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DarkSteven -> RE: DEMOCRATIC UPSET - New York Special Election: Medicare Will Be Issue Of 2012 (5/25/2011 4:03:38 PM)
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ORIGINAL: lovmuffin
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ORIGINAL: DarkSteven
Okay. Here are the factors which the GOP needed to overcome:
1. The Chris Lee scandal turned off some voters, I assume.
2. The Tea Party candidate split the vote.
3. The Ryan proposal split off the seniors.
The fact that a Dem won was just part of the concern. Even if the Republican had won a squeaker, it should have been grounds for concern.
The Ryan plan is radioactive. If the GOP tweaks it now, they may survive 2012.
Bottom line: The so called tea party candidate handed the election to the democrats. And it had little to do with the Ryan bill, except that the democratic candidate misrepresented the bill to an aging audience. The bill does not affect anyone over 55, which is the majority demographic up there.
Worse, the democrats continue to misrepresent and continue to demagogue the bill. They repeat, over and over, that the Ryan plan will kill medicare, when in fact, it is a medicare fix bill. It is a typical scare tactic that works. People just don't know and haven't read it, and then the press won't call out the democrats on their demagoguery. The reason medicare and social security haven't been reformed is the democrats do a very good job scaring and demagoguery. And when you do that incessant;y, you don't get anything fixed.
You don't get it. By all rights, the election should have been a GOP landslide, not even close. If you add votes for the Tea Party candidate and the Republican, it's pretty close.
The GOP has not found any way to deal with criticism of the Ryan bill. Even if it doesn't slice anyone off at the knees if they're above 54, it still slashes Medicare while giving tax breaks to the wealthy. It's so easy to say that it's taking money from Grandma and handing it over to the rich bankers, etc.
I'm absolutely amazed that the GOP didn't draw up a defense for the utterly predictable attacks on this bill by now.
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