The Republicons have shown their strategy for this election and I know you will be surprised to hear that they will create wedge issues and try to divide us.
I watched President Obama's campaign speech yesterday in Virginia and was very pleased. He was excellent, using clear language and hitting Romney on all Romney's current attack lines.
I have a few more in mind and hope they will be considered. Continued below the orange artwork.
Use the strategy of attacking their supposed strengths, but also attack their weaknesses as well. Go on the attack!
1) Never stop reminding people that the Republicons are horrible with money. "They had total control and wasted $2 trillion, and created the worst deficit in history. Now they want to do the same thing. Corporations will not build an electrical grid, nor will they build electric trains, or even repair our water lines, our bridges or our roads."
2) The War on Women tag is a great one. Don't stop using it. However, mention all the crazy bills they have introduced along with their attacks on Planned Parenthood.
2a) When talking about the contraception and abortion issue then say, "Since you value life so much you will agree that the fathers of the unborn children must be legally bound to finance the child until age 18".
- We never seem to mention that forcing women to have un planned babies, then require the father to be legally on the hook for those kids. It is about the kids right?
3) Mention the number of anti-women bills introduced by the House, then hit them for not focusing on the economy.
3) The Republicon strategy is simple: Disagree with Democrats, no matter what. The "Rush Limbaugh approach to governing".
4) The Republicons cannot bring themselves to say that killing Bin Laden was good. And if it was an easy call, then why didn't George W. Bush do it? Hit this hard. Do you hate progressive Americans so much that you cannot even say "good job" when Democrats got Osama Bin Laden?
4) Speaking of Bush, mention him often. Ask what Romney will do differently than Bush. Ask if he will invade a country for no reason.
5) It is time to put 9-11 on the table. September 11, 2001 happened on the Republicons' watch. Use it.
6) Hit them on the "Free Market" because the Republicons don't understand it. Ask why they gave no-bid contracts out instead of using the free market. Why do they demand "certainty" for corporations' economic planning, when that goes against the free market. They want to provide certainty to corporations, but when it comes to IRA's and health care for the middle class, they scream "no guarantees".
7) If we require voting ID laws, then we should require corporate donation ID laws too. "We certainly don't want non-Americans influencing our elections do we?"
8) Social Security. "Remember, if we get rid of it, then your parents and Grandma will be living with you, and all the care and costs that comes with the elderly".
9) Wall Street: Free market again. "Why don't the Republicons understand the free market? Obviously they don't because they voted for the bailouts."
10) Against America: "The Republicons helped the banks, but would not help Detroit, who they used to call real Americans. Why do they hate American workers?"
*Attack the on the Free Market they supposedly understand.
*Hit them on national defense with Bin Laden and Iraq.
*Ridicule them for the War on Women, and challenge them to pass a law saying any child born un planned must require the men to marry the woman and provide for the child.
*Social Security: "If we put your Grandmothers' money in Wall Street, then when they gamble it away, you will have to support her in your spare bedroom."
*Safety Net: "If we have Medicare for all, and a strong Social Security, then local and state governments, as well as businesses won't have to be in the pension and health care business, freeing them up to be more competitive in the free market."
*Privatization: "Look at Arizona where they privatized prisons. They cost more, and now must find more prisoners to continue the growth model. So guess what, they are going after undocumented workers, or brown people.
But who will they go after next, when they round up all the brown people? That is why the profit motive is not always good for the country".
*Finally, attack on the electrical grid and high speed bullet trains. "Oil is harder to find, so the price of gas will only get higher and higher. Yet the Republicons must not understand the free market, or they would not prevent high speed rails to help the economy. Or they just love the rich more than America."
Ridicule them, attack them, and use their craziness now.
For what it is worth.