May 20 2011

This will work for sure!

Crossposted from The Stars Hollow Gazette

Our idiot Washington political “elite”-

Democrats’ New Tactic: Praising 2012 Republicans

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR, The New York Times

May 20, 2011, 7:27 am

Here’s how the strategy could work, according to several Democratic advisers involved in implementing it:

  1. Convincing conservative voters that Republican candidates like Mr. Romney or Mr. Huntsman hold similar views to Mr. Obama might make them unacceptable in a Republican primary dominated by Tea Party activists.

    2. …

  2. If Republican candidates like Mr. Romney or Mr. Huntsman push back against the Democratic praise, they run the risk of looking like they are flip-flopping on positions they once proudly held.

    3. …

  3. Finally, if one of the Republicans emerges as the party’s nominee despite the Democratic plaudits, it may be tougher for that candidate to draw distinctions with Mr. Obama on those issues where they have seemed to agree.

Will this work?  C’mon, we’re talking D.C. strategists here.  Even they don’t expect it to work-

“None of us think that the Democratic party can dictate the outcome of the Republican nomination fight,” said one strategist. “But we can have some fun.”

Or it could just be that Obama is actually a Republican, implementing Republican policies.

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  2. They are nearly indistinguishable as far a any change in the the executive branch’s behavior that would help the great mass of citizens.

  3. fucks who couldn’t beat the insurance companies screwing ALL of US,

    or the $ell out fucks who can’t beat the energy companies screwing ALL of us,

    or the wall street pigs screwing ALL of us,

    would have the HOPE of Sarah Bachmann Palin Michelle Whack-a-Doodle as an opponent to 0bummer!

    what are the sell out fucks gonna run on, his sell out fuck record?

    rmm.  

  4. and do what is right.  i’m still waiting for somebody to try that.

  5. Yeah, because everything is copacetic out here in the real world. We’ve got plenty of good-paying jobs, we’ve ended the wars, and our civil liberties are restored. I wonder who that asshole strategist is. Maybe Begala or Carville?

    And BTW, it’s such a bizarre strategy: basically they’re saying Obama is so toxic and rotten, Romney (or whoever) is tainted if he just touches on Obama’s views. Yeah, that’s the way to make people vote for Obama: a sort of reverse lesser of two evils.

    “Have some fun.” Wow, is it any wonder Democrats are seen as losers and buffoons? I don’t want Obama to win, anyway, so they can go on “having some fun” for all I care, but that party is definitely on the decline.

    I’m with Ian Welsh:

    This is why Obama must lose in 2012. I would prefer that he lose to a Democrat in a primary, then that Democrat wins, but he must lose regardless.  If he loses to a Republican, then 2016 you get a chance to put someone in charge who might do the right things (or even just some of them.)

     

    http://www.ianwelsh.net/a-blas…

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