The stupid party strikes again: “The Change You Deserve”
Oh, dear Lord. The hapless Republican establishment has gone and made a public embarrassment of itself again. Can your hearts take much more of this?
Hoping to get things moving in a positive direction, House Republicans will on Wednesday begin rolling out their own policy agenda, trying to showcase their differences with Democrats on issues such as health care, the economy, energy and national security.
In a memo to be sent to Republican members today, the leadership hints at a new slogan building on the change message that has already been shown to have political resonance with a public unhappy with the nation’s direction.
It looks like Republicans will counter the Democratic push for change from the years of the Bush administration with their own pledge to deliver, drum roll please, “the change you deserve.” The first element of the party agenda developed over the past few months by the leadership and select party members will focus on family issues.
“Through our “Change You Deserve” message and through our “American Families Agenda,” House Republicans will continue our efforts to speak directly to an American public looking for leaders who will offer real solutions for the challenges they confront every day,” said the memo prepared for lawmakers.
Conservatives have spent the entire campaign season eviscerating Democrat candidates who’ve tattooed themselves with the empty “change” slogan. So what do the brain-dead strategists and p.r. market wizards of the GOP go and do?
Wrap themselves in “change.”
What about self-preservation? What about sovereignty? What about consistent adherence to constitutional principles?
Nope. We get more insipid “change.”
The crack research staff at GOP HQ somehow missed that “Change You Deserve” is the marketing slogan for Effexor, an anti-depressant.
Brilliant.
The GOP lemmings deserve everything they’re going to get in November.
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On May 13th, 2008 at 1:07 pm, southsideironworks said
Well said. That is actually change I could get behind.
Rohan,
Sorry, its my World of Warcraft “My ret pally just pWn3d j00 stupid ally rear end” part coming out of me
*ducks*
Just the borders issue would be enough to win.
“the change you deserve.” This is a Scary slogan . I have a pretty good feeling bout what the Elites think we deserve
Viva la cambia! Si, se puede!
Abstractmind
Uh oh.
Alliance Hunters Rule!
The RNC and Mc895 are now united in change. It is Mc895’s life experience that makes him the best change option and now the RNC is in step with the parties leader. Can we not wait for the change to come in immigration and cap and trade scams.
It seems the only hope for the Republican party, is that the Dems stumble worse than the Republicans (which often happens). The people who thought of this slogan should be utterly ashamed of themselves. PATHETIC.
Change
Pelosi, Reid, Schumer, Biden, Boxer, Feistein, Durban, Feingold, Hagel, Kennedy, Kerry, Murray, etal, run out of town on a rail.
Change I can believe in
Here are my suggestions:
1. We’re just like them only better.
2. Vote for us or they might win.
Abstractmind and Rohan:
Horde Shammies (at least the Tauren variety) pwn the bg’s!
/end threadjack.
Hold on to your wallets!
I’d like to throw my hat in for being the campaign manager for Moo the Cat…. campaign slogan suggestions anyone?… gotta be better than the Repubs piece of tripe.
And the GOP wonders why people are withholding contributions to the party as opposed to local candidates? Sheesh!
Don’t Send Money! Just…
VOTE for Moo The Cat
You’re in! (just remember to bring the catnip)
I’ve got the first campaign ad:
Tired of Washington smelling like Day Old Fish? Tired of feeling like the government is one big cat box? Moo the Cat will clean that right up! She’ll cover the poop in the litter and eat that fish right out of existence. Vote Feline. Vote Moo. Vote MEOW in November for a cleaner and simpler America.
If it were up to me, the slogans for each party should be:
Democratics: Buddy, I Hope you can spare some Change.
Republicans: Build the freaking wall.
These are so good I am including them. I would just add.
11. Get out of the United Nations pronto.
12. Include “none of the above” as a choice on the ballot.
13. Ban political parties as unconstitutional - they are conspiracies and anti-democratic.
14. Prioritize the responsibility of the government. a) Defense of citizens, b) preserve fair and save marketplace in the US. c) Provide services that states may not be able to provide. d) guarentee equal justice under the law.
15. Eliminate welfare to those who are able bodied and to all corporations.
Are they trying to lose as many seats as possible? I mean, really? WTH??? I just don’t get it…and I fear they don’t either.
Throw all the BUMS OUT!That’s change I can go for!
So what would you do if everyone did that- wrote in “none of the above”, and no one was elected? Someone has to run the country…someone has to be our representative. If no one is elected, then what? Then Nancy Pelosi picks the president.
