Posts tagged Reince Priebus

Square Roots

22
2 months ago
by Monotreme in
Back off or I'll be forced to defend myself.

Back off or I’ll be forced to defend myself.

We’ve pre­sented evi­dence before that the Repub­li­can Party is in deep trou­ble. Even the chair of the Repub­li­can National Com­mit­tee (RNC), Reince Priebus, says so. Recap­ping the Growth and Oppor­tu­nity Project find­ings that I reported on ear­lier, Priebus said:

There’s no one rea­son we lost. Our mes­sage was weak; our ground game was insuf­fi­cient; we weren’t inclu­sive; we were behind in both data and dig­i­tal; and our pri­mary and debate process needed improve­ment. So, there’s no one solu­tion. There’s a long list of them.

Or, as my father is fond of say­ing, “Other than that, Mrs. Lin­coln, how did you like the play?” (more…)

Shampoo, Reince, Repeat

34
4 months ago
by Michael Weiss in
More of the same?

More of the same?

It’s a bat­tle on which fil­istro has spilled much dig­i­tal ink, but we’ve just wit­nessed another round. Does the Repub­li­can Party have a pol­icy prob­lem or a mes­sage prob­lem? Does the Party need to shift to the left or to the right, and do they need to clean up their messaging?

The answers were all over the map, depend­ing on whom one asked.

Ari Fleis­cher sees a “tale of two par­ties”, but he views the bifur­ca­tion as between the Gov­er­nors’ man­sions and the national offices, rather than between the estab­lish­ment and the Tea Party. He also notes a grow­ing demo­graphic issue that is work­ing in the Democ­rats’ favor: “Demo­graphic changes in Amer­ica are changes in the Democ­rats’ direc­tion. We have to fig­ure out how to make it come our way.” His solu­tion is to explain to peo­ple with more pig­ment that they should focus on the social con­ser­vatism they have in com­mon with the GOP, and ignore the racial hatred so many white Repub­li­cans feel toward them.

It’s not just lib­er­als who see the racist vein in the Repub­li­can Party. (more…)

Meme Watch: The Republican War on Women

23
1 year ago
by Monotreme in

RNC Chair Reince Priebus: Big gavel, big mouth? Source: Esquire.

It was an inept turn of phrase.

Dur­ing an inter­view on Al Hunt’s Polit­i­cal Cap­i­tal on Bloomberg TV, Hunt asked Repub­li­can National Com­mit­tee chair Reince Priebus:

The Democ­rats of course say you are wag­ing, the GOP is wag­ing a war on women. I know you don’t agree with that, but look­ing at the polls, you have a gen­der gap prob­lem. Recent polls show a huge, huge mar­gin for Democ­rats among women vot­ers. How big a prob­lem is it? How do you close it?

Priebus responded:

Well, for one thing, if the Democ­rats said we had a war on cater­pil­lars, and every main­stream media out­let talked about the fact that Repub­li­cans have a war on cater­pil­lars, then we have prob­lems with cater­pil­lars. The fact of the mat­ter is it’s a fic­tion and this started a war against the Vat­i­can that this pres­i­dent pur­sued. He still hasn’t answered Arch­bishop Dolan’s issues with Obama world and Oba­macare, so I think that’s the first issue.

Is the Repub­li­can War on Women a fic­tional meme, as Priebus argues, or is it sup­ported by the evi­dence? (more…)

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