Things to keep in mind when running for President as a Republican

Redstate ^ | 01/06/2014 | Martin A. Knight

[Yosemitest]

"Establishment Republicans" LOSE every time they're tried.
And the media loves for the GOP to lose.
That's why they support "Establishment Republicans" .
So take a good long look at where "Establishment Republicans" ALWAYS take us.

[Bullish]

I didn’t read this entire piece, but any Republican running for president would do well to closely study and emulate how Ronald Reagan handled his opposition by the leftist press. Using his quick wit and good common sense he handed them their asses on a plate and the people absolutely loved him for it.

[glorgau]

, but make it very clear from the onset of your campaign that anyone who calls you a racist has no right to any respect or courtesy.

Especially if his name is Al Sharpton.

[firebrand]

22. Forget all that nonsense and just focus on what is best for the American people. Speak the truth about this and you will be fine.

[Liz]

It certainly DOES help that the 2016 Republican candidate does not have the disadvantages of his Democrat opponent (snix). ....'specially a paper trail revealing lock-stepping Dimocrat party loyalty of the kind not seen since 1940's-era Europe....

Here's an Hudson Institute scholar's remarkable prophecy a year and a half before the USSC's decision that O/Care was a tax, and after Nov 2010 midterms, in which Democrats in Congress and in state legislatures suffered huge losses.....due to O/Care. In Commentary magazine, Tevi Troy wrote: "The Pyrrhic victory Democrats secured for themselves [when Obama signed ACA into law] may prove not to have been a victory at all but rather an ever-roiling, ongoing, and recurring act of political and ideological self-destruction."

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LOCK-STEPPING PARTY LOYALTY NOT SEEN SINCE 1940's ERA EUROPE Obama And The Dumbos marching in lockstep. The persistent Dumbocrat drumbeat ---- in obeisance to Obama ---- kept ringing reassuringly in our ears.

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As far back as 2008, at the presidential debate in Nashville, Democrat candidate Obama advanced his signature plan that was ultimately enacted (by an historic straight Democrat party-line vote) into the "Affordable Care Act :

OBAMA: "No. 1, let me just repeat, if you’ve got a health care plan that you like, you can keep it. All I’m going to do is help you to lower the premiums on it. You’ll still have choice of doctor.”

Repeated over and over ---- with the promise that every American would be saving $2500.00 on healthcare costs.

LOYAL DEMOCRATS CHIME IN all reading from the Lockstep Manual:

SEN. HARRY REID (D-Nev.): “In fact, one of our core principles is that if you like the health care you have, you can keep it.” (Sen. Reid, Congressional Record, S.8642, 8/3/09)

SEN. RICHARD DURBIN: “We believe — and we stand by this — if you like your current health insurance plan, you will be able to keep it, plain and simple, straightforward.” (Sen. Durbin, Congressional Record, S.6401, 6/10/09)

SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D-NY): “If you like your insurance, you keep it.” (U.S. Senate, Finance Committee, Bill Mark-Up, 9/29/09)

SEN. PATTY MURRAY (D-Wash.): “Again, if you like what you have, you will be able to keep it. Let me say this again: If you like what you have, when our legislation is passed and signed by the President, you will be able to keep it.” (Sen. Murray, Congressional Record, S.6400, 6/10/09)

SEN. MAX BAUCUS (D-Mont.): “That is why one of the central promises of health care reform has been and is: If you like what you have, you can keep it. That is critically important. If a person has a plan, and he or she likes it, he or she can keep it.” (Sen. Baucus, Congressional Record, S.7676, 9/29/10)

SEN. TOM HARKIN (D-Iowa): “One of the things we put in the health care bill when we designed it was the protection for consumers to keep the plan they have if they like it; thus, the term ‘grandfathered plans.’ If you have a plan you like — existing policies — you can keep them. … we said, if you like a plan, you get to keep it, and you can grandfather it in.” (Sen. Harkin, Congressional Record, S.7675-6, 9/29/10)

THEN-REP. TAMMY BALDWIN (D-Wis.): “Under the bill, if you like the insurance you have now, you may keep it and it will improve.” (Rep. Baldwin, Press Release, 3/18/10)

SEN. MARK BEGICH (D-Alaska): “If you got a doctor now, you got a medical professional you want, you get to keep that. If you have an insurance program or a health care policy you want of ideas, make sure you keep it. That you can keep who you want.” (Sen. Begich, Townhall Event, 7/27/09)

SEN. MICHAEL BENNET (D-Colo.): “We should begin with a basic principle: if you have coverage and you like it, you can keep it. If you have your doctor, and you like him or her, you should be able to keep them as well. We will not take that choice away from you.” (Sen. Bennet, Press Release, 6/11/09)

