Republican 'rebranding' stumbles
A month ago, congressional Republicans quietly announced that they were crafting a comeback plan, which would get the party back on track. It would include new attacks on Dems, a new GOP policy agenda, and a series of new bills. The whole package was going to be awesome.
And now, the comeback plan is off to a troubled start, because the party doesn’t know where it wants to go.
Boehner’s idea had been that the GOP could lift itself off the mat by borrowing from private-sector marketing concepts. Among those who have consulted in the effort were corporate brand experts such as Richard Costello, the man behind GE’s famous “We Bring Good Things to Life” campaign.
But modern business techniques have stalled amid old-fashioned political disputes. Lawmakers who think the party needs to embrace a more moderate image on issues like health care and the environment are at odd with conservatives, who believe the way back to victory is to reclaim the GOP’s traditional reputation for taking a hard line on spending.
Corporate advertising and “rebranding” experts aren’t going to help the Republican Party right now. The problem isn’t that the party has great ideas that it’s having trouble selling; the problem is the party has no ideas, has consistently backed a disastrous war, and is led by the least popular president of the modern political era.
Private-sector marketing concepts are usually built around accentuating positives. What’s the GOP good at? Smearing people? Feigning outrage? Using bumper-sticker slogans?
Bumper sticker: "Join the Republican Party- meet us in the bathroom."
why do you need to attack dems to get back on track? oh, i forgot, because that's all they do. (if you don't count all the stealing and killing)
a logo for the GOP?
hmm, do you think beelzebub would allow the GOP to use the mark of the beast?
The other problem they have is that Bill Clinton stole their economic policy of Fiscal Conservatism, and it was the only good thing they had. Now Hillary has it. They, by contrast, went on an insane spending spree.
So, youve got some Republicans saying they need to get back to fiscal conservatism, and good for them. The problem is, I believe it when Hillary says it, and she doesnt couple it with insane religious wingnut anti-civil liberties social policy. Why the hell would I vote for a Republican when I can get good economic AND social policy from a fiscal and social moderate, in this case a Democrat?
we bring good things to life? THAT was a major triumph in advertising and marketing?
yikes the narcissism of the deluded knows no bounds.....i guess in a society of idiots anything can be a triumph
A turd is still a turd. Harder to sell than China made toys.
I have a new name for them. The R J Republican Party. They can all sit around smoking those healthy cigarettes from their favorite company that spent 12 million dollars to deprive children of healthcare. Not only do the Repugs and the tobacco companies want to stop kids from getting healthcare, they also want to make cigarettes affordable for all. I think that Boehmenr and his leathery skin must have smoked a little in his life. How can the Repugs even sleep at night? It's really sad thta we have to find ways to fund children's healthcare creatively when we pay our taxes to destroy countries for bogus reasons. Joe Camel must be a Repug.
The GOP is excellent at bashing homosexuals while simultaneously having sex with their own gender, and bashing government spending while spending like drunken sailors on their stupid war, and protecting our freedom by making us less free.
"HYPOCRISY" fits on a bumper sticker.
The party that doesn't believe in government and has just about succeeded in destroying every facet of it now thinks all it needs is a fancy new slogan and a pr campaign to go with it and they'll be able to pull the wool over everyone's eyes once again.
Sounds about right.
It is all very simple: war in iraq + death of the US + pissing on the freedoms + decline of our prestige = repubs + bush! Any questions? It is tough to rebrand that!
Blaming gay people and liberals.
(sarcasm alert on)
oh, but they are the Protectors Of The Family!
(sarcasm alert off)
cleo @ 7:
Those measure 50 commercials were just awful. Everybody knew they were full of lies, but it still looks like it worked.
Keep in mind shows like The Soprano's are award winners and movies like Gangster are sweeping the box office.
'The Reps, the all-inclusive party, no idiot left behind'.
''God's' Party, first in figmentalism'.
'We do it all for you, and take a healthy cut for ourselves'.
'Better living through mendacity'.
'The Gay Old Party'.
Yes. All they need is a new logo.
May I suggest you drop the elephant and replace it with a wolf in sheep's clothing?
Or how about a mutton dressed for lamb?
My advice to the GOP.
How bout starting with just being honest?
Who'd a Thunk it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Dems could learn something from that also)
GOP slogan finalists:
-today's GOP: deadlier than dioxin
-today's GOP: we put the hip in hypocrisy
-today's GOP: we don't discriminate against those who do
-today's GOP: for sale
-today's GOP: the last time you will ever vote
-today's GOP: nuclear winter will offset global warming (which does not exist)
Re-branding isn't going to cut it.
