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The confrontation began with host George Stephanopoulos hyping how “Bill Clinton’s coming out this week saying Democrats should not run away from ObamaCare.” Dowd used this as an opportunity to criticize the GOP by asserting that “Republicans have made a mistake by not acknowledging some success in it. I think they're not asking the right questions.” Dowd then went on to maintain, “2014 is going to be about the direction of the country, the economy, and how people feel in their lives. It's not going to be about ObamaCare.”

Does this "Republican" consultant actually have paying clients? If so, they should ask for their money back.

1 posted on 03/31/2014 6:39:19 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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Someone should check Dowd’s wallet to see if he's carrying a pix of our president...
2 posted on 03/31/2014 6:45:42 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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The full court press is on by the msm, and Democrats. With the delays in implementation, the average American will assume Obamacare is a success.


3 posted on 03/31/2014 6:46:48 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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RE :”... former Bush/Cheney advisor Matthew Dowd...”

The other ex-GWBush-staff member who does liberals business is Nicolle Wallace , a favorite on The Morning Joe.

She's pro-homo marriage and pro-amnesty, and very chubby.

5 posted on 03/31/2014 6:49:36 AM PDT by sickoflibs (Obama : 'You can keep your doctor if you want. I never tell a lie ')
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If Matthew Dowd married Maureen Dowd, and they had a child...(fill in the blanks...)


6 posted on 03/31/2014 6:49:45 AM PDT by ken5050 ("One useless man is a shame, two are a law firm, three or more are a Congress".. John Adams)
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Mr. Dowd seems a little light in the loafers to me.

I did enjoy seeing Georgie boy sitting on the telephone book. :-)

7 posted on 03/31/2014 6:50:08 AM PDT by KevinB (Barack Hussein Obama: Proof-positive that affirmative action does not work.)
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"“2014 is going to be about the direction of the country, the economy, and how people feel in their lives"

BammyDontCare makes all of those MUCH worse than they would be otherwise.

8 posted on 03/31/2014 6:51:05 AM PDT by Paladin2
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The election may be a referendum on Obamacare, but anyone who thinks that a GOP takeover of the Senate will actually cause Obamacare to be repealed is only fooling themselves.


9 posted on 03/31/2014 6:53:48 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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” - - - conservative editor of “The Weekly Standard” Bill Kristol - - - “

Just what has Biily K. EVER proposed to be “conserved?”

In all fairness, Billy K. is as “Conservative” as is Speaker John Boehner, Senator McConnell, Senator John McCain and other doormat RINOs that we foolishly pay to CONSERVE!


14 posted on 03/31/2014 7:03:56 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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Well, I happen to agree to some extent with Dowd but for different reasons.

Just ask yourself this. What has the Republican leadership done to inspire more support from conservatives in the midterms?

What would the republicans actually accomplish in the next two years if they hold the house and take the senate?

After two years of control of both houses, would the Republicans be able to maintain both houses and win the presidency in 2016?

When I consider these questions I see very little reason to support Republicans on a national level at all much less to a degree that would take over the Senate. I think many on the right are in for a big disappointment.

15 posted on 03/31/2014 7:04:49 AM PDT by precisionshootist
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Dowd will get slapped again by Pelosi just for calling it “Obamacare”


16 posted on 03/31/2014 7:06:39 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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Dowd sounds like that so-called NYTimes Conservative fraud, David Brooks.


29 posted on 03/31/2014 7:24:12 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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Saying something doesn’t make it true. If the GOP just makes this about ODimwithcare, they will not do well While it is an issue, it isn’t as big an issue (and won’t be) as some claim.

They run on this alone at their peril.


30 posted on 03/31/2014 7:34:32 AM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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I think most of the delays are meant to postpone the biggest impact of ObamaCare, the new rate increases.

For now, the problems with the law are rather isolated, and have been marginalized as anecdotal. But once the actuaries take into account all the new unhealthy additions, and the inability to properly rate the higher risk customers, the rate increases will affect everyone. But it takes a lot of time to work through the system, as rates are figured annually, and are implemented throughout the year.

I'm not sure when the increases will start to appear, but when it does, that's when the real S%&t will the fan.

The Democrats thought it would be a success, and they hoped they could run in it for 2014, now they're doing all they can to eke past the mid-terms. And you can be sure as soon as that election is over, they'll start worrying about 2016.

ObamaCare is an albatross around their neck, and it always will be.

31 posted on 03/31/2014 7:35:49 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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in the 2013-midterm elections

Did we have an election, and I missed it?

Maybe Bama's 2nd term is only two years?

32 posted on 03/31/2014 7:39:26 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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“2014 is going to be about the direction of the country, the economy, and how people feel in their lives. It's not going to be about ObamaCare.”

The first three are entirely intertwined with the fourth, so I can't see how it won't be a factor.

33 posted on 03/31/2014 7:43:15 AM PDT by kevkrom (I'm not an unreasonable man... well, actually, I am. But hear me out anyway.)
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Matthew Dowd is a joke. He is a former democrat who somewhere along the line, globbed onto GOP politics and apparently rode the GOP wave of the early 2000s to success and switched parties. Almost all of his positions are very liberal. He is so liberal, that he does not get along with Karl Rove - so that should say something.


35 posted on 03/31/2014 8:13:50 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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