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Enough?
How much more mischief are loyal Democrat constituents still willing to put up with from their leaders?
Much has been made about Barack Obama and his outrageous stance on Israel. His demand that she revert to her 1967 borders thereby relinquishing lands won in battle is just the latest puzzling foreign policy position of our president. You’d think that the outright disdain with which others in his party view Israel, would cool relations between them and Jews.
Indeed, many have noted with disgust the fact that American Jews will continue to vote Democratic no matter who or what kind of candidates are foisted upon them. Try this from the folks over at the National Jewish Democratic Council, who have actually released a statement praising the president’s stance on Israel which, of course, blames the dustup on his “political enemies” who “do a disservice to our relationship with Israel by fear mongering, spreading half-truths and allowing false statements to go uncorrected. They foment fear and conspiratorial thoughts within our community and drive media reports around the world which cast a doubt on the most significant and important truth about America’s relationship with Israel: This President and the United States stands decidedly with Israel.”
But this not only a Jewish phenomenon. Many other groups have their apron strings tied to the donkeys for various and sundry reasons, many of which are troubling but not hard to understand; in view of decades of liberal mischief, that is.
Union members, those otherwise patriotic Americans — who foam at the mouth at the very mention of the name of Ronald Reagan — are only now seeing the devastation wrought on their jobs by the cannibalistic nature of their socialistic organizations, which suck the lifeblood of both industry and their fellow citizens. The result? Fewer jobs and more misery.
Catholics, the great number of whom came to this country as poor laborers and were therefore the prey of union organizers, have been so convinced that their best interests lie with Democrats, that they have, in many cases, betrayed their own faith; one that up to a few years ago, has never been in conflict with the laws or policies of America. The fact that most of those who support the party of abortion are not practicing Catholics who attend weekly Mass, is, to say the least, significant.
Today’s women have been sold down the river by their big sister feminists into believing that disdaining the roles of wife and mother — through abortions of convenience and hatred and distrust of men — will somehow set them free. The sad fact is, that the so-called party of women and children has, at its core, a non-negotiable commitment to destroying the family unit, the basis of their protection since time began.
Blacks are perhaps even more ill-used by Democrats than any other people in this country. For years they have been encouraged not to assimilate into mainstream American culture; that to do so would be a sellout, that they would not be “down for the cause.” What is this cause? Well, if you read between the lines of liberal race hustlers, both black and white, it seems to indicate that perpetual victimhood will have a payoff; someday in the distant future for blacks, and every November for the Democrats.
So what is it about these folks that keeps the majority of them firmly pulling the lever for Democrat candidates? Well, one part of leftist strategy is to continuously pound home the idea that the average conservative is a gun-owning, evangelical Christian and/or rich white male, thereby suggesting that identification with them would be tantamount to abandoning one’s own. And this has worked pretty well for them for years, except that the truth is, the GOP is more representative of the true diversity of Americans; ones that can think for themselves, that is.
The leading lights of the party currently include Catholics, Speaker of the House John Boehner and the architect of economic reform, Paul Ryan; Jewish House Majority Leader Eric Cantor; two potential female presidential candidates, Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann as well as current GOP frontrunner, Herman Cain, who is black.
That these seemingly divergent groups can overlap in the conservative movement is no accident. Those who seek a better life through capitalism, who love our founding values and largely want to be left alone by the government, are legion in America and not constrained by demographics. It is vitally important to note that there is no leftist equivalent to the Tea Party Movement.
According to polls, there are many more conservatives in America than liberals, but the majority of the country still defines itself as middle-of-the-road. And it is to them that we must take the message: no matter what your station in life, you are an American with access to the dreams and values that made this country great. The last election proved that they are reachable when conditions get bad enough; but when will enough be enough?
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Hobart Graham| 5.25.11 @ 6:45AM
" The last election proved that they are reachable when conditions get bad enough; but when will enough be enough?"
Soon. Very soon.
Darin| 5.25.11 @ 6:46AM
Conservatives will let you know their views. You are free to agree or disagree.
Liberals will let you you know their views. If you agree, great. If not, you're branded homophobic, a racist, hater, and all sorts of other vile things.
Dee See| 5.25.11 @ 7:09AM
----Great piece.
NOW back to our STILL unmentioned Globalist RED China sellout,
set up and TREASON op----or the still unfolding, indeed not even half over, greatest 'EUGENICS friendly' world nuclear disaster in human history -----Fukishima.
Patrick| 5.25.11 @ 2:38PM
Time to take your Thorazine. Fukishima is beans. If you had the slightest understanding of science instead of chugging the NYT kool-aid, you would not be gibbering like a maniac.
Frekki| 5.25.11 @ 8:32PM
DC-
Would you shut the Fukishima up!
Clint| 5.25.11 @ 7:13AM
It All Depends On Who The GOP Puts Up For Their Standard Bearer.
