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Another Perspective
A Small Business Party
Ditching the GOP’s gilded image.
The media’s post-election analysis these past couple weeks has been a gigantic, gelatinous, oozing blob of mind-bending illogic.
We’ve been told the Republican Party must recalibrate all its positions following an election in which very little changed. We’ve been lectured on abortion after exit polls showed voters were motivated by the economy. We’ve watched various big-government “conservatives” crawl out from under rocks murmuring the usual incantations against the Tea Party. And we’ve endured a video of Meghan McCain saying she “hates” Karl Rove being praised as some sort of avant garde one-woman stage show.
As a friend of mine exclaimed a few days ago, “We lost one election!” It was a stinging loss at a crucial time, to be sure. But it hardly portends the extinction of conservatism.
That being said, there’s one voice in the cacophony that’s worth a listen. Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho) said this on Meet the Press this past Sunday:
[W]e believe in small government, but we also believe in the individual. There are too many Republicans here in Washington, DC, and they are actually defending big business. They are defending the rich. I didn’t become a Republican to defend the rich. And— and what we need to understand is that big business loves big government, because they get all the goodies from big government. They get more— they get less competition. The more that government grows, the more that big business actually benefits from the tax code and from the regulations…
He’s right and it’s a problem for both conservatism and the GOP’s electoral strategy.
I did a little volunteer phone calling for a Republican senatorial campaign a couple years ago. About halfway through I got a rare pickup (caller ID means the vast majority of these go to voicemail) and made my case for our candidate. The woman listened thoughtfully. “Well,” she said when I was finished. “I like the Republicans. But the economy is so bad this year, I don’t think I trust them.”
Regardless of reality, Republicans are reflexively associated with Wall Street. A Gallup poll taken during election season found 75% of Americans thought Romney would be better for upper-income Americans. Meanwhile 53% thought Obama would be better for the middle-class and 66% saw the poor faring better under Obama.
It’s nonsense, of course. President Obama’s policies have left the poor and middle class in economic stagnation. And as Rep. Labrador pointed out, corporations are benefiting from less competition and sitting on unspent capital. But public perception is upside-down. The GOP is seen as the party of the rich.
Part of this comes from the right’s love of low taxes, which inevitably get labeled “tax cuts for the rich.” Republicans shouldn’t compromise on this. Raising taxes on the wealthy stymies growth and is bad policy.
But most of the GOP’s reputation is undeserved and that’s where the argument needs to be made. The president’s policies are freezing the economy’s small business engine. Employment at start-up companies is at a record low. Only 3.3% of unemployed Americans are starting new businesses. The cost of bringing on a new employee often exceeds the benefit. Obamacare alone is expected to suck 80 million man hours out of the economy.
Corporations have plenty of money to comply. Small businesses don’t.
Many commentators are demanding that the GOP transform into a middle-class party. But right now the GOP is the middle-class party. It just needs to take the ammunition and start firing. Stop making tax cuts the sole reason for entrepreneurs to vote Republican. Explain point-for-point why small businesses are languishing. Make Obamacare and Dodd-Frank centerpiece issues rather than peripheral ones. Cast the Democratic Party as corporate America’s rightful home.
And nominate the right candidate. Mitt Romney magnified the perception problem last election. Many Republicans bet that a steady-as-she-goes veteran of the business world would win in an era of mismanaged government. Instead, the Obama campaign successfully painted Romney as a heartless corporate raider, helped along by his gaffes and record of flip-flopping.
Actual policy details didn’t matter. Neither did Romney’s overtures to small business. I like the Republicans. But the economy is so bad this year, I don’t think I trust them. With Romney topping the ticket, the GOP was perceived as corporate America. Game over.
Contrast that with the political alignment in 2010. Polls showed Americans overwhelmingly thought government policies, engineered by Democrats, were benefitting the wealthy and corporations. Republicans were represented by the middle-class Tea Party. Game, set, match.
