Posted on 03/06/2014 7:50:31 AM PST by SeekAndFind
These political theories always look tidy on paper, but they never take into account the effect of a highly biased press and (increasingly) voter fraud. When a politician has an adoring, unskeptical press on his side, he can win an election with only 25% approval numbers.
“Obamacare Cant Be the GOPs 2014 Silver Bullet”
Yes it can. In fact obamacare is the Republican’s ONLY silver bullet, because it’s the ONLY direct, personal and tangible impact on individual lives as a consequence of Democrat policies. These personal, tangible impacts are simply undeniable by all the lies and propaganda of the Democrats and their propaganda organ, the kommie lapdog media.
All other issues besides obamacare are subject to “interpretation”, meaning subject to lies and propaganda. However, NOTHING can change the actual facts of losing your health insurance, losing your doctors and losing your access to medical care you had before obamacare, and NOTHING can change the actual fact that your health care costs have increased by hundreds of percent over your costs before obamacare.
Well, if you cherry pick your statistics you can lie about anything.
RE: 20 percent of all voters nationally disapprove of Obama
What do the other 80% say?
Longer version of first post:
“Obamacare Cant Be the GOPs 2014 Silver Bullet”
Yes it can. In fact obamacare is the Republican’s ONLY silver bullet, because obamacare is the ONLY policy that has had a personal and tangible impact on individual lives that is a DIRECT consequence of Democrat actions. These personal, tangible impacts are simply undeniable by all the lies and propaganda of the Democrats and their propaganda organ, the kommie lapdog media.
All other issues except for obamacare are subject to “interpretation”, meaning they are subject to lies and propaganda. However, NOTHING can change the actual facts of losing your health insurance, losing your doctors and losing your access to medical care you had before obamacare, and NOTHING can change the actual fact that your health care costs have increased by hundreds of percent over your costs before obamacare.
The Democrat politicians and their lapdog media can lie and spin all they want to, but none of that will change the horrific negative personal impact obamacare has had on each and every one of us on a daily basis. Personal health care is a life and death matter, and obamacare is killing us and we can all see that. Repealing obamacare is the ONLY issue any Republican candidate should be running on, and if Republicans can not win based on repealing obamacare they’ll never win another election because the voters are too ignorant and/or too stupid to vote for their own self-interest.
Kill it but will they vote republican?.
We have to focus on the economy. ObamaCare is bad because it kills jobs and prevents job creation. FedGov regulations are bad because they kill jobs. Lawless rule by decree is bad because the uncertainty kills jobs. We have to link everything worth discussing to jobs, and if there is no link, we need to ignore the topic this election.
Let me try to sum this up. When they have to write this convoluted of an article to explain how Obama’s disapproval rating plus Obamacare do not hurt democrats - they have a problem.
I agree. and the beauty of it is that the stench of Obamacare is on the hands of all the 'rats who voted it into being. It's not just about Obama.
I can write the anti Obamacare ads right now but I doubt the republican party can.
Example: Mom and Dad wrapping the kids’ presents under the tree on Christmas Eve. They sadly discuss how they couldn’t get the kids what they had hoped for this year, “but after we lost our coverage because of Obamacare and had to pay so much to get insured (or couldn’t get insured and had to pay so much in medical bills) and with my being laid off, I guess our kids will have to get used to more disappointments” A tear drops from Mom’s eye.
Voice over and text: “They made you pay, now make THEM pay at the polls. Vote the Democrat politicians out and vote Republican to restore America before it’s too late!”
I love your ad! Beef it up a flash of before and after monthly health insurance invoices. Maybe even use a real family with cost numbers.
Even longer version, with new ending paragraph:
“Obamacare Cant Be the GOPs 2014 Silver Bullet”
Yes it can. In fact obamacare is the Republican’s ONLY silver bullet, because obamacare is the ONLY policy that has had a personal and tangible impact on individual lives that is a DIRECT consequence of Democrat actions. These personal, tangible impacts are simply undeniable by all the lies and propaganda of the Democrats and their propaganda organ, the kommie lapdog media.
All other issues except for obamacare are subject to “interpretation”, meaning they are subject to lies and propaganda. However, NOTHING can change the actual facts of losing your health insurance, losing your doctors and losing your access to medical care you had before obamacare, and NOTHING can change the actual fact that your health care costs have increased by hundreds of percent over your costs before obamacare.
The Democrat politicians and their lapdog media can lie and spin all they want to, but none of that will change the horrific negative personal impact obamacare has had on each and every one of us on a daily basis. Personal health care is a life and death matter, and obamacare is killing us and we can all see that.
Repealing obamacare is the ONLY issue any Republican candidate should be running on. It is imperative that Republicans keep their message simple so the media cannot obfuscate and confuse the message. The simpler the message, the easier it is for the voters to understand the message and the more difficult it is for the media to spin it against the Republicans. So, obamacare: you’ve either voted for it or against it, and/or you’re either for repeal and replacement or you’re against repeal and replacement. It’s that simple. And if Republicans can not win based on repealing and replacing obamacare they’ll never win another election because they’ll never have another issue this powerful and because the voters will have demonstrated once and for all that they are too ignorant and/or too stupid to vote for their own self-interest, even when that self-interest is a matter of life and death.
Perhaps but any theme is going to be spun in a negative fashion by the other side. A theme of freedom will be spun as protecting special interests from reasonable regulation. I think that we are agreeing on one thing: the Republicans need to make the 2014 elections a referendum on Obama.
“I think that we are agreeing on one thing: the Republicans need to make the 2014 elections a referendum on Obama.”
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Yes, but it won’t work unless we provide positive alternatives to his ruinous plans.
What I’d like to see is roughly 8 or 10 major issues addressed with a specific proposal for each issue, not unlike Newt’s Contract With America, which I thought was brilliantly conceived, but we didn’t have the stones to follow through. Get people talking about OUR agenda. Maybe call it Foundations of Freedom. Whatever. For example:
Taxes - eliminate the IRS. Flat tax, no loopholes. Maybe keep the charitable deduction and mortgage interest deduction.
Entitlements - privatize Soc Sec for anyone under 50, or even 45.
Healthcare - repeal AbominableCare. Eliminate all barriers to insurance competition. Encourage HSA’s. Remove all corporate deductions for employee health insurance.
Corporate Welfare - phase out 100% of it over four years, but lower corporate tax rates by a roughly equal aggregate amount.
Immigration - halt all illegal immigration, but encourage legal immigration.
etc, etc
Not saying these should be the exact specific proposals, but you get the idea. Keep it simple, but covering 10 issues makes it comprehensive and specific.
Unfortunately, I don't see anyone in leadership with the vision of Newt. The problem with current leadership is they would propose a "me, too, just not as much" agenda. We saw how well that worked in presidential election of 2012. Ted Cruz could lead this reform charge but the GOPe leadership would obstruct it in any non-public way they could and possibly publicly oppose it. There are too many in the party establishment who would rather have the Republicans stay out of power than to turn over the reigns to the conservatives.
Ironically, the Contract with America probably got clinton re-elected. With no real ideological moorings, billy jeff could take the CWA provisions, modify them some and claim them as his own.
bkmk
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