Posted on 10/02/2014 5:57:09 AM PDT by cotton1706
Momentum is with Republican candidates ahead of next month's midterm elections. "To close the sale" GOP candidates need to emphasize growing the economy, securing the country, and reforming healthcare, writes veteran strategist Karl Rove in The Wall Street Journal.
At the national level, Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, will unveil on Thursday the party's 11 "Principles for American Renewal." It is up to local candidates to apply this thematic framework in their campaigns in a way that speaks to independent voters and energizes Republicans, writes Rove.
The national committee has laid the groundwork for victory, he says. It has analyzed how best to articulate the Republican message about the economy, budget, debt, and national security in a way that speaks to voters. For instance, in talking about the Affordable Care Act, voters are receptive to the argument that "healthcare decisions should be made by patients and their doctors, not Washington," according to Rove, who helped form the American Crossroads political action committee.
It is a challenge for a party that does not control the White House to present a coherent national agenda using principles and language that mobilize voters, Rove argues. Still, the Republican Party has crafted its national agenda in a way that can work for candidates at the state level. It has provided them with campaign training and materials to help them offer not just criticism of President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and Democratic policies but to "also show that they want to do something for America," writes Rove.
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1. Attack the Tea Party
2. Comprehensive Amnesty
3. etc.
That right there is funny.
If there is any champion of the principle-free candidate, it’s Rove.
Well, maybe he means publicly declaring your RINO = Democrat opinions:
“I’m just like that Democrat guy, only less sure of myself!”
The GOPe is so brain dead.
If you want principles that people will remember, keep the list to FOUR. Eleven? Who will remember a single one after they fall asleep at #9?
Idiots.
Rovian Principle #1:
Conservatism is more dangerous than anything Democrats ever dreamed of.
“Go even further left, that will get us votes!!!!!” -Rove
Vote for Republican Cave McKneely this November! He will work with the Republican leadership, the President, and the other party to help get things done in Washington! Cave will work with the Republican leadership in Congress to help bring commonsense solutions in government to our everyday lives! Cave is an endorsed candidate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and several business organizations! Come on out and show your support for Cave this November!
Cave McKneely! Haha. That’s classic!
The GOP has no one in the leadership who can articulate any benefit to free enterprise, the rule of law, sanctity of contracts, security of borders, or any of the principles enunciated in the Declaration, or the Constitution. They are not familiar with them, they do not believe them, they do not understand them. To the GOP leadership it is a foreign language. We cannot expect them [and most of us don't] to be able to argue a case in a language they cannot speak.
On my birthday I was asked what I wanted. I requested the chance to beat Karl Rover over the head with his whiteboard while yelling “shut up beeker!” Was that wrong of me?
Rovio is scum
The very definition of “moderate” precludes the idea of principles, much less of boldly stating them.
We DO need someone to step forward and boldly tell the awkward truths about our society and the problems therein.
What these people don’t get is that the people that the truth will offend
AREN’T GOING TO VOTE FOR YOU ANYWAY.
Of course, they’re still stuck in the paradigm of “40% will vote for you, 40% against, and it’s the 20% undecided that you have to fight for”.
So Priebus and Rove are coming out with commitmentless blather that won’t hold the GOP to anything.
E.g., no promise to repeal Obamacare, just an implication of at least modifying the act.
Also, something fuzzy on national security, but of course no commitment on closing the border and squelching amnesty, because they and their big biz donors want to flood the country with low-skill workers (who will go on the dole and be Democrat voters).
As to the economy, they’re adopting the Clinton language by which the public sector “grows” it. Again, presumably without any bold, tangible commitments to real reform. (Though here there are some proposals that would be sufficiently friendly to big biz for them to offer some specificity.)
Assuming this is serious and not a joke, why did they wait until 5 weeks before the election to decide that the candidates needed something to run on?
It's all just politics to Rove, results don't matter at all.
I have no idea why anyone running would take any advice from him.
Unless the GOP draws stark contrasts to 0bama and the dihms, the GOP will limp in with 51%, but that's about it. With a promise to repeal 0bamacare (not fix it....It can't be fixed) and close the borders (we have a raging epidemic of ebola, TB, and islam coming in) and the GOP will win in a walk.
Well if you want to see a rabid conservative, just listen to Juan McLame 6 months prior to an election. Of course if you miss that window you won't see that same border hawk for another 6 years. Perhaps the same principle is at work in the case you sited.
Id love to see the RNC convention over run by conservatives lol
You’re hands, Mr. Rove - the one does not know what the other is doing.
“F” off Rove!
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