Intelligent voters know that elections are won by winning the voters that don't pay real attention, using a phrase like "common sense" is for them, surely you as an "intelligent voter" can handle hearing it.
The people that have to be told that will vote for Obozo. The truth is that the GOP to be successful has to be careful that when they promise something, they will deliver. It will not be skittles and rainbows to undo the extreme damage Obama has done. Somehow they will need to inform people of the damage with specifics and prepare them for the difficult task of getting the country healthy again.
If they fail, it will be their last chance for a long time to come. The outcome in 2012 will depend heavily on what happens if the GOP wins one or both houses in 2010.
I will worry about 2012 sometime next year. By then people will start to really feel the pain Obozo and the dems have strapped them with.
Sadly, that's probably true. But, I'm not sure any campaign slogan is going to appeal to these uninformed, uneducated and mostly disinterested voters. These are the people with whom the MSM still has sway. What is more important than a candidate's rhetoric (with these voters), is how they're portrayed on Saturday Night Live and other pop-culture outlets.
This is why Republicans have an uphill battle. People are idiots.