The GOP only ever runs on fear. They aren't progressive in the slightest. It's either fear that your guns will be taken away, fear terrorists will attack, fear your healthcare will be cut, fear, fear, fear. There are never any ideas tabled under a republican majority. It's the same old tax cuts for this, war and harsh words for that. I'm not saying a democratic majority is always the answer but damn it at least they table ideas to help Americans. Republicans would rather it be 1910 than 2010 with the dribble they propose.
And their "fear" has been DEAD ON THE MONEY, because loonies on the left...ahem..."progressives" do just that.
That's why the people of this country don't want ObamaCare. All those "fears" are being confirmed, with each passing day.
That's why there's the opposition to the stimulus, because the "fear" (that it wouldn't reduce the deficit, create jobs, or keep unemployment under 8%) TURNED OUT TO BE TRUE.
Tabling dumb ideas is not better than having "no" ideas. In fact (as we've learned the hard way), it's much worse.