Money will come back in another party, perhaps one that isn't so .......how shall we put it ...fascist.
But one thing for sure, money will continue to covet power.
How about "We bring good things to death."?
All their ideas for the past seven years have been awful. They are connected to this never ending war and stirring up hell in the middle east. Our infrastructure has been neglected and their economics has put us into trillions of dollars of debt. Health care sucks and forget about our educational system. They blew off global warming for way too long. So how the hell do you try to sell a proven bad product? You can't.
Republicans equal disaster in every way. The Republican party brings good things to crooks and war mongers.
If that fails, they can always fall back on "old reliable". -- The terrorists are coming! The terrorists are coming! Hide your children! Lock your doors! Give us authorization to bomb another country! Hit the deck!!!
Typical corporatist GOP mentality: we don't have to produce a good product, we just have to market well.
Actually, the problem isn't the party has no ideas, the problem is that they repeatedly failed to live up to their ideas.
They had ideas of "stopping the gay agenda", which has failed with each new gay Republican coming out of the closet.
They had ideas of sexual morality, which failed with each prostitute scandal and coming outs from above.
They had ideas of fiscal responsibility, which they promptly failed when they blew money faster than a drunken sailor.
They had ideas of improving security, which they failed as they pumped more fear into us, while agitating the world to only want to attack us more.
They had ideas of helping big business, which they failed to do, as they made it more difficult to move money around the world with "counterterrorism measures", and plunged the economy into a tailspin.
They had ideas of bringing democracy to the Middle East, which they failed when they plunged two countries into complete chaos, while supporting a dictator in a third.
They had ideas of supporting the military, as they sent our military off to way beyond the breaking point, and trapped them in two quagmires.
Yes, they had ideas... and it doesn't matter if they were good or bad ideas. The point is they failed on everything they promised for the past decade and a half, and now that the shit has hit the fan, the people are waking up to this fact.
The GOP is the party of failure.
I think the GOP caneasily get back on its feet advocating for pro-life , and other social conservativer issues and tax cuts. I really don't see how former GOP voters are dismayed except over corruption, but i really dont see em supporting democrats either. They'll prolyl just keep voting the way they've been doing it.
cleo @ 7:
Why not tax something like soda....something EVERYONE can contribute to, instead of placing the burden on smokers.
Heath Costs for OBESITY have surpassed those of smokers.
This brings back memories of Rush Limbaugh's ill fated "conservative crackdown." Remember how the right was going to take over the world after the Dubai Ports deal tanked? Well Rush, we're waiting.
The Republican party's biggest problem is that Americans do not like Republicans. Everything good about Republicans is already on the Democratic platform, and everything bad about Republicans, America has been drifting away from for the past fifty years after women got the vote, blacks got to enter soda shops and gays could walk down the street without the fear of being beaten to death.
Attacks are all they can think about. Hate, racisim and bigotry, that's what made them what they are. Repugnacans.
GOP . . . you can't polish a turd, but they'll try!
The problem is not that the GOP is led by the worst president in US history. The problem is that the GOP continues to cover for and support the worst president in US history. The GOP cast their fate when they decided to block Bush from investigation and prosecution. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
Oh, I don't know. If marketing can sell, say, Domino's pizza, it can sell anything.
(Come to think of it, wasn't the Domino's founder a notorious wingnut?)
casper46 @ 20:
Best one yet!
Since a huge proportion of our population thinks in them, that's, unfortunately, good strategy.
"Private-sector marketing concepts are usually built around accentuating positives. What’s the GOP good at? Smearing people? Feigning outrage? Using bumper-sticker slogans?"
Oh no, the GOP is good at much more than that: Swiftboating, demagoguery, lying, chicken hawking, stealing, court rigging, propagandizing, gay baiting, race baiting, fear mongering, immigrant bashing, deficit spending, election tampering, warmongering, divisive mean spirited politiking, fascism and family values hypocrisy.
The democratic congress doesn't threaten their agenda other than re-election. All they have to worry about is denying fair elections.
The problem with the repug party is the repug party. Period. There's no amount of shine that going to make that turd appealing.
Bitter Scribe @ 32:
yes, and the same one that created jesus-land in florida.
hey mickey kaus is impressed!
Republican Bumper Sticker:
Petulance! Panic! Perversion!
