Unless they manage to get rid of the ACA, nothing they did around this issue was smart. In the long game, the ACA will happen and it will benefit people. Who cares what some dipshits have to say about it? The re-branding only works on their own constituents. You love panicking and mis-attributing great intelligence to your enemies. Relax.

The reflexive racism of the baby boomer generation rears its drooling head once again.

Issue + Race = Division

And, it works with anything to divide the simpletons.

Nixon taught Republicans how to divide and conquer the vote; Reagan taught them how to lie on cue to distract and misdirect the audience.

Tea Party Republicans have figured out Nixon, but are too damned lazy or just totally devoid of any acting talent to perform like Reagan.

The whole world is watching this fiasco and finally beginning to see clearly that an America led by reactionary fools is not a stable nation to be entrusted with the caretaking of the reserve currency of the world.

The Dixiecrat Republicans and their thinly veiled cousins in the Democratic Party are the ravaging disease of 20th century America, and it looks like they will leave her much weaker for having tolerated them, provided they don't manage to kill her off completely.