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[apocalypsos]

-- Republicans kick off campaign to shine party image: Yeah, good luck with that. Right now, your biggest problems as a party seem to be wanting to piss and moan about not being in control anymore, engaging in astounding amounts of hypocrisy, desiring the setting of the country's Wayback Machine to 1950 (or whenever gays, minorities, women, and poor people shut the hell up and did what they were told), deciding you'd much rather lose people who might agree with liberals once in a while and keep the ones who use more racist, homophobic and sexist insults in everyday speech than the entire run of All In The Family, the complete inability to properly place yourselves in the correct American historical anecdote or role in that anecdote, and some weird belief that what will fix all that is just grabbing whichever Republican you can find who's not white or male, regardless of their lack of qualifications, and placing them in a position to make you as a party look even more stupid.

On the plus side, you held your big revolutionary meeting in a strip-mall pizza place, which, if you're attempting to reel in the unwashed masses, might be a rather adorable case of Trying Way Too Fucking Hard.

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Comments

[marag.livejournal.com]

I love the marching band story. Rock on!

[wrenlet.livejournal.com]

What gets me about the Republican party these days is that they insist it's just a "branding" problem, that if they can get a shiny new logo and make representatives get Twitter accounts, all will be well. It's not the BRAND, you idiots, it's the MESSAGE.

And Mitt Romney needs to put down the "revolutionary" talk and back. Away. Slowly. Eight years of (as one classically-educated friend called him) Divus Bushus, and he thinks Democrats are the monarchist party? Jackass.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

It's not the BRAND, you idiots, it's the MESSAGE.

Seriously. It's really sad that after getting defeated by the Democrats for the White House, what they took out of Obama's win wasn't that people are looking for hope, optimism tempered with realism, and acceptance in their government, but that maybe if they hold meetings in pizza parlors and get Michael Steele a blog they'll totally be in the right place in 2012.

And the revolutionary bullshit really pisses me off because, fuck, we were getting called treasonous for far less incendiary talk the past few years.

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

What I LOVE is this sudden, deep and sincere concern about the national fucking debt.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT WE KEEP THE NATIONAL DEBT DOWN, YOU GUYS. OUR KIDS SHOULDN'T HAVE TO PAY OUR DEBTS, THEY SHOULD ONLY HAVE TO PAY FOR OUR BULLSHIT FOREIGN WARS LIKE GOOD AMERICANS.

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

THEY SHOULD ONLY HAVE TO PAY MILLIONS THAT WILL BE FUNNELED TO THE VICE PRESIDENT'S CORPORATE INTERESTS. SRSLY YOU GUYS.

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

I also keep seeing them insisting that they weren't conservative ENOUGH and THAT's the problem. Which....

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Yeah, talk about locking down a voting block that's a dying breed, considering how much less conservative the newest generation of voters is compared to the eldest voters.

[dawnmipb.livejournal.com]

Okay, now I'm totally embarrassed, but after watching the Will Smith one, I had to grab "Black Suits Coming" for the iPod, and while I was there, "Wild Wild West" called my name, and now I am dancing all over my bedroom....

[goddessleila.livejournal.com]

That marching band story was awesome.

[looleebelle.livejournal.com]

"The moral to this story is don't mess with the marching band girls, or you just might get what you deserve."

*snorks*

That's great... go girl.