Yard Signs Tell the Tale in New Hampshire
Drive through New Hampshire in the next week, and you will see a staggering number of Republican yard signs. They’re everywhere: It seems like every third house has a sign up. They’re on front yards and in the windows of businesses. They’re in every neighborhood representing every demographic. They’re in front of homes along rural roadways, in front of suburban homes in the big southern towns, and in the conservative blue-collar neighborhoods of Manchester.
And there are even Republican yard signs all over the capital city of Concord — a largely Democratic-leaning town in this swing state.
Barack Obama is in big trouble next November.
In elections, yard signs provide the essential “social proof” to back up the television ads, debate performances, and stump speeches — especially when it comes time to close the deal with relatively apolitical or undecided voters.
But this is a Republican primary. What do January yard signs have to do with Barack Obama?
Here is a secret: If you want to predict a general election, count the number of Republican yard signs in “purple” neighborhoods.
Take a drive through an upper-middle class community in a swing state. Find the subdivision where there’s a coffee shop on the corner and an organic grocery store not too far away, ideally where the Priuses outnumber the SUV’s… but not by much. Find the block where the adults are academics, professionals, or government employees and where every household has a couple of kids in the public schools. The voter breakdown in the ideal “purple” neighborhood is about a third Republican, a third Democrat, and a third independent.
Welcome to Concord, New Hampshire. Or Fort Collins, Colorado. Or northern Virginia. Or Raleigh, North Carolina. Or the suburbs and exurbs and small cities in swing states around the country.
Now count the Republican yard signs. Signs are not polling data, and they are certainly not election returns, but a yard sign is a definitive measure of three things: Support (obviously); intensity; and – most importantly — a voter’s willingness to make his political opinions known to his neighbors. A yard sign — especially in a “hostile” environment — is a symbol of political courage, a sign of an impending shift in public opinion.
The early returns from the yard sign tallies are in: Voters in New Hampshire want their neighbors to know that they are voting Republican this year.
Isn’t it just ironic that the party of “tolerance” and “non-judgmentalism” is the party of the iron fist and social ostracism. One day the definitive book will be written as to how a political group managed to simultaneously be a threat to an individual’s existence, peace, and prosperity and still be regarded as the friend to all mankind. Simply staggering. Some leftie’s opinion never stopped me from telling it like it is. In fact I welcome the chance to let them know they are blithering idiots.
It seems to be a permanent feature of socio-politics that groups represent themselves as something rather different from what they practice. I’ve been around lefties all my life, and it’s really just a matter of emotional maturity. That is why Conservative and Liberal voters are famously divided by age group. And remember that most of the Conservatives you know where once Young Democrats. So listening to them is pretty-much identical to handing responsibility for your household and mortgage payments to your teenager. Obama appeals exactly to those type of individuals. And now we have this predictable disaster.
A French friend put it best. “Whenever you hear them talking about “solidarite’” (solidarity) it means someone is about to get screwed.”
Well said. In a Sep. 2008 blog post, I proposed a “Matrushka Doll” analysis – that we compare Obama’s stated goals to his actual policies, in order to determine if the policies were indeed suitable to accomplishing his stated goals. In fact, as we now know, his policies are suitable to accomplishing the reverse of his stated goals.
http://bit.ly/z26MLH, with a follow-up post http://bit.ly/xGqQ5q
Like George III and Parliamnent, the only way to let them know what you think is to engrave it on a bullet and put it directly in their mind. Otherwise, they don’t give a rip what you think, and why should they?
Isn’t already been written! Ayn Rand – Atlas Shrugged.
Should be mandatory reading in every highschool…
I agree. But counting ‘signs?’ If morality, ethics, truth and integrity are all relative, so is the numbering system.
And if you doubt me, wait until the election.
0 can’t be counted out yet. It may come to that, but let’s not sit back now and decide he is going, going, gone. There is a lot of time between now and November. As noted elsewhere in PJ today, he will rule by executive fiat for the rest of the year and damn the Republicans and the Congress for not bending the knee to his every whim. The Presidency is not called the “bully pulpit” for nothing. 0 will stop at nothing to win.
I disagree, while he may adopt the language, Obama will never adopt even government-guided moderate free market capitalism. Even to get elected.
This is just as those who will stop at nothing for the children, except protect and pass on the freedoms and liberties this country was founded on.
Indeed, his ongoing tactic has been to outwardly and publicly criticize those who would “hamper the free market” while behind-the-scenes tying it into knots and hampering it with severe regulation.
His whole concept, as probably told to him by his handlers, is to appear solemn and reassuring to the (stupid) public while doing “what must be done” behind their backs. Corduroy’s appointment this morning confirms his desire to not play that game anymore and just be the dictator he’s always wanted to be. Let’s hope it’s his undoing. The MSM will not help his demise in any way, otherwise he’d have self-defeated in 2009.
He needs to appear before congress in impeachment proceedings and given the long overdue tongue-lashing of his life and sent to prison. Won’t happen because he’s black and it’s his “shield of invincibility”. But how long will even white apologist political “leaders” ignore his lawbreaking and that of his henchmen?
