The Real Entitlement Mentality
As regular readers know, I admire the headlines Matt Drudge chooses for the articles he links to on the Drudge Report. He is especially cunning, I think, in the way he juxtaposes headlines:
* Michelle Obama Cites “Remarkable Progress” On Economy…
* AMERICAN AIRLINES to cut 13,000 jobs…
* NYC goes on hiring spree — for people to work its welfare offices…
Nice, eh?
I was disappointed, though, with today’s featured headline:
SHOCK POLL: ROMNEY 48% OBAMA 43%
The link is to a Rasmussen poll, and the implication, I believe, is that readers will be shocked at the news that Mitt Romney is ahead. (In fact, Rasmussen reports that Rick Santorum also leads Obama, though he trails Romney.)
What is really shocking, though, is that the difference is so small. By any rational metric, Obama has presided over a national disaster. Consider how he has mishandled
* the economy (real unemployment north of 9%)
* the deficit ($1.6 trillion annually)
* the prestige of the Untied States abroad
* our national security
Consider also
* the looming train wreck that is ObamaCare
* Solyndra and kindred adventures in crony capitalism, emetic utopianism, and fiscal irresponsibility
* The GM “bailout,” coming to a tax bill near you (buy a Volt, get a taxpayer-subsidized break of $7000)
* the regulatory nightmare that Obama’s EPA has foisted upon American business
* the malevolent joke that is the Obama Department of Justice (Fast and Furious, the Black Panther case, etc.)
And this is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. What’s shocking is not that Mitt Romney is ahead. A syphilitic camel should be ahead. What’s shocking is that the distance is only 5 points.
Assuming Mitt can hold it together, his advantage should widen. He is, after all, running against one of the most vulnerable presidents with one of the worst records in American history.
Unstated in your article is the degree to which Democrats use psychologists—born control freaks and ardent dems—to help them “control the people,” in the words of that inestimable and long-serving dem Congressman who lost his seat in the Mid-terms. Sandra Fluke could be a poster child for this long running practice.
I know the American Psychological Association is a toe-tag liberal outfit. Could you say more about how liberals use psychologists to control their narrative? Thanks.
Kermudjin, you can see psychologists’ hand at work in the Sandra Fluke business, in the precise and almost monotone way she delivered her lines, even down to the careful coif of her hair. As a visual symbol of liberal silliness she was designed to get under the skin of certain conservatives whose psychological profiles are well known and understood.
Rush Limbaugh was their most recent success. Sandra was staked out like a sacrificial goat for Rush to pounce on. Usually, he’s is polite to women, goes out of his way to avoid sounding offensive toward them, much less utter the ‘S’ word, or any other pejorative the way they do in the MSM against conservative women and on a regular basis.
Rush went on and on about Fluke’s appearance before Congress. I was listening to his comments and found myself becoming very annoyed with the way he seemed obsessed about this woman. He wouldn’t let go, wouldn’t move on. Maybe he didn’t know how to until he had gotten it out of his system. But even he understood, or should have, that something was not right about the way he kept repeating the same words in variation, kept going back to same visual imagery. These people—the psychologist working for the DNC—had Rush’s number. He fell into the liberal trap that was right under the sacrificial Ms. Fluke. This wasn’t something dreamed up by Nancy Pelosi or her staff.
Liberalism is in large part a manipulation construct that works tirelessly to fool those that can be fooled. This is the true core ideology of all liberals. It’s the ways they been doing business since maybe before Bill Clinton.
“Manipulation,” exactly. Many, perhaps a majority of us, are NOT manipulative people. For many of us, what you see is what you get. We are not USED to manipulation because we do not employ it in our daily lives. Thus, when suddenly exposed to it, we are taken aback. We are not quite sure what to make of it.
What we today consider modern liberalism has been a manipulative scheme for decades. When they call you “raaaaacist” or “sexist”, when they show you pictures of polar bears on ice floes or activists posing as law students whining about how they can afford birth control, it’s ALL about manipulation. They can’t win the damn arguments on the facts so they have to use subtrefuge. It is time we caught on and started keeping an eye out for the manipulation at work, because chances are whenever Obama or any other member of the Manipulative Party opens their mouths, they’re engaging in it.
That’s why they chose to front Obama. The tone of his tone, not the content of his words, is an all important tool for them.
Successful troll was successful. It was a masterful effort but Rush won’t take much damage from it and it won’t play as strongly as they think in November. The internet is great for calculations and there are plenty of videos out there mocking Fluke on her own silliness without any partisan flavor.
But don’t think this attack on the Catholic Church wasn’t discussed, polled and framed to attract the female vote. Obama knows it is his ONLY chance for success.
Women hate politics and are much more likely to say “a pox on both your houses” than men who fled the Democrat Party long ago.
Unfortunately, for Obama, they also manage the family budget and gas prices are but the latest example of the failure of socialism.
Graduate programs in the social sciences are well-known to deny the rights of conscience for Christian graduate students. Here is just one example: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/28/court-university-expel-student-opposes-homosexuality/ Rights of conscience are well-recognized in the medical field- for example, accommodations are routinely made for medical residents who refuse to train in providing abortions. Psychology and social science departments seem to be much less willing to entertain alternative ideology in this realm.
Not quite. In California, IIRC, you have to show proficiency in performing abortions in order to get a license to practice medicine (although I don’t know if the law requires an MD to perform one if requested).
Another reason not to live in California.
Gee, talking about looking for crumbs. That Rasmussen poll is based on a “hypothetical” matchup. Romney is not ahead in any sense of the matter when all polls are considered and not just the cherry picked ones that support what you already want to believe. Look at the Real Clear Politics composite. The advantage is still Obama, and has been for a long time. Moreover, Rasmussen has largely been discredited as a pollster more interested in influencing a narrative than any hard reliable data. This article is proof of that. LOL.
Mitt Romney will be the weakest GOP nominee in a century.
Rasmussen has repeatedly proved himself the most accurate.
Actually all the MSM polls are highly biased towards the Democrats and they are given equal standing with Rasmussen and Gallup.
EVERY poll is a, ‘hypothetical’.
Then again your comment(s) is/are emotionally led blather.
+$5 trillion accumulated debt in a mere 3 years, 1047 days and STILL no budget, a myriad of jobs bills passed in Congress though nixed or ‘probably won’t be voted on this year’ (paraphrased by our Senate Majority ‘leader’ recently whereas this is ONLY March!), IMPLEMENTING and ALLOWING current immigration laws on the books to be enforced rather than suspending the aforementioned, instead focusing on the farcical/ public endangering ‘prejudices of voter I.D. in Alabama..’, suspending or slowing to a snail’s pace issued permits to allow domestic drilling, cronyism in a myriad of financial, government appointee positions, ‘stimulus’.. ad infinitum.
