CSPAN - Washington Journal Open Forum
Aired: 2025-02-18
Duration: 02:53


=== Republicans Unaffiliated Fight (02:10) ===

[00:00:00]  Pardon me.
[00:00:01]  And you just I just think that all parties, including independents, they need to start really, you know, being more active as far as the election process goes.
[00:00:14]  And it's sad that more younger people aren't.
[00:00:18]  Okay, Bill there in Florida.
[00:00:21]  Let's hear from Eric, who joins us from Maryland, also on our independent line.
[00:00:26]  Go ahead.
[00:00:29]  Yeah, thanks.
[00:00:30]  I was a Democrat for my entire life up until after the 2016 election.
[00:00:36]  So I'm going to respond that way.
[00:00:40]  Democrats, just biggest problem is they just lie about everything.
[00:00:45]  And it's just the most extreme.
[00:00:49]  They accuse people of the most extreme things that just aren't happening.
[00:00:52]  I mean, and it continues through today.
[00:00:55]  I mean, I was at party meetings where I had leader heads telling people in the room that their own relatives wanted them dead.
[00:01:04]  And when I asked them if they believed this, after a second or two of contemplation, they actually said yes.
[00:01:12]  And that's the mentality of the Democrat Party these days.
[00:01:17]  And as far as the Republicans go, you know, in Maryland, we call it what they don't call us independent.
[00:01:23]  They call us unaffiliated.
[00:01:24]  So I've been unaffiliated since after the 2016 election.
[00:01:28]  But Republicans can't get their act together.
[00:01:31]  They fight together, fight all the time.
[00:01:33]  There's no party.
[00:01:36]  And it's George Bush days when he went online and the party message just wasn't, there was no party message for the Republicans.
[00:01:47]  But the Democrats, they just, the party message is just ridiculous.
[00:01:51]  So Eric, let me ask you.
[00:01:52]  You can see it from a mile away.
[00:01:54]  Eric, you're breaking up a little bit, but let me ask you, when it comes to that party messaging, particularly amongst the Republicans, and I think you were talking about maybe disagreements or infighting, I don't know, but why do you think that exists?

=== Republicans Lack Coherent Message (00:57) ===

[00:02:08]  You know, the Republicans have always been that way.
[00:02:11]  Since I first looked into political parties as a kid, when I first went to vote and decided what party I was going to belong to, the Republicans have not had a coherent message that they all stick to.
[00:02:26]  You see the Democrats, when they go and say something, you can literally see that they got the memo because every one of the Democrats is using the same words.
[00:02:38]  Identical words.
[00:02:40]  So that's, you know, that's also a tip for propaganda.
[00:02:43]  But, you know, Republicans don't have a cohesiveness, and they always fail in the end because they don't have a backbone.