Beyond the Bradley Effect: What’s Really Happening in Election 2012
So back to those people who might be questioning their beliefs. What are they actually going to do in the voting booth? Human cowardice and habit being what they are, most will undoubtedly revert to type. But how many will quietly vote for Romney/Ryan?
A lot of talk has been bandied about over the so-called Bradley Effect, the theory that a number of California voters said they were going to vote for Tom Bradley — the longtime Los Angeles mayor — for governor of that state in a 1982 election because he was African-American, but really voted for his opponent who won.
This theory has been debunked and, frankly, I have no idea of its veracity. More importantly, however, I believe it is passé. Fewer than ever are interested in the color of Obama’s skin (well, maybe Al Sharpton and his claque) or — for that matter — in Mitt Romney’s religion. We have far, far more pressing issues in front of us at this moment.
For that reason, I think the number who vote for Romney/Ryan and then tell no one (at least in the short run) will be significant, so significant that this election may explode and be closer to a blowout than anyone, save a few, had expected.
We have, in essence, gone beyond the Bradley Effect, if that ever existed, to a Faux Ideology Effect (someone can think of a better term). Liberals can pretend to be liberals all they wish to friends, family, employers, and co-workers, but more and more of them will privately vote conservative. The country and the world hang in the balance. Time has long run out on liberal posturing. Thank Joe Biden for reminding us of that.
Excellent article! Man do I hope you are right!
Obama has a dilemma named Jesse Jackson Jr.
http://illinoispaytoplay.com/2012/10/13/j-j-jr-and-the-continuing-implosion-of-a-congressional-career/
“How this will translate at the voting booth, it is again difficult to say…”
I think large numbers of them won’t even bother getting into a voting booth this year.
Liberals are paying the same for gas I am, they’re as broke as I am. They’re going to stay home.
When low info voters like Lindsay Lohan come out and say they are voting for Mitt Romney you know Obama is in trouble.
Lohan is probably a perfect illustration of why Obama should be losing younger “voters.”
She’s about twenty-six and personal problems aside, she knows the entertainment industry is in free fall.
The business is cruel, an actress only has so much time. In another four years, she’ll be stuck playing cute Moms.
Like a lot of other twenty-somethings in their prime, Lohan can’t wait another four years for the economy to stabilize.
We have a lot to thank Crazy-Uncle-in-the-Attic Uncle Joe for, that’s true, Roger. What I think this election will show, though, is how far gone we are from who we are, to put it that way.
There’s a poignant line from Li Po that is apropos to this:
No one understands now. Those who could
hear a song this deeply vanished long ago.
This election will tell us whether we’ve become deaf, whether we as a nation insist on embracing the failed Obamoronic magic, or whether we can still hear the strains of the old music of who we are–or is it, who we were?
You yourself learned to hear, and I’m hopeful.
An Préachán
Yes, how did Simon learn to hear so late in life? This sort of thing happens some times. Don’t know much about him but a well known playwright, Mamet, has also had a late life conversion. Perhaps these sorts are just honest thinkers and finally work their way through the problem.
The problem is the human condition. The human condition is sin. Living life according to the baser instincts and short-cutting one’s way through life. It takes good parenting and a healthy righteous society to counteract man’s natural leftish tendencies.
I’m not really sure we ever had such a society. This nation has nearly imploded upon itself in the past. It was almost as if some outside force turned it from its madness say, at the period of the ‘Gay Nineties’ or during our awful selfishness in refusing to attack Hitler as soon as he invaded another country.
But now the rot seems deeper and more widespread. We have openly embraced what all mankind has ever known as sin. Millions of babies killed in the womb and sexual perversion unto a point where the word perversion is now banned and replaced with a bunch of other newspeak words.
And new converts such as Roger here believe we can reason our way out of such debauchery. Not likely.
There must be blood. Every time men revert to near dictatorship it all goes to the dogs. This world was held together loosely by the power and might of the United States for a hundred years. We are no longer such a nation as men around the world aspire to emulate. Why would they? We raise out little girls to flaunt their sexuality like trollops. We openly embrace sexual perversion. We turn women into second class men and men into whimps. Our children raise each other in a hidden culture their parents know nothing about. Our elites send their children off to the same few institutes of debauched education to become art majors and history teachers. The really smart ones learn how to build ponzi schemes and rename them derivatives and this is called ‘making money’.
No, I think we have come to the end of our rope. Either the New Testament is Truth or we are meaningless dust.
I voted straight Democrat for thirty years, despite being registered as an Independent since the age of eighteen. In 2007, I woke up. Well, maybe not that suddenly. I was probably gradually maturing mentally and spiritually. What I saw happening in that election cycle both frightened and angered me, so for the first time in my life, I voted straight Republican. I don’t know if I’ll ever vote for another Dem, especially after this disastrous fraud and his goofy sidekick.
The evolution of one’s political perspective is not likely to proceed quickly, because it has some elements of mourning, since it requires the revision a set of beliefs that has long been a source of intellectual comfort, even if it has collided with facts for some time.
I’m guessing it can happen rather quickly when one assumes adult responsibilities: career, marriage, owning a home and children. Only then, does one have serious skin in the game and a knowledge that what politicians can do on a whim can deeply affect you and your fortunes.
I was registered Dem too, since 18 but always had some strong conservative leanings. I was always kind of a low information voter, getting a lot of info from my dad’s evening anti-republican rants. Before I could vote I remember holding signs and passing out buttons for Dukakis (LOL! Really, yes I did that!)
But, I married a conservative Republican who’d studied Political Communication in college. Being a low info voter made it easier for me to not want to pummel him for not agreeing with some of my liberal leanings. But he did help me to see how I tended to be too conservative to be a proud Democrat. Needless to say, he had me spending more time paying attention to the candidates I was voting for and in 2008 I was willing to give Obama a chance. I listened to his speeches and I didn’t buy it. I thought he was making a lot of empty promises and people were going ape-insane over him.
I wasn’t happy he won. I thought he was a poor choice for president because he was essentially the voice of a teleprompter and things did not get better when Obamacare turned up because I realized that we needed economic relief, not healthcare reform and it seemed like a misplaced focus.
The pendulum swung far to the right when OWS happened. I didn’t agree with what I saw in the news and started to dig and that’s when I turned completely anti-liberal. I sympathize with the teaparty now and spend a considerable amount of time reviewing conservative news sites because I want the insanity to end.
You speak the truth…..and it is too painful to contemplate.
Thank you, nueces. You are right. Kyrie eleison. We have turned our backs on the greatness and goodness of God — aka, we have sinned — and until we acknowledge our sinfulness and return to the Lord, our God, we’re toast.
I think the election will hinge on how many of the bought-off class vote for more handouts.
I remember the late 70s when I first heard of welfare organizations in New York organized for the sole purpose of ensuring that the “welfare rights” were obtained for their clients.
I remember my incredulity at the time. Welfare Rights??? Surely this was a JOKE. Sadly, it wasn’t. And it’s only gotten worse. So back to the election. In my mind, it boils down to the size of the voting block that is more concerned about their “rights” than they are their responsibilities. I’m not convinced that after three generations of teachers in public schools pushing the ideas of rights without concomitant responsibilities, that the electorate isn’t irretrievably damaged.
I hope I’m wrong.
I have two things to say about the 47%. One is that most of them do not think that far ahead to actually figure out that there livelihood depends on their voting to keep it going thus they will only vote if it is easy (buses) and some gratification is offered, ie fried chicken or Bar B Q. Second, The liberal mantra that ALWAYS offers something for nothing to the poor and needy is like water dripping constantly on a granite rock; it will eventually score the rock and cause it to crack. As long as you have one side continually using emotions as their weapon the conservative side will eventually give in bit by bit because the level of conservatism is not constant. There are only two solutions to this dilemma, a socialist society or an armed rebellion that resets the starting point that 1776 offered. These are two bad choices but I cannot think of a third.
There is ONLY one solution to this government mess. Rights for all.
“#1099-GOV”=Fairness x (Labor\2)
We can assume at some point in the future the government will be forced to report on entitlement like labor, ie sweat-stained W2′s/1099-MISC will be matched by #1099-GOV. At that point, goverment will be forced to conceded that wage earners have certain rights in their actual earnings so a standard can be defined. If (Labor\2)ie. 50% or your earnings is the MOST you have a right to, than just simply being Fair (=1) means that a working person is ENTITLED to write off TWICE what the government determines is the RIGHT of housing, or medical care, and food.
If we were to look to what God’s share has ALWAYS been (Labor\10) the results are even more to my liking.
Tweet comments to #1099-GOV.
I am getting really tired of being thrown into a group whereby it is assumed I vote with my wallet, which I don’t, and ask only what this country can give to me, which I don’t. While I don’t pay income tax and am therefore part of the 47%, I work hard to keep our household budget balanced while my husband works much harder at his 50-60+-hour-a-week job of meager pay. We do not take welfare; we do not use food stamps, and we would not vote for entitlements even if it dropped a million dollars of taxpayers’ money straight into our laps. We vote with our conscience and *will* be voting for Romney/Ryan, as we have planned to since his nomination.
Beautiful line from Li Po.
Says so much.
..Li Po had it right. We will move less fast for the cliff if the GOP gain control of the government, but now the cliff is in sight from both the left and the right. The will does not exist in government or among the masses to correct course and there is not enough time. In a time when deficits are rising and everyone with even a smidgeon of brainpower knows we can’t continue we keep finding new ways to spend like drunken sailors i.e., doubling Dept of Education budget, create even more opportunities to grow the TSA, the brand new Consumer Protection Agency and the continued growth of all 472 Fed Depts/Agencies/Bureaus and then there are the union run blue states.
When we go over the cliff the likely outcome is that arms will be taken up. There is no guarantee that the Progressives will magically save the day as Obama and friends would have us believe and that a new Nirvana will arise out of the ashes. No we will more likely retreat to an earlier time in human history and either end up with a dictator, several new countries, or if we get lucky maybe a slow return to a republican constitutional government, but only if the few who understand the difference between these outcomes have not vanished.
This blogger is torn between two shades of thinking, but not between left and right!
On the one hand, it is apparent that this election is the most fateful one of our times. No rational thinker can dispute this. In this regard, one would expect that the sane course of action would be to vote for ones economic survival. This would obviate a vote for the Radical-in-Chief, simply on the basis of the wreckage he has left in his wake.
On the other hand, we are dealing with a fixed ideology, an ideology so strong it has surpassed ALL religious constructs.
I suspect that some Dems may very well vote for Romney, but on the ‘QT’.However, too many others will revert to form, even many of my fellow ‘tribes people’ – http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/08/08/leftism-lethal-to-jews-their-overall-health-others-too-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
In this regard, I hope I am dead wrong!
“In this regard, I hope I am dead wrong!”
You are not wrong, you are dead on right. That fixed ideology has not surpassed all religious constructs, it has replaced them. It is the ideology of heaven on earth. Those who subscribe to it imbibed it in their mother’s milk. If they stop believing, they have no identity. It’s the ultimate catch-22 situation. Heaven on earth isn’t going to happen. If the O wins, the economy starts unraveling even faster and life becomes even tougher. This country is on course for a huge shift no matter who wins, because reality always prevails. Wasn’t it the Greeks who said: The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine. The Greeks understood a lot about self-deception and the tragedy that flows from it.
Yes. May god forgive Augustine.
Actually, I believe that Charles Beard said “The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small”, along with “Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power“. I reckon that The Newspaper and Plugs are going to spend the rest of eternity pushing a boulder — or possibly a bus — uphill…
“ALL” religious constructs? The Ummah is stronger, they just don’t have enough people in the US to take over yet.
Islam is stronger than Leftism.
Islam is actually quite weak. Except for its willingness to accept killers as religious enforcers, this would be more evident.
TM, you are spot on. Islam is three miles wide, but only one inch deep. It is the culture of a prison gang. If not for the threat of death for “apostates,” people would be fleeing this evil, retrograde, medieval cult in the millions.
Islam stronger than leftism? Perhaps. But both ideologies ultimately result in domination of the masses and crushing of the human spirit. Thwarting the global ascendency of either of these diseased visions is paramount if this world is to prevent another Dark Ages.
It was contained in Stalinist Russia and right now in communist China. You underestimate leftists.
Surely you know that your tribe is God’s archetypal representation to all men of The Way, The Truth and The LIfe … and the opposite. Moses, Elija, Jeremiah, and all the great men of God schooled you and yet you are ever the same. Just as we have had our Founding Fathers and the greatest prophet to ever live … and yet here we are. Standing at the brink of the abyss …
That old music recalls a verse, “we wont be fooled again”.
This is an opportunity to try to enlighten our younger thinkers.
I’ve been saying it for some time now;(Specifically since July)
Obama will win, California, New York, Illinois, Vermont and the District of Columbia.
Obama May win Washington, Oregon, Maine, and Hawaii.
All other states will vote Romney.
The republicans will gain 12 in the Senate and hold the House with 7 to 11 seats gained.
And Gary Johnson will be a footnote next to John Anderson in the History Books
Your prediction is the closest to mine I have seen. I can’t quite get it to twelve senate seats, but I am almost certain that one of the pickups will be Aiken unseating Claire Bear in MO. To have MO in the tossup column and Clair up on Todd, is absurd anyplace outside of St. Louis. Conservative voter enthusiasm state-wide will trump our progressive sewer dump on the Mississippi.
Now about Aiken. I wish he had stepped aside. He’s not the brightest bulb in the box, but he’s an honest man, a good congressional representative, and a genius compared to Claire Bear. The comments that landed him in hot water are mind-numbingly, indefensibly stupid. I can tell you this, however, he knows he was wrong, UNDERSTANDS now why he was wrong, and is embarrassed by his prior naivete on the subject. In short, he is educable.
