ThinkProgress’ Amanda Terkel appears on MSNBC to discuss the fractured state of the GOP.
ThinkProgress’ Amanda Terkel appears on MSNBC to discuss the fractured state of the GOP.
This afternoon, ThinkProgress’ Amanda Terkel appeared on MSNBC with conservative blogger Brian Faughnen to discuss the new Time article arguing that a “GOP ice age is on the way” because of Republicans’ inability to reach out to Latinos and young voters. Amanda noted that the current “race-based politics” surrounding the Sotomayor nomination “may have a very long-term impact on the Republican Party” with Latino voters, and said that conservatives had to stop “swoon[ing]” over Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich, and Rush Limbaugh. Watch it:
Indeed, a McClatchy-Ipsos poll released today found that “37 percent of the general population and 42 percent of Hispanics said they’d feel less favorably toward the Republican Party if Senate Republicans ‘overwhelmingly oppose’ Sotomayor.”
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Can we all say DUH in unison?
June 12th, 2009 at 7:00 pmhaha tick.
GOOO! LADYBUG! (insect)
June 12th, 2009 at 7:09 pm100% of the People who are actually paying attention to the GOP are 100% feeling less favorably toward the Republic Fascist Party.
Fcuk the Republic Fascist Party
June 12th, 2009 at 7:09 pmYAY, Amanda!!!
June 12th, 2009 at 7:24 pmTHEY HAVE NOTHING
They only have their old laundry list of:
Big government
Bible thumping
Gun ownership
GOPiggies are so early 1800’s
June 12th, 2009 at 7:24 pmThe only people who want to return to the RobberBaron days that Republicans pine for is the robberbarons, and the insanely ignorant people who think they can become one.
June 12th, 2009 at 7:29 pmRepublicans MUST double down on their wingnuttiness because the religious right still has them by their proverbial balls. Without the fundies, all they’d have left in their base are skinheads and neo-cons. Not a very tolerant or welcoming voting bloc.
As long as these social conservatives call the shots, the republicans will be an up-tight, out-of-touch party, and out of power party. That’s exactly where they belong.
June 12th, 2009 at 7:36 pm#
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johnny dol1ar Says:
THEY HAVE NOTHING
They only have their old laundry list of:
Big government
Bible thumping
Gun ownership
GOPiggies are so early 1800’s
I want to add to that laundry list:
Bigotry
June 12th, 2009 at 7:53 pmwedge issues of gay rights and abortion
Acts and threats of domestic terrorism.
You can sum it all up in one word; FEAR. That’s all they have.
June 12th, 2009 at 7:56 pmNow that is the type of discourse I appreciate on TV!
I applaud both Ms. Terkel and Mr. Faughnen for their civil approach to party-affiliated discussion. MSNBC could have easily dragged in argumentative and blowhard representatives from both party, but this style of discussion is how I like it!
“But, Purple,” you may argue, “it’s BORING! We want a Redstate/TP catfight!”
Sorry, I say political discussion is meant to be boring if it is to be effective. Livening it up only loses the message in party bullet points.
June 12th, 2009 at 8:12 pmgo Amanda!
Great response to the comment and question democrats must be thrilled and is there one republican strategy democrats fear?
June 12th, 2009 at 8:17 pmI loved the look on Terkel’s face when he said, “like Sarah Palin.” :D :D
June 12th, 2009 at 8:19 pmCongrats Amanda
June 12th, 2009 at 8:38 pmShe is correct about the failure to reach Latino and young voters. But today, Randall a pro lifer, has threatened the Republicans who vote for Sotomayor. Seems the Republicans have backed themselves into a corner.
June 12th, 2009 at 8:41 pmSarah Palin’s shameless victimology and willingness to seize on any possible cultural wedge issue earns her a new nickname:
The Ayatollah of Alaska
June 12th, 2009 at 9:06 pmOT
June 12th, 2009 at 11:05 pmI was pleased to see that Rachel Maddow devoted a segment of her show to the treacherous Republican Congressman from my state of Illinois.
Mark Kirk was on a junket to China recently wherein he advised the Chinese that our word was not to be believed - that our financial condition was not what we said it was. He returned home and boasted of doing this at a CSIS meeting.
He then went on Fox (where else?) and expounded on the effect of China’s refusing our debt, and they had already begun to do so, thereby informing the world at large of his mission.
His mission is to destroy the Obama administration; to do his best to undermine our government at the expense of the American people, all for the sake of his party. His corrupt, treasonous, lying party of unpatriotic selfish sonsofbee-yatches, and NO ONE CALLED HIM ON IT! Not one Democrat – much less Republican – called him on his treachery. To add insult to injury, none of the Chicago papers (all Republican owned) ran the story.
At least Maddow told her audience – but to what good? Who will remember?
You’re on TV a lot now Amanda. I forsee a new career on the horizon. Great job.
June 13th, 2009 at 12:14 amGreat job, Amanda!
1. Way to narrow in on today’s news cycle to focus what they are doing right now rather than all of this vague “long-term strategy” talk that they might have attempted othewise.
2. “Swoon of nostalgia” – great phrase. Reagan isn’t relevant to what we’re talking about today, and they haven’t got anything new that doesn’t hearken back to the ’70’s at the latest.
