This Is Classic! GOP "Autopsy" Report Says Voters See The Party As "Scary" and "Narrow Minded"

[PennsylvaniaMatt]

They didn't have to spend money and resources on an inner party report...they could have just asked us! We have seen the Republican Party like that for years!!

From The Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/18/rnc-growth-and-opportunity-project_n_2899594.html

RNC Growth And Opportunity Project Report: Voters See GOP As 'Scary,' 'Narrow Minded'

The Republican National Committee (RNC) released its wide-ranging "autopsy" report on Monday, admitting some of its shortcomings after losing the 2012 presidential election.

Coined the Growth and Opportunity Project, the document includes market research from voter focus groups around the country.

"Asked to describe Republicans, they said that the Party is 'scary,' 'narrow minded,' and 'out of touch' and that we were a Party of 'stuffy old men.' This is consistent with the findings of other post-election surveys," the report states.

Hours before the report was live, RNC Chair Reince Priebus leveled about the GOP's struggles in an interview on CBS' "Face The Nation," telling host Bob Schieffer that the party did a "lousy job" of marketing itself.

“This is not short term view, Bob, I know everything isn’t going to change in one year. If we don’t start now we’re not going to have anymore success in four years, eight years, or twelve years,” he said.

Within the same CBS interview, Priebus revealed several proposed changes for the next election cycle. Among the possibilities being considered: a shorter presidential nominating calendar, fewer primary debates and a $10 million minority outreach program to promote the GOP brand in local communities.

[Rex]

1. No they don't 'see' anything, those are actual truths about the GOP.

Leave it to the GOP to lie to themselves in order to look a little less offensive then the KKK (but not by much).

Dear GOP,

You are the KKK. Go out of business, plead for forgiveness and live a life of good and honesty. Before it is too late.

[Berlum]

17. Indeed. The GOP always 'thinks' the problem is their 'image'

...because they do not want to deal with the ugly reality of their twisted, anti-American, fear & hate-oozing SUBSTANCE.

The GOP needs a massive soul enema.

[Blue Owl]

2. Focus Group Sick of Hocus Pocus

Not to mention the RNC PR BS...

[Warpy]

3. Lousy job? They've done a great job marketing their bullshit

by consolidating media and making sure it's pro corporate at best, extreme right wing at worst and there's a lot of worst out there. They've been great at getting people who aren't very bright to use their catch phrases and buzz words.

Marketing is the one thing they've done right.

The problem is that their ideas have been tried for almost 35 years and have proven disastrous, every single one of them. There is growing resentment about the stacked USSC and the gerrymandering that has kept lunatics in control of the House.

Bottom line, even though their marketing was spectacularly successful, people are noticing it was done to promote an inferior product, a product that will kill us if we buy it much longer.

They'll never admit that, of course. They're wedded to bad dogma which has failed repeatedly. They'd far rather blame the men who did their jobs well, the marketers.

[Ikonoklast]

24. Ford sold a shit-ton of Pintos; Chevy sold a crapload of Vegas.

It took them about the same 35 years to turn that around, too.

Just because you get people to buy the manure you're peddling doesn't mean you succeeded at anything...and you just might have lost some customers in the process.

[Warpy]

26. Yes, this is it for them which is why they're scrambling

to get as much fascism as they can before they're consigned to the wilderness for another 50 years or so, waiting for another gullible generation to meet another batch of slick admen selling salvation by giving it all to the rich.

[magellan]

4. The fact they had to do a report to learn this = out of touch. n/t

[Ganja Ninja]

5. "a shorter presidential nominating calendar, fewer primary debates"

Yes that should help. No names, no faces, no pictures either! Keep it stealthy and try to sneak into office like you're doing a perp-walk. Don't give the public a reason to hate you before you're sworn in.

[freshwest]

12. Maybe they intend to announce their corporate person's brand after they rig the electoral vote.

They'd replace inefficient elections with quick selections made behind the doors of Koch Industries.

[rox63]

6. If they did an 'autopsy'

Does that mean the party is dead?