Hook & Crook '08
Maybe it's time the Republican party split up into different factions. The two party system does not represent the views of most Americans, Democrat or Republican. The problem is that the platform of most political parties lies on the extreme end of some ideology or other. I'd call myself a bleeding-heart-libertarian, but that's just using extremes to average out my opinions. I feel like I'm not the only one in this camp.
RasslinGod @ 25:
As a supporter of the GOP for over 30 years, let me say that that plan isn't going to work. Social conservatism is just a polite name for religious fundamentalism. Screw that idea. Fundies have really screwed up the GOP. I will vote democratic because it seems that the only way to straighten out the GOP is to flush the toilet and start fresh. The GOP consistently refuses to clean up it's act choosing instead to use fear and smear as smoke screens for their incompetence and corruption. If that's the game they want to play, they can do it without my vote.
"You Pay Taxes So We Don't Have To"
"You Fight Wars So We Don't Have To"
"You Believe Your Vote Will Count So We Don't Have To" ...
So they decided to stick with "Be afraid. Be very, very afraid.", huh?
We can use that against 'em, ya know.
From the "comeback plan" article:
Light at the end of the tunnel... Lulz! I guess it's never too late to start the eulogy for your dying party, NRCC's communications director.
O rly? Har-har-har, innovative dynamic solutions, huh? So will that "solution" be an attempt to slyly steal the liberal platform? Innovative solutions, lolz!
Lynnianaa @ 45:
The light at the end of the Republicans' tunnel is the headlamp of an oncoming Progressive train.
Samson- @ 38:
To be honest, there is no holier food than pizza... with it looking like host. Come to think of it, if Catholics were to use pizza instead of wafers they would have much better attendance.
With Jesus-land Florida and that creation museum in Cincinnati I am beginning to think that at some point this country took the wrong turn... How can a society devolve from beating polio, creating the first semiconductor integrated circuit, and sending a person to the moon... to this pathetic bunch of morons?
Who's white, uptight and outta sight?
REPUBLICAN!
Whose God wil smite, 'cause ya know that might is right?
REPUBLICAN!
He's not scared of playin' unfair, he's got yer cash but he's got no cares, he packs the courts with galling flair(but he's got no savoir faire, because it's French, and that like, sucks)!
REPUBLICAN!
Re-Brand Corruption?
Funny
Introducing the New Corrupto' Deluxe ?
Somebody needs to "re-brand" all those Republican assholes with a great big W in the middle of their foreheads so they, and all of us, will know who they really are.
I'll tell you now. The thing that hurt the GOP was when they threw away the war veteran cloak and put on the religious fundamentalism one. The same thing happened to veterans then that is happening to the religious right now. They're realizing that the GOP doesn't give a damn about them unless it's an election year.
Dr. Who @ 47:
Exactly... and most of those innovations were developed in the 1950's & 1960's, an era that the GOP likes to tout as the epitome of great morality in this country. The funny thing is, if you took at many of the things written at that time and only filtered out the racist and sexist comments, they would be immediately bashed by any rightwinged pundit for being too liberal... seriously. I read an article from 1950 on future predictions, and was shocked at how environmentally conscious it was.
tanning boothist John Boehner's "New Coke" on the march
They're the Get Ours Party. And they're effective, in their tyrannical way, because Rightists, in general, believe in essential and absolute divides more so than we on the Left.
"Absolutely!" It's their favorite word. Whether it's a question of going to war or going to the store, and all points in between, the answer is, Absolutely!
They believe in an absolute divide between the Creator and Creation. Unless you stand in the proper relationship to them and their church, and by extension, the Creator, then you're just a Creature, a critter. If you don't accept being a beast of burden, you'll be happily helped on your way to Hell.
[Side A] --- [Side B]
[Good God USA Us Ours Me Mine] --- [Evil Allah, Buddha, etc. Iran, Syria, Burma, etc. Them Theirs You Yours]
The Right believes the little dashes above to be absolute and eternal dividers. They insist that Divinity is only to be found on their side of the line, which they never stop drawing, and yet will insist is absolutely god-given and immutable.
The Right believes in an absolute Away, where things disappear when we make them 'go way.' By the way, the worst nightmare of a torturer is a victim who heals and returns. The harder they try, to impose absolute divisions where none can exist, the more freaked out they get when we survive even the worst they can do. When all you got going for you is violent force, and that fails, what then?
We on the Left see that all seemingly separate things arise in an absolutely indivisible field. The white stuff around these words is where we all find our common ground, not an absolutely empty void. We stand, united in our sovereignty, just exactly as these words are standing in this field right now.
