Republican National Committee members decide to stay the course

Gonna come right out here and say that any organization that wants
Reince Priebus heading it probably has issues enough already. Good news, Republican passengers. Your Republican National Committee captains have decided that there's no need for a course correction, those icebergs will probably move:

[T]he party's main problem, dozens of Republican National Committee members argued in interviews over three days this week, is who delivers its message and how, not the message itself. Overwhelmingly they insisted that substantive policy changes aren't the answer to last year's losses. [']

'It's not the platform of the party that's the issue,' RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said Friday after being easily reelected to a second, two-year term. 'In many cases, it's how we communicate about it. It is a couple dumb things that people have said.'

If the new goal of the Republican Party is to stop their members from saying stupid things, then good luck with that. I can't imagine how many experts, training workshops, shock therapy sessions, and signed Allen West ball gags it would require to pull that off. Stopping Fox & Friends alone from saying dumb things seems like the sort of thing you could get a Nobel for, if you could actually accomplish it. More to the point, the entirety of the last two election seasons (one very good for the Republicans, the other considerably less good) was absolutely devoted to the elevation of people who said dumb things. That was their schtick. Holy hell, that was their calling.

A big focus of the four-day session, which wraps up Saturday, was adopting a more positive attitude ' and smiling! ' when interacting with voters and reporters.

"Thank you for asking that question, Mr. Voter. I can assure you that I, too, believe that the president is a secret Marxist, possibly not American, definitely a stooge of foreign interests, and possibly a moon-man. My handlers have told me that by smiling while I tell you this, I shall look at least twenty percent less batshit crazy."

Thrill to the deep insights of mid-tier Republican leaders:

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