They will continue to ignore his tactics because they are 1) afraid of the backlash from blacks, 2) have much to lose themselves, 3) lack integrity and courage. I hear unconfirmed information that Obama will “buy” the voters by executive order to the much hated and maligned banks, to lower everybody’s mortgage payment. That would come close to his 2008 campaign promise of buying everybody’s gas, new car, new kitchen etc. Therefore it matters not who runs for Republicans, but even if it did, the Dems have already picked the candidate for the Repubs and it seems to be Romney. Lights out, good night America.
Why think it is a disaster if Romney is the candidate? Do you really believe that an electorate that is so dumb and/or poorly informed that they voted for a jerk who ran up and down a stage shouting “hope and change” is sufficiently alert enough to comprehend the merit of the message delivered by a true conservative? Romney will gain us the White House likely because he seems non-threatening to previous Obama supporters and he represents a change which even the most dense among us know is needed. Hence, all the yard signs. It is up to us to save this nation for everyone by pushing aggressively for implementation of conservative principles thru congress. Voters who were ignorant enough that they couldn’t see this train wreck coming in 2008 aren’t likely to make things right for for all of us by suddenly making the big leap and becoming supportive of fiscal responsibility, constitutional government, and an appreciation of free markets. That mix will have to be brought into being in due time by us after we gain the tools (including taking the Presidency) by we conservatives. As said before…Ronnie is dead.
The real change will spring from a Republican Congress….all that’s needed is a president who will sign the legislation. Romney will mostly do that.
The word “target” should be taken literally. Leftists will use any and every tactic, including vandalism and interpersonal violence, against those they deem “the enemy.”
The courage being displayed by New Hampshire conservatives to one side for the moment, we should expect dirty tactics from the Left to broaden and intensify as the campaign progresses. I often find myself wondering what might happen after the elections. In the event of a substantial Republican victory, might the Left “pull out all the stops,” hoping to get The Won to suspend Constitutional protections and processes and declare martial law? Or might a reinvigorated Right overreact out of a misplaced sense of “payback time is here” — ?
“Or might a reinvigorated Right overreact out of a misplaced sense of “payback time is here”
I believe that we are far, far away from having to worry about a right-wing over-reaction. The real concern is whether or not there will be enough spine in the Republican political class (assuming Repub victories this fall) to do what’s necessary to clean house and save America. The MSM will take the position that the government has been taken over by Neanderthals and they will beat that drum endlessly. This intimidation could see many Repubs trying to sell the notion that we should try our best to live with what we have inherited. Likely “tweak” will become a more operative term than “bold and decisive action”.
Yooper you are so right, the paranoid fantasy of a Right wing over reaction to Obama if we can take the Presidency, the Senate and keep the house is a non starter. We are much more likely to end up with a Republican president and Congress that chickens out of the big talk of roll back as promised. These are the jokers who after 2010 promised 100′s of billions in cuts and gave us zero. I’m thinking Boehner, McConnel and Cantor are afraid of their own shadows, they need to go as well.
From where I sit, Romney is Obama Lite. Michele Bachman made an interesting point when she said we have a once-in-a-generation chance to put a conservative in the White House. Maybe. If the economy continues to improve, even by eensy weensy spider steps, it might be harder. In that case, Obama Lite might be the pragmatic (if cynical) choice. But if the economy weakens again in 2012 as many economists predict, people would be so angry and scared that a true transformational candidate such as Newt Gingrich could probably win. Problem is, we don’t know in advance which way it will go.
Exactly Francis, which is why I’ve stopped adorning my car with conservative/repub stickers. A filthy leftist (plenty of these where I live) won’t think twice to key your car door or puncture your tires. I won’t put a yard sign up either as my wife stays home with our two youngsters. I just don’t need the hassle.
The “left” is fond of warning about “chilling effects.”
I wouldn’t dream of putting on my car anything more controversial than stickers for the athletic teams of the colleges my wife and I attended. And not because I’m afraid of anything that the conservative and classically-liberal segments of American society may do to my property.
So, let’s talk about “chilling effects,” shall we?
My car has been vandalized 3x over the years. Once at Stanford University where I used to work when I displayed a flag and a sticker opposing election of B.Boxer for senate. Twice since, probably because I have a NOBAMA sticker and an NRA emblem on the back window. Needless to say I live in an area infested with nothing but leftists. Most of these tolerant souls identify with the OWSers, yet live in this high rent district.
I know I should be more careful but I like advertising my Conservatism….mostly because it gets the leftist wack-jobs so pissed, which then leads to rather amusing “debates”….it’s like a cat playing w/a mouse just before the kill. Oh well, just my warped sense of humor. I intend to put several stickers on my car and when I’m not at work I can be found wearing either a Conservative supporting t-shirt or a very anti-obama one. In fact I just ordered 2 more shirts today..lol.