[PennsylvaniaMatt]

7. If not dead, then definitely on life support!

[jmowreader]

8. They might want to allow more than one message

In 2012 we had the choice of the pizza guy who wanted to cut taxes and repeal Obamacare, the rich guy who wanted to cut taxes and repeal Obamacare, and a string of current and former congressmen who wanted to cut taxes and repeal Obamacare. And the voters saw one person with fourteen heads who'd sign anything Norquist put in front of him or her, and rose up to say they didn't want to be ruled by unelected trolls again.

The GOP's message is the rich don't have to pay taxes and the poor can glean fields to survive...most of the poor don't live where fields are and the people who own fields harvest it all now anyway. They might want to think about that.

[SomethingFishy]

9. It's not that we're assholes

it's that we are marketing ourselves wrong.. That statement says it all. "The people say we suck, but we don't, they just don't understand us".

[BrotherIvan]

10. Yeah, let's not change our regressive policies or worldview

Let's not try to find candidates with two brain cells to rub together. Let's change our marketing instead! Lipstick on a pig indeed.

[Trailrider1951]

29. LOL, they cannot "find candidates with two brain cells to rub together" because those candidates

are DEMOCRATS!

[Populist_Prole]

20. Yep, typical MBA-think

Marketing, marketing marketing. The hell with the steak, we'll push the sizzle.

[Scuba]

11. Don't forget "stupid", "mean" and "absolute assholes".

[Arugula Latte]

13. Here ya go, GOP:

[lpbk2713]

14. Eastwood's absurd RNC chair soliloquy sealed their fate for me.

After Tampa I knew it would take a miracle for them to gain any credibility from that point on.
Only the terminally willfully ignorant could take them seriously after that incredible meltdown.

[sheshe2]

15. "$10 million minority outreach program "

Yup, that ought to do the job!

Thanks Matt.

[Arkana]

16. The best part? Their solution is "Let's get scarier and MORE narrow-minded!"

[TlalocW]

18. I know what they can do!!!

They just need to broaden their appeal to women and minorities! Just like they've been talking about doing for the past 30-40 years!

http://paulbibeau.blogspot.com/2013/02/will-gop-broaden-its-appeal-30-year.html#.USuE1DdgLIl

[tanyev]

19. Hey, Rinse, isn't it YOUR job to market the party?

I'm not disagreeing that a lousy job was done, mind you.

[reteachinwi]

27. He can get advice from James Ives

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=9aqXEN5iDpQ&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D9aqXEN5iDpQ

He's the Houston area Tea Party leader.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10787074

[librechik]

21. are you sure they didn't say "greedy homicidal men?"

I sure would

[bluestate10]

22. The republican party is scary and narrow minded. I know two former republicans that

call themselves independents know. Both have the same issue with the republican party, they are liberal on social issues and are out of step with their former party.

[mokawanis]

23. It's not the pizza, it's the box

I think Cantor made that point a while back. Total bullshit of course, but he seems to think the Republicans can win if they stick to the same old pathetic platform, as long as they put their real agenda on the back-burner and say whatever they think voters want to hear during campaigns. Once elected, they can do whatever they want. I think Scott Walker makes a good model for what Cantor was saying.

[Danascot]

25. It's not quite true that they're a party of 'stuffy old men.'

More precisely they're a party of stuffy old white men.

[Trailrider1951]

28. Autopsy? How I love that word!

You only autopsy things which are DEAD! And what killed it?

Quote: "Asked to describe Republicans, they said that the Party is 'scary,' 'narrow minded,' and 'out of touch' and that we were a Party of 'stuffy old men.' This is consistent with the findings of other post-election surveys," the report states. How about "rich assholes who think that they're too good to contribute to our country's society"? Job creators? FMTT. They been job creatin' since the Raygun administration...the only problem is, those jobs are overseas! Honorable mention goes to their racism, sexism, ageism, homophobia, and general cluelessness about who the average voter is in this country! Yup, no reality based ideas or ideals. The Democrats aren't perfect, but they are miles ahead of the competition!