Dems need one clear message for 2012: "repubs will cut your social security, we will protect it."

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Winning message, hopefully sincere.

[leftstreet]

1. Wouldn't that only work if the Republicans had formed the Catfood Commission?

I'm confused

[chill_wind]

11. Yeah, just a LITTLE irony there. And DLC has been salivating to "fix" SS

for more than a decade.

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12. The "comimission" that did (and referred) absolutely nothing

As predicted?

[MadHound]

2. And if SS has already been cut by the Dems in 2012?

What's the message then? That they're outdoing the 'Pugs at their own game?

[DJ13]

4. "We'll do better next time, we promise!"

[Skittles]

3. LOL

Dems can claim no such thing now; they gave it away with the tax cuts for the obscenely rich

[robinlynne]

5. But they didn't.....protect it.

[Uzybone]

6. LOL....what about jobs

jobs are so 2009

[man4allcats]

7. We will protect it?

That might be a tough sell after this past week's vote to pass the President's extension of the Bush tax cuts. As economist Paul Krugman recently noted, "...the only way to cut spending enough to pay for the Bush tax cuts in the long run would be to dismantle large parts of Social Security and Medicare." | Emphasis mine - m4ac

[dkf]

8. Except quite a few here say Obama has already killed it.

How are they supposed to back track that now?

[some guy]

9. repubs will cut your social security,

we will protect it better than we did last time. Promise, really.

Don't look at our record, look at our Hope.


I'm sorry, they can't be sincere with this message, having already failed to protect SS.

[gateley]

10. Heard Randi Rhodes the other day saying that's the main reason why Republicans

turned against Bush/Republicans. War? No problem. Torture? Whatever it takes. Cut my Social Security??? Get me a Democrat!

So yeah, I hope they hammer that home.

[Kablooie]

13. Problem is that by 2012 it will already have been cut.

[mmonk]

14. You would have to get all Democrats to support social security

or run with a nuanced descriptive position like they always do. The nuanced position seems to work with its voters even if they don't know its nuanced.

[still_one]

15. I agree with you about the repukes, but I don't have that much confidence in the Democrats to

protect it