Is it really America's Choice?
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“The America’s Choice agenda is really all about a
strategy to break through the communication barrier
and compete with the presidential bully pulpit.”
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Sen. Ron Johnson |
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The size and role of government —
“President Obama wants a large government, intrusive
and controlling. We want to grow the private sector
to reduce our debt.”
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Energy exploitation —
“President Obama is all about limiting the use of
our domestic energy resources, we actually want to
utilize
[them].”
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Government regulations —
“We don’t want to eliminate regulations. We want to
first put a moratorium on them to give businesses a
chance to grow and heal.”
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Tax reform —
“President Obama is playing class division. He’s
about punishing success. We want pro-growth tax
reform.”
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Healthcare —
“President Obama wants to take over one-sixth of
our economy, which will do great harm to our
healthcare system as well as blow a hole in our
already horribly broken budget. We want to repeal
that and replace it with patient-centered, free
market-based reforms.”
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America's Choice
was conceived by Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson. With
Tea Party support Johnson ousted liberal Russ
Feingold in 2010 to become Wisconsin's first
conservative senator since 1992.
Ron Johnson's observations about Obama are valid and his
proposals are quite sensible. Nonetheless, there is
something wrong with the America's Choice picture
(with the possible exception of a clip-art logo inserted
by this renegade scribe).
The problem is that there is not a single pulpit in
America from which to preach a message like Sen.
Johnson's where the sermon could be heard by anyone but
the proverbial choir.
More so than at any other time in our history,
with a huge assist from the organized liberal
establishment media, the presidential
bully pulpit is, today, everywhere. You can't even log on
to the most popular e-mail providers' websites without
being exposed to at least one disingenuous
pro-administration headline about "real" current
events
—
and that
headline will get changed-out for
yet another anti-conservative banner before your next
message check.
Except for conservative-dominated talk radio and a
handful of well-visited right-leaning websites there
isn't anywhere you can go that Obama propaganda is not
in the forefront of the so-called news. Should
America's Choice garner any mainstream media
coverage at all it is likely to be buried deep enough to
be inconsequential and/or peppered with counter-quotes
and analyses by the usual left-wing shills and pundits.
Then, of course, there is the Pulpit Bully himself. If
the
demonizer-in-chief gets anti-America's
Choice talking points loaded into his teleprompter
he'll rail against Ron Johnson's agenda at every
campaign stop until his manufactured counterpoints begin rolling off
lefties' lips as if they had actually thought them up on
their own.
In other words, like many of the pro-growth,
government-shrinking, deficit-reducing programs put
forth by conservatives over the last three years,
America's Choice stands a greater chance of being
demonized and marginalized than it does of serving its
intended purpose.
Only the GOP's eventual nominee will have a pulpit with anywhere
near the "bully" of Obama's. But it's a longshot that
any of the current contenders for that candidacy would
adopt Sen. Johnson's message over their own talking
points, let alone chant them as a mantra at each and
every public appearance and media opportunity.
The
bad news is that, given a choice, Americans would opt out of
hearing all political messages. The good
news is that
their disdain for political rhetoric now includes
hearing messages from the bully pulpit.
Unfortunately, the liberal media is not going to allow a
rhetorical moratorium in this presidential election
year.
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