Catholic Vote: Presidential Elections:
2008: White Catholics: 52 % McCain- 47% Obama.
2008: All Catholics:54% Obama-45% McCain
2004: White Catholics: 56% Bush-43% Kerry
2004: All Catholics: 52% Bush-47% Kerry
RCV| 5.25.11 @ 2:03PM
Point missed. What do your figures tell you about who the GOP should put up?
Patrick| 5.25.11 @ 2:45PM
Church attendance is a huge factor. Someone may say they are Catholic, but hasn't gone to church outside of Christmas and Easter for 20 years.
Church attendance is the most striking factor, and the political tide has been shifting in favor of the Republicans since 1980 (or should I say 1973).
RCV| 5.25.11 @ 3:25PM
But what do the white Catholic/black Catholic figures tell us about who the GOP nominee should be, which was Clint's intro?
RCV| 5.25.11 @ 3:26PM
I meant "white Catholics/all Catholics"
Clint| 5.25.11 @ 6:31PM
Freudian Slip, Obama LawBoy RCV Race Card Player.
RCV| 5.25.11 @ 7:54PM
Say what? Why did you play the "race card" by separating out "white Catholics" (whatever that means) from other Catholics? And what was the point of your post, which is what I asked in the first place?
fmm| 5.25.11 @ 7:51AM
Unfortunately, this battle has been lost for some time. Over the years I have engaged democrat voters in a specific conversation about their values in their personal lives. In 90% of the cases, these people were bed-rock conservative in their views, but habitually voted for democrats. This disconnect between their actual values and their voting habits is astounding. Democrat liberals and progressives have been exceedingly effective in their PR campaign; conservatives need to learn this lesson well.
Kishego| 5.25.11 @ 3:16PM
Spot on fmm, I have experienced the same things. My Son-in-Law is a prime example. As a black man he consistently votes democrat, but issue by issue he prefers and agrees with the conservatives, ON EVERY ISSUE. When you try to get him to explain his support for the democrats, his face goes blank, and he has no response.
Bob Grant| 5.25.11 @ 5:40PM
Kishego, Your son-in-law is intellectually dishonest. The reason he votes democrat - I'll bet - is because he benefits from government largess.
It's that simple. People ALWAYS act in their own rational self interest and if your SIL votes democrat that is because he believes they will satisfy that self interest. You and I know that the only way democrats are able to do this is by giving, or promising to give, away benefits or services, i.e. bribing potential voters.
Bob Grant| 5.25.11 @ 6:05PM
...Therefore, your SIL never really held conservative views. He only talked a big game.
Seek| 5.25.11 @ 7:25PM
Precisely. Blacks, even "conservative" ones, seek something for nothing. And Democrats are the party that provides. Thus, they vote Democrat. I've rarely come across any exceptions.
Deborah D | 5.25.11 @ 8:03AM
In the 60's the radicals promised to "march through the institutions." They kept that promise so we have a culture dominated by leftists: media, academia, Hollywood, and more and more religion. Right now we show promise in the media (and so far on the Internet). We must take back the schools where indoctrination rather than teaching takes place every single day. Until that happens or until those people who do not think either die or finally suffer enough to see the light...it will be a long, hard slog!
Redstateboy| 5.25.11 @ 8:38AM
why do people, against their own best interest, continue to vote Slave (Democrat) Party? Why did the Israelites continue to question and doubt God even after he delivered them out of Egypt? They were Stupid and stiff necked.
irish19| 5.25.11 @ 11:16AM
Good point. I think a lot of it has to do with inertia. It's also hard for anyone to admit they've been wrong or bamboozled. The longer it's been going on, the harder it is.
However, there comes a time when it's inescapable. I think we're approaching that time.
Occam's Tool| 5.25.11 @ 11:57AM
G-d Knows, I've been trying, Irish. My parents don't budge even when bombs are sent to Chicago synagogues.
RCV| 5.25.11 @ 2:05PM
God bless your parents, Occam. I know I would love to meet them!
Nancy G Murdoch| 5.25.11 @ 8:46AM
This article reminds me of two videos I watched recently about views on campuses in this country. One video asked students to sign a petition to ban Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh from talk radio. Students quickly signed while espousing their support of free speech and the First Amendment.
The other video asked students to give up some of their grade point average to students with lower grade point averages. Of course the students refused. When they were questioned about expecting wealthy people to give up their money to those less wealthy, they said that was different.
The disconnect in the liberal mind is easy to discern.
oldfart| 5.25.11 @ 9:06AM
It is called situation ethics. There are no absolutes. What is right is what I want it to be at a given moment. The disconnect between personal and public values are what Lenin called 'useful idiots'.
Redstateboy| 5.25.11 @ 12:01PM
Nancy... How Sad.. And THESE.. are College "Educated" people - God Help Us!
