Jarhead91
2009-03-02 05:02:32
You clearly misunderstood Rush’s point. Debating policy is how Republicans lose elections – debating philosophy is how they win.
During the debates, Obama would extol one leftist policy after another. John McCain should have taken a step back and blasted those policies on philosophical grounds – as Reagan or Rush would have. With every liberal give-away and tax increase, I heard in my head “there you go again.” I kept waiting for McCain to pull that philosophical trigger and he never did.
Instead of raising the debate to the philosophical level and forcing Obama to defend big government, McCain would trot out his semi-leftist policies instead. It was a perfect formula for losing.
