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Healthcare Myths and the Republican Opportunity

Submitted by Wyatt Taylor on Sat, 07/25/2009 - 15:16
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Check out this article on Healthcare debate myths:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/07/23/health_care_mythology_97552.html

It's a pretty long read, but very important.  I'm more and more convinced that this is the type of messaging we need going into the 2010 and 2112 cycles - sort of a push back against all these liberal premises that have become conventional wisdom.  Kind of an "Everything they've told us is wrong".  McCain missed a lot of these opportunities in the debates; we need a candidate in 2012 who will be capable of making concise arguments against these types of liberal yarns.  All the more so because President Obama is a very conventional thinker.  Taking the weak premises out from under his leftist policies will leave him looking foolish (or more foolish). 

Despite all their claims to the contrary, Dems have a crucial weekness we can exploit with facts and science.  For an excellent treatise on this, see the late Michael Crichton's "Aliens Cause Global Warming" speech from 2003.

http://www.michaelcrichton.net/speech-alienscauseglobalwarming.html

Dems have completely married themselves to the "science" of man-made global warming.  As the "concensus" further unravels in the coming years, Republicans have an opportunity to once again be seen as the true champions of science and reason.  Ditto with the breakthroughs in adult stem cell (iPS) research versus embryonic stem cells.  This will have the added benefit of broadening our appeal to younger voters, with whom the Republican party has struggled of late.  While I've always been sympathetic to conservatism, my public school education grounded me in the liberal myths and presuppositions that carry one naturally to liberal policy prescriptions.  It wasn't until I began looking more closely that these foundations eroded and I found myself back on conservatism's shores.  This happened issue-by-issue.  I think we can do much to help a generation of youth until now firmly in Democrat land find their way to the Republican party.  They are The Next Right.

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Republican Opportunity...cough

Submitted by KrautSA on Mon, 07/27/2009 - 08:38.

I wanted to submit a comment and have yet to read the healthcare link, although I'm sure I can guess several of the myths.  Regarding the weakness you speak of ... my main fear is from the 60+% of liberals that don't research to become an informed voter, so is this really a weakness.  These liberals are the infomercial voters, that buy the shamwow and the topsi turnvey just because the pitch sounds good.  As in the case with our president Hussein...once their man took office he was not held accountable nor will he ever be to his campaign promises.  Many of his kool aid drinkers probably don't even know what those promises were at this point.  And sadly most of his votes were for the "he's not Bush crowd".  Which that is the most disturbing of them all, because that just shows how weak McCain actually was.  We need Newt.

I will say that the dems have linked themselves to the man made global warming which I love.  And contrary to their belief this summer is currently shaping up to be one of the top 5 coldest summers within the last 100 years.  I bet their hockey stick didn't predict this one!! 

Regarding public education....I think our system from elemetary through our universities are farther down the toilet than you think.  Take my wife for example in an elemetary role is handcuffed by a beyond liberal administration and a union.  A normal day ranges from a pro obama slurp from a prinicipal to the union (with  borderline forced participation) proping up a bleeding heart lazy liberal teacher that wouldn't be hired at Walmart as a greeter.  Or from my own personal expirience dealing with a professor that admitted to a LSD enhanced alien abduction.  I just think there are many educational institutions that need to clean house and start from scratch.