Steele: GOP needs 'hip-hop' makeover

Michael S. Steele, the new public relations from of the G.O.P., has announced that he will try and expand the party out of its regional roots, and try and pander to the a wider demographic of people. He's going to try and apply the party principles to "urban-suburban hip-hop settings.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/19/steele-gop-needs-hip-hop-makeover/

Best of luck to Steele. The G.O.P. is definitely shrinking as a party, as the party principles become more and more outdated. I remember hearing a commentator somewhere comment about the Republican Party's growing resemblance to "old white people."

I don't know if the hip-hop generation is really the right word for it. Obama managed to capture the youth, and I don't recall any hip-hop generation capturing going on. Then again, his race may have helped him with that. And there was all those rap songs written about him... (link here just for fun). But they never came directly from the Democratic party itself. It's not only the "hip-hop generation" being worked at here, but Hispanics and blacks.

I wonder what Steele will do. He hasn't told anyone anything yet, saying that giving your strategy to your opponents is dumb. We'll just have to wait and see I guess.

I personally hopes that he makes corny videos that misuse youth pop culture/slang in extraordinarily cheesy ways. Not only will that be hilarious to watch, but SNL would have a field day.