‘Operation Demoralize Is Working Just as Planned’
And now, a few words from the JournoList to Republican voters:
To place the weekend’s polls into perspective, Matt Drudge offers some historic flashbacks:
● POLL: O 49% R 45%…
● FLASHBACK: CARTER +4 OVER REAGAN IN SEPT 1980 [+8 IN OCT]…
● FLASHBACK: DUKAKIS +17 OVER BUSH AFTER DNC 1988…
As William A. Jacobson writes at his Legal Insurrection blog, “Operation Demoralize is Working Just as Planned”:
It’s November 7. Barack Obama has won. The Republican presidential strategy has failed. The media is jubilant. The right-blogosphere is going through a serious introspection. The left-blogosphere is dancing on our graves and shoving it down our throats. Four years of fighting the Obama agenda was for nothing.
Oh, I’m sorry. Let me correct that. It’s September 9, not November 7. The rest of the paragraph above can remain as originally written.
Oh, and as a reminder that snap poll numbers immediately after a convention can be rather deceiving, particularly when there’s nearly two months of a campaign — and the debates — and shifting world events — left to go, here’s USA Today on September 8th of 2008:
WASHINGTON — The Republican National Convention has given John McCain and his party a significant boost, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken over the weekend shows, as running mate Sarah Palin helps close an “enthusiasm gap” that has dogged the GOP all year.
McCain leads Democrat Barack Obama by 50%-46% among registered voters, the Republican’s biggest advantage since January and a turnaround from the USA TODAY poll taken just before the convention opened in St. Paul. Then, he lagged by 7 percentage points.
So if you’re feeling nervy, irritable, depressed and/or tired of life by the polls this weekend, well, that’s just how the MSM wants you to feel right now.
Update: “Campaign Kickoff; Has Reagan Dropped the Ball?” — U.S. News and World Report, 9/9/1980.
Related: Sarah Hoyt at the Tatler on the MSM “Spreading Fear and Despondency.”
Update: Welcome readers clicking in from Instapundit, Rand Simberg, Free Republic, and the PJM homepage.
Up only four points?!? That’s the best the combined tag-team of Obama, the MSM, and dem-oversampling pollsters can do? I think we’re in Dukakis Delusional September territory here — only 13 points lower than Dukakis.
Now if we can only manage to photograph Obama with wearing the oversized Green Beret he wore while single-handedly judo-chopping Osama Bin Laden on the eigth hole…
Yes, JamesA, our president has been endowed by his Party with superhuman, even god-like attributes. I wrote about charisma and symbolic politics here: http://clarespark.com/2012/09/07/charisma-and-symbolic-politics/. Both Obama and Clinton, despite their obvious errors and personal shortcomings, benefit from 1. deification by the media and their followers, and 2. The “soak the rich” populism that has ever been effective. Capitalism is still not understood by many. And all those populists in the mass media will do their best to amplify that message: that raising taxes on the rich is not only just punishment for their “greed” but will actually cut the deficit and help the man and woman in the street.
OK “they endowed their candidate”. Well, they tried, but WE saw through THAT, right Clare?
I’m not sure the Republican “suck up to the rich” plan is much better than “soak the rich” alternative.
How is it that even rolling back taxes to pre-Bush levels for those on top elicits such howling and yelping? I recall that I managed well enough before the cuts.
I don’t know, I read Rasmussen, I’m not depressed. I think YOU have more to worry about, you don’t even like the guy. Grover Norquist doesn’t even respect him, he’s just a warm body with enough working digits to sign the legislation he sends him. That’s cool, be that way.
Yes, many of us do feel down, wondering how in the name of God our nation could have come to a pass that it really is possible that Americans could choose four more years of what we KNOW will come to pass, because we have lived it — that so many millions of will so willingly choose the eternal childhood of Sandra Fluke or the clear-eyed and maturity that our Founding Fathers simply assumed that free people would always conduct themselves with.
But I do remember some words a great man…. flawed, but still great… once said at another time that we were down on the mat –
Great harm has been done to us. We have suffered great loss. And in our grief and anger, we have found our mission and our moment.
Freedom and fear are at war. The advance of human freedom, the great achievement of our time and the great hope of every time, now depends on us.
Our nation, this generation, will lift the dark threat of violence from our people and our future. We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail.
I will not yield, I will not rest, I will not relent in waging this struggle for freedom and security for the American people.
The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
Fellow citizens, we’ll meet violence with patient justice, assured of the rightness of our cause and confident of the victories to come.
In all that lies before us, may God grant us wisdom, and may he watch over the United States of America.
Let’s head into the home stretch with those words in mind, shall we?
“or the clear-eyed and maturity that our Founding Fathers simply assumed that free people would always conduct themselves with.”
