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Barack Obama 2012 Takes Multiple Pages From GOP Playbook

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Barack Obama 2012 Takes Multiple Pages From GOP Playbook

Starting with Richard Nixon in 1972, and moving on to Ronald Reagan in 1984 and George W. Bush in 2004, Republican incumbents assembled a strategic doctrine that includes the following basic plays: Stress culture, and exploit cultural and regional divisions, especially if doing so helps detract attention from a so-so (or worse) economic record. Declare one's own strength as commander in chief and the opponent's ignorance or weakness (or both) in military and foreign affairs. Paint the foe as out of the mainstream and/or elitist in terms of money, education or both. Highlight wedge issues to expand fissures in the other party. Where possible, speak in sweeping historical terms about the greatness and uniqueness of the country. And evoke symbols of manly recreational endeavor.


In one way or another, Barack Obama already has used all of those, and it is only May.

Get out your crayons, everyone, it's campaign season!

I think it would be awesome if Obama attacked Mitt's faith nonstop til election day.
 
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Which means that Democrats are finally getting a spine, even if that spine is made out of douche bags.
 
It's only fair that Democrats are taking pages from the GOP playbook since the Republicans are taking a page from the Democrat's playbook and nominating a liberal.
 
It's only fair that Democrats are taking pages from the GOP playbook since the Republicans are taking a page from the Democrat's playbook and nominating a liberal.

Romney is not a liberal.
 
Romney is not a liberal.

Remember though that most of those calling Romney a liberal call Obama a commie/socialist. Their view of the political specrum is heavily redshifted.
 
I much prefer this model "than the model used by Bill Clinton, who won election twice (but never with an outright majority) essentially by blurring his party's differences with a conservative GOP."
 
People, especially presidential candidates, are not defined by what they say. They are defined by what they do.
Where are Osama bin Laden and Muammar Gaddafi today? :2razz:
 
Put "romney is liberal" in a search engine and see what you get back.

You get a bunch of far-right websites that prove what Redress said just above.
 
Did you expect left-wing websites to complain that Romney was too liberal?

If Romney were actually a liberal, I would expect mainstream Republican websites to be making an issue of it, not just the far-right websites.
 
If only Jeb was the nominee, we could have 8 more years with a Bush in the White House.



I could live with that. he was probably the better candidate of the two
 
Which means that Democrats are finally getting a spine, even if that spine is made out of douche bags.

As someone who's voting for Obama this year, I'm so proud I could cry.
 
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