I am not in charge of the message for national Republicans, but in face of the country’s economic turmoil, Republicans need to move the debate from Bush vs. Obama, to Republican control of the Hill vs. the Dems’ control of the Hill.
Instead of letting the Dems say that “when Obama came into office, this and this was wrong,” the Republicans need to steer the debate to where the country was when they (the Republicans) last were in the majority, to where it went once the Dems came to power. Following is in one paragraph how the Republican PR message can be delivered. I wonder how the Dems would fight this off if all Congressional Republicans use it. Better yet, I wonder how many seats the Republicans will gain if voters keep hearing the following for the next ten months”
“When the Repubs controlled the Hill until the end of 2006, the economy gained an average 200,000 jobs each month; the unemployment rate was at 4.4%, and we were on the way to budget surpluses again. But within a year of the Dems coming to power, the economy went into recession; followed by heavy job losses (totalling as of now to a loss of aproxx 6 million jobs); a high unemployment rate; and federal deficits that tripled from under $170 billion to $455 billion, and then tripled again to $1.4 trillion. The Stimulus bill which held promises of keeping the unemployment rate down with a monthly gain of 145,000 jobs in its first two years, gave us a 10% unemployment rate and millions of less jobs. Following 9/11 when the country and the economy were hurting badly (due to the attacks, the Clinton recession, and the revelations of corporate corruption), the tax-cutting Republican polices kept a lid on unemployment and the deficits. In fact, the only thing which appears to help the economy in recent months, are the Republican-requested tax-cuts for homebuyers which the Dems approved only half-heartedly. It’s time to give Republicans a chance at the wheel again, to drive this nation to a real job-growing economy, instead of a jobs-saved-or-created recession.”
How do you like this message?