Honestly, there is no way an administration could ‘unfortunately’ or ‘accidentally’ perform this poorly.
Agree. It is a measure of group-think that pollsters wield any influence. As if polls are valid information rather than gossip clothed in rainbow colours of randomness, purveyed by businessmen to please their clients. The talk show hosts of print who schmoose their preferred, their clients, the members in good standing in the club.
Citizens would serve themselves better by demanding of their elected representatives reliable, provable information about what (who) in government takes from, and unlawfully does to them. Government is not yet a private club/business, purveyor of fictions for which TV and Hollywood are so adept, although it is rapidly developing, with assent from citizens, to that end. Glamour and resonant scripted speeches ever more decisive. Vigilance is the primary need of the populace today more than ever.
The problem is all the sheeple who believe all the crap that the MSM dishes out. I live in California you wouldn’t believe how stupid some of these people are. They really get irrational if you point out facts to them.
Facing the weakest president in history, so he has some advantage. Obama is simply not cut out for the job, and he proves that on-the-job training doesn’t work for the presidency
Quite the contrary: Romney is the strongest GOP nominee since Reagan.
Don’t laugh, just look at the competition: Bush Sr., Dole, Bush Jr., McCain. The only popular vote wins the four of them had in six elections were against Michael Dukakis and John Kerry.
Unless the economy improves significantly, he will beat Obama like a drum in November. The contrast between Obama and Romney will be clear. The conservatives will come out to vote, and Romney will win.
Interesting Dave.
I do know this much. The APA apparently is infested with Leftists. I discovered this much too late while in medical school a few years back.
A lecture from a representative of the APA sounded more like a political advertisement for “social justice” than it did for any semblance of medical training.
But I never gave thought that these very same psychologists might be involved not just in the professional realm, but the political as well.
Sadly, davelnaf, you’re wrong about the jerk who uttered “control the people” losing the election. That jerk was John Dingell of the suburbs of Detroit. He actually said, while defending Obamacare on the Paul Smith radio show, “It takes a lot of hard work and preparation to create a system that will control the people.” And the “good” people of Michigan re-elected him (for the umpteenth time yet again, as he is the longest serving Congressman) after he revealed his tyrannical attitude. The people of Michigan are absolutely, utterly, pathetically, and completely hopeless.
Spot on. Here in CA, we know these beasts full well. The lame gang in Sacramento is searching far and wide for a formula to coax voters into approving higher taxes on the elusive rich as they feed and enrich the useless government bureaucracy- the truly rich with early COLA fueled retirements.
Very precise discussion, thank you.
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With all the respect for Rasmussen, I am not sure about the numbers. I see people boiling with anger against this administration’s catastrophic policies, everywhere. People talk about politics at work, usually a big no-no. Something never seen before.
Interesting, where I work I hear even Republican women saying how disappointed they are in the party with regard to their recent positions on women’s health issues. They say that they could not vote for any of the current candidates. This goes far to explain why President Obama will again win the female vote by double digits, and subsequently the election. The impression I sense is that the GOP is treating women like they aren’t really voters. They’re gonna find out the hard way that they are, and they’re mad.
Ridiculous. I’m conservative female and where I work the women don’t focus on “woman’s issues” as a litmus test for candidates. They are concerned with the same issues as everyone else- the economy, mostly. I think the closest you could get to a gender-related issue that really concerns them is abortion, and they’re definitely with the GOP on that point.
That’s my experience at work too. Women are just as concerned about jobs, the economy, gas prices, food prices, etc. as any other person could be. They all blame Obama.
These replies are a symptom of the civil and political problems that we have in this country. Someone says ‘at my workplace, people are saying this,’ and theni the next person says, ‘that’s ridiculous.’ just because people have different experiences in their day to day lives doesn’t mean that they are ridiculous. Grow up a little.
I’ve been reading your comments on here for two weeks and it has to be said. Cynical Wonder, you’re an Obama troll in addition to being a lying son of a bitch. Get back to Kos or DU where you belong.
My apologies for such strong language to the decent commenters on this blog.
Silly cynic…….if Obama has the female vote all sown up then why did he involve himself (along with the disgusting act of inserting his daughters into mix) with a proud cheer for sandra’s aphrodisiac health?
See it? there it goes. More subterfuge right in front of our noses. This entire argurment over “women’s issues” is just intellectually dishonest. It is a political red herring designed to move away from the abortion argument which was lost.
Tell me, Cynical. How is the GOP “denying” something that has been readily and freely available to all since Title X? All this woman had to do was walk around the block to pick her meds up for free. It just so happens, as I am sure you know, that this political professional (that sought to become a public figure in the eyes of the Supreme Court), wanted to further the argument against the Church at the request of Miss Pass-it-to-know-what’s-in-it.
Your kind won’t fool my kind. It is just a shame that your kind are also the 51% kind that have their palms up and open, while my kind, the paying kind, are praying they get involved in a real politcal discussion.
I’d love to know where guys like you “work.” In the middle of a Democrat campaign HQ bullpen is about the only place I am able to imagine you “contributing” while you and your, ahem, colleagues wonder aloud, “why won’t they just submit already?”
Well several things are going on:
1. The Tea Party scares some people, who will vote for Obama simply to avoid them.
2. See the psychology discussion at the top of the comments section.
3. There will always be a certain percentage, everywhere, who not only don’t oppose Obama and other such control maniacs agendas, but actually support them. These are the same people who give you the Islamic terrorists in the middle east. Also the people who give you eugenics. They try to defend themselves with reason, but really they are reationalizing rather then reasoning to their conclusions. The percentage of such people (and Hayek specifically discusses them as well) is actually quite high, may be as much as 30% of the population.
Keep in mind however that elections are not by popular vote. From NYC’s congress seat recently captured by a Tea Party Republican (Who was running against a reasonably good opponent) to a WA GOP caucus of record attendance, breaking the previous record around 3-1, we are seeing shape up what looks like an apocalyptic defeat for Obama at the ELECTORAL COLLEGE level. Even many blue states look set to ignite.
“What’s shocking is not that Mitt Romney is ahead. A syphilitic camel should be ahead. What’s shocking is that the distance is only 5 points.”
