Republicans have principles and a time-tested ideology, but they don’t have a brand — at least not a clear and memorable one. Voters are leaving the “woke” Left, but if the GOP is to trump Democrats in 2024, they need a brand that’s more than just “We’re Un-Woke!” On a range of issues from voting integrity to fetal human rights, Republicans need to connect in simple, emotional ways that bring truth to the heart.
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34 replies on “Republicans Can Trump Democrats in 2024, But Not if the GOP Brand is Just ‘We’re the Un-Woke!’”
Republican brand: Life, Freedom, Prosperity
Just try arguing against any of those words.
So, ….
Let’s assume we cannot end ballot harvesting, mail-in ballots, day of election mailings, and all the other ways to scam the system. At least not until a couple more elections.
Why don’t we get better at doing those very things, but doing it much more transparently and honestly?
As for not asking blacks to have voter ID (???because they’re way too dumb, apparently???). We may be blowing up some of these “premise-busters” with the coming Supreme Court ruling on Affirmative Action, the codification of “blacks are too dumb to compete” made into law.
When the Left says that they are in favor of women’s rights, we should say that, of course, we are also. We’re in favor of the rights of the woman in the uterus. Her unique genetic make-up never existed before and will never exist again. If aborted, we’re taking away her only opportunity to change the world. She’s been given a death sentence for the heinous crime of being inconvenient.
Bill, Scott and Steve,
My suggestion for your Republican brand ideas are 1) Family, First and Foremost, 2) Truth; clarity and honesty, 3) The Individual; rights, freedoms and responsibilities, 4) Constitutional Integrity. I feel these core values relate best to the discussions you were having on abortion, elections etc’
If we set these as foundational to the Republican “brand” so that in what ever office race the person with an R by their name was found, the voter could be reasonably sure their vote would result in effecting their best interest.
Of course you already have a brand that does all this and has been doing it for 4 to 5 years. That’s Maga and that’s now dominating the new congress and state legislature majorities coming in January. The problem is that Maga does not have a single permanent authorized platform web page anyone can point you to. I am raising the problem with Maga leaders where I can contact them. It’s partly because campaign pages, particularly Trump, are under constant search ban and continuous hacker attack.
The real long term solution is live embryo transplant. There is no scientific reason why an abortion needs to be fatal to the baby. We have taken babies out of the womb, done surgery on them and put them back into the womb. We have also taken animals out of the womb and placed them in artificial wombs and raised them to full term. Ideally conservatives need to support and fund that research and advocated that as a solution to the intractable cases. With adoption of the baby set up while they are in the artificial womb. This is not a compromise solution but it does scare some conservatives who see it as unnatural and worry about clone troopers.
This is already the case later in pregnancy, but the left demands the baby dies no matter what. To the point of voting down laws that would require appropriate medical care for a baby that is born alive prematurely for whatever reason including an attempted abortion.
Yes they believe in either overpopulation or eugenics or both and may also see abortion as a form of human sacrifice to their god: Baal, the horned one, Satan, Hadad, and in pre-Islam Arabic, Allah. Some modern pagans are very public about this.
Trying to argue for a moral or sexual compromise, particularly as a political party, fails because its not simple, political campaigns are about simple messaging. The independent vote looks at the choice between left and compromising center right and votes left. This is why the Colorado Republican Senator that ran as Democrat lite got defeated. It was not because the Christian conservatives and Trump condemned his pro LGBTxyz stance. He was doomed from the start.
Most of the semi-permanent birth control technologies have an accidental sterilization risk. That’s OK for the people that push the technology, Planed Parenthood, etc because they believe in over population. Many of the sites advocating the technology play down the risk or call it conspiracy theory.
In some states 0.1% of the public servants have their own porn channel on the web. In Australia a government department tried to dismiss a woman because she had a porn page online, she was a porn star, they could not dismiss her. To her its her secondary income and her favorite pass time. The “equivalent of sport”, she made that argument. She rejected all moral arguments. She had significant political support. She won reinstatement.