My favorite day dream is slapping conservative stickers on cars belonging to college professors, etc.
Heh! I wish I had the (utterly useless but satisfying) super power to change bumper stickers. The ones that say “___s for Obama”, for instance, would look great with “Morons for Obama” or “Freeloaders for Obama”. There is one car I see near where I work that is covered with leftist stickers, but I most want to change the one that says “Don’t like abortion? Don’t have one!” to “Don’t like slavery? Don’t own one!”
I’m sure the middle-aged white woman who drives the car would be pleased with that change.
Ha!!! How about….
Save the Pales
Slackers Unite!
No Means Yes (Yes Means Anal)
I Cling to Fun and Derision
My favorite was one that I saw on a guys truck. It was a picture of Obama and the saying was “Does this a$$ make my truck look big?” I love it.
There are more dem’s in a average neighborhood in Manhattan, then in all of Concord, or New Hampshire for that matter. This isn’t over by a long shot – Spinoneone has it right. The only unknown is what this year’s “October surprise” will be…
“There are more dem’s in a average neighborhood in Manhattan, then in all of Concord, or New Hampshire for that matter.”
Irrelevant. NY’s Electoral votes are a given for Obama and he is in no danger of losing those. But from this article, it would appear that a somewhat ‘safe’ state is no longer safe for Obama.
If we decided the Presidential election on popular vote, you would have a point; but we don’t. He can ill afford to lose those EV’s.
Some Manhattan residents who supported Obama last time may not this time. Mr. Obama’s demonizing of rich people, Wall Streeters, bankers may take a toll. Furthermore, he has been, shall we say, “limp” on Israel, which does not necessarily endear him to Jews. People in these groups may continue to talk the Obama talk in public, but when they walk into the voting booth, not so much.
Have you been to Manhattan lately. They’re all Europeans, South Americans and other assorted foreigners. I was there Saturday and English is a second language there. Americans can’t afford to live there thanks to Obummer
Have you been to Manhattan lately. English is a second language. They’re all European, South American and other assorted foreigners. Americans can’t afford to live there anymore thanks to what Obummer has done to the economy
This year’s October Surprise? The Obama’s take an affordable vacation near home? A month without golf?
Don’t hold your breath! Oh, that way tongue in cheek! Don’t bite yourself laffing!
Don*t knock golf,it keeps skinny know-it-alls from doing something else!
Your mention of Facebook was a real eye-opener. I have friends all over the political spectrum who are on Facebook, and (virtually) the only ones who ever post political items are on the left. It’s a form of aggression, because they know if I (or any of their other conservative friends) respond, it will quickly get ugly. I don’t know how to deal with this without losing friends–and getting ugly doesn’t persuade anyone.
I wish it was enough just to recognize the tactic.
If you fear loding friends because you adered tos state an opinion all wgwhile they push theirs on your face then ask yourseklf if they are worth of being kept as friends.
Yep, that is the quandary I have reached. I don’t want to turn my Facebook account into a political blog (I think of it as a dinner party of mixed company, and bringing up politics is *rude* in that context) so I have scrolled past. Dunno how much longer I can keep doing so.
I wonder how many people are at / near the same point I am? Is this the year that Facebook becomes Flamebook?
I deleted my original fb account because my lefty “friends” were soooo nasty. I only signed back on because I want to keep track of my family members not in the immediate area. Thus far, I have avoided any fights (except with a loony lefty, whom I deleted from the friends list). I don’t know how much longer I can hang on!
That’s not a quandary exactly: it’s a decision point . Time to make a decision, now that the situation is clear to you. Deciding to delay the decision is also a decision.
Don’t let them make this about you: it’s about what they have revealed about themselves. At a personal level, one of the most devastating things we allow is turning the business of personal boundaries and limits over to other people’s opinions, which is connected to our innate fear of crossing them, displeasing them, disappointing them. Deadly it is.
Even with re to family, I gave up on FB months ago: many of the under-30′s have absolutely no sense of privacy, propriety, boundaries or limits….”way too much information” seems to be their primary habit.
Well I am glad to hear that others give up their FB accounts. I did so myself last week. Mind you I had only had the account for about a month. After seeing what some people put out there I couldn’t tolerate it. Yet, so many people worry about privacy but have a FB account. Laughable really. Email would seem just as easy to keep in touch with friends and family.
I will probably just “un-friend” some people. If they want to use Facebook as a political soapbox that is their choice. Weirdly, I will “un-friend” them in order to maintain the real-life friendship.
And yes, the part about under-30s not having the concept of boundaries or appropriate time and place is a near-bullseye. Oddly, if they had an uncle who persisted in complaining about fluoridated water at every family gathering, they would consider him a crank and wish he could be un-invited.
The liberal side of the family has been pretty quiet around here, but then again, I used to cruelly mock their BDS and PDS. Especially since they rarely had anything more substantial than “Sarah Palin needs to STFU”, or “It’s the previous administration’s fault” lol. Oh yeah, also the prolifers are totally kicking demographic butt, which I point out quite often.
