NRCC Chairman Greg Walden: The Choice For Democrats: Leave Or Lose
WASHINGTON – NRCC Chairman Greg Walden held a conference call today with RNC Chairman Reince Priebus and NRSC Chairman Jerry Moran to discuss the 4th anniversary of ObamaCare becoming law.
NRCC CHAIRMAN GREG WALDEN:“What we learned in Florida-13 is the Democrats’ playbook that they put out to all their candidates—to embrace ObamaCare, to talk about ‘fix it, don’t repeal it’—was a total flop. They had no more articulate a spokesperson than Alex Sink when it came to making this argument. And as you all know, Obama carried this district twice. [Sink] carried it once. And yet, we were able to prevail because David Jolly ran a top-flight campaign. We were there helping and the messaging was straightforward. And what ObamaCare really played out as is this underlying theme there’s just too much government in our lives, too much interference in our healthcare. And it’s something that the Democrats own. And it’s the reason that you see Democrats leaving rather than losing like Jim Matheson in Utah, Mike McIntyre in North Carolina, and others who are stepping up to try it again, whether it’s Nick Rahall or Collin Peterson, are going to find a very inhospitable environment on the home front.”