GOP on the issues for 2014: FAIL
I keep hearing that Republicans are expected to do well in the 2014 midterm elections. So I'm trying to figure out what issues they'll be running on. Here's how the landscape looks to me:
Obamacare - We hear a lot these days about how the main focus for Republicans will be to run against Obamacare. But is sure seems like every time they highlight a scare story about its implementation - it turns out to be a hoax. Then yesterday's Kaiser Family Foundation tracking poll was bad news for the Republicans in that it showed that a majority of Americans want Congress to keep the health care law in place. Furthermore, Republicans keep fumbling with the "replace" part of "repeal and replace." CBO just scored their latest attempt and said it would mean that 1 million people would lose their health insurance and it would cost an additional $73 billion.
Government Spending - Reducing government spending has been the standard "go-to" message for the Republicans for over 40 years. But given that the federal deficit has been cut in half since President Obama took office during the Great Recession, that's going to be a hard sell. I'm sure we'll still see a lot of rhetoric about it. But any attempt to get specific will be impossible to justify.
Cultural Issues - The mood of the country has changed since the days that Karl Rove cooked up a scheme to put marriage equality on ballots to ramp up conservative voter turnout. In just the last two days we've seen a judge in Texas rule against that state's ban on gay marriage and even Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona recognized that her state legislature's attempt to legalize discrimination was not a good idea. After all the fiascos of Republican candidates saying stupid things about rape and birth control, the memo on staying clear of abortion politics has gone out from the establishment.
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And so we'll likely see the default position that Republicans tend to rely on - negativity as a means to induce fear.
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and he lied. 
