Voter communication drive gets push back from some GOP voters

Politico:

Social conservatives are blasting the National Council for a New America, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor’s (R-Va.) nascent effort to rebrand the Republican Party, as a misguided and weak-kneed initiative that is out of touch with the GOP rank and file.

The council, unveiled last week by Cantor and Sen. John McCain, is designed to be a “forward-looking, grass-roots caucus” that formulates policy prescriptions and communicates with voters in a way that could expand the Republican ranks. In announcing the formation of the group, McCain said he hoped the group would attract moderates and “like-minded Democrats” to a series of public forums around the country.

But social conservatives couldn’t help but notice that the policy areas the group will focus on included no mention of same-sex marriage, immigration or abortion. And the roster of GOP luminaries who signed on to the effort was missing a few of the pols who are most popular with values voters.

“The moderates have been saying the same thing all these years, and now they’re just seeing a renewed opportunity to push their ideas,” said Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), a leading opponent of gay marriage.

“It’s a losing proposition to try to divide social and economic conservatives,” Ken Blackwell, a one-time Ohio secretary of state and former candidate for Republican National Committee chairman, told POLITICO. “They will constantly find themselves backpedaling and apologizing and repositioning because the composition of that group does not reflect a basic reality, which is that social and economic conservatives complement one another.”

Blackwell noted that the slight did not go unnoticed among social conservatives, as they “have the experience of being used and then abused and then forgotten.”

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I an not saying they are taking these voters for granted, but they are trying to do some outreach to bring more voters in. I don't have anything against this kind of out reach, but the way Republicans are going to defeat Democrats is by convincing voters that the Democrats are screwing up. That is exactly what Democrats did to Republicans after they lose big time in 2004. They did not try to rebrand the Democrats they successfully rebranded Republicans and we are not going to escape that repranding by just talking to voters. The way Republicans will persaude voters to throw the rascals out is to persuade them that Demcorats are Rascals with a capital R.

It really should not be that hard. The Democrats had it easier because they have so many in the media pushing their position, but the media will listen to Republicans who point out the failures and screw ups of the Democrats. They will then so ask Democrats if they are screw ups and the denial will get another negative newscycle in the can. Rebranding the Democrats should happen on an every other day basis.