Policies or Ideology

I commend Charles Krauthammer’s June 9^th 2011 article “Stewardship? Or ideology” for its accurate portrayal of the choice the republican will have in 2012. In his opinion piece he lays out the ideology of President Obama as point of contention for any future election. He also wonders if attacking Obama on his failed policies would be better strategy.

He discusses the NY26 elections vis-à-vis medicare as a warning about using an ideological approach. In musing about  this point, Mr. Krauthammer surprises the dragon in that he correctly describes the true political nature of that election. Nonetheless, he concedes that the inaccurate, but publically accepted viewpoint of that election worked for the democrats.

In developing his point about attacking Obama on his failed policies, he uses the latest poor economic news. He says that the current state-of-affairs makes too easy a target for a challenger to use in his/her political attacks.

Much to the delight of the dragon, Mr. Krauthammer concludes that his preference is for a campaign of ideology.