By comparison, Claire Bear can be summarized in one anecdote. A morning some time ago she appeared on the local Joplin talk radio station doing her Ronald Reagan impression (check her television ads if you can; you’ll see she’s a conservative lioness — Obamabot voting record not withstanding). An hour later I saw her on MarxistStateNBC and I’m surprised they don’t use her in their Bend Forward campaign. After MO voters rejected Obamacare in a ballot initiative by Romney/Obama debate margins, she channeled Pelocchio and told the world, in essence, we poor dumb farmers are just not aware yet of how wonderful the bill really is, but she’s confident that we can be brought along. She will fall in November despite the R. establishment.
Which brings me to that establishment. Let’s use Carl Rove as the poster boy. He has christened Claire Bear in MO. You’ll recall that he christened the bearded marxist over O’Donnell in Delaware and Dingy Harry over Angle in Nevada during the 2010 Tea Party massacre because, “the independents just don’t like scary conservatives.” So what happened then? With no support from defeated incumbent Castle, a media assault led by Rove as much as by Special Ed Schultz, (and let’s not forget she was a witch) O’Donnell lost independents 48-45! The extremist Angle WON Independents 48-44 in Nevada. And please don’t forget that true conservatives Rubio, Buck, and Johnson won Independents by double-digit margins in 2010 — Johnson in WISCONSIN!!
While some conservative support is returning to Aiken, even if under cover of darkness, if he loses in a close election, you can tally it as Carl Rove’s third lost senate seat. If Progressives weren’t so damn stupid, they’d be erecting statues to Carl Rove rather than vilifying him.
” I can tell you this, however, he knows he was wrong, UNDERSTANDS now why he was wrong, and is embarrassed by his prior naivete on the subject. In short, he is educable. ”
The pride in his mis-statement I have seen on this forum from his supporters, and the lack of any quote from him to that effect which I have seen, leads me to believe neither he nor they are “educable”. I’d like to see a quote from him otherwise.
And Claire is such a pillar of virtue and integrety as well…
http://www.tonyskansascity.com/2012/10/forgetable-sen-claire-mccaskill.html
One will vote to repeal Obamacare, the other won’t.
Akin will also bring us closer to evicting Reid from Majority Leader. Claire might put him back in the top seat.
Obama was in LA and SF last week, begging for money again. NO one in my office in LA was happy to see him, and a colleague I talked to in SF was also deriding his visit to SF — no respect there, either. Obama’s motorcade (again) shut down major LA streets during rush hour, and everyone coming in late had not-good things to say about him. Standing at the office window, you could see traffic crammed streets, dozens of motorcycle cops, several helicopters, and more than a few cop cars lined up along his route back to LAX. People were muttering to themselves, “my tax dollars at work”.
Black people in LA are not happy with him, (1) because he hasn’t come through for them with “free stuff, and (2) he’s pushed for gay marriage which they are violently opposed to.
Brown people seem to be hunkered down and hoping no one notices them. I haven’t seen a pro-Mexican immigration parade in a couple of years.
The Occupy people are reduced to drawing hop scotch doodles in the sidewalks with chalk, and calling it free speech. They’re still unemployed, still powerless, and still being moved along briskly by LAPD if they congregate in one place.
Several of the large banks and law firms have had massive lay-offs, adding to the unemployed ranks. These are middle class people who normally would have a job, but there is just nothing going on out there now to even apply for. On the one hand, the unemployed need to keep their benefits coming, but on the other hand, surely they can connect the dots by now leading from their non-working status to the person in the White House.
Jerry Brown and his bullet train to no where is *not* popular, either. Teachers and their unions are also not held in high respect. Several cities have filed for bankruptcy with more teetering on the brink, which means that even firefighters and cops are being laid off — shades of Detroit! I know that California is supposed to be an easy win for Obama, but (doing a Pauline Kael), I just don’t know of anyone who has come out for him and said they will be voting for him.
Now that was a fun read. Glad I don’t live in California. You should start your own blog, because you’re pretty good at it.
Romney is going to smack this election over the fence, no doubt. It’s been the case for some time, long before ‘The Debate’. Bathhouse Barry is finished. He can retire to his new, $35m estate in Hawaii bought for him by grateful lefties. And Michelle can live in the affirmative action white guilt luxury he promised her she would for the rest of her life.
If I was Ban Ki-Moon, I’d be getting worried. Now that Obama is being turfed out four years sooner than planned, he will lose his job to Obama, who will be given it by all the third world despots and Islamic psychopaths he’s been empowering the last four years. Now Soros moves on to the UN with The God King. POTUS was just a stepping stone for them to a bigger scheme.
President Obama is headed to defeat in November, and it won’t be close. Forget about the polls, and forget about the cadre of delusional Democrats who can’t stop telling us how great and successful the last three and a half years have been.
Read more of my September 14th article: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/09/the_empty_chair_is_losing.html#ixzz29AeEBtZw
I sure hope so because this Administration’s ed policies, K-12 and higher ed, are designed to shut down the ability to think. They will simultaneously acknowledge that symbolic manipulation lies at the heart of what created the human abstract, rational mind and then lay out all the ways to shut it down. That is actually what the reading and math wars were really about. The digital literacy push now is the same. Train people to use a tool instead of their minds.
http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/embrace-and-seize-technologys-potential-to-capture-the-hearts-and-minds-of-todays-students/ makes it clear that shutting down the capacity of the human mind so that behavior becomes predictable and easy to guide is the Whole Point. The Express Goal.
Our schools and colleges and universities are being used to mount an internal, stealth political, social, and economic coup. At our expense. This has been going on since the 90s as Outcomes Based Education but this is The Full Assault. We need the White House and Congress first and then it really is time to try to save the Republic at the level of the most direct and permanent assault–the malleable minds of our students.
Well said,Robin, the education virus is the vector point of the pathology that passes for learning, and now values. Without inoculating with an alternate loci, the host will die,indeed, is now comatose.
Add to the cancer in the education system the lack of religious, aka, moral and ethical, teaching for most young people prior to the ’70s that used to take place in our churches and synagogues — and which was reinforced in our schools — and it’s little wonder so many people, with truth staring them smack in the face — that the Obama/Biden ticket is a loser’s choice for the U.S.A. — vacillate.
By not arming America’s young people with sound ethical values with which to discern right from wrong, truth-tellers from fraudsters, we’ve ensured that the loudest, most crass, dog and pony show gets their attention and devotion.
I’m hoping that what has happened here in Canada, in two recent elections, happens in the States. In our last national election, the polls and the consensus media constantly told Canadians that the contest between the CPC (Conservative Party of Canada) and the reigning Liberals, who thought of themselves as “the national ruling party” because of their over 30-year hegemony as the government of Canada, was too close to call. ‘Turns out that Stephen Harper and the CPC won a majority, while the “reigning” Liberals were decimated to 34 seats from 77 (and, just five years previous, 103). The Leftards in Canada, to this day, are apoplectic, especially as they watch our Prime Minister ably and with no fanfare — especially not from the Canadian media — govern Canada, making it one of the most respected of the G9 countries.
In the other conservative coup, Toronto the Red (where I live) elected by a landslide the conservative candidate for mayor, Rob Ford despite the media and the polls’ calling a very tight race.
That’s how the Leftards operate. Their three-point plan? Lie, lie, and lie, and hope that the zombie-horde, thanks to our intellectually and morally dumbed-down “education” (sic) system, falls for the chicanery.
And, BTW, God bless America!
You’re Canada’s best friend and ally and, up to a few years ago when Oblahblah became POTUS, the indisputable leader of the free world.
kjh, as a Canadian too, I altogether agree with your thesis. Thanks for your input.
And I join you in a rousing God bless America!
Go, Romney/Ryan!
Another thing they don’t teach anymore is logic: inductive and deductive reasoning; syllogisms, true and false and how to discern the difference; critical thinking skills. I had all this in high school in the early 60s and again in college in the mid-60s. Rational, logical, common-sense thinking is becoming more and more rare. A good example of this is the verdict that the Casey Anthony jury came to. I was appalled by their inability to apply logic and reasoning in their deliberations.
On another note, I’m American and have been living in Canada for the last five years (thanks to marriage to a wonderful Canadian). As a Canadian, you might have similar thoughts to mine in regard to Obama: If Obama wins re-election and takes the U.S. further down the road to socialism, it will embolden the liberals in Canada. All this recent talk here about pushing for Justin Trudeau to become the leader of the liberal party has me wary and worried. Canada certainly does not need another Trudeau in a national leadership role. The first Trudeau did quite enough damage, making Canada unrecognizable from what it had been.
Your points are well taken but you are mistaken regarding the Anthony case. Jurors are bound to interpret the evidence presented to them, nothing more. The state failed to tie Anthony to the death of her daughter; they could not even establish the cause of death!
I heartily agree with you, MJ, about Justin Trudeau’s running for the Liberal leadership. This party lives in a Leftard La-La-Land, and is looking for a savior, which “the Shiny Pony,” certainly isn’t.
The only reason Justin Trudeau is anywhere on the Liberal leadership radar is because of his Daddy’s name and his Trudeau fortune in the bank. The guy’s a total lightweight and, like Obama, hasn’t done anything of import or gravitas in the whole of his 40 years on the planet. He’s got a Joe-Biden grin and just as many smarts.
Please, God, spare Canada another Trudeau incumbency.
My first serious introduction to logic was geometry in high school. Learning to do proofs, some involving more than ten steps of logic, opened my eyes to a whole new world.
Sadly, the educrats have eliminated that aspect of geometry nowadays here in Louisiana, and I suspect much of the rest of the USA. Kids just learn some theorems, logic is no longer required. And, of course, this year they eliminated economics from the public curriculum…
The prosector over-charged Anthony. Anyone with any reasoning skills could see that girl had never actually formed an intention to do anything in her life; she’s a life-support system for her reproductive parts. If they’d gone for some sort of involuntary or negligent homocide or really pushed for a lesser included, she’d be in jail for twenty years or so. It’s a real problem in death penalty states, especially with elected prosectors/DAs; the brass ring is the death penalty conviction and they all love to pound their chests about getting them.
Even negligent homicide was out of their reach because her daughter Caylee’s body was decomposed to the point that no cause of death could be established. The passage of time saved Anthony’s ass, the state’s sloppy handling of the case notwithstanding.
I always hoped Canada would turn away from Leftism…your post is good news!
Canada is such a beautiful country, it deserves to be free.
Thanks, Bruce.
Canada is crawling out of the socialist hole slowly. We have an exceptional government, preyed upon, however, by the other four leftist political parties in Parliament — the Liberal$, the New Democratic Party (NDP), the Bloc Québécois (PQ), and the Green Party –and a cabal of left-leaning bureaucrats which has been accumulating since the bad old days of Pierre Elliot Trudeau. In addition to this, we have a consensus media who have it in for Prime Minister Harper and his CPC but, so far, they haven’t managed to defeat him. PM Harper is stalwart and just keeps walking straight ahead, ignoring as much as he can the idiots in the media.
Fortunately, the CPC, with their majority, can outvote the other four parties put together, but it’s a fragile situation. In the 2008 election, the other four parties, who together could narrowly outvote the CPC, tried to stage a “palace coup” to wrest power from the duly elected CPC government. It was very ugly. The “Three Amigos” or, alternately, “The Three Stooges” — leaders of the Liberal$, NDP, and the Bloc — got their comeuppance as none of them are in Parliament now: The Liberal leader lost his seat and is back in academia, the NDP leader died last year, and the Bloc leader lost his seat.
“I further suspect some, it’s hard to say how many, are even beginning to question long-held views.”
Boy I wish I had your conviction. I believe they are incapable of either self-examination or learning. The ones I know have heads that rate 10 on the Mohs scale, incapable of penetration by rational thought.
Yes. Exactly. Oddly enough I have been blessed with knowing several actually brilliant and powerful members of the Left over my four decades as an adult and it is as though they are possessed by some great dark other worldly power. hmmmmmm
And that would be a very good thing for the country…but we can’t expect it to operate among persons motivated by considerations other than ideology.
I doubt there’s been a more important comment on the state of the nation than Mitt Romney’s (in)famous “47%” soliloquy. Folks who see their well-being as substantially dependent on Ever Bigger Government will tend to vote their personal economic interests, as they see them. Such voters might be non-ideological. Indeed, some might quietly harbor conservative leanings. But when the State gets a man by the wallet, he tends to follow along without protest.
There’s been much talk about the “tipping point,” and what it would mean for the future of the nation. The November elections might tell us whether we’ve already passed it.
Respectfully disagree, as there are those in the 47% who are not acculturated to that tribe but who are constantly seeking a way out. That’s a rapidly closing window but I’ll take what I can get in order to save the Republic. Dark ages suck.
That they do. I’m afraid we may be in for one.
You did see the words “tend” and “tends” in my post, didn’t you, Mike?
Few motivations are uniformly powerful, but we can always discern the populations upon which they’ll exert their force. In the case of a historically powerful political motivation such as financial advantage, those who resist it successfully tend to be exceptions – outliers – even heroes. Though we may appreciate the help in preserving what remains of the Republic, it would be unwise in the extreme to count on a large contribution from that segment of the population, the tendency among which will be to “vote the pocketbook.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt, first of the thoroughgoing welfare statists, understood this well. His successors knew to reinforce FDR’s greatest successes.
So this would be called The Twinkie Effect – telling people you’re really dieting while quietly eating a stash of twinkies in the closet?
People will sell their souls for a good Twinkie stash!
Since liberals loudly, and often violently, project upon conservatives a myriad of claims that they are hate filled Neanderthals for espousing traditional conservative views, there is little incentive to display lawn signs, bumper stickers, or, most recently, even Tee-shirts favoring conservative candidates. So, we conservatives learn to bite our tongues, and bide our time.