SpiralArchitect| 5.25.11 @ 12:37PM
College is merely the next stage of brainwashing or indoctrination. Opinions and point of view are 'taught', no longer factual aside from math bio studies.
Kishego| 5.25.11 @ 3:29PM
The good news is that a good majority of these kids change their attitudes after they get out of college. The look on my Son's face when he got his first real paycheck, from his first real job, (not the part time jobs he took to earn spending money). When he looked at his stub and realized how much money they took from him, he was quite upset and started ranting, I just looked at him, smiled and said "welcome to the real world Son". When I let him see for the first time in his life, my income and what I pay in taxes, he nearly pooped a brick. He is now looking forward to voting in 2012, something I couldn't drag him to do before this. Reality does have a tendency to bite hard at times, does it not ?
Redstateboy| 5.25.11 @ 4:44PM
I was once a flamming Liber-ul.. A product of SUNY (State Univ. of the (People's) Republic of NY) but like the Apostle Paul wrote... When I was a Child, I thought as child, I spoke as a child but when I became a Man (and Not a Liber-ul Male) I put away childish things.
simon templar| 5.25.11 @ 6:28PM
When I was a child, I thought as a liberal, I spoke as a liberal, but when I became a Man, I put away liberal things. I like that.
Bud Parker| 5.27.11 @ 10:17PM
We live in a country of Have, and Have Not. The Haves work every day, pay taxes and wish they could keep more of their earnings, The Have Not’s either do not work or barely do, pay no taxes and wish they could get more government benefits. This situation has existed for many, many decades. This is the income redistribution that you hear so much about. Many “Have Not’s” do not comprehend this concept. To them their “Entitlements” simply appear out of thin air. As your son-in-law quickly found out there is a price to be paid for others inefficient lifestyle.
The Bishop| 5.25.11 @ 9:00AM
Part of the problem is that the uber-leftists has become so dominant in the Democrat party that the "Democrat in their DNA" voters are a generation or two behind realizing that their party has been shanghaied and there are no traditional values Democrats left to represent them. (Witness the treatment of Pennsylvania Governor Casey who was denied a forum to speak of his pro-Life values.) Another part of the problem is the tendency for conservative leaders to accept the premises of the Dems when trying to make their case, i.e., don't offend for fear of the lable "racist." We need plain-spoken, no apology, fealess Conservative leaders/spokespersons. And those have been too far and few.
Deborah D | 5.25.11 @ 9:09AM
Exactly so, Bishop. "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke
C. S. P. Schofield| 5.25.11 @ 9:18AM
In 1980 the nomination of Ronald Reagan and his subsequent election to the Presidency marked the end of the beginning of a battle for the Republican Party between a reawakened Conservative movement and the old business-as-usual Party Regulars. That battle continues to this day. In 2006 the Democrat Party appealed to the Populist grassroots of their Party, won control of Congress, and then shut out the new Populist representatives when it came time to dole out the choice positions. How long can the business-as-usual Democrats eep doing that? Time will tell.
It's probably wishful thinking to believe that the disaffected Democrats will rise up and vote Republican. What they might well do is make a fight for the Democrat Party. If the Usual Suspect Democrats have any trouble rubberstamping Obama's nomination in 2012, that would be a telling sign.
Shamus| 5.25.11 @ 9:56AM
Crony capitalism is so embedded in American culture that it will prove almost impossible to dislodge. No one cares what happens to the nation so long as they are allowed to continue as clients. This is a form of slavery.
SpiralArchitect| 5.25.11 @ 12:40PM
The form of slavery you speak of is endentured servatude. No need to ask, everyone is allowed to partake now.
Ray| 5.25.11 @ 2:03PM
Slaves can't quit their job, it's not allowed. What happens when you want to quit your job in a capitalist society? You're freely allowed to do so. Just as you're freely allowed to seek out that job to begin with. That's called "free will."
T H Huxley| 5.25.11 @ 11:34PM
What capitalist society? In a capitalist society, poorly run institutions are allowed to fail and not bailed out by the taxpayers. The stockholders lose their money. That's known as taking a risk and losing. In a capitalist society, institutions don't get taxpayer subsidies. They either make it on their own or go out of business. In a capitalist society, oil companies would pay for their own security and not have the US Navy make the seas safe for their oil tankers. In a capitalist society, any government contracts would go out for competitive bids and not awarded to the companies of the politically well-connected. Other than small business, where is capitalism practiced in the US?
russel| 5.25.11 @ 9:57AM
Lisa , we're all asking that question . If the current situation doesn't get their mind right , nothing will . What we have here are people who are plain mental midgets ; let's face it , many Americans just aren't too bright and can be had with some journalistic slight of hand . If Brokaw says so , then that's all they need . Let's say it one more time - it's time to rid ourselves of the Lame Stream Media .
