Great ad strategy — hang Congress around Obama’s neck
The Democrats have tried and tried and tried their ridiculous “3rd Bush Term” messaging strategy since the campaign began. I understand why they do it. President Bush’s approval rating hovers around 30%, making him the most unpopular sitting president in the last 50 years.
However, the message just isn’t credible when attached to John McCain. McCain has made a career, for good and for ill, of sticking his thumb in the eye of the GOP establishment, including the Bush Administration. The addition of Sarah Palin to the ticket would indicate to anyone wise that trying to further this message is like punching the wind. (Of course a few Dems have laughably called Gov. Palin the next Dick Cheney…even though she wasn’t even on the pre-determined “Next Dick Cheney” list in the first place.)
It’s something that I have been saying for several weeks in conversation that two should play at that game. Namely, that McCain/Palin should rip that page right out of the Dem playbook and slap Obama upside his tender little psyche and tie him right nice and cozy with the most unpopular Congress in US history — our proud 9-Percenters. Obama wants to claim the McCain “voted” with Bush 90% of the time (note to Dems — presidents don’t “vote” on legislation, they sign it, so if anything Bush has “voted” with McCain 90% of the time if we are to believe the Dem claims)? Fine — Obama has voted (when he has actually shown up to work) EVERY TIME with the 9-Percenters. And on the most important issue — energy — Obama and the Congressional Leftists are on the wrong side of the issue. B.O.wn it.
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Posted by Greg Scott on September 6, 2008 11:14 pm
» Filed Under Elections, Energy, Liberal Media/Bias, News, Obama/Biden, Sarah Palin, Video
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Bingo, that is why McCain did his mea culpa at the convention. Sarah is going to rightfully blame Congress for all of our problems and there is nothing Obama and Biden can say about it.
Where else would you lay the blame for America’s problems?
Congress became aware of our problems with oil dependency in the 1970’s and did nothing except prevent oil exploration,off-shore drilling, prevent building new refineries, expanding nuclear energy, increasing the use of clean coal for electrical production…etc.
Congress rewrote immigration law during the Reagan amnesty, but refused to provide oversight to ensure enforcement as required by the Oversight Manual that they also wrote.
Congress has known for 20 years that eventually social security, medicare and medicade would eventually destroy our economy. Now over 60% of government spending goes the those entitlement programs. The actual annual is equal to the Gross National Product of Canada which rank 13 internationally.
Even the subprime mortgage debacle has the fingerprints of government on it. They press lending institutions to make loans to individuals of low income through a quota system. It has only been a few years ago that Fannie Mae had a similars scandal of overstating their books. That problem cost cost the shareholders billions, and resulted in a $400 million dollar fine.
The problem with government is that career politicians place their careers ahead of doing the peoples work, and the only way to fix it is to establish term limits.