If the Founding Fathers actually assumed that, they would have been braindead morons.
They did not assume that. Not at all.
Unfortunately, they then may have neglected to address de Tocqueville’s observation about “the death of democracy in America will come when the people realize that, through their Congress, they can vote to pay themselves out of the public treasury.”
Mature people would not allow this to happen. Children will happily clean the candy store out, knowing in their hearts the Happy Candy Man will always arrive the next day with more.
Which of those two scenarios best appllies to what we see today with our own eyes, and which will prevail in November, one wonders. I’m not sure the founders truly foresaw the likes of our friend Sandra, and her legions.
Testing:
They most certainly knew it and discussed the dangers. Voting restrictions were the solution.
However we now have universal enfranchisement and the predictable (and predicted) results.
Bless you. I just spent most of the morning writing something much longer on the same subject. This is a propaganda offensive. it’s bad enough they own the MSM. Do we need to amplify the MSM? Breibart would be all over those internals and pointing and laughing…
Sarah, I look at stories like this and take a tinkle down my leg. Err, so to speak. Metaphorically.
First, we want Obama’s supporters to be overconfident.
A friend of mine from childhood is a minor political appointee in the Obama administration. I was chatting with him and some of his left-wing friends a few months ago, and he insisted on the following things: A) the three key issues of the election are and should be the Stimulus, national railroad projects, and foreign policy. B) that Obama’s got an unmatched record of accomplishment and absolutely should run on it. C) Obama’s record on jobs is in particular awesome, and data to the contrary are evil republican lies.
So did I give him the fisking he richly deserved? Hell, no! I shut the #include up. These guys aren’t the campaign insiders, but they are Obama’s base. Nothing I say will ever convince them, and never interrupt an opponent when they’re busy making a mistake. Napoleon and Heinlein agree on this one.
When my friend talks to anyone outside The Bubble, he’ll be making our case for us. The more he talks, the better we do. And he distracts from Obama’s message, which desperately wants to avoid all the issues that he considers winners precisely because everyone outside The Bubble realizes it’s baloney.
Obama’s behavior tells us that his internal pollsters are much more pragmatic. The campaign is acting like it’s way behind. And yet they’re still scoring own goals on themselves. Why?
Both of these gifts are courtesy of the MSM. Republicans are long since used to “neck and neck” races that turn into blowouts in our favor. We vote pretty much no matter what. What demoralizes us is RINO pandering, not Rachel Maddow predicting our defeat.
So if this makes democrats overconfident, then great. If Obama’s own supporters sound stupid and ill-informed, then great. If Obama’s circle of media yes-men are misleading him about how hollow and out of touch he seems, then great. If the yes-men aren’t confronting him about his policy failures, then great. These are all unmixed blessings.
Oh, and by the way, the media went all the way in the tank for Obama in both 2008 and 2012, and alternative media are now strong enough to make an end run around them. So the more flagrantly biased they are, the better. They were more dangerous back when they had a monopoly on viewers and were more more subtle. Now I think their bias against us is a net win.
I take the polls, especially Gallup now, with a grain of salt. Pollsters aren’t trying present a true representation of voter’s attitudes. Rather, this year the goal seems to make the demonRATS feel better bout their chances and to make republican give up in despair. Sarah Hoyt is 100% correct: This is a propaganda campaign on the part of the Obamao regime, the MSM, and pollsters. What I worry about is an October Surprise. Obamao and the libs are desperate enough to do most anything, the polls not withstanding of course.
I see no reason to doubt the methodology of the Rasmussen poll that shows 0bama up by four over Romney.
But otherwise I agree with the basic premise of this article. The economy is still a mess, and that fact will remain long after the Clinton-fueled post-convention bounce for HopeAndChange 2012 fades away, as it certainly will.
That’s not to say I believe Romney can’t lose to 0bama: he can. I just am not giving up all hope now, just as I did not buy the earlier bursts of enthusiasm in the GOP and the belief that a Chia pet could beat Obama.
I see no reason to give a rip about what polls say.
Exactly! We need more with your attitude, Rob!
Umm…it’s a national poll, right? It doesn’t matter what the polls tell us about California or New York.mwe know those states are far gone, and inclusion of thir voters in a national poll tells us nothing about what’s happening in the 8, 10, 12 states that will swing the electoral college.
Debate questions:
Gov Romney, some people believe your wife’s condtion was caused by a brain truma. Have you stopped beating her since her symptoms appeared?
President Obama: Is it true that the very talented First Lady is your most trusted confidant?
The problem Midnite as I see it, is that a Chia Pet should be beating Obama. The fact this race is even close shows just how entitled many have become. This race will settle if a President really can buy a vote, and that is a national disgrace. If only the empty seat were true, we would be much better off.