Voting for no one doesn’t solve anything. It makes a point that people aren’t happy with the choices- which is a good point- but at what cost? At the price that no one is behind the wheel. And we can’t have that- that’s BAD for America. Think of the time it would take ro run more candidates? At least another year. So we go a year without representation? That’ll never happen. It simply cannot- the world won’t wait, and we couldn’t either.
Also about political parties- I totally agree with you. Do you know that they’re private parties? They’re not regulated by the people, and that’s how they’re getting away with nixing Fla. and Mich. (I actually just learned this a couple weeks ago- I never knew they were private parties.)
rohan,
yeah, they do…they make excellent snacks for late evening stormwind raids LOL
have to find the server you’re on so we can have some fun!
Republican politicians hopefully are going to get the change they deserve.
Errah I’m going out for a short drive.
The change I need is in my pocket.
The change I dont need is Billary, O-Dimmer, or John McFraud.
Not to hijack this thread, but did anybody catch Alan Colmes interview with Harry Reid?? He talked about the time he had a fight as a school kid. Yeah right. There is no way he didnt have his lunch money taken from him on a daily basis. What a tool he is.
A comment I keep hearing more and more. And yet the Republicans are doing absolutely nothing to reverse direction.
Errah Yes Reid’s a tool. I like to put a kick me sign on him when we’re in the cloakroom errah. Like to kick that doughy pasty white asz up and down the aisle. Wish some of the R guys would cross the aisle and help a little errah.
Little Edward G. Robinson. ^5…..Here, here…!
DL,
Well the upside of McNaasty not doing his job is that he is not doing more damage to the country. However if he gets elected we get screwed twice here in AZ. We should start pushing the GOP here to put JD up as temporary Senator if McNasty gets elected.
Great. The election for the President of the United States and Congress is nothing more than a junior high school popularity contest. I am heartsick at the decline of this nation. Are there any men and women of character? Any leaders? No?
On May 13th, 2008 at 1:34 pm,
Horde Ret pally eh?
Hehe. Alliance shaman, hunter, and rogue here.
This is why I have not sent money to the RNC in a long time. Every dollar has gone to the candidates themselves.
Anyone here interested in bringing back the Whig Party? If we conservatives just completely abandon McCain and yet strongly support Congressional and Senatorial candidates maybe some senior leaders in the party will pull their heads from their backsides; or at least get off of the Effexor.
we’re jacking the thread lol
i have a few ally..but i find them distasteful.
working on a site for guild. click my name here, sends to to the site in progress. has contact info there for me i believe.
The only way I can agree with this “so-called” new slogan is as follows. We, the American people (along with God only knows who else) voted and had our say. We, not I, chose these weak willed, scared of thier shadow, finger in the air flip floppers, capitulizers rather than champions, knee knocking candidates. we voted and it looks like we will certainly get the change we deserve; Heaven help us.
While I’m not wild about the “change you deserve” theme…let me say that it may not be as dumb as it first appears.
It would not be the first time one party “stole” a theme from the opposing party…admittedly, earlier, it was based on substantial themes.
But that was then and this is now.
Most voters are not as savvy as the posters here. Perhaps this is an effective (though, admitedly, neither intellectually nor politically compelling) tact.
Maybe. All skepticism duly warranted.
I have a few horde as well, not very high level. But the guild I started with when the game first released thought at the time the horde would be overpopulated with “For the Horde” teenie-boppers. I guess their original foresight was a tad off base with where those kiddos actually ended up going
But I can’t complain, I’ve gotten to raid most everything there is to raid back when I actually had time to raid
Sorry for the threadjack, and now back to our regulary scheduled program of “The GOP is more lost than Dorthy just arriving in Oz“
Well, you know, in the real world, regardless of which version of baloney “change” you elect, it’s going to be the one you deserve!
After all, YOU ELECTED IT.
This is why I won’t be voting for any of the big three. I refuse to have to take responsibility for the state of this country that results from Barack/McCain/Hitlery in the White House.
Phht!
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
American Federalist Party
The single greatest force in the US economy to affect all voters, regardless of party affiliation and social values, is monetary policy and taxation.
The rest of the “issues” are distractions away from the single biggest threat to Americans: asset evaporation- from our homes to our passbook savings accounts.
Vote for McCain simply because his choice of Treasury Secretary (Phil Gramm) will ensure you don’t go broke by 2010 because your paper becomes worthless.
