“Republicans Are Taking Off The Mask”
Thanks to anon for the title of this post!
Rand Paul clearly spells out the Republican agenda:
During an interview earlier Thursday on WHAS-AM in Louisville, Paul was asked what cuts could be made to such popular programs as Medicare as the Republican spoke of the need for spending cuts across government.
“You want to have more participation by the person who’s receiving the entitlement,” Paul replied. “By that I mean that they need to be more involved with some sort of economic transaction every time they use their entitlement, and that means they have to bear more of the burden.”
Doesn’t get much clearer than that, and, if this is what Republicans are proposing, they need to own it. Use the thread below to list other Republicans who are ripping off their masks.
Note: I’ve decided not to use the tea party thumbnail image anymore. O’Donnell, Paul, Angle, Cantor, Boehner, etc. are all Republicans. There really is no difference.
Yes, but Dems seem determined to NOT confront them on anything. Our strategy is such a muddle that I’m tempted to think Karl Rove (or some such sinister force) is putting together our gameplan.
There is plenty to blame the Democrats for in the message department — and even more in concentrating on the people to vote against and not on the reasons to vote for our candidates or even, in some cases, bothering to mention who they are. (See the “Beat Boehner” ads, and then tell me the name of the candidate we are running against him.) But I’ve started doing some volunteer work for a candidate — in another state, my own Representative has a safe Brooklyn Democratic seat and you people have Delaware under control. (I mean, c’mon, if the SALTed COD wins, we might as well give up on democracy.)
I reviewed a debate he had with his incumbent opponent, and I began to realize the problems he had. Debating with the New Republicans is like debating with Creationists. Give them an opening statement, and since either group averages about 3 1/2 lies per paragraph, by the time they’ve gotten 90 seconds out, the subject has become so confused and so far from anything resembling reality that you just can’t bring it back from there.
The only real way of dealing with a Republican debater is to ignore everything he says, state that his remarks are so filled with lies and half-truths that to discuss the subject we have to start over from the beginning with the actual facts.
But Democrats are reluctant to do that, to be impolite and agressive. They try to take the Republican points and counter them one by one, but its just an impossibility to start from the fantasy world and mythical kingdom the Republicans talk about and work back to something resembling the real world we are walking about in.
Excellent point, Prup. It’s something John Carney’s handlers are going to have to confront, and fast. Urquhart sounded much better (if you ignored his substance) than Carney in that JCC debate.
It was pretty interesting how Glen Urquhart got everyone to discuss debt during the question on national security. However, at least in the part of the crowd where I was, he was so unhinged that people were having a WTF? reaction to him.
I believe Urquhart’s campaign is being starved of oxygen & attention by O’Donnell’s campaign.
But Democrats are reluctant to do that, to be impolite and agressive. They try to take the Republican points and counter them one by one, but its just an impossibility to start from the fantasy world and mythical kingdom the Republicans talk about and work back to something resembling the real world we are walking about in.
Nicely said. This is also why commenting on right wing blogs is a crappy hobby.
But Democrats are reluctant to do that, to be impolite and agressive.
Indeed. Otherwise known as the “ignore it and it will go away” strategy.
the democrats hide behind the Republicans and allow them to look like the really bad ones, meanwhile they are all fucking the country.
I’m still reminded that Dems have a majority in both houses. Oh well, this is still all the GOP’s fault.