As always, the GOP would have to buy an advertisement to explain their position, but they won’t do that. Instead, they tolerate the totally slanted coverage that the media gives them. Not fighting suggests to me that they don’t care if their message gets out or not.
I’m convinced that targeted buys would change the discussion and then their position would have to be covered. So, it would only take one such buy on each major event they wish reported correctly, and then the media would be forced to include that perspective, because people will see what the GOP was actually saying.
Is it fair that the GOP has to spend to get its perspective out? Not really, but it is very practical, and probably even cost efficient when elections roll around. They won’t need to spend so much time and resources then fighting misperceptions and erroneous information that has been spewed about them for years.
Like changing the oil in your car. You can pay me now or you can pay me a lot later.
I like that you come up with ideas, and that is true.
Obama knows that GOP is divided and Dems are united, some in GOP is sure they will lose, others are sure they will win.
Obama knows that GOP will most likely be blamed raising pressure on them to cave. Recall Newt and Dole gave Clinton the CR he demanded in 1996 after weeks of getting beat up.
Obama and Reid have dug in their heels for now :”You know what we give you for your CR? We give you nothing. And you can pay for our heath care too.” Reminds me of Godfather
This writer seems to think the MSM will side with GOP and demand that Obama compromise:
Making matters more advantageous for Cruz, Lee, John Boehner, etc. is the long-arching media narrative that compromise is the holiest of all political rites. This standoff puts the eager-to-compromise GOP against the Democrat position of “No way. No how. Not even going to talk about it.” That political ground becomes increasingly difficult to hold as time passes.
Why the Establishment Is Wrong and the Defund Gambit Can Work ( The American Thinker ^ | 9/25/13 | Joseph Ahby)
I agree that some advertising is in order. However, let me throw something in that the media has ignored. What happens if the govt shuts down and nobody notices. I remember the lead up to the sequester cuts and how the world was going to come to an end. Here we are a year later and it's no big deal.
I think the Pubs will discover that the Rats and media have been drinking to much of their own Kool Aid. The media and Rats rewrote the history of the last shut down almost right from the begining as a huge loss for the Pubs. What did the Pubs lose? They got the budget under control and only lost 2 seats in the House. Dole wasn't going to beat clintoon, so it's not like they lost something they didn't have.
My concern from the getgo has been active duty military, social security and medicare. These things continue to get paid. What do I care if a bunch of govt employees, who are over paid and under worked, and overwhelmingly vote for Rats are laid off. I think after a couple weeks of a shut down that it is the Rats that will feel the pressure from their base. The Pub base works for a living what do we care if govt is closed.
We are going to win this battle. The Pubs are not over reaching. How is it unreasonable to delay a portion of obamacare when obama has already done that for special interests and the congress.