David Horowitz:  Sure.  I want to first just deal with the fatalism of conservatives.  And the view that there’s all these takers and therefore it’s a foregone conclusion that we can’t win.

The statistics in the last election, Obama got 10 million fewer votes than he got in 2008.  If Romney had gotten the same votes that McCain got, who ran a terrible campaign, he would’ve won.  So this is entirely winnable.

On the care issue, the main statistic for me, I mean, I know the CNN poll, Asian-Americans voted 70% for Barack Obama.  Asian-Americans are traditionalists, family-oriented, entrepreneurial, not on welfare. And they voted for Barack Obama.  That is the failure of the Republican Party.

They voted for him because they thought he cared about them.  I don’t remember big appeals to Asian-Americans in the Obama campaign.  They didn’t throw goodies at the Asian-American community.  On the contrary, the Asian-American community suffers from all the affirmative action programs in universities and so forth.

The message — and he didn’t communi– he gave goodies, we know that.  But it was — it’s not enough — this is a huge country.  There’s like 130 million people voting.  You can’t buy everyone.  And you can’t even buy a majority.

He persuaded them how?  Because not only he but the entire Democratic Party runs campaigns every single time on Republicans are conducting a war against minorities, against women, against the poor.  It’s a big lie and Republicans have no answer for it.  That all they say is, “No, no.  I’m –.”  They’re always on defense.  And when you’re on defense, you’ve already lost.

The way to do it is not rocket science.  And probably most of you heard me say this before.  The — one is, you just copy the Democratic strategy.  The Democratic convention was all about the war — the victims of Republicans.  Nobody at the Republican convention gave a speech on the victims of Obama and they’re legion.  They’re — it’s the whole country.

Republicans always talk like accountants and they do talk about policy.  And they do talk about constitutional principles.  And for people who understand the economy, for people who under, you know, who have read the Constitution, you’re going to vote for Republicans.

But you have to speak to people’s emotions.  And the way to do it is you talk about the victims of the Democrats.  You don’t say, “Okay, we have a trillion — whatever it is.  $5 trillion deficit.”  Who understands that in the great unwashed mass out there?  It’s a war on the young.

This is the most massive transfer of wealth from young people who need it to older people who have it.  It’s unconscionable what he’s doing to young people.  We live in a country now where kids graduate from college with a degree in women’s studies or actually in radical feminism.  Or blacks graduate with a degree in racism.  (laughter)  And they have $100,000 debts starting life.

I just — nobody in this room who can imagine what it would’ve been like.  You’re 20 years old, you’re $100,000 in debt.  It’s horrific.  That’s the way (laughter)  — the way that — where’s a young man?  I’m looking out there.

And of course the biggest thing is that the Democrats control every major failing city that’s destroying the lives of mainly inner city black and Hispanic people.  And mainly kids.  They control the school systems 100%.  They’ve controlled them for 50 — well, actually 70 years.  Whatever it is.

Chicago.  They had a teachers strike in Chicago.  The teachers abandoned the kids in the schools.  Who are in the schools?  They’re all black.  And, I mean, I don’t know the composition of Chicago.  There’s probably some Hispanic kids.  Why did they go on strike?

This is in the middle of the campaign.  Why did they go on strike?  Wasn’t for salaries.  It was because they didn’t want their rewards, their bonuses, their raises connected to their performance.  They’re screwing poor black and Hispanic kids.  They don’t care about them.  And the President doesn’t care.

It was so easy.  Christie, whom I de– all of us are turned off now, for good reason.  But he was the most articulate and aggressive Republican.  He gave a speech.  He mentioned the teacher unions.  If you read that speech, he never once mentions the victims.

He was — it was about performance and reward but he didn’t say the kid, you know, it’s black kids in Newark who are suffering that we’re saving.  It’s so easy to do.  If every time you think of a policy you think of the negative effect on the symbolic victim communities.

These corrupt Republican consultants, I agree 100% with Pat on this.  And it’s the big problem.  Republicans are businesspeople.  And therefore they see everything as a business.  Democrats are missionaries.  They’re saving the world and they see it in terms of redemption.  Republicans have to see it that way a lot more than they do.

The final thing — well, there are two things I want to say.  Foreign policy.  Republicans have never, since 1945, have never, never won a national election where foreign — national security wasn’t a primary issue.  And they won many of them when they were a minority party.

The Democrats control both Houses (inaudible) 35 years for the House of Representatives, which really is the popular — represents the popular will.  But in 28 of the 42 Cold War years, Republicans won the Presidency despite the fact of being a minority party.

And the three of the four Democrats, the fourth was the wretched Jimmy Carter who pull — who was misperceived as a military man and a Southerner so a conservative.  But the other three, Truman, Kennedy and Johnson, were Reagan Republicans by the standards that we have today.  They were militant anti-Communists.  They were strong on defense.  And aggressive in foreign policy.

The final thing I want to say is, as I said last night, this is really war.  The Democrats see politics as war.  Republicans see it as kind of business where you make deals.  When Democrats make a deal, it’s for a longer strategic objective, not being liked.  Republicans make deals so people will like them and they won’t criticize them so much.  Democrats make deals because they’re going to the next step.

If you read psychological warfare manuals, the first principle of psychological warfare is you attack the commander in chief.  And you attack him on moral grounds.  You tarnish him morally.  This is what the Democrats did when they sabotaged the Iraq war.

They went after Bush.  They said he was a liar.  They said he was conducting a war to kill young Americans.  The truth was that it’s the Democrats who were lying and they’re the ones who sent young Americans to die and then betrayed the war.  Something no Republican will say in public.  Republicans are too damn polite.

Obama is a liar.  It’s probably impolitic to just call him that straight.  You know, you just say he doesn’t tell the truth.  He doesn’t tell the truth.  And he doesn’t care.  He didn’t care.  That’s why there were four American heroes dead in Benghazi because the President didn’t care.

He didn’t care enough about your lives to make sure that the FBI interrogated the bomber, the surviving bomber until he found out his networks.  That’s the way you attack him.  You got to be rude.  Republicans, I mean, to me that’s the biggest problem.  They’re too damn polite.

Romney in the debates, well, you know, why didn’t he say, “You know, Mr. President, you spent $300 million calling me a murderer and a predator and this and that.  Why would you do that?” Never said it.  Instead he hugged him for the last two debates.  Come on.

Anyway.  I think we can win.  I think we can win big.  I think that this whole administration is a train wreck.  They’re going to botch everything.  And it’s just Republicans’ timidity in confronting them.

And we have a couple of Republicans who’ve done that.  We had Cruz, we had a South Carolina congressman questioning Hillary.  I mean, I would’ve gone a lot farther with Hillary than they did but that’s what we need.  We need Republicans who aren’t afraid to have people say, oh, that say that they’re rude and ill mannered.  And not care what the New York Times says.

Bill Whittle:  You wanted to add something, Pat?

Pat Caddell:  Yes, I want to add something to David.  You should all read David’s little book here on Go for the Heart.  I mean, Dave and I — I’m a Democrat.  I blanche at the putting everybody in the same box but that’s another matter.

And what bothers me about Republicans is actually I’m an — I belong to a new party.  It’s called the Americans.

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