When we look at the good looking metro-sexual Obama who is without adequate experience or temperament, or the buffoonish and avuncular Biden who was chosen precisely because he would not detract from the alleged halo of the One—we see selfish and childish beings clothed in grown-up suits. I am reminded of the song from Peter Pan about the “Lost Boys” never wanting to grow up.
By comparison, we look at Romney and Ryan, give a sigh of relief, and think to ourselves, “The grown-ups are finally here!”
Romney-Ryan landslide in November—pure and simple.
God Bless America!
There will also be a large, silent contingent of Obama voters who simply won’t show up at the polls and that will contribute to a big Romney victory.
Bingo!
The enthusiasm level for Obama is down significantly from 2008. The primary manifestation of this will be reduced Democratic turnout. Few of them will actually vote for Republicans. Most of them just won’t vote because they don’t see someone worth voting for.
I think the Obama polling is overstated for another reason. Fear. There are a number of groups where telling someone you oppose Obama will result in severe ramifications — in the black community, at many universities, among teachers and other unionized workplaces, etc. Over the last several years, there are increasing numbers of people ostracized or even fired for expressing a view outside the group think. Accordingly, many people do not. But that should not keep them from voting their beliefs.
I think there is some of that. Liberals don’t worry that a conservative will key their car over a bumper sticker, but the reverse is not true. And that’s just a trivial example- worse things than that certainly occur. I’m sure there’s a nagging fear for some people that the polling isn’t anonymous OR impartial.
And then there’s the possibility that libertarians/conservatives seem more likely not to talk to a pollster at all.
I agree completely, but I believe the problem is even deeper than our schools.
If we had a higher quality of parent, schools would never be able to influence our children the way they do.
I’ve been ridiculed on this board by some of the more “liberal thinkers” for making this statement, but I stick with it and know I’m right. When marriages begin to fail at such an alarming rate, so did our society. If a kid isn’t armed with the basics including the ability to recognize right from wrong and goodness from evil, their minds are malleable for the cheapest of thinking.
It will take us at least two generations to correct the rot that permeates large portions of our country.
That is the most basic reason why this election is close when it shouldn’t be, and why there is no quick fix. Slouching Toward Gomorrah indeed – elected dregs like Joe Biden the phenotype.
Fixing the schools is necessary but impossible without the influence of sound parenting first – male and female.
Well said, Tex!
Cross post from yesterday’s David P. Goldman column, “America Won’t Survive Another Four Years of Obama”:
Goldman: “Be afraid. Be very afraid. The America of 2012 is not the America of 2008. If Barack Obama wins this election, the America of 2016 will resemble the beaten and bankrupt countries of Western Europe more than it will the America we grew up in. This isn’t Chicken Little speaking. Take a hard look at the trends, and then drop everything else you had in mind for the next four weeks, and make sure everyone you know votes for Romney-Ryan. We have one last chance to save the republic. . . .
Trend 2: “Religious commitment: The Pew Institute’s bombshell survey released this week showed that the number of Americans not affiliated with any religion rose from 15% in 2007 to almost 20% in 2011, and that the unaffiliated are much likelier to vote Democratic (63% of unaffiliated lean Democratic vs. 48% of all registered voters).” I wrote to someone who pooh-poohed Trend 2:
“I altogether disagree with you on #2: for the fact alone that 63% of the non-religious vote Democrat, this factor is crucially important—and will continue to be as the number of the non-religious grows. Yes, many non-religious people are good citizens. However, as the constraints/rewards of religion—recognizing that one is not the centre of the universe, serving others altruistically, living a life more in line with the other Ten Commandments—are jettisoned, the lack of civility increases—and continues to do so at a dizzying and frightening speed.
“I grew up in the fifties: schools had no written Behaviour Codes. But we all knew what was expected and, in general, our schools—and other public spaces—were civilized. In those days, most people attended church or synagogue and were familiar with and respected the tenets of the Judeo-Christian virtues. I’ve now spent over four decades in public schools: I’ve never seen so many Behaviour Codes in my life. In flowery language, they’re on every wall in every classroom and every hall and are discussed ad nauseum. And the more this happens, the more the kids and their non-grown-up, secular parents bully: each other and the teachers. Administration—overwhelmingly religiously ignorant and in the secular camp—allow this. So, in an environment where authority has been decimated (Canada’s 1982 Trudeaupian Charter of Rights [sic] has everything to do with this), school boards are trying to reclaim the civility of a bygone, religious era. Good luck to them: it’s like expecting the tree to grow and thrive after cutting off its root, which is, literally, what our schools—and all our Western societies—have done. NO Judeo-Christianity allowed in the public square, including our schools—but Muslim prayers with imams, girls at the back, and WAY at the back if they’re menstruating—are proliferating.
“Abelard [the pooh-pooher of Trend 2], it seems you’ve fallen hook, line, and sinker for the secular Kool Aid. You appear to be one of the ill-informed, non-religious dupes our civilization—going, going, gone—is turning out in large numbers. We’re also turning out non-citizens who are woefully lacking in critical thinking skills—like you seem to be with this non sequitur: “Religion is of value as long as it promotes the values of productive accomplishment, pioneering, free-inquiry, entrepreneurship, and promotion of a[n] open, positive future. I consider religion, as its own thing, to be a null value.” Really? How, if “as its own thing”, religion is a “null value”, can it possibly, as you assert, “promote . . . the values of productive accomplishment, pioneering, free-inquiry, entrepreneurship, and promotion of a[n] open, positive future”? (Our secular schools sure aren’t promoting these positive virtues: built on a moral vacuum, they can’t.) Please explain your convoluted thinking here. You might use the rubric for grade three provincial tests: ‘Explain, using specific language and details.’ As Frasier would say, ‘I’m listening.’ Good luck!
“And Kyrie eleison.”
(Of course, once asked to defend his thesis, that was the last one heard from Abelard . . .)
Hey, lookout! It looks like we’re channeling each other. I endorse your statement!!
uh…the 15 to almost 20% with no religious affiliation leaves 80% who are affiliated. Don’t play the media pimping atheism game.
In Canada, 20% go to church/synagogue on a regular basis. 80% don’t. The number of practising Christians in the U.S.A. is somewhere around the 45%-mark. Your numbers are way off: Being “affiliated” doesn’t mean you’re anywhere near practising or that you’re not deeply affected by the increasingly permissive society in which you live.
As a well-educated, professional conservative couple we are unpleasantlly surprised that the extent to which our own adult children have imbibed the liberal Kool-Aid – and I attribute it to their schooling. As far as I know, we did the stuff – we had the long, stable marriage, the involved father and mother, house full of books, church every week, willingness to talk and listen to our kids, and plenty of family time with sports, Scouting, music and going camping together.
But indoctrination is everywhere! The humor shows that teens enjoy on television are ridiculously liberal. My kids have Tina Fey and Sarah Palin hopelessly confused. The university professors are crazy-liberal, even the ones in flyover ranch country. Some of the high school teachers felt duty-bound to indoctrinate our kids. At the absolute least, being conservative is NOT COOL, and at the most, it’s a form of evil perpetrated by the corrupt corporations, et al.
We only hope they’ll wise up after earning a living and paying taxes a while. But how can they wise up when they’re watching the endless liberal echo-chamber media?
I’ve even seen that sneaking into mine too FL, if misery loves company – and my children never saw a public school until college.
But they still side on good side of “the force” when push comes to shove.
It is overwhelming, I admit.
Tex Taylor, I’m totally with you. But there’s an even more basic deficit, which I cite in a comment above: When a significant number of North America’s Christians and Jews forsook the faith of their fathers and mothers — the Judeo-Christian faith upon whose foundational values and principles our judicial, educational, and public health institutions rest — that’s when and how marriage and the two-parent family became devalued.
When our Western societies, under the misguided rubric of multiculturalism, decided to jettison Judeo-Christianity to the basement, in order to rid our institutions and our public squares of their Judeo-Christian roots, that’s when the plant began to wither and die.
We need to return to our first love:
To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands: ‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance. I know that you cannot tolerate evildoers; you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them to be false. I also know that you are enduring patiently and bearing up for the sake of my name, and that you have not grown weary. But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember then from what you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent [emphasis mine]. … Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To everyone who conquers, I will give permission to eat from the tree of life that is in the paradise of God. (Revelation 2: 1-7).
Amen and amen!
While you’re at it, read the rest of Revelation 2 and all of Revelation 3. The exhortations to Thyatira, Sardis and Laodicea sound more appropriate. We have tolerated that woman Jezebel, who teaches that contraception is licit. We have the reputation of being alive (being a Christian nation), but much of the nation is dead. We have become lukewarm, more concerned with false prosperity than the things of God.
I agree that there is a lot of bad parenting. We’ve essentially lost the ability as a culture to discipline and socialize children. Too many modern mommies are simply constitutionally incapable of disciplining a child or letting a man do it. Most of the men I know attribute the bulk of their conflicts with wives to issues of controlling children. The femminist/leftist attack on men has been going on for forty or more years and has permeated into the ranks of women who would never consider themselves femmisist or leftist but have been indoctrinated to the “all men are stupid brutes” meme that permeates the popular culture. Unfortunately, the effect of the lack of parental discipline has been to cause ever more men to actually be stupid brutes.
As bad as it is in the two-parent culture, it is far, far worse in the single mommy culture and children raised in that culture, without regard to race, hardly have a prayer of social and economic success. Add up all the contributors: a general decline in religious faith and moral instruction was already in place before the schools completely abandoned socialization in the late ’60s and early ’70s, the birth control pill intensely sexualized the culture, and the no-fault divorce changed to expectation of lifetime marriage to a sort of serial monogamy. The family is the building block of social order and the building block of not just American but Western culture has been broken by the Left.
But back to the point of the issues with the leftist-controlled schools; the schools undermine even the efforts of the “good” parents. The schools use all the “diversity” stuff as well as the bullying and abuse prevention stuff that they teach when they should be teaching basic skills to dramatically undermine societal and parental authority. In addition to the “all men are stupid brutes” meme that pervades popular culture, the “all parents are stupid and abusive” meme is pervasive in the schools. The schools have done a good job of turning children into informants for the state against their families and that is an essential predicate of a police state. When I was living in Juneau, a small town with essentially no crime other than juvenile mischief, I was driving around my neighborhood looking for my lost cat and putting up lost cat signs. Two young girls, 8-10 years old, were walking down the other side of the street and I stopped, rolled down my window and started to ask if they’d seen a calico cat. Before I could get the question out, one started blowing a whisle, and they both were shouting “Stranger, Danger” and ran away. That behavior is simply insane, but it is altogether common; children are taught to be afraid of adults. You can’t have anything like our traditional Western social order when the only institution that is trusted is the government. If you want an explanation for the popularity of Comrade Obama with the young, that goes far to explain it.
Well said. Lord only knows just where the proverbial “up” is from here. Want to add as well the fact that women having to work outside the home in order to make ends meet, even with 2-parent families, adds to it, as they are no longer taking the time to actually raise their children. The carefully orchestrated agenda of undermining the nuclear family has worked too well. People need to wake up…….
In addition to your observant and accurate comment — “In addition to the ‘all men are stupid brutes’ meme that pervades popular culture, the ‘all parents are stupid and abusive’ meme is pervasive in the schools” — add to that, “all Christians are stupid, abusive, and obsolete– or should be obsolete.”
The root cause of all of the societal decay you mention — fatherless families, bad parenting, lack of discipline, all-men-are-nasty-neanderthals, contraception which has sexualized our culture, etc. — is our throwing the Judeo-Christian faith under the bus. Judeo-Christianity has always championed two-parent-male-and-female families, strict discipline for children, sex with one partner within marriage, respect and co-operation between men and women, commitments, in other words, to rules and norms that create a civilized society.
The elephant in the room is a perverse resistance to acknowledging where the tenets of Western civilization have come from, tenets that work and have worked for thousands of years. It’s rather astonishing to see how quickly the trashing of these tenets — and of individuals who hold them (I was personally excoriated in public by the principal of my children’s school when I tried to uphold J-C values and address the dangers of a rampantly sexually explicit sex-ed curriculum for legal minors) — has occurred. In just 50 to 60 short years, when you consider that Judeo-Christian principles have held sway for thousands of years, these foundational tenets of Western Civilization have been relegated to the basement and, increasingly, it seems that there’s no place for them anywhere in the house.
You might enjoy Genovese’s “The Southern Tradition” where he distinguishes between a culture founded on religion and a culture founded on tradition informed by religion. Much of early America wasn’t churched and many were not religious in any informed way, but the social order was informed by the Judeo-Christion religions’ traditions as they developed in Europe and especially Great Britain.
Frankly, religion is a hard sell in modern America, but tradition is much less difficult. There are many “un-churched” or irreligious people in America who nevertheless live their lives and structure their beliefs in a manner almost indistinguishable from believing, practicing Christians. It’s a good read.
“Frankly, religion is a hard sell in modern America, but tradition is much less difficult.”
For four decades now, what has been sold to kids by politician-run schools and the Establishment Media as America’s “tradition” is whatever churches teach, do the opposite.
Thanks for the suggestion!
You are right. People we consider to be chronological adults are really adolescents, just as childish in many ways as their own children.
Read Diane West’s excellent book, “The Death of the Grown-up” for an eye-opening look at how we’ve extended childhood into the 30s, 40s, and even 50s, giving us a smaller pool of reasoning, clear-thinking, grown-up adults.
A good example of this is Sandra Fluke, a woman who is pushing 31, and her only accomplishment in life is that she’s gone to school.
Check out this prescient song by the inimitable Noel Coward:
What’s going to happen to the tots?
“What’s going to happen to the children when there aren’t any more grown ups?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF6nRTfYRhw
I disagree. Liberals are after nothing less than the destruction of everything you hold dear. And they are succeeding.