Which is why we are talking about birth control and abortion once again. The Democrats want to talk about anything BUT the economy. The economy is still in poor shape, just sluggishly moving along. We are starting to look like Japan, who also pumped in billions of dollars to stimulate their economy and all they got was a “lost decade” of poor economic growth. And notice you don’t hear about the “Misery Index” anymore, or how inflation is kicking us in the guts at the supermarket or at the gas pump. I’m surprised that there aren’t people storming the White House with pitchforks and torches. So this is why we are talking about birth control right now. Just shows you how far the mainstream media will go to keep their boy in office. They can’t admit that they messed up in 2008, so they have to go all in for him once again in 2012. Well, we’ll have the last word on that in November. Maybe then we can give this gutless creature living in the White House a one-way ticket back to Chicago.
Actually, Japan got two lost decades and still has no recovery in sight. They have a de facto one-child policy, with many of their youths not interested in human contact at all. They are in a death spiral, forestalled only by their ability to build robots to replace human labor.
The entirety of the Third World wishes they were in the death spiral Japan has been in. Much of the Third World on a regular day looks like Japan after A-Bombs or historic tsunamis. Japan’s slowly moving away from a population level that would overwhelm them and moving back to sensible levels. They have managed just fine without importing failure from that Third World. The Third World is the one dying the slow death with unrestricted population growths they can’t possible sustain and the overflow is destroying the West. All thing’s being equal, Japan looks to be the smartest country in the world the last 60 years. When you look at the order of Japan and compare it to the squalid slums of the Third World it makes you want to laugh at the idea people in the Third World are in any way qualified to live in the First World without wrecking it.
“…Japan looks to be the smartest country in the world the last 60 years”.
Just how smart? I think that you miss the point of concern about their declining birth rate. This isn’t an issue about producing more mouths than can be fed as in the third world. When you build an entitlement system based upon the Ponzi scheme, as both we and they have, while at the same time not producing a surplus of innocent suckers to come into the game you have a guarantee of a failed economy. That’s smart?
No it’s people like you who don’t get it. The people of Japan have a remarkable sense of community and willingness to sacrifice for the good of everybody. When the time comes for the eldery to chip in a little more for their children and grandchildren, they will and without complaint because they are Japanese and the people they are sacrificing for are Japanese and they is a connection. They won’t have large hordes of angry third worlders rioting in Tokyo because the Japanese don’t consider them the same. They won’t have stories of elderly Japanese being ripped off by their foreign caregivers.
Japan will find a solution uniquely Japanese that will keep their culture and high standard of living intact.
…those who feel entitled to rule over the rest of us see the voters as the problem.
But but…everyone I’ve encountered from the self-anointed ruling class is so creepy, so self-centered, so fundamentally off-putting, so dumb.
Codevilla Anyone?
This should be read in the context of two important books – one currently famous, Charles Murray’s just published Coming Apart, and the other a 2004 book by David Lebedoff, The Uncivil War: How a New Elite is Destroying our Democracy, which is an updating of his 1981 The New Elite, which was an expansion of a 1978 article Lebedoff published in Esquire – which address the rise of the ‘meritocratic’ new elite so beloved of the Democrats, but also with plenty of ‘pubbies, which is based on elite education based in turn on the transformation of the elite colleges and universities into essentially meritocratic SAT/grades driven institutions.
These new elite types – from both parties – are essentially anti-majoritarian and believe their superior intelligence entitles them to rule over the rest of us. In a sense, the whole welfare state expansion isn’t so much a matter of Marxist ideology – though for leaders like Obama it is – as an extension of the Progessive vision of the Administrative state and a way of keeping the masses pacified so the new elite can go about its business running everything.
I highly recommend both books!
Actually Obama is the epitome of that progressive mentality. Obama may sometimes listen to Marxists, but he himself is not personally one although he is influenced by them. I don’t think we have very many Marxists in America right now, and oddly enough the person who would be closest to a Marxist would actually be Sarah Palin, only in her case she sees the Marxist “inevitability” as a terrible up-and-coming catastrophe threatening to kill us all. Since the progressives are the ultimate bourgeois, and they are winning, in a way you could say the progressives are Marxism turned on its head.
Corporatism Is Not Capitalism: 7 Things About The Monolithic Predator Corporations That Dominate Our Economy That Every American Should Know http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/corporatism-is-not-capitalism-7-things-about-the-monolithic-predator-corporations-that-dominate-our-economy-that-every-american-should-know
CORPORATE FASCISM: The Destruction of America’s Middle Class
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTbvoiTJKIs&feature=related
This point is key:
“And perhaps the most important facet of all this is that most states in the early days of the nation had laws on the books that made any political contribution by corporations a criminal offense.”
Political contributions by corporations is legalized corruption. It’s like making bank robbery legal.
But I wouldnt’ be surprised to learn that you think political donations by unions and liberal non-profits (which incidentially are incorporated) are just dandy…
Within this argument lies the path to ruin. The Political Class has an entire arsenal of divisive “issues” that keep (small-’l') libertarians from agreeing and uniting.
The point isn’t whether corporations but not unions, or non-profits but not for-profits should be able to donate to political campaigns.
The point is that nobody should have to, or even want to.
Yes, that’s a bit of a pipe-dream, idealistic vision right now, but so was an independent republic, governed by citizens whose first priority was the intentional diminution of corruptive and coercive abuse of and by government. Those dreamers gave us The Constitution.
Can or should we aspire to any less, especially considering the looming threat we now face?
Instead of criticizing a partially-complete but entirely-correct concept, why not expand upon it and use the principle across the board? No union, corporation, non-profit or any other economic entity need ever lobby the government for anything other than a lawful interpretation of contract.
That should be the goal, and as soon as anybody says, “Well, you shouldn’t be allowed to but I should” then we all die. Slowly and frustratingly, but we die.
And why are “Equal Rights” so unequal these days?
I find it humorous that we ban companies from giving bribes in countries where that is how business is done but in our own country seem to tolerate any corruption. Still, in the spirit of the first amendment I would amend your stipulation slightly: if a corporation has a particular ABUSE that they would like to voice a complaint against, that is against the corporation personally, they should be able to run a factual TV ad featuring the exact facts of how the candidate in question is harming their business. In fact, to make it constitutional, they really need to be able to air an ad in general that finishes with “paid for by so and so corporation” regardless of what it says, and will probably just need to make it factual for the more practical reason of no one will take it seriously otherwise. In addition to the right to speech, there are real abuses against business in this country, and I don’t think anyone would be against corporations being able to speak out against them – it is direct gifts to candidates that I believe is where the problem lies.
“Political contributions by corporations is legalized corruption. It’s like making bank robbery legal.”
