{"id":4506,"date":"2009-04-03T07:30:53","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T12:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4506"},"modified":"2009-11-20T15:35:18","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T20:35:18","slug":"what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-the-mngop-part-v-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4506","title":{"rendered":"What The Hell Is Wrong With The MNGOP: Part V"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I noted that, from an activist’s perspective, the MNGOP seems to want to centralize control of its message – keeping activists and bloggers it doesn’t control at arms length – but at the same time, that it doesn’t seem to know what its’ message is.<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s a real problem.\u00a0 It’s easy for Democrats to get on message; most people learned the key points of Democratic\/Liberal philosophy in kindergarten; “share and share alike!\u00a0Take your fair share! Everyone is exactly the same (except your teachers, of course)!”.\u00a0 Take these simple tropes, tack on the element of state force to get compliance, and you basically have the DFL message; “Share what we think we need, or we’ll take what we want”.\u00a0 They word it more nicely, but that’s really about it.<\/p>\n

It’s more complicated when you’re right of center; many of the tenets of center-right thought are harder, almost counterintuitive, to the things we were tought when we were five years old; merit, tough love, rights don’t impinge other rights, enumerated powers, individual responsibility.<\/p>\n

And even with that, there are so many <\/em>flavors of thought in the GOP:<\/p>\n