Pretty scathing indictment.
A high-profile and well-respected GOP pollster is strongly criticizing the new effort by the GOP Congressional leadership to revive the party’s national security attacks on Obama, saying the strategy risks making the party look “out of touch and irrelevant.”
“What are we, in a time machine?” the pollster, Tony Fabrizio, asked scornfully in an interview with me moments ago. “We just got clobbered in two successive elections and lost majorities in both Houses, and the leadership appears to keep on playing the same cards.” [...]
GOP Congressional leaders Mitch McConnell and John Boehner have embarked on an aggressive new effort to revive national security as an issue and paint Obama as weak on terror (again). Boehner recently released a video complete with 9/11 imagery that asks, “Do you feel safer”? McConnell has stepped up attacks on Obama for lacking a plan to relocate Guantanamo detainees.
“Most people are looking to DC to see how they’re going to solve the financial and banking crisis,” Fabrizio said. He noted that these attacks do not make people feel targeted by “an imminent threat,” adding that trafficking in them means “you risk looking out of touch and irrelevant.”
Fabrizio added that voters would watch these attacks and ask, “What the hell are these guys talking about?”
What a dumbass. If he was smart, he'd know that the Republican Party's problem is that they're trying to listen to much, instead of TELLING people what to think. I know this because Boss Limbaugh told me.
Look, folks, it's this simple. We do not need a listening tour. We need a teaching tour. That is what the Republican Party, or, slash, the conservative movement needs to focus on. Listening tour ain't it. Teaching tour is more apt.
So Mitch and John -- ignore what that pointy headed nerd pollster is telling you and keep yammering away, TELLING people that they should be scared of those terrorist boogeymen under their beds and socialism and the gays and San Francisco marsh mice and tire gauges and arugula! That's the Limbaugh-approved path back to the majority, and if we've learned anything the past four years, it's that Limbaugh knows exactly what it takes to keep Republicans in the majority.