JimP| 5.25.11 @ 10:08AM
It's not politically correct to say this, I'm sure, but I think we cannot discount the fact that half of the population has average IQ's when asking the question 'Why do they vote Democrat?'. People in the average range tend to need to have things clearly spelled out for them, repeatedly. They tend to not be able to connect the dots. They can be trained to connect the dots when faced with specific criteria, but tend to lack the ability to think abstractly and draw inferences etc. So when they are bombarded with leftist propaganda, they tend to believe it and act on it because they lack the ability to critically analyze facts independently. This is why, IMO again, the leftists have dumbed down education. It plays perfectly into these IQ tendencies.
Fallgold| 5.25.11 @ 10:42AM
Remember also that almost half of the people in this country do not pay income tax. Part of this is the fault of Republicans, who helped to exempt lower income people from the income tax. When you reach the tipping point of having the minority of the voters paying for everybody, you will also be the minority political party. At the tipping point, those not paying taxes will have no "skin in the game". Most of them will continue to vote Democrat, since there will be no incentive to them to vote for a party that wants to restrict spending. We are almost to that point.
Seek| 5.25.11 @ 7:28PM
Jack Kemp, in a sense, is as much to blame as any Democrat.
Anthony| 5.25.11 @ 11:14AM
I guess Lisa, the simple answer is that the D base are as corrupt and/or morally and intellectually bankrupt as their leaders. Plain and simple.
Those Ds who are not plain stupid and drones, those that we label the hopeless, are so blinded by their ideology that they cannot see the absurdity of their positions.
The Jews, the global warming fanatics, the feminists, and the minorities, have all succumbed to a form of tribal fanaticism that borders on insanity. There is no objective discussion with these people, as most of us conservtives have discovered over the years.
You can also factor in a trait common to most leftists, that is, they are self loathing nihilists.
Hence, leftism truly is a mental disorder.
We either remove them from power or America is lost.
Occam's Tool| 5.25.11 @ 11:58AM
C'mon. Not all Jews.
RCV| 5.25.11 @ 2:02PM
Anti-semitism is truly a mental disorder as well.
Reprobate Charlatan Vomitus| 5.25.11 @ 5:45PM
I don't bother with silly support and endorsement of the party that at least cares about human beings after they're born at least partially which rules out fifty three million 'legally' killed on sanctimonious pronouncements of anti-semitism as the posterboy for the mentally disordered matters.
RCV| 5.25.11 @ 7:55PM
Zzzzzzzzzzzz......
Oldefarte| 5.25.11 @ 11:22AM
The Democratic Party is all about political manipulation for their own power purposes. Sadly, these groups mentions ignorantly don't GET IT [that they are being so manipulated] and continue pulling the JACKARS lever at election time. When is enough enough? Hopefully in November of next year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RCV| 5.25.11 @ 11:25AM
TAS seems strangely oblivious to the earthquake that happened in NY's 26th CD yesterday. Democrats captured a long held GOP conservative stronghold, Jack Kemp's old seat. Two ominous lessons for the GOP:
1. The party dangerously underestimates the damage done to its cause by the reaction of conservative working-class voters to the perceived GOP attacks on medicare and social security, and on union collective bargaining rights. Many solidly GOP seats, as well as those that fell to the GOP last fall, will be in serious play in 2012, including Paul Ryan's own seat. (In Wisconsin, Russ Feingold is well ahead of Thompson in polls for the upcoming Senate election.)
2. The tea party candidate syphoned a small but critical margin from the GOP. The current fractured state of the GOP -- a tenuous coalition of establishment Republicans, Libertarians and Tea Party activists -- has blaring warning signs for the 2012 race. Libertarians and Tea Party faithful will never work for, perhaps not even come out for, a mainstream Republican like Romney or Guiliani -- exactly the types leading in current GOP polling. Most Republicans find Ron Paul an anathema. Trump is making noises again about running (third party?) if the GOP nominates one of the current leading candiates. All of the current polling shows Obama beating any of the potential GOP opponents by double digits, some of them by more than 20%.
Occam's Tool| 5.25.11 @ 11:59AM
Well, many of us will be sitting home on our hands if Ron Paul is nominated. Otherwise, RCV, I think you have underestimated the power of Obama to really piss people off.
SpiralArchitect| 5.25.11 @ 12:45PM
Yes, don't vote because you know you want years more of Obummer. Brilliant move on your part, thanks.
RCV| 5.25.11 @ 2:01PM
Obama remains personally popular with most Americans, even those who disagree with him on issues, as even Rasmussen's polling confirms. The people he really "pisses off' are this crowd, and they didn't vote for him in the first place.
simon templar| 5.25.11 @ 6:34PM
What polls are you talking about? The jackass is back to a 48 percent approval. Over 53 percent believe he should not be reelected. These are not good numbers. Furthermore, the lesson of NY is that they can not win unless they cheat, misrepresent, throw up false candidates, and use scare tactics.
