Posted on 03/06/2014 7:50:31 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Whats the matter with a friggen’ tax break?
IMHO, conservatives need to convey the message that they are not simply naysayers and obstructionists, but that we have good ideas and specific plans that will work in all areas for (almost) everybody.
The message must be simple and consistent, with a unifying theme that appeals to the majority.
“Freedom” works for me.
Grandma, the daughter of your highschool basketball coach, and the man your wife buys her hearing aids from didn’t all die from cut off medical care with those other things. Right there at home where they could talk about it. Not far away in a foreign land.
Dozens of other people you know weren’t also seriously affected even though they didn’t die.
It’s pretty damned stupid not to immediately recognize that there is no rational parallel.
You’ve pointed out the “entitlement army”
They are a difficult foe....
But what’s the point of showing just income taxes?
The democrats have torn the country apart, dividing it into a dozen groups to get their votes. Why won't the republicans speak for the taxpayers?
Should be Obama & Reid’s lawless actions and incompetence.
Not the number or “fact of” his exec actions, but the lawlessness of the content.
His 30 dictatorial revisions to Congressionally enacted Obamacare.
His failure in economic and foreign policy.
His failure in Benghazi.
His abuse of the IRS to target his political opponents.
His villinization of the Energy industry.
Thanks for the many factoids!
Win BIG this fall and then IMPEACH & Prosecute
The Democrats are going to say that they will fix Obamacare while the Republicans will repeal it, leaving you (the voter) high and dry. At the best, Obama will veto the repeal and there will be no fix coming. Vote for us because we’ll stick it to the fat cat Republicans and make them pay their fair share.
I don’t know that it’ll work but with the press 99% behind them, they’ve a chance. Remember, the divisions in the Republican Party will cause a lot of conservatives to stay home especially if the elite win the primaries like in the Texas primary.
'lol!' ping. First, Mitt's campaign did squat in fighting anything of the 0bama agenda, much less 0bamacare. He had one good initial debate and then went into rope-a-dope mode and lost because of it.
To say nothing of what a flawed candidate he was. Repeal of 0bamacare and instituting fiscal sanity once again is a "silver-bullet issue"!
Can you say "Tipping Point"? I am John Galt!
I have said it before and I will say it again. All in against Obamacare is a HUGE mistake. It just isn’t that unpopular and very few want it repealed. There are many good issues with which to Hammer the Dims. I’m not saying Obamacare should be ignored. Of course not. But, standing alone this is a loser. Yeah, we’ll probably hold the House and stand a 60-40 chance of picking up the Senate, but that has MUCH more to do with where the Senate races are held and Gerrymandering than it does with some wholesale hatred of Obamacare.
But. Hey. The GOP doesn’t pay me to run anything. All I know is they have been screwing up elections for awhile now and that theyare aiding America’s lurch Left.
EXACTLY! But ... they won’t do it. We don’t even do it here. Being against Obama is not the same as being against EVERYTHING Obama supports regardless. The latter will not work. But, hey. When we are sitting here in 2016 with Hildabeast in the White House, Obamacare rolling along, Dems controlling the House and the Dims with a 61 seat majority in the Senate maybe it will be apparent.
How about "incompetency" as the unifying theme? Obama and his people give multiple examples every day. The Republicans could pound on this theme from multiple fronts with Obamacare acting as the crown jewel in the strategy.
I think the IRS hearings have potential to be dynamite if Issa can get a break. When this first came out, I heard a group of my colleagues who are hard-core Obama supporters express concern that their man (or his people) might have played dirty political tricks with the IRS. I was clear from their discussion that if proven they were ready to abandon Obama (a couple even said so and no one walked them back from the ledge). These people are politically misguided but generally not hypocritical and the actions were too Nixonian in their eyes to be tolerated. If Obama and his administration get tied to this, he'd lose a significant part of his base.
20 percent of all voters nationally disapprove of Obama but do not yet say theyll vote to elect Republicans to Congress.
Talk about a need to clean out the voting pool.
How about “incompetency” as the unifying theme? Obama and his people give multiple examples every day. The Republicans could pound on this theme from multiple fronts with Obamacare acting as the crown jewel in the strategy.
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While true, such a theme would only frame us as bitter losers, IMHO. The message needs to be one to attract voters to us, not simply repel voters from them. Big difference.
You can pull on a rope, but you can’t push on it.
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