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Great Ad from the California GOP

Something tells me that this is a theme that successful Republican candidates will be hitting on in 2010:

Labor leaders are calling the shots in Washington, and taxpayers will pay the cost for bailing out GM’s health care and retirement plans, ‘protecting’ unionized jobs through Buy America, and spending hundreds of billions on public works jobs that utilize mostly unionized workers. If Card Check ultimately passes, you can add that to the bill.

Barack Obama and the Congressional Democrats are taking money out of the pockets of taxpayers and putting it into the pockets of unions. Our candidates need to make that clear to the voters.

COMMENTS

  • eburke

    I didn’t think our side had the ability or the stones to actually put something like that together, much less air it.

    Any chance we can get these guys to run the national party?

  • Swamp_Yankee

    That came straight from the Reapublican party. Usually its pro-business PACS that take on unions directly. Republicans traditionally have avoided it.

    No one like unions and unions are never going to vote Republican. Now, with the budget crisises everywhere, people are seeing government largess first hand. There is even an anti-union movment in Massachusetts.

    Just come right out and pound them.

    • molybdanthan

      They will triple-tax every last cent in the state, and not lose sleep over it. But, someone else is not getting any mention as a continuing drain on Ca’s economy. Bad as the gov workers are, they’re not quite illegal. Pinning the blame on the unions shifts it away from the non-resident migrant workers. That’s the other 2-ton gorilla pummeling the good people of the Golden State into submission.

  • izoneguy

    they are no longer needed. They have just become another lobby of thugs.

    • Karina

      in this case I’d make an exception. I’d love to go to CA and knock that lady up side the head. Who’s with me???

  • Martin Knight

    If the CAGOP were smarter (this ad argues that there are still neurons firing somewhere upstairs) they would immediately set up a donate page for Republicans to get this on the air all over Cali.

    The time for pulling punches is over. One of the things that has afflicted the GOP nationwide is that our Leadership seems to not to be able to distinguish between people who can get over on our side, and people we never ever will.

    Public Employee Unions and, in general Union Leadership fall deeply into the latter category.

  • Aetius728

    And in California of all place!

    This is being run on television I hope, and is not just a web ad?

  • avgamerican

    I belong to one of those CA unions. But I sense that several of my co workers are not rubber stamp voters for their union backed initiatives. 1A through 1E were voted down overwhelmingly in CA and I think this is a reflection of the disunity. The GOP could win on the economic issues. In CA it is more about the progressive radical issues and the heavily favored dem demographics that have taken over. Accept for a few small conservatives areas, the dems thoroghly dominate the landscape.

  • Doc Holliday

    were pc and ignored higher tobacco taxes. a regressive tax if there ever was one.