RCV| 5.25.11 @ 7:56PM
Ah, so that's the explanation for the Democratic victory....as always. Check out the real poll numbers on RealPolitics.com on Obama vs. any GOP opponent if you want to know the real facts.
simon templar| 5.25.11 @ 11:57PM
Ah, the same old crap about the same state. Your lying sack of shit comrades made the same argument when the tea party candidate lost this past year in New York. Then this past november you got your asses kicked by that same so-called american public all over the country in both federal congressional and state congressional levels at historic proportions. Liberalism is indeed a mental disorder.
Redstateboy| 5.25.11 @ 12:20PM
Only a complete FOOL can Ignore Nov. 2010 and over 500 Republican State Legislators took office and the National political Map turned almost entirely Red but Whoa!!! the 26th District IN THE CRUMBLING PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF NEW YORK and the GOP's in trouble.. brillant analysis RCV
RCV| 5.25.11 @ 3:30PM
The point is how fickle and fast-changing public opinion is. In Nov 2008, Obama was elected President and Democrats given control over both Houses of Congress. Two years later, the GOP swept the map. Now, 6 months later, polls show that Obama is beating all potential GOP contenders by double digits, and the GOP loses a locked seat they held even in 2008, which is in a conservative upstate New York district (anyone who thinks this is Manhatten has been there).
You can keep whistling past the graveyard, redstateboy, but the past few months have not been good ones for your cause. Ignore reality at your peril.
Redstateboy| 5.25.11 @ 5:01PM
Reality?!!!! Reality?!!? Reality IS $4 a Gallon Gas! Reality is a Loaf of Rye Bread costing $3.28! Un-Underemployment at 17%! Black Unemployment 16%, Hispanic: 14, Black Youth: 40% and Youth: 21+%, 15 Trillion in Debt, an - all you can say is - odd Foreign Policy and this happened under Das Messiah's Watch AND He and You want another 4 Years!!!?! We Can't afford 4 more years of this Maniac and yours and his bananhead political philosophy. Socialism Doesn't Work.. Socialism (as continually practiced by the Slave (Democrat) Party) has Bankrupted Us... why?!!? Why is this beyond you? I would really like to know... OH!!!! I See!! How could have have forgot... It's all Bush's fault!
emo| 5.25.11 @ 6:55PM
What youre missing is that as the Dem base grows things like unemployment and gas prices wont matter to the outcome of an election. The GOP will lose and the Dem will win. Its called Identity Politics. As America becomes less white, Identity Politics will grow stronger and dont give me crap about the GOP going after the socially conservative Hispanic vote. Black are socially conservative too. The GOP will never win more than 40% of the Hispanic vote.
Reprobate Charlatan Vomitus| 5.25.11 @ 5:54PM
I don't bother with silly reality when I sanctimoniously state I abhor the conservatism of tea partiers who I state are wholly lacking in intelligence who I state have no shred of real Christian love who I state have no shred of compassion while I state my support of the party of fifty three million abortions on the peril I face due to the reality of my level of intelligence and the reality of my level of real Christian love and the reality of my level of compassion and the reality of my level of mental disorder matters.
Seek| 5.25.11 @ 7:30PM
I didn't know loving Christians were so obsessed with throwing up.
JimP| 5.25.11 @ 12:23PM
I think you should consider the fact that it was NY in your analysis. New Yorkers, even upstate New Yorkers, are not like people from Indiana (just to arbitrarily pick a normal state). New York is almost as weird as Massachusettes. The majority of normal people have moved out of MA and NY. So things that happen in NY are not reliable predictors.
txn4ever| 5.25.11 @ 1:48PM
Spot on, JimP. Those who have a clue are leaving the blue states in droves which is turning those states a darker shade blue.
I live in a small Texas town and the number of people from blue states is about to out number us native Texans.
JimP| 5.25.11 @ 2:31PM
I know what you mean. There are so many Yankees here in VA you rarely hear a Southern accent in my area. I do hear lots of NY and MA accents though. No kidding.
Redstateboy| 5.25.11 @ 3:18PM
Call me... Ismail........ I escaped from the Gulag known as the People's Republic of New York 12 years ago - Right from the 26th District. My family - I've not been able to rescue and they're all still Prisoners. If you've Not experienced it.. You cannot fathom the devistation of what 40 Years of Liber-ul governance has done to the area. Nia. Falls, NY - Run by the Slave Party for DECADES is the most Corrupt, decayed, urbanized Ghetto and right across the Nia. River is Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada - Glittering, Exciting - Clean! The Unions have Gutted and Destroyed - like Locusts - the once great Industrial city of Buffalo.. so when I read comments from the likes of RCV.. from personal experience - I know Liber-ulism and Liber-uls IS a Mental Disorder.
