 

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The name Solyndra immediately brings that to mind, most well aware of the half billion in lost "stimulus" dollars. The Federal government was well aware of Solyndra's situation and went ahead anyway. And so it is here, our Minnesota government following the same public / private business model that seldom succeeds in general, and has no chance here. But our losses will likely be two or three times that of Solyndra. Maybe if we pound this drum loud enough, we can finally end this nonsense.

 

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The Allure of Moving On

 

By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | January 17th, 2013 at 11:39 AM

Bend over Republicans, here they come again.

Phil Klein is out with a column that I can only assume comes from House Republican Leadership talking points. I can only assume that because House Republican leaders and those close to them have been whispering about this scenario for about a month now to as many Republican strategists, pundits, and others as would listen.

They want to move on.

 

They want the next fight. So desperate are they to move on, in January of 2013, House Republicans want their base to know they think they’ll lose the House in November of 2014 unless they cave now so please let them cave.

 

Truth be told, it is alluring. Superficially, I see the merit. Basically, as Phil Klein writes,

Consider, then, “Maneuver X.” As modified to fit the current political environment, it would mean that Republicans remove all pressure. They should give Obama his debt limit increases without preconditions, and they shouldn’t allow any government shutdowns. Scissors-32x32.png

 

http://www.redstate.com/2013/01/17/the-allure-of-moving-on/

 

I am reminded of something Abraham Lincoln asked of Gen. McClellan. He asked the general if he wasn't using the army, could he (Lincoln) borrow it.

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