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To: redgolum
Not like guns. There is no massive grass roots organization like the NRA.

The recalls in Colorado were organized by ordinary folks in Colorado, not the NRA. NRA, to their credit, ran a few ads. That was it. This was a 100% grassroots effort.

Interestingly enough, more democrats than republicans voted to recall Angela Giron in Pueblo. The gun laws, environmental laws and election laws were rammed through like Obamacare was. That, more than the laws themselves, prompted the recalls.

Is Obamacare disliked as much as what the Colorado state nuthouse did? If so, the money spent on attack ads won't matter.

30 posted on 09/18/2013 1:39:10 PM PDT by SpeakerToAnimals (I hope to earn a name in battle)
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To: SpeakerToAnimals

Go out and talk to people about Obammacare. Most are worried, but want some sort of socialized care (remember, we have socialized medicine now).

And health care does not have the same reaction in the populace as guns. Guns as a symbol in American life are very powerful. Healthcare is not. I used the NRA as an example because it represents not the forces of moneyed class, but a true grass roots organization. It is narrowly focused on one task, and has resisted attempts by those on the right and left to wander into areas outside of that task.

Healthcare does not have that reaction. Even on this board, there are many who want and demand that someone else pay for top tier health care because it was “Promised” them.

Simply put, we will have single payer healthcare, with all of its horrors, soon. To many forces want it.


31 posted on 09/18/2013 1:55:57 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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