Missing the boat
Hotline had an operatives poll about best campaign themes for Ds and Rs. At least among the Rs, these must be the same folks who thought PA-12 was a shoe-in. Obamacare, not surprisingly, doesn't even show up on their radar.
But as I explained in NRO on Tuesday, IWV's survey shows health care the top intensity issue among Independents (48% say that even if they agree with a candidate on every issue, they won't vote for him if they disagree on that), and government spending, while hugely important, is as much or more a values issue now about what kind of government we're going to have, whether personal liberties are protected, and whether the individual or the government is more to be trusted.
Obamacare is just that kind of values-marker -- and its a campaign conversation we should WANT to have.
Indeed, just for that reason, it's important to create a mandate around the issue of repealing and replacing Obamacare, as well as taking all the interim steps to defund and deauthorize it -- please help by signing and then sharing The Repeal Pledge.
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Sep '10
Re: Missing the boat
Will you marry me?
May '10
Re: Missing the boat
Clearly, it's not a debate Dems want to have. Politics being a zero-sum game, we should push it hard. Leaving this question:
"But what can I, a simple weenie, do about this?" - Mike Nelson, Terror From the Year 5000.
Re: Missing the boat
Craig, you need to work on legalizing polyandry...