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Hey Republicans,
You want to run a campaign this year on
1. Fighting against the minimum wage or even worse, repealing the minimum wage all together?
2. Fighting against equal pay and equal rights for Women in the work force?
3. Fighting against equal access to health care for all, or even worse, taking healthcare away from more than 10 million Americans who couldn't get or afford it before?
4. Fighting against equal rights for all, especially against anti-discrimination laws?
5. Fighting against reproductive rights of most of America, especially the younger generations who rely on birth control?
All I gotta say is good fucking luck with that. Good. Fucking. Luck. 'Cause if that's your plan, I have a pretty good feeling about this year. Yeah.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)once the Repubs properly package and frame those issues, see how many middle class voters will merrily join their ranks...
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)They run on stopping the radical, wild eyed Kenyan born commie before he steals your guns and Bibles.
Agony
(2,605 posts)i am going to bring your list and ask him directly, right down the list, all 5 points.
That will be fun
They imagine that these are their strong points.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Good luck!
enough
(13,262 posts)through the electoral process.
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)MellowDem
(5,018 posts)not for the long run, but Democrats don't turn out as much in mid-terms. That's how they won in 2010 on the same terrible platform. That combined with extensive gerrymandering and a senate race that just doesn't favor Democrats make for a bad year.
But thankfully we have the presidency.
DesertDiamond
(1,616 posts)Flatpicker
(894 posts)Otherwise, the platform doesn't matter as much as the R by the name.
We can be outmaneuvered on these off years. That's why we have to make every election count.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Each of those issues will be framed in a way that appeals to their base
1. Minimum wage is what is keeping people from getting jobs. Plus it is socialist.
2. Punish men for being successful? Besides, everyone knows women preferentially choose lower paying vocations
3. Socialism! Obamacare is gonna take away your beloved doctor and put you in front of a death panel, and raise your insurance rates 5,000%. And they'll sic the IRS on you too.
4. Giving a boost to 'them' over 'us' is bad. "They" are all lazy freeloaders who will just get that job over you just because of their skin color, sexual preference or sex.
5. Oh the Babies! Gotta save those innocent Babies! Besides those fornicators should be punished.
All in , but that is essentially how these are framed.
jimlup
(7,968 posts)that for the most part they will get away with it.
loudsue
(14,087 posts)North Carolina has been taken over by these creeps, and it is killing our state.