Why do you think that President is talking in measured tones about marijuana not being any more dangerous than alcohol? Why are Democrats pushing inequality and extended unemployment and a higher minimum wage?
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Why did a liberal friend displeased with Obama and Obamacare warn me that if abortion comes up this year, then she’s voting Democrat?
It’s pretty obvious. Democrats are running a full-out pedal-to-the-metal squirrel strategy. They’ll do anything to distract voters from the basic facts of the United States in 2014. In case you are wondering, we are not talking about the horrors of the Polar Vortex. We are talking about:
- The becalmed economy.
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Superstorm Obamacare.
If Republicans had tried a squirrel strategy back in the Bush years, it wouldn’t have worked. That’s because every news item about any kind of distractions reported by unbiased newsmakers would remind everyone that the Republicans were just trying to distract from their jobless recovery or unpopular war.
I also get why the GOP establishment is trying to deep-six the Tea Party and compromise on the federal budget. They’ll do anything to neutralize the Democrats’ squirrel strategy. They want to talk about Obamacare and Obamanomics.
The steady-as-she-goes strategy gets support from Wisconsin governor Scott Walker. He describes how his original plan was to scrap government unions completely, but he couldn’t get his GOP legislators on board. So he compromised on a policy to make union membership voluntary for government employees. That’s how Sean Higgins describes it in the Washington Examiner.
But one thing floored the governor. It was when his wife Tonette asked him “Scott, why are you doing this?”
So Gov. Walker recommended that:
Republicans must present themselves as forward-thinking reformers addressing real problems — and beholden only to the people: “When you set the pace of reform, voters will see you as someone who is constantly trying to make things better. And your opponents will be forced to respond to your agenda rather than setting one for you.”
That means that Republicans have to present a reform agenda to the people, and not just rail at the bad economy and the follies of Obamacare and the incompetence of Obama. And that is what the Tea Partiers have been doing.
Rush Limbaugh often says that liberals can’t admit who they really are, but I think that conservatives, or at least conservative politicians, have the same problem. That’s because conservatives are the real radicals: we want to reform everything, from Social Security to health care to education to welfare. Sadly, in Democratic ads, these reforms are dramatized with grandma’s being tipped over a cliff and starving little children.
So Republicans mouth comfortable phrases about tax cuts and waste and growth and real reform of health care, and hope to distract the voters from the Democratic squirrels.
Is that what America is reduced to? A Super Bowl of squirrels?