It’s the Message, Stupid

As Neo-Neocon points out, the problem isn’t poor communication, the problem is the message itself.

We know the president wants to replace America’s tradition of individual liberty with dependence on the state, and there’s simply no way Axelrod et al can sugarcoat that particular fact in such a way as to make it palatable to the majority. We know Obama is, at heart, someone who is hopelessly alienated from the America that most of the rest of us love and cherish, and no amount of spin is going to make us believe he is Abraham Lincoln reincarnated. We know his foreign policy impulse is to turn the United States into a kind of giant Belgium, thus permitting the notion of American exceptionalism to wither and die, and we see his constant salaaming to foreign leaders not simply as a failure of protocol, but as the manifestation of a deep-seated personal desire to humble our country before the world.

No, it isn’t that we don’t get the administration’s message; the administration is ignoring ours.


H/T: Instapundit.