2010 Campaign Preview: Democrats To Say GOP Still Party Of Bush

The Democrats should try to push a bill focused on getting people back to work in infrastructure projects and on training people to work in a renewable energy economy.

They should push the Public Option or Medicare expansion not just for policy but politically, it polls well in places like North Carolina, Iowa, Arkansas. Force Republicans to position themselves in the way of a popular measure. Also push to allow importation of cheaper drugs.

Also push repealing Bush's tax cut for the richest Americans as a way to keep the deficit under control. If the GOP wants to try to block this let them.

The Party of No Changing What Got Us Into This Crisis can be trapped on bad political terrain.
Go get 'em.

Making people aware of what the GOP has done or not done in 2009 should be enough. You don't even have to say W's name.

Listen, just recruit the team from The Daily Show and go from there.

Bush yesterday, Bush today, and Bush tomorrow. Hang it around their necks at every opportunity, they've earned it. Start every answer to every question with something like, "Well, if you want to go back to the republican Bush years, you can do that by voting for a Republican, but if you want to move forward..."

I'm not sure about this strategy...

The proposed Bush method needs to be pre-tested by Madison Avenue advertising wizards. This is practically a neurological science in how to manipulate and the Democrats have yet to catch up with the Rethuglican's Sputnik in this regards.

If this proposed reminder is simply a verbal reference to Bush I suspect the voters will say to themselves Bush is history and how dumb do you think I am. On the other hand, if you simply show the candidate at some event supporting a bad bill with Bush and don't say much beyond saying that the candidate still supports this bad position people will feel uncomfortable and won't know why.

Shit, this isn't rocket science, just steal their 2002 mid-term campaign:

"Those Republic Party obstructionists need to give us an uppadown vote, uppadown now."

Dems would be wrong saying that.

The GOP has given up Bushism.

The GOP is now the T.E.A. Party.

Bush wasn't whacko enough for the GOP. They are now a party of total lunatics, Ignorants and bigots.

My Black neighbor wonders why I'm surprised at what GOPPERS look like when they finally came out of the closet, take off their sheet and showed off their fear of the future, intolerance, hatred, bigoty and stupidity.

There's only one way for the Dems to win: More Algore poetry!

Oh what a surprise! After failing to do anything about some of the worst, most dangerous, illegal and corrupt practices of the Bush years, the Democrats are going to focus on Bush's personal lack of popularity instead of policy differences since they really don't have much to run on in that respect. Disgusting.

Oleeb:
You are quite correct. Maybe someday the Dems will realize they serve a function other than to capitulate to Republicans then call their lack of spine "bipartisanship"...

They are truly disgusting...

You know, maybe a better strategy would be to blame everything on Herbert Hoover.

Or, how about, "It's all Richard Nixon's fault."

Yep. There's the ticket!

With Democrats like Joe Lieberman and Ben Nelson, who needs Republicans?

The idea that we have 60 Democrats in the Senate is ridiculous anyway. Everyone knows by now the actual number of Democrats in the Senate is much lower than that; the House has the same problem.

Recent events have made that painfully obvious to everyone.

And for those calling on the Progressives to create their own Party. That is ridiculous as well. We already HAVE one. Its called the Democratic Party.

It's the Blue Dogs and Centrists that need their own.

And by the way, the Republcans don't want these people in their Party any more than we do.

LOL. Blame it on Rio. BTW, can someone explain what exactly is the distinction between Obama and Bush? Afghanistan? Iraq? Debt? Maybe competence... yea, that's it.

Me too. He was not competent; that's the point. While facing a near-depression here, Obama continues Bush's policy in Iraq and surges in Afghanistan, continuing the epic cost of tens of billions per week. Money that is needed at home.

It is precisely this policies, started by Bush and continued by Obama, which demonstrate this incompetence.

Of course there are stylistic differences. Obama is coherent and, at times, eloquent; Obama the mumbler and bumbler. Is there a single issue that Obama believes passionately about? The public option? The one issue he goes to the mat for, alienating his progressive base(obviously I'm not progressive as fair disclosure)is the one issue which is draining and ruining our country.

For it is not enough to show a picture of Bush and say, "Here's the shmuck who's bankrupted America, draining HUNDREDS upon HUNDREDS of BILLIONS of dollar in useless wars...." Not when the obvious retort is, "Here's Obama who continues W's policies, spending even more money in Afghanistan."

This is a bit 1984 this a.m. at TPM with the giant picture of E. Goldstein AKA GWB. What's next Eurasia is now our friend?

A review of Obama's principled distinction with Hillary on the 'mandate' for health care during the campaign is instructive, and laughable. As is his pledge of having the entire machinations with health care played out on c-span. As was his support for the public option, and subsequent abandonment of the public option. As was his embrace of Lieberman and scorn for Dr. Dean.

RKT. You miss my point completely. President Obama is not Cheney's cousin at all; he's Bush's twin.

All the Republicans will need to do is show:
how HIGH the debit has risen under Obama.
What is really in the medical bill. Doesn't matter what is in it at 2000+ pages this is going to have a LOT of JUNK
50% already don't want this whole medical takeover to happen
Cap & Tax is being debunked day by day.

NO global warming since 1998. Ice caps are INCREASING in the north the last 2 years. Climategate. Polar bear numbers are actually rising. Taxes going through the roof, people are NOT going to like Obama's idea of drastically increasing utility bills, and driving companies to countries that do not have the same rules thereby destroying the remaining manufacturing jobs.

NYC increased taxes on the rich. Guess what? It didn't work. Some of them moved out. Some of them just reduced their income. Second earners quit to stay home with the kids, or decided to pay high priced accountants to find loopholes. So who do you think WILL end up paying higher taxes?

Durbin admitting that even HE doesn't know what is in the medical bill. If the #2 in the senate is pushing and going to vote for something he doesn't know about. How do you think that is going to turn out. Seriously, I don't care WHAT side you are on. That is there JOB to know what they are voting on. THEN after understanding it you make an INFORMED vote.

I think they are in BIG trouble.