And it’ll work, I bet:
Jonathan Martin reports:
A tactic that would have seemed far-fetched a year ago, when the new president was sworn in with a 67 percent job approval rating, is now emerging as a key component of the GOP strategy: Tie Democratic opponents to Obama and make them answer for some of the unpopular policies associated with the chief executive.
This is, of course, the mirror image of what occurred in 2006, when Democrats ran against George W. Bush. Martin adds: “The challenge will be to link Democrats with the administration on such issues as spending, bailouts, healthcare and cap-and-trade while not personally attacking Obama, who remains personally well-liked even as his standing erodes.” It’s not much of a challenge, really; all Republicans need to do is look at the campaigns of Bob McDonnell and Scott Brown, who ran against Obama policies but made no personal attacks on the president.
Heck, even if Obama were personally unpopular, I’d still eschew attacks on him, personally – its Obama policies which are driving people away from the Democrats. Obama can be all puppies and butterflies in the public mind, but as long as Democrats are identified with the health care debacle, “cap and trade” and bank bailouts, it won’t matter. We need to hammer it home that a vote for a Democrat is a vote for Obama policies – and we should hammer it home in all 435 districts. No Democrat should go unchallenged.
Of course, this won’t completely do the trick. We also need a clear plan of our own, vigorously presented to the American people. And it can’t just be tax cuts and such – it has to be a revolutionary pledge to clean up government from top to bottom. If we do that and, even more, if we fully carry it out, we’ll secure a generation of power for conservatism, and thus the means to restore America to the Founder’s vision.
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