YES. Republicans, listen to this man. Your policies are fine, and your messaging just needs a little bit of a tweak. All you need to do is yell louder “Obama is a socialist”- the American people are on the edge of believing. They just need a few more years of persuasion.
In other words, if that bull you let loose in the china shop didn’t work out the way you wanted, the obvious solution is more bull. In fact, that would make a great slogan for the next election: “If What You Want Is More Bull, Vote Republican!”
Actually-- and I said this on election night or the day after-- I hope Republicans go along with whatever Obama wants. His policies are terrible, but at this point it doesn’t matter. If the majority of Americans think he’s some kind of economic genius, then he should be left to display his brilliance. As a country, we’ll either reap the benefits or suffer the consequences.
Using your “logic”, either things get better and the Democrats come out ahead, or things fall apart and the Republicans share the blame with the Democrats.
One issue does not a leftist (or rightist) make. I’ll agree that Obama was too quick to dismiss the budget. It placed the Rs in a defensive position that they could not withdraw from without losing face, so they planted their feet and refused to move. However, most of the actions taken by Obama have been centrist in nature, and he is certainly not the raving socialist liberal that is being repeatedly and loudly claimed by the folks at Fox.
How many times has it been pointed out that Simpson-Bowles was scuttled by** Paul Ryan **and his fellow house republicans? Where can I get a bubble that strong?
What? This is not true at all! People in California like to blame politicians without regard for party affiliation. We also pass a bunch of propositions that place binding restrictions on the state budget and the ability to raise taxes, then blame the politicians for not being able to work a miracle on the budget.
Why on earth would someone think using a single issue to illustrate whether someone was centrist or not is a valid approach?
Besides which, the fact that Obama did not support various GOP proposals isn’t proof that he’s not centrist. That would only be in evidence if those proposals could be demonstrated to be centrist themselves, and that is a laughable position.
I resemble this remark. I’m a moderate Republican who voted for Obama. As far as I’m concerned, the Democrats have been running better moderate candidates for the Presidency than the Republicans have for the last few decades.
If Obama had actually been the kind of left-wing socialist that conservatives claimed he was, then I would have voted for McCain and Romney instead.
I’m obviously not one of the people who wants to see the Republican Party disappear. I want the Republicans to come back to their senses and move back to the center and stop kowtowing to the conservative fringe.
At this point, I’m pretty sure the sane party for Republicans to come back to will not be called the Republican Party.
The Whigs tore themselves apart over slavery. The GOP will tear itself apart over immigration, at least when a couple of the smarter Republicans decide to pander to the Catholic Hispanic vote and get thoroughly snubbed by the Republicans who think Sheriff Joe is on the right track. ‘Self-deportation’ is going to work about as well with the Hispanics as it did with the Irish, and… remember the Native American Party? Heh. Neither does anyone else.
