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Election 2012: America Will Never Be the Same

By Peter Ferrara on 8.31.12 @ 6:08AM

Nor will conservatism, if Obama wins and is left free to pursue his inner Che.

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All of this is not just Obama. It is the heart and soul of today’s Democrat party, more publicly revealed to America now then ever before, as more and more Democrats have felt free under Obama to drop their mask, and reveal their inner Che. What is now revealed is America’s Democrat party as one of the most left-wing political parties in the entire world. That is why it is no longer a respectable institution that ordinary Americans can support, with their votes, their volunteer time, and their contributions.

This is what is on the ballot now for political offices all over America. If the Democrats go down to another stinging defeat this year as in 2010, then this progressive, neo-Marxist, radical left, Che Guevara vision will be more thoroughly discredited and repudiated than it ever has in any debate anywhere. The Marxists who are still fighting in reaction to the rise of capitalism centuries ago, and the industrial revolution that ushered in capitalist prosperity and dominance in the 1800s, will have been defeated for at least a generation, and maybe for good. Half of remaining Democrat office holders will turn to collaborating with the new Republican majorities and President to enact a more free market, Romney/Ryan vision than even was implemented under Reagan, ushering in a new American century of economic and military dominance.

Given how Obama has so religiously pursued the opposite of everything Reagan did, it will only be just deserts now if instead of being re-elected in a landslide and validated by the voters, as Reagan was, he is defeated in a landslide and discredited by the voters, as he deserves.

Can Conservatism Survive?
But the other half of the picture is what happens to conservatism if Obama manages to win. Obama is running an in your face campaign against conservatism. He has now openly embraced gay marriage. The Democrat theme of a Republican War on Women is morphing into an unrestrained embrace of abortion without limits. That will be featured all the more at the Democrat convention. Obama is even campaigning on forcing the Catholic Church to pay for contraceptives and medical procedures that transgress their political beliefs. Let Obama have one more Supreme Court appointment in a second term, and the historic Second Amendment victory the American people won in the recognition of an individual right to keep and bear arms in Heller v. DC will be gone in a matter of months.

If Obama wins campaigning like this, his victory will be taken as a rout of social conservatives and their pro-family values. You could expect even Republicans to start to fall from the social conservative platform, convinced it is a loser, particularly those running in the Northeast, Midwest, and Far West. Expect to see the explosive return of gun control.

Moreover, Obama is the first presidential candidate to run on a tax increase since Walter Mondale in 1984. Even in his first campaign, Obama did not run promising to increase taxes. He just promised not to increase them for singles making less than $200,000 a year, and couples making less than $250,000, a promise he broke and smashed to bits in Obamacare.

But now even more than Mondale, Obama is running on very specific, multiple tax increases for a second term. On January 1, the tax increases of Obamacare go into effect, and the Bush tax cuts expire, which Obama is pledged not to renew for the nation’s successful small businesses, job creators, and investors.

Who gets hurt the most by that is, surprise, the middle class, and working people, as that will throw America back into a double dip recession before we have even had any real recovery from the last one. The unemployment rate will soar back into double digits, the deficit will soar well over $2 trillion, real wagers and income will decline further, and poverty will soar. Again, even the Washington establishment CBO is already ringing alarm bells over that.

Another problem is that rhetorically Obama is running against “the failed policies of the past” as the cause of the 2008 financial crisis. He has explicitly made clear that means Reagan style deregulation. But listen to him more carefully recently and you will see he has effectively been saying that prior tax rate cuts were the cause of the crisis and recession as well.

There is no economic theory under which tax rate cuts cause recession. Not even Marxism. Even Keynesianism recognizes tax rate reductions as expansionary. But that doesn’t stop Obama from leading his Obamabots over the fiscal cliff.

If Obama wins having broken his pledge in the 2008 campaign not to raise taxes on the middle class and working people, while promising still more sweeping tax increases, and fingering tax rate cuts as the cause of the financial crisis, conservatives will have lost the tax issue as well, perhaps for a generation. The media will much more aggressively label anyone who even criticizes a reelected and therefore deified Obama in any way as a racist.