A schoolyard bully economy where big government and big business team up and beat up the little guy isn’t conservative at all. In 2014, Republicans should recast themselves as the middle-class party of small business. In 2016, they should nominate a real outsider who will make the case.
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Joellen| 11.20.12 @ 6:41AM
We know through media distortion and manupulation (remember when GWB was in office - over and over we heard how bad the ecomomy was at a less than 5% unemployment!) But at some point, sanity should have set in and the people should have pondered just what evidence do we or have we had that the democrats are capable of fixing this mess? Coming up with no logical answer, I am inclined to believe the people just want BIG GOVERNMENT to take care of them and that is the sad truth. We have traded freedom for a false security.
PolishKnight| 11.20.12 @ 11:39AM
Joellen, I'm going to repeat it here until it sinks in: 40% of the electorate in this country are entitled to race, gender, and other perks based upon preference ahead of white males. They'll vote for the Democrats no matter what. The other 9% are the "swing" voters and they're whimsical. And that margin is shrinking every year. In 4 years or at most 10 years, amnesty or illegals will make that 50%. Then the political issues we chatter about on here are irrelevant.
The republicans need to protect their base electorate, white males, just as much as they care about protecting the wealthy and small business owners from taxation. The left panders to their electorate which is different than protecting it's interests. If we can "get" the need for a military defense, why not the need to protect one's electorate?
Only after the electorate's civil rights have been addressed and protected can the other issues be addressed.
Stan Redmond| 11.20.12 @ 2:53PM
Of course all of Bush's jobs were "McJobs" not worthy of even being counted as real employment.
Now wiwth Obamacare and everyone working 19 hour work weeks it will be hailed as a miracle of Obama's leadership on the economy. Cut hours in half to avoid Obamacare taxes, and hire twice as many part timers to do what full timers use to do. WHOO HOO. Full employment.
I wonder when the amnesty illegals will be counted toward unemployement?
Pecos Pete| 11.20.12 @ 7:08AM
"A schoolyard bully economy where big government and big business team up and beat up the little guy isn't conservative at all."
Sounds like Fascism, doesn't it?
Von Mises Jr| 11.20.12 @ 8:35AM
Fascism is a brand of socialism where the government "controls" versus "owns" the means of production. It is a distinction without a difference.
When socialism failed in France and other European countries after the "Age of Democratic Revolutions" (1760 - 1800), subsequent revolutions in France, and the USSR; the socialist come up with the "Third Way" that is today known as "Crony Capitalism" and "Public Private Partnerships."
This is what GM is with $25B in tax breaks and still about $20B in the red, GE paying zero taxes on $14.2B in profits and Solyndra and the other "green energy" scams.
If Moochelle didn't hate Twinkies so much, Buffet would have swooped in and helped bail them out quietly slithering away with an 8% profit for a short-term deal just as he did with BOA. And of course it even sweeter since he probably would not pay his tax bill on the gain and still walks around free.
That is the irony of "fairness." If you or I tried that, we would be in jail.
Al Adab| 11.20.12 @ 8:43AM
Letting the opposition define your policies is self destructive. The voters have chosen the gurantee of subsistence over the opportunity of success. Until that changes, the party of free markets and opportunity will lose year after year. That certain States hope to retain a free market system of opportunity represents a small ray of hope. Perhaps we need to vote with our feet and select those States as our homes.
Von Mises Jr| 11.20.12 @ 11:15AM
See you in the South. Rest assured that those whom understand how to create value will find a way to thrive compared to the moochers like Perp who's best asset is to spew propaganda. You can't eat bullshit.
Industrious people will find a way to produce something of value and barter. This is what is happening in Greece. Half of the population works outside the system and created an underground market. The other half of the people like Perpy are throwing rocks at bank windows. Good luck with that.
Purp| 11.20.12 @ 11:43AM
Funny, how I MUST be a moocher because I disagree with you? Narrow-minded, archaic policy positions have nothing to do with your issues, does it? As one who spews theoretical bull shit, you ought to know how it tastes. Von Mises, Hayek or Schumpeter never achieved a thing in a real economy. Theory is great until reality hits. Keynesian economics has been proven over and over again, and yet you cling to your worn-out ideas that never have worked at all.
