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Republicans Go on Medicare Offensive - “fully engage and lean into this fight”
Weekly Standard ^ | August 15, 2012 | Fred Barnes

Posted on 08/15/2012 7:32:17 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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1 posted on 08/15/2012 7:32:35 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I saw this ad this morning (hooray for swing state madness). I thought it was very well done.


2 posted on 08/15/2012 7:40:06 AM PDT by Mr. Bird
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Saw this ad last night - Lehigh Valley (eastern PA).

It would be interesting to know if other Freepers have seen the ad and where it’s playing.


3 posted on 08/15/2012 7:40:23 AM PDT by randita (Paul Ryan is "Mr. Smith goes to Washington.")
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Northern Virginia. Romney’s been all over our market, and I’m glad. If he can stay close here (he doesn’t even have to lead), Obama’s toast in Virginia.


4 posted on 08/15/2012 7:46:48 AM PDT by Mr. Bird
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It’s playing in the West Michigan Markets...


5 posted on 08/15/2012 7:50:24 AM PDT by VRWCarea51
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
That's being proactive not reactive.

4 years ago McCain was noactive.

6 posted on 08/15/2012 7:52:59 AM PDT by AU72
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4 years ago McCain was noactive.

If the Republican party were sane, today McCain would be radioactive. I cannot believe they're giving him a speaking role at the Republican convention.

7 posted on 08/15/2012 8:01:33 AM PDT by Maceman
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romney will always be best known for his hell fire attacks against fellow Republicans ... especially conservatives ... in his miserable defeat at the hands of Barrack Hussein Obama in 2012 ...


8 posted on 08/15/2012 8:04:59 AM PDT by Patton@Bastogne (Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin will DEFEAT the Obama-Romney Socialist Gay-Marriage Axis of Evil)
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Hey, thread crapper, who asked you?

I understand your distaste for the eventual nominee, but seriously, in this thread? Why?

9 posted on 08/15/2012 8:11:37 AM PDT by Paradox (I want Obama defeated. Period.)
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well ... how about the idea that myth should be "really" attacking obama ... instead of playing celebrity golf at the bain capital rush limbaugh invitational golf tournament ?

and like i said ...

myth will "never" be remembered for kicking obama's ass ...

and everyone on the planet knows it ...

don't shoot me, i'm just the messenger ...


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10 posted on 08/15/2012 8:18:37 AM PDT by Patton@Bastogne (Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin will DEFEAT the Obama-Romney Socialist Gay-Marriage Axis of Evil)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
It didn’t occur to Democrats that Republicans might have devised, tested, and were ready to deliver a response that would put Democrats on the defensive.

To be fair to the 'rats, history is on their side on this one.

11 posted on 08/15/2012 8:26:29 AM PDT by kevkrom (Those in a rush to trample the Constitution seem to forget that it is the source of their authority.)
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To: randita

It’s been playing in Florida ALOT.


12 posted on 08/15/2012 8:43:46 AM PDT by No Socialist
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It didn’t occur to Democrats that Republicans might have devised, tested, and were ready to deliver a response

Of course not. They have been the 'dumb' party that always had to react to attacks they didn't anticipate. Now, someone is actually thinking and can not only react quickly to attacks but can even come up with their own ideas, push them, and defend them.

I am impressed so far.

13 posted on 08/15/2012 8:48:21 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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“Absolutely, because we’re the ones who are offering a plan to save Medicare, to protect Medicare, to strengthen Medicare,” Ryan said. “We’re the ones who are not raiding Medicare to pay for Obamacare.”

I love that they're taking the fight TO the Democrats rather than sitting back and being on the defensive.

14 posted on 08/15/2012 8:56:03 AM PDT by SuziQ
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Ending Medicare as we know it... yeah, well,

“as we know it” means that it will be bankrupt in just a few years,

“as it will be” means that it will still be functional in a few years.

So, how do you want it? “as you know it” or “as it will be”?


15 posted on 08/15/2012 8:58:44 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working fors)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Looks like Obama and his gang have walked into another Wiley E. Coyote moment. They forgot that due to Obamacare they had maxed out the Mediscare Card. Just like they maxed out the Race Card through overuse.

To quote Datatechguy:

“Ride right through them, they’re demoralized as hell”!


16 posted on 08/15/2012 9:03:52 AM PDT by No Truce With Kings (Ten years on FreeRepublic and counting.)
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To: Paradox

Seriously, by this time, I hope we all can realize that these people are not worth responding to. I used to get pissed, but now I’m just laughing out loud!

I mean really, it’s bad enough being stupid, but bitter and stubborn too?

Guys like this are a freak show. Nothing more.


17 posted on 08/15/2012 9:36:01 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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We are looking at the straw that broke Obama's back...

He created a new entitlement and didn't fix a really broken one, In fact he took money from it...

Now if Romney / Ryan can re-finance it, close down Obamacare and "fix" Medicare, they can prove that Republicans can "fix" entitlements without too much pain.

That IMHO is what the Dem's fear. They know they are broke, but they don't have the Cohones' to go back to their traditional constituencies and tell them the truth.

Once one is fixed and Trust is built Medicaid , SSI and dare I say the VA medical system may get a do-over as well.

The Dem's are now in a position of not being trusted on entitlements, and no one see's it, it is a sea change..

Again once one is fixed and they can prove they can do it in a gentlemen and gentlewomen like fashion, the door is open to fix them all...

18 posted on 08/15/2012 9:43:20 AM PDT by taildragger (( Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
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My goodness, I never thought of that.

Can this be like the 1932 election, but with the parties reversed? The media and democrats (I know, redundant) have used Hoover as a foil all these many years. Maybe we can have 75 years of “Obama” as our Hoover.

Very astute!


19 posted on 08/15/2012 10:08:33 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: Alas Babylon!
Thank you AB...

GWB tried to fix SSI, and they all poo-pooed it, but he was right. It took the arrogance of BHO, to do what he did as a community organizer and played a shell game with it. This guy is a 5 card monte hustler, and now they know it...

Democrat or Republican, 4 yrs of friends and family loosing houses, investment values etc, have probably done more to make people dollar savvy and that you need to balance your books and not live on a credit card.

Obama took a credit card to Medicare and that is what is really pissin' people off...

20 posted on 08/15/2012 10:15:11 AM PDT by taildragger (( Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
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