If BHO wins more debt coming!!

Bipartisanship: A New Winning Issue By DICK MORRIS Published on DickMorris.com on October 8, 2012 Printer-Friendly Version I was surprised when Frank Lunz' focus group showed that the best line of the evening's debate by either candidate was Governor Romney's rendition of how he worked with Democrats in Massachusetts and will do so as president.  But it makes a great deal of sense that this line would resonate. While we professionals are trying to win the war of Dems vs. Reps and Blue vs. Red, the voters just want the war to end and the parties to come to an agreement -- guided by the verdict they will deliver on Election Day.  Ending this toxic division has been a key national goal of American voters ever since the Clinton impeachment, the government shutdown, and the debt limit fight.  Indeed, the core of Clinton's current popularity is that he did bridge the gap and pass bipartisan legislation to balance the budget and reform welfare. Obama's appeal was largely based on his promise to heal these divisions.  But it is self evident that they have gotten worse during his term.  Any promise now to heal the breech would be seen as fraudulent. But Romney's record in Massachusetts offers some hope that he might succeed where Obama has failed. Stressing this theme in ads has the additional advantage of assuring moderate Democrats and Independents that Romney would not be manipulated by the ever-feared extreme Republican right.  It would remind them that he did pass positive, constructive legislation on health care and education by working with the Democratic legislature.  This will give great comfort to swing voters. The Romney campaign should follow its candidate's initiative and begin to stress this bipartisan theme in their advertising. By doing so, they will also make it harder for Obama to sustain his negative campaign.  He will be seen as the divisive one and Romney as the healer. The Romney campaign should also do ads which revert to the basic theme  of more government vs. less V.  All voters -- Democrats or Republicans -- agree that: •  Obama has raised spending and borrowing. •  If Obama is re-elected government will grow and so will spending and borrowing. •  That Romney would probably grow it less or maybe even spend less and shrink it. Everybody agrees on these points.  They disagree about the wisdom of each course of action.  But the American voter agrees with the Republicans and Romney much more than he sides with the Democrats and Obama over these questions. And these are the key questions over which our politics has been divided for the past four years.  By impartially articulating these differences, Romney can make the election about big things like the size of government spending and borrowing. These two initiatives should dominate the next few weeks of Romney advertising:   1)  Bipartisanship 2)  More government vs. less government 5 Charts Signal Stock Market Collapse in 2013 Subscribe to Dick's Newsletter Other Useful Links DickMorris.com Follow Dick on FACEBOOK Follow Dick on TWITTER See Dick's YouTube Videos Sign up at DickMorris.com to get Dick's breaking thoughts on the most critical events of the day. Please forward this email and help us spread the word! To Advertise with DickMorris.com Click Here About Dick Morris Dick Morris is well known for his insightful and hard-hitting commentary on the FOXNews channel. With his wife, Eileen McGann, Dick has written 14 books, including 10 NY Times best-sellers. Together they pen almost daily columns for their website www.DickMorris.com, the New York Post, Newsmax, the Hill Magazine and many other publications. Domestically, Morris has handled the winning campaigns of more than 30 Senators and Governors, including President Bill Clinton and Republican Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott. Internationally, he has piloted the successful campaigns of the president or prime minister of Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay, Kenya, Hungary, Poland, Taiwan, and Japan. Morris and McGann's latest book is Here Come the Black Helicopters!:UN Global Governance and the Loss of Freedom. Related Links: DickMorris.com Follow Dick on FACEBOOK Follow Dick on TWITTER See Dick's YouTube Videos COPYRIGHT 2012, DICK MORRIS AND EILEEN MCGANN. REPRINTS WITH WRITTEN PERMISSION ONLY. To unsubscribe from all Dick Morris Reports emails, please click here Triangulation Strategies LLC 1801 S. Federal Hwy Delray Beach, FL 33483 561-278-2501 You have received this DickMorrisReports e-mail because you subscribed to it at DickMorris.com, signed one of our petitions, or someone forwarded it to you. To opt out, see the links below.   You are currently subscribed to dickmorris-reports as: Bobbygmartin1938@gmail.com Add subscribers@dickmorris.com to your email address book to ensure delivery. Forward to a Friend  |  Subscribe  |   Remove Bobbygmartin1938@gmail.com from this list