Posted on 09/13/2006 12:02:14 PM PDT by mathprof
The Republican message for this fall’s election season turns Franklin Roosevelt’s famous statement on its head: fear is good, or at least it’s a strategy. They want the electorate to be afraid, very afraid — of the terrorists, of course, but also of an elegantly dressed woman from San Francisco.
Democratic operatives have been warning Pelosi for months that she needs to prepare for what Rove and the GOP have in store: an all out, coast-to-coast assault.
As the Democratic leader in line to be speaker if her party wins control of the House, Republicans see Pelosi as the piñata of politics in 2006.
Six years into the Bush presidency, GOP operatives in essence are conceding the obvious: voters are angry about Iraq, the economy, immigration and incompetence.
Rather than spend a lot of time and money defending their record to voters such as Albino, the Rovepublicans will try to scare him into sticking with them — or at least staying away from the polls altogether. The way to do that, they have decided, is to scare him silly about what the Democrats would do with control of Congress.
They want to use Pelosi to give their vision of nightmare a face and name and history.
It’s a page from an old GOP playbook. In 1984, the Democrats held their convention in San Francisco; Republicans renominated Ronald Reagan in Dallas. It was the dawn of the Red State-Blue State, cultural/political divide we see today. Democrats made history, nominating the first woman — Geraldine Ferraro — for vice president. “Independent” GOP groups swarmed into San Francisco... to denounce the Democrats for their liberal stands on abortion, gay rights, taxes and so on. Reagan won 49 states.
The epithet “San Francisco Democrat” had power then, and for years thereafter. Does it still?
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The libs get pissed if Rummy or W report progress, and they get pissed when W reminds us that the WoT will never totally end.
Ant I get pissed listening to these Hate America First crowd spew lies and inuendo.
Oh, cry me a river.
Poor, poor little old Nancy Pelosi.
As the Democratic leader in line to be speaker if her party wins control of the House, Republicans see Pelosi as the piñata of politics in 2006.
Hmmmm....an all out, coast-to-coast assault...the piñata of politics. Sounds exactly what the Dems have done against Bush over the past five years. What a hypocrite Fineman is.
Rovepublicans...?
cute
Interesting that PMSnbc has only this to attack.
So far, it seems the dem strategy for the mid term is:
1) Get Republicans to stop talking about terrorism as a national security and thus legitimate midterm election issue.
2) Get Republicans to quit pointing out the weaknesses in the Democratic leadership.
Fineman is a PIMP for the DNC. I would not be surprised to find out he was getting paid under the table. What a squirrel.
Quote: "Interesting that PMSnbc has only this to attack."
What else can they hit. They have hit the Iraq=Vietnam thing about as hard as they can. Gas prices are dropping which will soon have an impact on how voters feel about hte economy. The dems are on the wrong side of the issues when it comes to the WOT. Thus, Fineman and MSNBC have to cry "NO FAIR!!!!"
This pre-emptive dem-op strategy to try to obscure the fact that Nancy Pelosi is indeed dangerous for America. Lord help us if she's able to dismantle what few defenses we have left.
It points to the DNC strategy.
BE EMOTIONAL. Fight with FEELINGS OF ANGER.
AAAHAAHAHAHAHAHGGRRAAAAG!!!!!!!!!
They are trying to make Rove the pinata. Ironic because it leaves Pres. Bush to be presidential.
While Nancy looks for pinatas, perhaps along the border, GWBush can put pressure to ask if they walk the walk AND talk the talk.
Democrats and the MSM love to project. Of course we know that the "pinata" strategy was one of their favorite. Look what they did with Newt Gingrich, DeLay, and Dick Cheney, George Bush, and Rumsfeld! The GOP hasn't been nearly as consistently mean to Pelosi. They should.
what scares me silly is that so many people *AREN'T* scared silly what will happen if the Demonicrats in general take one or both houses of Congress, or if in particular the San Francisco commie Pelosi becomes speaker of the House...
I'll expand on that thought, you beat on a pinata to get the goodies. You beat on Pelosi to get her to spew crap. there are no goodies.
San Francisco Democrats...
how about the "rightwing militias" - remember that? you know, the ones who "blew up the building at OKC" ?? boy they were a *real* threat weren't they! or perhaps just Clinton's excuse to ignore the gathering storm of Jihad...
Well, she does appear to have been repeatedly whacked with an ugly stick.
All impeachment all the time.
It needs a burqa and a veil.
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