DRed| 5.25.11 @ 4:25PM
You know Canada is more 'liber-ul' than America, right?
Redstateboy| 5.25.11 @ 5:11PM
Yes! I do!! and soooo...............................? Because One Liber-ul side of the River can profit from one of the 8 Nat'l. Wonders of the World while the other Liber-ul side of the river - Run by Liber-uls for 4 Decades reminds you of Mogidishu; Liber-ulism has some Value?
emo| 5.25.11 @ 6:58PM
Actually it isnt. One more term of Harper and one more term of Obama, Canada will have a lower tax burden than the USA. Already AB and BC have a total tax burden equal to the average US tax burden
Ray| 5.25.11 @ 2:06PM
An earthquake? Since when is the gain of a single house seat the equivalent of an "earthquake," especially when the Republicans still have the Majority in the House? I would describe yesterday's election as "a loud noise."
emo| 5.25.11 @ 6:56PM
Sorry but N Y26 is equivalent to when Scott Brown won in MA. NY 26 is the 12th most GOP district in the USA in the 2010 election. The GOP candidate in 2010 won nearly 70% of the vote
Seek| 5.25.11 @ 7:31PM
A loud noise often precedes an earthquake. The movie "2012" proved that.
Oldefarte| 5.25.11 @ 3:20PM
Everyone immediately don your hipboots to avoid be smeared with this above BS! If Mickey Mouse is the Republican nominee, Obama will be easily defeated by same. Obviously RCV's smoking ingredient is providing him illusionary dreams to fantasize about, because there's no way in hades that his boy will survive November of next year. The current lack of a current decisive choice for the Republican nominee is a healthy and beneficial thing, but make no mistake [fools], whoever the eventual nominee will eventually become will cause a groundswell of political support and rabid enthusiasm that will wash over Democrats like WHITE ON RICE. Correspondingly, anyone who [due to specific dislike of some partisan feature of said chosen Republican] decides to SIT OUT THE RACE will be the biggest FOOL [SINCE THE VIRTUAL SURVIVAL OF THIS COUNTRY'S EXISTENCE WILL HANG IN THE BALANCE OVER THIS UPCOMING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION]. No one Republican candidate selected will be able to please all people in all respects, but that is absolutely no reason to 'ACT SUTPIDLY' by avoiding the voting process [when same could possibly cause a default selection/re-election of the current socialistic, ANTI-ISRAEL, anti-business/capitalism, CHICAGO WAY, Acorn Community Organizer now running this country into the groups literally and figuratively!!!!!!!!!
RCV| 5.25.11 @ 3:59PM
Oh, how out of touch with reality you are, Oldfarte. Go to RealPolitics.com, which tracks all polls objectively. This is only the latest (a Reuters poll of May 11), but it's consistent with every other poll reported:
Obama 51, Romney 38
Obama 51, Huckabee 39
Obama 53, Gingrich 35
Obama 51, Pawlenty 33
Obama 54, Palin 35
Obama 51, Daniels 33
Obama 57, Trump 30
Obama 54, Bachmann 33
Obama 51, Huntsman 30
You maybe don't know how to read the writing on the wall, but Huckabee and Daniels and Christie do.
Redstateboy| 5.25.11 @ 5:15PM
They forgot Herman Cain... and the campaign is just really beginning - the first FOX sponsored debate proved to me that a-n-y-o-n-e of those who were on that Stage will decimate Das Messiah in a debate because............... Das Messiah's Record Sucks!!! RCV?!!!!! If ya hadn't notice Pal.... We're going Backwards!!! Backwards under this Buffoon and one of us is too arrogant or worse, to admit they F'up and it ain't me.
DRed| 5.25.11 @ 6:01PM
"We don’t need to rewrite the Constitution of the United States," Cain said. "We need to reread the Constitution and enforce the Constitution."
"And I know that there’s some people that are not going to do that. So, for the benefit for those that are not going to read it because they don’t want us to go by the Constitution, there’s a little section in there that talks about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
It's no wonder the Tea Party loves this guy.
Seek| 5.25.11 @ 7:36PM
The GOP tried the "best black" strategy back in 2004 when it ran a far-Right black, Alan Keyes, for U.S. Senator in Illinois. His opponent: Barack Obama. Final score: Obama 70%-Keyes 27%.
Republicans need a white candidate who can make a case for immigration restriction. Someone with brains and balls. My pick: Jeff Sessions.
RCV| 5.25.11 @ 7:59PM
Jeff Sessions couldn't get a single vote north of the Mason-Dixon line. Puleeeez.
Reprobate Charlatan Vomitus| 5.25.11 @ 6:06PM
I don't bother with silly reality of sanctimoniously citing polls in May of 2011 when the election is November of 2012 on ignoring polls showing the dithering idiot liar in chief trailing to generic unnamed republican candidates in states like Florida and Pennsylvania matters.