Frankly, there is no polite way to say it. That’s really a dumb statement. There are over 6 million employer firms in the USA. The majority are incorporated and they employ tens of millions of people. These businesses (corporations) are all assummed to be “corrupt” if they wish to make themselves known via contirbutions to office seekers and the equivalent of “bank robbers”. But if the NEA, UAW, or SEIU wishes to make a political contribution, well that’s okay?
Exactly right – plus corporations spend their own money on lobbying, not money extracted at the point of a gun from members who cannot, in closed shop states, work without paying the mob, oops, I mean union leadership, off.
Plus, corporations are just associations of people to conduct a business (that is, something very socially useful), they’re separate legal persons in a narrow sense, but why are these people (leftists, usually) so exercised about that? If corporations are bad, why aren’t LLCs, partnerships, sole proprietorships, business trusts / associations etc equally bad? Should we revert to the 1600s and have only sole proprietorships? (there’s a recipe for Obama like economic failure – these arrangements help capital efficiently join with labor to produce things we need and improve our standard of living). It makes no sense, but when you’re the far far left, you just have to have enemies to blame and corporations fit the bill nicely because they don’t speak except through agents…
Excellent article, Roger. Obama is unquestionably the worst president ever, measured by results, and unquestionably the greatest pathological liar and fraud ever to ascend to the presidency, as he couched his radical leftism in centrist promises and promptly and permanently moved far far left.
The problem is that everyone does it. Companies can (according to the constitution) and should voice to the people when an actual abuse against them has occurred, and such abuses are legion, but the problem is that the more corrupt giving to a particular INDIVIDUAL has generally been more productive in our current environment, and that breeds a spirit of corruption within congress as opposed to a spirit of addressing true grievances.
The most humorous result of this is a US Government that will block expansion of the oil industry at the expense of the worker and the motorist while simultaneously keeping it afloat with subsidies at the expense of the taxpayer.
What’s shocking is that the distance is only 5 points.
No, the shock is that Romney has a lead at all. I’m sure a great many of those surveyed see no material difference between Romney and Obama. Just like they see no difference between the Republicans running up the budget and the Democrats running up the budget. Romney has chosen to run a vigorous “I’m not a Conservative” campaign. What’s in his message that will rally people to his flag? That he’ll grow the government a bit slower than Obama? That he’ll repeal ObamaCare…. and then what? He never really talks about post-ObamaCare.
The GOP knows how to win, all they have to do is campaign as Conservatives with a real proposal to cut the Federal Budget to $2 trillion in 4 years and then retire the national debt over the next 4 years. They can explain why it’s necessary and it would be well received because the American people know it’s necessary. But the GOP won’t because they don’t want smaller government. Note that Romney talks about “balancing the budget”, he doesn’t talk about cutting spending. So the GOP runs a “we’re not quite as bad as the Democrats” campaign hoping they’ll get a win. What they don’t want is to win on a Conservative platform that they would have to implement.
I agree, I don’t see any real difference between Bush, Obama, or Romney. All are for big government and small citizens.
Romney ahead at all is a joke. Right now the masses of ignorant voters are still arguing over the Super Bowl. March madness is right around the corner, then the NBA playoffs, and the World Series. Then we get to when the main body of dufi will have their 5 minutes to spend on the Presidential election. What they will say, “Romney is a slimy Wall Street insider”. He’s toast and the Republican establishment knows it. They just don’t care. The people who own them also own Obama. They can only lose if somebody like Ron Paul gets in and the MSM won’t let that happen.
That was always my fear with Romney, and should he get the nomination, you may well be right. I would still vote for him in the general just because I think he has enough of a sense of honor and humility personally to not be quite as destructive personally, but in terms of actual core beliefs and thinking, he’s the same bloody man. As for the primaries, I, like many people, am hoping for a brokered convention. Maybe Palin could be the candidate after all.
“a political class that feels entitled to rule over the rest of us.”
This is the money quote. This is why I loathe government, politicians, and especially Liberals. This is why the TEA party has to battle the GOP establishment.
I am a grown man, I am capable and willing to take care of myself and reach out to others when I can’t. I don’t want or need anything from government except to be left the Heck alone.
Obamacare is the distillation of this elitist attitude. They want to force us all into indentured servitude with government as our masters.
“A political class that feels entitled to rule over the rest of us.”
I’d tell you what they’re entitled to do, but I don’t think you’re allowed to use that kind of language on this website.
My casual observation is that media favoritism helps their candidate in the polls – the opinion polls, where nothing is at stake and people go along with ‘the popular choice’, as defined by the media – but not so much in the actual election, where things are more serious. Hence the polls usually underestimate the Republican lead.
On the topic of recent “polls”:
http://minx.cc/?post=327370
Let me just remind folks that we reelected FDR not once, but three times…all while we had real hardship, joblessness, and very little in terms of social safety nets. And FDR, with his myriad Constitutional violations, usurpation of states’ rights, and getting us into a war we might have easily stayed out of, came out looking like a hero. The man helped to destroy this country as we know it, and he’s considered one of the great Presidents.
We don’t have true hardship in this country, at least not yet. Bernanke’s printing press has seen to it that the Ponzi scheme will last just a little while longer. The damage Obama has done to this country will not be felt until well after the election. The media is still well in the tank for him, with only slightly less enthusiasm. Romney, the apparent GOP candidate, is for all intents and purposes Democrat-lite. His Mormonism will be a problem, as many Christians view the Mormon faith as heretical if not satanic. Tea Partiers will either vote holding their noses or not vote at all.
Hate to break it to you, but Obama is a lock. He’s too well protected, the crap really hasn’t hit the fan yet, and his opponent is a non-inspiring rich white man few people will be able to identify with.
Romney hasn’t won the nomination yet. Gingrich will drop out soon, because his campaign’s viability is fading fast. More of the generic not-Romney vote will break for Santorum on Tuesday, giving Santorum wins in AL and MS. If Santorum gets the nomination, then we can challenge Obama on all fronts.
Yeah, right, and Santorum gets challenged on only one front and we take an historic defeat exending even downticket. The only thing anybody will hear from now until November is, “Santorum and the American Taliban want to outlaw birth control.” If I were heading the Soros Cabal, I’d bankroll Santorum. This whole thing is a stupid unforced error, an “own goal” caused by Santorum’s undisciplined mouth making contraception an issue and then Rush fell for the Kabuki theater provocation. God, we on the Right are stupid!
The only one with a prayer of going toe to toe with the Communists is Newt and he has so much baggage we lose a lot of women and a lot of the “religious right,” and probably only Palin, and maybe not even her, would more motivate the Left.