We aren't Greece, we will never be Greece, and any comparison is just plain stupid. There are few if any parallels between us. This is exactly why you lose - you don't make sense to most Americans.
Von Mises Jr| 11.20.12 @ 11:50AM
No you’re a moocher because you are a freaking troll. What do you produce, Caliban except for lies and bullshit.
If you mother has any pride, she disowned you a long time ago.
Now go away before I inflict you with itches and pinches.
BTW, are you now or have you ever been a stalker?
Purp| 11.20.12 @ 3:11PM
Oh, VM, when you start resorting to "troll" I know I've got you.
You can't defend your specious argument, so kill the messenger. What a poor performance - are you getting old?
Quartermaster| 11.20.12 @ 12:38PM
You mark yourself as a member in good standing of the Parasite caucus by the positions you put forward. Disagreement from Americans is simply natural result of your idiocy.
Al Adab| 11.20.12 @ 12:46PM
See gentlemen, it is a choice between those who desire a gurantee of subsistence and those willing to take the risk of success. One is called slavery and the other Liberty. Which is your priority?
Purp| 11.20.12 @ 3:12PM
Poor QM - why, because you say so? Most Americans agree with ME, not you. So who's the idiot?
Stan Redmond| 11.20.12 @ 2:58PM
Archaic American policies like individual liberty and limited government?
Purp| 11.20.12 @ 3:18PM
Stan - no, paternal rule, caucasians above all else and a return to the 1920's economic policies, the 1950's civil rights and an archaic America. There is nothing mutually exclusive between Individual liberty and diversity.
Limited government died 2 centuries ago. A Quaint idea, but it's never been limited, rather controlled through the people's representatives. That's what you miss. And, that's what made America great. The people chose a responsive government over an oppressive, tyrannical government.
The fact you don't agree with the majority is YOUR problem, not the Government's or America's.
GobBluthe| 11.20.12 @ 3:28PM
No fewer than 7 Economists have won Nobel Prizes debunking Keynes. Keynesian economics have never worked to improve the economy only to strengthen the political classes grip on the citizens. It is also ironic you accuse the right of worn out ideas, then parrot discredited economic thinking from the 1930s
Purp| 11.20.12 @ 3:39PM
GoB ... that's exactly what I'm talking about. You've drunk the Kool-Aid.
As if Nobel Prizes means you know what you're talking about.
For Kix and Snix, other than Milton Friedman who recanted before he died, who are the exulted Economists you mean? Can you name them?
CJW| 11.20.12 @ 3:58PM
Purp the Village Idiot posted the following after the elections:
"Purp| 11.8.12 @ 10:35AM
"The Lord rules, not Obama." - CORRECT!
The Lord works in mysterious ways... and this is something for the faithful to contemplate in the way the see the world:
Hurricane Sandy and Chris Christie was the Lord's way of pressing his thumb on the scale to tilt in the direction of President Obama. It was His punishment of Republicans for their lying and trying to cheat (Voter Suppression) their way to political victory, while espousing faith, freedom and constitutional credentials."
So purpie believes God killed over 100 persons and destroyed millions of dollars of property to help Obama win.
In Sept Purpie wrote that Amassador Stevens was at fault and caused his death.
Purpie also wrote that the unborn are biological entities not deserving of protection until God allows them to be born. (What does this mean?)
Purpie represents the Loon Left that should be mocked and ridiculed, and not engaged in conversation
Solo| 11.21.12 @ 2:28PM
John Maynard Keynes was a leftist tool. His theories have been "proven" alright. Proven to be false. Although it is worth noting that even Keynes warned against unionizing public employees---just like Greece.
Government cannot create wealth. They can only redistribute wealth. Government spending (whether on "Guns or Butter") is like taking a bucket of water out of the deep end of the pool and pouring it into the shallow end--and wasting about 60% of the water in the process.
