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“WE’RE
GOING
TO WIN”
If Romney were to win the election, leading Democrats scoffed
at the idea that he would ever be
able to push Ryan-type reforms
through Congress, particularly regarding Medicare.
“There’s no way that that will
ever happen,” former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell told me.
HUFFINGTON 08.26.12
Registered
Republican Ross
Murty serves
up supper in
Davenport, Iowa.
their own terms rather than
fighting it out on Democratic
ground of protecting against
cuts,” Sevugan said. “Talk
about Medicare in the context
of broader fiscal soundness and
deficits, and the courage to do
something about entitlements.”
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not likely to work politically.
“Voters buy what they are already pre-disposed to believe,”
Sevugan wrote in an e-mail.
“Folks don’t think Democrats
generally, and Obama—who has
staked his presidency on expanding health care—specifically
are the villains in the Medicare
story. Unfortunately for Romney
and Ryan that distinction belongs to them.”
Sevugan noted that Romney’s
offensive against Obama was an
attempt to use Democratic strategy against a Democrat.
“I think they’d be better off
trying to define the issue on