Music To My Ears

9:18 pm EST November 9th, 2006 | Republicans | 7 Comments

Mary Matalin droning on Hannity & Colmes: “There’s nothing in our message we need to change”.

Keep that up and we get back the White House lickety split while increasing the strength under Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid.

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7 Responses to “Music To My Ears”

  1. Xanthippas says:
    November 9, 2006 at 11:01 pm

    Strangely, I keep finding myself pointing out the wrongness of that approach. I mean, I know that it’s not great strategy to give free advice on how to win an election, but at the same time it’s a conservative who’s wrong, and the instinct to argue is just too strong to deny.

    I have to get over that.

  2. Dr. Anatole Gavage-Huskanoy says:
    November 10, 2006 at 9:37 am

    I just think it’s weird that they lost on the basis of having angered independents, and they then conclude that the solution is to move to the right. Really? Concede the middle to Democrats? Fine by me.

  3. Adam Herman says:
    November 10, 2006 at 10:47 am

    The message was never the problem. That message carried Republicans to victory after victory. It was saying one thing and doing another that defeated Republicans.

    If they start doing what they say they’ll do, their time in the minority won’t last very long.

  4. Quaker in a Basement says:
    November 10, 2006 at 11:07 am

    If they start doing what they say they’ll do…

    …then I’ll grit my teeth. Those monkeys hurt when they come flying outta my…

  5. Dr. Anatole Gavage-Huskanoy says:
    November 10, 2006 at 11:29 am

    What they say they’ll do is cut the government, something that’s very popular until someone actually starts to do it. Republicanism is a fundamentally immature ideology — it hands out tax cuts willy nilly, but doesn’t have the consituency for cutting programs.

    Bottom line: CONSERVATIVES WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO DO WHAT THEY SAY THEY WILL.

  6. Adam Herman says:
    November 10, 2006 at 4:47 pm

    “What they say they’ll do is cut the government, something that’s very popular until someone actually starts to do it”

    The trick is to cut things that are generally not widely supported(a lot of spending is special interest spending, especially corporate welfare and pork). While at the same time holding other, more popular spending growth to below GDP growth. The effect over time is to put the budget in surplus and enable tax cuts.

    Ironically for Republicans, Bill Clinton showed the way on this. You can reduce the size of government without slashing spending across the board.

  7. buma says:
    November 12, 2006 at 10:46 am

    Clinton, like Gov Ed Rendell, is a fiscal conservative and social liberal. I think that in the abstract more than half the electorate favors this combination. The GOP promised one of the two planks in 2000, was given 6 years to make good on it, failed miserably, and was voted out. I hope the GOP takes another few election cycles to figure it out. So rock on, Mary Matalin.