Steele: "I want Frank Sinatra Republicans."

[Hepburn]

WTF???? :shrug:

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. Sinatra was a Democrat

Typical stupid GOP statement.

[Berry Cool]

4. He was a Dem up to a point.

Then he went to the dark side.

Maybe that's what the joker means.

[Hepburn]

8. Maybe he is looking for a few of Barbara Sinatra's Ex-Husbands?

:evilgrin:

[Vickers]

2. Dead ones?

:shrug:

[Hepburn]

3. Sooooo....

....he is recruiting dead wealthy Democrats????

:rofl:

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. .

:evilgrin:

[NEDem]

5. They already act like the Mafia

what more does he want?

[saltpoint]

7. Evidently Chairman Steele is referencing Republicans who have truck with

Mafia figures, of which there have been several over the years.

Or maybe this is just a spasm of musical nostaliga.

Sinatra, considered individually, suggests someone who lost his voice and then died.

[Hepburn]

11. LMBO....

..."lost his voice and then died..."

Maybe he means Chimpy???? :rofl:

[11 Bravo]

9. He wants an Italian singer to bang his wife?

What the Hell, it was good enough for Nancy Reagan, so ...

[Hepburn]

16. Latte spew.....

....:rofl:

[slackmaster]

10. Doobie doobie do, bie do bie doobie

[Hepburn]

13. OMFG....

....:rofl:

It is not even 7:30 AM on the West Coast and I am laughing sooooo freaking hard already.

One more reason why I love the DU! :loveya:

[Roy]

29. At a first casual glance.

That number looks like it has a filter on the untwisted end.

I hurt my neck with an involuntary quick second look.

:hi:

[11 Bravo]

32. To be is to do: Socrates, To do is to be: Sartre, Doobie doobie do: Sinatra

Still my all-time favorite men's room grafitti - Peabody Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, circa 1976.

[firedupdem]

12. Don't forget hip hop republicans.....

CNN has a lost child on the show now talking about it. What the fuck is that about?

[tsuki]

14. That's good, because Jeff Sessions wants Taliban Republicans. nt

[monmouth]

15. Obviously Steele is a "Stranger In The Night"....sorry....n/t

[Aviation Pro]

17. Haysus Marimba, when are the Republicants going to climb.....

...out of the 1950s? What a bunch of sad sack motherfuckers these assholes are.

[Hepburn]

19. Guess it's time for them to ditch the poodle skirts and loafers?

:evilgrin:

[ecstatic]

18. How out of touch can he get? I have no idea of what that is

WTF is a Frank Sinatra repuglican? Is it an oxymoron like the mystical hip hop republican group he's reaching out to?

[Hepburn]

21. I have NO clue what the hell that could possibly be...

...unless it is a dead wealthy old guy who lived in Rancho Mirage and left a bleached blond widow who has had a billion $$$$ worth of of plastic surgery.

Come to think of it....there are a lot of those in the Palm Springs area!

:rofl:

[TheCowsCameHome]

20. Me too. Dead Republicans.

[lonestarnot]

22. Was he a hiphopper?

:rofl:

[tom_paine]

23. Looks like RNC Marketing has decided to further target the Italian Vote, or perhaps a marketing

archetype.

Plus, Sinatra is a cultural icon transcending all target demographics.

Like virtually 100% of all Bushie pronouncements (another commonality betwen Bushies and Nazis), it is right out of the Goebbels playbook. No substance there, no ideas, just an amorphous statement using marketing as it's base, empty yet psychologically powerful, a universal icon everyone knows and understands.

Sinatra was COOL, you see. Ironically, much of the Bushiganda strategy comes straight out of the schoolyard bully playbook. Yet ANOTHER similarity between them and the Nazis.

Bottom line: this new Bushiganda meme will work. In the absence of Democratic resistance it will get worse and worse, as we are about to find out as the stimulus debtae template now happens over and over and over.

Let's practice what WE'RE going to say in "astonishment" when it happens.

"What is Obama doing wrong? Why can't he can't get any traction? The more reason he speaks, the more he gets clobbered. It's like he's fighting uphill all the time."

Yeah, let's act VERY shocked. And let's start blaming Obama's "poor campaign" (oh, I forgot, that was last two presidential candidates excuse, we will have to make a new one up, or shall I say we will let the M$M tell us why we think so.

:puke:

It always amazes me when DUers dismiss these psychologically and marketing savvy Bushie/Goebbels stuff which WORKS, has always WORKED and continues to WORK. Reminds me of the people who pooh-poohed Hitler in the late 20s and early 30s, "Just ignore that little man and he'll go away"

I know, it's a lot to get worked up over a little comment. But I am watching the Stimulus "debate" unfold in the old crazy Bushie-Nazi in control driving the debate whether in or out of power, and I am thinking of the larger issues here.

Nothing has fundamentally changed in the Bush False Reality Generator. Olbermann and maddow are tokens. Welcome tokens, but tokens.

[supernova]

24. I hope the Sinatra family

goes after the RNC if they continue to use his likeness or (what they percieve that he thought) in some misguided way.

I didn't care for his music much, I'm too young, but damn, He did have integrity. I can appreciate that.

