"Obama the Socialist, the Communist, the Progressive Elitist", the lists of names goes on and on.
Whether they are true or not, the real mission must be to get Obama out of office and get Romney elected.
Repealing ObamaCare is a priority. This can only be accomplished with a Republican President and Republican Majorities in the House and the Senate, the likelihood of which is increasing every day. The growing Tea Party Caucus, also, is commanding a greater degree of clout in the Upper Chamber, the branch of government which has been more incline to paying for perks and pork for both sides of the aisle.
Stopping the spending and impending tax increases is also crucial. Mitt Romney's time as Governor of Massachusetts can inform his expertise in matters of comity and compromise. He worked with a lopsidedly Democratic legislature, so what will stop him from doing well with a Congress filled with majorities of his own party?
Enacting real entitlement reform, like US Senator Tom Coburn's $9 trillion debt reduction plan introduced in the Senate at about this time last year, would be a huge step in the right direction. The crushing burden of these costly programs has been magnified today with the report that future social security recipients will not be taking out as much as they had put in during their working years. In effect, Social Security and other Government entitlement programs has become a massive, legal Ponzi scheme, one which must be overhauled, streamlined, and freed up so that current as well as future "forced investors" will at least have a choice as to whether to privatize their accounts or opt out altogether.
Free-market reforms can save Medicare without forcing it to go bankrupt and without penalizing those who have already contributed to the program. Instead of such heady terms, however, the GOP and the other conservative elements of the Democratic party should invest in a proper PR campaign which explains cogently and maturely what proposals can be enacted. The GOP communications caucus must get its head out of the "There's no talking to these people" mindset. If the US Secretary of the Treasury could make the case to voters in the 1920s for tax cuts, then what's stopping a well-verse and erudite columnist or politician from making the same case today?
It's time that we put aside the labels which have become too easy a weapon to shut down the opposition. Instead, let's fine tune the argument, or better yet let the other side make their case, which much of the time they are unable to do, as they have become attached to words, phrases, and personalities instead of a coherent logic which connects with reality while taking into account the issues which affect this country.
We do not need to go on the defensive. We do not have to label the disastroud policies of President Obama and his Democratic caucus as "socialist", "communist", or otherwise. The unemployment numbers, the increasing debt, the broken promises, the "more of the same" instead of "hope and change" are indictin the embattled incumbent thoroughly enough!