Everyone on the right is sneering about the "low-information voter." Even the sainted El Rushbo has succumbed.
I say: Let's lose this loser excuse, and for a simple reason. We are all low information voters.
If we are liberals we get our information from NPR and the New York Times. Now there's a reliable way to get information!
If we are conservatives we get our information from FoxNews and a host of online rants.
If we are ordinary Americans that don't gorge on political propaganda every day then we get our information from the local TV news, from reality TV, and from Hollywood.
So who's the low-information voter?
Let us recall tha the late great election was decided on about one and a half issues, as all elections are decided. What were the issues? The rich should pay a little more: funny how the president forgot to mention that FICA taxes would be going up on the 99%. Jobs: but maybe the American people reckon that those government benefits are a better deal, for now.
Given the choices, who is to say that the low-information voter is wrong?
The fact is that the government runs about 20,000 programs and just about every one of them stink. But what voter has the time and inclination to study up on even 100 of them?
That's one reason conservatives call for limited government. There is no way that voters can pass judgment on a government of 20,000 programs.
Let us forget the "low-information voter" whine and get back to work. Work means persuading the folks in the middle that we are the good guys, we are the ones that care about them, we are the ones that care about families, and we are the guys that have a plan.
And, of course, it won't hurt that in 2016 the Dems will be running a white guy and the race card will be worth a lot less. So the Mitt Romney of 2016 will be able to continue his negative ads into the general election and do the character assassination that he couldn't do on Barack Obama.
Here's more. It won't hurt in 2014 and 2016 that Republicans and conservatives can start bellowing about a "lost decade" and blaming Barack Obama for everything. That is the reason the presidency seldom gives one party more than two consecutive presidential terms. After eight years of the usual miserable and corrupt governance, low-information voters rightly decide it is "time for a change." Or even time for "hope and change."
I wouldn't be at all surprised if the low-information voters will want "change" in 2016. What will conservatives say then?
I say: Let's lose this loser excuse, and for a simple reason. We are all low information voters.
If we are liberals we get our information from NPR and the New York Times. Now there's a reliable way to get information!
If we are conservatives we get our information from FoxNews and a host of online rants.
If we are ordinary Americans that don't gorge on political propaganda every day then we get our information from the local TV news, from reality TV, and from Hollywood.
So who's the low-information voter?
Let us recall tha the late great election was decided on about one and a half issues, as all elections are decided. What were the issues? The rich should pay a little more: funny how the president forgot to mention that FICA taxes would be going up on the 99%. Jobs: but maybe the American people reckon that those government benefits are a better deal, for now.
Given the choices, who is to say that the low-information voter is wrong?
The fact is that the government runs about 20,000 programs and just about every one of them stink. But what voter has the time and inclination to study up on even 100 of them?
That's one reason conservatives call for limited government. There is no way that voters can pass judgment on a government of 20,000 programs.
Let us forget the "low-information voter" whine and get back to work. Work means persuading the folks in the middle that we are the good guys, we are the ones that care about them, we are the ones that care about families, and we are the guys that have a plan.
And, of course, it won't hurt that in 2016 the Dems will be running a white guy and the race card will be worth a lot less. So the Mitt Romney of 2016 will be able to continue his negative ads into the general election and do the character assassination that he couldn't do on Barack Obama.
Here's more. It won't hurt in 2014 and 2016 that Republicans and conservatives can start bellowing about a "lost decade" and blaming Barack Obama for everything. That is the reason the presidency seldom gives one party more than two consecutive presidential terms. After eight years of the usual miserable and corrupt governance, low-information voters rightly decide it is "time for a change." Or even time for "hope and change."
I wouldn't be at all surprised if the low-information voters will want "change" in 2016. What will conservatives say then?
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