Will Repubs make the next election a referendum of Obama also?? [View all]

[kentuck]

After all, he will still be the President in November, 2016.

I would not be surprised.

Perhaps by then, Democrats will have learned that we win elections on economic issues. "It's the economy, stupid!" Remember?

Is there any reason to believe that the President's "favorability" ratings will be any higher in 2016? The Republicans have spent a lot of time and effort tearing this President down and it might be a task to get his numbers back up?

We don't win elections trying to win NRA votes or on one-issue, such as "anti-woman". The reality is what it is. Call it what you want, but the Democrats were caught off-guard, with their pants down, in this election.

The Republicans were so effective at demonizing Obama that even his own Mama would deny him. And many of his fellow Democrats did indeed do just that.

This past election started with hatred for "Obamacare" and went to Benghazi, then to the IRS, then to Syria, then to his incompetence in pulling out the troops and permitting ISIS to come back into Iraq, and then, just before election, we had the Ebola scare. It was difficult to talk about anything else. But the mold had already been set.

What's the lessons we have learned? First of all, you have to defend whatever you have voted for, whether it be the ACA or the President or the attack upon Benghazi. You cannot let these attacks continue to fester until election day.

And the lies must be countered. For example, the IRS problems in Cincinnati. Democrats were silent as the Republicans portrayed it as a conspiracy to attack conservative groups only. You have to fight back on issues like that.

But, we should know by now that Republicans like to put their opponents on the defensive and keep them there. If you're not ready to handle that reality, then perhaps you don't deserve to be in Congress? You cannot bring a knife to a gunfight. We know the tactics of Republicans. Until they change, we have no choice but to use the same personal attack methods as they. We would prefer to discuss the issues and let the people decide who has the best ideas. But Democrats win when that happens. Republicans will not fight on those grounds. We have no choice.