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Wednesday afternoon, I included a quote from DSCC spokesman Eric Schultz in one of my posts. Here’s Schultz’s quote on what the Democrats’ campaign strategy should be:

“Republicans on the ballot next November who opposed the bill will be in the precarious position of telling voters they plan to rollback landmark health care reform which will have afforded coverage to hundreds of thousands in their state,” DSCC spokesman Eric Schultz emails.

“We absolutely intend to make Republicans look voters in the eye next November and make it clear they want to take affordable health care reform away from them,” Schultz continues, adding that they intend to press the case that “if it was worth filibustering” to Republicans, then surely it’s “worth repealing.”

This fight should be one that Republicans nationwide should be licking their chops over having. If the Democrats want to defend their raising taxes, exploding the deficit, hiking health insurance premiums and cutting corrupt deals to get to that sixtieth vote, then let’s have that fight.

The American people passionately hate the Democrats’ health care legislation. They don’t believe that it won’t explode the deficit. They’ve watched the corruption involved in the Senate making sausage. They’ve read about the impending tax increases contained in this legislation. If Democrats want to remind voters of these things, then let’s oblige them.

Let’s help remind people that there really aren’t any moderate Democrats in the Senate and precious few in the House. Let’s remind people that so-called moderates like Evan Bayh voted the same way that self-described socialist Bernie Sanders did when Harry Reid needed him to.

Let’s not stop there, either. Let’s remind the people that Democrats have spent money at levels never before seen in American history. Let’s remind them of the bailouts, the budgets and the stimulus bill that they’ve voted for.

The last budget President Bush submitted was for approximately $3,100,000,000,000. A year later, the budget we’re operating under is almost $4,000,000,000,000. That’s a spending increase of over 30 percent.

Let’s campaign on the promise that we’ll repeal 75 percent of that wasteful spending, then promise to re-instate the Bush tax cuts.

Finally, our campaign creed should be that we need to change directions from President Obama’s failed policies and that we’ll pass laws that clean up the corruption in Washington. Also, let’s campaign on the promise that we’ll put this nation’s fiscal house in order, led by Chairman Paul Ryan’s efforts to return to the balanced budgets of the John Kasich era.

If we show the American people that we’ve consistently voted against the Democrats’ spending increases, then we’ll have credibility on this important issue.

I can’t emphasize enough how important it is that we repeat telling voters that unemployment was 4.6 percent when Nancy Pelosi got the Speaker’s gavel and that it’s 10 percent now.

Finally, if I was running the campaign, I’d ask these simple questions:

Are you better off now than you were 4 years ago? Haven’t you had enough already?

That’s the fastest path back to the majority.

UPDATE: Great minds think alike.

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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

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