A good craftsman never blames his tools

August 31, 2006

The Republican National Committee, with just eight weeks to go before the midterm elections, has reviewed the polls and come to an important conclusion: they’re losing and it’s all the media’s fault (.pdf).

“When voters are informed about the clear choice between our Party’s vision and the Democrats’ radical agenda to cut and run in the War on Terror, the Democrats’ media-driven lead in the polls is erased and Republicans are in a strong position to maintain our majorities in Congress.”

Of course. All the GOP needs to do is explain to everyone that Democrats are pro-terrorism. Then the election-year advantage Dems currently enjoy — which the media was kind enough to create on its own — will magically disappear. Why didn’t I think of that?

As Brendan Nyhan put it, “If anything, press coverage has been pretty friendly to Republicans…. But in RNC bizarro world, all political difficulties are inevitably the result of media bias.” (Confirming the “pretty friendly” claim is surprisingly easy.)

When Republicans are making excuses in August for losing in November, the mood at RNC headquarters must be pretty dour.

“When voters are informed about the clear choice between our Party’s vision and the Democrats’ radical agenda to cut and run in the War on Terror, the Democrats’ media-driven lead in the polls is erased and Republicans are in a strong position to maintain our majorities in Congress.” – RNC

Pity that would be based on the American People believing your lies, eh?

I suppose this result can only be achieved by strapping the subject into a chair like Alexander de Large in “Clockwork Orange” and feeding him drugs while making your presentation?

  • A good craftsman never blames his tools

    True. Also true: to a bad craftsman every tool is a hammer. I think the GOP suffers from that limitation.

  • A good craftsman never blames his tools

    True. A good craftsman Adapts his tools To Win.

    Then he Stays the Course.

    Till the Job is Done.

  • That “clear choice” is getting clearer all the time which is exactly the Republicants’ problem. And if it’s “cutting and running” he’s talking about then their clear choice is getting a little muddied with the number of politicians on the right advocating “cutting and…” I mean redeploying.

    Lance, good analogy to the movie, A Clockwork “What color is an” Orange. He was held without a warrant as I recall.

    PS
    Hey Coulter “come and get one in the yarbles, if you’ve GOT any Yarbles!”

  • What amazes me is how they can sit there and act like their policies are better. Look at poverty/income, education, divorce rates, crime, and just about any other socially important statistic and those red states are always at the bottom.

    Someone please explain to me again why conservative policies are so grand ? Oh yes, the liberal media.

  • True. Also true: to a bad craftsman every tool is a hammer. I think the GOP suffers from that limitation.

    Comment by doubtful — 8/31/2006 @ 3:47 pm

    Hammer…how apt, considering The Hammer certainly isn’t helping matters now.

  • You can tell people all day long that it’s raining, but sooner ot later they are going to figure that someone is pissing on them.

  • That is among the most mind boggling statements I have seen lately and I read this every day! A press statement stating that voters preferred one party’s “Vision” to another’s “Radical Agenda”. Then blaming the people you are telling (and relying on to them go tell the people who would prefer you if the people telling them were not causing the problem) for being the problem! Clear?

    Does Yogi Berra work for Mehlman? The irony is so thick I need a spoon to eat it. Maybe it is the 14 years of Republican Congressional agenda and leadership, coupled with the 5+ years of Rovian Bushwackings that is causing the problem.

    Someone has been in the “Milk Plus” and Ann Coulter still can’t get a date!

  • What’s a “media-driven lead in the polls”? Does that mean the media forces people to choose Democrats over Republicants? More like “media-inspired” if you ask me as in, the more you read about Republicants, the less you’ll be likely to vote for them.

    These dorks are pathetic. And desperate.

  • How can they call it the liberal media with a straight face? The media is defineately biased but not towards the liberal side.

  • Yeah I’ve always wondered how people can blame the “liberal media” when most of the media is spoonfeeding the american public republican talking points..

  • It is the media’s fault. If no one knew what was going on… Shame on the news folks for reporting it. The mafia has the same problem except they are better at staying out of the news.

    Tony Sapprano for president.

  • When the news gets bad enough then they should publish some good news as a counterbalance. There’s always a school opening somewhere. I can see the headlines in the NYT now, MIDDLE SCHOOL OPENS If that don’t sell newspapers…

    Back on page 14 at the bottom in fine print, “78 more die in Iraqi suicide attack including 2 Americans.”

  • ***…the clear choice between our Party’s vision and the Democrats’ radical agenda to cut and run…***
    ———-Repulsive Nazi Coalition

    I think it’s becoming fairly clear to the American People that the Republikanner Beast is wearing blinders. They’ve rejected Truth; they’ve renounced anything even remotely connected to Truth; they’ve “cut and run” from Truth.

    The American People are entitled to the Truth as regards this administration’s casual abandonment of the War on Terror. Waging such a war requires three things—the ability to tell the Truth, the ability to admit when mistakes have been made, and the ability to change directions when it becomes painfully obvious that the course chosen is not working as it was expected to work.

    This administration has, on repeated occasion and with absolutely no regard for the consequences of abandoning Truth, lied to the American People.

    This administration has, on an almost daily—and sometimes, even hourly—basis, refused to admit responsibility for their misactions, choosing instead the path of “Scapegoatism,” through the incessant and unfounded practice of blaming those who dare apply the magnifying glass of accountability to a premeditated, wholesale plethora of GOP incompetency, rather than admitting—in Truth—that they were wrong.

    And finally, regardless of what words, phrases, of combinations of verbal buzzisms selected for use in the endless web-spinning applied through its machinations of venemous vitriol, thia administration continues to “stay the course.” There is no “adaption” other than seeking newer ways—and newer means—to attain the ultimate goal of this current military debacle, which is no less than the utter abandonment of the War on Terror itself, favoring instead a cat-and-mouse game that, both logically and logistically, can have no successful military conclusion.

    In these three things, it is transparently obvious that the current adminstration of these United States has failed the American People in its woefully-inadequate prosecution of the necessary war.

    They have failed. They have abandoned. They have, without a doubt, “Cut and Run….”

  • I explained it all to an acquaintance, who self-righteously declared himself an Independent to me.

    “Independent means ignorant,” says I. “We have a two-party system. The Republican Party is four-square in favor of torture, national bankruptcy, political and business corruption, and perpetual war. It is hard to know what the Democrats are for, exactly, that’s true, but you can be sure they are against those four things. So, the choice is not exactly rocket science, and doesn’t constitute a moral dilemma.”

  • Bruce,

    I’m not convinced that the Democratic Party is against national bankruptcy (deficit spending). Other than that…

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