Memo to GOP: To Win in 2014 We Need an Anti-Cronyism, Anti-Corporate Welfare Agenda

Photo Credit: Fox News

Photo Credit: Fox News

When even Nate Silver, editor-in-chief of ESPN’s FiveThirtyEight blog and ABC News Special Correspondent, thinks Republicans are favorites to win back control of the Senate, you know things are going in the right direction.

The Republican Party – America’s allegedly conservative party – has momentum on its side. Conservatives in 2013 kept focus on President Obama’s unfair, unworkable and unaffordable health care law while liberals tried to stifle debate, and the result has been a favorable electoral landscape few predicted a year ago.

But six months out from the November midterm elections, there is plenty of time for the forces of the status quo to arrest this conservative momentum.

The lessons of the 2012 election cycle are plain in the history books for all to see. When Republicans keep their heads down, worry about “not making ourselves the issue,” and stick to safe, silent stump speeches, the vociferous left has everything it needs to reframe the debate on the terms upon which it prospers.

To avoid this outcome, conservatives must stay on offense and keep our agenda before the American people. That means continuing to make the case that ObamaCare must be replaced with an alternative that lowers cost and increases choice in health care.

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