The problem with free sex and abortion is that for some on the left, the libertarians, and some independents its a rite not a right. Unprotected sex is part of that rite. To many its a pagan religion but they don’t know enough about religion to grasp that. Some speak of it publicly by declaring, often in court, that I am not a Christian and don’t believe your religion and do not bind my self to your morality. A conservative, Republican or Maga party probably can’t reach many of these people, its a large number and half of them are independents or libertarians.
I know it started out as just an example, but contraception is not part of the solution, it’s part of the problem. It creates the mentality that we are absolute masters of our fertility. So when it fails I’m paying for a dead baby by golly I’m going to get one. Don’t take my word for it, the Supreme Court said so in PP vs. Casey:
In other words, people have organized their entire way of life around the dependence on abortion in the event that contraception should fail, so now we can’t take it away from them.
Bill said abortion is birth control for people who didn’t use birth control. Perhaps, but pretty often it is birth control for people who DID use birth control. Every form of contraception including surgical sterilization has a known failure rate.
Once you come up with this brand, what will you do with it and how?
The GOP DOES have a brand, unfortunately it was and continues to be crafted by the democrat party.
When it comes to long lasting contraceptives all of us are probably already paying for those. These are the small implants that go in the upper arm. From what I have read they last from 3 to 5 years. By looking at the Planned Parenthood site they state these devices are available free or at low cost. If someone has their health insurance thru Obamacare these must be provided by almost all the carriers at no out of pocket cost to the patient. So money is not the issue with this which is frustrating as many unwanted pregnancies could be avoided with the use of this system. PP provides these so what is the excuse to push abortion instead of a low cost easy to insert device that avoids pregnancy altogether? My guess is that abortion is more lucrative and I think the left gets a lot of traction out of rallying around this issue.
Hoping that you already know so I don’t have to research it:
Do these implanted contraceptives involve abortifacients? As in hindering the already fertilized egg from implanting on the uterine wall? If the woman doesn’t know that she is carrying a fertilized egg prior to its being removed from her body, perhaps that removes a moral dilemma, although not every Pro-Life proponent views it that way.
If there is a suitable chemistry available that hinders the initial fertilization in the first place (so no combined genome of a potential human being has been created), that would be the preferred technical solution. I am not sure that that is currently available, outside of mechanical modes of contraception protection???
Spermacides exist. They kill the sperm before fertilization. Most IUDs either do that or prevent the sperm from reaching the egg. Not sure about the rest.
IUDs neither kill sperm nor prevent them from reaching the egg(s). They dislodge the ovem from the uterine wall.
I did.a Google search. Some do what I said, some do what you said. I did say most but didnt say all. And ended with saying I wasn’t sure about the rest.
As far as I know, GOP politicians never mention freedom and individual rights. They approach elections by saying, in effect, ‘We’re fine with big government, more taxes, higher taxes, etc. but vote for us because we’ll run big government better/more efficiently.’ You have to attack the damaging effects of taxes on the lives of every honest working American.
That’s true but people that want the government to take care of them do not prioritize freedom and individual rights like we do. A big part of the problem is trying to assign our values, like a love for freedom and individual rights, to people for whom those things are not appealing.
Freedom and individual rights are very important but we need to find ways to appeal to other values too if we’re going to get sufficient political power to defend the things we want to defend.
A problem with Conservatives is too many are too set in their own principles to get a broader appeal. If we keep doing that we’re going to ride our principles straight to permanent defeat.
I’m not saying we need to compromise to the point where we become just like the Leftists. Part of the reason I left the Republican Party is because of RINOs indistinguishable from the Democrat Party Left. I’m saying there are plenty of issues (border control and getting illegal immigration under control, transgendering and grooming kids in school, Critical Race Theory, the crime problem, etc.) that we can focus on with those people the Democrat Party is leaving behind. Ron DeSantis did that successfully in Florida and is a good model for what works.
I think you need to craft something for the Republican brand that will replace the “We’re for the little guy” that I have heard about the Democrat party for decades. Something short and simple that emphasizes the defense of individual freedom and liberty, makes it personal, and yet notes that we are all in the same boat. Something along the lines of “We protect you. We defend you. We hear you. Because we are you”. Also liked Joycelyn’s previous comment of a new meaning behind GOP, such as her suggested “Greater Opportunity Party”. Grand Old Party means nothing and actually states within it that is is old. Not very appealing.
