re: #84 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Their attacks are easy to understand, they’re trying to cripple the Democratic Party as an opposition to them in future elections. Union funding, college voters, etc, etc. They know they can’t win 2012 without trickery, so they’re throwing everything but the kitchen sink at the DNC’s voter base.

A more constructive approach for the gop would be to reach out to some of the groups of voters they traditionally lose. But that would be a lot more difficult and time consuming than just trying to kill the unions.

Today’s Republicans are so short-sighted I seriously doubt that they really care about long-term deficit reduction; it’s just their current rhetorical ploy to energize disaffected whites and, of course, their base.