If memory serves me correctly (and it is becoming less reliable almost daily) in the Democratic run-off between Hillary and Obama: Polls were often skewed towards a lop-sided victory for Obama, yet Hillary would do 4 or 5% better than the polls suggested. I always suspected the Dinkins effect was at work.
Why Mitt Romney will become loser
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/13/opinion/the-moderate-mitt-myth.html?hp
The GOP in the past years have used the abortion issue to get the born again Christian on their side who believe the nation is in great sin for murdering babies in womb but GOP had no intention of stopping abortion just keeping the issue alive forever to get elected. So the editorial in the link above is about how Mitt is only interested in great power for himself as was the fallen angels spoken of in God’s word the bible then put in prison of darkness for 10,000 years as it say in the book of Enoch
Exhibit A that Liberals are incapable of self-reflection.
More like the Democrats keep the issue alive, by their constant “Oh noes!!! The very first thing the Republicans are gonna do is outlaw abortion and make all youse wimmen stay constantly knocked up, barefeets & in the kitchen!”
Yup.
I remember, back in the 80′s. First thing Ronnie did, he outlawed it right there on the inaugural platform as soon as he took the oath. The first Bush continued it, so no one could get an abortion EVER in the 80′s.
Then Clinton showed up and there were abortions for all, even the guys.
First thing Bush the Second did, as soon as Cheney gave him his favorite orange crayon, he outlawed abortion. Then he took a nap and let Cheney/Rove do everything possible to keep wimmen down.
Yup, that’s how it’s was. Fortunately the Lightworker managed to take some time off from golf to make sure Planned Parenthood could give out FREE pills to struggling law students like the Flukester.
You don’t want her to end up pregnant, now, do you? DO YOU??? Because as we all know, the minute that a Rethuglican gets in……well, they just can’t help themselves and they immediately start signing everything in sight to make sure wimmen have to have ten kids each, just like back in the Dark Ages under Darth Reagan.
Wow, I really wasn’t paying attention back in those bad ole days…waz I?
I find it amusing that liberalism supports unbridled and extreme abortion rights as women’s health, and I have to project that future generations of liberal thinkers are being aborted while future generations of conservatives are growing up in happy, well adjusted traditional families.
I am also a Conservative convert. I used to be a clueless Liberal parrot. That was before I started actually paying attention, reading,listening and watching BOTH sides. That was before 9/11. I remember I used to say I hated Rush and was pro-abortion. Of course that was before I listened to him. Once I did and heard his decent, precise interpretation of things I started to really pay attention. Then I watched Sean Hannity and remember being introduced to Roger Simon and Pajamas Media as well as Andrew Breitbart. And as far as abortion and my changed views.I understand Mitt’s changed opinion on it. Now that we have ultrasound and can SEE the life so early how can we decide to end it and take it so cavalierly? We used to be shielded from that knowledge. But now we can’t. I don’t consider this a flip-flop on his part, but an evolution, the same as mine.
Great comment, Nancy. Many thanks for sharing.
This is not meant as a criticism, but as an observant Christian, I was against abortion LONG before ultrasound: it’s simply not God’s plan for us. And here are parts of Psalm 139, written millennia before we could actually see the foetus in the womb. Notice how that psalmist was able to do just that, discerning with the eyes of our Creator:
“Lord, thou hast searched me out, and known me. Thou
knowest my down-sitting, and mine up-rising; thou understandest
my thoughts long before. Thou art about my path,
and about my bed, and spiest out all my ways. For lo, there is
not a word in my tongue, but thou, O Lord, knowest it altogether.
Thou hast fashioned me behind and before, and laid
thine hand upon me. . . .
For my reins are thine; thou hast covered me in my
mother’s womb. I will give thanks unto thee, for I am fearfully
and wonderfully made; marvellous are thy works, and
that my soul knoweth right well. My bones are not hid from
thee, though I be made secretly, and fashioned beneath in the
earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being imperfect;
and in thy book were all my members written, which day by
day were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. . . .”
What a beautiful, ancient word picture of the unborn, beloved by God! (The rest of the psalm is well worth a read: it talks of wicked and “bloodthirsty men”, who are the enemies of God and “speak unrighteously against thee”. There’s nothing new under the sun . . .)
Totally agree. I am also a convert (and still non-religious, btw) but I was so touched by Ryan’s description of “Bean” the other night because that was my EXACT experience. I had always been pro-choice and when I first got pregnant, I remember my absolute SHOCK that the 6-week embryo had a heartbeat that I could SEE. I have a degree in Biology, but somehow I did not know that a 6-week old embryo already had a heartbeat. I remember feeling angry, because it seemed I had been lied to for so long, allowed to imagine that a 6-week embryo was just a clump of cells…
Tierney, I appreciate your story very much. Thanks for sharing.
And it’s those “unimaginative”, religious pro-lifers—the Christian ones are the front-line troops—who’ve been sneered at, sullied, and even jailed—in Canada, for saying the Rosary in front of an abortion clinic—all these decades! Food for thought . . .
With perfect timing Waxwing01 comes along to show just how difficult it is for someone to change their thinking, no matter how important or desperate the situation.
And your evidence that heesh actually thinks is…?
The Leftest are excited over a Romney victory
read
America on the Cusp of Fascism
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/10/12/america-on-the-cusp-of-fascism/
What I’m saying is so simple a child can understand: if you can convince the people that murdering little babies in the womb is a great sin against God and the human race you can unite the three Abraham faiths one day to stand firm to what the leftest are aware of in a vote for Obama. I’m praying Mitt romney will show me he is aware of our problem and not this ape man seduced by the fallen angels
Wake Up! sinners on your way to the 10,000 year prison of the fallen angels cast to outter darkness
Put aside all the rest …
When your only choices are “Bad”, “Worse” and “Can’t Win” … you must vote for “Bad”.
Romney/Ryan … Landslide!
Six months ago I would have wholeheartedly agreed with your statement – now I’m not so convinced. I have a feeling Romney might just surprise us – in a rather good way.
Lets hope my read on Romney is the right one. In any case he’s our best hope for change.
In the end, how conservative Romney is is irrelevant. What matters is the people riding his coattails. This of course is also true of Obama. Most of the really destructive things Obama has done (and will continue to do) aren’t coming from the guy on the golf course, they’re coming from all the radical kooks and creeps that’s he’s embedded into the apparatus.
Romney will have succeeded in righting the ship of state if the first thing he does is fire all of Obama’s academic/radical political appointees, and replace them with Bain turnaround artists. What the government desperately needs is a corporate turnaround.
We really need Vlad Tepes. Let the heads roll.
I would be happy if by the end of 2014 Romney, with help from a GOP Congress, has only abolished the Education and Energy Departments. That’s what Reagan promised to do in 1980 (but didn’t) and Gingrich promised to do in 1994 (but didn’t).
With that precedent established, then he can move on and abolish HUD, HHS, DHS, TSA and ATF, while at the same time drastically shrinking every other federal bureaucracy.
I know a few really intelligent and accomplished people who have followed the “progressive” star for many years. I has always baffled me how they get past the logical contradictions inherent in the belief system.
Perhaps, a few at a time, this will be the year they stop feeling and start thinking.
Smart doesn’t have anything to do with self honesty. I know a biomedical researcher who has a target on his back from the animal rights bunch. He knows his life and lab are in constant danger from these left-wing kooks. He’s convinced that they’re tied in to the religious right somehow.
Yeah, go figure.
Old school conservative you are right. They are feeling and not thinking. There seems to be little ability to process fact yet they all like Joe Biden scream and defend their so called facts. The reality is that it is far from fact. Libs are just such fragile people emotionally as Joe Biden made so evident the other night. How dare we invade their emotionally charged world.
If Barack Obama had been reasonably competent, he’d be skating along towards re-election today. Instead, he turned out to be little more than a Chicago thug politician Rahming through legislation and demeaning anyone who opposes him.
The American people gave him plenty of warnings that he needed to change and he took none of them seriously. I like to think of it as the country gave him a wake-up call and he hit the snooze alarm.
He will lose this election because of how he governed, not because he’s black. He’ll continue to declare racism, because it’s easier than saying he made a mistake, and the country will breath a sigh of relief that this is the last time they’re going to be called racist for disagreeing with a president’s policies.
Good points. ‘Been down so long it looks like up to me.’ We’ve been so violently Cuckolded we now look back at Clinton and see his good points. The horror.
I cannot restate this point often enough. When I attended Harvard University in the 1970s, my favorite history professor, David Donald, told us we were then in the midst of America’s second Reconstruction Era in which we, as a nation, were still tackling some of the same issues of the 19th century Reconstruction Era.
In the first Reconstruction, much post-Civil War social engineering was done (by Republicans to free the slaves and assure their equality as citizens), but America finally got tired of it and with the disputed presidential election, the Hayes-Tilden match-up, Hayes won by a House of Representative vote. The grand bargain that was allegedly reached was that federal troops were withdrawn from the former Confederate states. (The tragic result was the emergence of the Democrat’s Ku Klux Klan with its domestic terrorism.) America was simply tired and wanted to return to normalcy.
With the second Reconstruction, beginning in the burning 1960s, we arrived four yeas ago at the choice of electing a black man as our president. American threw itself headlong into casting its votes for this man in a collective effort to say, once and for all, “We are not racists! We are tired of being called racist and we want this issue put to rest so that we can return to normalcy.”
We, obviously, paid a very dear price for this absolution. The irony of this is that wanting absolution, we received further condemnation from the hucksters that wanted to continue cashing in against white guilt. The supreme irony is that Obama has not become a redeemer, but has become the accuser-in-chief rather than the uniter-in-chief. Well, America, once again, wishes to return to normalcy. We are stopping up our ears to the left’s eternal and ongoing petulant cries of racism. We want adults to be in charge. We just want to get on with our private lives. We want to return to a sense of normalcy, not to move “Forward” to some unknown socialist utopia.
Therefore, a great wave will crest on election day in favor of Romney and Ryan.
God Bless America!
The actual KKK pre-dated Hayes-Tilden, having been formed almost immediately after the capitulation and Union occupation. The KKK was only the most notorious of many opposition groups that carried out a guerilla against Union occupation and Union-supported, Black dominated governments. Many Southern men refused to take the oath of allegiance and were disenfranchised. Many of the surviving community and economic leaders of The South had been Confederate military officers or government officials and were also disenfranchised. Groups of Redeemers, Restorers, Red Shirts, or the Klan formed throughout The South under loose leadership of former high-level Confederate officers – loose enough that despite their best efforts the Yankees never could bring men like Nathan Bedford Forrest or John Brown Gordon to trial. In addition to overt political activity, these groups and especially the Klan waged a violent guerilla action against US troops, Reconstruction governments, and individual Blacks throughout the former Confederacy.
The Klan and other Southern opposition groups achieved their desired objective of the removal of occupation troops and the restoration of equal footing to all the former Confederate States with Hayes’ election and most, including the original KKK, dissolved. Many of the leaders went on to become the political leaders of The South in the last quarter of the 19th Century. Gordon was a multiple term governor of Georgia and a US Senator, Hampton was a leader in South Carolina, Wm. Mahone rose to political prominence in Virginia as examples. Because of the loose “organization” of the Klan, Klan-like groups persisted in much withered form after the formal dissolution. The resurgence of the Klan occurred after WWI and it began to assume its better known identity as a nativist and racist force. In that period, the state with the largest membership was Indiana and one really couldn’t hold office in much of The South and lower Mid-West without at least the approval of if not membership in The Klan. They were even capable of turning out many thousands of hooded and robed members for a “March on Washington” in the ’30s. The better know Klan of the “Civil Rights Era” was a very loosely organized group, mostly informally organized at the local level though a few pretended to speak for the supposed National organization. By this time, the Klan had nothing like the hold on the political system that it had enjoyed between the wars and while it wasn’t politically safe to oppose the Klan, a candidate didn’t have to be a member or seek their approval to hold office. By the ’70s the ministrations of the FBI and other law enforcement agencies had made it pretty unsafe to be an open Klan member.
Thought provoking. Thank you.
An excellent proof of the utterly debauched nature of the Left: Just think … Where the dems would be, and of course black America, if they had put up Colin Powell or an equivalent.
There were two choices in 1982 – the polls were wrong or the voters were racists. Racists!
There were two choices in 2000 – the exit polls showing Algore won were wrong or Bush stole the election. Thief!
There were two choices in 2004 – the exit polls showing John Kerry winning early were wrong or Bush stole the election. Thief!
And in 2012, Obama had it wrapped up in January, February, March, April… why are the Republicans even running, May, June, July, August, September, OOPS!. Racist Thieves!
If you read Charlie Martin’s posts on polling and then start thinking about the polls as hurricane track forecast maps then the early polls, like the early forecasts, have a very high “cone of uncertainty”. The storm could make landfall anywhere along the eastern or gulf coasts or it could miss the US entirely. All you really know for certain is that there’s a storm and all you know for certain about the polling is that there will be an election and some candidate will win. As the storm moves closer to shore the forecast becomes more definitive, and as the election nears the wheat separates from the chaff. Hurricane forecasters can’t steer the storm. As much as they wanted it to hit Tampa or New Orleans the storm did what the storm did. The press is in agony because they’ve tried, tried so very hard, to steer the election to Obama but the voters will do what the voters will do.
When the election is over expect to see story after story about the results being “outside the poll’s margin of error”. There will be reports of stolen elections in 55 of the 57 states. It will be statistically impossible for Romney to have won, yet he will. And the liberal media will have succeeded in creating anarchy. They will have destroyed any last vestige of faith in government and they’ll bring about a sea change to small government. “Too big to trust” will become “small enough so we can watch your every move”. Yeah, they’re the smartest people in the world.
I look at the reaction of the media and other talking heads on one Romney win in one simple debate and wonder what the reaction will be if Romney wins the election. You are right. It could be very ugly.
