In a column published today, Jed Babbin notes the shift in political momentum towards Republicans, and proposes three specific ad campaigns to keep it going at Real Clear Politics:
The first ad should weld every Democratic candidate to the identities of their national leaders. It should show Howard Dean at his red-faced "blame America first" shouting worst, Ned Lamont's victory moment, John Kerry accusing American troops of terrorizing Iraqi women and children in the dark of night, and Jack Murtha pronouncing the war unwinnable. Run this on a video background of white flags and the last helicopter lifting off from the roof of our embassy in Saigon. The narrator should say that the Dems want to do to Iraq what they did to Vietnam. Linking "cut and run" abroad to the domestic security issues like the NSA surveillance program, the PATRIOT Act and weak ACLU-type judges builds a fence around the Dems that they can't climb over or tunnel under. End the ad with Ted Kennedy's attack on Judge Samuel Alito and show the incredible page-1 photo of Mrs. Alito in tears as a result of Kennedy's attempt to smear her husband.
The second has to be the "L word" commercial. The Dems are liberal, and the liberals are Dems. Voters should connect the two reflexively because, in truth, they are synonymous. "Liberal" is the most powerful negative word in America's political lexicon. Applied properly, as NCPAC did in 1980 and Reagan did in 1988, it's enough to win elections almost by itself. The RNC needs to show the Dems' close ties to the ACLU, to the lib media, wacky liberal college profs and Hollywood. Remember how Bush 41 made a big issue of Dukakis's ACLU membership in their first debate and how it stuck? The ACLU is the Dems' farm team for judges like Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It's the anti-religious, pro-abortion ACLU that's at the forefront of every court battle against the values most Americans share. Show Michael Moore in Jimmy Carter's presidential box at the 2004 Dem National Convention.
Read the rest at the link above.
Babbin has a very good plan. The Democrats are liberal idiots who will attempt appeasement with Iran and terrorists, to raise taxes, and to impeach the President.
Let the people know this, clearly and succinctly. Repeatedly.
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