Nonetheless, I still think the debates will settle the issue. And unlike our lackey media, I found Obama a weak debater.
Well, you can say the same thing about Carter. Looking back now, it’s unbelievable to think Carter had the edge in polls throughout most of 1980. The incumbent, no matter how pitiful he is, always has an advantage. The aura of the Presidency, the devil you know, etc. That certainly doesn’t mean his victory is inevitable.
We need obozo to be defeated and with his defeat the media shown to be so biased, and out of touch with their responsibility as journalists that they will be gone from the scene, save for sports, and entertainment, comics and puzzles which they can’t screw up too badly.
And to give an idea of how badly media is hurting. I had an offer to receive 52 weeks of Sunday newspaper, delivered to my home for $6 for the year.
Guess the subscription is worth the ad revenue, but for $6/year or less than 12 cents for a Sunday paper I might help further the media demise.
I don’t believe the polls. Why?
1. Obama won on the back of very high turnout by blacks and college kids. He will get much less of both this time.
2. Obama won a significant number of independents. Romney is way ahead now with that group.
3. The economy is in very bad shape.
4. Gas prices are 100% higher than when he took office.
5. Unemployment is 8.2%.
6. 2010 – TEA Party sweep of Congress and state offices. The TEA party is fired up to get rid of Obama so the GOP has the lead in enthusiasm. Or fear because we’re mortally terrified of another four years of the Communist in Chief.
7. State level bills to stop Obamacare passed with huge margins. Example, in MO the anti-Obamacare bill passed with 67%. Would these people really vote to keep Obama in office?
I simply refuse to believe that the American people are so far gone as to reelect people determined to turn us into subjects.
IF Obama IS reelected I predict it will mark the beginning of the end of the US as a nation of 50 states and the beginning of an actual division into two separate countries. I don’t believe conservatives will simply give up and become part of the collective. Become hosts to the Democrat Party’s parasite voters. Nor do I believe that conservatives will want to spend eternity battling these true-believers. The best course will to be to divorce ourselves from them and let them turn their country into the totalitarian Hell they seem to want.
Sign me up for the division. I’ll move to a red state/country immediately. But I’m not sure that solves the problem. I’ll still be living next door to a country with a population full of entitled people who have nuclear weapons.
and worry about the vote count, by which I don’t mean the usual, that the guy with the most votes wins, but mean the vote counting itself, since the corrupt Obama administration took that all-important task out of the hands of our own American voting precincts and instead farmed out the counting of our votes to a private foreign company.
Nothing a Democrat or Journolista can say will demoralize me more than what Romney himself says about “reforming” Obamacare.
Then stay home and help Obama win.
Romney doesn’t control Congress. If a bill gets sent to his desk to fully repeal Obamacare do you think he will veto it because it doesn’t retain the “popular” elements? If he even considers it I suspect that Paul Ryan will be there to steer him to the right.
People like you need to stop wetting your panties over Romney and focus on the goal of getting rid of the Communist occupier of the WH.
Amen, Eric. You are exactly right.
romney said he’d repeal it, now it’s reform it. oh, and obama’s a real nice guy, don’t you know.
if goody-two-shoes romney doesn’t stop acting like a liddle widdy pantywaist, we’re done for.
If people refuse to vote for “better” because they couldn’t get “perfect”, then we’re done for as a country.
But you, like the Occutards, will feel all warm and fuzzy. Which will be good for you, since you won’t be able to afford heat for your home.
We’re done for if people like you decide that Romney isn’t perfect and stay home to protest. Instead of bitching about it, get the man elected and then keep pressure on him via your members off Congress. Dont let perfect be the enemy of “good enough”.
After Romney, who 70% of the Republican Party, particularly the base did not like, was manipulated into the lead, then comes the time to blame the Conservatives, the Majority, for their lack of enthusiasm for someone they don’t like.
The Shame Game doesn’t really cut it, Eric. Perhaps you’d consider giving me a reason to vote for someone that doesn’t amount to Obama is Worse.
I am voting Constitution Party, and I encourage all Conservatives to do likewise.
Sounds like a great plan. Because as many others have been saying here and elsewhere, the next four years of an unfettered President Obama should prove to quite truly be what the Chinese call “interesting times”.
The Democrats thank you, Tennwriter.
If Obama wins, I will consider holier-than-you “conservatives” like you just as traitorous and responsible for the ruin of America as the Marxists on the left.
No difference, practically speaking. None at all.
You’re a damned fool. Unfortunately sometimes the lesser of two evils is the right choice to make. Not voting for Romney is voting for Obama. I guess you’re nt too concerned about the future.
