Giving The GOP What It Want's

[ItsjustMe]

[abqtommy]

1. To me what's important is giving the GQP what they deserve, not what they want!

[PutGramaOnThePhone]

2. 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀

[DemoTex]

3. Giving the GOP what it wants ..

Giving the GOP what it wants is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

[Jon King]

4. Beto's family is volunteering on the front lines...

while Cruz's family are currently on a beach in Cancun. How working class folks keep voting for these scum bags is beyond me.

[certainot]

29. it's the radio. but at least putin tool limbaugh finally croaked

[Oldem]

5. The clearly stated difference between unity and capitulation. But

It's not the media that only should be making this case; it's also the democrats. "Here, Mr. repug, I'll see your brand of unity and raise you my selfless aid for repug Texas voters, my fellow American citizens, my fellow human beings." It would be unseemly for AOC to make that argument, but other, high profile, dems sure should do it. Then sit quietly waiting for repugs to figure out a riposte and blast them with the truth, again. Do it on TV, thus bringing the media into it.

Nothing dems can say will shame these assholes; that doesn't mean they shouldn't say it. This isn't the time for placating repugs; it's the time for repudiating them. It's the time for showing them for what they are.

[HUAJIAO]

12. "We" just are terrible at messaging...

We always are on the human side of issues but......

[Oldem]

17. Maybe it's for the same reason

that good news doesn't sell on TV. Repugs grouse about our social programs costing money when they're perfectly happy giving monstrous tax breaks to the super rich. They really have no interest in ordinary people, who they are so good at gulling into voting against their own interests. Maybe we should stoop to a little gulling of our own? No, I don't believe that. I believe we should just get better at publicizing the truth--aggressively or subtly, loudly or not, but with fervor. Stop falling into the endless traps of countering repug propaganda and state our own case.

[HUAJIAO]

21. "......we should just get better at publicizing the truth"

I agree 100%.

If we could make positive ads about Dems as good as the Lincoln Projects negative ads about Repubs..........
Or ANY good ads...

Beto's and AOC's vs Cruz's responses to the weather in Texas is a perfect example...

[Oldem]

24. Who do we call to get this done?

[HUAJIAO]

25. MacDonald's, Honda....

almost any successful corporation..

[certainot]

30. at $1000/hr x 15 hrs, 1200 radio stations are worth $90M/week or almost $5B/yr FREE for the GOP and

that is why they always won messaging

that unified messaging will take a hit now but it's pitiful we ignored it and had to wait for limbaugh to croak

[HUAJIAO]

31. agree

[mezame]

14. Stupid Is As Stupid Does

Judge them by their actions.

Texas sees who's helping them and who's not. Restoring Empathy and Hope to Democracy (see Article XIV) is our superpower.

[soldierant]

15. +1000 Actually, more.

[CaptainTruth]

22. Independents are now the largest "party" in America. We need to talk to them.

I see so many folks make comments like "we'll never change Republicans' minds" but that way of thinking misses the point. Most elections are now decided by independents, people without a strong party affiliation, & if we want to win elections we MUST get our message to them.

[Roc2020]

6. Dems now have all three branches of government

it's a little easier for AOC and Beto to do acts of unity. Sure it's wonderful to help people, but can't hurt rubbing the 'R's face in their colossal failure as well

[marieo1]

7. Sad Media

I don't get it either................Beto O'Rourke and AOC are working from the heart, something GOP doesn't know or care about!!

[Wounded Bear]

8. Beto O'Rourke and AOC are working from the heart, something the GOP doesn't have...

FIFY

[murielm99]

9. Yes. It really is a unity story.

I don't see Beto and AOC as being much alike, apart from the 'D' after their name.

Of course there are a lot of similarities, starting with the fact that they both care and did the right thing.

I have had my differences with some of the local Democrats where I live. It is time for me to look past that.

I like what these two are doing and will contribute.

[soldierant]

16. "It is time for me to look past that."

It's obvious you are a Democrat. Only a Democrat could make that mental jump. I applaud you and will also try to do better.

[murielm99]

19. It is no secret here on DU

that AOC is not one of my favorites. I have to work with local and state Democrats and GOTV. I talk to people. AOC is polarizing in my neck of the woods.

Even so, I can only praise the help she is giving Texas.

[ananda]

10. Who cares what the QOP thinks?

They are greedy ass muthafuckers.

I like Dem unity... doing right for all
Americans.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

11. Texas chose cruz over Beto

and Beto still fights for Texas while cruz runs away

If that ain't unity nothing is

[iluvtennis]

13. Elie Mystal is spot on! (NOTE: Link to retweet is included here...)

Link to tweet

[BobTheSubgenius]

18. In a way, this IS "giving the GOP what it wants."

Things are getting done to help people, and it's coming at the cost of ZERO input by them personally, and next to nothing by the state govt. So.....the people are getting at least a fraction of what they need, and the GOP, worst case scenario, gets to go "See? Told ya govt. was useless."

[Joinfortmill]

20. Thank you

[Martin68]

23. We've got to stop letting Repubs frame every issue in their favor.

[Aussie105]

26. Whittling down GQP arrogance and imagined superiority

one kind deed at a time.

May there be a time in America where kind hearts and deeds are seen as more important than (R) or (D) behind a politician's name.

AOC (D): Texans need help! What can I do?

Cruz (R): Cold here! Let's fly south!

[Blue Owl]

27. K and fucking R

[Wednesdays]

28. K&R. eom