Just today, a family member posted that anyone who opposes Obama is racist. He’s mixed-race; the whole family is varying shades of beige (German-Irish-Swiss-African-Filipino-Cherokee-French-Canadien) so the whole idea is complete bullshit. I didn’t have time for a lot so I just posted “Not.”; when I went back later to make fun of him for not knowing the difference between a Keynesian and a Kenyan, he had taken down the whole post.
I had the same quandary, mask my true beliefs in order to keep ‘friends’ or speak my mind. I chose the latter. Submitting my values and beliefs, ie being someone I’m not, in order to keep a ‘friend’ was unacceptable. I won’t miss her much. She was pretty thin-skinned anyway.
Life is short,speak your mind.
FRIENDS??? Pfffft – screw ‘em. Fight the good fight. Let the chips fall where they may. You’ll make new ones.
Point 1) if these people place their Leftist Ideology above your value to them as a person then they are NOT your friends. They are not your acquaintences. They may not even be family.
And you certainly are not being considered to be a friend/acquaintence/family member to them. You are a malible member of the unwashed masses who has to be convinced or silenced.
Point 2) when you respond to them you are NOT trying to convince them, you are not trying to persuade them and any and all arguments you may make are not going to ever convince them of anything.
Your response is for those who are actually friends and are ‘on the margin.’ They listen to the MSM and then see this dravel on facebook and think, ‘Hmmmmm, I guess that is how everyone thinks.’ When they read your response they find out that ‘maybe I’m not the only one who sees it that way?’
Point 3) when the leftist gets nasty, because you aren’t trying to convince them of anything that is the time to respond ‘ON POINT’ and without any rancor or personal attacks. Keep to topic no matter how much the leftist tries to deflect. The leftist will hit you with 30 different talking points, all shallow, to distract you from your thoughts. Don’t fall for it. And don’t match them rancor for rancor. Your even handed responses, and a little admonishment at the end for their venom and rancor, will go a long way to persuade the real audience you are looking to influence.
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Specifically, stop thinking of anyone who will respond as you have described as a friend. They Aren’t your friend, and they only consider you a friend as long as you march in lockstep! “From such, Turn Away!”
I’m a Libertarian/Republican and have foregone many a friendship due to Politics brought forward on Facebook. If ANYONE thinks we aren’t headed to a full blown violent Civil War isn’t paying very close attention to what Liberals are saying and doing against America. The Libs have made it quite clear that they cannot stand America and have done everything possible to destroy it. I for one will fight to the death against this evil that seeks our destruction, domestically or internationally.
I keep hearing that a lot. I almost wish it would start so we can have our country back.
What do you think will finally make it happen?
My money is on the martial law imposed just before Election Day 2012, when people defend themselves against “whatever Occupy was a practice run for”. Gun sales were way up in 2011, did you see?
FWIW, Almost everything I post on Facebook is about fiscal conservatism and the rule of law, and the majority of *that* are examples of how the current Administration is working against those.
I’m not sure I’ve lost that many leftist friends (I spent decades in Massachusetts), but they’ve long since stopped trying to debate me.
Everyone keep posting, keep debating, win the fight.
Knowledge properly delivered trumps fluffy idealism like a rock trips up a jogger
Delayna
I suggest you get off Facebook. Best Regards — Karl.
delanya;
When these people find out how they have been deceived by the Obama Regime, they’ll be looking for vengeance.
These poor people don’t realize that they are losing their rights, slowly but surely, every time Obama takes off on his own. Once they are convinced Obama has caused them as much harm as he has, they’ll be his biggest enemy.
The hard part is cracking the shell these people have so they can see the light.
Correct.
Since I mainly use Facebook to promote my website, and since my profile information states under politics “barely left of militia”, I really don’t get a whole lot of pushback from the left – maybe one or two people.
Actually, I’d welcome more liberal friends as those who need to be converted by the real truth.
Easy, pick a side and chose your friends accordingly. I’ve since dumped my irrecoverably liberal friends. It used to be a source of enjoyment to argue with them, but it is no longer. They are, as you say, nasty. They do not approve of dissent. They can’t just make their point and let it go; and when they do make it a point, it has to be in the most hyperbolic, histrionic way possible.
(Apologies if this is a duplicate; I clicked “submit” and my post vanished)
You have hit on my quandary. I don’t want to turn Facebook into a political blog–I think of it as a dinner party with mixed company, and bringing up politics is *rude* in that context. However, I don’t know how long I can keep restraining myself when I see yet another post that is just a link to the Outrage of the Day from a leftie site.
Is this the year that Facebook becomes Flamebook?
(*sigh!*)
Rude for you to bring up politics, but not rude for leftoids to preach politics? Sorry, guy.
I’d point out the hypocrisy and keep right on posting. It’s not like being “unfriended” is a poke in the nose, nor is being flamed.
You may need a tighter definition of friend. You might start with, who treats me with the respect I treat them, and work in from there. You’ll end up with fewer friends, but more time for them.
