Romney/Ryan: So we can finally undo Social Security and Medicare.
Our key to winning, running up the score as Kos says, and, dare we dream, possibly electing a Congress that will cooperate with our President, is making sure people understand that the threat to earned benefits is not rhetoric, it's real. It's apparent to us that undoing the Great Society and the New Deal is a longtime goal of elected Republicans. It's not apparent to many voters who identify themselves as Republican, let alone the "independents." People tell themselves, "Oh, they'd never do that." They aren't connecting the dots between Bush the Younger's flopped attempt to privatize Social Security and Paul Ryan's "Medicare" vouchers. Maybe they even think that the Republican Party learned from Bush's mistake--rather than recognizing it as a step in preparing the way.
People take TV ads with a grain of salt if they don't simply fast-forward through them. Political speeches? Viewers are steeped in the "both sides do it" fallacy. Team Obama will be fighting against a tendency to write off the truth about Republicans' plans for earned benefits as equivalent to the Right's charges of "socialism."
But we can help. We can make the movement visible with bumper stickers that get the project out in the open and show people that it's real. It just needs to be more succinct. We want to get the message out, not cause rear-end collisions. Ideas?