More RNC Stupidity

The 'net is abuzz over the latest RNC web ad. You can view it here for yourself....




Now some of the reaction has been a bit hyperbolic, but that still does not excuse the abject stupidity of the ad. I mean does anyone under the age of 50 know who "Pussy Galore" is? However, Utah's newest Congressional representative put it about right when he said...

"I thought it was reprehensible, irresponsible and unpersuasive. If we're going to regain the credibility of the American people, we're going to have to stop with silly antics like that. It may get a snide chuckle inside the Beltway, but it offends most people. We have to get away from the politics of personal destruction," he said of the video.

I say he has it about right because I think calling the ad "reprehensible" is a little over the top. However he is spot on about the ad being irresponsible and completely and totally unpersuasive! I argued loud and long with the MNGOP during the last election cycle over their continued attacks on Al Franken - arguing that if the GOP did not talk about substantive issues that they would lose the election AND THEY DID!

Rather than worthless resolutions trying to rebrand the opposition or trying to connect to the popular culture of 30 years ago, the RNC needs to be focusing on issues that are facing the country today! It's really that simple.

I don't know who the idiots responsible for these kinds of ads are, but the RNC could do much better if they would just fire them and concentrate on issues instead of personalities!

From the "WTF Were They Thinking" Department....

...comes this brain cramp from the RNC.

A member of the Republican National Committee told me Tuesday that when the RNC meets in an extraordinary special session next week, it will approve a resolution rebrandingDemocrats as the “Democrat Socialist Party.”

Don't you people have anything more important to do? Something like say coming up with a coherent message???????

Or is putting up a useless resolution that is not going to be enforced the most pressing thing on the agenda this week...

When I asked if such a resolution would force RNC Chairman Michael Steele to use that label when talking about Democrats in all his speeches and press releases, the RNC member replied: “Who cares?”

Then again, maybe it is this is coming about because the RNC establishment, which is a vast part of the reason why the RNC has lost seats in the last 3 Congressional races, doesn't want to be forced to actually DO THEIR FREAKING JOBS which is to identify candidates for office and GET THEM ELECTED!!!!!

At least one person at the RNC has his head screwed on straight.....

Steele wrote a memo last month opposing the resolution. Steele said that while he believes Democrats “are indeed marching America toward European-style socialism,” he also said in a (rare) flash of insight that officially referring to them as the Democrat Socialist Party “will accomplish little than to give the media and our opponents the opportunity to mischaracterize Republicans.”

The chairman is right, of course, but the RNC committeemen and women do not appear to share that same wisdom.

I understand that the RNC committeemen and women are opposed to the socialistic proposals coming out of the Democrats leadership, but rather than passing a meaningless resolution, why don't they actually take a stand to DEFEND their beliefs? This resolution that they are proposing does nothing but show how totally clueless the RNC committeemen and women are. Otherwise, why push this?

Queer Nation Versus Westboro Baptist

For your morning viewing enjoyment (HT Tim at Anti-Strib)




You have to love the total class of the anarkids. They demand to have their free speech rights and yet when they encounter a group that they disagree with they say "I'm gonna f*** you up!"

Stay classy left.