Posted on 07/18/2010 7:10:40 AM PDT by maggiesnotebook
What if the GOP takes the advice of "consultants" and adopts a strategy of holding back on key, controversial issues leading up to November elections? What if candidates try to skip controversy?
Can we win back the House and Senate with only voter anger? Consultants say we can.
If that's what this race comes down to, I'll have to find something to smash.
The always straight-forward Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) has a roadmap for success, and so do I.
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Financially, America is an addict which needs to cure its dependency on excessive debt both public and private.
This cure is going to call for austerity. Pro-growth policies will help, but without drastic cuts in government spending - particularly the middle-class entitlements - prosperity will not return.
Paul Ryan's proposals are the first step in the right direction, but they still to some extent kick the problem into the 2030's and 2040's.
Thank you Notary Sojac. Our financial mess is so deep, and spending so ingrained, it will take some very strong politicians to put us on track. The first thing to do is make a balanced budget legal. Then whatever doesn’t fit into the budget gets cut. Foreign aid should come first.
What I really like about Ryan is how great he comes across on TV, kind of like Reagan. And he is very facile in explaining the benefits of conservative principles for all people, not just Republicans.
Give me Ryan/Bachman in 2012!
What has hurt the GOP the most were single female voters looking for security. The GOP needs to make the case that security does not come from the Dems. Not in the long term anyway.
Yes, and the GOP should own the happily married female vote. The dems have tried to drive a wedge between men and women for decades.
Why don’t the GOP just come out and appeal to women who love their husbands, and want them to have access to good, private sector jobs, not government dependency.
I like that ticket very much!
why not both? a plan whose roots started in voter anger??
The problem is that Joe and Jane Sixpack need to, in part, point the finger at themselves.
For going into personal debt far beyond their means to repay, and for voting again and again for those who kick the entitlement problems down the road.
We have twenty years worth of funny-money, bubble spending and inflated assets that have to be purged out of the system.
If the Republicans win based on a platform of "throw them out, put us in, and the go-go days will magically return" we're toast.
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