That said, I’ll vote for anything or anyone with an R behind their name.
Remember the opening slavo from George Steponallofus during his hosting of a Republican depate , Romney smacked George around, Newt ran it up the middle and punched out the MSM, and Santorum stepped right into George’s carefully positioned pile of poo. This has been such a phoney issue from the get go, how unfortunate the a commentator with Rush’s insight and influence fell right into the left’s open cesspool of faux indignation and entitlement.
There was no rational reason to elect Obama to the presidency in 2008. Consider: Obama did not have any resume of executive experience in the private or public sector. He had completed only 1 term as a state senator and was still in his first term as an U.S. senator. He wasn’t the leader of a popular movement, religion or philosophy, and his primary claim to fame was that he wrote 2 autobiographies. So how did this non-entity defeat both Hillary Clinton and the hapless John McCain to become president? He ran as a celebrity, not a politician.
The vast majority of voters have little or no interest in politics. Most peoples’ passions involve some aspect of the popular culture and their heroes are musicians, actors, athletes, or others on the fringe. Obama, well coiffed and attired, was seen in glamorous venues with these popular “heroes” who counted him as one of their own and sang his praises. Result: Obama was an instant celebrity, and his campaign cashed in on that persona on the way to the White House.
Obama’s celebrity status accounts for his popularity despite the execrable performance of his administration: people admire him because he is “cool” and “awesome” (if you don’t believe me, just ask Oprah!) and not for any practical reason.
The “celebrity factor” is what makes Obama so difficult to beat: he isn’t held to the same standards as other politicians; he just has to continue being the awe-inspiring Obama to earn re-election. Unfortunately, you can’t take the shine off Obama’s celebrity persona by talking policies, you must attack the man himself. And that is one thing the Republicans have foresworn.
I think you hit on something very important. Obama’s victory was due to the immaturity of the electorate. Therein lies the problem, not Obama, his policies will have to be undone eventually by whoever comes after him. The problem is that 60 years of the greatest prosperity and peace any nation has ever known has produced a nation of constant adolescents. Grown up children who think in terms of sexiness and being and that selecting a President is similar to voting on American Idol. Eric Hoffer and others noted that affluence delays maturity. Perhaps an appointment with the economic hangman and his Iranian friend will mature enough of the public so that Obama and company will be shown not only the door but the rope. He could best serve the country by producing such hardship that someone like him will never be elected again.
I think you’re onto something here. No real change is going to take place until people are really hurting to the point that they will get off the couch & do something. Meantime, most everyone is having a dandy ol’ time lolling in their respective entitlement mentality fogs while the rest of us seethe in a pool of resentment.
I agree about the immaturity of the electorate, but it went back even further, most notably to 2000. Voter after voter said that they voted for GWB because they chose a president they would most likely enjoy having a beer with. Gore didn’t stand a chance on that comparison. Kerry in 2004, in conjunction with swift boat, didn’t fare well on that metric, either.
And he is so darn easy to lampoon, as well. He walks about creating a target-rich environment for anyone willing to swing at him, yet they don’t.
If one wanted to be cruel enough, one could begin with showing him riding with his bicycle helmet on, and segue that with him ordering poeple about like a dictator. He is so inept and unaware of his whiney academic aura, which juxtaposes nicely (for our purposes) with his eternal Mussolini impression (complete with chin-jut), that he just begs to be ridiculed. That should make him less sexy.
His statistics on days in the White House vs days touring around the world on your dime would also make some interesting ads. As the price of gas skyrockets, why don’t we hear his famous quote, over and over, until we puke?
The left plays this game for keeps, while John Boehner(and I’m sure Mittens) won’t stoop to their level. Well, I’ve got news for them both: the population is AT their level, not ours. If you don’t talk down to them, they’ll never hear you. Get used to it. Think Snooki and American Idol, and if that doesn’t scare you, think World Wrestling Federation. A nation of morons doesn’t need cogent arguments, it needs entertainment. Making fun of this boob should be very easy. Besides, I think the “racism” BS has been worn to a nub; it has lost all traction. Perhaps our side should stop hiding from reality, and get some balls. Besides, which of the remaining ten percent of blacks are going to vote for Romney, anyway? There are probably more white racists you’d gain against any blacks you’d lose.
If you want to make him lose women, just make him look like the dork he really is. Because he is just a pathetic dork. Aside from the media, who all think a lisp is sexy somehow, he IS Urkel. Time to point that out. This Emperor has no clothes, and he’s also a wuss, as well as a bad liar. Apparently practice does not always guarantee perfect.
Did I say, “target-rich environment”?
This.
Not holding my breath, but I’ll take every opportunity to ping on these pinatas within my limited sphere of influence.
If everybody simply did this, we could get whoever the Republican nominee ends up being elected DESPITE themselves.
Exactly right: “A political class that feels entitled to rule over the rest of us.” The label on Obama of “community organizer” should have warned everybody. Where I live, we don’t need a community organizer. We organize ourselves, from the local block watch volunteers to the parent-teacher association to those who volunteer to pick up the garbage from local streams each spring.
Any population that needs somebody to organize it is a population of dependents–people who don’t think of doing anything on their own. Such a population will not be known for its Henry Fords or Steve Jobs or Beethovens or Aristotles or Adam Smiths or anonymous craftsmen who build great cathedrals. Ford, Jobs, Beethoven, Aristotle, Smith had no charisma, little charm, and didn’t give “great” speeches. Americans have to quit looking at celebrity charm, manufactured charisma that sends thrills up certain news reader’s legs, and speeches read off teleprompters and look at the man running for office of the President. If the economy continues to remain bad, maybe they will do that.
Real unemployment is over 20%. Even the government’s own U6 is around 15%.
http://www.shadowstats.com/
The entitled political class is not restricted to the federal level, it is especially obnoxious at the local level, where planning boards, aldermen and commisioners feel free to run roughshod over the rights of property owners. They are out to remake the world into a better place, and the average citizen be damned. It is a state of mind that affects our nation at all levels.
John Adams Signer of the Declaration of Independence and Second President of the United States
[I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue.(Source: John Adams, The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States, Charles Francis Adams, editor (Boston: Little, Brown, 1854), Vol. IX, p. 401, to Zabdiel Adams on June 21, 1776.)[W]e have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. . . . Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.(Source: John Adams, The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States, Charles Francis Adams, editor (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co. 1854), Vol. IX, p. 229, October 11, 1798.)The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If “Thou shalt not covet,” and “Thou shalt not steal,” were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.
