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Not Your Father’s Democrat Party
I have what I believe would be an effective strategy for the Republican Party in the 2020 election. The slogan would be, “This Is Not Your Father’s Democrat Party”
Imagine a commercial starting with audio something like this, “Your grandparents, father, and mother, were always loyal to the Democrat Party. They always believed that the Democrats stood for the common man. You felt the same way. Unfortunately, today’s Democrat Party is not your father’s Democrat Party. This is what the party stood for back then.”
Then show clips of famous democrats saying things like;
“My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” – John F. Kennedy
“Those who enter the country illegally and those who employ them disrespect the rule of law, and they are showing disregard for those who are following the law. We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented (and) unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently and lawfully to become immigrants in this country” – Barack Obama – 2006
“Our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens.” – Bill Clinton, 1995 State of the Union Address
“No sane country would allow for birthright citizenship.” – Harry Reid – 1993
“I worked hard to put more than 100,000 police on the street and the crime rate went way down.”–Former President Bill Clinton, in an interview on CNN, Sept. 24, 2014
Then end with the sentence, “The Democrat Party that you have been loyal to is not the same as it was when they earned your loyalty. Why are you sticking around?”
Would people respond to this? Let’s face it: the Democrat Party has gone off the rails. Isn’t it time the Republicans take advantage of that?
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A little tweaking here and there and I think your suggestion has real potential. I like it!
I like this a lot.
But what if the Dems do a commercial with Ronald Reagan talking about free trade, and the important of immigration?
I long for the return of a sane Democratic Party and the Republican Party of Ronald Reagan.
“It’s 2019…. do you know where your Democratic party went?”
Oh I know it needs tweeting. I am sure someone can come up with better quotes. In fact, I think there should be a whole serious of commercials with different quotes every week or so.
There are plenty of Dems that used to talk about free trade. Use their quotes.
I don’t think Reagan ever talked in favor of illegal immigration. That is another thing the Republicans need to point out loud and clear, they are, and always have been, in favor of immigration. They just want people to come legally.
Tom Cotton has been arguing for less legal immigration.
I like it – !! And you are right – it isn’t my dad’s Democratic Party – if he were alive today, he wouldn’t recognize it.
You have described what turned me into a Republican, although it happened in 2004.
You mean the Ronald Reagan who played with tariffs? Reagan also wanted peace, but he muscled up and asserted our strength to get there, including the nuclear arms race. Contradictions in the short term, but the only way to secure the goal in the long term.
And? That doesn’t mean he’s against immigrants. Unless you think that anything short of no limit open borders is equivalent to anti-immigrant.
Great Idea.
The old Democrats were for the common man and the middle class and the working class.
Not so anymore. The Dems kowtow now to the uber wealthy Progressive Heavy zip codes around America from the Hamptons to Manhattan to Beverly Hills, Bel Air and Malibu to the Silicon Valley. That is where they raise money and money to the Pay to Play Democrats now is all that matters.
The Dems are against manufacturing , new housing and any new infrastructure that would allow America to effectively expand inexpensive manufacturing and housing on the periphery of it’s cities, because the monied Progressive Elites won’t allow it. It is against their “green” agenda.
You can’t be for the common man when you effectively are against expanding manufacturing and inexpensive housing tracts. But to make matters worse:
A The Democrats now want to import the uneducated illegals to expand their potential voter base at the expense of the working class that competes for the same jobs.
B. The now Marxist oriented Progressive Democrats want to force the poor and working class into homelessness to again expand their voter base and to create the sense that our Free Market oriented Constitutional Republic is no longer serving the people and needs to be replaced by a Marxist Collectivist System more to their liking
Your dad’s democratic party? This is not Barrack Obama’s democratic party.
I used to get so annoyed with people who’d claim that “IF Ronald Reagan came back to day, the modern republican party would reject him” – I think this idea is completely false. I think Mitt Romney was the closest candidate to Ronald Reagan that republicans have had since Reagan, look who rejected him and how the media treated him.
IF anyone where to be rejected by his modern party, it would be JFK. The Reagan Revolution was mostly a continuation and a completion of the JFK agenda. Low taxes, strong military, opposition and containment of communism as a primary goal of foreign policy.
(Larry Kudlow did a book on this topic “JFK and the Reagan Revolution: A Secret History of American Prosperity”)
Well, there may be value in less legal immigration. Or less from country X but more from country Y. Or less work visas in favor of having high end tech workers become citizens.
I favor legal immigration, but letting in more people than will become Americanized (not to mention employed) is self-destructive and a betrayal of people already here.