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Re: ACORN Pleads Guilty to Voter Fraud
I said "ideas" not persuasion methods. The Republicans have got the latter DOWN!
And considering popular attitudes vis-a-vis the Tea Party at this moment in time, I doubt the "shellacking" in question would have occured today.
And this trend would certainly have precluded my use of your example in support of a post.
I was referring to the plummeting acceptance of this season's Republican "messaging".
I posit it is a consequence of the Armitage/Koch attempt at astroturfing existing Tea Party groups. They planned to use them to make noise in opposition to healthcare reform.
They DID NOT, imho, intend for the Tea Party to seize the reins and turn the whole thing into a real movement.
As a result, what the PR industry refers to as a "crisis management response" was developed and implemented prior to the last election to prevent this unexpected complication from possibly costing the Republicans seats.
The problem lies in having to go "off-message" in mid stream.
First, they had to determine what planks of the platform the two subsets still held in common, and what they did not.
Then they had to craft new "memes", or spin, or whatever you choose to call manufactured ideas. Ones that would resonate enough with both mainstream Reps. and Tea Party Reps. to hold them together through the election, without alienating independents.
They obviously managed to put enough super glue and duct tape on that mess to hold it together through the election, but its unravelling now.
Too much was cobbled together at the last minute, and the whole "messaging" structure that has been laid down over the past 30 years has been compromised as a result.
THAT'S why both sides of the normally undivided Republican Party are looking at each other like they're crazy.
Because cognitive dissonance makes one a little crazy.
At least that's how I see it. :2wave:
I said "ideas" not persuasion methods. The Republicans have got the latter DOWN!
And considering popular attitudes vis-a-vis the Tea Party at this moment in time, I doubt the "shellacking" in question would have occured today.
And this trend would certainly have precluded my use of your example in support of a post.
I was referring to the plummeting acceptance of this season's Republican "messaging".
I posit it is a consequence of the Armitage/Koch attempt at astroturfing existing Tea Party groups. They planned to use them to make noise in opposition to healthcare reform.
They DID NOT, imho, intend for the Tea Party to seize the reins and turn the whole thing into a real movement.
As a result, what the PR industry refers to as a "crisis management response" was developed and implemented prior to the last election to prevent this unexpected complication from possibly costing the Republicans seats.
The problem lies in having to go "off-message" in mid stream.
First, they had to determine what planks of the platform the two subsets still held in common, and what they did not.
Then they had to craft new "memes", or spin, or whatever you choose to call manufactured ideas. Ones that would resonate enough with both mainstream Reps. and Tea Party Reps. to hold them together through the election, without alienating independents.
They obviously managed to put enough super glue and duct tape on that mess to hold it together through the election, but its unravelling now.
Too much was cobbled together at the last minute, and the whole "messaging" structure that has been laid down over the past 30 years has been compromised as a result.
THAT'S why both sides of the normally undivided Republican Party are looking at each other like they're crazy.
Because cognitive dissonance makes one a little crazy.
At least that's how I see it. :2wave: