If I were a GOP strategist, I would be advising they embrace these five "R"s as their talking points regarding healthcare. After all, who doesn't love some onomatopoeia?
1) REBOOT - Start with an easily understood computer reference, to allude to the massive failure that is Healthcare.gov. It also leads one to harken back to before Obamacare was passed, which is key since the Democrats are going to try to ensure that it, and not the way things were before, must be the starting point for any future negotiations. The Republicans need to move the playing field back.
2) REPEAL - The case needs to be made that in order to fix healthcare, Obamacare must be repealed since it moved things in the wrong direction.
3) RESTART with bipartisan negotiations, unlike when Obamacare was passed without a single Republican vote, due to their concerns being completely unaddressed; concerns that proved to be completely well founded.
4) REFORM healthcare the way it should have been done in the first place, with careful consideration, full deliberations, bipartisan compromise, and the will of the people having a chance to be felt by their elected representatives. This will be quite unlike the mad rush with Obamacare, where the Democrats abused the privileges of the majority to ascertain passage.
5) And finally, REPUBLICANS need your votes to make this happen. The GOP must make the case that they, and not the Democrats, be entrusted to ensure the process is started, followed correctly, and completed.
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