On the money. House and Senate are keys to Constitutional integrity and spending. #SlickWillie had to work with GOP or do nothing like B’roke.
Romney is mostly a “I want to be loved” man. In a left-leaning state or country, he’ll go left. But we have a Tea Party for that. No, you can’t vote for Romney and go back to sleep. BUT you can vote Obama out and stop spending the night awake knowing that we have an internal enemy in the White House, dismantling our freedoms from within and playing havoc with our economy. It is not a distinction without a difference.
As someone else said, this country has been ill with statism for over half a century. Now the fever has broken and you think we should be miraculously cured tomorrow. Be real. This is the beginning of the turn around. It will be enough.
Sarah, you know better than that. Fix it in a heartbeat?!? No one but the most insane libertarians expect a century of progressivism to be fixed in a blink of an eye. This arguement is unworthy of you. It would take multiple Reagans and some serious moral revival and rebuilding of institutions to get us back to what the Founding Fathers had in mind.
And just cause Romney says something don’t make it so.
“An enemy in the White House”. Would that those words had been spoken by McCain during the 2008 campaign. How right that was then and now. But for Romney and the RNC, I only see a kabuki act. Just like when McCain “ran”.
Coincidentally I received a mailing from the Voter Participation Center this week. Yeah they’re slimebags, but they may win it for Obama.
Forget Romney, it’s the Senate, stupid.
I agree, I thought the plan was to get rid of it. I heard today on fox he was going to rework it. I was not sure I heard right. This sounds like a baloon being floated. If that is the case he can count me out!
If you’re believing anything you hear on the MSM — yes, that includes Fox — you’re being suckered. Go and find what he actually said for yourself. He has promised to sign fifty wavers one for each state right after swearing in. We’ll hold him to that.
Count you out, why? Are you going to be in your bunker with your guns? Or do you think president “more flexibility” will be better?
PLEASE! This has been seventy years in the making. It might take a few presidential terms to dismantle. Counting yourself out does nothing but allow this course to continue without even a minor correction.
This of course assumes you are on the right and not a paid troll. Since I’ve seen this comment over and over at all conservative sites, what is one HECK of an assumption. Call me trusting.
I agree with tha, FOX has gone to the dark side. Why I cannot explain, this effort to Mainstream FOX has been been in the works for quite a while and seems to be accelerating. Yesterday’s FOX news sunday left me totally depressed, but today reading this article by Ed Driscoll I feel my mojo coming back!
There’s an enemy in the White House. You said it, I’ll say it: There’s an enemy in the White House.
For good measure: There’s an enemy in the White House. There’s an enemy in the White House.
So why won’t that enemy’s opponent in this election, Mitt Romney, say it? It’s true. Well isn’t it?
Damn right, it’s true. There’s an enemy in the White House. There’s an enemy in the White House.
If Romney can’t or won’t say it, good and loud, and often, he’ll lose. He’ll lose, Lose, LOSE!
Romney gets 53% of the popular vote and 335 Electoral College votes.
I’ll buy that. No wait, I can’t buy votes, I’m not a democrat. I’ll vote early and often for that then. No wait, I can’t do that either for the same reason.
Thanks, Ed. It seems that I’ve been spending a lot of time the past few days telling my fellow conservatives to snap out of it.
Not so much that I don’t believe the polls as I do not want to. You have to understand that Obama has a large base of non thinkers, people on govt. milk, most every minority just because, and the drones that will vote dem no matter who or what it is. These folks do not reason and get all their news from MSM and Huffpo. Heck I have well educated friends that spout nonsense party line BS and have no retort after I show them simple numbers that prove them wrong.
The biggest hurdle for Romney is to be able to at least put some doubt in these puppets minds when they finally walk into the booth. All that said, I have a feeling his turnout will be far less than Romneys.
Now that Romney has come out saying he would like to keep the pre-existing conditions part of Obamacare, well, lets just say I have very very few reasons left to be excited about this guy.
Then be excited for another four years of Obama.
The left has gotten us here through a century of incrementalism, and you’re bitching that you can’t turn it over in a single election?
>> Then be excited for another four years of Obama.
In other words Rob, If Obama wins, none of Romney’s comments or actions can be held responsible for that?
In addition, we didn’t get here with only help from the Dem’s. Who gave us the EPA?
First of all, this is a very tendentious interpretation of Romney’s words. Second, “very few reasons,” really?
I see that this is today’s theme/ meme in the “demoralize” campaign. Not buying it.
Jesus f*ing Christ! Really? The President doesn’t write legislation, Congress does. If a conservative led Congress sends a president Romney a full repeal bill do you think he will veto it? Use your damn head. If we lose it will be because fools like you will sit home in protest that Romney isn’t the second coming of the Gipper. You work with what you have, not what you wish you had.
