Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele says his party is going to launch an “off the hook” public relations campaign that will update the GOP’s image by translating it to “urban-suburban hip-hop settings.”
The new GOP leader told the Washington Times that the party’s defeat in states like North Carolina and Virginia made it clear they needed a new approach.
“We need messengers to really capture that region — young, Hispanic, black, a cross section…†he said in an interview published Thursday. “We want to convey that the modern-day GOP looks like the conservative party that stands on principles. But we want to apply them to urban-surburban hip-hop settings.â€
He added, jokingly, that “we need to uptick our image with everyone, including one-armed midgets.â€
I tried my best to find a picture of a one-armed midget to accompany this story, but I came up short.