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Returning Fire

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  May 26th, 2011 at 03:02 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Given the Democrats’ latest ad campaign showing someone throwing grandma off a cliff as the Republican solution to Medicare, I think the Republicans need to respond in kind.

It is clear the Democrats have no plans other than to let Medicare go bankrupt.

I think the Republicans should show a grandmother lying in bed with her son coming home with an oversized prescription bottle that has a pillow in it. “Grandma,” he says, “it say to place this over your head.”

That amounts to the Democrats solution to healthcare. Instead of saving Medicare, they are happy to let senior citizens’ coverage deteriorate to bankruptcy so they canter again impose radical socialist solutions as a fix.

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  • thewritejerry

    …for an ad showing what will happen if congress stays the course on Medicare.

    Open on a kid just standing there. Then a couple of older people come and put a large circular platform on his back. They get on top of the platform. The kid’s knees buckle a little. Then more elderly people get on. The kid is going down, so a few other kids run over to help him hold up the platform. Then a whole lot of elderly people get on the platform and it just squashes the kids flat.

  • http://www.freedomslighthouse.net nelsa

    The stategy by republicans to hightlight the fact that medicare will eventually (soon) go broke seems to be resonating.

    There is no alternative at this point.

  • gmscan

    … argues that the elderly and infants can be euthanized with abandon because neither has much value to society. Curious that the people that developed this commercial are otherwise all for abortion.

    BTW, I have an idea for another ad about the death tax. Based on the Sixth Sense, a young Obama whispers to Bruce Willis “I tax dead people.”

  • izoneguy

    DCCC: Medicare puts House in play

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/55784.html

    ?I fundamentally believe the House of Representatives is in play,? Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Steve Israel told reporters Thursday, hedging by adding that he?s not yet ready to predict that Democrats will win enough seats to take control.

    Republicans chalked it up to unwarranted optimism. “Steve Israel is free to spike the football 18 months before Election Day, basing his 2012 strategy on one race that centered around misleading Mediscare tactics,? National Republican Congressional Committee spokeswoman Joanna Burgos said. ?But Republicans, in contrast, will continue talking to voters about what they care about most.”

    Israel dubbed the special election a ?sneak preview? of how they?ll campaign in 2012.

    This is why it is very important for Republicans to explain that ObamaCare will kill MediCare as we know it. You cannot “save” MediCare if ObamaCare continues. Ryan’s plan does not effect anyone over the age of 55. ObamaCare will kill Medicare for people who are on it now. If the dems do get control of the house or keep control of the Senate or god forbid – Obama gets re-elected then America will become like a European socialist country and you ain’t seen nothing yet!

  • earlgrey
  • izoneguy

    That would be a good tag line for a commercial.

    “The democrats don’t want you to be born anyway, do you really think they care about senior citizens?”

  • freemanja1991

    to look into a camera and say, “Nancy Pelosi Why don’t you want me to have medicare like my Grandma does, and why are scaring her, is it just so you can win.?”

  • Michael Dugas

    all crammed behind the wheel of the Medicare Bus steering it down the road. We’ll have senior citizens waiting at the bus stops for their ride on the bus but instead of stopping The Dems and the Medicare Bus drive right over them.

  • renny

    is they know Soc. Sec. and Medicare are at great risk, and they are definitely interested in seeing something reasonable and constructive applied by Cong. and the WH.

    I am not so sure that 26th in NY state was lost on Medicare scares as it was on the Rep. candidate not taking on the issue head on and the horror of a 3rd party spoiler, registered as a “Tea Party” candidate (former Dem. and as the Camden Dem. Party in NJ was revealed as proposing the same kind of election rigging by trying to run a “tea party” line against Jon Runyan last fall was likely a put-up job).

    Reps. will have to get more vigilant and more clever about that tea party designation and local tea parties are going to have to fight these third party shills running for office in 2012.

  • http://www.usdebateboard.com usdebateboard

    for using NY-26 as “an excuse to do nothing.”

  • carolina

    on Kudlow right now.
    A good positive offense is better than any negative defense.
    If the GOP wants to “return fire” – they better be clever about it. Negative ads that rile up ugly feelings do not help the cause.

  • carolina

    on Kudlow right now.
    A good positive offense is better than any negative defense.
    If the GOP wants to “return fire” – they better be clever about it. Negative ads that rile up ugly feelings do not help the cause.

  • earlgrey

    going to rid this wave all the way to 2012.

    The momentum the Republicans gained from Obamacare is slipping away. I supported the Rs for putting out this plan. I think all tea party activists should showt he Rs some support, but now I wonder if this was a mistake.

  • averagevoterdotcom

    so now we are on defensive.
    can we get on offense?
    ryan now must answer that question.

