Saturday, June 7, 2008

Incoherent anger at GOP

Basic problem: People can't respond to your complaints if they can't understand what you're saying.
Paul is referring to a blog post at The Next Right where conservatives of all persuasions are gathering to discuss whether or not to abandon the GOP or try to rebuild it from the bottom up. I elect to rebuild it from the bottom up but that road is going to be long and hard seeing that the GOP/RNC leadership wouldn't know what a conservative was if one smacked them on the forehead with a baseball bat...or a moonbat.
As Paul stated above, the tuning out of the Republican message is due to several factors one of which is they sound more leftist in their estranged rhetoric. Another factor is silly things like working with - read that as reaching across the aisle - socialists and develop nonsense like the No Child Left Behind quagmire. This government program stripped States Rights away from the States - the theoretical United States - and placed the education dictates into the hands of career idiots (politicians) at the Federal Level. Conservatives don't like having States Rights stripped away. It's that simple.
That's just angry, incoherent noise, and it's not going to persuade anyone that you have a valid argument worthy of their attention. We get that you're angry at the Republican Party leadership, but you're not expressing your anger in the form of an argument.

The disorderly structure of your rant conveys a message much clearer than the message you intend to communicate. It tells people: "I am an unorganized, sloppy goofball, full of chaotic passion, but not capable of developing a rational plan of action."

People who want to engage in political communication must learn to express themselves in a coherent, persuasive manner, and they must learn that the form of communication conveys information just as much as the content does. You can't scrawl a misspelled note in green crayon on the back of a cocktail napkin and expect people to treat that as a serious message.

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