Check into it. Voting on issues is kinda bullshit anyways because these dogs lie when it comes to socio-political issues anyway and sell us all out in some way.
However, wealth preservation (even if it is just 4 bucks in your savings) is the key this time around. No one is talking about it. There is plenty about “economic growth” and job creation— that isnt what it is about. It is about the money you get and what happens to it once ya get it.
My two cents.
You know, there’s a reason I no longer consider myself a Republican.
Back when I was a Republican, I would have had to defend against this.
Ain’t freedom great?
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Where will you stand when the votes are TABBIED?!?!
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Because, as usual, the Republicans aren’t listening.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
GOP = Group Of Pansies
Jenny Bea
Looks good to me or how about:
Want a candidate that cleans itself, doesn’t give damn about anything so can’t promise what they can’t deliver, and sleeps all day but is up all night vigilent and never dribbles when it drinks, unlike certain Senators? Vote Moo the Cat…. Mooooove on rats!
You have a runoff, but none of the above candidates can run.
McCain will be on this weekend’s SNL.
I have a better slogan. How about “Back to Basics” — you know, the kind of basics the Founders envisioned for our country: Small federal government, taxation only with representation, state’s rights… those kinds of basics.
That is just too easy. The writers must still be on strike.
Exactly, Chang Back to the way of the Republican Conservative Base. Listen to the base and vote accordingly.
How about Power to the People
All this “change” makes me think of nothing good. Hitler was full of “change” tactics in his speeches to win over the german people who were experiencing hard times put on them by the versailles treaty and the depression. They lined up in droves to rebuild the third reich and many ended up in re-education (concentration) camps. Don’t politicians know that people are resistance to change unless they are going through extreme hardships…kinda like now. Don’t you just love this new world order. The chips are falling into place. I want a new third political party so bad I can taste it. What ever happened to the Bull Moose Party and why isn’t it still viable?
I need an anti-depressant to cope with this election year with all the nonsense going on. Effexor must just be the ticket. Now that would be a “change I deserve.”
Good God!
I’m starting to really *enjoy* the thought of voting Democrat in November!!
Republicans are startling in their ineffective boobishness. Let’s see… copy the Democrat candidate (aka John McCain), copy the Democrat policies (aka RINOs in Congress), copy the Democrat methods (aka betraying the United States of America)… now we’ve got to copy the Democrat mantra (aka change for the worse).
I think the change we need is to shut down the freaking Republican Party… I’d be delighted with THAT kind of change.
Anyone here ever take EFFEXOR anyway.
Lemmings indeed! And the naysayers continue to be befuddled by all the attention garnered by Ron Paul. Too consumed with toeing the GOP/conservative line, the gnashing of teeth can be heard above the din or complaints and name calling. For those who dare to support the stupid party, indeed, you get what you deserve and no more.
I know what change I deserve; I’m sending my voter registration back torn in half and will register as an independent until I find a sufficiently conservative party. If enough people do the same, it might finally resonate with the psuedo-conservatives (aka republican party).
I’m out.
Just another example of the Republican party taking its cues from the Democrats. Newt wants to “outlib” the libs on global warming, McCain wants to “outlib” the libs on illegal immigration, and now the entire Republican party wants to “outlib” the libs on the empty change front.
If we’re so desperate to be like the libs/Democrats, what’s the point of even having a conservative/Republican party?
Nope, I thought it was a Preparation H type product. Who thought this crap up anyway? HINT
LOL, Are those guys related to Obama?
My Plea to Republicans: It’s Time for Real Change to Avoid Real Disaster
by Newt Gingrich (more by this author)
Posted 05/06/2008 ET
Updated 05/06/2008 ET
The Republican loss in the special election for Louisiana’s Sixth Congressional District last Saturday should be a sharp wake up call for Republicans: Either Congressional Republicans are going to chart a bold course of real change or they are going to suffer decisive losses this November.
The facts are clear and compelling.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=26376
I rofled at the title being “the stupid party”
I never would have thought that Michelle would refer to the republicans as stupid, but it just goes to show you how truly gone the Republicans are
Change we deserve === That’s what Obama has been saying all along. So, I’m guessing that the R’s should support the D’s?
more from Gingrich……………….
House Republicans Should Call an Emergency, Members-Only Conference
Faced with these election results, the House Republicans should hold an emergency members-only meeting. At the meeting, they should pose this stark choice: Real change or certain defeat.
