Deeds to Bash Bush
By JR Hoeft | Monday, August 3rd, 2009 | PoliticsApparently the Deeds campaign has decided they want to make Virginia’s gubernatorial race about former Pres. George Bush.
Really? Is that all they got?
No jobs plan?
No transportation plan?
No education plan?
No public safety plan?
Just, “it’s Bush’s fault”?
No vision for Virginia’s future?
That’s pretty sad when you have no policies of your own and have to resort to looking to the past to justify your imploding candidacy.
Of course, if the Deeds campaign wants to make this about national issues, we can.
We can certainly talk about nearly a year of out-of-control federal spending that has run-up trillions of dollars of debt, Democrats’ cozy union relationship that is seeking to take away the right to the secret ballot, Democrats careening us head-long into an energy shortfall, and the nationalization of our health care system.
Those are important issues to Virginians and a governor should tell the federal government how such policies will effect the people of his state.
But last debate Deeds said federal issues didn’t matter to Virginia. Certainly he wouldn’t want to have it both ways, would he?
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As I recall, it was McDonnell who made this about national politics. He can’t have it both ways by now saying national politics don’t matter, when it was McDonnell who talked non-stop about congress and little about Virginia.
The only thing that I’ve seen from Deeds in regards to President Bush is that, in the last debate, McDonnell said the Bush economic policies “worked too well”.
Democrats came into office this year to a $1.3 Trillion dollar deficit, which was accrued by the Republicans.
Democrats do not want to take away the secret ballot. Democrats are voting for card check as another option in addition to the secret ballot. To say that Republicans are protecting unions rights is a blatant lie. In fact, anytime a Republican says they are protecting unions, who they also blame for destroying America’s competitiveness, is a blatant lie. Republican’s can’t have it both ways.
And health care nationalization? The fact is free market principles, which the Republican party espouse so highly and claim it can be made to work for all, explicitly forbids that from actually happening. A for-profit company cannot cover all Americans AND receive the highest possible profitability, which shareholders demand. It is simply impossible. A simply supple demand curve would show that these companies can ONLY be highly profitable by not covering those who need care. To the insurance company, the payments to hospitals are ‘costs’. And companies make money by cutting ‘costs’, not encouraging them by signing up those that need care an cost more. Either the government or an extremely large NGO could cover all Americans. The free market, sadly, cannot.
The post clearly acknowledges the role that the Governor of a state has in regards to national issues and I am quite positive that the McDonnell camp would not say that Deeds cannot speak out regarding Cap and Trade, the stimulus or health care, in fact McDonnell invited Deeds to do join him in speaking out against Cap and Trade and Deeds danced all around, refusing to come out against it, and refusing to endorse it. Deeds then tried to take the heat off of himself by saying this is not about “national issues,” now he wants to run against Bush (national issues). He can’t have it both ways.
In April of this year, former Republican Congressman Jeb Bradley won the special election in the 3rd State Senate District in New Hampshire. Both parties put a tremendous amount of time and resources into this special election. A couple of interesting notes:
1. The Democrats claimed they would win this seat. While Republicans have a small edge in registration, independent voters outnumber both parties in this district, and Carroll County has trended Democrat in the last few elections.
2. Limited government and low taxes motivated Republicans to get out and vote.
3. The Democrats sent out eight mailings linking Bush and Bradley – to no avail. It is clear this worn-out tactic does not work.
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