The Republican Tea Party truly believes that their "messaging" has been their biggest problem [View all]

[Proud Liberal Dem]

I caught an NPR segment this evening on the way home about the Republican's "Retreat" and all they seem to be talking about is how they plan on winning future elections by "toning down" their rhetoric, improving their messaging and "not shooting themselves in the foot" by saying dumb things like Akin and Mourdock did last election. The NPR segment pointed out that they've lost the popular vote during FIVE out of the past SIX elections. Do they really truly believe that their only major problem is HOW they've communicated their policies to the American public (since 2004) and not the policies themselves? The Republicans interviewed for the segment all adamantly declared that they had NO plans whatsoever to change their policies and/or sacrifice their "conservative principles" to make them more appealing to people but just coming up with better ways to "sell" it. IOW they've learned pretty much nothing for 5 elections and still apparently living in their own "reality bubble" believing that people would want the policies they're promoting if they can just fine-tune their messaging just enough.



All I can say is, please proceed GOP!