While it's not in my nature to be mean ( ) standing idle and taking the high road will be ineffective. If you intend to keep the libtards in charge for the next 8 years or more, then by all means, be a nice guy/gal. If you want to "de-throne" them at the next midterm election and presidential election following, take off the gloves. Not in the silly way the libtards do...but in facts, checks and holding "that one" accountable for every campaign promise he made. Nothing is off limits.
there's nothing wrong with an occasional detour down the low road. i interpret what they're saying as juvenile name calling and constant finger pointing detract from the public image of conservatives. we need to present a different vision from big government nanny statism, and the principles we currently hold DO resonate with the people. acting like a child just drives people away before they even hear the message.
There is an adult way to go about this...and there is the childish way that Liberals have acted for the last 8 years.
It is one thing to hold an individual accountable for their promises and
actual actions.....in an adult way. "hey, you aren't doing what you promised to the voters on January 20, 2009 in you inauguration speech on the United States Capital steps in paragraph 23, on line 4 in sentence 3."
That is adult, that is factual, there is actual proof of your commitment to do something and you failed.
As opposed to being snarky, childish and sometimes ridiculous. Blaming GW for natural disasters or even 9/11 is a perfect example. He had no control over those incidents.....yet since 2001, and 2005 we have heard him blamed for them. Not only the followup of the disasters, but the actual disasters themselves.
If we have a horrendous natural disaster on February 20, 2009....
it will not be Obama's fault.....any more than it would have been McCain's. To blame Obama for the disaster itself....would be childish and a Liberal attitude.
We, as Republicans....must not sink to that level.
If he does not tend to the disaster effects properly....then by all means....he should be taken to task on every little thing that he does wrong....provided that it a real and factual failing.
Things can not be made up just to "attack and gotcha".....that is a "liberal" behavior.
We, as Republicans....are better than that.
We, as Republicans....must attack on the factual events....facts that can be backed up with real....not fabricated ....data.
Statistics are showing that Joe and Jane American do not want to hear dirty low snarkyness....they want to know that things are going to be fixed.
Obama in his speeches....said he was going to fix things...and enumerated what he was going to fix....the fact that he didn't really explain how he was going to fix them.....apparently didn't make much of a difference.
McCain hammered away about Ayers, Wright, et al....and obviously the majority of voters didn't really care. They heard McCain say that he didn't know much about the economy....and that 'fundamentally' American economy was strong and it tanked a few days later.
Obama may be young, inexperienced, and not know a whole lot about much of anything......however....
he never admitted to not knowing about something!!! That was a major difference in the two candidates. Like most of us....McCain was honest in his admission that he wasn't as knowledgeable in a particular area as he should be. Obama stood up at rallies and dazzled people with his footwork and baffled them with his bullshit!
And the voters bought it!!!!! It comes down to the majority of voters are not interested in the
how things are going to be fixed.....
only that they will be fixed. Show them results.....and they are happy and content and life will go on tomorrow as it did yesterday.
Republicans are going to have to be very careful in the next 4 years to keep track of the actual promised failings and point them out. Reasonably, intellectually, and above all with facts...not supposition.
Then a candidate must be found who is confident, even to the point of arrogance, attractive, reasonably young and
articulate! Baffle the masses with bullshit!
Think about Clinton and Obama....that's exactly what the two of them did. Both of them were/are smooth talkers, in their 40's, attractive - even sexy, to many, and they won!
Four the last several years....Letterman has had a spot on his show....
nightly....of GW acting like an inarticulate dork!!!! The man is not dumb by any means.....he just is not a dazzling bs'er.
It's sad that it comes down to this.....but it's obvious that it has.
I wanted Thompson, but I'm not sure it would have made a difference as he was older, not that attractive and a bit monotonal when he spoke. Though I was not overly impressed with Romney....maybe he would have been a better choice up against Obama. Huckabee is too "country" and earnest, and I don't think he would have been effective at all against Obama.
In my opinion, the GOP is going to have to come up with the "dazzler" in order to take the Presidency away from the Liberals.