It is an innovative idea: the Republican National Committee’s new Chairman Michael S. Steele wants to launch an “off the hook” public relations campaign to get younger voters — African-American and Hispanic voters, in particular – -by framing the party’s principles to “urban-suburban hip-hop settings.”
Can it work? After all: people and organizations can adapt. What will it look like adapting to “urban hip-hop settings?” Here’s one example of adaptation by one group to the hip-hop culture:
It could be argued that if the GOP tries and shed its current image which may not be an accurate one (an image of limiting seating in an increasingly smaller tent controlled by a lot of rich white guys who think the “bunny hop” these days means THIS instead of THIS).
But some could also argue that given the p.r. impact of GOP’s stance towards President Barack Obama’s outreach on crucial swing voters, Congressional Republican’s position on the stimulus, the n-o! position of many Republicans in California who were willing to risk state bankruptcy and remove their negotiation leader because he dared compromise on tax cuts, plus stories that some Republican governors are reportedly are seriously thinking of rejecting stimulus money for their decimated states on ideological principle (but don’t bet the house on it), that the song below could perhaps be a bit more more fitting, maybe even down to some of its lyrics:
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.