Luntz: how to speak Republican
This interview with Frank Luntz at Salon is just about what you’d expect. He smears Senator Boxer again, bashes the Democrats for their lack of ideological conformity, and exasperatedly wonders:
What was the Republican message for 2006? I've asked congressmen, senators. I even asked the people responsible for creating the message for 2006. What was the message for the Republican Party in 2006? Not a single person can give me an answer. None of them. No one at the Republican National Committee, no Republican senator, no Republican House member, no operative, none of the Democrats, can answer it either. Nobody knows. That's the failure.
The American people didn't reject the GOP because you didn't have a message; they rejected you because they know what your message is and no longer approve of it...or of you.