“We’ve got to reverse engineer what [Obama] did and leapfrog to the next cycle”
The Republican National Committee is reviewing the party’s deficiencies, particularly in technology and grass-roots organizing, that contributed to Mitt Romney’s sound defeat last year. The excuses and grievances that several top Republicans offered up after the election have been supplanted by pledges to strengthen the party.
“We need to get people organized and learn from what Obama did,” said Mike Duncan, a former national party chairman who now represents Kentucky on the committee. “We’ve got to reverse engineer what they did and leapfrog to the next cycle.”…
There was more discussion about the challenges facing Republicans than the solutions. But in interviews, Republican officials from across the country said a new tone is needed, and they called on the party to take cues from its 30 governors rather than become consumed by Republicans’ differences in Washington…
“The tone does have to change,” said Gov. Pat McCrory of North Carolina, who called for “a tone of respecting the other side’s opinion.” He said Republicans also should not bow to all viewpoints inside the party, declaring, “When you try to appease everyone, you satisfy no one.”
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The Rogue Tomato on January 25, 2013 at 2:51 PM
I know we heard a lot about Obama’s behavioral psychologists and data mining, but behind all that, wasn’t it just a “free stuff” campaign?
El_Terrible on January 25, 2013 at 2:56 PM
I forgot, it was also about Romney giving people cancer.
El_Terrible on January 25, 2013 at 2:58 PM
““The tone does have to change,” said Gov. Pat McCrory of North Carolina, who called for “a tone of respecting the other side’s opinion.”
Because Obama and the Democrats express **so much** respect for the other side’s opinion.
If you oppose them, you are a criminal, fascist, murderer.
Face it, Alinsky tactics work. Learn from the winners.
Realist on January 25, 2013 at 2:58 PM
1. Give people stuff. If stuff cannot be given, promise them stuff.
2. Blame everything, past present and future on opposition.
3. Speak of alternate dimension where all of your ideas, no matter how nuts, work.
4. Laser light show, people like that stuff.
5. Give out little american flags.
Gatsu on January 25, 2013 at 3:02 PM
He hired Romney to play his stalking horse. Romney threw the election. So, now, how do we do that?
astonerii on January 25, 2013 at 3:06 PM
Good idea. The Democrats are nothing if not respectors of Republican viewpoints and it has paid handsome dividends for them.
Kataklysmic on January 25, 2013 at 3:06 PM
The GOP needs to learn to effectively mock and ridicule the left and their insane policies. Kinda like the way 0bama’s campaign used images of Ryan throwing little old ladies off a cliff.
No more Mr. Nice Guy. No more “you have nothing to fear from an 0bama presidency.”
That is, if they really want to win. I am not convinced that they do.
UltimateBob on January 25, 2013 at 3:07 PM
The only mocking the GOP is going to engage in will be of conservatives and conservative values. Count it.
Kataklysmic on January 25, 2013 at 3:12 PM
With all the money Obama spent, all the innovation behind his campaign, the science, the targeting…he got less votes this time than in 2008.
DeathtotheSwiss on January 25, 2013 at 3:16 PM
The party that can’t get out of its own way is going to do some reverse engineering? I’ll be glad to watch.
Cindy Munford on January 25, 2013 at 3:19 PM
We can’t properly message our ideas, and the solution is to communicate a brave new respect for the other side?
I swear the Dems have our people under mind control.
TexasDan on January 25, 2013 at 3:37 PM
1) Destroy family.
2) Be party of welfare
3) Profit
Seems easy enough.
jhffmn on January 25, 2013 at 4:14 PM
To repeat a comment I made at another venue on this subject:
Ok, here’s Obama’s playbook. You tell me how to “steal it”:
The “community organizers” that get people signed up for benefits, the managers of public housing projects, and the other various local “activists” that carry a LOT of clout go door to door making sure you are registered to vote and on election day, escort you to the polling place. There is an implied suggestion without really saying so that if you don’t play along, the next time you need something (landlord has turned off the heat, you have a broken window and it is 10 below zero, etc) you are on your own if you don’t play along. If you want the help of the local political agitators or organizations when you have a problem. then you are going to have to help THEN when THEY have a problem and elect their candidates to office. Obama is one of their candidates.
The GOP can NOT compete with that until they have activist organizations in those communities and manage to convince the people that the Democrat organizations are using them and keeping them trapped in their current situation across the generations just so they can KEEP using them. The GOP needs to market itself as the escape hatch from the perpetual poverty and the mechanism by which the people can help themselves out of that situation.
Until that happens, there is nothing the GOP is going to be able to do in Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago, LA and other places.
crosspatch on January 25, 2013 at 4:33 PM