Not like Greece, you say? Well....Greece has been practicing Keynesian economics for decades now. And it is the very source of their problems---just as it will eventually be the source of ours. It'll just take a bit longer.
I will agree with you on one point:
Conservatives don't make sense to most Americans.
And we have the government schools to thank for that. They're too busy teaching our children "what" to think instead of "how" to think.
Purp| 11.20.12 @ 11:38AM
Pushing that Fascism is Socialism meme again? Just because Hayek said so, didn't make it so. The only reason Hitler used "Socialism" in his name of the Nazi party was because Germany was ruled by Social Democrats and others with the word "Social..." in their org name. Master of propaganda, as was Ronald Reagan, he was able to fool the masses, to a horrible end. Luckily, Reagan was no Hitler, although his tactics were similar.
Public/Private partnerships is what made this country great. Transcontinental Railroad, Land-Grant Universities, Interstate Highway System, Internet, etc.
To denounce that is to denounce America. How sad you're so wound-up in ideology you don't see the forest for the trees - and the REAL America.
Quartermaster| 11.20.12 @ 12:41PM
fascism is a form of socialism. It's not a "meme," just a fact.
Much of what you list is crony capitalism at work. Lincoln was very good at it, as was the GOP in the late 19th century. With Wilson, that bunch started migrating to teh Dimocrat party where they outdid themselves relative to their 19th century forebears.
Interstate highways, for example, are constitutional. Do a little research find out what the actual name of the system is. What you call "public/private partnerships" is nothing more than crony capitalism. Real Americans hate that stuff because it cheats everyone else.
Purp| 11.20.12 @ 2:56PM
Well, aren't you a poster-boy for the right-wing propagandists of the last 30 years ! Sad you're a tool and don't know it.
There is nothing Constitutional about the Interstate Highway System. The Federal Government forced the States to comply, relinquish land, and give right of way. Nothing, nothing in the Constitution allows for that. Point me to where it does ... I know you cannot.
Who are REAL Americans? Are they the stupid ones that don't believe in science? Do they listen to Rush and Fox News. Something tells me they are ... hahahaha ... Dopesville doesn't know how dopey they are.
I'm glad the smart people voted for the proper President, not Mitt the Twit.
GobBluthe| 11.20.12 @ 3:30PM
There is a 200+ year history of turnpikes and canals in the USA built by the govt.
Purp| 11.20.12 @ 3:48PM
What? So we built turnpikes before 1812?
CJW| 11.20.12 @ 3:58PM
Purp the Village Idiot posted the following after the elections:
"Purp| 11.8.12 @ 10:35AM
"The Lord rules, not Obama." - CORRECT!
The Lord works in mysterious ways... and this is something for the faithful to contemplate in the way the see the world:
Hurricane Sandy and Chris Christie was the Lord's way of pressing his thumb on the scale to tilt in the direction of President Obama. It was His punishment of Republicans for their lying and trying to cheat (Voter Suppression) their way to political victory, while espousing faith, freedom and constitutional credentials."
So purpie believes God killed over 100 persons and destroyed millions of dollars of property to help Obama win.
In Sept Purpie wrote that Amassador Stevens was at fault and caused his death.
Purpie also wrote that the unborn are biological entities not deserving of protection until God allows them to be born. (What does this mean?)
Purpie represents the Loon Left that should be mocked and ridiculed, and not engaged in conversation
Solo| 11.21.12 @ 3:02PM
No...the reason "Socialist" was in "National Socialist Workers Party" is because they were SOCIALISTS!
Redistribution of wealth, national health care, the works! Dude..."social democrats" ARE socialists.
Why don't you try reading history instead of attempting to invent it?
JimH| 11.20.12 @ 7:43AM
Looking at the subsidies handed out, who best succeeds under heavy regulation and who actually works in the administration, the Dems are clearly the party of big business. Their policies have trended to Corporatism/Fascism since FDR. The GOP on the whole stands for the smaller business C or C crowd. While maybe not as bad as the Dems, what the party needs to do is to change practice and perception and to support the market rather then business.
