From this morning’s Mike Allen’s Political Playbook, an unnamed national Democratic official pretty much nails it:
“The problem for Republicans is that the only thing they have is opposition to Democrats and Obama, because everything they were for over the past decade – tax breaks for the wealthy and big oil, trickle-down economics, ‘free market’ solutions to health care and energy, privatizing Social Security, deregulating Wall Street – was all a failure that drove our country to the brink of disaster. Republicans can’t win on what they believe, so they’ll run against us. We aren’t going to let them get away with it.’
You nailed it. Republicans have made it an art to define Democrats with labels ie. tax and spend Democrats, Big government Democrats, Pointyhead Liberals, Liberal elite, Obamacare, etc. The Republican have an awfull track record and perhaps we should begin to define them with a few catchy lablels. Can anyboody think of a few?