  • powertothepeople

    as he is the one who came up with a reasonable plan and was ready to tackle the debt issue along with the run away spending. He was on the offensive. The ones who need to answer questions are the democrats and the republicans who made it their goal to end his proposal and accomplished that through their vote.

    So not sure what point you are trying to make here.

  • averagevoterdotcom

    Debtocrats.

    Deathocrats.

    Deadbeatcrats.

    we must “fundamentally change” voter perception of them. Intellectual arguments on redstate will not do it.

    This is a reason Tea Party Palin does not post here.

  • averagevoterdotcom

    Debtocrats.

    Deathocrats.

    Deadbeatcrats.

    we must “fundamentally change” voter perception of them. Intellectual arguments on redstate will not do it.

    This is a reason Tea Party Palin does not post here.

  • averagevoterdotcom

    Debtocrats.

    Deathocrats.

    Deadbeatcrats.

    we must “fundamentally change” voter perception of them. Intellectual arguments on redstate will not do it.

    This is a reason Tea Party Palin does not post here.

  • averagevoterdotcom

    the avg voter doesn’t think like you or me.
    imagery and simple themes win the vote.
    intellectual arguments convince very few.

  • averagevoterdotcom

    my posts went multiple times.
    not intentional.

  • powertothepeople

    and if that is the case, still not his problem. I just do not get what you are trying to say here. Ryan’s job is not promotion, but governing.He made his plan accessible to the masses and spoke many times to the public about it, that ends his responsibility.

    As far as promoting the bill and its worth to the people, that is the job of us, pundits, and the republican leadership. Ryan made his point clear many a time, but he had to spend his time selling the plan to his fellow republicans but should have got assistance from the republican leadership. If anyone failed in getting the message out, it was the leadership, not Ryan.

  • sowa1

    We had that for two years and they put this Country id Debt and to this day will not pass a budget or do anything to stop all the spending etc. The Democrats lie about everything including the Paul Ryan plan. The scare tactics have got to end and will only do so when Ryan gives the Republicans talking points and all Republicans get out there and explain the TRUTH to the American People. If something is not done, there will not be Medicare for anyone including the elderly. I am sick of the lies and will not vote for anyone that does not tell the truth to the people. Hard for Dems to do because they do not want what’s best for the American People, they want to control us.

  • sowa1

    We had that for two years and they put this Country id Debt and to this day will not pass a budget or do anything to stop all the spending etc. The Democrats lie about everything including the Paul Ryan plan. The scare tactics have got to end and will only do so when Ryan gives the Republicans talking points and all Republicans get out there and explain the TRUTH to the American People. If something is not done, there will not be Medicare for anyone including the elderly. I am sick of the lies and will not vote for anyone that does not tell the truth to the people. Hard for Dems to do because they do not want what’s best for the American People, they want to control us.

  • builder20

    Take a bus and put politicians around it selling it as the key to everyones future. People get on the bus and are promised that they will be taken care of, that their bus fare will be waiting for them at the end of the trip. Phase through the years as those who are riding get older, and show how the politicians have raided the money that was promised to the passengers. Start playing a tape, or have the bus driver repeat:
    “Everything is fine. Don’t worry, your money is waiting for you. Everything is fine.”

    Pan outside the bus looking into the future.

    The road becomes steep and in the distance can clearly be seen that the road comes to an end at the edge of a cliff. The planned and promised route was not taken! Or the money that had ben planned for building a bridge for the road was stolen by the politicians…etc.

    Zoom back into the bus and now the Passengers are old with their Kids and Grandkids with them. The Kids and Grandkids notice that the end is coming and start trying to convince the driver to stop and their parents to get off the bus. The original passengers begin repeating:
    “Everything is fine. What was promised is waiting for me. Everything is fine.”

    The chanting grows in intensity with the cries of the younger passengers.
    The chants and screams of both groups become more and more intense as the bus drives off the cliff.

    Fade to black, then the words:
    “We have a choice”, “The time to choose is now”.

    Then explain what needs to be done.

    Maybe rushing the driver and have the passengers take control of their own destiny, and coming to terms that they have been lied to and stolen from for years.

    Should get the point across I think.

  • gekster

    But unfortunately, most people would forget the moment the movie comes back on.
    Like most people, they won’t get it until it bites them in the can.
    That’s one of the reasons we are at where we are today.
    They can’t see yesterday, and can’t fathom tomorrow.

  • tomarmstrong

    I had a similar picture in my mind, but I would end on the oldsters rifling through the kid’s pockets looking for ‘Change’…

  • builder20

    Yet I reject the notion that we should give up with our message just because “the selfish masses are too stupid to understand they’re screwed” (if that is not what you meant then I apologize).

    Plans need to be made NOW that deal with all phases of this coming car wreck. That way when it does finally happen we can point out to the screaming masses that we had plans all along, they simply didn’t care to listen.

    That should make whatever plan created for that phase extremely appealing.