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Republicans need to focus on Obama instead of each other
Submitted by Drew Mckissick on Wed, 09/28/2011 - 13:06To all of the current (and potential) Republican Presidential candidates, here’s a tip: focus on Obama. When we do, we win.
Remember, we are living in a country that is rejecting Obama and everything he stands for. Poll after poll show him at the lowest ratings of his career, and election results from Scott Brown’s upset Senate win in Massachusetts, to November 2010, to the recent special elections in New York and Nevada prove that over and over.
Just as they say that the number one rule in real estate is “location, location, location”, the number one focus of this election should be “Obama, Obama, Obama”. Period. End of strategy. As we evaluate the candidates, conservatives should choose the one who does the best job of doing just that.
Recently however, our candidates have been too focused on each other, instead of staying focused on Obama and how they would draw a distinction between his failures and conservative principles.
Follow @DrewMcKissickFive Silver Linings of ObamaCare
Submitted by Drew Mckissick on Fri, 10/22/2010 - 08:59Now that we are seven months removed from the fight over the single largest expansion of government in US history, it’s a good time to take stock and point out some silver linings.
In a perverse sort of way, ObamaCare may be the best thing that could have come out of Obama’s first term as President. Had he and the Democrat leadership opted to push a more limited program that only extended to those who couldn’t afford health insurance, Americans may have gone for it, thus locking in yet another entitlement program that would metastasize beyond its original scope. But by overreaching they made the water so hot that the frog of public opinion can’t wait to leap out.
#1: It will eventually result in real conservative health care reform
Observations on the 2010 Republican primaries
Submitted by Drew Mckissick on Tue, 09/21/2010 - 15:26Some general thoughts and observations on the 2010 Republican primaries:
Conservative Republican primary voters are angry. OK, that’s obvious, but it’s who and what they’re angry at that is important. For now, they are angry at anyone who even looks like they’re part of the "establishment", the result being a long overdue house cleaning. For their part, most in the Republican establishment don’t seem to really have a gut level grasp of why. Conservatives are not just angry and looking to take it out on someone, they are upset with having the GOP run by people who patronize them and then set about undermining their goals, or at least fail to effectively advocate them.
Follow @DrewMcKissickThird party talk among conservatives is a waste
Submitted by Drew Mckissick on Sun, 01/03/2010 - 20:54
Recent national polls showing a larger percentage of Americans expressing support for a non-existing “Tea Party” candidate rather than a Republican candidate is a temptation for conservatives to waste their time and increase the odds of feeling even more disenfranchised in the future.I understand the frustration, especially the white hot frustration of those who have only recently become energized and involved, most likely as a result of our current President.
The energy, enthusiasm and commitment to core principles is great. It’s beyond great. It’s exactly what this country (and more specifically the GOP) needs. But what we don’t need is for that energy and enthusiasm to be wasted where it will do absolutely no good whatsoever to the principles it represents.
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A crisis is a terrible thing to waste
Submitted by Drew Mckissick on Tue, 12/15/2009 - 19:43
It’s been said that when life gives you lemons you make lemonade. So it is with politics.
The GOP’s 2008 election defeat planted and watered the seeds of what the party has been in need of for a long time – a real conservative revolution.
The good news is that Barack Obama is making it all possible. He and the Democrat leadership are providing Americans with a vivid reminder of everything they don’t like about liberalism.
As White House Chief of Staff Rham Emanuel was credited with saying after Obama took office, ”a crisis is a terrible thing to waste”. Well, just ten months in to his term, Americans are sensing a crisis. Specifically, the crisis represented by Obama’s brand of liberalism, and they’re in the mood for a revolt.
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Submitted by Drew Mckissick on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 15:35
There are two groups of people that have reason to be scared over Tuesday's election results: moderate Democrats and Republican leadership.
Why any Democrat should be concerned is obvious. They're the current majority party and they're in control of Congress and the White House. Off year elections are normally bad for the party in the White House, but Tuesday's election results point to something big next year.
In Virginia, a state Obama carried by five percent, the Republican candidate for Governor wins by eighteen percent - a twenty-three point swing.
Follow @DrewMcKissickSaying "no" increases Republican mojo
Submitted by Drew Mckissick on Wed, 08/12/2009 - 12:25
Slowly but surely, it seems that the Republicans are getting a little bit of their mojo back.
How? Simply by saying “no”. Because, when it comes to Obama’s agenda, it seems that saying “no” is enough for Republicans to gain more support of the American people.
Some recent polling from Rasmussen tells the tale.
By a long-shot, the economy is the number one issue on people’s minds, and they don’t think Obama and the Democrat’s are doing such a good job dealing with it.
Overwhelmingly, they think the government is spending (and borrowing) way too much money, and the national deficit and debt are looming larger in voter’s minds. Seventy-one percent agree that Obama’s policies have driven up the deficit.
Follow @DrewMcKissickSenate Republicans should use Sotomayor to put Democrats on the spot
Submitted by Drew Mckissick on Tue, 07/21/2009 - 11:09
With a newly minted sixty-vote Democrat majority in the US Senate, the approval of the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court is all but assured.
But what isn’t assured is that it won’t cost the Democrats something before all the dust settles. And that’s up to the Republicans.
Do they have what it takes to make her positions on hot-button issues so toxic that the Democrats from “purple” or “red” states who support her will find themselves in political hot water back home?
Her record represents just such an opportunity.
Republican opportunities in the Sotomayor nomination
Submitted by Drew Mckissick on Thu, 06/04/2009 - 14:23When it comes to the confirmation process for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, Republicans have an opportunity to do something that would benefit both themselves and the nation. That is, they should use the process as a chance to hold forth on the meaning of the Constitution and the proper role of the judiciary in our political system and society.
Three main areas are ripe with opportunity for Republicans if they have the nerve to play hardball.
First, the notion that “empathy” should play any role in American justice.
Obama previously stated that he wanted judges that had “empathy” when it came to how they made their decisions. But empathy is merely a euphemism for justifying politically liberal results.
Follow @DrewMcKissickAn open letter to Michael Steele
Submitted by Drew Mckissick on Tue, 03/17/2009 - 14:12Dear Michael,
Keep quiet. That's the best advice anyone could give you right now.
For someone who was presented to his party as a "great" communicator, you have developed one serious case of foot-in-mouth. To make it even worse, your offending remarks have been aimed at the core of our party, in terms of both people and principles.
First, there was all this silly "hip hop" this and "baby" that. OK, we get it. You're trying to present a more "with it" image in your first few weeks. That would have been fine for a while, but now it's getting old.
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