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1. Republicans are good at message discipline

Reply to peggysue2 (Original post)

Wed Oct 25, 2017, 12:29 PM

Oct 2017

They get their daily blast fax or e-mail, and they parrot those talking points like a monks doing matins. It works, because the folks interviewing them rarely ask the secondary question or challenge the gloss.

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Republicans are good at message discipline gratuitous Oct 2017 #1

I would say rather that the Big Money that owns the GOP is a powerful disciplinary tool. Orsino Oct 2017 #4

Agree gratuitous Oct 2017 #5

Cable TV interviews are generally one sided blasts of GOP talking points. BSdetect Oct 2017 #2

Sorry peggysue2 Oct 2017 #3