JimH| 11.20.12 @ 9:52AM
That was C of C (Chamber of Commerce).
Purp| 11.20.12 @ 3:04PM
Oh, my, no the Cof C is primarily a Big Business Club. The Bigs pay for it.
Purp| 11.20.12 @ 3:04PM
Wall Street spoke with it's dollars contrary to your oh so brilliant deductions. Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big everything put their dollars with Mitt the Twit and the Woman hating party ... you should know this - if you want to know who's who - follow the money. It leads right to the Republicans. Can't hide who the donors are ... well not all of them anyway.
Republicans are not for the people or small business ... they can't and don't fund their campaigns, so they are seen as chattle and so much bother in Republican circles - behind closed doors of course.
GobBluthe| 11.20.12 @ 3:31PM
Obama is the Wall Street President.
Purp| 11.20.12 @ 3:48PM
Follow who they gave their money to, Dolt. Are you dense or just stupid?
CJW| 11.20.12 @ 3:58PM
Purp the Village Idiot posted the following after the elections:
"Purp| 11.8.12 @ 10:35AM
"The Lord rules, not Obama." - CORRECT!
The Lord works in mysterious ways... and this is something for the faithful to contemplate in the way the see the world:
Hurricane Sandy and Chris Christie was the Lord's way of pressing his thumb on the scale to tilt in the direction of President Obama. It was His punishment of Republicans for their lying and trying to cheat (Voter Suppression) their way to political victory, while espousing faith, freedom and constitutional credentials."
So purpie believes God killed over 100 persons and destroyed millions of dollars of property to help Obama win.
In Sept Purpie wrote that Amassador Stevens was at fault and caused his death.
Purpie also wrote that the unborn are biological entities not deserving of protection until God allows them to be born. (What does this mean?)
Purpie represents the Loon Left that should be mocked and ridiculed, and not engaged in conversation
Solo| 11.21.12 @ 2:31PM
Wall Street gave to Obama 3 to 1 in the 2008 campaign.
Don't be perpetually dense, Purp. Look it up!
Derek Leaberry| 11.20.12 @ 9:41AM
Raul Labrador, in the same interview, also came out for immigration amnesty and homosexual marriage. So the congressman wants the Republican Party to become a liberal party. Count me out.
C. Vernon Crisler | 11.20.12 @ 10:17AM
Republicans SHOULD come out for higher taxes for the rich: a 99 percent rate on the rich. The only catch: it would apply to those rich people who voted for Obama or Democrats.
Purp| 11.20.12 @ 3:06PM
And, this from a small government conservative? Pray tell, just how will a small government police the compliance thereof?
Ken (Old Texican)| 11.20.12 @ 11:05AM
Big corps carefully groom "Democratic" voters by the droves. It becomes a matter of "company loyalty".
Purp| 11.20.12 @ 2:14PM
Funny, but I don't recall any CEOs warning their employees they will lose their jobs if Barack Obama isn't elected.
But I seem to recall many CEOs warning their employees to vote for Romney or they could lose their jobs... Hmmmm, that doesn't sound like "grooming of Democrats ..." to me, does it?
BobNY| 11.20.12 @ 2:55PM
Stating a fact about how Obama ruins the economy, our credit rating, and trying to tax small businesses is going to cause job loss. Look at what has happened since the election, many companies are letting go of employees because of Obamacare and the numerous and stragulating regulations (over 100 a day) coming out of unconstitutional unelected Federal regulation agencies. But you seem to see the world thru liberal colored glasses
Purp| 11.20.12 @ 3:10PM
There is nothing un-Constitutional about it. Federal officials appointed by Congress to implement regulations is completely within the purview of Congress under it's power to enact legislation. Go read Article I of the Constitution. Congress has the authority to do what it deems necessary to pass and implement legislation.
