Anything longer than a bumper sticker is too much for Fox “news” viewers, so they need to have ‘beliefs’ like Job Creators and Obama Death Panels to explain the mysteries of the universe for them.
Unfortunately, the Republican party is convinced that its message is correct, but we’re just not hearing it correctly. Two problems: one is that the message is often incorrect, no matter how eloquently stated, as aptly illustrated in the cartoon above. We hear you just fine; we don’t like what you’re saying much of the time.
Two: Many Republicans espouse fiscal responsibility and limited government, and then do the exact opposite. The policy of borrow-and-spend is a good example, as is the policy of using government to deny rights for citizens whose only crime is to be born homosexual.
My advice to the Republican party: clean up your act, and really walk the walk, and you’ll gain lots of fed-up Democrats. But you won’t do it by appealing only to an increasingly smaller, ideologically pure base, forcibly removing anyone willing to compromise or who holds a slightly different belief system. Continue the current path, and you are likely to fade into irrelevance. This would be very bad. Single-party rule is almost never pretty. We need at least two viable parties, preferably more.
You can only go so far by saying “Democrats and their policies are bad.” Sooner or later, you have to advance an agenda that is palatable to the general public. Good luck to all of us.
^I think the bankers will get you out of your property, but it isn’t always up to the individual to get themselves out of poverty, it’s a cultural and social problem that the U.S. in the last few decades hasn’t done well in solving.
Actually the War On Poverty programs cut the poverty rate by nearly a third – in the 10-15 years before they were essentially revoked by Reagan. Because the middle class has declined since is not evidence that they were an “utter failure”
What planet are you people from? Since 1964, we have spent $11T on this “War on Poverty.” The Black Family Unit as disintegrated. The crime rate (black on black) has gone through the roof. We are now nearly $20T in debt with $120T in unfunded obligations. Obamacare is a disaster on its way to the larger train wreck of Single Payer. But, then, you will reject all this an so much more. One last thing though: The last unicorn was eaten by a werewolf and TANSTAAFL.
Dtroutma almost 10 years ago
Committed to a short attention span sound bite, on almost any issue. (Except Benghazi, abortion rights, or same-sex marriage.)
braindead Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Anything longer than a bumper sticker is too much for Fox “news” viewers, so they need to have ‘beliefs’ like Job Creators and Obama Death Panels to explain the mysteries of the universe for them.
Enoki almost 10 years ago
If it was written by today’s typical academic at some major university it is rubbish anyway.
I Play One On TV almost 10 years ago
Unfortunately, the Republican party is convinced that its message is correct, but we’re just not hearing it correctly. Two problems: one is that the message is often incorrect, no matter how eloquently stated, as aptly illustrated in the cartoon above. We hear you just fine; we don’t like what you’re saying much of the time.
Two: Many Republicans espouse fiscal responsibility and limited government, and then do the exact opposite. The policy of borrow-and-spend is a good example, as is the policy of using government to deny rights for citizens whose only crime is to be born homosexual.
My advice to the Republican party: clean up your act, and really walk the walk, and you’ll gain lots of fed-up Democrats. But you won’t do it by appealing only to an increasingly smaller, ideologically pure base, forcibly removing anyone willing to compromise or who holds a slightly different belief system. Continue the current path, and you are likely to fade into irrelevance. This would be very bad. Single-party rule is almost never pretty. We need at least two viable parties, preferably more.
You can only go so far by saying “Democrats and their policies are bad.” Sooner or later, you have to advance an agenda that is palatable to the general public. Good luck to all of us.
3pibgorn9 almost 10 years ago
Ah, I see you are the GOP guy here, immune to anything but the myths you believe.
Dtroutma almost 10 years ago
^I think the bankers will get you out of your property, but it isn’t always up to the individual to get themselves out of poverty, it’s a cultural and social problem that the U.S. in the last few decades hasn’t done well in solving.
moosemin almost 10 years ago
Republicans read?
Motivemagus almost 10 years ago
Uh-huh. And the super-rich who get advantages mean nothing to you? They take places at universities instead of poor-but-honest hardworking students.
meetinthemiddle almost 10 years ago
Actually the War On Poverty programs cut the poverty rate by nearly a third – in the 10-15 years before they were essentially revoked by Reagan. Because the middle class has declined since is not evidence that they were an “utter failure”
Athelstane almost 10 years ago
What planet are you people from? Since 1964, we have spent $11T on this “War on Poverty.” The Black Family Unit as disintegrated. The crime rate (black on black) has gone through the roof. We are now nearly $20T in debt with $120T in unfunded obligations. Obamacare is a disaster on its way to the larger train wreck of Single Payer. But, then, you will reject all this an so much more. One last thing though: The last unicorn was eaten by a werewolf and TANSTAAFL.