On the Left, We see our diversity as composing a larger Unity. On the right, they see only the black squiggles and assume the lines they form (of data, pixels, words, sentences, and reasoning) to be absolute. Their worldview is atomised; ours, holisitc.
In other words, the Right mistakes our own mental line-making function for an absolute tyrant of the universe. The "fear of god" they want to instill in others is a projection of their own fears of their own minds.
See, if you define your self as absolutely good, then you can't possible have any intercourse at all with the Others, because they're from the wrong side of the line. The very idea that they share identity with the Other completely freaks them out. The violence done to lynching victims is notable for attacks to the victim's face, an effort to wipe out their identity.
The Right fears and makes war on its own other half. War is their way of life, not an aberration.
The problem is the internet.
And education... it is a LOT harder to fool most of the people into voting against their own interests. Sure it still happens, but it was far worse before, it seems to me. And hey, we actually notice MASSIVE voter disenfranchisement now. That's why they've had to turn increasingly shrill and use irrational fear-mongering.
I guess the other problem (besides finally having 2-way media) is that the boomers in the Republican party that aren't batshit crazy evangelicals, or neocons, either are too selfish or lazy to take the party back from the users and tyrants. However, the "progressive" party may want to watch their own back on this one.
Gosh, I mean... the Repubs can't even have sodomy with random strangers in public bathrooms anymore without getting caught. Times they are a'changin'...
Dr. Who @ 47:
First, the "Jesus-land" to which ya refer is called Ave Maria.
Second, and scarier is the Thomas More Law Center( http://www.thomasmore.org/ ) , whose headquarters are smack dab in the middle of the Domino's Farms complex.
Third, the guy yer talkin' about, Tom Monaghan, sold out his interests in Domino's about ten years ago.
Fourth, the guy who's the current CEO of Domino's (now a publicly traded company), David Brandon, is quite possibly worse than Monaghan. Brandon was the chairman of Dick DeVos' failed run fer Governor here in Michigan last year- and Brandon's a big wheel in Mitt Romney's current campaign.
'Rebranding' huh... As if the GOP problem is nothing more than a Madisons Ave marketing issue... Frikkin stumblebums!!! You fucking republican morons have wrecked the nation...and with the help of more than several Quisling Democrats!!! Hope you're all fucking happy now! Ya can't 'advertise' or 'market' your way out of that anymore than writing poetry will pull ones ass out of quicksand....Fucking idiots!!!
At this point I just wish every asshole on either side of the ailes and at both ends of Pennslyvania Ave save a precious few (and we all know who they are) would just up and vanish in some kind of rapture or mysterious UFO abduction... ANYTHING! Just go the fuck away... I'm sick of the whole lot of em... There ain't enough honesty, honor, vision or real leadership anymore in D.C. to amount to a nickles worth of anyones time or effort in support... It's all going sideways.. Rotten, rotten to the core... Fuckem all dammit!!!! Rebranding......PFFT!! I got yer rebranding hanging dickweeds! JD
The more I think about it, the more they destroy the middle class in America, the less voters the Repubs have to fool in to thinking that all the Republican ideals really work for them, instead of only the ultra rich.
You can convince a wanna be yuppie that someday they too will make $432 million a year as a hedge fund manager (not going to happen). But they will gladly vote for a tax cut for those making over 200,000 a year, which of course shifts the burden back on them. Everybody thinks THEY will win the lottery. Doesn't seem to work that way.
But below a certain point, I know damn well if I can't afford rent or good food for my family. Propaganda doesn't manufacture necessities...
Whatever it is these guys did it to themselves.
How about: "We Bring Death"
Dr. Who-
Come to think of it, if Catholics were to use pizza instead of wafers they would have much better attendance.
I can just hear the point in Mass now, durin' the transsubstantiation of the body of Christ into the communal eucharist- now pepperoni- when the altar boy rings the bell and the priest says, "Get the door...It's Jesus."
That last part would be in Latin, I guess...
I wonder if "branding" will become the next thing that isn't torture?
Loonie @ 61:
BA DOOM CHING!
What, do you and ysbadadden swap joke books or somethin'?
GOP:
We bring good things to life....only to deprive them health care assistance if they need it and good education if they're poor, but most certainly not a jail cell or an army uniform to send them to war to die for our corporate masters.
Big Oil, Big Tobacco, Pentagon...they all know you can't spell LAPDOG without the letters GOP.