And despite what even some conservatives are saying, if Obama wins there is no way he will back down on his tax increases now already scheduled in current law for January 1. The “rich” already pay almost all the income taxes in America, and the federal income tax is already the most “progressive” in the world, and so there is no reason to Obama’s charge that the rich are not paying their fair share. But raiding them still more is a major reason Obama ran for office. After winning a second term, there is no way he is going to back down from a victory he has already won. When the economy turns south again, he will just blame it again on the Bush tax cuts, and after he has been reelected, even disputing him on anything will start to look like a racist civil rights violation justifying jail time. More people on welfare as a result just means more Democrat voters to him.

Moreover, if Obama wins, Paul Ryan and his brave, courageous, innovative budgets will have been discredited and repudiated as well. Don’t expect to see even Republicans bring up entitlement reform again, nor any more even the discredited tax cuts that “caused” the financial crisis. There will be no political hope or stopping point before fiscal collapse for America.

This is what is at stake for conservatives in this election. If they lose, the entire Reagan coalition will be taken as politically discredited and repudiated. These very stark different contrasts as to the future posed by this election are why this election is a decision point for the American people no less dramatic than 1776.

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About the Author

Peter Ferrara is Director of Entitlement and Budget Policy at the Heartland Institute, General Counsel of the American Civil Rights Union, Senior Fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, and Senior Policy Advisor on Entitlements and Budget Policy at the National Tax Limitation Foundation. He served in the White House Office of Policy Development under President Reagan, and as Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States under President George H.W. Bush.

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aware| 8.31.12 @ 6:36AM

Progressivism started with the Republican Teddy Roosevelt. So did the march to globalism. Selective memory doesn't change that.

Both parties are rife with progressives. In fact, progressives top both sides of the race now. One more progressive to be sure but still progressivism just the same.

Al Adab| 8.31.12 @ 11:42AM

William Jennings Bryan and LaFollet gave birth to the "Progressive" Movement. T. Roosevelt brought it to fruititon. Here we see the logical results of activist government.

What we need to understand is that activist conservatism is not Conservatism at all. Better management of the social-welfare state is no answer.

aware| 8.31.12 @ 1:23PM

Excellent comment.

cuban pete| 8.31.12 @ 1:39PM

I think early 20th century progressives, TR,Bryan, Truman,etc. were wrong but they still loved this country. Dislike and animosity for America ramped up with the Adlai Stevenson democrats in the early 50's and steamrolled in to the present time.
Hell,Truman said political differences end at the water's edge. A concept BHO rejects. He's a citizen of the world.
The late 20th century Dems were and are collectivists or worse.
The only exception is Clinton who has no core beliefs except for how to get his account serviced.

Al Adab| 8.31.12 @ 2:00PM

Yes, Pete,
Even as late as JFK , Scoop Jackson and HHH, the DEM party remained a patriotic if misguided one. After 1972 however, it became vogue to lambast American ideals and emphasize the nations "social injustice" rather than note that, even flawed, the U. S. was and remains a more prosperous, more free, more opportunity filled nation than any other. It is that trend which has given us this "post-american" administration.

Bob Grant| 8.31.12 @ 2:55PM

RRRRIIiiiiiggghhhtt,

Hence, our current condition.

So moving forward, what's your solution?

aware| 8.31.12 @ 5:20PM

Well, Bob, obviously a LOT of education must take place here with what's supposed to be the opposition to Progressivism, which is Statism. So you aren't so hapless on the battlefield of politics.

Romney IS a Statist. And you ARE in the position of having to support him, hence supporting Statism. Will any of you ever ask yourself how this happens, not just once but many times? Do you enjoy this having to sell out the "principles" you're always blathering about and vote for a damn liberal?

Other than hatred of all things Obama, what the hell does "conservative" even mean anymore?

A Romney would be unthinkable for conservative support in Goldwater or Reagan's time. Even a freaking Bush time. He was rejected for McCain(!?!) just 4 years ago, for God's sake! And everyone of those now calling me an idiot was posting far harsher things about Romney just a few short months ago!

I'm being kind when I say your opposition to Statism or Progressivism is, at best, inept. And completely ineffective. Ever wonder why?

Bob Grant| 8.31.12 @ 7:15PM

No more playing games. Man up.

Make a choice:
(A) Romney
(B) obama
(C) Some third party who doesn't have a Chinaman's chance of winning
(D) None of the above

You MUST make a choice and if you don't select Romney, you MUST tell everyone here why that selection is better than putting breaks - at least temporarily - on socialism.

