Republican Do's and Don'ts for 2006
A friend emailed this to me knowing full well that it was something I am most interested in.
Some of the "Do's" and "Don'ts" are fairly obvious...."DO" cut the spending, "DO" confirm the judges, "DO" secure the borders (maybe the author listens to Hugh Hewitt regularly?), "DON'T" lose heart on the tax cuts...fairly obvious stuff.
A couple of the "Don'ts" caught my eye though..
" Don’t fall into the old traps of the left via self-inflicted wounds. Often conservatives use bad methods to fight noble causes. " The Logical Husband often calls it "Dan Quayle syndrome". Vice President Quayle may have been a very lovely person, but he had a horrible habit of making the most obvious, popular conservative issue sound baked at best. Conservatives cringed every time the man opened his mouth because we knew that the left would have a field day with whatever he said. Remember the TV show "Murphy Brown"? How many of you only remember it because Dan Quayle attacked it because the shows title character was a single mother? The point he was trying to make was that Hollywood was (and is still) glamorizing sex without relationships - downplaying the need for two parents in a childs life. The author of the article linked above even has the "marriage issue" as one of his don'ts (Don't forget that marriage is a winning issue).
The other don't that caught my eye was "don't forget the other side has problems too". It is profound in it's simplicity and truth. There are so many times when we are so fully engulfed in our "problems" that we forget that everyone else has problems too. Yes, our party's leader has "strayed" from some of our core principles, but remember that the DNC has a full scale civil war going on within it's ranks. Whether it be the Joe Lieberman and Ned LaMotte battling it out in Conneticutt or Keith Ellison, Ember Reichgott Junge and Mike Erlandson battling it out in Minnesota's 5th Congressional district there is a war being waged for the heart and the sould of the Democratic Party. The winning side - the far left (personified by the netroots) or the centrists (personified by the DLC) will determine the DNC's prospects for the next 5-10 years! We would be well served to remember the optimism of President Reagan and have that be what the voters see between now and November. If the Republican Pary can present an upbeat, positive agenda to counter the negativism that is coming out of the Democrats, they will gain seats in November.
Will the Republican leadership take note of this very important advice? Only time will tell...
Some of the "Do's" and "Don'ts" are fairly obvious...."DO" cut the spending, "DO" confirm the judges, "DO" secure the borders (maybe the author listens to Hugh Hewitt regularly?), "DON'T" lose heart on the tax cuts...fairly obvious stuff.
A couple of the "Don'ts" caught my eye though..
" Don’t fall into the old traps of the left via self-inflicted wounds. Often conservatives use bad methods to fight noble causes. " The Logical Husband often calls it "Dan Quayle syndrome". Vice President Quayle may have been a very lovely person, but he had a horrible habit of making the most obvious, popular conservative issue sound baked at best. Conservatives cringed every time the man opened his mouth because we knew that the left would have a field day with whatever he said. Remember the TV show "Murphy Brown"? How many of you only remember it because Dan Quayle attacked it because the shows title character was a single mother? The point he was trying to make was that Hollywood was (and is still) glamorizing sex without relationships - downplaying the need for two parents in a childs life. The author of the article linked above even has the "marriage issue" as one of his don'ts (Don't forget that marriage is a winning issue).
The other don't that caught my eye was "don't forget the other side has problems too". It is profound in it's simplicity and truth. There are so many times when we are so fully engulfed in our "problems" that we forget that everyone else has problems too. Yes, our party's leader has "strayed" from some of our core principles, but remember that the DNC has a full scale civil war going on within it's ranks. Whether it be the Joe Lieberman and Ned LaMotte battling it out in Conneticutt or Keith Ellison, Ember Reichgott Junge and Mike Erlandson battling it out in Minnesota's 5th Congressional district there is a war being waged for the heart and the sould of the Democratic Party. The winning side - the far left (personified by the netroots) or the centrists (personified by the DLC) will determine the DNC's prospects for the next 5-10 years! We would be well served to remember the optimism of President Reagan and have that be what the voters see between now and November. If the Republican Pary can present an upbeat, positive agenda to counter the negativism that is coming out of the Democrats, they will gain seats in November.
Will the Republican leadership take note of this very important advice? Only time will tell...
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