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On the other hand, Obama didn’t run on any agenda except FORWARD. Not even a plan for a 2nd term. I guess he didn’t need it - instead, he just bashed Romney and made what he thought were cute remarks about Big Bird, Romnesia, etc.
Yet, people expected Romney to go into details about his plan. If he had done that - then the media would have torn him to shreds. Heck, they did anyway. And, not knowing who he would have as cabinet members or elected Senators, etc., it would be difficult to lay out specifics.
This is my opinion, for what its worth.
I think you can be substantive without exposing yourself too much to demagoguery. Obama gutted welfare reform, one of the most successful social policies of recent times, and it go-put!t little attention in the campaign. The changes were hard to explain, but it could have been done. There were dozens of similar errors by his administration that could have been explained as taking us toward dependency instead of toward an opportunity society.
Please excuse the extra “puts” in my posts here. I must have had the word on my clipboard-put!
You are largely correct, although I think Steyn’s argument was a lack of big ideas...not specifics. He is saying he ran on a narrow idea that he could better steer the economy. He made no larger argument about the size of government, the massive growth of DC vs the rest of the country or liberty vs. government dictate.
At the same time, you have a solid point. Romney was hammered for not having specifics, but the guy in office never made any presentation of a plan for what four more years brings. We know he’d pay for 5 extra days of government a year with tax increases, but never mentioned how he was going to pay for the other 360.25 days of the year for his big government controls. A vague ‘Forward’ was all the voters needed to hear, apparently. It is frustrating to no end...we have to learn how to manipulate the media bias and every time a person goes on these shows use the time to hit on our points. We play defensive and explain our side. The other side just hammers us. With the press bias, they win because they never get any scrutiny that is seen by the average voter.
Michael Moore was right. If all the people who text in votes to American Idol show up to vote, the Libs can never lose.