as we ve been talking a lot about lately, at a sort of metastrategic level, democrats decided this year that they did not want to run in this year s elections with a national campaign strategy for whatever reason as republicans turned right at sarah palin, right again at jim demint, at the ghost of jessie helms, democrats decided there was not much to say about democrats v. republicans this year. for whatever reason, that s what they decided. but here s what it looks like when democrats stray from that. here s what it looks like when democrats say there is something worth saying about democrats v. republicans this year. here s what it looks like when democrats do draw that contrast. when a democratic candidate tries to hang the republican agenda on her individual republican opponent. here s what it looks like when a democratic candidate commits politics. watch this. i m debbie hal verson and aapprove this message. says social security benefits need to be capped.
wall way that the republicans really do not want to run on this year, but that smart democrats will make them run on. if democrats were trying to win the elections this year in every congressional district in every senate race, every gubernatorial race, every whatever election, some version of that ad could be run. the republican party is essentially, as a whole, embraced privatization of social security. it s in the paul ryan road map for house legislation. the would be republican speaker of the house, john boehner, pointedly not ruling out social security privatization. a ton of the top-of-the-ticket republicans are running. pat toomey in pennsylvania, john raese in west virginia. rob portman in ohio, roy blunt in missouri, ron johnson in wisconsin. all running on privatizing social security. and this debbie hal vverson adds
as we ve been talking a lot about lately, at a sort of metastrategic level, democrats decided this year that they did not want to run in this year s elections with a national campaign strategy for whatever reason as republicans turned right at sarah palin, right again at jim demint, at the ghost of jessie helms, democrats decided there was not much to say about democrats v. republicans this year. for whatever reason, that s what they decided. but here s what it looks like when democrats stray from that. here s what it looks like when democrats say there is something worth saying about democrats v. republicans this year. here s what it looks like when democrats do draw that contrast. when a democratic candidate tries to hang the republican agenda on her individual republican opponent. here s what it looks like when a democratic candidate commits politics. watch this. i m debbie hal verson and aapprove this message.
if a major political party were to take stances on issues like social security and abortion rights and other political party in that same race might eventually shine as bright a light as possible on those extreme positions, right? until now, not so much with the democrats and the light and the extreme on that until now. but we do have an update. real developments in the way democrats are running against republicans. coming up. stufy, make the call. [ dialing ] [ beeping ] [ beeping ] [ beeping ] [ eli ] it s go time.
woo! understand these arguments are not about shutting down the government for any reason. for any one unbearable thing. it s not a last resort way for republicans to try to get this one thing that s very important to them that they can t get any other way. it s not that. it s just they want to shut down the government. any policy excuse to do that is as good as any other. and jim demint has now just decided that the whole policy hook, that s beside the point. shutdown itself is good because government itself is bad, governing itself must be stopped, legislating itself is evil and must be stopped, which is a relatively cogent sentiment coming from someone with a black bandanna over their face running with a smash the state banner at a wto in the 90s. mr. demint, when you spoke to your guidance counselor in high school, did that person really suggest governing as a good career path for you? because the country does need running. it does need governing. and if you are against that on