Muscatine

National GOP leaders are doing damage control today after a Politico scoop lifted the curtain on the party's plan to tap voters' "fear" in the coming campaign season. The PR problem started when an absent-minded attendee at the Republican National Committee (RNC) confab on February 18 in Boca Grande, Florida, left a 72-page document from its 2010 strategizing session in a hotel room. Today, Politico reporter Ben Smith's expose is making headlines.

The memo tracks the fundraising presentation that RNC Finance Director Rob Bickhart delivered to the RNC's $2,500-a-head annual retreat. The best path to victory in 2010, the document advises, is for Republican candidates to depict themselves as the best hope for resisting the "trending toward socialism" taking shape in a Democrat-dominated Washington.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts1217

You can definitely tell it's an election year. The heathens are running amok.

Yes, and u just love those dems.........

Nope

Not me, I would like to see a new party without tea, libs, conservs, donkeys, elephants, or elections. I'd like it to be "Pic-A-Politician out of a hat- party. Like jury selection. Might be quite interesting. This system sure has been a failure. Or:::how about a basics skills test like we had in school. The highest scores get the jobs, and they get paid a rate by success rather than just being there? If they don't show and vote, they get docked, and  oh yeah, they might even get paid by the hour.

I like it.

Lucy.

Hey GTA, how about this for a quote?  "...This system sure has been a failure".  What a stirring vote of confidence and pride for this, the greatest country on earth.   Kind of reminds me of the fabulous first ladies proclamation that she hadn't been able to be proud of our country for years.  Heart-warming indeed.

It's a failure for the Bird because liberty requires us to occasionally take a stand, and when you ride the fence, it's hard to stand on either side.