Who issues the GOP talking points? I hate to sound conspiratorial,

[hedgehog]

but do you see Bohner or Cantor making these decisions? Romney? McCain? Palin? Rove? Gingrich? Any of the Bushes? Is there an eminence grise somewhere?

[Matariki]

1. They clearly strategist. Gingrich is surely involved in the language aspect.

who knows who's ultimately calling the shots.

[emulatorloo]

2. Frank Luntz?

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. There is actually an office

At Heritage that issues all these TPM to the leadership and the talking heads.

This was first ahem revealed by Brock in his work.

[Winterblues]

4. Mostly the Heritage Foundation

:shrug:

[Sebastian Doyle]

5. Satan?

:shrug:

Nah, that's actually an insult to the Devil :evilfrown:

[ecstatic]

7. You think Cheney is behind this??

[movonne]

13. I believe that cheney has got his finger in a lot of this crap...

[FSogol]

6. Grover Norquist or Newt?

:shrug:

[Hello_Kitty]

8. A group called the Center for National Policy holds regular meetings

Attended by very high level Republican politicians, conservative media figures, and corporate honchos. It's literally where the talking points are passed out. http://www.cnponline.org/

[hedgehog]

9. So, who are the people behind the Center for National Policy?

I'd like to keep the conversation on this going.

[ThomWV]

14. Are you sure you got the right group?

[Hello_Kitty]

15. Definitely not the right website! Ooops. It's COUNCIL for National Policy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_for_National_Policy

[Hannah Bell]

17. cnp = the dominionist/christian fundie wing. funders have included

the hunt brothers (oil), cullen davis family (oil), wr grace family (shipping, chemicals, materials e.g. asbestos), prince/devos family (auto, blackwater, amway), sun myung moon (korean intelligence, fishing industry, real estate), some mormon factions...

heritage has a bit of a broader base; its board & personnel include these interests, & there are shared funders -- but other interests as well. funders include coors, scaife & his various foundations, steve forbes (forbes mag), moon, walmart & a bunch of other fortune 500 corps, the kochs (oil), etc...

[csziggy]

10. The Family?

Actually I vote for "All of the above" after reading the previous responses.

[Stinky The Clown]

11. The Heritage Foundation

Funding for which comes in part from the shadowy right wing billionaires.

[Bonhomme Richard]

12. I picture someone in the Heritage basement starting those ........

whacked out right wing emails that are forwarded by the crazy's. I asked my right wing relative who sends me that shit if he ever gets crazy left wing emails. Of course he doesn't.

[kestrel91316]

16. Maybe Rove still cranks them out. I dunno.