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Dick Polman contemplates Republican “rebranding.” A nugget.

It’s tough to see how the GOP can “rebrand” itself as a kinder, friendlier party if it saddles itself anew with Senate candidates who can’t win outside their conservative House cocoons. Rove is busy trolling for donors who share his concerns. Some of them are speaking out. Veteran GOPer Fred Malek told Politico, “We are tired of losing.” Minnesota mogul Stan Hubbard fumed about the “nut cases,” like Indiana’s Mourdock, who sealed his defeat last fall when he described rape-related pregnancies as God’s will. Malek and Hubbard are planning to help Rove, who vows to conduct opposition research against candidates who lean too far rightward.

You can revise the labels and logos all you want.

It’s what’s in the can that counts.

And what’s in the can is pernicious.

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2 comments

  1. George Smith

    February 9, 2013 at 6:13 pm

    In other words, you can’t polish a turd. Now that he’s a famous loser, all Rove has in money-making at the expense of saps, which you can do as failing up.

     
  2. Frank

    February 9, 2013 at 11:15 pm

    Or a turdblossom.