Roger, keep your eye on the likely voters. With a “highly approve” to highly disapprove” gap of 19, the likely voters are more likely to have a bigger spread.
That’s the good news. The bad news is that the donkeys are going to cheat this time in ways that would make LBJ blush. In the daylight.
I agree. I think that “likely voters” are the key, especially this time around with the Obama-fever having broken months ago, and the lack of excitement for Romney among some in the GOP. The key to winning in November will lie in motivation to get to the polls more so than any other year- I am of the opinion that hatred is good enough when enthusiasm is lacking.
Alinsky, Soros, Moochelle, most Demo-rat politicans… yup, you’ve got it.
Speaking of the Volt, I heard something fascinating the other day in a TV commercial for it: it’s eligible for an HOV sticker.
This doesn’t sound like much to the rest of the country, but to an Angeleno, it’s a big thing. It can mean shaving 30 minutes or more off of your commute, each way, every day. It essentially allows you to drive your car, with only you in it, in the carpool lane. Back when hybrids were first on the market, and your choice was either a Honda Insight or a Toyota Prius (later a couple of other Japanese makes were added) you could get one of these for your car. A couple of years ago, it was announced that the carpool lanes were too full of hybrids, so they stopped selling them.
Now they’ve been made available to Volts. I wonder whether there was any political pressure involved in this? The Prius still has pretty good street cred with the Hollywood crowd, though you see other hybrids on the roads these days also, virtually all of them from Japanese companies (who of course build the cars here). I’d be fascinated to read how the Volt qualified for something that the other cars don’t, because of course there’s probably some sort of lame excuse that no one will believe, but will semi-exonerate whoever made the decision.
PJM,what is the little envelope for in the upper right hand corner of your article’s ??
Why did Barack Obama win the Presidency? The opposition, John McCain, was very feeble. I worked in the McCain campaign and saw this first hand. He refused to raise money for his campaign from private contributions, taking only the money from the government, $85 million, I believe. He had so little money that he did not even have headquarters in Washington, D.C. (I worked in the Adlai Stevenson campaign in 1956, and we had the whole floor of an office building in the D.C.) It was difficult for me even to find a place for his campaign. One place was the office of a lawyer in Maryland who was donating it for weekends! McCain refused to say anything negative about Obama, saying that criticizing Obama’s membership in the church of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright (anti-American, anti-semitic, anti-white) would be criticizing his religion, which he refused to do. He didn’t attack Obama for his association with the terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, or with the financial swindler Tony Resko. I hope that the Republican candidate will attack Obama, for he is the worst president the United States has ever had.
I also worked in the McCain campaign in Boston, where the headquarters were the first floor of a store or office (?) on the Boston Commons.
With McCain in the White House, we’d probably have a Sharia compliant Congress, a monument to Islam in NYC, and a mosque where the White House once stood.
Hard to believe we chose the “lesser of two train wrecks”; And that could be Obama’s best campaign slogan!
A war is coming you idiots, a war!, here not over there – HERE! Once it starts it will go on until the progressive are driven from power or the conservative lie dead at the gates of D.C, A war is coming! You can’t sit fences on this one, not this time.
Thats why the “WAR OF THE BALLOT BOX” IS SO IMPORTANT.
We dare not lose THE WAR OF THE BALLOTS THIS TIME -WE DARE NOT!. For then a real war will bring terrible darkness to the world. I don’t want to see that. So think and see the horizon, see beyond 10, months, 18,months, 24 months.
If Obama and his criminal gang of inept socialist-radicals win a second term, then see beyond the horizon, but you can’t because there will be none. Thats when a real war will likely happen. None of “US” wants that so get up off your collective asses and move the country in the direction of survival, OUR SURVIVAL.
Some of the posters above hit the nail on the head. Obama’s not a politician but a faux celeb. An empty vessel who gets far more recognition, praise when humming an Al Green tune for 2 seconds rather than his near constant-like disastrous Presidency.
Whether it’s Romney or whomever, when the Presidential debates do begin – the GOP candidate has to attack Obama’s many nonsensical decisions in plain, precise and CALMING manner to leave the CiC stupefied.
Obama has the thinnest of skin. The, ‘I realize the President is very intelligent..’ and other fictional niceties is far too kind considering the ramifications .
The GOP’er HAS to go for the jugular with facts, no backing off demeanor and no mercy, apology-like attitude. You know, like a REAL leader of the Free World is/was and should be doing.
“the malevolent joke that is the Obama Department of Justice”
Dang, that is a perfect description.
Dont get too excited look what happened last time the ‘Man with no Documented History’ was not just given a ‘Free Pass’ by the Lame Stream EneMedia he was positively protected and lauded in to office by them. So how did he win lets see – First 13% of the voters, the Racist Blacks, voted for him virtually unanimously and Racistly of course then the 20 -25% of voters who are irredeemable dyed in the wool left wing moonbats voted for him too. That gave him then, just as it does now. a base of 33 – 38% nailed on voters who will never change or desert him. So it does not leave too many naive, gullible, and lets face it downright STUPID, voters to hand the Document Hiding one a second term. Think I am wrong just wait and see. As P.J.Barnum said ‘No one ever lost money underestimating the stupidity of the general populace’
U.S.A.:
Birthplace of the “Parasite” and “Slut” generation of Homo sapiens.
Throw the bums out. Every last one of them. No incumbent’s seat should be safe in this election or any election that follows. Those we’ve elected to government have clearly forgotten the very simple fact that they are our employees, not our employers. They continue in their positions only at our leisure.
The only bar to success in this complete overhaul of our “ruling class” is the overwhelming, odiferous hordes of ignorant, entitled fools who make up at least 52% of the electorate. We need to crush their spirits and convince them to stay home instead of exercising their power at the ballot box. Their vote is akin to a gun in the hands of an infant: no idea how to use it, and a danger to everyone around them, including themselves.
I do not advocate voter fraud. That’s THEIR purview, because THEY are desperate filth. But I DO advocate telling the idiots who voted for Obama and his ilk the truth:
“You’re all idiots. You have no idea how government works. You’re spoiled brats and everybody hates you. Yes, everybody. No, not just me. Your mother hates you. Your father hates you. The kid next door hates you. Every person who has ever met you, and everyone who never has, hates you. Look in the mirror? Do you hate yourself? You should. Because you have destroyed our country. Go home, lie down, and cry into your pillow, you stupid, stupid fools, and don’t show your faces again until you’re ready to apologize for being the ignorant, worthless scum that you are.”
Mind you, that’s the gentle version. They don’t want to KNOW what harsh sounds like.
Operation Spirit Crusher, begin!