Rebranding - ridiculous corporate doublespeak for what my grandmother called putting lipstick on a pig.
Buy a BRAND NEW 2008 EDSEL!
Advertising has it's limits.
They are doomed to fail. You can't talk your way out of a state that you have acted your way into.
NEW and IMPROVED Fascism!!!
GE we bring good things to the Upper Hudson.
"What’s the GOP good at? Smearing people? Feigning outrage? Using bumper-sticker slogans?"
I think that about covers it.
abarts @ 26:
Put it on a ballot and up for a vote. You may not like the outcome.
2008 GOP planks:
In other words I bet the same damn platform that Bush ran on in 2000. Or 04. It's all the same crap. You know what? It will probably work to. They'll just pretend the Bush never existed, and the Dems will let them get away with it.
FOUTRAGE!! FUD!! VOTE GOP!!11one
lipstick on a pig?
I'm typing this without reading the blog.
I will scan backwards and discover how many time that phrase was used.
:lol:
REPUBLICAN CONTRACT WITH AMERICA
As Republican Members of the House of Representatives and as citizens seeking to join that body we propose not just to change its policies, but even more important, to restore the bonds of trust between the people and their elected representatives.
That is why, in this era of official evasion and posturing, we offer instead a detailed agenda for national renewal, a written commitment with no fine print.
This year's election offers the chance, after four decades of one-party control, to bring to the House a new majority that will transform the way Congress works. That historic change would be the end of government that is too big, too intrusive, and too easy with the public's money. It can be the beginning of a Congress that respects the values and shares the faith of the American family.
Like Lincoln, our first Republican president, we intend to act "with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right." To restore accountability to Congress. To end its cycle of scandal and disgrace. To make us all proud again of the way free people govern themselves.
On the first day of the 104th Congress, the new Republican majority will immediately pass the following major reforms, aimed at restoring the faith and trust of the American people in their government:
* FIRST, require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply equally to the Congress;
* SECOND, select a major, independent auditing firm to conduct a comprehensive audit of Congress for waste, fraud or abuse;
* THIRD, cut the number of House committees, and cut committee staff by one-third;
* FOURTH, limit the terms of all committee chairs;
* FIFTH, ban the casting of proxy votes in committee;
* SIXTH, require committee meetings to be open to the public;
* SEVENTH, require a three-fifths majority vote to pass a tax increase;
* EIGHTH, guarantee an honest accounting of our Federal Budget by implementing zero base-line budgeting.
Thereafter, within the first 100 days of the 104th Congress, we shall bring to the House Floor the following bills, each to b
Andy K @ 62:
Republicans are like a self-writing joke.
I wouldn't say they have no ideas. I *WOULD* say that all their ideas are old, decrepit, failure-ridden anachronisms of humanity's less enlightened past, regurgitated into peoples' skulls by savvy misuse of the media and peoples' inherent goodness and trust of their own kind.
Yes with all jokes aside, I seriously believe that these nasty disgusting bastards asses threatening the democrats. It is just not possible for many of these people to take the three hundred and fifty degree turn, they have taken.
If we find out this is true, we need to demand everything they did because of the threats, be overturned, that is after we kick them in their own asses.
The Republican Party's problem is simple: how does a political party market outright corruption, rapacious greed, fascism and an anti-democracy/anti-equality/anti-Christ agenda that lacks any compassion for ordinary American citizens, while giving fat-cat lobbyists and fat-cat corporate executives everything they want?
The wheels have fallen off the Republican Party's band wagon, and now we are left with seeing whether or not they'll drag our entire country into the ditch with them as they careen out of control, with out of control spending (especially on a unnecessary, preemptive war in Iraq), with out of control appointees heading one federal safety agency after another that have endangered the lives of us all (especially our nation's children), and an out of control president and vice-president.
I'm an independent. I will never vote again for a Republican candidate. Nor will I vote for any conservative Democrat (the Blue Dogs) put forward by the Democratic Leadership Council, because then one only ends up with some supposed Democrats who rubber-stamp everything that the culture of corruption Republican Party does...which has proven to be so detrimental to our nation.
I will be very surprised if our nation's economy survives (and doesn't crash) through the remainder of the time Bush and Cheney have in office. I foresee (especially with so many corporate crony insiders running our nation's federal safety offices) more U.S. citizens becoming ill, and possibly even dying, due to tainted produce and products being sold that were not properly pre-tested for toxicity. I will be very surprised if Bush and Cheney don't start another ill-conceived, ill-planned and ill-executed war against someone before slithering their sorry asses out of the White House.
