I think it’s a mistake to talk just about a shut down without explaing how bad the bill is. The issue is too abstract right now. Much better to break down the obamacare debate into twitter sized bites for the low info voters. There is plenty of bad stuff in the law the Dems won’t want to deal with right now. Only an opposition political party could force them to do that. Too bad we don’t have one right now.
I agree. It will take a salesman and a showman to get the message out above the media filters. The GOP doesn't have one in leadership right now. Cruz and Mike Lee are great, but they are not in charge of any Republican group. Instead, we'd be treated to a sound bite of Boehner mumbling at night, and then 3 minutes of Democrat sob stories and Dem politicians screaming forcefully at Republicans, and then news readers repeating Dem talking points. To get past that, you need someone who is out there saying and doing things they have to show, like speaking to a large crowd about the danger of Obamacare, maybe taking a train ride through the heartland, sending the top Congressmen all over doing the same thing, and getting crowds arranged all over. We have no presence on TV, so use radio and advertising and internet and every outlet we do have.
That's how you'd do it. But we've got Boehner and McConnell. I hope Cruz and Lee keep fighting to get this done, and maybe we can even embarrass the surrender caucus into fighting with them, but I am not optimistic.