RCV| 5.25.11 @ 8:02PM
Zzzzzzz........
emo| 5.25.11 @ 6:51PM
LOL...I like how the MSMs favorite candidate Huntsman polls worse than Palin
RCV| 5.25.11 @ 8:03PM
Gotta agree with you there. What ever possessed Huntsman to think he's ready for prime time?
Jim Hlavac | 5.25.11 @ 2:07PM
Another group which is dumbly beholden to the Democrats are the gays -- though this is changing. And changing fast. Many polls seem to indicate that already some 30% of gays vote Republican. There's a "don't donate, don't vote" campaign on gay blogs against the Dems, too. And while I was reading this magazine 30 years ago as almost a lone Libertarian Republican among my gay friends, there are now more than a dozen political blogs of like minded conservative gays. There's more evidence, too.
Which might seem weird, particularly in light of some "conservative's" comments -- but I don't think Newt and Mitt and Rick Santorum are too conservative but rather elite RINOs - but whom one smooches doesn't affect your foreign affairs or tax policy views whatsoever. And somehow we're just not worried that say, Santorum is going to get anywhere with his "arrest the gays" commentary in practical terms.
Weirdly, too, the Republicans have a gay presidential candidate -- Fred Karger, whom while not standing a chance, well, there he is. And Gary Johnson, a former 8 year governor and successful business man is for gay marriage, and John Huntsman is for civil unions at least, and they're both running it seems.
And one message I've been pounding home to the gays I know is that while Obama is "evolving" on our status, a Democrat State Senator did get up in the Bronx on May 15, in front of thousands of his fellow Democrats and stood by as a Democrat preacher said gays are "worthy of death" and Obama didn't say a word yet, nor invite us in for a beer with our tormenter in his party. And African Americans are for more anti-gay than almost anyone else, and they're Democrats through and through. There's more of this evidence, too. And that sort of makes people begin to think -- and somehow drives a wedge in the meme that Democrats are gay supporters, while allegedly Republicans are not.
Of course, it would still be nice if more Republicans finally realized that we're completely irrelevant to most of what is going on in the nation, and real small in numbers too, and not at all related to the abortion and unwed mother debates -- or even what heteros to do families -- and just stop talking about us completely. But Prop 8 or DOMA certainly didn't save Schwartzenegger's marriage, now did it? For the law can't do what it claims to do -- which makes it weirdly, a liberal law -- ineffective and nasty for the hell of it to boot.
Still, economics and liberty with smaller government wins out, and we're taking our chances with Republicans. Worse comes to worse you round us all up and throw us all together in jail, which you will call punishment and we will consider the weirdest Club Med on your dime ever devised by the folly of man.
DRed| 5.25.11 @ 4:26PM
Hey, there have been many more gay Republicans in congress than there have been Democrats. You may be on to something, Jim.
cicero| 5.25.11 @ 2:34PM
The comment in the article about the immigrant laborers being preyed upon by the union organizers caught my eye. My grandparents were immigrant laborers some of whom became employed in the automobile industry, and were active in organizing labor. My father was a UAW international rep , and as a young man fought in the "Battle of the Overpass". So, I grew up in the union movement, and while working my way through school (midnights in an auto plant), was a minor union rep.
We seem to be forgetting the history of the movement, and why it came into existence in the first place. It was formed to combat the abuses then rampant in our early industrial formation. The unions were so successfull that they managed to have legislation passed on both federal and state levels that made the state responsible for what thee unions were fighting for. I suggest that the fair labor standard acts in each state, and on the federal level, as well as the federal and state labor laws were not only a direct result of organized labor, but over time, made labor unions superfluous.
What we have now are unions in the private sector that have been in nunerical decline for decades, as they serve very little (not no) purpose, and unions in the public sector that are out of control because there is no economic balance.
This article and those like it tend to judge unionism based on what is currently the situation, and not in an historical context. Historically, all union type organizations tend to make themselves superfluous if they are successful. We are now where the guild movement of the preindustrial age found itself, and where the Amalgamated Pyramid Workers found themselves after a time.
It is all in the timing.
Melvin| 5.25.11 @ 3:20PM
Many American Jews are not really Jewish anymore. Their Jewishness is more out of convenience than faith. Same can be said for the American Catholics as well.
The Catholic faith has been so bastardized by American Liberalism that it resembles a political action committee rather than a religion.
My wife is Roman Catholic and she can't stand the American Catholic Church, because of it's straying from traditional Conservative church dogma.
I am not criticizing strictly the Catholics, they're the religion that I am the most familiar with.
Of course American Jews will vote en-mass for Obama, because after all no one wants to be titled the, "Bad Jew," in Jewish gossip circles.