If a majority of the House Republicans vote for real change, they should instruct Republican Leader John Boehner and his team to come back with a new plan by the Wednesday before the Memorial Day recess. This plan should involve real change in legislative, communications, and campaign strategy and involve immediate, real action, including a complete overhaul of the Congressional Campaign Committee. The House Republican Conference would then vote for the plan or insist on its revision.
If a majority of the House Republicans are opposed to acting then the minority who are activists should establish a parallel organization dedicated to real change. This group should focus its energies on creating the changes necessary to survive despite a conference with a minority mindset that accepts defeat rather than fights for real change (which is what we had when I entered Congress in 1978).
…………What Is at Stake
No Republicans should kid themselves. It’s time to face up to a stark choice.
Without change we could face a catastrophic election this fall.
Without change the Republican Party in the House could revert to the permanent minority status it had from 1930 to 1994.
Without change, the majorities of Americans who support the Republican principle of smaller, more efficient, smarter and fairer government will be in for a rude awakening.
It’s time for real change to avoid a real disaster.
I am a conservative Republican from a long line of conservative Republicans.
This November, I will be voting in my 15th Presidental election. We have never faced such a dismal choice of candidates. I was heart-sick when McClain emerged as the putative Republican candidate and become more depressed with every word he utters.
How did this happen?
I pray he won’t be crossdressing.
Oy!
Obviously none of them are listening to Newt Gringrich. Unlike alot of American VOTERS.
McAmnesty sez, “Vote for Me! The Change you Deserve will be in Pesos!”
Moo the Cat for President, it’s time to let the cat out of the bag!
The Tauren Hunter was my favorite toon, nothing like a cow with a gun, very Far Side imo. Now if the only Alliance race was Dwarf they would be much more palatable. Rumenkoq the drunken warrior wields his mighty two-handed Stein and staggers into battle! “I’m a social drinker. Whenever someone says they’ll have a drink I say, “Social I!”"
I’ve been planning to skip voting for president and vote Republican in other races.
It’s starting to look like there’s no reason to vote at all.
Sigh. Calling them the stupid party gives them too much credit.
The GOP ought to scrap the elephant and replace it with a Dinosaur like the brontosaurus. If the idiot GOP leadership keeps going the way they are going, they’ll soon be extinct. No loss, IMHO. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
Newt has jumped the shark. The commercial with Pelosi had me wretching.
Wretching.
Wretching.
Maybe the GOP could make a HEAD OF LETTUCE the new symbol.
Grey Sheepdog, don’t know if you have seen this. It came out today.
I am now strongly considering voting B. Barr after reading this article.
libocrat #172, I understand your feeling but Newt came back and expaned on why he did that ad. Newt took a bashing on his site and he’s been on the blog responding.
Look on the bright side, the ad ran in San Fran Nan’s district in violation of the law. We need to press this issue to the hilt.
Thanks, I’ll check out Newt’s site.
You may not have gotten the memo.
Laws do not apply to libs. Saving the planet trumps the law.
LOL Libocrat. Hit my blog on Newt’s site. I need the hits. LOL
Lonewolf, I concur with your observation. The only difference I see between the Republican and Democrat parties is that one is in more of a hurry to go left. We’re being slowly ratcheted to the left. Obama and Hillary are so to the left that we are forced to take McCain as the only real alternative. Yet, McCain would have been considered an extreme socialist-leftist if he had run in the 1960’s with his current values. Here’s an interesting website explaining this concept of “Pressure From Above And Pressure From Below“.
That’s how I think it happened that we get McCain as a “conservative” choice. What is so interesting (and troubling) is that McCain is offered as the conservative, but he is almost as big government as the Dems. Makes me think that the powers are going to try to make a huge power grab this time around, ala the “New Deal”.
Regards…
The American Federalist Party - Feast your eyes. This makes sense!
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
John Ansell, I hit your blog.
You are HOT in that wig.
That is a WIG isn’t it?? Or is that a cat?
No we don’t. The aforementioned law was drafted and passed illegally, in a clear violation of the First Amendment.
We could get some mileage out of their use of the ad in violation of the law that they passed illegally, though.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Oh, production, huh?
Well, what good’s production going to be if the water we drink and the food we eat have toxins in them?
Sometimes, I really wonder if republicans want smaller government. What do you think would happen if we didn’t have enough clean water?
Yep, that’s right, government rationing.
So, conservatives, can you please extend your personal responsibility agenda to the environment also?