SEN. BARBARA BOXER (D-Calif.): “So we Democrats want people to be able to keep the health care they have. And the answer to that is choice of plans. And in the exchange, we’re going to have lots of different plans, and people will be able to keep the health care coverage they need and they want.” (Sen. Boxer, Press Release, 2/8/11)

SEN. SHERROD BROWN (D-Ohio): “Our Democrat bill says if you have health insurance and you like it, you can keep it…”(Sen. Brown, Congressional Record, S.12612, 12/7/09)

SEN. BEN CARDIN (D-Md.): “For the people of Maryland, this bill will provide a rational way in which they can maintain their existing coverage…” (Sen. Cardin, Congressional Record, S.13798, 12/23/09)

SEN. BOB CASEY (D-Pa.): “I also believe this Democrat legislation and the bill we are going to send to President Obama this fall will also have secure choices. If you like what you have, you like the plan you have, you can keep it. It is not going to change.” (Sen. Casey, Congressional Record, S.8070, 7/24/09)

SEN. KAY HAGAN (D-N.C.): ‘People who have insurance they’re happy with can keep it’ “We need to support the private insurance industry so that people who have insurance they’re happy with can keep it while also providing a backstop option for people without access to affordable coverage.” (“Republicans Vent As Other Compromise Plans Get Aired,” National Journal’s Congress Daily, 6/18/09)

SEN. MARY LANDRIEU (D-La.): “If you like the insurance that you have, you’ll be able to keep it.” (MSNBC’s Hardball, 12/16/09)

SEN. PAT LEAHY (D-Vt.): “[I]f you like the insurance you now have, keep the insurance you have.” (CNN’s “Newsroom,” 10/22/09)

SEN. BOB MENENDEZ (D-N.J.): “If you like what you have, you get to keep it” “Menendez is a member of the Senate Finance Committee, which is expected to release a bill later this week. He stressed that consumers who are satisfied with their plans won’t have to change. ‘If you like what you have, you get to keep it,’ he said.” (“Health Care Plan Would Help N.J., Menendez Says,” The Record, 6/19/09)

SEN. JEFF MERKLEY (D-Oreg.): “[E]nsuring that those who like their insurance get to keep it” “The HELP Committee bill sets forward a historic Democrat plan that will, for the first time in American history, give every American access to affordable health coverage, reduce costs, and increase choice, while ensuring that those who like their insurance get to keep it.” (Sen. Merkley, Press Release, 7/15/09)

SEN. BARBARA MIKULSKI (D-Md.): “It means that if you like the insurance you have now, you can keep it.” (Sen. Mikulski, Press Release, 12/24/09)

SEN. JAY ROCKEFELLER (D-W.Va.): “I want people to know, the President’s promise that if you like the coverage you have today you can keep it is a pledge we intend to keep.” (U.S. Senate, Finance Committee, Hearing, 9/23/09)

SEN. JACK REED (D-R.I.): “If you like the insurance you have, you can choose to keep it.” (Sen. Reed, Town Hall Event, 6/25/09)

SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-Vt.): “‘If you have coverage you like, you can keep it,’ says Sen. Sanders.” (“Sick And Wrong,” Rolling Stone, 4/5/10)

SEN. JEANNE SHAHEEN (D-N.H.): ‘if you have health coverage that you like, you get to keep it’ “My understanding … is that … if you have health coverage that you like you can keep it. As I said, you may have missed my remarks at the beginning of the call, but one of the things I that I said as a requirement that I have for supporting a Democrat bill is that if you have health coverage that you like you should be able to keep that. …under every scenario that I’ve seen, if you have health coverage that you like, you get to keep it.” (Sen. Shaheen, “Health Care Questions From Across New Hampshire,” Accessed 11/13/13)

SEN. DEBBIE STABENOW (D-Mich.): “As someone who has a large number of large employers in my state, one of the things I appreciate about the Democrat chairman’s remark is — is the grandfathering provisions, the fact that the people in my state, 60 percent of whom have insurance, are going to be able to keep it. And Mr. Chairman, I appreciate that. That’s a strong commitment. It’s clear in the bill … I appreciate the strong commitment on your part and the president to make sure that if you have your insurance you can keep it. That’s the bottom line for me.” (U.S. Senate, Finance Committee, Bill Mark-Up, 9/24/09)

SEN. JON TESTER (D-Mont.): “‘If you like your coverage, you’ll be able to keep it,’ Tester said, adding that if Medicare changes, it will only become stronger”. (“Tester In Baker To Discuss Health Care,” The Fallon County Times, 11/20/09)

SEN. TOM UDALL (D-N.Mex.): “Some worried reform would alter their current coverage. It won’t. If you like your current plan, you can keep it.” (“What I Learned: About Health Care Reform This Summer, By Your Lawmakers In Congress,” Albuquerque Journal, 9/8/09)

SEN. SHELDON WHITEHOUSE (D-R.I.): “..it honors President Obama’s programs and the promise of all of the Presidential candidates that if you like the plan you have, you get to keep it. You are not forced out of anything.” (Sen. Whitehouse, Congressional Record, S.8668, 8/3/09)

Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) the 60th vote on Obamacare: "people who are happy with their current plan, wouldn't need to change it."