Way to make maximal use of very limited time Amanda. All told, you were probably granted less than 12 seconds total, and you really packed in the info. We all thank you for a great job.
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hwmnbn Says:
Republicans MUST double down on their wingnuttiness because the religious right still has them by their proverbial balls
It isn’t just the religious right. Shep Smith admitted that the DHS report on right-wingers shouldn’t have been opposed since real neo-Nazi/Aryan-nations groups are out there, earned him vilification from Limbaugh & Malkin. They have to keep goosestepping in lockstep out into the wilderness or their overlords will execute them by the side of the road.
June 13th, 2009 at 12:38 amAMANDA TERKEL WILL YOU MARRY ME?!?
June 13th, 2009 at 12:39 amBlueScholar Says:
AMANDA TERKEL WILL YOU MARRY ME?!?
Between you and Bill’O, I think she’s got enough stalkers at present, thank you.
Beside, she’s mine, mine, I tell you!
June 13th, 2009 at 12:42 amFor no reason in particular, I’ve decided that her sharing the surname of the great Studs is significant as well.
June 13th, 2009 at 12:53 amConsidering the extreme low viewership of MSNBC there must have been at least 50 people who saw Terkel’s appearance.
June 13th, 2009 at 12:55 amBeethoven Rules Says:
Considering the extreme low viewership of MSNBC…
Hi! Welcome to the Internet, enjoy your stay!
June 13th, 2009 at 1:17 amAmanda was great and very professional.
I loved it at the end when she said that she wasn’t hearing many new voices or new ideas from republicans.
And I will say conservative blogger Brian Faughnen did make sense and was an idiot only some of the time.
June 13th, 2009 at 2:08 amWhy isn’t TP reporting on stories that show very little real progressive policy is occurring? Why are they advertising the now cliched “end of the GOP” garbage? The coming healthcare “reformn” IS ANYTHING but progressive. The wars drag on and Obama is now spending more on them than Bush was. Abuse of detainees continues at Gitmo. Where is the “progress” TP? Where are the REDISTRIBUTIVE programs that mark a truly progressive administration as we had with Roosevelt, Kennedy and Johnson?
June 13th, 2009 at 6:01 amHow about covering the Tim deChristopher story or would that cause a groundswell of grassroots support for a white male populist hero whose actions disrupting oil company profits must be punished by the Obama Administration?
And the “new ideas” from Democrats? HMO mandates coming for health “reform”? Tried and failed in Massachusetts courtesy the Democratic legislature there and Mitt Romney the Republican. But a huge source of profit for the insurance companies. America you are being swindled and don’t even realize it.
June 13th, 2009 at 6:03 amhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMtN-S0KA3k
Beethoven Rules Says:
Considering the extreme low viewership of MSNBC there must have been at least 50 people who saw Terkel’s appearance.
What, you weren’t TiVo’ing it like everyone else?
June 13th, 2009 at 10:03 amConservatism is based on the principle of freedom of the individual Protecting every individual person’s life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness should be the great and only mission of legitimate government. That principle never changes. The current leadership of the republican party is made up of power seekers, the same as the democratic party. Power seekers don’t care about anything except themselves, maintaining and enhancing their power and positions. The republican party has become the democratic party lite.
June 13th, 2009 at 10:36 am26,27,29
*yawn*
Good morning!
June 13th, 2009 at 11:46 amOk, Coffee check. Cigarettes check. Glasses check. Watch the Clip check. Good.
Very Good!
June 13th, 2009 at 11:54 amprops to you Amanda ;-)
Amandas qualifications are what, again?
June 13th, 2009 at 12:36 pmcentrist Says:
Amandas qualifications are what, again?
June 13th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Better than yours.
June 13th, 2009 at 1:30 pmcentrist’s moniker does not fit his comments.
He’s not worthy of our time.
June 13th, 2009 at 1:41 pm“As a group, they are the pop culture equivalent of necrotic carrion beetles, crawling with insectile determination from one infected open wound in the American psyche to another. The wounds include fear of race, fear of foreigners, fear of sexuality, fear of difference, hysterical religious fundamentalism, violent nationalism, and paranoia. They lay their eggs in the infected abrasion, then scuttle away. When the eggs hatch, disgorging rage and discontent, they start counting money,” – Michael Rowe on talk-radio Coulterites.
June 13th, 2009 at 1:44 pmMoore Award Nominee
The GOP has been reduced to the equivalent of a dysfunctional family whose only purpose in life is to make their more successful neighbors as miserable as they are.
So long as they embrace the disingenuous hate and fear-mongering of Limbaugh, Coulter, Bachmann, Hannity, Beck, et al, they will not be able to convince mainstream America that they are ready to have a mature, intelligent, productive discussion about the issues that concern most voters.
June 13th, 2009 at 6:58 pmPolitics runs in cycles….
June 14th, 2009 at 9:34 amusually on 7 year centers…The GOP will eventually try and reveal itself as something new…but it won’t be new…free market, money and power for the few is what they will always, always,always be about.
en son videolar
June 15th, 2009 at 7:23 amen son videolar