Or would you rather let it burn and begin building the country from scratch?

If you have any balls, you'll play my game.

aware| 8.31.12 @ 7:56PM

You're the one playing games. "Election" games. I'm free, if nothing I like is being served, to not buy the product. If you want to support either of the Statists, then be my guest. But don't fool yourself about missing a terrible day of reckoning based on this election's outcome. Politicians' promises are meaningless against mathematical reality.

Are you too stupid to have not gotten that "none of the above" is what my whole freaking point is? Like ever since I told you morons back in January that Romney would be the nominee. I said that enough in the primaries and ever since.

I practically been screaming "none of the above" all along. How could you not get that?

Occam's Tool| 8.31.12 @ 8:00PM

Yes, you are free to nt "buy" the product. But, what Bob is saying is that you must recognize the consequences of your actions. Any vote NOT for Romney is a vote for Obama.

"None of the above"= Obama, is what we are gently telling you, aware. Reelecting Obama is giving a moron a terrible, unchecked weapon.

Occam's Tool| 8.31.12 @ 8:01PM

Sorry: "not."

Again, "none of the above"= Obama, as Romney needs every vote he can get.

Bob Grant| 8.31.12 @ 8:43PM

His flawed (warped) thinking is that Romney and obama are one and the same.

It's an either/or proposition for him. Either you ARE a statist or you are not. And by his standard, everyone's a statist - save for the "enlightened" few like himself - so we might as well keep the devil we know in office.

I come to the conclusion he's either an obama troll posing as some disgruntled libertarian to discourage would-be Romney supporters from voting for him OR he's a "let it burn" guy who believes the only way out of this mess (and to learn our lesson) is for the entire system to collapse.

Either way, it's dangerous thinking.

Bob Grant| 8.31.12 @ 8:45PM

That was in reply to OT.

aware| 9.1.12 @ 6:51AM

Bob, since I've been posting here since way before Obama how could I be a troll? In fact, I am neither troll nor libertarian. I'm a hard right anarchist and make no secret about it. You don't understand what anti-State philosophy is, do you? You don't understand what false left/right paradigm is either.

Democracy is belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

aware| 9.1.12 @ 6:53AM

And Bob, I don't WANT it to burn but it surely will. And shortly, too.

Paloma| 9.1.12 @ 12:07PM

I hate to say it, but I think you're correct, aware. I also believe that regardless of who is in office, we are going to continue down the slippery slope to ruin. Why do I believe this? Because I don't believe the President actually controls much of anything, but simply moves policy decisions made by others along. Both Carter and Reagan were handed agenda's by the CFR because they wanted a new Panama Canal built that would transect South America. Carter did as he was told and sold the Canal, Reagan couldn't get the new canal built because we couldn't (literally) move a mountain out of the way. We get dancing puppets for Presidents. Its the old military-industrial-corporate complex Eisenhower warned us about.

aware| 9.1.12 @ 1:40PM

I hate to say it too, Paloma, the the facts are what they are. If these partisans want blame the real culprit behind our demise they would be blaming Alan Greenspan and his successor.

Presidents have almost no control over the "economy". Or Federal spending. The Debt Bomb that is going to blow our nation to Kingdom Come is a BI-PARTISAN monster.

A partisan is someone who has convinced himself(or been convinced) that he can hire a member of a criminal gang to protect him from the activities of the gang the hireling belongs to.

Bubba Shawn| 9.1.12 @ 1:13AM

The 2012 election is all about Republicans winning a majority in the Senate. That is the only way Obama's second term can be shut down. For those throwing out the Supreme Court appointment boggy man argument, I am sure the Republican led Judiciary Committee will do a Robert Bork on all Obama's appointments.

I don't remember these "end-of-America" arguments when John McCain was running against Obama. In fact, I read just the opposite and know that the Romney disciples did not support John McCain in the general election.

I am a conservative Republican that has always voted for Republicans since Richard Nixon. I also worked very hard on the Steve Symms's stressful campaign to defeat Frank Church.

I will not vote for the draft dodger, abortion supporter, gun control advocate, tax raising Massachusetts liberal Mormon Mitt Romney. In fact I want him to lose.

