I am begining to think that Democrats need to focus their pitch to women and minorities
from this point out.
I understand that Obama and the Dems feel that they are best
suited to run the economy, but as long as they focus on the economy, they are
playing in the Reps home field. No
matter how much the Dems trash the Reps approach to taxes and the economy, the
underlying truth is that the economy sucks and people are not feeling confident
of the economic future of the country. People are open to the notion that a change of
leadership might be a good change for the economy.
For the Dems, the blame game is necessary only as it is in
response to an attack by the Reps, but it should be a quick two-step: the economy is bad because of what the Reps
gave us and how the Reps are saying no to everything we want to do, but, by the
way, what about the Social Issues? what about Roe v Wade, women’s empowerment,
reproductive freedoms, education, immigration, civil rights, censorship,
capital punishment, bigotry of all forms, poverty programs, inner city schools, child abuse, etc? The Dems target voters
are all the groups other than angry white males who seem to be dedicated to being tough guys in the world.
Plus, Dems need to push hard for a diplomatic, negotiation oriented
foreign policy. Forget about looking
tough. The Rep white male seems to care a lot with looking tough, and is convinced that looking and being tough is what
stabilizes the world. But it
doesn’t. It destabilizes the world. And the country is sick of war in the Middle East with religious fanatics. Talking tough will appeal to the Rep white
male, but I believe it is a turnoff to women and non-whites in America . John Wayne is long dead, and the Rigid Right haven’t figured that out yet.
So, I hope Obama does everything he can to quickly rebut the
tough-guy-you're-on-your-own-war-loving talk of the Reps, and ignore the low-tax free-the-economy
mantras of Romney and make a quick shuffle off into the social issues and the
need for a diplomatic approach to foreign policy.
He needs to turn it into the everyone-else against the angry-white-guy
election. Or so I think.