% The Flaming Right by paul murphy

Commit Now

Basically since Bush V. Gore in 2000, Republicans have been playing a confused, reactive, game - letting the news media, and thus the most extreme among the democrats, both set the agenda and drive the public's view of the issues.

To change that republicans need to ennunicate a clear platform for 2010 and then stick to it in the face of the howling mob it will provoke. Specifically, what republicans need to do is write and publish two bills for passage by the republican majorities expected in both House and Senate immediately after the 2010 elections.

1. one repealing, revoking, and forgiving much of the Obama/Pelosi presidency; and,

2. the other providing for vigorous and through going electoral reform.

The obvious purposes of both, of course, are to show republican and independent voters exactly what they're voting for; opening the floodgates for voter remorse among saner democrats; and, turning the 2010 elections into a referendum celebrating the Obama economy.

The less obvious purposes include:

1. helping the Republican party unite to recruit, focus, and assist better candidates;

2. infusing the left with a sense of futility; thereby driving them into more and more desperate action - and ever further from the American main stream;

3. forcing more of the media players influencing electoral outcomes to make sharper choices between the general democrat addiction to the ad hominem attack and the republican focus on fact and policy - thus recruiting a few to our side and pushing a majority into increasingly caricaturesque postures;

4. causing many of bureaucrats whose jobs require them to implement the Obama agenda to work to rule as they combine trying to keep their jobs with waiting for the 2010 outcome;

5. motivating hundreds of thousands of individual economic decision makers across the United States to both postpone major decisions until after November 2010 and actively work toward a republican sweep in those elections;

6. giving notice that after 2010 there will be no more Al Frankens, no more tolerance for ACORN style corruption and voter intimidation, no more tolerance for Obama style uncontrolled fund raising, and no more intimidation of electoral officials through the legal system; and,

7. creating campaign opportunities for republicans. Most could, for example, make big gains using attack ads based on the Obama administration's Willie Horton moment: Holder's refusal to prosecute the thugs ACORN posted in front of several Philidelphia polling centers.

In effect the strategy is to offer the American voter a guarantee: if they vote republican, they'll know exactly what they're voting for - and that's the reverse of what happened in 2008 when 84% of Obama voters didn't know about his commitment to at least double energy prices, roughly as many voted for him because he opposed NAFTA as voted for him because he supported it, and most American jews voted for a guy whose every action shows he's on side with the terrorists selling the destruction of Isreal as their personal route to power.