I don't quite get it...

[mithras]

From the Republican response (official and unofficial) to the SOTU address, I really have to wonder...

Were they slipped copies of the wrong speech that they then prepared their responses from?

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[martinhesselius]

Tell me more?
I have noticed, esp. over on Failbook, that some of my GOP friends operate as if scripted.

[mithras]

The short version is, he gave his SOTU speech. It was pretty good; parts of it have an upwards of 70% approval rating, across the board, regardless of political affiliation.

And, while he did call out certain things on certain people, like Mitt's saying he would have let the auto industry fail, or Mitt (again) saying that the housing industry needs to hit rock-bottom, he didn't actually say names. Though everyone could infer, easily.

But the main Republican response (and the Tea Party response) were largely responding to points that weren't actually in his speech. To the extent that I was wondering if they were slipped a fake copy of the speech ("this is what he's going to talk about").

And when they did manage to get close to something he said, they twisted the numbers far more than usual to say everything in the economy is his fault.

[martinhesselius]

Many of them seem to think that it IS.
(Yes, they HAVE forgotten what things were like four short years ago. >.< )

Tangent --
Have I mentioned that I would gleefully blowtorch Nader's feet, so long as he was NOT running for President?
(I speak figuratively, and yet with a certain tasty element of hate.)