Don't you think Scalia, Alito, et.al. would have stopped any regulation long ago if it were unConstitutional?
Congress has the authority and the power and can designate even Rush Limbaugh to implement the regulations for a law it enacts, should it be that stupid to do so.
You really need to learn something.
CJW| 11.20.12 @ 4:01PM
Purp the Village Idiot posted the following after the elections:
"Purp| 11.8.12 @ 10:35AM
"The Lord rules, not Obama." - CORRECT!
The Lord works in mysterious ways... and this is something for the faithful to contemplate in the way the see the world:
Hurricane Sandy and Chris Christie was the Lord's way of pressing his thumb on the scale to tilt in the direction of President Obama. It was His punishment of Republicans for their lying and trying to cheat (Voter Suppression) their way to political victory, while espousing faith, freedom and constitutional credentials."
So purpie believes God killed over 100 persons and destroyed millions of dollars of property to help Obama win.
In Sept Purpie wrote that Amassador Stevens was at fault and caused his death.
Purpie also wrote that the unborn are biological entities not deserving of protection until God allows them to be born. (What does this mean?)
Purpie represents the Loon Left that should be mocked and ridiculed, and not engaged in conversation
Solo| 11.21.12 @ 2:55PM
What you're grappling for is what is often referred to as the "Proper and Necessary" clause. Congress is constitutionally authorized to appoint 3rd parties if doing so is "proper and necessary" to carry out their Constitutional duties.
The establishment of the Federal Reserve Bank is an example of this.
They are NOT allowed to designate or assign their legislative authority to a 3rd party.
As an example; the EPA can administer and enforce the regulations established by Congress. But...they cannot create them on their own.
Oh...and since you brought up Article One, why don't you show us where in Article I, Section 8 Congress is authorized to regulate the environment.
The very existence of the EPA is a violation of Article One. For the individual states, it may be a great idea--if administered within reason. For the federal government....? It's a no no.
Oh...and the Commerce Clause is not an out, either. The Commerce Clause is for the regulation of commerce between the several states--not to regulate the environment within the states. IF one state's regulations (or lack thereof) negatively impact another state, then that is the purview of the courts--not the Congress.
Solo| 11.21.12 @ 3:06PM
Except CEO's at places like Solyndra or G.E. where they are busy wasting $Billions in taxpayer dollars in a vain attempt to address a problem that doesn't exist.
Moe Berg| 11.20.12 @ 1:58PM
All of this is good as far as it goes, which is not far enough. We now have a media community which refuses to hold Democrats accountable for anything. On those rare occasions American media find something Democrats have done that they wish to criticize, they--to borrow a baseball term--"run out of the baseline" so they can take out a Republican and make it a package. I.e., Mr. Obama made a mistake; true, but so did "Bush"; or "not as bad as 'Bush'," etc.
If we who find this media less than useful don't do something about that--replace the shills with a real newspaper or newspapers and, in the process, run the shills out of business--this will happen again. These are butchers who put a hand on the scale for Republicans and say "No charge" to Dems. The author has a point, but he's trying to purify the wrong group.
Slacker| 11.20.12 @ 3:40PM
This is not the time to talk about small business. This is the time for full panic. You didn’t lose one election. You lost to Barack frigging Obama -a failed president who is actually a rather boring man with obsolete ideas.
Stop the rationalizing. You fooled yourselves into thing you were going to win last time. Now you’re back with more of the same rationalizing. Stop. Shut up. If you can’t beat Barack who can you beat?
You can’t just manipulate the messaging. You need a new coalition. Drop one of your disadvantageous positions from the platform (I don’t care which one).
Do whatever it takes to win. You have a responsibility to save us from the progressives - even if it means cutting off an arm or leg.
Purp| 11.20.12 @ 3:50PM
OMG - it's not THAT bad. You survived Clinton, you'll be fine.
CJW| 11.20.12 @ 4:02PM
Purp the Village Idiot posted the following after the elections:
"Purp| 11.8.12 @ 10:35AM
"The Lord rules, not Obama." - CORRECT!
