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MrRodgers -> RE: Amazing Article from former Reagan and H.W. Bush Adviser (6/26/2017 11:53:58 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Nnanji
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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers
The best statement in the article:
When I became active in the Republican Party in the mid-1970s, it was the party of thoughtful men and women who were transforming America’s domestic policies while strengthening its moral leadership on the global stage. As Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote in a July 1980 New York Times article, “the GOP has become a party of ideas.”
Next best:
And then, everything began to change. Republicans took control of Congress in 1994 after nationalizing the election into broad themes and catchphrases. Newt Gingrich, the marshal of these efforts, even released a list of words Republican candidates should use to glorify themselves (common sense, prosperity, empower) and hammer their opponents (liberal, pathetic, traitors); soon, every Republican in Congress spoke the same language, using words carefully run through focus groups by Republican pollster Frank Luntz. The demonizing of your opponent began with the repubs (right) during this period.
Lol, 'ol Newt took a page right out of the democrats playbook.
You mean for just one example when Tom Delaney had a 'mid-term' census taken in Tex, to gerrymander 5 additional cong. seats ?
And even if there was a scintilla of fact in your statement, the repubs were pretty fucking slow. It was 79 years to obtain consecutive repub majorities in the house when Gingrich and co. somehow managed that.
Plus, in all of my adult life, I have never heard or read the dems or independents demonize their opposition and call repubs and their supporters...traitors and much more.
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