Nicole Wallace thinks that "modernizing the language" is what the Rs need to do to save the party.

[Skidmore]

The message apparently isn't the problem--it's the language. She just told this to Stephanopolous. Amazing how clueless and tone deaf they are. Michael Steele was banging similar drum yesterday afternoon on MSNBC.

[Ganja Ninja]

1. Yeah they need to come up with new and creative ways of expressing their racism.

[geckosfeet]

2. Yes - that and "the white estabishment is no longer a majority" meme (billo on faux and npr)

[TheOther95Percent]

3. I have no idea what she means by that.

Modernizing the language? Unfettered racism, women hatred and homophobia will sound better if it's said in what, a hipster way? Are we seeing the dawning of Republicon Rap? I can just see the efforts around this effort. Billboards in R-leaning counties that say things like: "Yo Whitey, Vote Rightie."

[calico1]

16. +1000

[CakeGrrl]

25. Sure, they're that clueless.

Don't divert them from that track. It will make 2016 a little easier.

[struggle4progress]

4. Oh, yeah! Get groovy with the GOP!

[JustAnotherGen]

5. Really Ms. Wallace?

That's the best you can come up with?

[Raster]

6. Racism is racism. Hate is hate.

They don't need to "modernize the language." They need to modernize their constituents.

It is long past time for today's rethuglican party to fade in obscurity, and take their anti-women, anti-minority, anti-gay, anti-equality bullshit with them.

Memo to Rinse Penis: Ha! Ha! That is all, you miserable pimple on the buttocks of humanity.

[lalalu]

9. I'm guessing they will try some type of Doublespeak.

"Rinse Penis"

[KharmaTrain]

18. Rheinhold Is Toast...

He's gonna be shoved under the bus with the rest of Willard's losers. He'll probably end up going back to trying to rig elections in Wisconsin. They'll try to find a "hipper" chairman...with "outreach". After getting their asses kicked in '08 they gave us Mikie Steele and provided us with lots of entertainment. Let's see if they try to "modernize" with a Hispanic chairman...

[lalalu]

7. Didn't we go through this with Ebonics?

The republicans are going to start Rebonics? It will be just as disastrous and comical.

[Flashmann]

8. Brilliant!!

Rephrase and repackage the same old drivel.....That's BOUND to set everything right again....In fact,that is SUCH a stunningly good idea,they should use it for the next decade or two......Absolutely brilliant!!!

AAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

[tanyev]

10. Yes, that will fix all the GOP problems.

You get right on it, Nicole.

[BeyondGeography]

11. "Democracy, fuck yeah!"

[LuvLoogie]

12. Wasn't that Frank Luntz' job?!

Shit = feces = manure = poop. It's still a hot mess!

[brewens]

13. Then fire Frank Luntz. He's their minister of dog whistling. His focus (fuckass) groups tell him

what gets the morans stoked up. I guess maybe he needs to try out language on normal people. I suppose that won't work well. I know I wouldn't play along. If I knew I was being used to gather data on how to best manipulate people to go along with a right-wing agenda, I'd mess with him.

Someone's gotta fix the spell check. It keeps telling me morans is wrong.

[gravity]

14. They just need to be better bullshitters

It's so simple

[Raster]

19. spouting bullshit is an art form on Bullshit Mountain.

Faux just seriously over-estimated the fans of that particular type of art.

And Murdick just renewed Roger Goebbel's contract. he he he... I bet Murdick wishes now he could renegotiate.

[Glitterati]

15. I hope to hell EVERY Republican listens to her

and we keep winning elections.

Keep talking Nicole.

[JHB]

17. They've already done that. They know not to use the n-word in public...

...just to talk about handouts, irresponsibility, crime, moochers, and all the other dog whistles.

They have to modernize their thinking, and that's not going to a pain-free process.

[Raster]

20. First they have to learn to think. The rethuglicans don't encourage free thought.

In fact, free thought, logic and open discussion are verbotten to the rethuglican high command.

[Javaman]

21. In other words...

"dazzle them with new bullshit".

They try so hard.

[DCBob]

22. Rearranging deck chairs comes to mind..

[ladjf]

23. Natural reasons caused the Neanderthals to became extinct. There will also be natural reasons

why the Republicans eventually die off. Hopefully, it will be an accelerating process.
Nature doesn't reward unreasonable.

[lpbk2713]

24. Straightening the wall hangings on the Titanic AFAIC

Their image is so bad they need to scrap it all and start all over again.

[Marr]

26. The problem is they're not living in reality.

They're stuck inside a media bubble, telling each other fantasies that make them feel good. That's only going to create bigger and bigger electoral disasters for them as time goes on.

What they NEED to do is not rewrite their ADVERTISING, but review their PRODUCT. They're selling a collection of provably false ideas, based on nothing but ideology and party dogma. They are going to have to come into the real world if they ever want to be more than a regional party for paranoid bigots.