Kansas Republicans held their get together in Wichita and they offered tons of advice to their potential candidates.
On persuasion, Hansen warned Republicans: “Don’t vomit on the voter with a whole bunch of information.”
He said a few simple themes are better. Rule of thumb: “If your message can’t be explained with a crayon, it’s the wrong message.”
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The short and simple: Kansas voters are too dumb to debate real issues, just feed them the line. But his advice gets much more technical, and far more informed to make sure that Republicans hold the state house races this fall.
There is a message to moderate republicans mixed in too..
“The most recent data set we have is that did not inhibit Republican electoral success (against Democrats) in the fall,” he said.
Hansen appeared even less concerned about the moderates.
“I think you need only see that they’re no longer around,” he said. “When you’re as closed-minded as they were and were intolerant to any conservative viewpoint, they eventually made themselves irrelevant, because the electorate was clearly moving in a different direction.”
So.. when you were moderate, and you refused to be women hating, anti-gay bigots, you cut yourselves off from the Republican party because you were not tolerant of their viewpoint. Gotcha.
It reminds me very much of this:
He leads republicans in how to talk about shutting down all city spending.. including walking paths. But cautions them to not bring up the UN taking over their neighborhood.
ansen brought a list of “campaign fails” that can be a big turnoff for voters.
He warned Republicans to steer clear of conspiracy theories, whether they believe in them or not.
For example, he cited the ongoing controversy over Agenda 21, a United Nations program that encourages environmentally sustainable development worldwide.
He offered as a typical case a city government putting in a walking path linking two neighborhoods and a park.
“Well, all of a sudden you get these e-mails that say ‘The U.N. is taking over our neighborhood,’ ” Hansen said.
“It’s a walking path. That sounds kind of nice to most people. And whether it is or isn’t part of this Agenda 21 sustainable development program is irrelevant to most people.”
A better way to oppose the path would be to bring it home for residents and focus the argument on the city taking private property from people’s yards to build it, he said.
Kansas Republicans. Opposed to walking paths and moderates. The campaign for 2014 begins.