The problem is people are too dumb to know the difference.
The willingness of GOP Politicans to campaign on and govern in a Reagan like fashion is what is dead.
“31% of voters thought that a President Obama would cut their taxes. Only 11% expected a tax cut from a McCain administration.”
This speaks volumes. Obama has basically promised billions of dollars of new spending, but people somehow fell for this. John McCain hates spending, and probably would have cut taxes, but he was not able to articulate it - or perhaps the media delibrately smothered the message.
The stock market did not seem so easily fooled.
This was the media’s election. They went all out to protect Obama and treated McCain like they did Bush. When I spoke to people at church this weekend, the Obama voters were not leftists. They were the ignorant types who really hadn’t tuned in more than to buy the happy enthusiasm from the media.
Most had no idea what the man really stood for at all.
Well, I wouldn’t consider “tax cuts as a cover for class warfare” to be Reaganism, per se.
Nevertheless, when the economy continues to tank, and Obama raises taxes on everybody to cover the shortfall, and when the jobs continue to fly to China and Indonesia because of the massive business taxes he will continue to impose, we will see Obama join Carter on the Habitat for Humanity circuit, come 15 January 2013.
Reaganism can still sell because it provides relevant issues to life and government. But we have an emerging culture which elected Obama, who seems to not care about facts or logic. They are PostModern in worldview. They “feel” their way to the voting booth. If they don’t “feel” it, they don’t vote. They want to be inspired, feel good. They do NOT respond to factual, logical life relevancy. They respond to cultural relevancy. We must convey Reaganism in culturally relevant terms to capture this crowd - or we can be satisfied with the results that we have gotten thuse far. Palin represents someone who is “cool” because she shatters all stereotypes. She seems authentic. Once they see how authentic Obama really is, his show will be over.
Actually, bubba xlinton campaigned in 92 for tax cuts. However, after entering office he “discovered” he was not able to despite the “hard work he did” and we received the largest tax increae in history.
If the public was supportive of his conservative policies why in hell did they saddle him with a left wing congress that did nothing but harass him for 8 years
American voters for the most part don't even know how the government operates —just look how many more vote in presidential than congressional elections —what do these additional voters think congress is for
The last 3 weeks before the election, when the most ignorant of the sheeple were watching, Obozo campaigned as a conservative, “95% of Americans will get a tax cut, yada yada ... “
Too bad the Republicans didn’t have a conservative at the top of their ticket.
Pure Blasphemy. 0be speaks with forked tongue.
Obama offered several vacuous platitudes and the MSM never questioned him on it. A large number of Americans have no clue what they voted for.
Some examples:
"95% of the households will get a tax cut."
"I did not hear Ayers, Wright, Pflager, Grandma, Farrakhan,.....(put your own names here) say those things."
"I want to expand the war in Afghanistan."
etc.
Slick Willard offered a broad middle-class tax cut, which he later reneged on.
“He offered voters an upbeat message, praised the nation as a land of opportunity, promised tax cuts to just about everyone, and overcame doubts about his experience with a strong performance in the presidential debates.”
Upbeat message? Praised America? I must have been watching an entirely different election, as I remember both he and his wife constantly denigrating America - hardly Reaganesque.