Conservatives fundamentally are more about optimism. "Can-do".
It is this poster's opinion, Obama and the defeatism which the left is now adopting, are a hugh opportunity.
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They would be making McCain’s mistake....
I think this is just the thing we need. The only caveat I would throw out is we need to be honest. America can be fixed, and our best days can be ahead of us, but to get there is going to require sacrifice and pain. But, we “can-do”. This is a huge opportunity, if we will only take it.
Conservatives should resist the urge to talk up the economy. It only helps Obama. Let it tank.
While taking a positive stance should be the way to go, it must be noted that no matter how positive repubs come put, there is enough Dims to completely sabotage anything good that may happen. Not only are the Dims capable of sabotaging thing, they are willing to do whatever damage it takes.
I just Googled Obama Fear Crisis and I got 11,900,000 results. I’d say he’s overplaying his hand. Huckabee just brushed it off and said the fear card was a weapon in every President’s arsenal. True, but when fear is your primary weapon, it will turn off even the Drones in this country. A strong, optimistic, straight on approach to this current problem would probably halve the magnitude of it.
1) Our economic capacity was greater than the USSR's - in a war of production, the Soviet Union would fail.
2) Our domestic economic problem was largely Inflation - gov't can fix inflation by raising interest rates.
Reagan could say "It's morning in America" because he knew he could deal with both problems, and make things better.
If our economic problem is global, and if it is primarily Deflation, there is nothing a president can do. In such a scenario, it's 9PM and the idiot president would be declaring "It's morning!" Nope. We have to go through a dark night of the soul first. A Republican would be the best choice to do it, but a happy, smiling, optimistic Republican would be laughed off the stage.
The Reps need less happy talk and more anger. We are being sold down the river economically and in the process losing our individual liberties on a path to socialism. And our respnse should be some shucking and jiving and singing Oh Happy Days?
We all know that the economy is crumbling. Of that there's no doubt. I personally have friends losing their jobs by the week and it's gotten to the point that I hardly ever open my email anymore because it's depressing seeing friends losing jobs (through no fault of their own) and not being in a position to help them.
But at some point, SOMEONE has to stop talking down the economy.
Obama has been talking down the economy for so long, including after his illegal ascension to the White House, that he seems to be "stuck on stupid" in that the only word that exits his piehole is "crisis" in describing the economy.
Now, I'm not in much of a position to give the Republican's advice. I'm a Conservative. I'm HARDCORE Conservative and I left the party back in 1990 after Bush #1 broke his promise not to raise taxes during that economic recession.
But if I were to give the Republican Party any sort of advice it would be this: stop talking the economy DOWN. Do not use the word "crisis" and stop comparing today to the depression. It's not the same thing fundamentally.
If we are on the virge of having another "Morning in America" then the Republican Party needs to link Obama to Carter. For example, "This is the worst economy since the Jimmy Carter recession.
That statement in fact, is true. We are on the virge of hyper-inflation with the way this administration has been printing up money and piling up debt.
Talking point #1: For all the Democrat's criticism's of Bush leaving a Trillion Dollar Deficit, the Obama Administration has more than DOUBLED it in his first 30 days in office. How did they do that? Expansion of Government spending programs and turning on the printing presses, just like the Carter years. Add it up: $787,000,000,000 in "Economic Screw-The-Rest-Of-Us" Government spending (aka: stealth reparations) + another $250,000,000,000 in "mortgage rescue" (aka: stealth reparations) means more than a TRILLION in Deficit Spending, and additional debt on our children and grandchildren. We haven't even added the approximately $350,000,000,000 to "fund" that debt, bringing the total up to about $1,400,000,000,000 (That's $1.4 trillion dollars) That's Generational THEFT.
Talking point #2: Anyone who's opened a credit card statement in the last month or so has seen their credit card rates skyrocket. I opened up my Capital One credit card statement yesterday and found that for "economic reasons" Capital One boosted my Platinum card rate from 7.9% to 17.9% even though my credit score is above 800 and I pay my bill IN FULL each month. That's double-digit inflation for credit card holders, and we haven't seen rates skyrocket like that since the Carter years. Millions of Capital One card holders got that notice this month from what I've read online, and other credit card companies are about to follow suit. (Watch out Bank of America and Chase card holders, you're next!) Funny thing is, Capital One received $3.5 BILLION in TARP funds, and went ahead and jacked up rates anyway. Talk about screwing their cardholders twice.
Talking Point #3: By the Democrat's own predictions, unemployment is going to reach approximately 10% before the economy gets any better. When is the last time we saw double-digit unemployment combined with double-digit inflation (and hyper-inflation?) That's right, it began in the Carter years.
I'm old enough to remember gas lines for blocks, double-digit mortgage rates, 18-20% CD rates, hyper-inflation and the creation of the "Misery Index" under the Carter Administration. I see so many parallels between today and the Carter Years it's downright scary.
Which brings me to talking point #4: IRAN. We had the hostage crisis under Jimmy Carter, in which 52 American's were held hostage by Iran for 444 days. It was only after Reagan was sworn into office that the Iranian's released the hostages, for fear of Ronald Wilson Reagan. Today, Iran is literally holding the United States and the rest of the world hostage with a rogue nuclear program, and stated intentions to "wipe Israel off the map." We are now seeing a member of the U.N. (Useless Nations in my book) threaten another member of the U.N. and ally of the United States with complete, total, nuclear destruction. The last time we saw this kind of brashness from Iran: This again smacks of the Carter Administration. Iran must be curtailed and stopped, which will not happen under a Democrat administration.
If the Republican's stick to the above four points and link Obama to Carter, I think they'd have a real chance of taking back the House in 2010. The Senate is very questionable due to the fact that the Republican's are still defending more seats than the Dem's in 2010. The Republican's first real chance to get the Senate back may be in 2012. Having said that, simply getting the House back may be enough to stall Obama until the 2012 elections --- if this country has that long.
Just my .02
We need to send the optimistic message that our conservative fiscal principles *will* stimulate the economy *after* obama’s depressing Marxist economic superstitions send it tanking worse than it is now.