Frankly, I’m a little more concerned about the race riots. You know they’re going to happen.
I believe it will be a Romney-Ryan landslide. If not, a narrow, but clear win for Romney-Ryan would be okay. The fascinating scenario would be a popular vote win for Obama, but an Electoral College win for Romney. A fascinating, but more tortured, scenario would be an Electoral College tie, and the current, Republican, House of Representatives choosing Romney as the winner. Pandemonium will break loose with either of these last two choices.
But, the genius of the Founding Fathers will break through in their anticipation of such a possibility. Unfortunately, the media and the Left will then scream for the destruction of the Electoral College process and its preference for clarity and stability.
I have learned the hard way that coming out as a conservative puts you at risk for persecution. I wouldn’t doubt that people stay in the closet. It’s a cruel world out there. Nevermind the fact that I voted for Obama (sorry my head was in the sand), changing my ideology makes me a racist. Nevermind that I don’t base my decision on skin color, rather reason, I am still a raaaaacist.
Consider the bully treatment that the Philly schoolgirl recieved from her teacher and peers for wearing a Romney/Ryan shirt. Honestly, I fear how these people will react if Obama loses. I have considered voting for Obama out of fear or at least putting an Obama sticker on my car to give the illusion that I am a supporter. I live near a collegetown that is very hostile towards apostates of their religion.
I am conservative on some issues and libertarian on others. But, in my youth, I committed my own personal electoral error. I cast my vote for George McGovern!
We are all deserving of forgiveness.
Anon..you got that right, but I think there a lot of Closet Conservatives, I talk to more each Day Most progs will never admit they made a Mistake with Obrownmao, and will either sit this election out, or vote R/R..By the way the lefties threatened to key Cars with R/R Bumper stickers, so you would be wise to Just cover up Existing Omama ones with R/R Stickers see the effect?
I’m a middled-aged white male living in PA and have been robo-called twice in the last two weeks for election polls.
I don’t know how many of the Presidential polls use automated systems and how many use live humans – but thus far I’ve claimed to be (a) a 25 year old African-American woman who voted for Obama last time and will vote for Romney this time, and (b) an unmarried 40 year old Hispanic woman with children who voted for Obama last time, and who gave Obama an “F” for his handling of the economy and who will vote for Romney this time.
I don’t always answer the pollsters, but when I do, I give out as much misinformation as possible. Except for the voting against Obama part.
I have conversed with many a professed Democrat who make their home in that party only because they have not liked that part of the Republican party that is too cozy with crony capitalism. If/when they understand the tea party or how different a true conservative is, even how they find common cause with libertarians on cetain issues they become baffled. Couple that with their frustrations at the utter failure of the Democrat style of governing and another reason to agree with Roger Simon pops up for observation.
Many of them were simply looking for a counterweight to something that looked like Republicans but was really the bad policies of statosts in both parties. It just happened under Bush and a few years of Republican control of the legislature.
I think the lack of civility several posters have talked about effects how people answer polls. There are some on the left who are simply plumb nuts. They key cars, urinate on yard signs, etc. I assume if anyone has my phone number they probably also have other information about me. So do I tell the truth or do I say what I think they want to hear because I don’t care to become a target for a pack of rabid dogs? I tell them what I think-mostly-but I have been an opinionated cuss since it was 1-39 in Sister John Mark’s class discussion about Goldwater v. Johnson. Many people are more cautious with their opinions.
This is especially true among urban professionals. The vast majority of my co-workers in Chicago self identified as liberal Democrats but I’d say maybe 30% really truly believed. The rest weren’t all that deeply engaged in politics and philosophy. Theirs is a default position. They were all too busy with their professional and personal life to study issues and really think about politics. The big talkers about politics in the office were all liberal Democrats. The media said the smart people are all liberal Democrats. All the Republicans the media presented came across as squares and rubes. The media seemed to be composed of competent professional people like themselves. They all wanted to be seen as part of the smart set. Ergo they think they must be liberal Democrats.
Events have intruded on this. The economy is forcing these less engaged people to think more about political issues. The media assured them Obama was super smart and supremely competent. He certainly hasn’t proved competent. In fact he has been embarrassingly inept an unprepared at times. Indeed, no one in the government or the media seems to be very competent of late. Are these the people they wish to continue to associate with? Is this what they really believe? High stakes elections can get these less engaged people to recognize what they truly believe versus what the pack says they should believe.
Yes, all that seems pretty accurate. However I warrant that it was much the same for Sodom and Gomorrah. 30% rotten to the core and most of the rest just aquiescent.
Very well expressed, and what I too see in my city. But, I do see an awaking of sorts. It was cemented with Obama’s performance in the first debate. He didn’t seem to the cool, self assured, well educated man they were sold. Romney seemed to be the self assured, well educated man in the room. With the second debate Ryan seemed like the kind of guy you would want for your accountant: honest and factual. Biden seemed the guy that might make a good head of a Union. Not going to appeal to the people you are talking about.
I think you will see a quiet shunning in November. And for a large number a reassessing of politics in general. It will be quietly done. But, it will be done.
As I have been saying for the duration (and as mentioned yesterday by the infamous guy on “talk radio”) Joe Biden is who liberals are.
Dismissive, condescending know-it-alls.
People who you never would or should trust to have your back.
Biden strikes me as fundamentally insecure street fighter whose only “substantive” argument Thursday night ran something like…”Romney and Ryan want to tax people like my Dad into oblivion and I’ll fight to stop that with my last dying breath!”
End of intellectual engagement or semblance of understanding anything broader than the posturing.
A vice-president so ignorant and arrogant he made the Benghazi/security claim and the Catholic institutions claim.
Biden proved in that ‘debate’ something I’ve been saying for a very long time about him – he’s just smart enough to remember – and parrot – the party lines and quick witted enough to know which one to trot out for a given situation. He never deviates from that ‘role’. EVER! Some of his fans on the left even claim he’s savant – I’d argue that they’re almost right – but forgot something – ‘idiot’ savant completes that picture.
“Don’t mess with Joe” we’ve heard Obama chirp on more than one occasion. Well yeah – lets not ‘mess’ with Joe – its not nice to pick on someone so stupid as Joe. Joe is Obama’s insurance policy.
Joe was caught plagiarizing in college. He told a whopper about landing in Iraq under enemy fire. He has had a brain aneurysm.
The Iraq story was hugely indicative of a need to pump up his own self-importance. Hillary told a similar whopper about landing in Tuzla under enemy fire, also completely false. She claimed she was named after THE Sir Edmund Hillary, but was born 6 years before his infamous ascent of Mt. Everest.
Barack suffers from the same self-aggrandizement syndrome. His surrogates (Susan Rice, Stephanie Cutter, DSW, Axelrod etc.) freely lie on his behalf.
There is something fundamentally wrong with the entire cabal.
Joe Biden’s success in life far exceeds his native or learned capacities. Certain wildly lucrative modern enterprises–entertainment and mega-buck MSM most prominently–have created a broad elite class that can’t honestly account for its wealth and status.
This newly rich and false elite is burdened by an intense need to justify its wealth and prominence. Those suffering the bends for their self-perplexing rise in income and status salve their inner insecurity by publicly embracing the causes of those less fortunate left behind. Hollywood liberals are exemplars of this overmoneyed and undeserving airhead elite. Likewise whole armies of star MSM journalist and editorialists.
Joe Biden is a hack’s hack who finds himself unaccountably at the top of the greasy pole and can’t do anything but laugh. The joke is on the rest of us.
There is a perfectly good term for Faux Ideology Effect, and that is Political Correctness. The latter word was, I believe, intended by the Communists to indicate approval of “thinking in conformity with the party line,” but its modern, more universal ironic sense is “correct as required or expected,” that is, not arrived at out of conviction. Let us hope that, in 2012, conviction finally trumps the fake consensus gentium.
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WILL BE THE DEATH OF THE WEST
I try to say this every chance I get.
So, what happens if/when the Republicans win this election in a blowout…and nothing changes in D.C….and the economy continues to tank? …and Islamic terrorists continue to blow our stuff to hell and gone?
Plan A is win the election.
Plan B should include holding them cafter you win. How do you propose to do that? (Emails? Letters? Phone calls? The ‘T.E.A. Party’ gathering in D.C. and around the nation? How has that worked in the past?)
Should read: ‘holding them accountable’ in the last paragraph above.
It won’t be easy, and it won’t go smoothly, which is why we need real patriotic grownups in charge of restoring our American Way rather than lazy radical transformationalist determined to destroy us.
Bear in mind this is USA and if the 47% become 60% on the way to become 80% if Romney is really only an Ape man many USA people will join the Mujahideen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mujahideen
I do not believe Romney is this ape man leftist say but he is flexible and pray Cyrus the Great come from USA not outside to bring about the fall of Great Babylon in the next 4 years if not Romney Obama because they both know what point b is in the future of this world wide economic depression caused by trickle down theory Wall Street is doing their best to bury under the carpet their terrible sins they got away with and put all the blame on poor common people slaves to the secular atheist culture ruling today
Agreed, Warren. Our responsibility does not end on election day. At least Romney and Ryan are more likely to listen. Obama won’t listen. He merely calls us names and ridicules, along with his sidekick Smirky.
How effective Romney can be will depend to a great extent on the makeup of the Senate. If you live in a state (like Florida) where a Obama lapdog is up for reelection, we absolutely must vote them out.
So true! Part-time vigilance won’t do. Outsourcing vigilance won’t do. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. Few today are willing to pony up the price.
Romney doesn’t have any magic tricks in his bag to turn around a worldwide depression, but he does have the ability to immediately give the business sector the confidence that they won’t be smacked by new regulations that they need to invest. That, and turn the energy sector loose. Between those two things, we’ll see stuff happen.
Your head is bury inside the old Ronald Reagan world fighting the Soviet Union Atheist empire and the imperative to stop their expansion
The new great war is with the new Atheist empire where the baby is WORTHLESS unless they are here to SERVE the Machine. Amoral corporate support the machine because the machine gives them what they lust for short term profits thus the new empire play god and murder any baby that does not serve the machine
Investing in China has brought great short term money profits. What value is a baby unless baby serve the machine?
The Three Abraham faiths belief in a personal God is all that stands in the way of The Satanic machine serving coming new world order I believe.
What do you mean three Abrahamic faiths? Islam only runs afoul of the NWO because they want to be in charge of it. Indeed, Islam is in no way derived from Abraham, but rather is a heresy of Judaism.
Great piece of writing, Roger! Before I left the ‘big city’ and moved to the ‘hinterlands’ I knew many liberals. Not being able to keep my mouth shut for my own good, I started making my self-conversion to conservative in the late 80s known to them. I was roundly scorned and this only accelerated my departure from that urban enclave. My so-called friends torched the bridge behind me as I fled. I have little or no contact now with people I knew for over twenty years, but have come to realize since that this is not worth worrying about. The few that I still know inform me that the bridge-burners haven’t changed in the slightest.
Will those former friends choose the ticket that MAY put on the brakes and save the nation over the one that they placed in power in ’08 that WILL keep the accelerator pressed to the floor as we approach the cliff? Will they question THEIR beliefs? I doubt it. Ideology seems to trump common sense in this upside down world. Even with people that SEEM to be otherwise logical and intelligent. To this day I can’t understand how they can hold on to such insanity.
If this election becomes the turning point of the majority back towards founding principles, and we as a people commit our nation to saving the Republic, it will take two generations to reverse the damage. Will two generations want to accept the pain required to hold on to freedom? I won’t live long enough to see the outcome. My father and his generation had the courage to fight and die to save the whole world from chaos and misery. Will the generations to come have the will and courage to fight and die here to save America? We may see a sign that points to an answer to that question this November.
As in 2010, it seems like there’s a lot of premature triumphalism going on here. This election isn’t won yet, and I hope everyone is going to keep their focus on beating Obama all the way until Nov. 6. In the meantime, “Don’t …” (you know the rest!)
I’m personally aware of a long-time liberal in the SF Bay area who’s been a Democrat and Democrat contributor for decades who is now talking openly, with other liberal friends, about voting this time for Romney/Ryan. Can you say “sea-change”?
Let us hope that the preference cascade is upon us and that the mass insanity that the Progressives would have us all parrot will be discarded like the piece of used toilet paper it is. Its time to remove the lunatics from the administrative positions in the asylum.
Do these people even listen to the stuff that comes out of their mouths? In recent times the greatest shock to me is that some of our dear leaders are throwing out the notion of making “hate speech” illegal. Really? Okay, since racism seems to be the ultimate sin lets make it illegal for anybody to call anyone else a racist unless they can prove it by clear and convincing evidence. Otherwise lock them up. And as for blasphemy? Sure, why not? Of course, Muslims should realize that from a Christian perspective Islam is inherently blasphemous–their so-called Prophet denied that Jesus was divine. Even referring to Mohammed as a prophet is blasphemous. So go ahead–make blasphemy illegal.
Its time to remove the lunatics from the administrative positions in the asylum.
Izzit ever.
That’s the whole thing. It isn’t that Mitt is necessarily the Chosen One to lead us out of the desert. It’s that Obama, through his radical nutcases embedded in the apparatus, has been actively sabotaging the private sector. Repair will come when the government ceases and desists the rape of the private sector.
I think the first debate woke people up. Obama promises to keep the “allowance” coming and Romney talked about jobs, higher wages, and growth. His message of “we’ll help improve the business climate so there are more jobs” is a lot more appealing than “stay with me and you keep your handout”.
Perhaps blinded by his own sense of self, Obama doesn’t believe America can be what it once was. He doesn’t want it to be. A strong and exceptional America is at odds with his world view.
The last four years have been hard, economically and spiritually. Many of us, even holding ground, feel back on our heels. And we worry. We know many people who are just holding on, getting up each day and putting on a brave face. Trying to be optimistic. If only for their kids and to keep their families together.
