Marine is right wing, a Nazi, and a racist, but those are talking points?

Continue on your road of ceding the Left space in your brain and you’ll be repeating those talking points as if they were fact. It always starts small but later on grows far larger.

Beinart is an idiot. But I agree with you that Walker’s failure to use PC talking points will be used against him. We have to fight back.

… the most striking thing about Scott Walker’s speech at the Freedom Summit, and his emerging campaign message more generally, is how retro it is. Walker concedes nothing to the conventional wisdom about what the GOP must do to compete in a more culturally tolerant, ethnically diverse and economically insecure America. And the GOP faithful love it.

It starts with ethnicity and race. Since 2012, many prominent Republicans have made overtures to African Americans and Latinos. Paul Ryan has been hanging around with African American ministers. Rand Paul has spoken at Howard University and met with activists in Ferguson. Jeb Bush’s SuperPAC vows that “We will not cede an inch of territory–no issues, no demographic groups, no voters.” Even Representative Curt Clawson, who delivered the Tea Party response to President Obama’s State of the Union Address, managed a few lines of Spanish.

Not Walker. His speech in Iowa not only slammed President Obama’s executive action legalizing some undocumented immigrants. It didn’t even include the love-letter to legal immigrants that Republicans typically use to shield themselves from charges of being anti-Hispanic. In addition, Walker said nothing about reaching out to African Americans and boasted about Wisconsin’s voter-ID law, which many African Americans and Latinos see as means of reducing their turnout. Even the imagery on Walker’s website stands out. People of color make up roughly half the faces in the photo-montage used by Jeb Bush’s Right to Rise PAC (not including Jeb’s himself). In the video for Walker’s new PAC, by contrast, the opening faces are relentlessly white. You don’t encounter an African-American until roughly halfway through. And unlike Jeb’s website, Walker’s isn’t translated into Spanish. …

While every Republican presidential hopeful wants to be seen as Reaganesque, other leading contenders clearly hope to improve on the Gipper’s relationship with people of color. Walker, by contrast, isn’t updating the 1980s script at all.

He’s not updating it on economics either. In recent months, many of Walker’s likely GOP opponents have moved beyond a purely anti-government message to suggest conservative-sounding ways government can give Americans an economic boost. Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio have proposed new anti-poverty tax credits. Mitt Romney has backed a higher minimum wage.

Walker’s having none of it. His message is simple and old-fashioned: “Take control from the federal government and big-government special interests and give it back to hard-working taxpayers.”

MSM/Democrat talking point: Walker doesn’t give a hoot about about people of color, immigrants, or poor people. Which means at least a racist, right?

One of the key attributes of the lefty LIV is the idea that stated purpose is more important than process or outcome. They will swoon for anything that involves children, or education, or puppies, or unicorns, no matter how absurdly inefficient, corrupt or just plain worthless it is.

A second key attribute of the lefty LIV is the belief that if there is a problem, perceived or real, more money will fix it, and more money will always make it better. Hence the reverse – not throwing more money at it, or gads, budgeting less money for it, is inherently going to bring the whole thing into crumbling ruin.

Between those two beliefs, you can see how the HuffPo contingent would rather see $10 spent badly in the name of children or education than $1, wisely spent.

In 2016 what conservatives/Republicans need is a winner. Forget specific policy positions. Select a winner. NOTHING gets done without winning.

And since the Republican party is the party of jellyfish Just accept the fact that even after winning the Republicans will have to be pushed to do the right thing. It’s just in the nature of things.