Romney sure as heck wasn’t my first, or even second, choice but I’ll walk over burning coals to vote for the man because if Obama is reelected there may not be a country left to save in 2016.
But you go ahead and stay home and whine.
>> If a conservative led Congress sends a president Romney a full repeal bill do you think he will veto it?
No, I don’t think he will veto it. In return, if he keeps making comments about supporting certain parts of Obamacare, do you think a full repeal bill will be sent?
As for using my head, I’m not the one who keeps acting as if the Republicans have finally changed their spots?
Romney was referring to 2 things – the 26 age rule and some kind of way for pre-existing conditions people to get insurance. I mean, come on, those 2 policies are reasonable. Just because Obama threw them into Obamacare does not make them bad. Obama knew they were popular and is why they front loaded them to start this year. That bad stuff comes later. Those 2 clauses are not going anywhere and Romney knows this. They are too popular.
When they call me on one of their “surveys”, I just hang up. The less the media knows, the better.
As a service to the American voter, a reminder of the schedule of the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election:
Republicans: Vote on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Democrats: Vote on Wednesday, November 7, 2012
It could be Idi Amin on the R ticket and h would get my vote. Nuff Said.
I’m feeling just fine. If the best Obama can do after all this time and money is get a tiny little bump in the polls (even if they are accurate), that’s not a bad place to be in on September 9, 2012. The only poll I care about is on November 6, and from what I can see there are A LOT of well-motivated Republicans out there just itching to vote. How many unemployed college grads with huge student loan debts are going to be all that excited about voting for Obama this time around? Oh, and all you twenty-somethings out there, just remember that you’ll have to start paying the mandate/tax for Obamacare if the Republicans don’t win. Something to think about while, as Paul Ryan famously said, you’re sitting in your old bedroom in your parent’s house looking at faded Obama posters from 2008. Are any of you really enthused about voting for Obama again? I didn’t think so.
If we don’t fire Obama, the game is over.
The Congress will continue to be unable to pass a budget. In the absence of a budget, Obama will start spending by Executive Order, based on his own decisions about where, as a matter of national emergency, the spending needs to happen.
No money for the IRS to gin up enforcing the revenue aspects of Obamacare? Emergency! No funds for grants to states to support Medicaid? Emergency! No money to hand out condoms to thirty year old “coeds”? Emergency!
He has tipped his hand with his unilateral rewriting of the law on immigration relating to children illegally brought to this country, and his welfare waivers. The one thing he has yet to do is start spending money on his own, without Congressional authorization. Re-election will give him the moral authority, as he will see it, to take that step, regardless of legal authority, which he already disdains.
And who’s to stop him, as long as the Democrats can stonewall in the Senate? – which they can do, even if they are a minority after the election.
Actually I’m much more concerned about Vampire Bill becoming Lillith.
God is in his heaven and at the controls. Fear, uncertainty and doubt prowl the streets but in the end, it is His will that will have the last word. I tend to lean on him in times of uncertainty and he’s come through every time.
The Democrats “slapped” God in the face during their convention; He does not forget. That incident along with the respect shown to God during the Republican convention makes me optimistic of a Romney win.
I hope R&R’s stash will help change the minds of the Øbots. I was really anxious in the 1980 election because of all the polls. Then I remember being in line to vote and I was told that Reagan had already won. Whew!
I’m hoping and praying that we’ll see another repeat of 1980 in 2012. I want to see the conservative Death Star™ fire an all destroying salvo at the dhimmicrats this time out. You may fire when ready commander.
I want to believe. I really, really, want to believe that Romney will win this. Just a week ago I even said that he will win this. It isn’t that I don’t trust that Romney can win, because at any other time in recent history there was no way he couldn’t. What I am worried about is if there are enough sane people in this country to vote for liberty and economic reality. That is the problem as I see it. Romney will not lose because he is a bad candidate or runs a bad campaign. He will lose because a majority of “Americans” no longer want freedom and democracy; but tyranny and socialism if not outright communism. As a whole will have rejected main street and embraced the inner city. If Obama wins then we have all become Chicago now because a large number of our neighbors wanted it that way. If they don’t want it that way and Obama still wins, then they have become too blind or stupid to be worthy of what this nation stood for at its founding.
Again, I hope and pray Romney can win so the nation doesn’t go off the cliff once and for all. I also say, if you have family, friends, members of your congregation that vote for Obama and he wins – tell them in no uncertain terms they are traitors and break all ties with them.
Jettboy, you’re no different than (most) every human on earth. It’s our defense mechanism that helps protect us by seeing what would otherwise go unnoticed. Being too confident can be deadly. When I turned my business over to my son, I told him to always have Plan ‘B’ ready to implement before you need it, not after you need it. Setbacks are instructional lessons to be learned from, not feared of. And remember this: If you’re not catching flak, you’re not over the target!
