Some of the Poodles are baying loudly about everything they've been trained to bay about, while missing the seemingly obvious point that the GOP has become whatever is a few orders of magnitude worse than a cess pool.
James Hohmann, WaPo:
THE BIG IDEA: National Republicans threw the kitchen sink to hold a House seat in Pennsylvania that President Trump won by 20 points. But while the special election remains too close to call, Democrat Conor Lamb clings to a narrow lead and declared victory early this morning.
The media will focus today on what an embarrassment it is for Trump to lose in the heart of his geographic base of support. He went to Pittsburgh twice in the closing weeks to boost Republican Rick Saccone, including on Saturday, and tweeted his support again on Tuesday. The White House also deployedDon Jr., Ivanka, Kellyanne Conway, Mike Pence and even Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to help.
The bigger reason that the savviest GOP operatives in town are freaking out right now, though, is that the results underscore the degree to which the party has been unable to hone in on a message that can reliably win races in this environment.
Yeah - you bet - it's the message. Like it was Hillary's message.
It's not the fucking message.
I'm not saying propaganda doesn't work - it should be clear that it does, because it's been working for quite a while.
But eventually, we start to catch on. We start to see how little there is behind the slogans and bumperstickers.
And also too
Call me silly and old-fashioned and nerdy, but the message is directly dependent on the issues and the policy proposals.
When the words in your message are empty, you get a jagoff like Saccone trying to close the deal yesterday with, "...they hate you; they hate this country, and they hate god."
GOP has no message because they're upside down and backwards on practically every issue that matters to people, while believing they can always count on the formula of God Gays Guns and Gynecology.
Their message sucks because it's all style and no substance - and people are gettin' wise to it.
And also too - this is what PA18 looks like right now.
Gerrymander much? No wonder the courts spanked 'em.
James Hohmann, WaPo:
THE BIG IDEA: National Republicans threw the kitchen sink to hold a House seat in Pennsylvania that President Trump won by 20 points. But while the special election remains too close to call, Democrat Conor Lamb clings to a narrow lead and declared victory early this morning.
The media will focus today on what an embarrassment it is for Trump to lose in the heart of his geographic base of support. He went to Pittsburgh twice in the closing weeks to boost Republican Rick Saccone, including on Saturday, and tweeted his support again on Tuesday. The White House also deployedDon Jr., Ivanka, Kellyanne Conway, Mike Pence and even Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to help.
The bigger reason that the savviest GOP operatives in town are freaking out right now, though, is that the results underscore the degree to which the party has been unable to hone in on a message that can reliably win races in this environment.
Yeah - you bet - it's the message. Like it was Hillary's message.
It's not the fucking message.
I'm not saying propaganda doesn't work - it should be clear that it does, because it's been working for quite a while.
But eventually, we start to catch on. We start to see how little there is behind the slogans and bumperstickers.
And also too
Call me silly and old-fashioned and nerdy, but the message is directly dependent on the issues and the policy proposals.
When the words in your message are empty, you get a jagoff like Saccone trying to close the deal yesterday with, "...they hate you; they hate this country, and they hate god."
GOP has no message because they're upside down and backwards on practically every issue that matters to people, while believing they can always count on the formula of God Gays Guns and Gynecology.
Their message sucks because it's all style and no substance - and people are gettin' wise to it.
And also too - this is what PA18 looks like right now.
Gerrymander much? No wonder the courts spanked 'em.
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