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Top Dem pollster: 'Don't defend' Obamacare, call it 'flawed from the beginning'
WashingtonExaminer ^ | 25 Mar 2014 | PAUL BEDARD

Posted on 03/26/2014 7:37:13 AM PDT by shove_it

One of the nation's leading Democratic pollsters and strategists is urging embattled House and Senate incumbents to abandon their defense of Obamacare and instead pledge to “fix it.”

Celinda Lake, whose firm Lake Research Partners provided the Democratic analysis of the new George Washington University Battleground Poll released Tuesday morning, summed up her advice to Democrats when it comes to Obamacare: “Don't defend it.”

(video at link)

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2014election; demsobamacare
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To: shove_it

Here in Florida Alex Sink ran on the ‘mend it - don’t end it’ crap about Obamacare. She lost. When you get right down to it, would YOU trust someone who supported that horror to mend it? Not me. Not most of us.

The people who love Obamacare are the same folks who would vote for a democrat under any circumstances. “Criminal? Oh sure, no problem”... “Liar? Well, no one’s perfect...” We all know the type - liberal true believers...


21 posted on 03/26/2014 8:05:03 AM PDT by GOPJ (NASA: N othing A bout S pace A nymore - - FreperClearCase_guy)
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To: G Larry

>>Call it “DESIGNED TO FAIL”

It IS the mechanism to pave the way for “SINGLE PAYER AS THE ONLY SOLUTION”!

The plan is to keep O’care around long enough to DESTROY PRIVATE INSURANCE.<<

Bears repeating.


22 posted on 03/26/2014 8:06:37 AM PDT by shove_it (my real nickname is Otter)
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To: KarlInOhio

There will never be enough RATs to vote to override FUBARaq’s veto of any repeal bill.


23 posted on 03/26/2014 8:09:17 AM PDT by clintonh8r (Don't give up! The liberals are buggering and aborting themselves into extinction.)
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To: LostInBayport

exactly my thoughts. If Obamacare was so flawed from the beginning, then why in the sam hill did all of you good Democrats vote for it????


24 posted on 03/26/2014 8:11:40 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (as)
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To: LostInBayport
If it was 'flawed from the beginning', why did you vote for it in a process filled with bribes, "shell bills" and an American populace melting down your phone lines to tell you we didn't want it?

The press is made up of Omama suck-ups - they lack the wit to ask your question.

25 posted on 03/26/2014 8:13:23 AM PDT by GOPJ (NASA: N othing A bout S pace A nymore - - FreperClearCase_guy)
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To: shove_it
Obamacare is about control NOT health care. You've been drinking their kool aid... The 'single payer' line is bullshit put out by their so-called intellectuals...

"Healthcare' was a totalitarian horse to ride. What's next,do you think 'homeland security' is to protect Americans from radical muslim terrorists? It's not...

26 posted on 03/26/2014 8:17:01 AM PDT by GOPJ (NASA: N othing A bout S pace A nymore - - FreperClearCase_guy)
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To: shove_it

And pretend they didn’t vote for it.


27 posted on 03/26/2014 8:17:51 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (http://jonah2eight.blogspot.com/)
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To: shove_it

This Celinda Lake moron says democrats neet to tell us they won’t leave us at the mercy of the insurance companies. Can she explain why democrats use the force of federal law to mandate we purchase insurance through an insurance company?


28 posted on 03/26/2014 8:18:09 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: shove_it

Reminds me of that old saying “the Emperor has no clothes”. All the Dem pols now are walking around naked! And, the only way they are going to find their clothes is to come COMPLETELY CLEAN. This means:

1. CONFESS Obamacare was fraudulently passed by ONLY democrats who NEVER read it
2. Call for its TOTAL REPEAL
3. Pledge to replace it with a law that is no more than 20 pages long and that is agreed to before it passed by doctors and patients and private insurance companies with NO involvement by government.

Absent a complete mea culpa on O care, the democrats will never find credibility with the non Marxist American people.


29 posted on 03/26/2014 8:20:57 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid!)
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30 posted on 03/26/2014 8:23:01 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: shove_it

Don’t forget. The Dems’ goal is to replace ObamaCare with single payer. That’s the goal line for them. When they claim they want to fix it, ask them “with single payer?” and watch them backpedal.