2016 will be our opportunity to elect a conservative into the White House because both Romney and Obama wont be running.

aware| 9.1.12 @ 6:14AM

Well then, by this logic not voting for Obama is a vote for Romney, right? So by this kind of view aren't you getting what you want out of me?

aware| 9.1.12 @ 6:44AM

Bubba, I agree with you and have no idea why my reply to Occam ended up under your perfectly rational post.

Bob Grant| 9.1.12 @ 1:14AM

In addition,

Your use of the word "statist" may be inappropriate when describing Mitt Romney because he's never governed on a federal level.

Obama is clearly a statist. You have 4 years of hard evidence to back up the claim.

Romney, on the other hand, has a history of favoring big STATE government solutions to certain problems, but certainly not others, especially regarding state regulation, he has NO RECORD OF GOVERNORSHIP on the FEDERAL level.

When you lump Romney and obama together, you lose the argument because you can only SPECULATE on what Romney would do on the federal level.

But you go ahead and yell from the rooftops that obama and Romney are the same, comparing apples to oranges, and try your best to get obama reelected.

I hope your conscience doesn't bother you too much when your dollars are worthless and friends and family are suffering.

Me and my loved ones? ... I simply cannot survive another 4 years of this garbage!!!!!!

aware| 9.1.12 @ 6:35AM

Your understanding of Statism is flawed. It has absolutely nothing to do with whether a person has "governed at the Federal level", or even "governed" at all. It is a state of mind. You, for example, are a Statist, because you support those who see government as the organizer and controller of society. What you call the MSM is full of Statists who have never "governed".

If Romney, and Ryan, weren't Statists they wouldn't be talking about adjustments to the progressive income tax system, they be talking about abolishing it. They think they are making it "fair", just the same mentality of those they claim to oppose. There are countless other examples I'm sure you haven't the capacity to accept.

I say it is your attitude that has led us to where we are now, a willingness to accept "the lesser of 2 evils". You've done it for years as we descend into centrally planned nightmare that the Founders would be appalled at.

You are showing in stark relief what I mean by education must happen first. You are not even clear about what Statism even is. A blind man shooting arrows rarely hits the intended target.

Bob Grant| 9.1.12 @ 10:07AM

Aware,

Ok fine. You are an anarchist. It explains everything. Enough said.

My comments are directed at those who ACTUALLY have a stake in the future and who simply cannot stand for the "let it burn" mentality you so proudly endorse.

Hey genius, you might very well get your wish come November.

You are no better than the Joker character in the Batman movies so I have nothing more to say to you!

aware| 9.1.12 @ 1:20PM

Good way to learn something, Bob, just tell those who disagree to shut up.You are an ignorant puppet dancing on the string of those really do control the entire western world. What a pity.

You don't even know what an anarchist is do you, Bob? Here it is as simple as it can be put for a simple mind like yours, I believe it is morally wrong to initiate violence against anyone, whether as an individual or as a collective.

And don't show how manipulated you are by claiming the communists who smash windows at WTO meetings are anarchists. You can no more organize true anarchists than you could herd cats.

I notice YOU and the rest of these neo cons are the ones in this exchange that are telling ME what I MUST do. If you could you would MAKE me do too.

You and your comrades just want control of the State for the same reason any thug wants a club in his hand, to get your way and smash anyone who stands in the way. At least be honest about it.

aware| 9.1.12 @ 1:30PM

And the only reason I respond to puppets like you is not for you, you're hopelessly yoked to the plow. But maybe others will read this and decide for themselves if what I say has any merit or not. But, unlike you, I don't tell anybody what they "MUST" do. I haven't said anyone MUST vote or MUST not vote. Notice?

I respect the right of each, even you neo cons, to do what they wish. That's the difference between what I am and what you are.

Bob Grant| 9.1.12 @ 2:27PM

"You don't even know what an anarchist is do you, Bob? Here it is as simple as it can be put for a simple mind like yours, I believe it is morally wrong to initiate violence against anyone, whether as an individual or as a collective."

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Thanks for defining anarchy in simple terms for a simple marionette such as myself. I think I'm beginning to understand.

Can you answer this simple question for me?:

I assume in the non-violent, non-statist world you wish to live in there must be a "leader". Right? Can you give me a real-world example of a person who possesses/possessed the right qualities to lead such a world?

Ghandi? ...Mandela?...Manson?...the Dalai Lama?...Jones?...Marx?...

