re: Robert Gibbs: 'This could be lights out for the Democrats'

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Let the word get out what the GOP's ideas are, and hopefully the nation goes with those ideas in 2016.

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Probably a bad idea if your goal is to win an election....the recipe for success at winning elections is to cloak your ideas until such time as you can whip them out and blame the opposition for them. What you are calling for, honesty in politics, is admirable but unlikely to be succesful....we don't want to hear that moderately succesful business men are planning to leave Hahira, Georgia and other such places and go to Washington where they and their families and friends will become fabulously wealthy and powerful at the exepense of the people back home. You would be hard pressed to get elected if you said this to the constituents but this is the goal of almost every politician who seeks office....