November, 2012, will be our great test as a nation. As Michele Bachmann said the other day, this election will be a choice between socialism and maintaining a democratic republic. Andother four years of Obama would be the end of our republic as we know it. Socialism would take over with Obamacare going into effect (unless the Supreme Court says it’s unconstitutional) and, with all the social-welfare programs in place PLUS our massive reduction in defense spending, we will look more like France than the United States of America. The stakes are very, very, high and everyone, EVERYONE, needs to take a stand this year. Go well beyond yard signs. Make calls, try to convince your neighbors that four mor years of Obama would be a disaster for this country. Go to rallies and support not only the Republican nominee for President, but for Congress too. Without Congress, a Republican president isn’t going to go far, especially in repealing Obamacare.
So take a stand this year, folks. Our nation literally depends on it.
Re: “Socialism would take over…”. What would happen if the Massachusetts Moderate” were elected?
Funny you mentioned Fort Collins, I went to CSU for two years and I always had the impression that the town was a bit right leaning than left. Then again that was ’97 so times change in a decade. :\
For me Google+ has become the place where I can post the politics and such. Facebook I don’t use anymore but at least I know what you’re talking about how some are squeamish to share their conservative viewpoints. Then again I’m not share nor do I hide so tough noogies on anyone following me not wanting to hear my politics. :p
I live in Colorado but the only time I’ve ever been to Fort Collins was to attend Rush Limbaugh’s Operation Bake Sale back in 1992. That was a hoot.
I have lived in Fort Collins for 30 years. The town is fairly evenly split – 30/30/40 or thereabouts. The Dems currently control the state legislature, so we’re now part of Boulder county. Just because “we” elect a Democrat, don’t write us off.
Colorado is rather small, so it doesn’t take much to swing the state. A few years ago, some very rich liberals got together to blanket the state with propaganda. Pat Stryker, who got her money from her conservative husband, is using her inheritance to push liberal causes. He’s likely rolling in his grave.
I know Obama is in trouble because my two sisters who voted Obama in 2008 are rather peeved. They’re in North Dakota, and are part of the reason Senate Finance Committee Chairman Kent Conrad has chosen to retire. My wife, who likely voted Obama, sees the fiscal irresponsibility that is the Democrat/Socialist agenda. They are all aghast at the $40,000 debt that each of their children will inherit.
I was going to go to Boston on my next vacation, perhaps I will change to New Hampshire.
So much of this is about understanding “cascades” — how public opinion depends so much on the willingness or timidity of individuals to express their opinions. (Obama’s regulatory czar Cass Sunstein is really into this.) Here’s a short op-ed about it:
http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/2011/11/conservative-silence-and-leftist-agenda
Donna, thanks for this link to the Examiner. I hope everyone visiting this site will read it. It is well worth the time.
As a state employee in the bluest of blue states, I can’t count the number of times my leftist colleagues spout, unbidden, their “progressive” opinions or views during goup settings.
Invariably I will respond, using facts, rather than anger, to let the group know that the leftist views are not universally accepted in our small, tightknit, circle of workers and that there are diffenrent ways to look at the subject. Indeed, I have earned a reputation as being politically incorrect and I’m known as the “Lone Conservative” in the group. During staff meetings when one of these lefties spouts some left-wing statement, all eyes turn to me.
I try to respond with facts, not anger. My goal is to calmly show the error of the offensive statment, not attack the speaker. Where I do get emotional is when, later, one of my fellow workers approaches me privately and whispers that he or she agrees with my position.
“Hey,” I’ll say, “why don’t you speak up? You’re an American! Stand on your hind feet! People have died so that you can freely express your views.”
In other words, grow a back-bone.
I sport a NOT AGAIN bumper sticker, my neighbors KNOW I’m a republican, as do all my friends… the tolerance of Marxists is such a GREAT role model… I’m following their lead.
…. Buraq 0=Zero is in big trouble ….
Buraq 0=Zero IS bigger trouble.
America is in biggest Buraq 0=Zero trouble.
He’s in big trouble right now. If it were in my power, he’d be ‘organizing’ a neighborhood back in chicago for better trash pick up.
This is not really good news.
If Ubama comes to the conclusion that he is not going to get a second term, he is going to concoct an excuse to declare martial law and himself President-for-life.
George Soros is not going to allow this opportunity to slip through his fingers. He will command his puppet to do whatever is necessary to remain in power.
That’s the exact same thing Democrats said about Bush. It didn’t happen. Even if Obama tried to declare martial law, he’d need the military to back him up. They won’t. The military swears an oath to the Constitution and to obey the lawful orders of those appointed over them. They don’t pledge blind allegance to the president.
Barack Obama is in big trouble next November. Well wonderful but we are still stuck with the fool, so we are in trouble until he is incarcerated at Gitmo-where he belongs
Not going to happen, not with Romney as an opposing candidate.