And please don't say our Lord. Let's limit this discussion to mere mortals.

aware| 9.1.12 @ 5:14PM

The only "qualities" the "leaders" of the world require is being a sociopath, a psychopath, a scoundrel, and a thief.

And a compliant, numbed, and fearful herd.

You just can't imagine a world without Dear Leaders, can you?

Alej| 9.1.12 @ 2:54PM

"I respect the right of each, even you neo cons, to do what they wish. That's the difference between what I am and what you are."

That's why you call people on this site "stupid," and "morons."

Got it. BTW, PolSci 101... Anarchy = Law Of The Jungle. Unless you are meaner and bigger than me, you might rethink your extreme concepts, if you have anything I want, animate or inanimate.

aware| 9.1.12 @ 5:04PM

Anarchy, derives from the Greek anarchia, literally translates, “without ruler.”

I'd get my money back on the PolSci 101 if I were you. Bet they taught you about "good" government too. Lot's of myths are indoctrinated in school, chum.

What you describe is chaos, not anachro-capitalism. If you make most of your own personal decisions already, like who to marry, you are operating outside the power of the State, therefor "without ruler".

Do you then think that if the State DID tell you who to marry, it would be a great improvement to the institution? Why then, in spite of the evidence, do you stand on the side of saying all the things the State does IS an improvement? Why would that be so automatic?

I have no problem with minimal government. But surely you aren't also finding yourself on the side of saying we have that.

Oldefarte| 9.1.12 @ 6:22PM

You're so """""STUPIDLY"""" FOS, it's flowing from your nostrils into your mouth. Romney is not a "Statist", but instead is a CAPITALIST. Ya boy is a "Statist", a Marxist and a domestic terrorist, in addition to be a incompetent administrator [which is the job description of the POTUS]. He never should have been elected in 2008, and it was only due to the STUPIDITY of the American people, in addition to the Democrats' political corruption [ie Acorn, non voter-ID's etc] that facilitated same. Not to mention being the son of a whore whose parents were whats known as MARRIED, a dog-eater, loin-clothed misfit who was subversively MANAGED by political parties unidentified that financed his private school education through law school and his political campaigns thereafter, a drug-toker/cigarette smoker [and yes he did inhale]! Calling him a "Statist" is inaccurate since he has no structure, no boundaries, no principles. This election could not be more diversely clear. Either we survive or we die economically, spiritually, and morally. We have been captured by whatever you want to term him/them, but it way, way beyond STATISM!!!!!!!!!!

aware| 9.2.12 @ 12:14PM

You will see it is too late no matter who wins now.

vtwin| 8.31.12 @ 3:43PM

Don't bevieve aware? Hear Romney himself..."In my view I'm a moderate an a progressive."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2XkKK1mio4

Alan Obama Fan Brooks | 8.31.12 @ 5:08PM

Fiscal conservatism completely ended 9-11-'01 and will never return.

Oldefarte| 9.1.12 @ 6:25PM

Ya think? If you have any aquaintances that are employed within the Federal government, You best advise them to go to Plan B after January!!!!

Alan Obama Fan Brooks | 9.3.12 @ 3:44PM

I don't have aquaintances that are employed within the Federal government, I hang out with private sector guys.

C. Vernon Crisler | 8.31.12 @ 6:39PM

It should be noted that Progressives hated Marxists and socialists. As Jonah Goldberg pointed out in his book *Liberal Fascism* there was an internicene war between socialists and Progressives -- the way that (say) Lutherans hate Calvinists (divided by a common theology).

aware| 9.1.12 @ 6:58AM

Goldberg is a Conservative Inc. Statist. And Lutherans don't "hate" Calvinists, they both rightly hate Popes.

Oldefarte| 9.1.12 @ 6:09PM

As a born, raise and educated Catholic whose Church is headed by "Popes", my response to that is that you cna GTH and burn there. In fact go FO!!!!!!!!

aware| 9.2.12 @ 12:09PM

That explains at lot. Including your mostly illegible post. Some "education". Guess that "infallibility" thing doesn't pass down the ranks, huh.

RCV| 9.2.12 @ 1:46PM

You're just a bigot, plain and simple, Aware. Go crawl under the rock from which you came.

aware| 9.2.12 @ 3:04PM

Because I won't kiss a pope's ring or because I won't kiss a king's ring? Whose ring are you kissing, RCV?

