GOP Unwisely Embraces Obamacare 'Repair'

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GOP Unwisely Embraces Obamacare 'Repair'
An ill-advised strategy from pollster Frank Luntz.
February 3, 2017
Matthew Vadum
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After Republicans have been promising seven long years to remove the metastasizing malignancy that is Obamacare, GOP messaging guru Frank Luntz suddenly thinks it’s a good idea to “repair” the program instead of repealing it.

This new approach is so politically tone-deaf it hurts. Repealing Obamacare is now part of the Republican identity. Not a single Republican in Congress voted to create it and opposition to it has brought the GOP a series of historic electoral triumphs.

“Repairing” Obamacare, which devours more and more of our freedoms and economy every day, is absolutely, positively nuts. Seeking repair of Obamacare legitimizes the atrocity.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265689/gop-unwisely-embraces-obamacare-repair-matthew-vadum

[skeeter]

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

Big mistake.

Not moving strongly to reverse Obamacare makes the GOP look like the flaccid same-but-less also rans that voters tend to perceive them as.

Obamacare is one of the two or three original reasons for the recent electoral realignment, and voters intuitively know it could be quickly addressed legislatively, given the political courage. Leaving it in place makes the GOP look opportunistic and dishonest and virtually guarantees they will suffer in the next election.