Forget about polls and the lack of a bounce that either party got. Weep and despair for our poor republic for a real reason.
Honey Boo Boo Child on TLC, got better ratings than the RNC and fell even with the DNC the night of Clinton’s speech.
I believe that McCain would have carried Florida in 2008 if many voters hadn’t stayed home. Compare turnout in 04 and 08 in Florida and you will find similar numbers in South Florida. The lower numbers came in the more conservative counties. The people who are saying there is no difference in the two choices this year are deliberately or indifferently working to give us four more years of Obama.
Certainly the Obama campaign will work to depress voting by depressing the voters. If people fall for that trap, then maybe this country is already doomed.
I have no respect for anyone who sits out this election. The choices are very clear. At least a President Romney with a Republican led Senate might listen to those of us who demand less centralized government and fewer regulations on small business. What chance do you think a second-termed President Obama and a Senate led by Reid will care one dried fig about reducing regulations and the size of government?
Which one would you prefer to nominate Supreme Court Justices?
When Barack Obama loses, the MSM won’t be pointing at all the fake polls they churned out and trumpeted. They’ll be talking about how America is suddenly RAAAAAACIST.
I think it is a good idea to have some healthcare reform, why not leave the college kids on their parent’s insurance a little longer? Since Obama has messed up the economy so much and these kids can’t get jobs, that makes sense. Obama care must be repealed no doubt, but we can’t cut off our noses to spite our faces. Part of the reasons Clinton ( yuck) and Reagan were good presidents is because they were able to compromise and work across the isle. I really don’t fault Romney for this.
We are also forgetting the other R of the R&R, the man doesn’t mince words and has hit Obama hard. He is a great partner and will give Biden a smack down in the debates. Ryan has the other side frothing at the mouth.
“… why not leave the college kids on their parent’s insurance a little longer?”
Because my Medicare payments have increased 3 times for a total increase of 50% since January 01, 2012. Two weeks ago an additional $43/mo increase. 130,000 seniors are euthanized every year in Great Britain due to their unsustainable nationalizeded health care program. I talked to a friends daughter a few months ago, all giddy over her free healthcare – 23 years old, healthy college grad working full time at a local hospital – and told her what it costs seniors. She could care less.
Obama was up by 7 points in May. What would be the cause of this cratering of support?
I don’t need the MSM to demoralize me. I just need to look at the Romney campaign, what they’re doing (or, rather, not doing) in Ohio, and seeing that if it weren’t for the Tea Party ( the portion holding their nose to support Romney) there wouldn’t be a ground effort to speak of. There sure is no air effort here. Plus, there’s Romney himself saying now he’ll keep key parts of Obamacare. Awesome. Nature abhors a vacuum and unless the Romney campaign gets off their butts and throws away the Dole-McCain model (the one where you sit back and let your opponent define you, then go on TV and prove them correct) there is no hope for their campaign and none for their country. I don’t need the MSM to tell me anything. I see it with my own eyes. I spent a lot of time in the Romney office the first couple months it was open, but now I feel it’s a total waste of time.
I’m not going to claim to be Joe Political Guru but if Obama has less than 50 percent among REGISTERED voters which is what I think the polls cited by Drudge are, he is the one with the problem.
I have an ad that would destroy the leftist meme that we have had a recovery. It is quite simple.
“The DNC and the DNC media have been stating we have been in a recovery, yet here are the facts. GDP growth has been stated to be 1-2.5% over the last 4 years. Yet, the Federal government has been DEFICIT SPENDING, aka BORROWING 8-10% of GDP and spending it for those last 4 years. How can there be a recovery when you only get 1/5th of the value of the money you are borrowing? The DNC and the DNC media are lying.”
Case closed, Obama done. Run the ad now!
For a freedom loving American to not vote for Mitt Romney would be to decide against the inescapable conviction that for the preservation of liberty Obama must be removed from office and hence would be to become an inexcusable traitor, both to his country and to himself.
First and foremost because too far many of America’s voters are naive gullible know nothing STUPID ENTITLEMENT JUNKIES.
So to all those wondering how the USURPER still rates 40-47% support. Sit down and just think about it a little. There are 13% of the population who voted for him because he looked the same as them I refer of course to BLACKS of whom 96% RACISTLY voted for him and that same 96% support him still and will continue to do so no matter what . Its what RACISTS do. Then there are the 20-30% of Americans who are dyed in the wool brainwashed left wing Islamophile PC, MC moonbats. Who also are incapable of change or logic or common sense.
