Richard Viguerie:
As the recent special election in New York’s 26th congressional district shows, Democrats will demagogue entitlement reform for political reasons, and are willing to permanently damage America in the process. This is sad for America. It’s pathetic politics.
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For 80 years or so, Democrats have used seniors issues in most political campaigns to bash Republicans as anti-senior citizen. They painted Republicans as eager to throw Grandma out in the snow, and willing to unplug Grandpa’s oxygen machine.
The GOP therefore has decades of Democratic embedded demagoguery to overcome. Many Americans have a knee-jerk reaction against the motives of the GOP with regard to seniors.
Republicans’ own head-in-the-sand, big-government policies during the Tom DeLay, Dennis Hastert, Bill Frist and George W. Bush years only made it worse.
In other words, Republicans have a credibility problem. Democrats know that, and will take full advantage of it in the 2012 elections unless the GOP shifts ground -- and quickly -- on Medicare and other entitlement reform.
There’s an old maxim in marketing: You can’t sell what people aren’t already willing to buy. Today, the majority of Americans don’t know that entitlement programs will bankrupt the country.
The GOP has some ‘splainin to do’ before Americans are willing to follow them to real entitlement reform. Thanks more to Tea Party activists than to GOP elected officials, Americans are beginning to focus on our financial crisis.
Good leaders are willing to charge the hill, but never too far ahead of their troops. The GOP hasn’t yet done enough to convince a majority of voters of the need for entitlement reform.
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I think you win this debate by attacking Democrats lack of plan to pay for what they are selling. That is a way to show Democrat irresponsibility. It also demonstrates how the results of their party of no strategy is the massive failure of the entitlement programs people want to save.
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