Case in point: Kelly Clarkson expressed support for Ron Paul online and the overwhelming response from her so-called “fans” was to attack her so viciously that you’d think she was a mass-murderer of children or something. I’m not a fan of Ron Paul but I appreciated that she’s got the courage to buck the usual party line coming out of Hollywood and the entertainment industry in general. And I also applaud her for defending herself and sticking to her guns rather than apologizing and backing down.
I hope i’m wrong, but I see it differently.
It will take a near miracle to beat little lenin. Here’s why.
Nothing is beyond them. The entire election strategy is based on the economy continuing to deteriorate, or at least, not improve. That’s Romney’s strategy. In a nutshell, all he says is: “Obama has failed”. That’s it. He won’t go after his socialism, his associations, his radical past, his nose thumbing at American traditions, his lawnessness. nada. “he’s failed”. That’s it.
But little lenin OWNS the bureauracracy that prododuces the statistics, and challenging those stats is virtually impossible.
We all know unemployment, even using the perverted basis of the governement is over 11%, not 8.6%. The reason is that millions of people have dropped out of the workforce. But the wake-up-every-4-years public doesn’t know that, and it’s a rather difficult concept to understand. If that was the only problem, maybe it could be overcome. But is everyone aware that jobs were added last month? Does it occur to anyone that fascist businesses like GE might be increasing their payrolls for the next year, and that governments everywhere, since the bureaucracies are all controlled by Democrats will be continuing to expand. Moreover, another couple of million people will drop out of the workforce in the next 10 months. And how much Stick-it-to-us money is left to buy a few hundred thousand temporary make-work jobs? A lot.
The official unemployment headline statistic in October 2012 will be under 8%, possibly under 7%. And whatever it is, the media will be screaming MIRACLE at the top of their lungs.
Then consider inflatiion, which everybody knows is well over 5%, and for many on fixed incomes, closer to 10%. But the gubamint stas have it around 3%. Rest assured it will be under 3% by election day.
Then there is GDP; also easily manipulated. And they will “prove” that government revenues are increasing. They will have charts that show how household wealth is turning around. The stock market will be manipulated up by crony wall street thugs and foreign governments to rise by 20%, perhaps over 30% by the election.
Now there is the rumor that little lenin may refinace all of the liar loans at 4.2%, no doco required, to the tune of about $200B…but anybody who gets one won’t care.
They will do anything.
The one bullet “He’s failed” strategy will be easily countered by one statement by the Liar in Chief…”not according to the latest statistics”.
All of the optimism about the chances for conservatives is based on the insane premise that like Dubya, this criminal administration will just let the “economy” do whatever it wants to do (which in Dubya’s case, was cratered by Obama’s henchment, Soros, Goldman Sachs, and foreign governments). There is ZERO chance that the economy and the “data” that describes it will be left to happenstance by this Cabal.
And even the most minor uptick, in anything, will be heralded by pravda as the Miracle of the Messiah.
Romney doesn’t stand a chance because he won’t say a word about it. He and his cronies will be making a fortune while it’s going on, and you can bet, a fortune in the next 4 years of little lenin’s regime. So why should they rock the boat. McCain didn’t. Neither will Romney.
Exactly! Thank you proreason. Even though depressing it is nice to have one’s own opinion validated.
Yeah, well. Look at Franken. He lost in a landslide, but they kept “finding” ballots and edging up a little at a time until he won. That bit about “they can only cheat their way to a win if the race is close” is hogwash. You can just bet that the Obama supporters are going to just keep pushing the recount until he “wins”.
Sure we can. Here’s how- you don’t argue statistics, you argue surroundings. Who are you going to believe, Obama or your own eyes? “Are you better off now than you were four years ago? Are you, your relatives and your neighbors employed? Obama says the economy is great, but what do you think?”
Sorry, mb…proreason nailed it.
Obama has a rigged media, a built-in, rock solid, unwavering base and absolutely no compunction about lying to your face.
Romney has a hostile media, a base of jello, and every time he tries to be phony…he LOOKS AND SOUNDS phony.
Republicans could NEVER get away with “the meaning of is” or “I didn’t know my dearest father figure mentor was a racist for 20 years”. They would be shredded to pieces and laughed in their faces. They just don’t lie as well, as easily, as much, or as blatantly. (let’s leave out Ron Paul for this analysis). Even if they wanted to…the propaganda machine wouldn’t let them. They certainly wouldn’t cover for them..or allow them to go completely unvetted….much less HELP them lie.
Timidity, meek, mealy-mouthed, nibbling around the edges in the face of the crooked, rigged, propagandized coverage of the two sides…is a losing recipe.
The difference in a bacon and egg breakfast is that the hen is involved but the pig is committed. The difference in our current politics is the leftist pigs are committed to overthrowing the free market and on our side we are likely to have a chicken lay an egg.
Yep. Did you notice they just “improved” the way the Leading Ecinomic Indicator is calculated?