Trouble is, their “everybody” hates us probably even more than our “everybody” hates them, and at least in 2008, there was more of them than of us.
You write: “* The GM “bailout,” coming to a tax bill near you (buy a Volt, get a taxpayer-subsidized break of $7000)”
The current subsidy is in fact $7,500. Obama wants to raise it to $10,000
I’d be interested to find out what the majority of you are ACTUALLY doing to improve the political scene in your neighborhood, city, state…?
You all sound like angry pundits talking up an ugly storm, but I see no solutions. Someone in the chain said that in 2008, there were more people hating us than there were hating them…SUPPORTS my next point; this internal civil war is exactly what the elitists, politicians and wealthy want. Both parties are the same and all “WE” do is act like pundits on the (blog) media – cry, complain with anry and “intelligent” banter, but what does it really accomplish…does it make you feel better? It only fuels the fire in lack of real action for the benefit of required change. I saw quotes from Adams (a great man) but are any of “US” willing to go to jail, leave our family, give up blue jeans and TV, die for our beliefs?…not many for sure. So just keep complaining in the blogosphere and think you’re doing something about it.
We need a viable 3rd party that will “rise above” the pettiness of wedge issues and of the hate and attack you all subscribe to. It accomplishes nothing.
If we are going to move forward in a more enlightened path for our (once) great country, we must be inclusive, we must have both – ALL – sides work together by electing real statesmen/women that truly care for all of us, not just themselves. Hard to do, but we need a viable 3rd party to affect the other two…that provides mature and patient solutions to our main goals; to create a more perfect union, to provide peace, liberty and justice for all.
I dare say that Ron Paul is the best candidate for the upcoming election.
But our society keeps watching TV, keeps buying those blue jeans from other countries, supports a war against a people that had nothing to do with attacking us…and allow the media (that you all seem to hate) to get away with only focusing on Mit and Rick…he’s not glamorous, he doesn’t talk well, but his ideas and support of the constituion are what’s best of this very weak field of candidates.
What is really shocking, though, is that the difference is so small. By any rational metric, Obama has presided over a national disaster. Consider how he has mishandled
Not so shocking when you realize that half the population receives some sort of
gubmint “entitlement” check.
WAR!: In “Dangerous Liaisons”, the Glenn Close character is being bullied into sexual submission by the one played by John Malkovitch. She DOES NOT roll over and take it. She DOES NOT compromise. A three-prong battle strategy to counter the elite media and Obama’s minions is provided at the link. We are in TOTAL WAR.
48-43…
is a baseline.
no sense in factoring in voter intensity, yet.
in 2008, the margin of about 94 ev’s was 1.4 million. obama won by about 9.5 million, but the margin in states with less than 5% total difference is atounding.
multiple scenarios exist where romney could win the electoral college, and still lose the popular by more than 5 million.
the implications are that a national poll that has obama ahead by less than 3 pts is still a losing scenario for dems.
a 5pt lead for romney? at this moment?
it’s over for obama, no matter how hard the press tries to spin it. if anything, they have lulled the wh into the belief that they have done enough to get reelected, and they are just hoping to ride this all out in their bunker.
the final two weeks will be just as sweet as the election night, as there will be a constant shift in polls that have cocooned this presidency, to represent the actual ‘popular failure’ that the obama admin will be known for.
this won’t be even deemed an election of careful consideration of policies…
it will simply be gas prices that will provide romney with more than half of his winning margin.
the final repudiation will be obama losing by a margin of evs greater than the coronation of 2008.
the only lib who will find redemption in the result will be jimmy carter.
“..What is really shocking, though, is that the difference is so small..” If you look closely the “poll” a WaPo/ABC undertaking has polled 31% DemoKKK-rats, 27% Republicans and 36% Independents. Considering that all reliable voter surveys have Rs and Ds either at parity or Rs slightly ahead the poll is bulls**t. The real numbers probably would have Romney at +10 and Santorum at +5.
The fact that it is hypothetical is what should make the Dems nervous. Since Romney does not have the full backing of the GOP and since he is being currently shredded on a daily basis by Santorum, Newt, Obama and the media it is amazing that he can make a stand at all. However, when Mitt does win the nomination and the full GOP can turn its focus on the failures of this administration then the point spread will be well over 10 points. Hold on to your seats, its gonna get real fun!
“In every generation, there are those who want to rule well – but they mean to rule. They promise to be good masters – but they mean to be masters.”
–Daniel Webster
“In every generation, there are those who want to rule well – but they mean to rule. They promise to be good masters – but they mean to be masters.”
– Daniel Webster
Throughout history, it’s rare that this condition is alleviated without violence, which, at best, only puts the cancer in remission for, at most, a few generations.
– this morn:
“Don’t forget about us,” said the university student to the legislators, “because we won’t forget about you.”
We professors snifting brandy
Love to “help” the young and randy:
That’s libido dominandi.
Finer to flaunt fornication
Than to build a solid nation
Fit for self-determination.
See those rednecks raising axes
Just because we raise their taxes!
Lower, dear — ah, that relaxes!
When Sam Adams, hale and hearty,
With his fellows threw that party,
Warrior-like, not arty-farty,
We were there to nod discreetly,
Steeping tea-leaves, smiling sweetly,
For a trick pulled off so neatly,
For the farmers crying, “Freedom!”
For the British armed to beat ‘em:
We sat by and planned to cheat ‘em.
Rubes have nothing in the attic.
How can they be democratic?
We must rule: it’s axiomatic.
Rubes enjoy a haunch of mutton
And a fleabag bed to rut in:
“We ain’t hitched?” they say. “That’s nuttin’!”
Oh, we do so love those lubbers,
We the Ivy Country Clubbers!
We provide them packs of rubbers.
Rubes are like a waddling pigeon,
Brains that hold about a smidgeon
For their feed and their religion.
We don’t have to be too stealthy.
“Rubes, we’ll make you sort of healthy
If you make us really wealthy!
Now, no need to pout and glower!
What would you do with your power?
Ain’t it now your Happy Hour?
We’re your friends! How it would please us
If you trusted us, not Jesus,
With your down-and-in diseases!
What does Jesus have to offer
To the pleasure park we proffer?
On ‘er, redneck! On ‘er, off ‘er!
Yield your precious freedoms for no
Profit but a pile of porno!
So says Theodor Adorno.
Farmers, leave your seeds from Burpee’s
And your soda-fountain slurpies!
Here’s the newest strain of herpes.
Men withstood the fire of Mausers
So that you could wear your trousers
Round your roadhouse-waitress-rousers.”