I was hoping Romney would do well in the debate because he’s my candidate. What he did for me was raise my hopes, raise my spirits. He knows how to do this. He may seem dull and a bit contained, but his is a generous spirit. He wants Americans to do well. All of us. And when he spoke about his regard for our military men and women I wept. (most liberals just don’t “get” military service)
I live near Ohio and have been watching where the crowds show up. Romney’s got some serious momentum hear in flyover country. Fantastic.
Four years ago, every house on my street had an Obama sign in front (except mine). This year there are no signs, only two in my entire neighborhood. Real hope and change is making a comeback.
Uh, that would be here in flyover country. Need more coffee.
It’s difficult to say if liberals are questioning their beliefs. They seem to be unbelievably stubborn about denying reality simply by making up ever more bizarre blame and excuse theories on top of the general story that America has been one giant genocide racist factory.
Progressive liberalism is a half century on and there are notable and obvious failures for those who choose to see them that did not exist in the past. Has not one single liberal asked what the unemployment rate would be without 15 million illegals? Do liberals go on youtube and see black kids beating the snot out of whites for fun?
So. Cal. is approaching an historic meltdown under liberal attitudes about welfare, illegal immigration and financing blame and excuses and ignoring where the real problems lie.
Hiroshima looks like Detroit used to and Detroit looks like a bombed out Hiroshima. Some of the most popular forms of music have historic levels of vulgarity, racism and brutal stupidity attached to them. More people are on welfare than ever before. We’ve endured the highest sustained lever of unemployment that at anytime in this last half-century.
In the arts, there are signs of fall-back and self-parody, something that has been in the fine arts since at least the 70s. But in pop culture, an industry driven by liberal faddism, music is stunningly unoriginal and many of the top grossing films in the last few years have almost incredibly boring screen plays, such as Iron Man 2, The Hunger Games and Dark Knight 3.
We just had an incident where a teacher of all things, sees a Romney shirt and not only makes the incredible and baseless leap of logic to the KKK, but publicly chastises a teen-ager and is not fired. Another such moron, fired by Yahoo, is now hired by Politico for making the same leap of logic. These 21st century American adults.
The truth is, we’ve been sliding downhill with common sense ever since some deluded old woman tried to hold scalding hot coffee in a foam cup between her legs wearing shorts and we were surprised to hear, not “stupid old woman,” but stupid somebody else. Liberalism is a blame and excuse factory for failure, and everything it touches turns to dross and withers. It doesn’t matter if it’s history, the arts, essays or economics.
It takes a (Potemkin) village to re-elect Obama/Biden.
Your biggest challenge is to convince asleap-at-the-wheel voters that the notion of cutting taxes AND cutting government spending is an economically sound method of handling a recession.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czcUmnsprQI
http://www.lewrockwell.com/woods/woods125.html
http://www.thefreemanonline.org/features/the-depression-youve-never-heard-of-1920-1921/
Economics: it is called “the dismal science” because it it counterintuitive.
Just as Obama’s 2008 election and his governance since then has closely paralleled the arc of New York City’s first African-American mayor, David Dinkins, this election also mirrors Dinkins’ bid for re-election in 1993 against Rudy Giuliani. Liberals had been given little positive to justify four more years of Dinkins (especially Jewish liberals after Crown Heights), and the incumbent’s campaign was basically a platform of “Governing New York is hopeless; no one can do a better job,” mixed in with not-very subtle racial jabs at Giuliani and his backers.
In the end, the question came down to how many liberals would continue to vote for Dave just because of the ‘D’ next to his name and his historic racial position within the city, and how many would judge the man based on results and say he had failed to deliver and it was time to go to a new guy. The election was a nail-biter, with Rudy slipping in mainly due to a massive turnout in one of the city’s only Republican bastions, Staten Island (which was threatening to secede from the city if Dinkins was re-elected). But with a 5-to-1 registration advantage, it also took some liberal Democrats changing their minds, even if they never told their friends what they were going to do beforehand on Election Day.
Fast-forward 19 years to where New York is now and what it was before Rudy, and only the hardest of hard-left liberals will still defend the proposition that Dave deserved a second term. Hopefully the Nov. 6 results and the ensuing years will be for all of the U.S. as good as Guiliani’s years were for New York City, if voters nationally make the same choice and elect Romney.
“The White House (Obama/Biden) and the State Department (Hillary/Billary) are already choosing up sides in an unseemly (actually horrifying if you think about its implications) game of liar’s poker.”
In the old days, when there was still a shred of honor in Washington, there would have been a bunch of resignations about a week after the attack in Libya. Not anymore, especially with liberal Democrats in office. Nope, Eric Holder set the bar by ignoring a Contempt of Congress vote against him and just laughed at Congress for even having the nerve to question his incompetence. Now we have a dead ambassador and three other dead Americans and if you listened to Joe Biden the other night, nobody knew anything about ANYTHING even AFTER all of those poor souls were brutally murdered. And, by the way, it has been over a month now since the attack in Libya and we STILL don’t have a clear picture on how all four of those people died, especially the two Navy Seals.
And is anybody going to be shamed into resigning over this? Not unless they are literally about to be taken away in handcuffs. And THAT is what Washington has come to, where you have career politicians and bureaucrats willing to do anything to save their miserable little jobs. Things like “honor,” “truth,” and “accountability” are punch lines now in Washington, rather than the norm of behavior while serving the American public.
And I blame Obama and his minions for this. Remember when Alberto Gonzales under the George W. Bush administration resigned over next to nothing? Compare that to today’s administration, where nobody is taking any responsibility for either Fast and Furious or the horror in Benghazi. If you believe the Obama administration, this was all just a terrible, unfortunate, accident that couldn’t be prevented, just like a plane crash. And that is not only dishonorable but dangerous too, because by not fixing the problems that led up to the Benghazi attack you allow the same thing to happen somewhere else.
And that only enbles more Americans to be brutally murdered. How many more Americans need to die before SOMEBODY in Washington is held accountable for this? Like I said, it sure is a different type of Washington that we have today. And that’s the type of place that’s going to get more people killed.
“JOE BIDEN—WHITE HOUSE IDIOT AND CLOWN’”
[Tune, “Maria” by the Nuns from the “Sound of Music”]
He smirks, he grins, he wildly “spins”,
His smile’s painted on.
He makes them laugh, with all his “gaffs”
His skill is with the “Con”.
BO hates his idiot ‘BFD”,
AND WE JUST WANT HIM GONE!
How you solve a traitor like Joe Biden?
How do you make the “Dolt of the Day” look smart?
How do you find a word that means Joe Biden?
An a$$hat who’s crazy, a drunk sad and lazy, A fart!
He often stalls; he’s rude to all,
The honest or the brave.
He’ll do ANYTHING depraved,
To o Islam he’s a SLAVE,
And that “heart beat from command”
Just makes us furious!
How can you save a deadbeat like Joe Biden”
How can you bear to hear this “Bleating Sheep”,
How do you find a word that means Joe Biden?
A debating disaster, a whore for his Master, a creep!
We hate to have to say it,
But we very firmly feel
Old Joe is not a leader for our Nation!
Not all the lies in hell will save BO BO and his Traitorous Dog “Old Joe” from our wrath. To smirk and joke about a bombs for Iran and future nuclear war is treason–TIME TO GO, JOE.
ROMNEY & RYAN WILL WIN BIG…absentee votes POUR IN FOR THEM, NOW!
I agree with Roger and have been saying similar things for a couple of month.
Here’s a thought experiment.
a. How many declared Romney supporters will actually vote for obama? and b. How many declared obama supporters will actually vote for Romney.
The answer to (a) has to be near 0%, but the answer to (b) is almost certainly a very large number, because many people who feel social pressure to support the “likeable” affirmative action guy can’t help but know that he has damaged the country immensely.
And then stretch it a bit. How many declared Romney supporters won’t actually vote and how many declared obama voters won’t actually vote. It just gets worse for obama….MUCH worse.
His only hope is voter fraud. How appropriate for the biggest fraud in American history.
Pray for Ohio.
I wonder what “Bibi” thinks of Joe’s 5 or 6 references to them being deep friends for 40 years.
One more condescending reference to Paul Ryan as “my friend” and I was going to reach through the television screen and personally punch him out.
Joe Biden is clueless as to the history of the security situation in Benghazi but smirks his way through a diatribe about how on top of Iranian nukes they are in this administration and spews about how far Iranians are from a delivery system (missiles) even if they get a nuke.
When asked why Libya and not Syria, Joe said Libya is 5x smaller than Syria. Geographically, it is just the opposite.
Agree with you, tanstaafl, on the “my friend” references. Rude. Condescending. And risky. If he laughs, sneers, interrupts, and belittles his “friends”, how on earth does he behave with America’s friends and enemies?
Joe’s gotta go.
More like 9 times bigger in land area.
Syria 71,500 square miles
Libya 694,984 square miles
Barack pontificating on Iran as a ‘tiny country’
They are about a week away from a delivery system, because that is about how long it will take Pakistan, Putin, or the chicoms to get one to Tehran.
Unless you count commercial container ships, in which case they have the delivery system now.
The rust-bucket ship is my big worry. The Iranians are insane, but they’re not stupid; Israel is a hardened and prepared target sure to retaliate with devastating force. The US is a soft target in total denial under this Administration and it will be months before a Romney Administration would have any sort of real grip on the government; it is bad enough in any transition from Democrat misrule but this one has been on a campaign to wreak havoc. A container ship converted to launch one of their already extant mid-range missiles off each coast, a high-altitude nuclear burst from each one, and the US is crippled for a very long time. While the military is somewhat hardened, this lot would have to have a commission and confer due process just to decide who did it and whether they meant hostile intent. Meanwhile with the US off the table, the whole Muslim world can turn its affections to Israel.
I also harbor such fears. The terrifying scenario has been described in the novel, “One Second After”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Second_After
While the military is somewhat hardened, this lot would have to have a commission and confer due process just to decide who did it and whether they meant hostile intent.
In the knee jerk parlance, “bring the perpetrators to justice”.
The idea that anything resembling “justice” is going to happen over Benghazi is pretty far fetched.
I totally disagree.
I think it is all about race and race guilt. Very vile and poisonous.
The obvious unconstitutionality of decades of race-based Affirmative Action has been papered over by a derelict Supreme Court, and this nation has been bullied and hounded by a race-obsessed MSM pack. Look at Chris Matthews, if you can stomach it. I have never seen a more psychotically race-obsessed pasty white liberal in my life.
Let’s face the truth if Obama’s father were white and anglo, he would (at best)be fixing parking tickets in Honolulu instead of being an totally incompetent Ivy League grad residing at the White House. He was handed everything and had to do nothing but accept unearned accolades.
Instead of allowing unprepared minority kids get into Universities and later have to drop out to please the diversity and quota-mad administrators, we need to focus on the real problem – the awful teacher unions that destroyed the quality of their k-12 education by disallowing any kind of real reform in the public schools.
If we are not a true meritocracy, what kind of a nation are we?
Roger,
In regards to the Khalidi tape, my question is, why aren’t the likes of Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Barbara Boxer, Sarah Silverman, and all the other Jewish Liberals who claim that Obama is the best friend that Israel ever had, leading the charge to had the tape released, so they can prove that Obama stuck up for Israel that night at Khalidi’s farewell party? I guess for the same reason that instead of shaming Obama into meeting with Netanyahu during his last visit to the US, they wagged their finger at Bibi, and told him “don’t you dare interfere with our election”.
These Jewish elected Democrats have proved themselves to be nothing more than sheep herders. Their job is to make sure that Jewish Liberals don’t stray from the flock. Well, this Jew has many relatives who ARE straying this election year. They all laughed at me when I told them how dangerous Obama was four years ago. They’re not laughing at me anymore. They still don’t like the Republicans, and they still consider themselves Liberal. But they’re voting for Romney.
I’m not really sure. I’ve been calling for a local congressional race and one of the questions we ask is regarding the presidential race.
The Obama voters are very much one word answer folks. The Romney supporters will tell you how badly we need to get the country back on track, they’ll tell you they’re praying for Romney, and they’ll go on and on about how much they disapprove regarding Obama.
I’m not sure how to read that. On the one hand, the enthusiasm is definitely there on the side of Romney supporters. They are very engaged. But I don’t get the sense that Obama supporters are depressed enough to stay home or to change their vote; rather, I get the sense that they just don’t want to talk about or have to defend their vote. They may be the ones who just go quietly into the booth and vote for Obama because they just don’t want to talk about it.
On the other hand, it used to be that people were just not talking about Romney. Now I’m seeing a lot of people talking about him. At my son’s elementary school that was all Obama all the time last time around, he tells me the kids are all talking about Romney at recess and they’re all excited about him–which gives me and insight into what their parents are saying at home.
I still think it will be close. I think turnout will be the bottom line. If Obama’s voters are willing to go in and quietly support him and if Romney’s voters go in and enthusiastically support him, it will come down to the independents–who did they support and did they support him enough to go to the voting booth?
Obama got the results of the Stevens autopsy soon after. He has been shell shocked ever since.
The ambassador was gay. You can tell with reasonable certainty because there is no bio on the internet that mentions his personal life, a wife, or a family, and no hint of him being heterosexaul anywhere to be found. But plnty of hints that he was gay.
Try to contemplate the evil of sending a homosexual to a violent Islamic country in an extremely high profile position, and then providing him no physical protection on the anniversary of 9/11. The evil of the people responsible for that is literally beyond belief.
As a gay man himself, obama ought to be severely shaken by the incident. It could be why he has decided to throw Hillary under the bus in spite of the clear political risk of doing so.
