More than one liberal icon has questioned Obama’s integrity, do local Republican operatives have the “inspiration” to present the case?
Former high ranking Democrat congressman Barney Frank is generally a liberal hack who is comfortable misleading people on many issues with abandon, but on Obamacare he has been more forthright. Sort of. Having maintained his uber-liberal creds by voting for Obamacare, in April of 2012, having announced his retirement, he publicly chastened the Obama administration overreach, calling Obamacare a mistake. Of course prior to passage it didn’t stop him from helping give Republican alternatives the bum’s rush, so to speak and mindful of his proclivities. Late last week he was a little more direct in his criticism. This via National Review Morning Jolt . . . with Jim Geraghty
Former Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) slammed the administration’s ObamaCare rollout, calling President Obama’s claim that people could keep their insurance plans under the law a “lie.”
“The rollout was so bad, and I was appalled — I don’t understand how the president could have sat there and not been checking on that on a weekly basis,” Frank said in an interview with the Huffington Post published Friday.
“But frankly, he should never have said as much as he did, that if you like your current health care plan, you can keep it,” he continued. “That wasn’t true. And you shouldn’t lie to people. And they just lied to people.”
Nine months ago liberal talk show host Bill Maher told DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz “the ship has sailed” on Obama’s “credibility.”
They are examples of quotes that can be used against incumbent Democrats and to question Democrat credibility in general. They are the sort of thing that ought to be part of the so called Republican Victory Project/ Get Out The Vote (GOTV) efforts. Right now all the GOTV effort amounts to is a vote early instead of later project, at best.
As we have pointed out before, early “Republican” voters split their votes at a higher rate than poll booth voters. But GOTV volunteers have been going about without motivational tools to turn as many as possible of those contacted into straight ticket voters or to help them be proselytizers. Exchanging hard Republican votes from the booth to mail is a wasteful effort. The phone alternative to door knocking could be done by robo calls. Indeed it could have been completed by now. Oh well, Party on.
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