Jack Damage @ 57:
They're not heaven material and the Aliens have a prime directive.
They're on our planet so we might as well act like responsible people and take care of those running amok.
Leave it to the plutocrat wannabes from Crime, Incorporated to think that gilding a dogturd will make it smell like a rose.
I remember hearing Ken Mehlman talking about how the RNC brought in the best minds from the credit card advertising industry, to shape the GOP campaign message. That's what the GOP became, an ad campaign.
Touche Steve. A good read. Had me laughing and all TRUE!!!
If anyone is interested in becoming a Republican, this is a handy animated site (which is also quite FUNNY!!)
http://www.thefrown.com/index.php?/cartoons/55/495
A new slogan:
"Would it kill you to vote for us?"
justabill @ 9:
Its the old deluded idea from Maggie Thatcher / John Major that people "dont understand the message",
trouble is (for the GOP) that they do and they dont like it.
As in Britain and now in the USA, the parties of 'family values' destroy themselves in an orgy of sleaze and corruption.
Makes for good entertainment to see the RW fall and suffer, down at the poor end of society living paycheck to paycheck,
theres nowhere to go but up, we need all the free entertainment we get.
Time for us wage slaves to consolidate all our debt into one single bank loan, and wait for 80s style S&L wiping :)
"Remember Reality and morality has a Liberal basis"
"The problem isn’t that the party has great ideas that it’s having trouble selling; the problem is the party has no ideas"
That's far from accurate. They have tons of ideas just not NEW ideas. They will always believe in lowering taxes for the richest, creating a greater tax burden on the middle class, denying health care to the average American, and stealing as much money from the national treasury as possible through war and corporate welfare.
Those are the core conservative ideas. They will never change. It's inherent in the word conservative not to change.
There are enough stupid Americans to vote for these ideas, even if they are not in their own best interest. The repugs thought there will always be stupid Americans so they weren't worried. The thing that chased off even stupid Americans were the weekly sex scandals, monthly gay and pedophile outings, bribery scandals, lies about wars that are never ending and repeated lies to get us into more wars.
There is only so much even stupid people can take.
"With Jesus-land Florida and that creation museum in Cincinnati I am beginning to think that at some point this country took the wrong turn… How can a society devolve from beating polio, creating the first semiconductor integrated circuit, and sending a person to the moon… to this pathetic bunch of morons?" - Dr.Who@47
Ummm, the television?
Ryoko @ 31:
Exactly! Everyday it seems the dispised incompetent GWB tells the country to get f'ed, and the repukes support him.
Now they think all they need is to find a slick-slogan to try an get the American people to forget about what they have done? Good luck with that one losers.
The problem for repukes is that when you lose your job, health insurance and pension, slogans are replaced by reality. The repukes screwed the pooch when they started outsourcing all these white collar-professional type jobs. Those people have turned against the repukes, and they are never coming back.
Right now, they're doing neither.
I wouldn't mind having some conservatives in Congress, if they would just be conservative, instead of crazy. I think there is a need for people who are innovative and bold, and there is a need for the conservative who says, "we can't afford that. Look at our debt. We need to be more realistic". When you're spending a billion jillion dollars on a pointless war, you can no longer claim that mantle.
We can poke fun at them all we want -- and, of course, we will -- but this is actually the fundamental difference between our world views. They genuinely, honestly, in a William Golding kind of way, believe that some people are wolves and some people are sheep. This, they believe, is the natural (ie, biblical) order of things. Thus all they need is a better con and everything will revert to normalcy. Not only does it not occur to them that there's another way to interact with their fellow human beings, it will never occur to them because it's not what they believe.
So, public education over the long haul. Focus on their kids. They're a wash.
They're peeing their pants knowing that the Reslug party is thankfully and quickly dying.
Since America pissed off Islam by invading Iraq, America should make a better job of that “Good to be free in Iraq feeling”. Its time to offer a home stead act to all Americans who wish to relocate and live in Iraq. Where as we the people will eventually be in Iraq forever, introduce Congressional legislation for free land and oil and mineral rights under certified oil reserves.
Yes, indeedy, free for Americans that wish to relocate, especially those 30 million illegal Mexican aliens can have the ability to share in becoming free Americans in a free Iraq. What away to solve the immigration problem and build a tax revenue base to forever combat terror. Needless to say the Arabs will have fits. Well if you’re going to do a job does it right!
Religion + $$$ + Power = Tyrrany = Repulican
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