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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-13-09 09:22 AM
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Revitalizing The GOP


The defection of Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter from the Republicans to the Democrats has left the GOP without enough members to filibuster, and served as a wake-up call to the party.

What are Republicans doing to revitalize their image?

  • Replacing apocalyptic fear-based rhetoric with more restrained fear-based rhetoric

  • Now support the removal of feeding tubes, but only to allow for periodic cleaning and reinsertion

  • Getting Ted Nugent and Sarah Palin to mate, creating the first member of a super-Republican race

  • Reaching out to young people with Trickle, the supply-side economics mascot

  • Have already given the party chairmanship to a black man—a black man, for the love of God. Was that not enough for you people?

  • Now recognizing women's suffrage

  • "Getting caught" at independent movie theaters on weekday afternoons

  • Maybe taking responsibility for at least a couple of things that are currently wrong with the country

http://www.theonion.com/content/infograph/revitalizing_the_gop?utm_source=featureband
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L0oniX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-13-09 09:44 AM
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1. uhm ...revitalizing?
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Wapsie B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-13-09 09:58 AM
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2. Of course this is the Onion.
In real life the once Grand Old Party is reduced to never apologize, never admit any shortcomings, and never ever admit failure.
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