RCV| 9.3.12 @ 7:49PM

No one is asking you to "kiss the Pope's ring.". But hating is an entirely different matter, but something you do so well.

aware| 9.4.12 @ 6:01AM

Well let's see, RCV, maybe you're right. I don't believe I'm "infallible". In fact, I think I am very flawed.

But I've never burned, nor advocated burning, anyone at the stake because they disagree with me.

RCV| 9.4.12 @ 7:15PM

Guess what, aware? It's been a long, long time since the Catholic church burned, or advocated burning, anyone at the state.

I left that Church a long time ago because of my disagreement with Papal infallibility, but I don't judge today's Catholic Church, or today's Mormon Church, or today's Lutheran Church, on the sins of its long-ago leaders.

RCV| 9.4.12 @ 7:15PM

s/b "stake". Sorry

Oldefarte| 9.1.12 @ 6:06PM

You and your are going down in Novmeber!!!!!!!!!!

Joellen| 8.31.12 @ 6:56AM

GOD please help us. These words written by Peter Ferrara need to be emailed and/or read to everyone you know. If this doesnt "Scare/Push" you into action, nothing will. I've said it before and I'll say it again, I DO NOT WANT TO DIE IN A COMMUNIST COUNTRY! I do not want our true HEROES, OUR MILI TARY, DIE AND/OR LOSE LIMBS FOR NAUGHT! Fight good AMERICA, fight this evil party of people with all your soul and might. Educate everyone you know, bring them to the movie 2016 revealing the real Obama. Send them articles like this. Have a fact sheet available as amunition when ever you are in the public and just start educating strangers. The one thing this author made perfectly clear - Obama, Clinton, and the whole Saul Alinsky democrat party are now in for the kill. Dont go down without a fight and fight to win.

WinnieR| 9.4.12 @ 6:00PM

Joellen
Couldn't agree more.
Much of what Mr. Ferrara wrote have been split second fleeting thoughts, but to read these thoughts in this well-articulated column can literally make one's heart sink or churn the stomach.
Bill Ayers and his underground actually plotted to put people into reeducation camps and eliminate as many as 25 million people if necessary after their successful revolution. Some of these people are in Obama's camp today.

Von Mises Jr| 8.31.12 @ 7:18AM

If Obama is re-elected, there are probably only two alternatives for the future.
The first is that we will have civil war. Texas, South Carolina, Tennessee will lead the South. Oklahoma, Nebraska, Iowa will lead the Farm belt. And the Midwest will be conflicted as Wisconsin and Michigan are moving to the right. They will be pitted against tyranny from DC and bankrupt states such as California and the Northeast. Either they fight or they go down with the ship.
The second option is civil war. In a handful years our finances turn to those of Greece. Public pensions and entitlements begin to implode. Then we have riots where each state's inner-city cannibalizes the suburbs.
The Marxist Revolution will be complete either way, in my humble opinion.

Al Adab| 8.31.12 @ 11:34AM

Read Colion Woodards': American Nations for a vision of a future where the Union is dissolved along social/cultural lines. His thesis is predictive of how this election will go and is well researched.

The implications of this election reach far beyond the governance of the U. S. and to the future of liberty throughout the world. Either we defend it here or it will indeed fail everywhere.

Martin kzovich| 8.31.12 @ 7:22AM

For too many years the Republican Establishment has seemingly ignored the utter hatred and contempt that the so called Democrat Party has for anyone who disagrees with them. For too many years they have stood by idly allowing the Marxists to smear,besmirch,belittle,insult diminish,and encourage violence against any opponent. GWB is a prime example of the martyr
syndrome that has for too long prevented the " Republican " Party from challenging the story line and Big Lies of the Marxists. Now with our backs to the wall--to some small degree --maybe-some have woken up-I hope. But this is not enough.
Lets see the circus of the Marxist Convention. Let us see the campaign following. I gather the Left" which clearly represents a good part dof the so called Democrat Party has raected to the Convention with threats of violence and the usual smears and slurs. If there are people out there who are truly "undecided" what Republicans must include in their campaign is the treu characterization of the Left MSM as being un trustworthy being in the tank for Obama and more importantly their active participation in encouraging hatred thru lies and smears. They too should be held to account. And these so called undecided voters should be exposed to the contempt and hatred that even mainline Democrat politicians have for Republicans. Pointing out why reaching across the aisle is impossible . Naturally all of this must be tied in with Obama in his polcies and his behavior and words.

