Friday, March 18, 2011

"Democrats argue party failing to humanize cuts, losing message war"


Mike Lillis (The Hill):
Bob Beckel, a Democratic analyst for Fox News, agreed.

“When it comes to budgets and numbers, Republicans own that issue, they have for a long time,” he said. “We’re not going to win the fight on numbers. We’re going to win it on what government means, and what it means to people, and how Republicans don’t care what it means.

“If you expose what [Republicans] have done, as opposed to numbers, then you expose what this whole thing’s about, which is a bunch of fringe right-wingers,” said Beckel, a longtime veteran of Democratic campaigns. “That’s what’s missing in this debate, and that’s where Obama needs to pick up the slack. MORE...

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