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 ...
Let me be clear, I admire Bobby Jindal. He is an excellent Governor and he is well qualified for that position.
He is not qualified to be POTUS and it is a mistake for the rinos to have him make the speech in response to the address by POTUS.
I did not hear the speech by Jindal, so I can not criticize the message, only this messenger, Jindal, on the Speech of a POTUS.
Fyi, bo’s ELECTION was approved of and CERTIFIED by saxby chambliss. juan mccain, Lindsay Grahmnesty, Kyl, Specter, Snowe, Collins et al.
Those RINOS are ABSOLUTELY DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE for the ELECTION of bo.
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The “party” is whoever is willing to work at the grassroots level, bring in people who believe the same to meetings of the local party organization, and stand for office at those meetings when the local elections come up.
The “party” is whoever is willing to link with others doing the same all over the State and then make themselves available to be delegates to the State organization to be there for the State level work and elections and finally to be elected to the State ‘party’ organization.
Also the ‘party’ is whoever is willing to link to other people in other States doing the same thing, so they can come together to affect the national party representation. And at that level work (through lawsuits to the Supreme Court when necessary) to close all primaries to anyone not registered with the party.
If you aren’t up to doing that, it isn’t your party, and you can cry if you want to.
True, very true. They are all politicians.
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