Matthew Quigley| 8.31.12 @ 7:48AM

After reading this, you may want to ask the "liberals" you know just WHY they don't come right out and admit that they're Marxists? After all, their political and media heroes are Marxists, and seek the downfall of the United States, so why don't they just come right out and ADMIT that's what THEY want, too! If they deny it, ask this: "Then why do you vote for and watch or listen to these people if you disagree with them? Are you stupid, masochistic or just caught up in trying to be politically correct?" If said "liberal" then replies that he doesn't have to answer that question, just calmly state "Well, Communists in this country have always had to be closested. Your response to my question is all I need to know. You don't disagree, you just are too cowardly to be open about supporting an ideology which you KNOW to be harmful, racist and destructive, and you're too scared to allow decent people to know that you're not a 'Democrat,' but rather a Communist. Either that, or you don't want to admit that you're either stupid or deluded and are emotionall unable to face the reality of your own counter-productive choices. Perhaps the best thing for you to do would be to shoot yourself, because that's at least faster and less painful than the slow group suicide your votes are inflicting on the rest of society. You can destroy your own life, but you don't have the right to destroy the lives of 300 million other people at the same time."

Watch their heads explode.

Paloma| 9.1.12 @ 12:08PM

They don't call themselves Communists any more. I believe the new label is Communitarianist.

Indy| 8.31.12 @ 8:08AM

This article is why conservatives are so frustrated, the strategy of "he's a nice guy, just in over his head" is wrong. He's a nice guy if you agree with him, but if you don't you get the"punish your enemies" treatment. Every voter should know who Frank Marshall Davis is, Barry's mentor, we know the alphabet media and NYT / WP (Pravda) won't go there but neither will Karl Rove and his mighty super pac or any other PACs. Talking heads won't discuss it, anyone who raises it gets the Alinsky treatment, Chicago is the center of the Left in the US, the connections of FM Davis, Valerie Jarett's, David Axelrod's families is unkown by most yet the Leftist Media is hunting down Paul Ryan's ex-girlfriend. So we do what we can on the internet and spread the word to see 2016, read books such as Ameritopia and expose Soros. This election should not even be close, the fact that so many voters are uninformed /misinformed is scary. If Romney should win, we must do all we can to keep the Bushies influence out of key government positions. It is time to turn back the Leftists / globalists.

Indy| 8.31.12 @ 8:58AM

Speaking of Valerie Jarett, sunlight -

"Jarrett comes from a family of highly influential leftists. In 1983, she married Dr. William Robert Jarrett, son of famed Chicago Sun-Times reporter Vernon Jarrett. Vernon Jarrett was a one time political associate of Communist Party USA activist and Obama mentor Frank Marshall Davis. Jarrett is the great niece of prominent Democratic Party leftist Vernon Jordan and her maternal grandfather was Robert Taylor, the first black chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority. Jarrett is a personal friend of Marilyn Katz who worked with Students for a Democratic Society, the 1960s group that banded radical left youth and students together under the New Left movement." ...much more at the link, she is the mentor to both POTUS and FLOTUS and she is a huge fan of Van Jones, is this who you want in the WH for another term?

http://www.trevorloudon.com/20.....e-jarrett/

Pecos Pete| 8.31.12 @ 8:30AM

Mr. Ferrara: This is one of your best commentaries.

The Obama Marxist Regime must be defeated. Another four years of Marxist management is certain to cause an economic depression and war.

davelnaf| 8.31.12 @ 8:37AM

Those who understand the damage Obama has already done with his spoiled leftist tantrum can be forgiven a little hyperbole in wanting this nightmare to come to an end. As the author notes, 2010 was more than the usual mid-term knuckle rapping but a wholesale repudiation of Obama and everything he stands for. Contrary to what some would like to believe the Obamanoids got it. As obtuse as Obama seemed in his surly post-election press conference his reaction was the beginning of the dem pushback. It wasn’t about doubling down on failure, but conditioning the public into believing that it’s wrong and the Obamanoids are right. You do this by attacking, as Obama has done, everything Americans regard as commonsense and normal. You hammer away at the theme that America has been bad and has got to change. As a skilled practitioner in this art it was actually liberating for Obama to go negative. It may be a little unnerving for normal people to see a president of this country behaving in this manner, but to understand O you've got to think like O. To win the people in the middle he has to tear down their self-esteem. Obama will go so negative in the next two months that it will confuse some independents into believing that they are responsible for causing it and like hostages afflicted with Stockholm Syndrome they will identity with their captors and vote in a way that ends their pain.

