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RE :”As outlined in a column earlier this week, Republicans/conservatives should try to outmaneuver Barack Obama and his leftist allies via a new strategy consisting of guerrilla tactics, constantly keeping Obama on the defensive, combined with a re-crafting of how conservatives communicate our principles.
Conservatives have proved inept at managing crisis-atmosphere brinksmanship, but we can consistently win smaller skirmishes and ward off societal disaster long enough to outlast the Democrats’ current hold on the Senate and the White House. It’s not that budget-cutters in Congress are wrong, for instance, to try to use the debt ceiling and other legislative deadlines to extract new savings from a spendthrift president; it’s just that they talk tougher than they can possibly deliver, when they should be willing to take small gains, build credibility, and then keep coming back for more. “

He has some good points.
The current approach of brag, bluff,fantasy lines in sand , symbolic votes, humiliating cave and then circular firing squad with endless wailing (”Bohner sold us out again”) is not working, except
to empower Obama.

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“It’s not that budget-cutters in Congress are wrong, for instance, to try to use the debt ceiling and other legislative deadlines to extract new savings from a spendthrift president; it’s just that they talk tougher than they can possibly deliver, when they should be willing to take small gains, build credibility, and then keep coming back for more.”

Just so. A party can’t employ brinksmanship as a negotiating strategy unless it has the voting public solidly in its corner. The GOP do not.

Quinn rightly perscribes a concerted effort to argue persuasively in support of conservative fiscal, economic and, to a lesser degree, social ideas and educate skeptical voters about GOP proposals. This is the most sensible strategy I’ve seen from the Right in a long time. My only quibble is that You Tube would be a more economical and effective means of getting the word out. No one will watch a 30 minute informercial outside of the context of an election cycle unless they already are pretty motivated to do so. A TV buy will be much too expensive. The same bang for significantly fewer dollar could be achieved using a functionally free internet medium.