Posted on 03/08/2009 8:02:43 AM PDT by FreeManN
The Republicans' Bizarre New Strategy Dan Gerstein, 03.04.09, 12:00 AM EST Instead of trying to out-Bush Bush, they should outsmart Obama.
Ever since last fall's deck-shuffling election, the strategist in me has been very curious to see what the Republicans would do both to repair the damage the Bush presidency had done to their brand and to reposition their party to compete in a radically different political environment. In particular, I wondered how would they win back the trust of the sensible center that thoroughly repudiated their governing approach in November.
Well, just six weeks after the official start of the Obama era, the results of the GOP's deep soul search seem to be in, and Republican leaders have more than lived up to their promise to think outside the box. Indeed, I doubt anyone outside Rush Limbaugh's reach would have ever guessed that the right's strategy for countering Obama--and ultimately escaping the minority wilderness--would be to out-Bush Bush.
...The cumulative upshot of a month's worth of coordinated Republican attacks on Obama's stimulus plan, Bobby Jindal's widely-ridiculed response to the president's address to Congress and the lock-stepped echoes heard at last week's Conservative Political Action Conference. The economic climate may have dramatically changed, as have voter attitudes about government's role, but the GOP formula has stayed almost exactly the same...
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Until people are willing to acknowledge the profound good President Bush did for this nation, this country is going to continue to flounder.
Bush hate is shutting down the critical thinking of of this country.
First, is the “barf alert” a foregone conclusion or was it just overlooked ?
Second, when the “mushy middle” becomes the “sensible center” we have submitted totally to Orwellian “logic”.
Third, the fact that principles don’t change should not be seen as “damaging the brand” any more that the laws of gravity should be taken as evidence of God’s stubborn nature rather than proof of His love for us.
Patraeus/Surge--2nd term War on terror
Tax cuts
Roberts and Alito
Bush cons:
Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz--first term of war on terror
Tax cuts have an expiration date
Harriet Miers--tragedy narrowly averted
Medicare expansion
No child left behind
Poor communication/unable to inspire confidence
Not prepared for banking meltdown
Why do we need to take advice from Dems? Obama is the one who tried to act like a Rep during the campaign, including promising 95% of Americans a tax cut. The article is pure BS from start to finish. Why even post it?
Why would anyone think that liberalism is the key to future Republican success- much less think that the idea is so obvious that objecting to it is “bizarre”?
Most of the carnage in the GOP over the past couple of election cycles has been RINOs getting beat by the Democrats.
The RINO way has been tried, the Republican Party even nominated McCain in 2008. Voters just aren’t inclined to vote for liberals just because of an “R” behind their name.
I recognize and approve of President Bush’s good work in the War on Terror but was not a financial conservative and his economic policies were obviously a disaster, not as bad as bo and the dumb demos & the rinos, but a DISASTER, nonetheless.
What do you expect from a guy who worked for Lieberman?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121979655649074871.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries
Mr. Gerstein, a Democratic strategist and political commentator based in New York, is the founder and president of Gotham Ghostwriters.
So, basically, the author of this article thinks if Republicans become Democrats, they will when elections? Right? What a moron.
I recognize and approve of President Bush’s good work in the War on Terror but Bush was not a financial conservative and his economic policies were obviously a disaster, not as bad as bo and the dumb demos & the rinos, but a DISASTER, nonetheless.
Bush Pros:
Patraeus/Surge—2nd term War on terror
Tax cuts
Roberts and Alito
Bush cons:
Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz—first term of war on terror
Tax cuts have an expiration date
Harriet Miers—tragedy narrowly averted
Medicare expansion
No child left behind
Poor communication/unable to inspire confidence
Not prepared for banking meltdown
Just for the Record, the statement about Republicans need “to repair the damage the Bush presidency had done to their brand”....
Bush did NOT damage the Presidency, the Liberal Media had 8 yrs of frustration and constant Bias to Damage the Presidency, and the Republicans did not have a Media voice.
A propaganda Campaign for the ages.
FOX news was “Delivered” to Americans out of this massive Media misinformation campaign along with the Death knell of the Liberal Print Media has also been gifted to Americans.
I’ll take 8 more years of Bush over 8 months of BHOle.
Anytime.
I do not want 8 more years of Pelosi or Reid, and neither does America.
When I read the phrase “Bobby Jindal’s widely-ridiculed response to the president’s address” my Freeper alarm system went off. That’s partisan claptrap. Agitprop. The article is bogus propaganda, and the author probably a slimeball. All based on that one turn of phrase “widely-ridiculed”.
The GOP would do well to stop taking advice from people who want to destroy it.
Well there's the problem right there...Who appointed these guys as leaders??? They're not MY leaders...They own the GOP???
You can't be a leader if you don't have followers...And the followers are fleeing the GOP like rats fleeing sinking ship...
If they won't leave the GOP, I'm joining a new Party, the GNP...The Grand New Party...
You left out amnesty, China policy, and general apathy in the face of democrat idiocy.
I would load up knowing I could take the risks I am not taking now. You want jobs boom! Who would pass on a 50% discount on new hires?
Add a public spending program only because it is not a total waste of money and will put the left to work too.
And cut the sh@# out of pork. Drop your earmarks boys. Clean bills!!!!!!!
Simple balanced and promotes investments. No investment no savings. How bout a little leadership! Get some real business folks on TV too. We dont need Warren Buffet. How bout businesses 5 million to 200 million and privately held
ones the could articulate what OBAMA means to their business> Psst this is a tax cut don't tell anyone!
Oh please, if we don’t need to read this Leftist crap here, it is easy enough to find in any of the Moronic Media. Don’t feed the Commies!
I gave up on this piece early, at about the point where the author referred to the ignorant chattering class as the “sensible center”.
“Well there’s the problem right there...Who appointed these guys as leaders??? They’re not MY leaders...They own the GOP???
You can’t be a leader if you don’t have followers...And the followers are fleeing the GOP like rats fleeing sinking ship...
If they won’t leave the GOP, I’m joining a new Party, the GNP...The Grand New Party...”
I agree. At first I thought that bo would ruin the demo party but, lo and behold, the rinos found a way to help bo destroy the Republican Party.
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