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Why does this make me laugh?

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RNC chair plans 'off the hook' campaign, tells critics to ‘stuff it’
Posted: 11:22 AM ET

From CNN Associate Political Editor Rebecca Sinderbrand


Steele plans an agressive PR push for his party.
(CNN) — Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele says his party is going to launch an "off the hook" public relations campaign that will update the GOP’s image by translating it to "urban-suburban hip-hop settings."

The new GOP leader told the Washington Times that the party’s defeat in states such as North Carolina and Virginia made it clear they needed a new approach.

“We need messengers to really capture that region — young, Hispanic, black, a cross section…” he said in an interview published Thursday. “We want to convey that the modern-day GOP looks like the conservative party that stands on principles. But we want to apply them to urban-surburban hip-hop settings.”

He added, jokingly, that “we need to uptick our image with everyone, including one-armed midgets.”

Steele described the new multi-platform PR offensive as “avant-garde, technically. It will come to [the] table with things that will surprise everyone — off the hook.” Asked whether that meant cutting-edge tactics, Steele demurred. “I don't do 'cutting-edge,’” he said. “That's what Democrats are doing. We're going beyond cutting-edge.”

Steele, who began a massive personnel overhaul at the RNC shortly after his election, said he has started meeting weekly with congressional Republicans. He said he’ll be gathering input from House and Senate leaders, not giving instructions — but he criticized national Republican leadership’s focus on party unity as a top priority, saying the failure to devote itself instead to developing fresh faces had cost the GOP.

“We missed the mark in the past, which is why we are in the crapper now,” he said. “We had the White House, the Senate and the House and were not building a farm team over the last years. We could have been ahead of Democrats and their 50-state strategy.”

Steele dismissed the assessments of some Republicans that he needs a deputy to handle areas like logistics, fundraising and candidate recruitment. “I can run this organization just fine,” he said. “There will be no deputy chairman, period. …People who said I can't make the trains run on time never gave a reason. I say to them, 'Stuff it.'

“I am not afraid of being held accountable for my leadership,” he said. “The idea I am somehow going to handicap myself before I begin is nuts. I am not going to buy into this mind-set among a few people who probably have never run anything but their mouths.”

Steele defeated a crowded field last month, including sitting RNC chairman Mike Duncan, to claim the party’s top spot.

Blues,
Dave

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(drink Mountain Dew)

[Misternatural 0]

yep- soon they'll be flossin blinged out grills and getting their freak on all up in here. Shazizzle!

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[Unstable 9]

I consider myself a good republican, but this is just going to be too funny......

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[AWL71 0]

All the republicans need to do is become the exclusive sponsor of "American Idol" and as long as voters can text in their votes they should sweep all future elections.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

[Andy9o8 2]

He's willing to publicly tell people to "stuff it." That's already a +1 in my book.

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but this is just going to be too funny......

Funny will be Rush donning the bling-bling and bustin' out wit da gangsta-rap, hip-hop style.

Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

[skydyvr 0]

Reads like a Onion story.

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[billvon 3,120]

> . . .update the GOP’s image by translating it to "urban-suburban hip-hop settings."

Hmm. "Barack the Magic Negro" didn't work so well last time when an RNC chair candidate tried it. Maybe they should avoid that whole area.

From another report on this plan:

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“We need messengers to really capture that region - young, Hispanic, black, a cross section ... We want to convey that the modern-day GOP looks like the conservative party that stands on principles. But we want to apply them to urban-surburban hip-hop settings.”

But, he elaborated with a laugh, “we need to uptick our image with everyone, including one-armed midgets.”
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Well, once they have the one-armed midget vote, they're basically unstoppable. (As long as they also have the over 6'10" female fighter pilot/porn star vote, that is.)

[ryoder 1,590]

The Republican Party has become a pathetic travesty of what it once was.

The time is ripe for a third party to rise up and attract the conservatives from both parties with the same set of principles that the Republican Party had forty years ago: Minimal government, civil liberties, non-interventionist foreign policy, and fiscal conservatism. Today's Republican Party does just the opposite while paying lip-service to these.

People unhappy with a current administration will always seek an alternative, and the Republican Party has gone from being an alternative to being a joke. A viable third party could cause the Republican to fade away just as the Whig Party did.

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.