Can someone please tell me how imitating Democrats will make our party stronger? If you have a choice between Democrats and Democrat Lites, how is that even a choice? Abandoning Reagan and the principles of conservatism will NOT make the Republican Party more competitive or stronger!
Man, I’m depressed. I think I forgot to take my Effexor this morning.
Papa Louie - actually I was just continuing Newt’s commentary.
Which actually makes good points. Find the link to the rest above. Newt saved us once. I hope he can do it again. Who else is there we can have faith in?
Change..
No one can afford!
We’re not piling on.
We’re just piling it deeper.
Ha, that’s what I get for not knowing how to post my real picture. I had “help” setting it up and that’s what “help” gets ya.
I’d love to see McCain lose 1 of the 2 elections tonight.
For what it’s worth, Greysheepdog, I’m writing in Newt.
Don’t be surprised if McCain is shown to be mentally unstable sometime before the election. Why in hell can’t he just declare himself a democrap and save a lot of us from turmoil and angst. His campaign slogan is ‘Vote for me; I’m just like a democrat. Hell, I am a democrat.’ I’ll be staying home this November, thanks. Crap.
Well looks like the GOP’s Counter-Intelligent Division has royally screwed up. And amazingly twice in the space of a week.
First we have McCain’s embracing the environmental-wacko leftist fringe and his refusal to consider drilling in ANWR.
And now this.
Dark Days now to be a Reagan Republican.
Voting for the LESSER of TWO EVILS is not an option for me….
I will go to the polls..
There are still issues on the ballots.
#192 - It will be a sad day indeed, no?
I have a 5th of JD think i will go drink it now and cling to my religion and guns…
Everyone has talked about writing in their choice for prez or leaving that part of the ballot blank or just staying home. I’m curious how many are serious about doing any one of these things? I for one I’m serious, I’m not voting for pres.
Luigi, our water and air is much cleaner now than in the 70’s.
Take your lib religion and shove it.
I am writing in for Rush or Levin, it’s a tough choice.
Dog and Ansell show,
Please quit with the Abbott and Costello “Newt’s on first” routine. Back and forth, on and on, “Who can save us???”
Newt is applying for Dhimmi Carter’s old job at the book of the month club. Seriously, is he hard up for cash or what?
Let’s examine his strategies:
1.) Pronounce that Global Warming is real in the hopes that we get a place at the liberals’ table.
2.) Create a legislative laundry list that would be at home in one of Bill Clinton’s State of the Union Adresses.
3.) Repeat mantra of “real change” ad nauseum.
4.) Incite fear in Republicans of dire consequences if we don’t buckle to embrace liberal concepts.
5.) Goto step 3.
This is not 1994. And before we start to celebrate the Republican heyday of the nineties, remember that Republicans:
* Lost the fight over the government shutdown
* Lost to Clinton in 1996
* Lost the impeachment battle
* Lost control of spending priorities
* Lost all credibility as the fiscally responsible party
So please, enough about Newt already.
Michelle is right about the lame slogan, too!
How about:
*Change that Works!
*Got some Spare Change?
*Love America for a Change
*Change your oil every 3000 miles, or we’ll send someone to do it for you because you deserve it
sam.i.am
So who’s your huckleberry?
BLUF: Conservatives cannot reach people on the same level as liberals.
Liberalism is based upon emotions and fallacious arguments (e.g. sound bites.) Conservatism is based upon thinking with our minds (e.g. policy papers.) Conservatives are noticing, just like the smart kid does in 4th grade, that the dumb, popular kids saying, “Vote for me and you’ll have no homework the rest of the year” while wearing the cool clothes and making jokes wins over the crowd. All the while, the “smart kid” is sitting there thinking, “wow, I have all these great ideas, but no one listens to me. I’m boring.” So what does he do? He tries to be as cool as the other kid and loses at the sound of the other kids’ laughter.
Liberals say, “Vote for me and vote for change and a worry free life.” It entices the weak or lazy minded folks. Of course the media laps this up like a thirsty dog because, frankly, they see the ratings for American Idol and Survivor and know what makes TV-addicted people tick.
So, we have the Republicans who try to act as “cool” as Obama and end losing because A) they aren’t cool, and B) they no longer have the good ideas.
Solution: Republicans need to forget 4th grade and, for once, assume the American people have a few brain cells left to discern a good idea from a bad one. What made Reagan’s ‘64 speech so great? He called liberalism out for what it was and communicated something better. Maybe we should look to great Republican leaders of the past rather than potential future Democratic presidents for effective ideas and ways to communicate them.