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Why Republicans Win
“When I am elected I am going to fix the budget, lower taxes, fix the schools, change health care for everyone, raise the minimum wage, deal with the immigration problem and see too it every baby has a lollipop.”
My response… “Yeah, but what are you going to do?”
The devil is in the details isn’t it? But from the above statement (the kind that we hear incessantly during the campaigns) all I get is the same old line and no real details on how any candidate plans to accomplish such goals. In fact when American start to hear the details it strike a chord and draws attention.
It occurred to me that the winning candidate over the last 20 years are the ones that presented details on the plans for change. We hear “Change, change, change” so much but rarely do we hear how change will be accomplished.
Traditionally it has been the republicans giving us the details. In the last campaign is was George Bush’s education details that helped him. He had a vision of what was to happen in Iraq. No other candidate knew what they would do should they become president, all they said was they would bring the troops home and never really considered what that may entail.
So, who should we be looking at in this campaign. Tradition carries the day here and John McCain is the man talking specifics. Ron Paul, for all the “revolution” hype and, let’s face it, lack of personality, is talking specifics. Barack Obama sometimes talks specifics, but he does it so rarely that we forget about that.
So, I am going to keep an eye on the three above and cast my vote for the most unlike of the three (Ron Paul) and watch the fur fly.
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