Just hours after I put up my last post, The Narrative and the Message, I ran across this on the blog Crooks and Liars, one of the best and most entertaining political websites on the left side of the national divide.
In the post, Brutal Look At The “Cult Of GOP” By A Former Staffer, the writer, Karoli, has the following to say about the current state of the Democratic party and the Obama administration:
“I do not understand why Democrats can’t master simple messaging. It always has to be nuanced, complicated, and wonky. Things I might understand but would have to boil down into far simpler terms for the average voter. It boggles my mind that Democrats (and this includes the President) cannot get a simple, easy message out there and hammer it home. Republicans seem to have mastered that.”
A simple, easy message doesn’t seem like too much to ask for, especially from the highly paid political “professionals” who advise the President and the Democrats in congress. But I guess I shouldn’t expect too much from a team that can lose an argument over whether to pay our nation’s debts or end the tax cuts for billionaires.
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