California Conservative

Tom Cole needs a different strategy than the one spotlighting 18 legislators for voting in lockstep with Nancy Pelosi. According to this article, the NRCC has purchased ad buys in 18 vulnerable House districts currently held by Democrats. Here’s more of the details:

The GOP’s cash-strapped campaign arm will launch a mix of radio ads and automated phone calls targeting 18 freshman Democrats for allegedly marching in lockstep with the speaker, a California Democrat who is regularly depicted by Republicans as an out-of-touch liberal.

It isn’t that I disagree that Ms. Pelosi isn’t worthy of ridicule. It’s that I don’t think that’s the most effective approach to take. It isn’t good enough to just be against, against, against. Frankly, I think the more effective way to highlight each legislators’ votes is by offering a positive alternative to each of the legislators’ questionable votes. Appeal to the voters with information and logic, then get out of the way. It isn’t that difficult.

Here’s the Democrats’ official response:

“Clearly, Republicans are running scared because Americans are responding positively to Democrats’ New Direction agenda,” said Jennifer Crider, communications director for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “While the NRCC is forced to rely on smear tactics, Democrats are delivering real results for the American people: raising the minimum wage, lowering gas prices and holding the president accountable for the war in Iraq.”

Democrats are such wonderful liars. They’ve caved into President Bush by now offering a ‘no timelines bill’ on Iraq. And frankly, I don’t know what Ms. Crider is talking about when she says that “Democrats are delivering…lower gas prices.” The last I looked, eight freshman Democrats have introduced windfall profits legislation. Question: How is it possible for oil companies to be reaping windfall profits while Democrats, defying the markets, lowered gas prices?

Ms. Pelosi’s House is a do nothing House, which is good for American and good for Republicans. It makes justifying their majority status a difficult proposition. Ms. Crider did have a point here, though:

“Did the NRCC pass the collection plate at the conference to pay for this minuscule smoke and mirrors effort?” Crider asked.

Contributions haven’t rolled in because the House ‘leadership’ is inept and spineless for the most part. Tom Cole’s statement that spending wasn’t the reason for the GOP’s defeat last November tells me that he’s an idiot who shouldn’t be in charge of anything, especially the NRCC campaign strategy.

Isn’t it time that someone established a PAC that could act as a shadow NRCC?

Technorati Tags: Nancy Pelosi, Windfall Profits, Do Nothing Congress, Iraq War, Broken Promises, Reforms, Lobbying Reform, Election 2008, Tom Cole, NRCC

Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 24th, 2007 at 7:29 am and is filed under Author: Gary Gross, Corruption, Election 2008, Iraq, Pelosi, W. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.