FRANKEN YOUTUBE SOUND BITE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCZmAYYNz8Ihttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCZmAYYNz8I

[Liz]

"Those Democrats leering over my shoulder owe me bigtime. This
healthcare bill insures we have a permanent Democratic majority."

" All except those Tea Party types, swallowed hook, line and sinker my promises that Americans could:
(1) keep their existing health plans,
(2) keep their own doctors that they like,
(3) keep their 25-year-olds on the family health plan,
(4) never be denied coverage for a pre-existing condition,
(5) sign up instantly on my tech-savvy government Web site,
(6) buy insurance only after becoming seriously ill."
(7) save $2,500 in annual premiums in the bargain....
(8) All without any new taxes."

"Them sonovagun Tea Partiers will rue the day they criticized my wonderful healthcare bill."

[Liz]

The Obama Administration’s healthcare.gov boondoggle illustrates the stupidity of putting political operatives and cronies in charge of software development projects.

Now is the time to get out those multiple Obama sound bites----when candidate Obama bragged he had a "high-tech campaign operation"...one that he swore raised hundreds of millions of dollars to get him elected.

Obama even bragged he was the "first" billion dollar candidate. How "odd" that later in the campaign he said he had to "borrow" money to continue.

Suck-up presstitues never bothered to look into these contradictions.

[JRandomFreeper]

Liberal Republicans are unelectable for President.

/johnny

[Paine in the Neck]

My list:

1. Do NOT agree to any debates which are controlled by the left-wing press. You are immediately playing defense if the debate ‘moderator’ is beholden to leftwing ideologies. Don’t play that game. Insist on a balance. Draw debate questioners from outside the main broadcast cohorts.

2. As in the article, ALWAYS keep your own record of ANY encounter with the press. Defend yourself immediately and vigourously when the media play editing games.

[onedoug]

Not as a Republican, but as a conservative.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Bring back American jobs.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

This is a very valid criticism.

Our candidates always get sold down the river at leftist media events.

We need to be (much) more assertive with what is fair, and what is right.

That said, we need to be right. Hire Americans.

[MrB]

We must not forget an ACTIVE anti-fraud campaign (yes, military implication is fully appropriate).

Conservative districts in any state should withhold their counts until the 120% voting precincts have given theirs.

[VRW Conspirator]

Excellent analysis. I would only add that every other statement for 2014 and 2016 should include something like, “ Obama lied to us about Obamacare”. This is to paint Obama (is that racist?) as the scoundrel he is and then to hang this millstone around any and all democrat candidates: Obama is a liar and democrat candidate, Mr. Smith, is just like Obama.

[Lakeshark]

This is a GREAT piece, any conservative candidate should read it and take it to heart. I remember one of the Breitbart editors giving advice to the Romny campaign early on: He said they had to develop a team that would get up every morning (4 AM) and study the Journolist meme of the day, pick it out, and then respond to it immediately with a forceful rebuttal the MSM would have to carry.

As we know, Romney DID NOT do that, rather hoped dissatisfaction with Bambi would carry the day. The GOP simply needs to understand how to change up their campaigns to be effective, unless they actually want to become a permanent minority.

[kevkrom]

Not as a Republican, but as a conservative.

Actually, the article is spot-on that even "moderate" (i.e., liberal) Republicans run into the same problems, simply because they are running against a Democrat.

Also, while the scale is a lot smaller, the same advice could apply, for the most part, to down-ticket races, such as Senate, House, and even state offices like Governor.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Refrain from advocating cutting the Veteran’s pensions.

[VRW Conspirator]

As we know, Romney DID NOT do that, rather hoped dissatisfaction with Bambi would carry the day.

In retrospect, Romney was the choice of the GOPe - that is obvious. He came in with several handicaps: Romneycare, his flip-flops and the old-white-guy perception. But the 2 things he really screwed up was 1) just like you say; he needed to be on the offensive, continuously, as the challenger (no more Mr. Nice Guy). 2) He screwed the Tea Parties over.

BTW, Obama is a proven liar.

[txhurl]

Excellent!