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RNC ad takes on ABC’s glorified ObamaCare infomercial

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  June 24th, 2009 at 05:50 AM  | 

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The Republican National Committee has launched a new ad, entitled “Bipartisan,” that criticizes Obama’s plans to overhaul the system and ABC’s partisan involvement – turning the network’s airwaves over to President Obama to pitch his government-run health care:

The ad may be a bit too subtle, but is one of the RNC’s better efforts.

Script:

Today a national TV network turns its airwaves over to President Obama’s pitch for government-run health care.

Shouldn’t this be a bipartisan discussion?

Republicans want health care reform that reduces costs across the board.

Republicans believe every single American deserves quality health care.

Republicans also believe another government takeover would diminish health care choice and quality.

President Obama talks about a “public option.”  When he says “public option,” that means putting government bureaucrats in charge…instead of patients and their doctors.

It’s a bad idea.

Republicans want bipartisan health care reform – a responsible plan that we can afford, where people are free to choose the best care for their families – without a government takeover.

Tell President Obama to work with Republicans…and to stop rushing into another government takeover.

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  • wolfgang

    Joseph Goebbels, the old Nazi Propaganadameister, “If you tell a lie often enough, the people will believe you”, never had its so good,

  • melvinwinter

    “White House Press Corps Struggles to Maintain Objective Distance from President While Sharing His Teleprompter”: http://www.optoons.blogspot.com/ (June 22 entry)

  • Sundayjack

    If you’re reading this, will you puh-lease lose the stodgy voice over dude?! As the party rebuilds, I don’t think he’s the image we want to rebuild around.

  • Aaron Gardner

    “Government takeover” is mentioned 3 times in a 60 second spot.

    • skorrent1

      Talk about a winning soundbite! “Government takeover” is becoming more and more a poison phrase to the masses. Keep hitting on it!

    • redneck_hippie

      Especially the “Another”

      government takeover. It isn’t so much subtle. What it does is set a theme.

      Lovely to tie the health care fiasco to the other fiascos, automotive, financial system, anti-energy policy, card check, illegal immigration, etc. etc. etc.

      The statist agenda is ugly, inefficient and disastrous. Keep beating that drum. When we beat our heads against the wall attacking personalities, we lose momentum on the important things we need to fight for, that have made our country the most free, prosperous and tolerant country in the world.

  • Achance

    the RNC is already bargaining with itself and off the D’s proposal. I suspect the vast majority of registered Republicans don’t want a bipartisan bill, don’t believe the fundamental notion of either entitlement to healthcare, don’t accept any Democrat version of needed reform, and, if there is to be a bill, believe the Ds have the votes and they should be made to own socialized medicine.

    If you’ve already come that far towards them in your “counterattack,” what is there really for you to hold out for and how to you reject their position when you’ve accepted their fundamental premises. The Stupid Party strikes again!

    • Flagstaff

      Republicans also believe another government takeover would diminish health care choice and quality.

      is the key argument. And

      Republicans want health care reform that reduces costs across the board.

      is impossible, but nobody notices that.

      No plan, bipartisan or not, can meet those two criteria.

      Can nobody recognize that if it were possible, Medicare would be solvent?

  • clement

    about this not being a bipartisan broadcast. Last thing we need is the dems to trot out the fairness doctrine again because we complained that this wasn’t fair.

    • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

      We’re exposing their biased reporting. We’re not saying they don’t have a right to be an organ of the Leader.

  • http://JoeZilch.com joezilch

    This is the best the GOP can do to rebut a system that is going to bankrupt America? Awesome. Keep crying into your latte about how the conversation isn’t “bipartisan” when everybody, by now, should know that “bipartisan” simply means taking a (D) proposal and adding 40% more handouts to appease “Moderate’ (R)s.

    We don’t need to fix the “health care” system, we need to fix the government.

    • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

      You have to win elections to make change in the government. By not showing up, you’re just sending the message that it’s not important enough for you to bother.

      • http://JoeZilch.com joezilch

        Winning elections is trivial if the win doesn’t produce results.

        The GOP held Congress and the White House after the 2002 elections and all the GOP did was whine about how they couldn’t get anything done because they didn’t have 60 votes in the Senate. They didn’t know how to frame debates then, they haven’t learned since.

        After several YEARS of control they accomplished little to nothing. We got bigger government, bigger spending and no substantive reforms outside of a few “tax cuts” which are meaningless without government cuts that never came.

        The DNC took over the Congress and they started to hammer Bush and the GOP essentially rolled over due to the aforementioned problem with framing a debate. Then in 2008 the DNC took the White House and now the (D)s have done more in 8 months to destroy this country (with Health Care reform just around the corner) than the (R)s managed to fix in all their time under Bush (not to mention in congress under Newt).

        It seems like it’s always a waiting game for the “right candidate” the “right voice” the “60 votes needed” ad infinitum before the GOP will ever actually accomplish anything. They won’t fix the border because they want the hispanic vote. They won’t fix social security because they want the older vote. They won’t fix the lobbying or handouts because they’re just as guilty as the (D)s and love feeding at the trough.

        Why? Because the GOP is so busy trying to not be offensive, racist, sexist, whatever – that they don’t put real reforms on the table. No serious GOP candidate is out there talking about true change as they’re too busy proffering modified DNC policies with a weaker and slower impact. It’s socialism on the installment plan.

        The DNC on the other hand took over the banks and the auto-industry without even blinking. Now they’re poised to do the same to the health care industry and lord knows what’ll be next. Where’s the GOP? Crying about bipartisanship and the fact that ABC is in the tank for Obama.

        Here’s the problem — the GOP has no substance because they think they have to win elections before they can formulate change. The truth is that you cannot win elections on false pretenses (we’re just like the Democrats only a little less communist) and hope to stick around once you try to make the changes you desire.

        Once you start compromising your positions to get elected, you must continue to do so much in order to stay in office. Ipso Facto – if you run moderates you will always kowtow to moderates (read: Democrats in the GOP) while waiting to regain power you will never acquire.

        It’s time the GOP stopped moaning about Arlinksy and his Rules for Radicals and simply learned to play the game with the rules on the table. Embrace the Party of No. Reframe the debates. Get the facts and make them easily accessible. Use the internet properly and coordinate nationwide. Et cetera, et cetera.

        * For full disclosure I have a bit of an axe to grind after I was told at a local GOP function that I didn’t belong with the GOP where I live because I believe in limited government and lean libertarian.

      • http://JoeZilch.com joezilch

        I neglected to mention that I show up in every election and special election alike. I simply do not support the GOP.

  • Flagstaff

    in the Arizona time zone.

    My gag response is preventing me from watching it, already.

    Shouldn’t a NEWS organization do its own research into any critical national issue, and report on that, rather than just interview one side abut it and call it “news”?