31 posted on 03/26/2014 8:26:43 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (2001-2008: "Dissent Is Patriotism!" 2009-2016: "Dissent Is Racism!")
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To: shove_it
Ha! Back in 2010, as the Blue Dogs were publicly playing Hamlet about whether to vote for ObamaCare, I posted this cartoon:



I'm here to say to those Blue Dogs and the rest of the 'Rats - I told you so! Now eat it!
32 posted on 03/26/2014 8:28:11 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: LostInBayport
That's right. If they don't defend it. They will have to defend voting for it.

If we only had an opposition party, a sweep wood be in the making.

33 posted on 03/26/2014 8:34:11 AM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“If Obamacare was so flawed from the beginning, then why in the sam hill did all of you good Democrats vote for it????”

The dems use a jackass as a symbol for a reason.

A jackass gotta do what a jackass does, be a jackass.


34 posted on 03/26/2014 8:35:05 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: shove_it
And then there's Karl Rove advising his customers & Republicans in general not to bash Obamacare. ..it's just mean.

Geeeez! ...I'd ask for a refund!

35 posted on 03/26/2014 8:35:50 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: dowcaet
This is isn’t about saving the president or congress in 2014. It’s about keeping the Democratic Party viable for 2016 and saving Hillary’s presidential bid.

I wholeheartedly disagree. This is a two-step process, with step one being the most important - 2014. If the Republicans capitalize on Obamacare and increase their numbers in the House (meaning in 2016 there would be no way to lose the House) and take over the Senate, the Republicans will control the dialogue over the remaining two lame duck years of Obama's presidency. That is HUGE! Bills in the House will be brought to the floor of the Senate.

Limiting what Obama can do in his last two years is also pivotal to precluding a Hillary presidency. They will have two years to put the dossier together on Lybia, Russia, Egypt, Syria and other failed foreign policy efforts - she owns them.

36 posted on 03/26/2014 8:40:03 AM PDT by Go Gordon (Barack McGreevey Obama)
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To: Cen-Tejas
If the Pubs had a brain, they would hold continuous votes to repeal all of it in the house. They could show a running balance of the number of Pubs who voted for repeal against the Dems who voted to keep it. It would devastate the Democrat party!
37 posted on 03/26/2014 8:44:11 AM PDT by BillM (.)
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To: shove_it

Call it ‘shoved down our throats by only Democrats’.


38 posted on 03/26/2014 8:54:43 AM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: Cen-Tejas
... CONFESS Obamacare was fraudulently passed by ONLY democrats who NEVER read it

Democrats were so proud of Obamacare they didn't need to 'read' it. Democrats have emotions and egos that are MUCH bigger than their rather small brains... which is why they use the term "feel" rather than "think". They FEEL... FEEL... FEEL.. and they're sooooo proud of it.

Same with global warming... Democrats who couldn't pass high school algebra FEEL what Al Gore says is true...

Your suggestions are goo Cen-Tejas, but if democrats were smart enough to take your advice they wouldn't have passed Obamacare (without reading it or thinking about it) in the first place. And if they DID take your advice it would be because someone told them it would help them win - not because they understood the ethics or thought behind it...

Vote the little totalitarian idiots out of office before they kill all of us.

39 posted on 03/26/2014 9:05:58 AM PDT by GOPJ (NASA: N othing A bout S pace A nymore - - FreperClearCase_guy)
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To: Cen-Tejas
... CONFESS Obamacare was fraudulently passed by ONLY democrats who NEVER read it

Democrats were so proud of Obamacare they didn't need to 'read' it. Democrats have emotions and egos that are MUCH bigger than their rather small brains... which is why they use the term "feel" rather than "think". They FEEL... FEEL... FEEL.. and they're sooooo proud of it.

Same with global warming... Democrats who couldn't pass high school algebra FEEL what Al Gore says is true...

Your suggestions are good Cen-Tejas, but if democrats were smart enough to take your advice they wouldn't have passed Obamacare (without reading it or thinking about it) in the first place. And if they DID take your advice it would be because someone told them it would help them win - not because they understood the ethics or thought behind it...

Vote the little totalitarian idiots out of office before they kill all of us.

40 posted on 03/26/2014 9:07:59 AM PDT by GOPJ (NASA: N othing A bout S pace A nymore - - FreperClearCase_guy)
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