Bingo! That cannot be repeated enough.
And look who loves it, by the way.
I very much appreciate the RNC’s stance on immigration reform. This is a major and constructive step forward for the Republican Party.
— Lindsey Graham (@GrahamBlog) March 18, 2013
That should tell you all you need to know about the RNC “growth and opportunity” plan, which equals Democrat Lite.
My biggest problem with #RNCAutopsy call for amnesty…it pretends the only (or even a major) problem in getting Hispanics is amnesty.
— DrewM (@DrewMTips) March 18, 2013
If you support amnesty on moral grounds, that’s a legitimate position but please stop selling it on unsupported electoral ones.
— DrewM (@DrewMTips) March 18, 2013
Lefties gleefully took up the hashtag #GOPautopsy, offering gems like this:
#GOPAutopsy recommendations: Allow 21st century textbooks back into science class. Use them in place of The Bible
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) March 18, 2013
Yuk, yuk, yuk. But, some happy warriors have taken over the hashtag, as well as #RNCautopsy, in order to respond to the Panderpalooza offered by the RNC consultant class.
#GOPAutopsy Branding what you’re doing as ‘marketing’ instead of why your principles are important to our future. Jackasses.
— End of the Republic (@PointlessPol) March 18, 2013
Principles? There is pandering to do!
<cough…gay marriage…cough> we must change our tone — especially on certain social issues that are turning off young voters #GOPAutopsy
— DrewM (@DrewMTips) March 18, 2013
I love pt 10 in #GopAutopsy‘s outreach to women…Use Women’s History Month. It’s like they ran out of ideas but needed to get to ten.
— DrewM (@DrewMTips) March 18, 2013
Identity politics at its most absurd.
@gabrielmalor Right Gabe. Those are the two stops on the continuum. BTW- Aikin was a longtime GOP guy and not MO tea party choice.
— DrewM (@DrewMTips) March 18, 2013
The same consultant class who is running the @rnc into the ground are now guiding @reince and @gopleader how to be saved!
— Yossi Gestetner (@YossiGestetner) March 18, 2013
With things like “hackathons.” No, really.
“Priebus called for…opening an RNC office in SFO and holding hackathons to bolster relationships with developers” wapo.st/XUhQEI
— John J Czaplewski (@JJCzaplewski) March 18, 2013
Is that a party celebrating @seanhackbarth? RT @alexpappas: On tech, Priebus says: “i want to hold Hackathons in tech savvy cities.”
— Ben Howe (@BenHowe) March 18, 2013
Heh. Other Twitter users tell the RNC to “consult this.”
@perrydkp @gop STOP listening to out of touch consultants… listen to Americans!We are FURIOUS WITH DEMOCRATS RIGHT NOW…CHANNEL IT!
— Katy (@KatyinIndy) March 18, 2013
All the speeches reports & consultants can’t change fact @gop @speakerboehner continue to Fund #Obamacare! @reince #OpportUnity
— Barbara McMahon (@southsalem) March 18, 2013
#gop consultants have convinced @rnc that solution to @gop issues are more consultants. a #pinterest page will win rhode island in 2016
— j (@davesmith3) March 18, 2013
@gop @reince Oy. Enough with the consultant-speak.
— American Cailín (@AmericanCailin) March 18, 2013
@lafayette41 Political Consultants are ruining GOP. Bring back the ‘kitchen cabinet’ instead of paid hacks.
— Karen Jones (@SnakebiteJones) March 18, 2013
@iowahawkblog Or, after the consultants ‘fundamentally transform’ the GOP, you could just go to one of their meetings.
— ginaR (@ggr1868) March 18, 2013
Drew at Ace of Spades pointed out the insider influx of the committee members.
It’s exactly the kind of thing you’d expect from a committee made up of a lobbyist, a long time RNC insider, a “veteran strangest and and top ally of Jeb Bush“, and a member of W. Bush’s team, Ari Fleischer. Only one member seems to have any grassroots credibility.
This is a pretty vanilla report. That would be fine because that’s what these things are. The problem is the RNC hyped it as some important moment in the history of the GOP’s renewal. Once again, they are over promising and under delivering. Stopping that bit of terrible marketing would be a major step in the right direction.
The best advice to the RNC? Get out of the beltway bubble.
#GOPAutopsy advice for @reince: Whatever seems like a good idea to DC Beltway dwellers, do the OPPOSITE if you are looking for what we want
— GWardHome (@gwardhome) March 18, 2013
Want to take a real step towards fixing the GOP? Move the RNC HQ out of DC and into Dallas or Pittsburgh.
— DrewM (@DrewMTips) March 18, 2013
Hell, Cleveland would be a better spot for the RNC than DC at this point. Actions, not reports.
— DrewM (@DrewMTips) March 18, 2013
And perhaps take a page from Sen. Cruz’s awesome book.
How do we win? We champion jobs, growth, and freedom. ICYMI, watch the full speech from #CPAC2013: c-spanvideo.org/program/311531…
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) March 17, 2013
In a nutshell:
There’s one problem the #RNCAutopsy left unaddressed: The American people.
— DrewM (@DrewMTips) March 18, 2013
Funny, that. But, hey, branding!
Update: Something to bear in mind:
The Democratic Party just released it’s 2012 postmortem/strategy memo. It reads: “Lie until people believe it to be true.”
— Nathan Wurtzel (@NathanWurtzel) March 18, 2013
Precisely.
