> My point was that ANY attack on the specific family was unnecessary and distracted from the issue. Frankly, it plays into the Democrat’s hands, and validates their use of the personal to make their point.
I have to agree, and you have to make sure you don’t play their game. The Dims have used the Frosts as pawns, but we are giving them exactly what they want whenever we go after the Frosts and not the Dims. It scatters the message we’re trying to make, and feeds the impression that we’re on a personal attack. And whoever is sending them inflammatory email to the Frosts is not helping anyone.
Distill the facts into a few sound bites, like the fact that the Frosts qualify for the unexpanded SCHIP, and the outside high salary a family could have to qualify under the expanded SCHIP, and just hammer the Dims with that over and over and over on every media outlet looking to inflame. Keep it simple, keep it calm, keep it powerful, keep it out of the personal.
It’s as simple as this......the Frosts COULD have bought Health Insurance for their kids, yet they CHOSE NOT to and instead have their neighbors and strangers paying for their kid’s health care.....that’s it in a nutshell.
Nobody is “attacking the Frosts”. They are the ones who started this. They are the ones who attacked Bush, the Iraq war, and the republicans for “not caring”. They put themselves out there as an example of how cruel the GOP is that they won’t expand SCHIP because “the future is here,not in Iraq”. The Frosts made it political when they agreed to be the sock puppets for democrat talking points.