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Tiger can’t change its stripes, a leopard can’t change its spots, if it looks like a duck and swims like a duck…   In addition to be animal-related idioms, they also relate to the GOP’s current predicament. The GOP is looking to rebrand itself after   doing the math from the November election.   While Republicans are not known for their math skills, some pollsters and strategists recognized that the party of angry white guys, business special interests, and the 1% was in danger of irrelevance in the face changing demographics.     Now I am no marketing expert, but I am aware of the 4-Ps of Product, Place, Price and Promotion which dovetails into my simpler analysis of: Product, Message, and Messenger.   The PPM model may actually be more applicable to the GOP’s problem and opportunity. Let’s start with the product.   What is the GOP offering and what does it stand for?   Bobby Jindal says that the GOP needs to stop being the stupid party...

Twenty Questions and Comments for a Holiday Weekend; 1)       Is there a worse mall smell than the offensive odor emanating from an Auntie Anne’s Pretzel Shop? 2)       Are mid-season NCAAM basketball rankings as useless as announcing the starting lineups of   a hockey game? 3)       If the NRA sponsored GOP thinks that it is necessary to arm good guys for protection against bad guys, do they support nuclear-armed Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, and Bahrain if Iran achieves nuclear capability? 4)       GOP lead House calls for investigations into Fast and the Furious over the death of one Border Agent, but why are they mute on #SandyHook?   (OK that one’s a rhetorical question). 5)       If mental illness is a pre-existing condition, and Obamacare makes sure pre-existing conditions do not prevent people from getting health insurance, an...

  Diggathoughts, musings, opinions, questions, and observations. 1)       It is neither reasonable to think renewable energy sources can immediately replace fossil fuels nor is it reasonable to think we can drill our way to a better future. 2)       If you deny man’s impact on climate change and at the same time say God will make sure we are saved because the promise he made to Noah, you are the perfect Republican Congressman to be a member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.   (psst that would be John Shimkus). 3)       When Dick Lugar and Bill Bennett, Republican senators who voted with their GOP colleagues 90% of the time are considered ‘not conservative enough’ then you know that party has moved off the charts to the right. 4)       The main stream media should be ashamed of themselves for failing to portray the true Paul Ryan, the true ultra-so...