For a political attack to really work it was to be truer about your opponent than it is about yourself. That’s why the following makes me laugh:
Republicans are seeking to portray President Obama as the divider-in-chief, arguing the presidential candidate who trumpeted hope and change four years ago is now running an increasingly negative campaign.
Their chief argument is that Obama’s attacks on the wealthy are meant to incite class warfare and a heightened us-versus-them mentality never seen before in present day politics.
But Republicans also point to Democrats’ “war on women” and the contraception mandate in Obama’s healthcare law, which they argue is an attack on religious freedom.
Even the lead-up to the anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden over the last week was used by a sharp-elbowed Obama to divide the nation, Republicans say.
Mitt Romney, the presumptive GOP nominee, seized on the theme in recent days.
Let’s think about this. Attacking access to contraception is a direct attack on women. Passing laws to make getting an abortion as humiliating as possible is a direct attack on women. Any suggestion that the president doesn’t deserve credit for getting Usama bin-Laden is so ludicrous that it’s only purpose is to divide the nation. Mitt Romney’s harsh anti-Latino positions divide America. Throwing a national security adviser under the bus because he’s openly gay divides America.
The president, on the other hand, is merely asking rich people to put some more money in the treasury so we don’t have to go deeper in debt or put ALL of the hardship of budget cuts on the people who utilize government programs and assistance. And that’s pretty much everyone when you consider education and research and development and transportation spending. Rich people got a giant decade-long gift of low tax rates and now the Republicans want everyone but rich people to pay for the resulting debt. How does that not divide the nation?
not to mention that we have verification now, in a book, that they decided NOT to work with the President
and decided to commit ECONOMIC TREASON AGAINST THIS COUNTRY
on January 20, 2009
a couple of my conservative buddies on FB are not buying the GOP’s bullshit on bin Laden. They believe Obama deserves the credit.
This is what the right wing machine is left with. The ONLY thing they have in their playbook are, at a national level, substance free freakouts about trivial BS, and at the state level, exercises in reactionary extremism. That’s it, that’s all they have left.
Can someone please tell me what R-money has been doing for the past 4 years? This is the best they can come up with? Hahahahahahahaha!!!
That sentence made me smile. It’s about time Republican projection started to bite them in the ass.
Given that Republicans consider only themselves to be part of the nation – with everyone else not being a Real American – I would have though dividing the “Nation” – i.e. Republicans – is the obvious political strategy and a very good thing.
Yeah, quite a few segregationists in that crowd.
I’ve seen this movie before. When Republicans accuse their Democratic opponents of something unsavory, it means they’re about to do exactly that thing, several times over. They do it to inoculate themselves against the denunciations that they know their behavior will bring, setting the stage for “Both sides accuse the other of…” reporting and confusion among the public.
Here. It. Comes.