Obama should start using "Republican" as a pejorative... for example:

[npincus]

his new "Embrace" ad reads "Same old Washington games". Well... yes, but "Washington" is a 2-party town, and to say that "Washington" is the problem indicts our own. Democrats are part of the system... we need to stoke fury at the Republicans. The public is angry at the Republican party, very angry... even Republicans freely admit their brand sucks and their rep is in the toilet. Many Republicans are leaving the party and no longer want to be associated with it.

So, in my opinion, the ad would have been more effective this way: "Same old Republican games", and incorporate the word in our message.. not only will it help Obama but Dems down the line. Their brand is tainted and hobbled, that's why we should exploit it-- the GOP certainly would.

I'm finding a lot of the Dem "attacks" too obtuse, not sharp. Instead of Obama surrogates spouting about "8 years of failed policies", how about "the catastrophic Bush years". Repeat "Bush" like a mantra and stoke anger at the Republican party... THEN pound on McCain ties to Bush ad nauseum, and McCain's "maverick" fable is history.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. I'd also interchange "neocon" with "republican" as much as possible.

Or "extreme rightwing politics".

[TwilightGardener]

2. Nope--not when you want Repubs to support you. Insulting them is not the way.

[wyldwolf]

3. right! And additionally, independents will respond to "Washington."

Using "Republican" sends a "same old partisan politics" message to them.

[npincus]

5. I don't think it will insult dissafected Repubs

I see your point about offending Repub loyalists who wouldn't vote Dem anyway, but McCain somehow gets a pass as being a "different" kind of Republican... well, he's a B*sh loyalist and reminding the public he is aligned with the most incomeptent president in our history, and reminding them WHAT he is, another rubber-stamp Republican, can only work to our benefit.

my opinion, of course.

[Sulawesi]

4. Completely disgaree....we need all the crossovers we can get.

[annabanana]

6. a "republican compromise". . . Everyone already knows what that is.

There's built in understanding...