Posted on 10/02/2014 5:57:09 AM PDT by cotton1706
Momentum is with Republican candidates ahead of next month's midterm elections. "To close the sale" GOP candidates need to emphasize growing the economy, securing the country, and reforming healthcare, writes veteran strategist Karl Rove in The Wall Street Journal.
At the national level, Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, will unveil on Thursday the party's 11 "Principles for American Renewal." It is up to local candidates to apply this thematic framework in their campaigns in a way that speaks to independent voters and energizes Republicans, writes Rove.
The national committee has laid the groundwork for victory, he says. It has analyzed how best to articulate the Republican message about the economy, budget, debt, and national security in a way that speaks to voters. For instance, in talking about the Affordable Care Act, voters are receptive to the argument that "healthcare decisions should be made by patients and their doctors, not Washington," according to Rove, who helped form the American Crossroads political action committee.
It is a challenge for a party that does not control the White House to present a coherent national agenda using principles and language that mobilize voters, Rove argues. Still, the Republican Party has crafted its national agenda in a way that can work for candidates at the state level. It has provided them with campaign training and materials to help them offer not just criticism of President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and Democratic policies but to "also show that they want to do something for America," writes Rove.
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He should be using both of them to pull his head out of his butt.
Possibly because they wanted to drive momentum as close to the election as possible. So this was designed more as a pusher engine to get Republicans over the top, not as the main locomotive itself.
OR ... It wasn’t designed to help candidates win, but rather act as a post-election rallying point once the majority was won. The GOP could claim a mandate by pointing to having run on it, even though it didnt make a real difference.
Trying to nationalize a midterm election, particularly one with so much happening concurrantly and there isn’t one singular overriding issue is a tricky thing.
Principles? What principles??
“Rove to GOP Candidates: Be Bold and Clear About Principles”
“Then when elected we can go back to being democrat lites and dumping on Conservatives. We don’t need no stinkin principles.”
It is because the Republican Party has abandoned the true conservative principles that were championed by Ronald Reagan that in January of 2012, after 37 years of conservative political activism, I walked away from the party. Became an independent. When real conservatives run on real conservative principles, they win and win big. But when RINO's run on an apparent superficial presentation of conservatism, it's 100% phony and everybody knows that. I just can't understand how Republicans can run the same losing paradigm every time; get their butts handed to them over and over and stay on that course? It's the definition of insanity.
I have not read these principles. Any mention of Common Core and Amnesty/Open-Borders?
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