They want Ukip voters back but seem locked into a strategy of insulting the party to which they have defected in the meantime.
The new President had campaigned as a populist, and he took an obvious glee in insulting his party's graybeards and its pieties.
"Anyone can play what they want in clubs, and as long as you aren't insulting the party, generally you'll be left alone.
His own gaffs -- insulting fellow party members as Republicans, acknowledging he had a foreign-policy hole to plug in his résumé, promising to appeal to Southerners who identify with the Confederate flag -- were grist for his opponents.
After the election, David Cameron, who once described Ukip as fruitcakes and closet racists, admitted his mistake, saying it was no good insulting a party people had chosen to vote for: "We need to show respect for people who have taken the choice to support this party.
3 The report on the report Commendable when a writer tries to boil down a long quote, but many then ruin this summary by following it with the same words from their source: Cameron said it was "no good" insulting a party supported by so many voters.
Nikita Sergeyevich told western reporters the unfortunate Soviet citizen got a "fiver" -- one year for insulting the party chairman and four for revealing a state secret.
What they don't realise is that by insulting other parties on social media they come across as if they are scared that their policies alone will not be enough to win them seats.
"It's no good insulting a political party that people have chosen to vote for," the prime minister told the BBC.
Cameron, who had once characterized UKIP as "fruitcakes, loonies, and closet racists," said that it was "no good insulting a political party that people have chosen to vote for" and that Conservatives were going to work hard to win back those who had supported UKIP.