The Lord works in mysterious ways... and this is something for the faithful to contemplate in the way the see the world:
Hurricane Sandy and Chris Christie was the Lord's way of pressing his thumb on the scale to tilt in the direction of President Obama. It was His punishment of Republicans for their lying and trying to cheat (Voter Suppression) their way to political victory, while espousing faith, freedom and constitutional credentials."
So purpie believes God killed over 100 persons and destroyed millions of dollars of property to help Obama win.
In Sept Purpie wrote that Amassador Stevens was at fault and caused his death.
Purpie also wrote that the unborn are biological entities not deserving of protection until God allows them to be born. (What does this mean?)
Purpie represents the Loon Left that should be mocked and ridiculed, and not engaged in conversation
Simon Templar| 11.20.12 @ 5:25PM
Have to say that was not a response that I would have expected from you. I found it actually very interesting and intriguing. In an odd way, I think that was an admission and a bit of you being truthful once in your life. It also supports my personal believe that you really do not understand just what really is going on. You really do not get it, even from a liberal point of view.
Listen carefully, if that is possible. Let us pretend for a moment that I am still a liberal; actually I hated liberals, I was a radical leftist. You really do not have a clue as to who is in control, where this is all headed, and what you have elected. As a former radical, I still think your a useful idiot, now from a conservative point of view, not the stereotype of what you think a conservative is, that is.
It is not that bad?... my god, you are in for a rude awakening, I hope I am still alive when you hit 50 years of age, idiot, and all this plays out.
Of course, you do not have a clue about what I am talking about. You will.
Simon Templar| 11.20.12 @ 5:27PM
My comment was directed at our local troll, Purp, of course...by the way, CJW, good work...this how you will defeat them, listen and remember accurately what they say and do and destroy them with their own words and actions.
Simon Templar| 11.20.12 @ 5:30PM
The Republican party was created by small business owners, small business farmers and the middle class.
How ironic the author is calling for the return to small business and the overthrow of big government and big business.
Ronsch| 11.20.12 @ 6:49PM
Matt....I would like to add this...The republicans are or are not necessarily for "big business." Just like NerObama, who repeatedly panders to all sorts of big businessmen (George Soros, Warren Buffett, etc.) they aid those who aid them...it is a dirty little game called crony capitalism.
If that is everyone's alleged beef, then the congresscrtitters and the president need to reject it totally and completely.
I would rather see a big business hire more people and succeed in offering jobs, pay, etc. for people to go back to work and get off the freakin' dole.
JD| 11.20.12 @ 7:17PM
The Democrats have first and foremost sold the public on the idea that social welfare helps the poor and middle class at the expense of the rich. Having succeeded at that, it is easy for them to claim that they who support social welfare care about the poor, and Republicans who oppose social welfare care about the rich.
When reality keeps proving them wrong, they have a perverse answer. They claim that the Right is getting its way too much even though the Right is getting its way less than ever, and they do so by doubling down on the claim that social welfare helps the poor and hurts the rich. They say that the prosperity of the rich and suffering of the poor can only be proof that the Right is getting its way too much.
Unfortunately, when Republicans counter Leftist lies merely by saying that Democrats are buying votes by giving people money, we seem to be endorsing the Left's primary lie - that the poor are better off with more social welfare. We must stop making "47%" claims so that we stop being misportrayed as endorsing the idea that these 47% are better off under Democrats.
Mike Daly | 11.20.12 @ 7:40PM
The problem with this analysis of Romney's campaign is it's flat wrong. Romney took away momentum when he won the debates; Obama came out as what he is, a fool. The reason Obama won the election is because Obama did indeed "bribe" his party's base and a stronger-than-expected (even by the Democrats) slacker vote came out. The Republicans need to focus on pointing out the failure of Democrat Economics and pointing out the wealthiest decades in the last century-plus (the 1920s, the 1950s, the 1980s, and the 2000s) were REPUBLICAN ECONOMIC POLICY decades.