Obama Republicans?

Townhall.com ^ | February 3, 2008 | Salena Zito

[only1percent]

Republicans seem to have forgotten how to run ideological campaigns against Democrats for President. Kerry’s hugely liberal record went virtually unchallenged in 2004; Gore’s and Clinton’s somewhat more moderate liberal records were similarly let alone in 2000 and 1992 respectively. Dole couldn’t connect with anything in 1996.

We can presumably beat Clinton this fall on a low-idea-content 2004 or 2000 campaign, because she’s so intensely unpopular and mistrusted, and McCain (whether fairly or not) seems to be well trusted and popular. However, Obama simply cannot be beat on a low-idea-content race. We need to run the way we ran against Dukakis, Mondale, Carter and McGovern focused on the bankruptcy of liberal ideas and the ardent embrace of those bankrupt ideas by the candidate, or we’ll lose.

[LowCountryJoe]

Okay, that’s a great answer. But you do know that it will not be coming back to you to the same degree a private investment, of the same money, would have. More to the point, though, what little you will get back will be in the form of a check from the U.S. Treasury. Are you going to cash that check?

[LowCountryJoe]

I remember CHUMPUS. I don't recall what the acronym stood for. While I was in, the new system that replaced it was called Cry Try Scare Tri Care. All snide names aside, the amount of coverage that my family received amounted to over $800 a month if a premium (plus 2% admin fee) were to have to cover the level of coverage. That was back in 1999 when I looked into extending my then current coverage through COBRA. I opted for private insurance with co-pays.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

If “The Obama” wins how much will we have to pay in reparations for slavery?

[RipSawyer]

I hope Costa Rica patterned their government on what ours is SUPPOSED to be and not what it has become and certainly not what it is apt to become after the next election!

[mthom]

He is to left of Hillary on every issue.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

More to the point, though, what little you will get back will be in the form of a check from the U.S. Treasury. Are you going to cash that check?

It is my money to start with and I want it returned in gold.

It is not "income" or a "salary."

All of those jerks running get a welfare check every month from some government entity - EXCEPT Mitt Romney.

Split hairs all you want...

[Lancey Howard]

How stupid do you have to be to consider yourself a Republican and then get conned by that oily scumbag Obama? “Flibberty jib....flibberty jib....flibberty jib....change.... flibberty jib....”

[brytlea]

It is a Democratic Republic, altho they appear to have some differences (from what I just read online). But then, as you point out, even WE aren’t patterned on what our founding fathers intended, at least largely.

susie

[SamAdams76]

Regarding your tagline, we could have had Reagan in 1976 and suffered no Carter at all. However, the RINO's in the party decided that Jerry Ford was the safer choice.

I often wonder how different our country would have been if Reagan was elected four years earlier (he came within a whisker of getting the nomination in '76). We would have had eight years of Ronald Reagan in his prime, there would have been no Iran hostage crisis (or it would have been shortlived), and we almost certainly never would have had Bush Sr. in the White House.

Those Carter years were terrible, no way do I want to hand this country back to the Clintons in the faint hope that we get another "Reagan" four years from now.

[brytlea]

Wow, I never thought of that. I do remember hearing Reagan speak in 76, it would have been the first election we could vote in, my new husband and I—we ended up not voting because we had just moved to Denver and couldn’t find the polling place. Anyway, I was wowed by what he had to say in what I think was a paid spot (30 minutes prime time I think—and as a 19 year old I was glued to the set and his every word).

I was so happy when he ran the next time and I stood in line for over an hour, 9 months pregnant with my 3rd child, just to pull the lever for Reagan. But, to have had him 4 years earlier, wow. Thank you for pointing that out.

susie

[lilylangtree]

Republicans for Osama Obama? Only RINOs like the Gropinator.

[devolve]