That’s the secret of the drama
Of benevolent Obama
Et le grand Obamarama.
Give us all your milk and honey!
In plain words, O rubes, your money!
Fork it over, nothing funny.
Just say, “Slavery won’t demean us!
Not when we are free for Venus
And have pills to pump the p—-!”
Doesn’t matter if you bought ‘em,
Doesn’t matter if we got ‘em
In Seattle or in Sodom.
All that matters is the pleasure
Paid for with your dearest treasure,
That you may repent at leisure.
GAO Report: $400 Billion Wasted Annually On 1,500 Duplicative, Fragmented, Inefficient Government Programs
http://budget.senate.gov/republican/public/index.cfm/files/serve?File_id=5b942c34-d1e5-49de-be92-a85dad8aa191&SK=42ED5BBA6767481D74B2057AC359ACD4
Socialist utopians are best at defining problems then lying about what they are doing about it.
Then failing on purpose to solve them so they can run on them again and again.
Obama is not a smart man…no smart man would inflict socialism on his country after decades of it failing globally…
spreading misery equally to 99% while the top few of HIS buddies get very rich.
Having only distractions, lies and smears to sell or defend their toxic policies…
this is what we must endure from them and their diaper-changing pawn media goons.
Never had a real job, surrounded himself with arrogant public fund parasitic radicals…
Obama plods on unrestricted by truth, economic laws or common sense.
Obama is toast…only because socialism is always so painful it cannot be hidden…
the pain is personal…gas/food/housing/jobless…IMHO he cannot steal enough votes
or tell enough bold lies to cover reality…no matter how many days he smiles and tries…
even a billion dollars cannot change the data…a trillion has been tried and failed.
In Nov we flush…like Nov 2010 when we flushed 730 dimdems…
they will be back in a few years with their utopian Castro-ism, their promises, their platitudes, their division and their bold daily lies.
They are the curse of nations.
“A political class that feels entitled to rule over the rest of us.”
And that would include Mitt Romney, candidate of Goldman Sachs, Rick Santorum the “team player” of the RINO establishment, and Newt Gingrich the speaker who put the ’94 freshmen in their place.
The only candidate who actually threatens to take apart the entitlements of the political class is Ron Paul.
Today’s Republican party is the party of NO way but our way. They are a party that will throw their own grand-kids over the cliff to benefit the top 5% even when many of them are on food stamps and other government programs they claim to detest.
They have become a party of derisiveness and hatefulness filled with paranoia and self-righteousness. They are narcissistic and hedonistic. Their lust for power and money drives their thinking almost to the exclusion of most everything else.
The ‘new’ Republican party, having been taken over by a small band of far right zealots, have become a party of schizophrenics. They propose an idea only to turn completely against it when it gets embraced by those they see as the opposition which is anyone that doesn’t agree with them 100% of the time.
They suffer from lack of original thought and creativity allowing themselves to be lead like lemmings over the cliff and into the sea.
As they bend down and pray to the almighty dollar they tune in to their gods that occupy the airways. They live and breathe the crazy ideas put forth by those that use them and who depend upon their devotion and obedience as well as their worship for their survival.
A passage from a well known science fiction movie needs only to be altered just slightly for one to recognize who these misguided but dangerous people are and how they should be treated:
* “Beware the far right Republican beast man, for he is the Devil’s pawn. Alone among God’s primates, he kills for sport, for lust, for greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother’s land for he cares only for himself. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert not only of your home but of this great nation in which we live. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death and he represents that which is most foul.”
* My apologies to the late Rod Serling and his adaptation of Pierre Boulle’s novel, “La Planete DES Singes”
Well, TalkingPoint-O-Matic, guess you learned to write like that while getting your degree in Angry People Studies. Flash for you: lefty and smart aren’t synonyms no matter what your communist professors told you. Second flash: you’re an idiot.
You must be one of those far right nut jobs so those remarks from you is a compliment. Now are there any out there with real intelligence that might wish to reply?
The Left’s absolute control of the main stream media is THE biggest factor in the election of such a seriously flawed candidate with a plethora of close associations with radical, foaming-at-the-mouth, USA hating radicals. The MSM in concert with OweBama’s self-declared “marching army” of union thugs and the ACORN phoenix will assure his re-election. Even if it leads to violence in key states and our Dear Leader’s suspension of elections them.
I wish that I could trust Romney to act as the conservative he claims to be because at present I see no alternative to his candidacy.
Ah well. sometimes life just sucks.
“What’s shocking is not that Mitt Romney is ahead. A syphilitic camel should be ahead. What’s shocking is that the distance is only 5 points.”
Its not that surprising now. Romney is in a devisive primary fight, and is constantly having to fend off criticism from both Obama and his repub rivals. But once he wins the nomination, and the party unites behind him, and he can devote his sole attention to attacking Obama, Romneys margin over Obama will widen. By almost every possible measure, Obamas record is horrendously bad. In the end there will be no way he can talk around that. In 2008, Obama had no real record to run against, and the country was tired of Bush. Now he has a terrible record to run on, and the country is tired of him. The only thing keeping Obama alive now is lies, from him and the MSM, but those lies can only remain unchallenged so long.
isn’t that sweet! You actually think romney will attack Obama? why should he, Obama is not a conservative…
The voters are the problem. They vote for their own self interest, and that self interest is their entitlements. Go ahead and find me anywhere a near majority of voters who are willing to vote to get rid of benefits they themselves are or will recieve. It just is not going to happen. Thus, those promising more spending are benefactors of the voters and any who proposes to cut spending will certainly feel the wrath of the voter. Incentives matter, thus there is only one direction government will move.
“The link is to a Rasmussen poll, and the implication, I believe, is that readers will be shocked at the news that Mitt Romney is ahead. (In fact, Rasmussen reports that Rick Santorum also leads Obama, though he trails Romney.)”
Mr. Kimball you must be a newbie. You should know that polls this far out don’t mean a thing.
Here it is 12 days since you posted the above and Rasmussen (a pollster who never met a Republican he didn’t like) has the following:
Friday, March 22:
Obama 51, Romney 42 Obama +9
Obama 53, Santorum 39 Obama +14
Friday, March 23:
Obama 45, Romney 45 Tie
Obama 49, Santorum 41 Obama +8
Now, you REALLY believe that there was a turnaround of 9 and 6 points respectively between Obama and Romney and Obama and Santorum in just one day?
None of these polls mean anything, or at least until after Romney gets the nomination, and it is my prediction that you will see President Obama pull away in no slow fashion.
Of course you do have your dreams…