June 10, 2009
Is the Republican strategy to win by default?
Listening to opinion polls, Republicans plan on hitting Obama on spending and the deficit:
Republicans on Capitol Hill think they’ve finally found Barack Obama’s Achilles’ heel: rising public concern about government spending and the federal deficit.
While Obama’s overall job-approval ratings are up over the past month, a Gallup Poll out this week has a 51 percent majority of Americans disapproving of the president’s efforts to control federal spending and a slim 48 percent to 46 percent disapproving of his handling of the federal deficit.
Those are the only areas where Obama has negative approval ratings — Americans approve, by double-digit margins, the way Obama is handling his overall job, foreign affairs, terrorism, the Middle East and North Korea. But the GOP will take what it can get.
I’m all for hitting Obama where the polls are telling us it will hurt. I also think it might be productive to hit him where he’s not vulnerable, yet, until the opinion polls indicate that those issues are going south for him, as well. While they’re at it, Republicans should try pulling themselves together and bringing back some party discipline back to what are supposed to the Republican Party’s principles. Do they want to win over the American people or return to power by default?
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If their strategy is to win by default then they are in for a dissapointment.
I stood by their side for 12 years while the fiddled and let the Country go down the tubes.By fiddle, I mean by not “crushing” the Democrats in spite of the media as far as affordable housing and not putting anymore than a token statement for political gain in stopping this pyramid scheme of in letting banks etc..etc take actual value of products and turn it into vapor.
They are going to have to do one Hell of alot more than hope for default because it isn’t happening as far as I am concerned.
And yes, I realize that we as a country are screwed with Obama and cohorts are in charge but then again if we look back and bring it up to our current situation….who is really at fault…….They ALL are.Don’t hold your breath on the default vote.
Comment by Drider — June 10, 2009 @ 1:44 pm
Poll after Poll show Americans support conservative positions. Abortion. Waterboarding , Detainees coming to the USA, Bailouts, Amnesty. Almost any issue you choose the Dems lose. But Obama is still popular. Eventually his positions on issues will catch up with his personal approvals.
Comment by Dennis D — June 10, 2009 @ 3:20 pm
What’s going on in America today isn’t about the Republicans. It’s about “we the people.” And this may not be a popular thing to say, but if we really want to shrink government, we have to accept that we’re fighting against the Republican Party too.
The Republican Establishment is every bit as pro-Big Government as the Democrats. McCain? Statist. Romney? Statist. Bush, Bush, and Bush? Statists. I could go on …
In my 40 years of life, I can count the genuinely conservative Republican politicos with my fingers. It’s a problem, but not one as big as it may seem. It’s a matter of individuals (voters) taking a principled stand, win or lose.
It’s time that “we the people” stop looking to these political parties as some kind of answer, or even expecting an answer. Markets work. If you want the Republican Party to change, stop supporting them. When they start losing to independents and libertarians, they’ll change. But until then, it’ll be the same as it ever was …
The Republican Party is nothing but a bureaucracy. They are not the conservative movement. We don’t need them. Support individual politicos, not the party, or we’re doomed.
Almost 50 years ago, Senator Goldwater was fighting the same battle we are today. The Conscience of a Conservative is mind-boggling accurate to waht we’re experiencing today. He wrote it in 1960. What does that tell you about the party? Conservatives need to get back to their principles. The Republican Party never had any.
Comment by theCL — June 16, 2009 @ 12:25 am
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