So you see the USURPER is SURE of between 33-43% moronic and RACIST support no matter what he does . Add to that the MORONS who dont THINK but just vote the way their favourite CELEBRITY votes or whicever way the Lame Stream EneMedia tells them to , and we all know which way that is don’t we. Of course he and the corrupt DEMS are going ‘hell for leather’ for the nailed on moonbat voters the DREAM ACT and ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT AMNESTY will bring them as a backup. You have been warned.
Here is a data point…
In the Amazon election, it’s Romney by a landslide
Amazon has launched its own Election Heat Map 2012, a tool that shows whether Americans are buying more conservative books than liberal, and by how much. Paul Ryan fans, prepare to get excited.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/web/in-the-amazon-election-its-romney-by-a-landslide/
Andy McCarthy has a great piece on this subject, highlighting that this isn’t the 1980′s and to compare then and now is foolhearty:
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/316333/double-minded-republicans-andrew-c-mccarthy
It is that progressive governance is fine but needs to be better executed. — Andrew McCarthy
Yeah. This is small ball. It is rearranging the deck chairs or even maintaining the engines on the Titanic without changing it’s course. This isnt new in the US
BTW. And it’s the standard position of European so called Center Right parties. There argument is that they can manage the Gigantic Welfare State better than the Socialists. They’ve already lost the big argument, or ceded it. Thus the Socialist Zeitgeist is the Center…the consensus of sensible people. This is why Tea Parties are seen through their eyes as radicals. From the perspective of the New Left Radicals of the 60s…the Tea Partiers and the Christian Conservatives are radical reactionaries. The kind of people that will need to be re-educated or failing that…eliminated…according to Bill Ayers. The New Establishment will not tolerate dissent.
The media and the educaiton system need to be targeted for infiltration and take-over. Barring that go around them. School Choice for education and increased bandwidth with regards to media.
You are going to have to get your hands dirty, doing things that you might find offensive to your sensibilities, like discriminating against Leftwingers in hiring inside institutions, and giving the nod to Conservatives in hiring, even if they arent as qualified (at least on paper). This might offend your principles and sense of fair play and egalitarianism….but it must be done.
If this were the real deal, you would think the democrats would have no trouble filling the Bank of America Stadium to capacity?
It’s a different world than it was 30 years ago. By going for the social conservative vote, Republicans have alienated the moderates. Yes, there are a lot of social conservatives, but many of them are minorities that won’t be voting Republican.
Beyond that, while Obama is worse than Carter, Romney isn’t even close to Reagan. Romney is probably going to be the third worst president, after Obama and GWB in terms of expanding government. Okay, Reagan was a big spender. But at least he was a great orator and had swagger.
Hedonism never produced a successful civilization, but it has destroyed quite a few.
EscapeVelocity,
You’re introducing that nasty thing called Reality to the Whigs. Stop that, they’re counting their gold coins while their house burns, and you made them lose count.
No question, they are clever. They have Joe Scarborough with 3 tweets complaining that Mitt Romney isn’t conservative enough. That was aimed squarely at sowing the seeds of division. I have also seen a few conservative bloggers (on NRO) start panicking already. I hope they pull themselves together. Everyone needs to keep their nerve until election day.
To use the Dukakis up by 17 analogy is false. There was no incumbent in 1988. Polls in elections with no incumbent vary widely.
Polls can fluctuate wildly from week to week and are subject to the pollster’s biases. Polls should be taken with a grain of salt.
The Romney campaign is a complete joke and deserves to lose. They won’t give a single identifiable policy description. I have absolutely no idea how a Romney administration would govern because Mitt is too much of a wimp to tell us because the campaign is terrified that special interest group X might get angry. They flip flop from minute to minute on any given issue. They lie about absolutely everything, to the point where I don’t even know if they know they’re lying – it’s become pathological.
Not only this, but Romney can’t run fast enough from his own record. From his time at Bain to his time as a liberal governor of Massachusetts (should be an automatic disqualifier), he absolutely has nothing to say about any of it. What kid of man runs from his own record? This “Anybody but Obama” crap is just pathetic. I don’t want to vote for Obama, but I surely am not stupid enough to vote for a guy whose entire campaign is based on the premise “Elect me first, and then I’ll tell you my plan.” Complete hogwash.
This is why everyone hates Romney: not because the liberal media is mean to him, but because he’s a spineless whelp who will literally say or do anything to get elected, but is in the obviously uncomfortable position of having absolutely no idea what to say or do. He may as well come out with a campaign as that says “Please, America, just tell me what to say! just tell me what to do! I’m in the dark here! Just vote for me and I’ll do whatever you want! I promise! I’m Mitt Romney, and I only approve this message if you say I should! Should I? Please tell me!”
That is about the biggest load of crap I have ever seen on this site. Go away troll….
