At Liberal Patriot John Halpin, observing that the President Biden’s re-election campaign is almost entirely negative at present, urges the president to adopt a more positive strategy:
Biden is an old school Catholic Democrat who is committed to the well-being of working people and middle-class family values—a clear strength in a party awash in elite cultural norms. He believes in using American economic and military power to stand with our allies like Ukraine and Israel while others tear him down for doing so. As president, he worked with the other side to help pass important bipartisan legislation to strengthen American manufacturing, build up our national infrastructure, and protect our interests against outside threats from China and Russia.
The recipe for winning a presidential campaign is not that complicated—it’s two parts character/personality and one part organizational might/message.
So make Biden’s patriotism, his “pro-worker, pro-family, pro-America†agenda, and his pragmatism the centerpiece of a pitch for a second term.
To do this: (1) Reject all leftist rhetorical nonsense and activist priorities that preoccupy a minority of the party; (2) Occupy the center on immigration, energy issues, and crime and let voters know about it; and (3) Focus exclusively on policies that stand up for American workers, American businesses, American families, and American interests.
I predict that his advice will fall on deaf ears. Mr. Biden’s 2020 campaign eked out a narrow victory. He can’t afford to write off the progressive wing of his party in the hope of attracting voters who voted against him the last time around.
There’s an old trial lawyer’s adage going back more than a century and possibly much more: when the law supports your case, argue the law; when the evidence supports your case, argue the evidence; and when neither the facts nor the law support your case, pound on the table. In politics the equivalent is that when your record supports your re-election, run on your record; when your values support your re-election, run on your values; and when neither your record nor your values support your re-election, run a negative campaign. I think we’re going to have a very negative campaign.
Don’t vote for the other guy; he’s older then 75 and senile. He’s corrupt, enriching his family from his time in office. He’s incompetent, he let more then 400,000 Americans die from COVID while President and illegal migration at the Southern Border is out of control. He supports removing a major party candidate off the ballot.
Support me, who is older than 75 and slower then I used to be. I enriched my family during my time is office. I also let more then 400,000 Americans die from COVID while President and let illegal migration out of control. I support removing a major party candidate off the ballot.
The ads write themselves this year.
This sounds like what Shapiro and Letterman did in PA. I suspect he will do quite a bit of what is suggested but he wont come out and condemn the crazies on the left. He has already lost some support with his total support for Israel so he cant afford to lose anymore.
Steve
“Biden’s patriotism, his “pro-worker, pro-family, pro-America†agenda, and his pragmatism”
Which is delusion. Biden is none of these things. He’s anti-Catholic, anti-worker, anti-family, anti-America. He is a senile pedophile. His whole life he has been on the take, wrong on every issue (as he is today), and among the most stupid people in politics.
The fact that he is President shows that the US is dead.
Yep. That’s my point.
But it doesnt mean he needs to alienate progressives. He has always been pro-worker. It’s just that for him pro-worker means supporting training programs, unions and better pay. For the GOP it’s making rich people richer in the hope they hire more people. He has always been pro-family, he just has a broader definition of family. GOP wants to limit it to married man and woman. He has always been pro-military, he just doesnt support it by wanting to invade everywhere (though still too many places IMO).
Steve
Since I have opposed every use of U. S. military force over the last 40 years, obviously I think we’re using our military in too many places.