RCV| 5.25.11 @ 3:37PM
Fascinating, your views on Jews and Catholics, Melvin, but guess what? Most Jews I know are smart enough to figure out that we have secret ballots in this country, so they can and do vote in what they perceive are their best interests without worry about what "Jewish gossip circles" -- whatever they are -- might say.
shipley130| 5.25.11 @ 4:17PM
The Liberal man hater democrats are married with children, the blacks are poor as ever and the Jews have continuing shrapnel raining over them. Real good, Democrats, your plans are working out, right?
shipley130| 5.25.11 @ 4:21PM
I think Obama is weird and quite stupid much of the time. So, how about it America, reelect a weird and stupid president.
Bob Grant| 5.25.11 @ 5:58PM
Before you people start a cryfest about obama being a lock for 2012, may I suggest you might be in for a pleasant surprise, albeit at the economic expense of our country.
You see, Obama will not be able to buy off enough middle class voters in time for the election. He will have left too many middle class voters exposed to his disastrous economic policies because - thank GOD - the tea partiers put an end to the socialist juggernaut in november 2012.
Think about it. Why would some typical middle class family (white, black, hispanic, asian, male, or female) who relies on the private sector to earn a living, and who doesn't receive a check from the government, nor is a union member, would vote for Obama?
He has done nothing for those people except cause pain and misery that hasn't been felt since the '70's or 30's.
Rational Self Interest dictates these folks (tens of millions of them) will not be happy campers come November 2012 and Mr. obama may be the recipient of their collective anger.
RCV| 5.25.11 @ 8:01PM
I don't think so, Bob. The question to me is why would ANYONE vote for the folks who are offering up themselves on the GOP side. And from the poll numbers, most Americans are asking that same question, too.
Bob Grant| 5.25.11 @ 8:13PM
I don't know if you were around in 1980 but there was a huge ABC (Anyone But Carter) sentiment leading up to the elections. Sure Ronald Reagan's appeal was palpable but ABC ran a close second.
People simply had enough and, most notably Blue Dog Democrats and some union members, blocks of voters who Carter should have easily saved went Reagan.
Unless Republicans do the unthinkable and select a distraction who has no chance in the World (Palin...cough...Palin...cough) of winning the election, you will see a similar sentiment and result in 2012.
RCV| 5.25.11 @ 10:38PM
Not only was I around in 1980 - I'm 64 - but I voted for Ronald Reagan. I knew lots of other Democrats who did so as well. I don't know any Democrats who would consider supporting any of the potential GOP nominees, except for few rabid anti-war lefties I know who would vote for Ron Paul (or Dennis Kuccinich - all they care about is ending the war of the moment).
wbheff| 5.26.11 @ 11:01AM
There is one answer, which we will forget at great peril to our country. Any, repeat, any of the potential Republican candidates would be better than what we have now. This country might well not survive another four years of Obama and his fellow America-hating traitors in the democrat party.
John| 6.8.11 @ 9:00PM
you are an idiot
PCP Smoker| 5.25.11 @ 9:23PM
Victor from Ft Lauderdale, a caller to the Limbaugh show, once recalled that during his Soviet upbringing, his mother would not only never blame Stalin for whatever catastrophe was occurring at the time, she would swear to him that if only Comrade Stalin KNEW about the catastrophe, he would take care of it right away. Leftist never see the light. Forget them. A bullet to the back of the head is appropriate.
John| 6.8.11 @ 8:58PM
you are an idiot
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Dee See| 5.26.11 @ 2:33AM
----This tiresome back and forth of the
Tavistock Institute/CFR
'controlled opposition' front op
------as our domestic police state grid,
and the RED China TREASON op remains
unmentioned -----and as the greatest 'EUGENICS
friendly' world nuclear disaster in history
is buried, almost as thoroughly as the murder
of John Wheeler.
"Understand a single molecule of plutonium
or cesium in your lungs is a staggered death sentence.
A single pound of plutonium being
enough to kill everyone on the planet."
-ALAN WATT
(devastating and essential online coverage)
HUAC meets NUREMBERG 2012.
YOU KNOW IT'S COMING
rongordo | 5.26.11 @ 8:37AM
We know that Dem voters are fine with election trickery, etc. For example, inserting fake Tea Party candidates is no problem. Race card. Just fine. Etc, etc.
bigfurhat| 5.26.11 @ 11:49AM
Of course there is no Tea Party equivalent amongst Dems. We are less swayed by fascist zeal.
MattZ| 5.26.11 @ 10:59PM
"Much has been made about Barack Obama and his outrageous stance on Israel. His demand that she revert to her 1967 borders thereby relinquishing lands won in battle is just the latest puzzling foreign policy position of our president. You'd think that the outright disdain with which others in his party view Israel, would cool relations between them and Jews."
Why would anyone continue reading an article that debuts with so much misinformation?
MZ
John| 6.8.11 @ 8:44PM
The tea party is full of idiots.