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The new chairman of the GOP really knows how connect with the youth of America:

Newly elected Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele plans an “off the hook” public relations offensive to attract younger voters, especially blacks and Hispanics, by applying the party's principles to “urban-suburban hip-hop settings.”

This is ridiculous.  I'm a 50-year-old white guy from Orange County, but even I've seen the nationally televised ad that makes clear just how antique that phrase is.  What's next?  A GOP initiative to attract all the hep cats from North Beach?

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GOP marketing

Seems pretty consistent with the GOP approach to just about everything these days, which is to throw a few terms out there that sound vaguely, to their ears, informed and smart to market a a radically incoherent policy or political strategy.

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GOP Marketing

At least he's not getting jiggy with it.

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what's next for the gop?

They'll start cultivating influential bartenders.

Because there's graft and then there's honest graft.

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hippity hoppity

You just wait. He's going to beat-box in his next PR campaign. Followed by some break dancing.
It makes me wonder how they keep from goin under.

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Maybe Mr Steele....

can hire Detroits Hip Hop mayor...true he is a dem, bus since he just got out of jail I think he would be a great fit over the the RNC

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Who let the dogs out?

He actually seems less comfortable around black people than Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney.

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My fellow commentators are

My fellow commentators are way more funny than I, but I also think his joke about one-armed midgets was in pretty poor taste and won't contribute to him being taken seriously.

But then again, Howard Dean, bless his shamefully-treated-by-the-Obama-team-soul, made quite a few gaffes early on in his tenure and that didn't stop him from doing well. Then again, he wasn't an idiot.

junebug

it's all about the grill

Oh, for a Republican leadership that sports gold teeth. With diamond insets.

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Hipster kids can say off the

Hipster kids can say off the hook with enough irony to avoid being social pariahs. They are generally way better looking and about half his age, though. Maybe he's going for the hipster demographic.

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If it's been on the drawing

If it's been on the drawing boards for awhile, then I'd be tempted to ask Larry and Sergey for a version utilizing Google Earth and the Googleplex.

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