Which is why there is such a thing in law as “depraved indifference to human life,” meaning somebody died because of something you did that, while you didn’t intend to kill anyone, you may as well have because what you did was so callous and done with blatant disregard for the safety of others that it rises to the level of malice.
Joe also spewed about how significant it was to get the Chicoms and the Russians to sign onto sanctions against Iran, ASIF those two countries haven’t stood as huge impediments at “The UN” to anything negative happening to Iran.
I think the Russians have built at least half of Iran’s nuclear infrastructure and profited handsomely from same.
The Chicoms have elaborate oil deals with Iran and aren’t about to jeopardize those for anything.
The drone just shot down over Israel that Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah claims credit for was, reportedly, provided by Iran.
I am amused by Biden’s debate performance. Imagine the shock and outrage had any of the other three candidates acted as Biden did. Picture Obama smirking, toothy smiling, moronic head shaking, etc. There would be extreme shock and outrage. Picture Romney acting in the same manner. Explosive negative reactions. But Biden gets away with that behavior for one reason: he is already considered the clown and the fool.
It was further bizarro world stuff seeing the Vice President of the United States look into the camera with faux sincerity and ask the American people who they trust. Biden wants our trust as he asks with his fake hair, fake teeth and fake, orange tan. Geez, get real
Picture Obama smirking, toothy smiling, moronic head shaking, etc.
Tune in Tuesday, same batty time, same batty stations.
FWIW, I’ve seen some evidence that over in the fever swamps they have celebrated every aspect of Biden’s performance and “win”. I expect Obama to go for it wholesale on Tuesday, whether because it appeals to him, or whether he thinks it appeals to them, or whether he simply has no other conception of how to proceed.
not a chance
The Fraud has spent the last 25 years hiding who he is. He isn’t going to blow it now.
That *is* who he is, watch any of his speeches where he’s talking about putting lipstick on a pig, or saying Republicans want more dirty air and dirty water, or his millionaires and billionaires schtick.
He just inexplicably let it slide in the first debate.
“Liberals can pretend to be liberals all they wish to friends, family, employers, and co-workers, but more and more of them will privately vote conservative.”
Jay-Z is a great example of this. He has on many an occasion espoused conservative views (his most famous being the rejection of the OWS mess), but he states that he continues to support Obama because he is “black”. Of course, Obama continues to denigrate him as a faceless “millionaire or billionaire” that doesn’t pay his fair share. Jay-Z is not stupid: If Obama wins a second term it isn’t just “millionaires and billionaires” who are going to get burned. I am willing to bet that Jay-Z will privately support Mitt Romney even while he extols the virtues of Barack Obama (whatever those virtues are) to his endearing public audience.
If Obama wins a second term it isn’t just “millionaires and billionaires” who are going to get burned.
Most of the M’s and B’s I’ve heard pontificating in support of re-electing Obama (most recently Ben Affleck) self-righteously declaim they would gladly “pay a little more”.
What a crock all that is, some CYA guilt thing and hey when you make $40 million/month, what’s another million or two ?
So write a check Ben. You too, Warren.
Obama could take all your money and not even come close to balancing the federal budget, as of yesterday’s report another $1.3 trillion added to the deficit this year.
Forbes magazine has a list of the world’s billionaires every year, plus their estimated wealth. I downloaded the USA crowd onto a spreadsheet. Summed up. Total wealth of US billionaires: $1.4 trillion.
That covers one years of Obama debt. It is ludicrous to think these men and women would allow Obama or any government to confiscate their property. But as you can see, even if government accountants with executive orders to confiscate all their assets managed to find anything, you can bet most of their wealth would be in Switzerland or Antigua. The billionaires would be the first to know what was coming and use their escape hatch.
Ben Affleck, Barbra Streisand, the next round-up might include you. It won’t “a little”. It might be ALL your stuff.
Roger, do not underestimate the Weapons of Mass Distortion (aka, the mass media)
All Joe Biden was missing was acne, braces and a bad haircut and he could have been a 14 year old. Ok, he wasn’t missing the bad haircut.
There are so many scandals in the Lawless Presidency, there is a new soap opera coming out about it. The Days of Our Lies.
It must be the sequel to the soap opera we’ve been living under this administration: “As the Stomach Turns”.
I grew up in a deep blue state, but thankfully my parents didn’t indoctrinate me. In fact I never heard them talk about politics, not at the dinner table, not while watching TV and not at extended family gatherings. When I turned 18 they told me it was important to register to vote, but they never told me what party to register under or who I should vote for. There was plenty of propaganda in the public high school and ivy league college I attended, but for whatever reason it didn’t affect my thinking much.
We can only hope and pray you are right about the coming election. You know the liberal constituency is in melt down mode when they start tweeting threats they know everyone can read. I guess they’re hoping to scare people into not voting but I think they are underestimating how fed up with what the current administration is and has done to OUR country.
“And yet we are (in) a moment when more people than ever in recent memory are being forced to think.”
There you have it, in a nutshell.
We have created a suicidal economic model, but that model has worked so smoothly for so long that people just discount the looming presence of the cliff o’er yonder. We have been skating on ever-thinner ice, yet, since it’s been a long skate, we’ve lost all sense of the caution we had when first we set out.
My whole life, I’ve heard: “Well, I’ll make it to retirement, and I’ll be fine. Singer Sewing Machines ain’t NEVER going out of business!”
Then, “Well, I’ll make it to retirement, and I’ll be fine. American Motors ain’t NEVER going out of business!”
Followed by: “Well, now I’m retired, on a sweet pension, all my medical paid for. Golf and cruises until I drop, which probably won’t be for thirty years. Kodak ain’t NEVER going out of business!”
Recently, it’s been, “Well, I’m retired from the Town. They HAVE TO pay me my pension! Towns csn’t GO out of business.”
Ad Nauseum. Schoolteachers, firemen, policemen, union thugs; all of them are about to be educated in a very real, if forgotten axiom: what CAN not continue, WILL not.
Yes, indeed, Roger. There’s a whole passel o’ thinkin’ going on right now, some of it in brand new, never used brains.
No telling WHAT might happen once THAT gets started.
Now we can understand how Babylon falls when the love of money the root of all evil as Saint Paul say is made into a religion by Romney’s go- to economist who sold his soul to Satan the devil and we can Never survive another economic shock with more tax cuts
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/business/glenn-hubbard-is-romneys-go-to-economist.html?hp
if this report is true Mitt Romney is no Cyrus the Great but The Ape man completely controlled by the fallen angels just like his poor Joesph Smith .
I’m hoping for change.
A change back to where we can disparage our politicians without being called a “racist” .. to a real post-racial political environment.
I strongly believe that we will have a woman, a Asian-American and a Hispanic-American President before we get another black President.
How about just an intelligent president ?
Because morons come in all varieties of sex and skin color.
(I have to say all varieties of sex because there are so many subdivisions now. “The French” are thinking of replacing mom & dad in official documents with parent 1 and parent 2. Parents 1 and 2 might be goldfish, I guess)
Great article, Roger.
I think the “Brady Effect” was never about racism but about not wanting to be perceived as “uncool” or out-of-touch even if it’s just to anonymous person on the phone.
with the influx of so many conservatives people posting that are new to websites, and fewer liberals posting, and posting less often, and spouting nothing new, except blame bush, I sense the same tsunami that resulted in the 2010 elections, and the lame stream media telling the voters that it was a temper tantrum.
No it wasn’t, it was the adults waking up and slapping down the teen age hooligans that take the car out at night with no permission, take no responsibility for their actions and then want mom and dad to bail them out when they skew up.
But that means taking the keys away, taking away the credit card, the privileges and restoring order.
Looks like that is going to happen. and we will all be the better for it.
The new Marannos.
I think the Romney/Obama debate gave people permission to vote for Romney. They knew the economy stinks on ice, but they needed a viable option, so as not to simply be voting against the “black guy in the White House”.
It’s during the debates that many people who don’t pay attention to politics sit up & take notice. Many people were literally introduced to the real Romney & the real Obama during that debate. The contrast was quite striking; it really is no small wonder Romney got a pretty terrific bounce in the wake of that first debate. I would expect the pattern of Romney dominating the debates to continue. Oh, & Biden? He was icing on the cake, a nail in Obama’s coffin, etc.
Perhaps many voters woke up to the fact that while they were being PC fair in 2008 for a social experiment, what they got was a failed socialist and policies that were alien to our American heritage, history and values. Not only economic ruination if around but Egypt, the Muslim Bros., the continuing kow towing to Iran and not wanting to OFFEND the Islamofascists as policy , Libya and the deaths,then the lies and cover-up showed Americans that they cannot continue with a crew that seems so hell bent on making us Greece or Ca. where I live. And Biden’s sinister smirks, snides, snarks, smiles and laughter like a cackle probably offended many females, Indies, Reagan Dems and perhaps common sense Libertarians who know realize any vote for Johnson is a vote for Obama. Liberalism like socialism always fails but people keep continuing to believe in…. fantasies. Perhaps we are all waking up.
Perhaps many voters woke up to the fact that while they were being PC fair in 2008 for a social experiment, what they got was a failed socialist and policies that were alien to our American heritage, history and values. Not only economic ruination is around but Egypt, the Muslim Bros., the continuing kow towing to Iran and not wanting to OFFEND the Islamofascists as policy , Libya and the deaths,then the lies and cover-up showed Americans that they cannot continue with a crew that seems so hell bent on making us Greece or Ca. where I live. And Biden’s sinister smirks, snides, snarks, smiles and laughter like a cackle probably offended many females, Indies, Reagan Dems and perhaps common sense Libertarians who now know and realize that any vote for Johnson is a vote for Obama. Liberalism like socialism always fails but people keep continuing to believe in…. fantasies. Perhaps we are all waking up.
A good friend of mine has been working for a major polling organization for the past few months, and he says his phone calls are showing a “strong undercurrent” of disgust with Obama. However, he says it’s not being reflected in the polls. That’s because a lot of these people will tell him how much they despise Obama – and then either hang up or refuse to answer any poll questions. As a result, he can’t count their opinions in the final poll results. If my friend’s experience is valid, we could see a big Obama defeat. I sure hope so.
We are all getting excited over 2%, maybe 3% of GDP by ten years from now. Mitt Romney will do nothing to put on pause our demise, although I do agree he is the only hope we have.
WE need to reform immigration quotas back to the pre-LBJ days of 20,000 per month. Obama is bringing in near 120,000 per month, and apparently there is pressure to hurry up reviews of applicants from countries which have large anti-American issues. Guess which countries those are?
Also, we ought to adopt Europe’s restrictive immigration policies. France only allows 60,000 immigrants. The United States admits 20 times that number, and that only counts the legals. If current trends are not re-set, the US will grow @ 30,000,000 per decade this century, nearly all due to immigration & the children they have after they are living in the US.
In France, a new baby is a citizen ONLY if a parent is a citizen.
In France, if the parent of the new baby is not a citizen, neither is the child: the parent receives a “certificate” of birth, which entitles the child to no claim for anything from France. . Plus the home country is billed for the delivery and hospitalization if the mother doesn’t pay.
If a foreigner has no visa, expired visa, or lacks EU identity papers, he or she is asked to leave.
My cousin lives in Half Moon Bay and she said the influx of young unmarried foreign women with three or four young children and babies, and their US birth certificates clutched in their fists – is increasing north of LA.
Those three or four birth certificates will cost US taxpayers over a million dollars. All because one women snuck into the country and had three or four children with her boyfriend, which US taxpayers will pay to raise. Plus sanctuary cities will find her an apartment for the kids.
If Nikita Kruschev wanted to destroy America, all he had to do was whisper vote, vote to all the progressives who voted for LBJ’s immigration act (quadrupled the quota) and LBJ’s welfare for any penniless person who walked, swam, drove, hiked or flew in.
I truly enjoyed reading Roger Simon latest piece because of his dark side perspective, being a born again freedom loving, truth telling American.
His question intrigues me; the one about how many silent liberal vote switchers there will be when long liberal held beliefs become so obviously exposed as fiction while enemy Republican beliefs are revealed as facts; truth.
When Barack Obama, (with virtually the whole world believing the truth of the terrorist attack) brazenly lies at the UN two weeks after the massacre at Benghazi and says over and over that a youtube video caused the massacre, I would expect it to be enough to make a liberal’s head explode.
In truth, less than 48 hours after the terrorist attack, Obama was told in no uncertain terms the video was not the culprit.
Mike Savage, the radio rascal, calls liberalism a mental disease.
For years, I’d joke with my work partners that liberals are such incestual ideologing cheaters and liars because they were always among the last picks when kids picked sides to play pick up baseball. Which created a bad self image; inferiority complex. Or something resulting in children metastasizing into liberal adult miscreants.
That, these days, liberals truly seem to be pathological liars and hate-America-firsters makes me, really for the first time in my adult life, start to believe there is a pathological cause for their death before denial positions.
For a liberal realist to realize the deceit, lies, disingenuousness, demagoguery and base evil of today’s highest Democratic government Washington DC officials, it must feel like suddenly being cast into a weightless, compassless world.
In one evening of debate Biden becomes the laughingstock of the nation.
No, I can’t see these lifelong Democrats who were literally blindsided by the truth heading out on November 6 and voting for Romney and Ryan. I can, however, see them staying home on election day and popping two Ativans; then turning on re-runs of the Cosby Show.
Thanks, rachel. And many people think that Canada’s more reasonable than the USA. Yes, we happen to have a Conservative government with a Romney-like leader: PM Stephen Harper is an economist and a level-headed, non publicity seeking adult, who’s running our country in a sane and principled manner. (Of course, the consensus media hate him and lie about him and his government all the time. We have more than our fair share of fifth columnists like Martha Raddatz.) However about 66% of Canadians—politically and culturally ignorant—say they’d vote for Obama. One can be sure they have not a clue about what he’s been doing and c/wouldn’t hold an adult conversation with anyone who does.
