Today’s editorial is about the future, not the recent past nor the present. There is an air of cautious optimism among Republicans regarding the upcoming midterm elections. Poll after poll continues to show a severe decline in voter satisfaction with the governance of the Biden administration. From Daily Mail
A fresh slew of polls this week shows the White House might be in trouble.
A new poll from a trusted Democratic source finds that not 3 in 10 Americans believe the economy will get better one year from now and just 34 percent approve of President Biden’s job in office.
Further down, emphasis mine
While 34 percent approve of Biden’s job in office, 52 percent disapprove and 14 percent do not have an opinion. Thirty-seven percent approve of Biden’s handling of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, 47 percent approve of his handling of Covid-19 and 31 percent approve of his job with the economy. Meanwhile, only 27 percent of Americans believe the economy will get better 12 months from now, down 10 points from March 2021.
Read: Biden’s dire approval shows no signs of a rebound
It’s almost axiomatic that issues come and go, but the state of the economy almost always reigns supreme in the minds of most Americans, especially when it’s doing as badly as it is now. The numbers above, especially confidence in the possibility of an economic rebound, have steadily declines since Biden took office. And they will almost certainly decline, given his other failures. This is almost certainly going to be an issue for Democrats in November.
Over at Newsweek:
Republicans have opened up a substantial lead over Democrats ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, according to a new poll conducted in February among likely general election voters.
A poll from the Convention of States Action (COSA) in partnership with the Trafalgar Group showed Republicans enjoyed 54.4 percent support in the upcoming midterms, compared to just 41.9 percent for Democrats.
That’s better than a 12-point spread.
Read: Republicans Enjoy Huge Lead Over Democrats in Midterms: Poll
Even with the above, we all know that we should never underestimate the capacity of the Republican party and individual candidates to snatch defeat from the jaws of almost certain victory. That’s why Republicans need to do more than campaign on “not Joe Biden” in these midterms. Republicans cannot succeed merely by pointing out the failures of the Biden administration. They must offer Americans something more.
It won’t be enough to merely stop the Biden bleeding. America—Americans need to be made whole or at least offered opportunity to make themselves whole from the egregious damage done to them by Democrat governance, both at the national level and by tyrants occupying seats on local school boards. Billions in wealth has been destroyed by Democrats. Our children’s emotional and intellectual growth has been stunted. People have lost their businesses and their jobs. Many have become permanent wards of the Democrat welfare state.
Republicans must identify each deleterious issue stemming from Biden’s governance and then state in detail what they propose to do to fix it. In. Detail. This goes from high gas prices to tyrannical school boards mandating unhealthy face diapers for school kids. In their haste to be seen “doing something,” the Republican team needs to stay within constitutional bounds and avoid feel-good solutions, such as releasing oil from the strategic reserve. Such measures almost always do more harm than good.
We cannot win long-term on simply “Let’s Go Brandon!” We need real solutions that real Americans can understand and get behind. We need solutions that reward hard work and persistence instead of sloth. The Republican majority had a singular opportunity to do this in 2016. Instead, the only thing they managed was some modest tax reform. We need to do better this time around.
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Well, if Republicans do just use “Not Brandon”, we need to be very careful to remind voters what prosperity looked like, by reminding them of the last administration, that was destroyed by the media and the left, and all their criminal acts. That will take a balancing act, but that minority base benefited more than the rest, and they still appear to be leaving the Democrat Party.
Diminishing the voices of certain RINOs in their messaging should be high on any agenda for the midterms and 2024. They really should be being primaried as much as possible.
It appears that the Republican caucus has come to form behind the current minority leader as the next Speaker, by his attempt at using Newt Gingrich’s Contract with America. That may be the downfall of our Party, because I think sticking a wet thumb in the air, after you screw up, is not the way to govern, but doing it before you screw up. McCarthy is not the kind of leader the Republican Party needs. He just wants it. Last I checked, there needs to be something more, like conviction, Character and resolve. The way McCarthy uses his wet thumb portrays little of the ingredients needed for good governance.
We definitely need to do better, this time around. God will only give us so many times to screw up.
Alinsky said it best: “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.”
No plan beyond “simple obstruction” just gives the Little Eichmanns of the Deep State an unsupervised free hand.
Someone – Rep Jordan? – on the GOP team is working a Contract With America 2 for the 2022 elections. Haven’t seen it. Hope it is more substantive that being for mothers, the American flag, and apple pie.
JAB