[hootinholler]

35. Steele is also experienced in these tactics....

Anyone outside of Md remember the scarlet letter campaign. Later on election day Steele hired poor people in Philly, bussed them to Md to pass out sample ballots which contained flat out lies putting D next to his name.

So I think he's well versed in these tactics and has demonstrated he isn't put off by using them at all.

-Hoot

[tanyev]

25. Because he's hip and cool and all the young women scream when he takes the stage?

Oh wait, that was 60 years ago. Does anyone under 25 even know who Frank Sinatra was? They sure know who Barack Obama is.

[Aviation Pro]

28. Ah, yes....

...the glory days when guys acted like men's men and women were there to service them. Probably that's the last time Republicant men got Mr. Happy to half-semaphore level.

No wonder they want to go back to the 50s.

[mitchum]

26. Don't they already have plenty of short-tempered jerks with organized crime ties?

[lonestarnot]

31. McSamers?

[firedupdem]

27. I just asked my 20 yr old if he knew who Frank Sinatra was and

all he said is "isn't he dead?"


:rofl:

[Geek_Girl]

30. Old people?

I don't think most people under the age of 60 listen to Frank Sinatra. The RNC is grasping at straws.

[Catshrink]

33. Blue-eyed white people?

Is Steele a "self-hating negro"? Talking like that will drive African Americans away from the Republican party, if there are any left to drive away.

[NikRik]

34. From Kennedy Dem to Regan repug ?

I may be worng however if you look at Sinatra's history it appears that when part of the rat pack and more a singer then a bisnessman he was more conserned about the plight of the of the Afician Americians, in fact when one of the hotels in Vegas would not let Sammy Davis Jr. stay in the hotels more expensive upper floor rooms or use the front entry to the hotel ,Sinatra stood by his friend and demanded that he be treated with respect or they would not be performing at that location ! He was a strong Kennedy supporter . Yet it appears that he also was a Regan supporter later in life when he was for the most part retired from his entertainment career ,however weilded alot of power due to his large financial ties to Las Vegas ! My mother loved Frank Sinatra ,Iam full blooded Italian from Chicago and anyone who knows the Italian Americian community knows he is and always will be at the top ! As far as his music ,I grew up in the 70's and my choice of music was far from his,the Beatles,Led Zepplin,Black Sabbath,The Who etc . the list is endless of the great bands and music of that time . However Frank Sinatra did have a very unique way of putting the words of the songs he sang into the song ,better then any crooner ,he could take a OK song and make it sound like a great song ,he was one of a kind and I definitly respect his exstensive talent in singing and even was very good actor ,the movie I believe its called "The Man With the Golden Arm" ? Which he won a Ocar for,showing a addict with drawing off heroin ! Even today there are many young people who enjoy his music.
Rock

[Tangerine LaBamba]

40. Sinatra will always be hot

He's a hero even today to the Italian-American community (Hello, Paisan :hi: and welcome to DU!), and he always will be. His civil rights efforts got him a special Academy Award in the forties, during WW II, for a film he made about discrimination - I think it was called "The House I Live In." He wouldn't travel to places that didn't let Sammy Davis Jr. stay in the same accommodations as the white guys, and he had a talent like no one before and no one since.

Even P. Diddy is doing vodka commercials with Sinatra in the background while he, Diddy, in black and white, does an imitation of the Rat Pack socializing with each other. It's a beautiful commercial.

To people who don't know who Sinatra was or aren't familiar with his work, I say, "You don't know what you're missing." His life story is one of the greatest American heroes ever.

He lost his affection for the Democrats - specifically the Kennedy family, for whom he did a hell of a lot to get JFK elected, when they screwed over him because he wasn't politically correct enough for them - and wandered over to the Reagan Republican side, where they were old friends. I seriously doubt that he ever embraced the actual Republican philosophy - Frank just liked to hang out with powerful people.

His good works live on, but, man, if you want to hear some amazing music, listen to the Sinatra recordings from the forties, fifties, and sixties. The Voice is still amazing, and so was he.

That Steele would make such a comment just tells you how vacant he is. Sinatra would have been offended by Steele, who panders to the Rich White Guys and makes himself out to be a real doormat.

[Marr]

36. The fumbling continues. Yes, Sinatra fans are a massive and growing demographic, Mike.

Always looking back, these guys.

[Kansas Wyatt]

37. Steele wants people who are okay with Organized Crime.

Republicans have found a way to thrive.... on Organized Crime.

[Historic NY]

38. They hand around at the social club & make (gravey) tomato sauce...

and get out the old 78's.

[Thickasabrick]

39. Does he realize he is appealing to a shrinking base that will in all

likelihood be as dead as Sinatra in a decade? What a moran.

[underpants]

41. Yes the Sinatra fan base is not the demographic they need to go after

but hey, who am I to tell them that?

[EstimatedProphet]

42. Steele's warming up to sing "My Way"

[WindRiverMan]

43. Well, rumor says Sinatra was endowed like a mule, so ....

this makes a lot of sense. I hear a particular senator in Idaho and former Congressmen from Florida agree wholeheartedly with Steele.

Brings a whole new meaning to the "red meat" Republicans.

[Stinky The Clown]

44. Sinatra owns more real estate on my iPod than any 10 others combined

An Italian kid from Joisey. I can relate.

He's no Repub.

Ask Sammy (if you could).