GOP sticks to the old strategy: "Corner The Stupid Vote"

As we saw on the chat shows yesterday, the Republicans are still in denial. They cling to the delusion that they can stave off disaster by changing the superficial stuff rather than actually fixing their philosophy and their policies, because...the American people are stupid. Look, people, shiny objects! Pretty colors! We're kissing babies! They intend to repeat their strategy of the last several elections: corner The Stupid Vote. So their new strategy is...their old strategy, reheated. Too bad for them that the American people have learned their lesson, after watching these Bullwinkles at work for 30 years.


Laura Ingraham: How did the Democrats gain power in recent years? By going to the middle? Democrats gained power by going to the most liberal Senator in the U.S. Senate and they ran him for the Presidency and they won. They were relentlessly attacking George Bush for several years from the left. They didn't move to the middle. And the idea that Republicans now have to move to the middle, what beyond John McCain's middle, I don't know, is ridiculous.

[Or, translated from Bullshit to English: we must elect an extremist because the Democrats won with an extremist (actually Obama, like America, is centrist); the American people will swallow this nonsense because they are stupid.]

Mitt Romney: I frankly believe that much of what happened in the last election revolved around the fact that the economy fell apart at the time we were, if you will, holding the hot potato. Republicans and Democrats have been playing this game, passing the hot the potato, spending money like there was no tomorrow. And the economy came crashing down while our party was holding the hot potato. And people said, hey, it's time for something else but I think if they took a good, hard look at what the -- something else is planning on doing with regards to the massive borrowing, they are going to say, that is probably not the right thing for America's future.

[Translated: let’s blame the Democrats for 30 years of Republican deficits, deregulation, crimes and follies, because the American people are stupid.]

Eric Cantor: We had a collapse in our financial markets 30 days before the election. So there was a lot of fear, and a lot of desire to say, hey, we want to put these bad times behind us. And it's not that the Republicans need to change, to become like Democrats. We know the principles upon which our party is founded. They are the principles of free markets, of the rights of the individuals, of the faith in individuals, the faith in God, the ability for people to stand up on their own and reach for that opportunity.

[Translation: the American people really like us, but they rejected us in a moment of financial panic, because they’re stupid.]

Ed Gillespie: Well, clearly the pendulum has swung away from us,...But I, you know, I'm optimistic. This is the fourth time in my lifetime that the Republican Party's been declared dead....Obama, while he enjoys a, a 61 percent favorability rating, there is growing concern about his spending and borrowing and taxing out there. More independents in line with Republicans in those concerns than with Democrats.

[David Gregory pointed out that that was bullcrap, whereupon Gillespie admitted that his data came from his own Republican firm and even that group only backed him up on one specific question relating to the budget. Translation: America will believe my manufactured lies because they are stupid.]

Joe Scarborough: Republicans were dead in 1964, they were dead in 1974. They're dead again, we hear...There's always a back and forth. But the bigger question is, what does the Republican Party need to be? We keep hearing that it's too conservative. You know, it depends on how you define conservative....When I hear Democrats like Arlen Specter and read editorialists like E.J. Dionne saying how liberal--or, or how conservative the Republican Party's become, they've got it backwards. We have not been conservative as a party, we've been radical.

[Translation: although poll after poll says America rejected the GOP because they went too far to the right, we can still win by going to the right, because the American people are stupid.]

More Scarborough: [In reference to the question "GOP Debate: A Broader Party or a Purer One?" ] That's a false choice, though. Ronald Reagan was about as conservative as you can be. Ronald Reagan said, you know, the government that governs the least governs best. Thirty years ago you had Margaret Thatcher, 30 years ago this month, coming into power. Again, Thatcher, a hard-core conservative on economic issues, especially. We need to be conservative, but like Reagan. Because conservatives always love talking about Reagan. They'll talk about the ideology but not the temperament. We've got to work on our temperament. We've got to be more like Reagan. We can't scare little kids and dogs.

[Translation: if we peddle the same old discredited fascist policies, but kiss babies and puppy dogs while we do it, America will fall in love with us again, because they’re stupid.]


No wonder the Republicans declared war on education. They know that smart people bust out laughing when Republicans try to peddle their bullcrap.


**ADDENDUM** -- this from Republican Senator Lindsey Graham -- And I know this; our party's politics is closer to America ideologically than President Obama.

More denial.