88% of the Biden/Ryan debate audience of our state broadcaster—Pravda North—the CBC, which is actually watched by well under 10% of the population (but gets a $1 BILLION state subsidy!), believe that Biden won. What dolts! And many of these would be the same dupes who’d vote for Justin Trudeau—the feckless son of our Obama, Pierre Elliot Trudeau—to be leader of the Liberal—your Democratic—Party. Trudeau Junior is like Obama: he’s never held a real job in his life. Well, he was once a supply drama teacher. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms (sic), that the Marxist Pierre Trudeau saddled Canada with in 1982, opened the flood gates of political correctness in which we’re still drowning. The Charter is like an octopus, which will reach down to all future generations in Canada. The amending formula is so stringent, any hope of changing the Charter is pretty well null. So, we have to rely on our activist, progressive judges to apply its vague language wisely—as if . . .
With such a dumbed down school system, and all the rest we’ve been talking about here, our populations have been infantilized and behave like toddlers: me, me, me, non stop, with no ability to process anything beyond their most primal, selfish needs. Good Lord—who dat?—deliver us!
BIDEN’S ARROGANT SMIRK IS THE FACE OF LIBERALISM
I think people are just getting tired of liberals who don’t know a damn thing constantly saying (through word or deed): “I am so much smarter than you.”
BIASED MEDIA, THY NAME IS RADDATZ
When journalists lie, the rating system should be a ‘Raddatz’. Also, when politicians lie, the rating system should be a ‘Raddatz’. For example, Ambassador Rice should get 10 Raddatzizz for her misinformation campaign on Benghazi.
Definition: A Raddatz is a liberal who’s so biased she has no idea that she’s actually biased. Also, a respected journalist who is outed on TV for being biased.
Then there’s the Raddatz Effect: It’s when the opposite of what you want happens because people smell ‘a Raddatz’.
Biden did more damage to the reelection of Obama than Romney ever could do with 100 million ad campaign. Biden is the true personification of American Socialism i.e Liberalism. No matter how it’s packaged socialism failed every where has been tried. The only way socialism can win election is either by deception or fraud. When the fraud is uncovered and the deception is exposed what you get is an unhinged liberal and that is Biden. I hope and pray Hussein O repeats Biden’s performance on Tuesday. And then will all can put the last nail on the 2012 election coffin.
What’s happening? Here it is…
Obama is a nobody and he knows it. He does everything do hide this fact. When he writes about his past he is lying, he obfuscates his place of birth and denies access to all records pertaining to his education.
As a member of his social class he had no choice but become a socialist and a envy-driven class warrior (also a good way of getting laid). He is intimidated by the wealthy, their manners, taste and success.
He, a peasant, was catapulted, over night, into the position of the most powerful person in the world. The perks associated with this position must have been overpowering and traumatising. He experienced the irresistible corrupting effect on his superficial moral and social values, and he liked it. He crossed the tracks.
Now he can not call out and say: hey guys, it is great over here, having dinner with people who can afford to pay $40.000 for a plate, good food, nice clothes, body-guards, the best of everything, airplanes and vacations at the nicest places and playing golf with the powerful and rich. Being interviewed on TV and meeting Letterman and the gals from View. It is great being admired and respected on demand, called mr. president and no one dares to contradict me. It is the “good life” beyond my working class imagination and I like it.
No, he can not say that, it would not get him reelected. So he must continue to pretend to hate the rich and care for the poor because “giving all this up” is just not possible. He must continue to misrepresent his true motives. If he loses the elections he will disappear in total oblivion like no president before him.
Based on his record he will not be invited to join the highly paid speech giving circuit. He will be a disappointment to his working class buddies and a pariah for the “rich”, successful and influential.
Obama’s struggle for a second term is not for the sake of the people or the nation. It is a struggle against the panic of losing the good life and prominence and the certainty of obscurity. It is unbearable for him to face this shame and he will do anything to prevent the loss of what has been given to him and he enjoys so much. Without the validation of a second term he has absolutely no future, all the pleasures of wealth gone, and being asked by his grand children “hey, grandpa is it true that you are the worst president in the history of the United States?”
Who does not take all this into consideration will be surprised by what this man is capable of doing and how dangerous he is.
I have a slightly different theory. Yes, he enjoys all the perks that come with holding the most powerful position on the planet but the day-to-day grind of the job palls on him like nobody’s business; his pattern of spending as little time as possible at the WH, not going to briefings (even during the Benghazi debacle), coming to his first presidential debate with Romney completely unprepared, among many other things point to this. I am not at all convinced he is really serious about serving a second term. He has his new digs all lined up already in HI; no future, my foot. He will make good money on the lecture circuit & will be set for life as all post-POTUSs are. He doesn’t have a thing to worry about, really.
I’m with your theory, bobbcat.
I think that deep-down, shallow BHO doesn’t want to win a second term. This POTUS “gig” with which Soros, Ayers, Jackson, et al. set him up is just too onerous, too much work, too much of “a drag,” as Oblahblah characterized his debate preparation sessions, many of which he either skipped or just showed up for with no intention of taking his handlers’ notes seriously.
Apparently, his friends have bought him a $35-million house in Oahu, with every luxury imaginable — at that price, I guess so! — where he’ll be able to play golf and basketball to his heart’s content, with no Cabinet or Beltway responsibilities — which can really cramp your style!
As for being a nobody with no options when he loses, I don’t think so! He’ll be on the talk circuit, with his trusty telemprompter, making gazillion$ — and, of course, he can pick and choose his gigs and do as few or as many as he wants — unlike being POTUS where he’s on call 24/7 — or at least should be.
It’s a no-brainer, really.
He doesn’t care if he wins or not. He did his job for the socialists. He entrenched further the statist mentality in all the federal departments. (It started with FDR.) Romney may be able to get rid of the really large socialist items like Obamacare. Yet, he will never be able to stop the slow creeping of socialism in all aspects of American government without the complete cooperation from both houses of Congress & maybe the Supreme Court too.
Faux Ideology Effect=Disillusioned Liberal?
It is not a battle of ideologies anymore, Obama is fighting for his job and the “good life”. That is why he finds debates so annoying. He prefers being the only speaker in the room where he can repeat his mantra what a likable and smart guy he is, without being challenged . I wonder if the liberal constituency is finally realizing this.
THE DEBATE, ACCORDING TO MIKE
OBAMA: You know you said it. You said 47%!. Do you have any idea how OUTRAGES that is? How much that offends every single citizen of this country?
ROMNEY: I know. But it’s no more outrages than you saying that there are 57 states, Mr. President. Both are simple numerical mistakes. The only difference is that I got called on it — over and over and over again by the media — and you got a pass. In fact, you may even have gotten a TV commercial out of it. So what’s the problem?
Actually, Romney wasn’t saying what the Media and Obama said he was saying.
It was simple analytical thinking regarding a campaign.
Kids who live on a Lakefront aren’t all that interested in a trip to the public swimming pool. To say it makes no sense to offer them a trip to the public swimming pool doesn’t mean you don’t like them and want to deny them the trip, it means they may not be enticed by something that isn’t a gain for them.
Romney was saying, basically, that people who DON’T PAY taxes aren’t going to be enticed into voting for him by offering them a tax cut.
What’s so wrong with thinking that?
It doesn’t matter what was said or what was meant. All that matters is how it can be spun.
In this campaign, the Dems are spinning lies so fast and furious, you can’t keep track of them w/o a scorecard — and most people won’t bother. What these lies do is give people something they can playback that makes them think they understand the issues and/or gives them reason to support what they already believe.
That’s why the last O’Romney debate was so important. It demonstrated, very clearly, that the lies they were being fed about Romney weren’t true. And what they thought they knew about Obama — the smartest man in the room — also wasn’t true.
How about Romney saying – yes, I could have said what I meant in a better way, which is that people who are already not paying any taxes have no incentive to to work to invest in creating businesses or to develop their skills for a higher paying jobs because, to them, a tax is a penalty rather than an investment into their own personal well-being.
But, Mr. Obama, could I also point out that your claim that people who DID invest in their own businesses and DID develop their skills – your claim that they ‘did not build that business’ on their own is yet another belittling sneer at people working to develop a business and develop themselves.
Roger Simon on a conservative site:
“In the aftermath of the cringe-worthy debate performance…”
“And Biden’s behavior was not the first instance of “inappropriate affect”…”
“What’s going on with these guys?”
Roger Simon after the VP debate on a left-wing site:
Joltin’ Joe Biden Wins the Bout
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=1F08E037-F190-4908-90A5-62E7C752B1E4
I presume he figured we just wouldn’t notice.
every last member of my roughly 300-family conservative congregation will vote for obama, no matter what.
there are around 8 or 9 other rabbis among the congregation also, all for obama, half of them j street rabbis.
as far as I can tell, there’s just about a dozen votes for Romney, including myself, in the whole congregation.
On Nov. 6th Obama will be the recipient of a blow out of unseen proportion, commensurate with his Administrations unfettered spending, lying, and destruction.
The Bradley Effect will be displaced by the “O Bomb Effect.” Losers of political contests will be referred as, having been “O Bombed!” …What’s in a name?
Is this America in the beginning of the 21st century? America the “land of the free and the home of the brave”?
NOT Mazi Germany in the 20th century. NOT the Soviet Union/Tsarist Russia before and since the Finland Station.
Have we – Americans – forgotten, did we never learn in “progressive” public “education” it was truly dangerous with severe public penalties to voice independence from official “truths” in these nations.
Penalties up to and including imprisonment in work i.e. slave and extermination camps/gulags. Lesser penalties as loss of livlihood, public pilloring as “enemy of the State” and or non-person. Seeing the way the winds blew willingness to tell others of their independence a virtual suicidal act.
Germany one of the most civilised and cultured nations in the world at the time of this CHANGE to a transformative Leader “for the good of the people”.
Is this America in which people who might for whatever reason vote for a “Republican” candidate for the highest civic honour in their gift “Tell No One”. America. Fear? Of What? Of whom? Unwilling to tell of their choice for other reasons? What other reasons?
America in the twenty first century the “Home of The Brave” and ” The Land of the Free” in which citizens are unwilling to “admit” to their “crime”? of voting for a candidate unacceptable to the self appointed and incestuous elite/royalty of the agents/bureaucrats of “progressive leaders” in policy echelons in all civic institutions and of legacy Media and pundits of the East and West Coasts.
America. God shed his grace on thee. But Americans have selected the “golden calf” shown to be a painted harlot. Now what?
P.S., jojo. Great post!
How about repent?
This is one verse in Leonard Cohen’s prophetic, “The Future”: “There’ll be the breaking of the ancient western code Your private life will suddenly explode There’ll be phantoms There’ll be fires on the road And the white man dancing”.(And I know which side the Democratic and Obama henchpeople are on.) Here’s the rest of this amazing song:
Give me back my broken night My mirrored room, my secret life It’s lonely here There’s no one left to torture
Give me absolute control Over every living soul And lie beside me, baby That’s an order
Give me crack and anal sex Take the only tree that’s left And stuff it up the hole In your culture
Give me back the Berlin wall Give me Stalin and St. Paul I’ve seen the future, brotherIt is murder
Things are going to slide, slide in all directions Won’t be nothing Nothing you can measure anymore The blizzard, the blizzard of the world Has crossed the threshold and it has overturned The order of the soul
When they said repent repent, I wonder what they meant When they said repent repent I wonder what they meant When they said repent repent I wonder what they meant
You don’t know me from the wind You never will, you never did I’m the little Jew Who wrote the Bible
I’ve seen the nations rise and fall I’ve heard their stories, heard them all But love’s the only engine of survival
Your servant here, he has been told To say it clear, to say it cold It’s over, it ain’t going Any further
And now the wheels of heaven stop You feel the devil’s riding crop Get ready for the future It is murder
Things are going to slide, slide in all directions Won’t be nothing Nothing you can measure anymore The blizzard, the blizzard of the world Has crossed the threshold and it has overturned The order of the soul
When they said repent repent I wonder what they meant When they said repent repent I wonder what they meant When they said repent repent I wonder what they meant
There’ll be the breaking of the ancient western code Your private life will suddenly explode There’ll be phantoms There’ll be fires on the road And the white man dancing
You’ll see a woman hanging upside down Her features covered by her fallen gown And all the lousy little poets coming round Tryin’ to sound like Charlie Manson And the white man dancin’
Give me back the Berlin wall Give me Stalin and St. Paul Give me Christ Or give me Hiroshima
Destroy another fetus now We don’t like children anyhow I’ve seen the future, baby It is murder
Things are going to slide, slide in all directions Won’t be nothing Nothing you can measure anymore The blizzard, the blizzard of the world Has crossed the threshold and it has overturned The order of the soul
When they said repent repent I wonder what they meant When they said repent repent I wonder what they meant When they said repent repent I wonder what they meant When they said repent repent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnaxvBsyigM
Probably my favourite Leonard Cohen song. Like Bob Dylan, the man knows his Scripture — and his culture. He’s a prophetic voice and, like all prophets, he doesn’t mince words.
He’s nailed our ailments, ones we refuse to recognize: “Hey, folks! You’d better take a good look at yourselves and what you’re doing with all of this so-called progressive stuff, ’cause it’s not working. When you betray the foundations of your culture, when you break the ancient western code, you’re committing suicide.”
Roger writes:
What if, just what if, they are acting this way because they know they cannot lose. That “The Big Fix” is in and there are not going to be elections or they have the vote count wrapped up. Remember Stalin’s admonition:
-Joseph Stalin
nueces may not be far off in his description. Perhaps not literally but certainly he does have some good points. We have lost our compass. Lost what makes America unique in favor of the easy and lazy ways of the EUROpeons.
Someone above referred to possible race riots if 0bungler loses. I say count on it. Armor up now.
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