If you can watch this without laughing uncontrollably, as I did, I commend you.
At 0:40
Preibus: Paul Ryan has an important job to do which is to understand the numbers, understand where we’re at with our debt, understand where we’re at with our spending issue and look — we’re not losing the issues on the math. We’re not losing the issues on spending, and debt, and jobs, and the economy. Those are total winners for us. What we found in the election is that while we’re winning those arguments on spending and math, we’re losing this sort of emotional, cultural vote out there in presidential elections.
Total winners!
There’s so much going on here. From the denial that the president clearly won the economic argument, to the implication that people are voting with their emotions or because of their culture. And saying that the president won the economic argument — without even citing a wealth of polls (or the outcome of the election) that say he did — really doesn’t feel as though you’re going out on a limb because, after all, he ran against the former chairman of Duke & Duke.
From my perspective, those are critiques directed at women and minorities who now make up the core of the Democratic coalition of voters. Because only women vote with their emotions and minority culture favors handouts and Free Stuff, right?
No amount of quoting Tupac while pushing voter ID laws or serving up your anti-abortion bills with a smile will make up for this misogynistic and racially-tinged view of the world. And if there is a cultural problem at hand, it’s the Republican party’s culture.