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In reply to the discussion: The leak was an attempt to bolster the libertarian brand. [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)attracts qualifies as a 'brand' in you view? A brand that has never won a single State and whose entire cast of critters is a father and son act elected in the most Red Republican areas the nation and laughed at by the rest of us?
I know you folks back East get into a bubble but you really should get out more. A brand? Frankly your materials about them are the only promotion of them I see, other than that regular band of crazies who rally on April 15th to pretend they have enough income to worry about taxation.
If they have a 'brand' then I'm the King of All Things. They have an image, not a good one, as Republicans on the fringe of their own Party. Their 'brand' is Republican, both Pauls are Republicans, they are not anything other than Republicans. These claims that Republicans are not really Republicans but 'Tea Party' or 'Libertarians' would make more sense of all the players were not elected as Republicans, not one of them is a member of any other Party. It serves you in some way to claim they are not Republicans, but I do not play that game. Soften it up all you wish, they are right wing Republicans just like the rest of them, bigoted, atavistic and anti social. Your 'brand' will not cure those symptoms, they are intrinsic to Republicans. It's hard for you because you 'have to' support the Republicans whom Obama appoints and such so you dig some Republicans and wish to pretend 'the bad ones' are of another Party, but they are part of the Hagel Party, the Clapper Party, the Comey Party, the Republican Party. I detest them all. You are more selective and dig some of them. I reject them all.