Posted on 04/16/2014 8:10:33 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The outlook for the president’s health care overhaul suddenly appears brighter, and some Democrats are saying it’s time for the party to openly embrace the law that Republicans consider their best campaign weapon.
Activists in one Senate race are doing just that. Other Democratic candidates, however, remain wary, unsure that a modest dose of good news will be enough to offset countless TV ads denouncing “Obamacare.” Those worries are well founded, say Republicans who shrug off the developments Democrats tout. […]
Republicans already were pushing their luck by vowing to “repeal and replace” the health care law without having a viable replacement in mind, says Thomas Mills, a Democratic consultant and blogger in North Carolina. Now, he says, Democrats have even more reasons to rise from their defensive crouch on this topic.
“Democrats need to start making the case for Obamacare,” Mills says. “They all voted for it, they all own it, so they can’t get away from it. So they’d better start defending it.” …
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I know two. It will be more than you are aware of.
In addition, many with less serious ailments have lost the treatment their previous insurance provided. Over five million adequate policies have gone poof so far. Not all of those people never used their insurance. Spin can’t cover something this widespread.
Please, please, please, electioneering Democrats, you ALL need to spend your entire propaganda bandwidth on how you voted for Obamacare and will defend to the death any changes to it.
I think they’re out of imagination on that one. But by all means, they should stay the course.
“It worked in 2012 for the Rats, . . “
What worked in 2012 for the Democrats was having the GOP run the one candidate against Obama who could not effectively use Obamacare as an issue, it is tough to oppose government healthcare when you implemented it in your state as governor. Anyone else could have called out the lies and made Obamacare the issue defining the campaign. Instead the Dems chose the “war on women” as the central campaign issue and won the election.
Wait now. I saw a poll in the media saying Obozocare has helped ten million people.
This has to be true, right?
:D
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