Needed: Great Political Slogan to Win in 2012
I've just started reading After America by Mark Steyn. He's not sparing in his discussion of the decline of the West spreading to the U.S. Last night I was reading how in 2004 about 20% of the American population got 75% of their income from the U.S. Government. It has to be worse than that in 2011.
This next election has to be framed by Conservative Republicans as the last chance to save America from a decline into a country that abandons its greatness in order to take money from Taxpayers "A" through "Z" and bondholders in China, Japan and India so as to fund programs for which there is no economic rationality and no authority in the Constitution.
To do this we need a great political slogan. (Yes, there's more -- like a good candidate -- but we need this weapon in the coming battle.)
My spur of the moment suggestions:
- Uncle Sam cannot afford to be Uncle Sugar.
- It's the Spending, stupid
- A China that owns all our bonds will own US.
Since we have not yet reached Labor Day, a rough start date for serious Presidential Primary campaigning, we have plenty of time to get this organized: a contest for best political slogan to motivate the independent voter. If Powerlineblog.com could run a contest, why not Ricochet? (This could work even if we have no prize money.)
I guess I'm old fashioned. I think a great slogan is a powerful force in opinion making. The most successful political propagandists in history thought so too. Propaganda can be truthful and a force for good. Unfortunately, it's usually neither. Let's change that in the coming election cycle.
Just as in 1994 when the Gingrich Republicans "nationalized" the elections in the House and won control for the first time in 50 years, we need a presidential victory and landslides in both houses of congress that are won with rhetoric which explicitly calls for decreasing the role of the federal government. A slogan that starts in the grassroots would help take control of 2012 away from the Beltway Republicans who see nothing wrong with business as usual and would never dream of eliminating baseline budgeting.
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Feb '11
Re: Needed: Great Political Slogan to Win in 2012
That's easy.
He Made it Worse.
Edited on Aug 28, 2011 at 9:26amMay '11
Re: Needed: Great Political Slogan to Win in 2012
How's that hope and change workin' for ya ?
In rhe Emeritus category; Government is not the solution to our problems, government IS the problem.
Apr '11
Re: Needed: Great Political Slogan to Win in 2012
" Building a nation of Prosperity.........
Upon our foundations of Freedom..
Dec '10
Re: Needed: Great Political Slogan to Win in 2012
This slogan would have to be used after the context was set in a commercial where video of Obama shows him making promises he's kept and broken:
He promised to necessarily raise the cost of energy by going after the coal and oil industries. Kept
He promised to close Guantanamo. Broken
...
He promised his election would be the moment the seas began to lower (presumably because of his environmental policies). I would turn this into an economic argument and say that if economic growth (rising tides) raises all ships (prosperity for the whole country), Obama kept his promise. His election lowered the tides.
In that context:
Raise the Tides. Vote for the Path to Prosperity. Vote Republican 2012.
Dec '10
Re: Needed: Great Political Slogan to Win in 2012
"Return to the dreams of our forefathers". Guess it is a petty reference.
"From the outhouse to the White House". Rick Perry could use that one.
"Real change, no kiddin' this time".
How about "No empty promises, our deeds will define us".
"Let's roll!" seems apropos.
" Awaken sleeping giant, it's time to get to work"
Okay Stephen S. has the best one. I am torn between my love of country and desire for change and cynicism toward our political class.
Dec '10
Re: Needed: Great Political Slogan to Win in 2012
Oh yeah, what about "One lump or two?" an obvious Tea Party reference?
Mar '11
Re: Needed: Great Political Slogan to Win in 2012
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
Samuel Adams
That works for me.
Jun '10
Re: Needed: Great Political Slogan to Win in 2012
How about "stop stealing from our grandchildren!"
Mar '11
Re: Needed: Great Political Slogan to Win in 2012
Dr. Bean's "He Made It Worse" is a good attack slogan for the presidential election, but there probably needs to be a corresponding positive slogan, and a really successful strategy needs to include Congress, too. Perhaps a combination of "They Made It Worse" (accompanying images of Pelosi, Reid, and Obama — the latter to be used with caution, as voters continue to root for him as a person, even as his administration fails) and "Change for the Better" as a slogan for Republicans (a tougher sell than bashing the Dems). Could be used on a variety of issues: the economy, spending, corruption, foreign policy.
Dec '10
Re: Needed: Great Political Slogan to Win in 2012
I'm with Joseph; everything I am doing is ruinous for me and will just get more costly, but it has to be done. The reason it has to be done is the kids around me, whose money we are spending. The slogan is a turn-around of the ridiculous liberal phrase:
"For The Children"
Dec '10
Re: Needed: Great Political Slogan to Win in 2012
Would You Keep An Employee This Incompetent? Then Why Keep Him in The Job of President?
Jun '10
Re: Needed: Great Political Slogan to Win in 2012
"Are you better off than you were four stimuli ago?"
Mar '11
Re: Needed: Great Political Slogan to Win in 2012
What this country needs is a "regulation reboot"!
Mar '11
Re: Needed: Great Political Slogan to Win in 2012
I'd go for a variation of one of your suggestions: "Uncle Sam, not Uncle Sugar".
Re: Needed: Great Political Slogan to Win in 2012
Here's the slogan. It was used in 1946 and should be up on every billboard in the US:
Had enough? Vote Republican in 2012.
Jul '10
Re: Needed: Great Political Slogan to Win in 2012
"Uncle Sam, not Sugar Daddy" is better.
"The Axes of Taxes"
Jul '10
Re: Needed: Great Political Slogan to Win in 2012
How about a picture of a job application and with it:
Miss Me Yet?
May '10
Re: Needed: Great Political Slogan to Win in 2012
No Hope. Won't change. Unless you...
Vote Republican 2012.
Nov '10
Re: Needed: Great Political Slogan to Win in 2012
Ironic slogans:
"Change you couldn't believe in"
“I do think at a certain point you've had enough of me"
"This was the moment when the rise of the prices began to slow and our deficit began to shrink."
Nov '10
Re: Needed: Great Political Slogan to Win in 2012
Jimmy Carter: How about a picture of a job application and with it:
Miss Me Yet? · Aug 28 at 4:07pm
What about a picture of him with the slogan:
"I am missing me already"