The National Republican Senatorial Committee has a plan to cut off the flow of material for Keep Talking Winnguts.
The goal? To avoid what’s become known in GOP circles as "Todd Akin moments."
"The campaigns that jumped off message not only infected themselves, they infected all the rest of the campaigns," said Rob Collins, the new NRSC executive director, in his first extensive interview on the job. "So in this age of fractured but continuous, three-dimensional communication, we have to constantly plan for that and train for that and build for that."Let's review the Republican Party Platform:
"Faithful to the 'self-evident' truths enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, we assert the sanctity of human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed," the draft platform declares. "We support a human life amendment to the Constitution and endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment's protections apply to unborn children."Keep writing platforms, wingnuts.
The campaigns that tried to defend the official GOP platform were actually on message--forcing rape victims to give birth to their rapists' babies. They might have shown their ignorance of biology or stretched the bounds of decency with their comments, but that is the result of trying to defend an official party position that is quite hard to defend without resorting to ignorant nonsense that voters find repulsive. It is not the result of jumping "off message."
These new hired guns for the NRSC are actually there to try to get the wingnuts to lie or shut up about the official party platform. I'm skeptical that anyone will succeed at corking these bottles of expanding gas, or lessening the amount of material available to keep talking wingnuts talking.
RNC Chair Reince Priebus, who's name without vowels spells RNC-PR-BS, suggested today that it's not the GOP platform that's the problem, it's the people who don't know biology that are the problem.
ReplyDelete> “Listen, I don’t think our platform is the issue,” Priebus told Iowa reporters late this afternoon. “I think a lot of times it’s some of these biologically stupid things that people say, you know, that I believe caused a lot of the problems.”
http://www.radioiowa.com/2013/03/07/rnc-chair-says-roves-planned-attack-on-king-a-fools-game-audio/
Reince, please keep talking, but let me just say that your platform is biologically stupid (ie, saying globs of cells are people), and that if the result of that stupidity is that you want to force rape victims to be raped again with an ultrasound, or you want to force rape victims to give birth to their rapists' babies, then yeah, your platform is your problem.