Irvine511
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so here we are. a few months after 2005, possibly the worst year ever for an American administration.
pop quiz, hot shot: the Republicans have just raised the debt limit to $9 trillion. incompetence has precipitated a brewing civil war Iraq. the Gulf Coast remains in shambles. Social Security reform was soundly defeated. there are virtually no substantive proposals being offered to the pubic.
so, what do you do if you must stop a Democratic landslide this November?
what do you do?!?!?!
answer: CHANGE THE SUBJECT! BLAME THE HOMOS!
[Q]House Republicans, for their part, intend to seek votes on measures such as the Bush-backed constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, a bill allowing more public expression of religion, another requiring parental consent for women under 18 to get an abortion, legislation to bar all federal courts except the Supreme Court from ruling on the constitutionality of the Pledge of Allegiance, a bill to outlaw human cloning, and another that would require doctors to consider fetal pain before performing an abortion.
Two pollsters consulted by Mehlman on the choice strategy said it would be counterproductive for Republican candidates to concentrate on highlighting their differences with Bush or congressional Republicans. Of course this is not exactly disinterested advice. Mehlman and company all want to help the president, who stands to lose most from Republicans' adopting an "I'm not like Bush" strategy.
Dave Sackett of the Tarrance Group said, in a memo to Mehlman, that distancing oneself from the president is a "flawed strategy" and would not protect a Republican candidate "from the generic backlash against the administration or the congressional leadership." Rather, it would turn the campaign into "a national referendum on President Bush and the policies of the administration and the congressional leadership"--just what Republicans fear in 2006. Jan van Lohuizen of Voter/Consumer Research said a campaign that becomes a referendum on Bush could also chill Republican voter turnout. "Anything we do to depress turnout, by not running as a unified party, for instance, could very well lead to serious consequences in November."
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/011/987ykuud.asp?pg=2
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pop quiz, hot shot: the Republicans have just raised the debt limit to $9 trillion. incompetence has precipitated a brewing civil war Iraq. the Gulf Coast remains in shambles. Social Security reform was soundly defeated. there are virtually no substantive proposals being offered to the pubic.
so, what do you do if you must stop a Democratic landslide this November?
what do you do?!?!?!
answer: CHANGE THE SUBJECT! BLAME THE HOMOS!
[Q]House Republicans, for their part, intend to seek votes on measures such as the Bush-backed constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, a bill allowing more public expression of religion, another requiring parental consent for women under 18 to get an abortion, legislation to bar all federal courts except the Supreme Court from ruling on the constitutionality of the Pledge of Allegiance, a bill to outlaw human cloning, and another that would require doctors to consider fetal pain before performing an abortion.
Two pollsters consulted by Mehlman on the choice strategy said it would be counterproductive for Republican candidates to concentrate on highlighting their differences with Bush or congressional Republicans. Of course this is not exactly disinterested advice. Mehlman and company all want to help the president, who stands to lose most from Republicans' adopting an "I'm not like Bush" strategy.
Dave Sackett of the Tarrance Group said, in a memo to Mehlman, that distancing oneself from the president is a "flawed strategy" and would not protect a Republican candidate "from the generic backlash against the administration or the congressional leadership." Rather, it would turn the campaign into "a national referendum on President Bush and the policies of the administration and the congressional leadership"--just what Republicans fear in 2006. Jan van Lohuizen of Voter/Consumer Research said a campaign that becomes a referendum on Bush could also chill Republican voter turnout. "Anything we do to depress turnout, by not running as a unified party, for instance, could very well lead to serious consequences in November."
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/011/987ykuud.asp?pg=2
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