Interesting column, though I don’t put much faith in yard signs. I didn’t use yard signs after my first campaign for the Massachusetts senate in 1972, which I won by nine votes. And I only used a few hand-painted ones that year. Too much trouble, as supporters get in “sign wars” stealing the other guy’s signs. I preferred car signs which were mobile. In 1974, people were worried by the number of signs my opponent had in my town of Lunenburg, but I wasn’t and carried the town heavily. He had many signs, but I won by 10,000 votes, carrying every city and town in my 3-1 Democrat district. (I’m a Republican.) I will link to this from my Old Jarhead blog.
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Don’t be counting those chickens Andrew! I happened to live right on the Vermont-New Hampshire border during the 08 election. In all my travels I saw just exactly ONE yard sign for Obama and very few bumper stickers. In my particular town virtually everyone had a McCain sign in their yard . . . and yet, lo and behold, come election day Obama took 85% or so of the vote in that town.
Really? Then, maybe something wasn’t done ethically or legally. Maybe there was voter fraud and corruption. The same will happen this time, only on a much grander scale.
I quit facebook entirely because this very same thing. I can handle the ugly left’s response to a posting on Huff Po but getting called a Nazi and worse on my own face book page is a post too far.
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Fun article on yard signs. The main reason NH turned Democratic (before 2010 election) was the large influx of Massholes (so called by indigenous NH residents) from Taxachewsetts across the border beginning in the 1990′s. The southern 10-20 miles of NH is within commuting distance to greater Boston area. No state income and sales taxes, plus cheap real estate values caused the influx. It didn’t take many Massholes to change NH voting demographics because of low population (no jobs) in NH. 2012 will be a new ballgame for NH voters.
Exactly J, you beat me to it. I live in Maine, but work in NH. The massholes have completely ruined both states. I just can’t understand why someone would leave a state because of excessive regulation, taxation, etc., but then try to promote the same policies in their new state. From what I have heard, the same thing is happening in CO with all the immigrants from California….
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The key to defeating Obama is straight forward. It’s there for the taking. This year, it is the Republicans to lose. There are no excuses for not winning.
You want to defeat Obama and defeat him soundly?
It’s high time to take a reprieve from trying to “play fair” and “be nice.” Because your opponents will do anything but play fair. You go on the attack and you do it from Day 1.
You define Obama as a failure, using his own empty promises and words against him, repeated again and again and again. You don’t let him brand you. You brand him with the words EPIC failure, abysmal economy, corrupt, massive job losses, Solyndra, green failure, $4.00 gasoline, 20% unemployment, one out of six on food stamps, debt of $4.2 billion a day, OWS, socialist. You remind Americans that Obama promised to unite and has done anything but. Demonstrate Obama’s abuse of authority. Bring out the Van Jones speeches, the reprehensible czars Obama has appointed. Time for a few Willie Horton ads.
The minute these hatchet jobs start lying and spinning, you bust them for it. You explain the losses in terms average Americans can understand – how much this deficit is costing them personally. Most Americans can’t comprehend $15 trillion. But they can understand Obama just added about $16,000.00 per person, per household to their own debt in less than three years. Run that diddy by them while they scrape to pay the electric bill.
We need every player speaking loud and clear in the game this time. Debate all you want through the primaries. But the minute the nominee becomes clear, we put our differences to the side, understanding any Republican candidate infinitely less dangerous than Obama, with our sole objective removing the sorriest excuse for a leader our Republic has ever witnessed.
One other thing. The MSM will pull every dirty trick this time. I suggest we make it real personal with them too. Let’s see if we can’t pull a few media skeletons out of the closet and advertise those foibles to the world. Let’s see how NBC and MSNBC play defense for once instead of letting them define us.
A little OT, but you know what I would love to see right now? I’d love to see every single GOP prez candidate come out and say that, “Obama is constitutionally wrong to have made these recess appointments, but y’know what….? If that’s the precedent, then rest assured, when I am President, I can’t WAIT to do the same thing!” And then act like they are practically drooling at the prospect.
Then start systematically promising to do pretty much everything like that this president has done, starting with shutting off ALL elements of verifying credit card contributions, just as Obama did in ’08. And then everything we know is happening and has happened, but that our MSM Lords refuse to report.
This can always be cleared up later as being exactly what it is, a political media ploy, but imagine what a quandary the Democrats AND their entire media legions would be in if every single Republican candidate came out and promised, flat out swore, to do the same things Obama has been doing from day one. They would HAVE to respond, but they couldn’t possibly do so, both at the same time. That would be some rock-solid squirming.
Just a dream of course. The “stupid party” seems institutionally incapable of using anything but boxing gloves against a Dem Party and media that will knife-fight every time. It’s a fun picture, though.
Tex Taylor you are spot on, all of this. And I’d like to see some msm closet doors start opening right now.
This is correct.
Conservatives and Republicans seem to think they can win elections by using political discourse, reason, logic, history and common sense.
The marxists care about those things only so far as they can manipulate them. They spend their energies developing the propaganda network, figuring out the most effective ways to cheat, buying votes, gathering money to swamp the airways, and demonizing the opposition.