When told that Voter ID discriminates against minorities, and considering how few actually lack an ID, I have suggested to those who hold that belief that their energies would be better spent on procuring IDs rather than changing elections laws. Who could oppose that effort? And it would avoid protracted and expensive court battles.
Even with a DNA test, men can walk away from their responsibility. They go into hiding from the IRS and avoid paying child support as long as they can. I speak from experience. My grandchild was abandoned by the sperm donor and only got child support when the IRS caught up with him. Once they were 18, suddenly he wanted a relationship. Uh, no.
The Republican Party brand should be:
Greater Opportunity Party
Goals
· STOP INFLATION AND HIGH GAS AND FOOD PRICES
· CREATE GOOD JOBS AND EMPOWER SMALL BUSINESSES
· PRESERVE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
· FUND AND BACK THE POLICE
· SUPPORT PARENTS’ INVOLVEMENT IN SCHOOLS
· ENSURE HONEST AND FAIR ELECTIONS
· CREATE FAIR, SAFE, AND EFFICIENT IMMIGRATION
· PRESERVE THE SANCITITY OF LIFE AND FAMILY VALUES
· STOP THE MARCH TO SOCIALISM
I always take a different angle about voter ID, suggesting that people who oppose it are White Supremacists.
“What makes you believe that nonwhite people lack the intelligence to get an ID”
I expand the Intelligence aspect. I say “So you are saying that people of color, especially Blacks, are too stupid, poor or lazy to get an ID? Which is it? Or is it a combination? How racist of you in any case! “
The subtle line is my opening – I’m usually able to get them to say your second quiet part out loud =8^)
Some things other than rape and no contraception exists for an unwanted pregnancy. 1) The contraceptive fails. Not super common, but happens.
2) And in some way, very heartbreaking the following occurs. The sex is consentual and the pregnancy is desired, but the conditions change. Example: The man dies. The plan was for him to work and her to not. He’s gone. The plan is gone. She’s in a bad situation. She can’t support the child. Of course, adoption is a better solution here. But her working while pregnant is difficult, if not really possible depending on her skills and job opportunities.
We need to help in this situation, to avoid even the thought of abortion.
Harry, good point. Both sides often oversimplify the issue. Progressives act like pregnancy just happens spontaneously and conservatives act like a crisis pregnancy could always have been avoided.
The good news is, we are already helping. It is just a well kept secret because it doesn’t fit the narrative of “you’re only pro-life before birth”. For instance: https://grandmashouse.us/residence
Kari Lake didn’t lose in Arizona because of her unarticulated brand. Clearly there was fraud going on in Maricopa County. I’m not in a position to prove it, but I don’t have to, since I am not a court of law. I do have a rather finely tuned BS detector however, and at least for the time being I am allowed to form my own opinions based on what I perceive.
I still say that the democrat party has become the party of Satan. This does NOT mean that I believe every democrat voter, or even every democrat candidate, is a satanist, or even just a bad person, (I even voted for a local democrat for state rep because he is pro-life.) But clearly some very evil people are calling the shots behind the scenes, and no one seems to want to clean house, or are capable of doing so.
I think the republican party has a brand (though I agree it needs to be better articulated,) but it is being undermined by certain republican elites who would rather lose to the democrats than give up control of the party.
https://rumble.com/v1ugjig-steve-deace-dives-into-the-fiasco-that-is-the-mid-term-elections.html
And I don’t think that you should discount the impact of when voters give the republicans control, they have a tendency to squander their opportunities.
As for supposed the curse of the Trump endorsement, out of 235 Trump backed candidates, 219 won.
https://rumble.com/v1uwhn6-kevin-mccullough-puts-on-his-votestradamus-turban-to-help-unravel-the-mid-t.html
And as much as it pains me to agree with the idea of providing free birth control, you have certainly made a good lesser-of-two-evils argument.
A very good discussion, gentlemen. I am liking this new format.
I agree with everything you said except the new format thing. If I watch Back Stage then I’ve seen the entire week’s content. The guys were talking about being more up on current events and I don’t see how this new format is doing that. We’re just rehashing what was said on Back Stage and that means generally I might as well only log onto Bill Whittle once a week except for the individual comment sections. Basically every segment is a re-run.