Even when you know it is pschological warfare, it is still demoralizing.
Partly because there are forces working to demoralize us. They don’t care about facts and actions… they just want to ruin the country.
And they are Americans.
It is demoralizing to know the enemy of humanity is domestic.
Why do they want more poverty? Why do they want non-stop lies? Why?
And why are there so many ready to believe what ever lie they put out?
Why is it easier for 40% of America to believe lies than truth?
If there is anything that should be a consensus of nearly all Americans it is that the last four years were some of the worst in our history. That is the reality… yet a huge chunk of America wants more of it.
Yes, it is demoralizing. Why is this race even close?
Critical Theory – look it up.
Europe’s Imminent Revolution by Malcolm Lowe August 29, 2012
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3310/europe-imminent-revolution
AMEN AMEN – the liberal media is working on overdrive TO CREATE A BARRY BOUNCE …..OFLMAO…………………
The unemployed and dead soldier bodies are piling up out here………………..BARRY’S MEDIA CAN’T HIDE THE DAMAGE FROM US
the liberals are screaming we can’t blame Barack FOR EVERYTHING – OH YEAH? WATCH US.
– THE LEFTWINGERS TRAINED US THAT THE ‘PRESIDENT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR EVERYTHING………………….SORRY DUMBOCRATS – YOU TRAINED US THAT BARRY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE
DOUBLING OF OUR LIFEBLOOD GAS
400,000 AMERICANS FIRED EVERY WEEK FOR 3.5 YEARS
THE ‘ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST BEING TURNED OVER TO THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD
(GAYS – THESE GUYS ARE KILLING GAYS WITH YOUR TAX MONEY UNDER BARRY)
THE MEDIA CAN SHOW THEIR FAKE POLLS, TELL US WE ARE GOING TO LOSE, BUT CAN YOU HEAR THAT SILENCE…………………..THOSE TENS OF MILLIONS OF AMERICANS THAT DID MARCH 3 YEARS AGO IN THE STREET
OUR PRESIDENT CALLED THEM TERRORISTS
SO WE ARE STILL HERE, AND WE HAVE GROWN BY TENS AND TENS MORE MILLIONS OF AMERICANS………………..WE DON’T LIKE NBC TO LIE ABOUT US, BLACK PANTHERS TO THREATEN US………….SO WE ARE QUIET…………………..BUT THIS IS A BROKEN GLASS ELECTION FOR US LIBTARDS…………………..WE WILL CRAWL ON BROKEN GLASS THRU WIND AND RAIN AND SNOW TO FIRE BARRY LIKE HE HAS FIRED 35 MILLION OF MY FELLOW CITIZENS.
HE BOOTKICKS THEM TO THE CURB AND HIS MEDIA BASH THEM THAT THEY JUST ‘QUIT LOOKING’ FOR JOBS………………………BARRY – FOUR MORE MONTHS AND YOU RETURN TO CHICAGO…………..LIE TO US MEDIA – WE ARE USED TO IT
BUT MEDIA – WE REMEMBER WHEN YOU LIED TO US IN THE CARTER REAGAN RACE…………………………MILLIONS OF US DO AND YOU CAN’T FOOL US THIS TIME ————–YOU BOYS ARE CALLED DUMBOCRATS FOR A REASON………………………JIMBO, THE WORST PRESIDENT EVER BEFORE BARRY ONLY WON 6 STATES………………..
Very simple formula, and completely accurate:
Obama wins = economy stagnates or tanks
OR
Romney wins = economy improves or even surges
You can bet on that formula. And yes, the economy is the single most crucial thing, as it will affect how we will deal with all the other issues.
With Obama, not only will we continue to have a poor economy, or even a great economic calamity, but more of our freedoms will be lost. With Romney, and a good, strong economy, freedom has a fighting chance. It really is that simple.
For the slow to comprehend, I will repeat the formula:
Obama wins = economy stagnates or tanks
OR
Romney wins = economy improves or even surges
Memorize that.
Many of the polls have dem skewed sample sizes, and their are hidden factors favoring romney, so I am not that worried. The only poll that worries me a little was when rasmussen showed obama up by 4. Rasmussen is a very fair poll, filters for likely voters, and does not normally skew dem, and has shown romney up in the past. But even that might be a one time outlier, or obama may have a real convention boost, but it might prove temporary, and be reversed by the continuing bad economic news. It is definitely not time to despair. If I remember right, reagan was also behind at this point, and won big. Lets wait awhile and see if these obama leads hold up. I dont think they will.
Only those who are docile and gullible believe that Obama will win in November.
A sitting president is polling less than 50% in every swing state and is on the cusp in Oregon, New Mexico, and Minnesota. Can you say ROMNEY LANDSLIDE!!