This year, they will also spend a lot of time manipulating the economic data (see my post above).
Then they always have several manufactured crises in reserve in case the other manipulations aren’t effective enough.
Republicans will need to convince 75% of the country to come close to winning this presidential election. The only reason the outcome is in any question at all is that 70-80% of the public knows that obama is an anti-american thief. That means the election will be close.
It might require 2 or 3 crises this year. They can’t risk an economic crisis because they won’t be able to pin it for sure on Republicans, so military action is definitely on the table this time. A failed assassination attempt is also possible, possibly against Ron Paul, if he goes 3rd party.
Are you a racist?
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Strange article. If I put a yard sign up displaying my political preferences, my neighbors will not argue with me. They’ll burn down my house.
Can’t help but be utterly unsurprised that you’d see lots of Republican yard signs during a Republican primary.
Next time try reading the article before commenting.
I don’t believe Obama is in trouble. Reality doesn’t matter since the mainstream media supports him without question for ideological reasons and their bias swings 30-40% of the electorate. The Democrats’ repute as the party of bread and circuses swings about 30%. Though the two overlap they will be more than enough for a total and even crushing victory over the Republicans in November.
Though I hope you are right, I’m not fully convinced. I live in Massachusetts (and will accept your pity, thanks) and in early October 2008, I drove the entire state of New Hampshire up 93 all the way to the Canadian border in Pittsburg, NH on Route 3. I counted 3 Barack Obama signs. Three. I thought we were in good shape. Not so much …
While I hope Obama isn’t re-elected and somewhat encouraged by Mr. Boucher’s anecdotal yard sign message, there is still an enormous ignorant voting bloc out there. Just in my State (California) alone, a majority voted FOR a multi-billion dollar high-speed rail bond measure knowing full well we as a state were already 20 billion in the hole. Unfortunately, profound ignorance as to voting isn’t relegated to Califonia alone. It’s still a likely possibility that Obama could be re-elected. Even then, rock-bottom might not be enough to dissuade the ignorant (see Greece).
Yeah, mirror mirror on the wall, is it to be Romney tonight, Obama light, Obama white, oh sweet delight?
Meh, I seriously think this election will end up coming down to Obama vs. Caffeine Free Diet Obama. The only result will be a change in the speed the country travels in, not the direction.
HERE’s a concise “laundry list” recipe to VICTORY over Obama in 2012.
GINGRICH can do this. SANTORUM just might. Romney?!? Phhhhht.
1.Every day, the U.S. government takes in $6 billion and spends $10 billion. This means that every day the federal government spends $4 billion more dollars than it has.
2.The real unemployment rate is a jaw-dropping 11 percent.
3.Every fifth man you pass on your way to work is now out of work.
4.College graduates are now 34% less likely to find a job under Obama than they were under President George W. Bush.
5.Every seventh person you pass on the sidewalk now relies on food stamps.
6.The ravages of the Obama economy now mean that more Americans live under the federal poverty line than at any time in U.S. history since records have been kept.
7.Under President Barack Obama, every fifth child in America now lives in poverty.
FROM:
http://invinciblearmor.blogspot.com/2012/01/which-republican-has-guts-to-speak.html
Democrats show what their plans are, by accusing republicans of what they plan to do!
I drive down the hill from New Boston five days a week past all the Republican signs that stretch from 114 to the 293 exit on 101. Goffstown/New Boston is definitely purple. When I lived in the Hampton Roads, Virginia I used to call the same effect “bumper sticker polling.” I was pretty darn sure that B.O. was going to carry the 2008 election by the overwhelming number of Obama/Biden bumper stickers I saw in comparison to McCain/Palin. I had to vote for McCain, but I darn sure wasn’t doing so proudly enough to deface my auto with his bumper sticker.
I haven’t seen too many Obama 08 bumper stickers here in New Hampshire. I few leftovers, but I think many people have scrapped them off. I’ve only seen two Obama 12 stickers, and they were on luxury sedans with Massachusetts plates. All too common for the expatriates to come here to escape the tax burden they helped to establish.
Anyway, I tend to agree with the premise of this article. Whether it’s for Paul, Romney, Newt (Yes I’ve seen few) or whomever, the message is that Barrack Obama is not in favor with Southern New Hampshire voters.
I live in a purple state and am an independent voter (did not vote for O). As soon as we know the Repub. nominee, I will have that candidate’s sign in my yard. I will not keep quiet re: upcoming election and will gladly share my rationale with any neighbors who remain undecided or wavering on their choice. As an aside, I am seeing far, far fewer Obama bumper stickers than last go round. Even on a recent trip to Boston, I counted only 4 and 3 were 2008!
Tex Taylor should be running the Republican Party!
“Live free or die” is the New Hampshire state motto. Perhaps all the liberal Democrats, who moved to New Hampshire, from New York and Massachusets, and changed the political dynamic from Republican to Democrat, are waking up. Thank you Mr. Obama.
NoBama 2012.
Hope you are working against that scary woman Elizabeth Warren….