RNC's Diaz on the Dems

I had a chance today, post-Super Tuesday, to talk to the Republican National Committee Communications Director Danny Diaz. As the GOP gets closer to uniting behind a candidate while the Dems continue to dither, the RNC obviously senses an opportunity.

I asked Diaz whether Blue State Illinois would be in play come the fall? He had this to say--recapping from my notes. (I interject a few editorial remarks here and there): The Republican message is compelling compared to the Democrats' plans of massive tax increases, a major increase in the size of government and even talk of garnishing wages--all adding to the burden of middle class families. And the Democrats' plans to cut and run in Iraq, cut needed funding for our troops, run away from the recognition of a continued terrorist threat and unwillingness to even give our government the authority to monitor terrorist communications is not the vision of an America the voters of Illinois can support.

Diaz went on to point out that the Democrats will be spending millions of dollars attacking each other over the next several months and will be pushed further and further left by their liberal base.

On Obama's campaign Diaz said running for the presidency is not a speech contest, it's not a power point presentation--it's the most important job in the world, dealing with a number of countries that pose special challenges: Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, China, Russia and North Korea to name a few. (Besides having lived in Indonesia when he was six and majoring in International Relations) Obama's foreign policy experience consists of serving on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. During the first one he attended he passed a note to a colleague--"someone shoot me". He's the most liberal Senator in the country, even more liberal than socialist Rep. Barney Sanders of Vermont. (!) And Obama wants to spend $100 billion on his health care plan alone.

As far as Hillary, she is a flawed candidate. Voters don't trust her--even Democrats find her untrustworthy. She's highly polarizing. (And even Dems now are worried about putting Bill back in the White House--not to mention Hillary--about Bill I mean) In the recent Michigan primary, where she ran unopposed, she drew 200,000 people out in bad winter weather expressly to vote against her as uncommitted. As far as her experience, (health care was a bust) she brought no promised jobs to upstate New York. She's flipped on countless issues, among them the Patriot Act, Iraq and NCLB, Social Security, partial birth abortion, no plan on the AMT, and then there was the famous flip on allowing drivers' licenses for illegal immigrants--first she said yes, then she said no. And she's the No. 2 earmarker in the Senate. Hillary is not straightforward and honest, she'll say anything to get elected.

Republicans will campaign on growing the economy, will spend our dollars wisely, recognize the voters' message in the special elections this year in Louisiana and Ohio and Virginia when they elected Republicans--that they want lower taxes--they want the government to do more with less. Around the country Republicans have successfully run on that message and have gotten the message.

The Democrats are the party of doom and gloom, the party which sees a failed America. It's good news for Democrats when we're losing jobs, and on countless issues they use bad news as political leverage.

A failed America is the Democrats' core belief.