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Gov. Mitch Daniels (file) and Gov. Scott Walker (file)
The anti-Obama-everything rhetoric won't win the 2012 election, two top surrogates for Mitt Romney's campaign warned over the weekend.
According to TPM, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels advised the Republican presidential nominee "offer a bold, affirmative agenda" to beat Obama in November. "The American people will rightly, I think, demand to know something more than he’s not President Obama," Daniels said on Fox News Sunday. "He better have an affirmative, constructive message, and one of hope."
Always better coming from a friend, right? Fresh off a recall win in Wisconsin, controversial Republican Governor Scott Walker echoed the same message during an appearance on CBS’ Face The Nation.
"I don’t think we win if it’s just about a referendum on Barack Obama," Walker said on Sunday. "I just hope he takes a page out of President Reagan’s playbook in 1980 where it was not only a referendum on the failed policies of President Carter at the time." He added, "It was also something where President Reagan laid out a clear plan."
Romney, a frequent guest star in our Rewrite segments, isn't as known for expressing his "clear" vision. Most recently, his TBD stance on immigration caused some headaches within the GOP Party.
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Larry, Where is the story about Elizabeth Hutcheson??
Whose paying the wages and the costs overhead of this, you Swing States?
"He better have an affirmative, constructive message, and one of hope."
Aren't these the same fools that were mocking Obama for encouraging "hope"? Now they want to encourage it? Talk about flip floppers.
Obama's "HOPE and CHANGE" inane message of his 2008 campaign (that had one MSNBC commentator getting chills running up his leg every time he heard it) has become something the American people have accepted, only now its "WE HOPE HE WILL CHANGE", KMG.
And what is the "clear plan" on immigration that Obama is putting forth? The Hispanic community is especially upset with his administration for his increasing arrests and deportations, his lack of political courage in putting forth legislation for a compreshensive immigration policy that would provide for a sane path for moving the illegal immigrants to citizenhood and developing of visa programs for work in the US. Even George Bush had the courage to attempt that course.