Can the Right’s opposition to the Obama Administration go off track? Sure, especially if we try using the same purely visceral rhetoric the Left used against Bush. Haven’t you noticed yet. The Left is expected to be petty but when the right does the same thing, we are being divisive.
Calling the President a Socialist, Marxist, Leninist, Progressive radical or whatever other term is en vogue this week, won’t work in swaying the middle to the right. You see the Middle has bought the fib that the Left gets petty in defense of the little guy, while the Right is just mean. You see when the Left (let me rephrase that) as the Left continues to stew in their hatred of Bush, they are justified in doing so.
Why? Bush was horrible at defending his positions and the media spent eight years making “Dubyaa” into Ford or Quayle. That ship has sailed, and only history can fix it. But when it comes to President Obama, you can’t call him an idiot, Socialist, or any moniker like that because doing so attacks the chosen one of the ‘60s kids, the majority of media, labor, civil rights groups, ‘moderate’ elites and the list goes on and on. All of these groups have a sacred right to insult and demean whomever they like. The Right, however, is too mean to be allowed to be… well, mean.
If the Right is going to win it has to be on substance and argument, such as opposing agenda and policy, rather than the man himself. That shouldn’t be hard, there is plenty to criticize. Art Laffer wrote an effective piece, on June, 6th of this year, explaining how the scheduled tax increases will be horrible for the following year’s economy. That’s a good start, but you have to go further than what Laffer did. You see the Left has sold too many people on the whole “tax cuts for the rich” fib. So the Right has to explain that the last time this sort of tax increases were imposed, compounded with protectionist policy, was under Herbert Hoover. See what I did there? Every good Left winger hates Hoover, so I have used hate association against the policy, not the man.
The next policy to politely disagree with, is with the Health Care Law. Now you can’t attack the law itself, attacking “Obamacare” comes dangerously close to attacking the President. One way to avoid this it to point out certain parts of the law. “Price controls” have been regularly and openly discussed within the Administration. So we remind people that Nixon disastrously attempted price controls during his evil reign. Once again “tricky Dick” is so hated by every good left-winger that such an association would be terribly effective. Plus it would get Bob Woodward back on TV, and I know you’ve missed him.
Woodward aside, using failed policies of hated Republicans, that are eerily similar to policies of today, will leave the left in a tizzy. Think about it, who do you hate if the one you love acts like the one you hate?
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