Derek Leaberry| 8.31.12 @ 9:01AM

No need to be so lachrymose. Obama can not impede the actuarial fact that over 75 million Americans will be joining Medicare in the next decade or so and almost all of them will take out much more out of the system than they paid into it. Bankruptcy is assured whether Barack Obama or Mitt Romney wins in November. The demographic Brazilianization of the country is assured as well as Obama, Romney, the Bush family and the Wall Street Journal are united in waning it to be so. The America of 2050 will only have scattered rural remnants that most Americans of the past would recognize. The Obama-Bush America of the future will most resemble "The Bladerunner", "Escape From New York" and modern day Detroit, Los Angeles, California's Central Valley or Miami.

aware| 8.31.12 @ 5:29PM

And the looting is just about complete. Economic collapse which leads to political crisis which ends with societal disintegration is a certainty now.

In fact collapse as already started, it's just there are a few ledges we'll bounce off of on the way to the abyss that will give the impression of "upticks". The Great Unraveling is under way. To stop it now requires we hit one of those ledges hard enough to stick. Oh the humanity!

Oldefarte| 9.1.12 @ 6:28PM

The only thing that will "bounce off of on the way to the abyss" is you and yours on the final swirl around the bowl before decending into the sewer of un-life!!!!!

cuban pete| 8.31.12 @ 9:08AM

Well to do suburban liberals voted for BHO in 08 because it made them feel good about themselves and as smart as they are they really believe that no matter who is in power their lives will not change. They are in for a surprise if BHO is re-elected.
These people do not "vote with their a**". They will express their love of minorities but they live in safe suburban towns and wouldn't drive through the city in a Brinks' truck. Their kids go to all white schools.
I fear this a voting block that will keep BHO in office.
I'll be dead before it "hits the fan" but I fear for my grandchildren.
Have a great Labor Day weekend.

Kwan| 8.31.12 @ 9:11AM

The election of Barack Obama as President of the United States was equivalent to promoting an atheist to being Pope of the Catholic Church. Obama doesn't believe in America he wants to fundamentally transform it into a Communist People's Republic, where a benevolent central government will guarantee "fairness" and "equality" for all. What about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? Forgetaboutit. In the old days slavery reparations was about 40 acres and a mule. Now it's about destroying the country in order to bring about "financial" and "social" justice.

Ken (Old Texican)| 8.31.12 @ 9:14AM

Peter,
I was wondering when you would FINALLY write this column.
If Obama wins by hook or crook, it is going to be reminiscent of the old western movies we have all seen where the corrupt"law" as in Sheriff etc. finally had to be confronted...yes with guns.

We are truly witnessing the lull before the storm. If that storm washes up Obama and crew for four more years,
the marxists will NOT like the results. A wise Japanese Admiril once noted..."forget invasion. There will be an armed American behind every blade of grass."
Yep,
even our dumbest tools...of good will ...will see all
the federal gloves come off perhaps six weeks after the election.

RCV| 8.31.12 @ 1:19PM

... and if you take up arms against the United States as you threaten to if you lose the election, then I can assure you that the gloves will indeed come off, and treasonous confederates like you will get the same whuppin' you got last time. And, it will be well deserved.

Ken (Old Texican)| 8.31.12 @ 2:39PM

Hi RCV
Frtunately, each of our troops and their officers now swear to protect and defend THE CONSTITUTION! (Not a President who routinely breaks that essential covenant with the American people.)
Lots of breaking ranks, RCV. I've talked with them.
Second, I have no slaves so climb off that "confederate" high horse.
Another whuppin? Your army runs out of gas in five days and we produce it all.
In the 1860s, the north had the overwhelming tech/manufacturing advantage. No more.
Your communist bosses know all of this, their only manpower pool are gangbangers.

When it gets right down to it, they won't fight free men standing between our homes and war's desolation.
Do you own a rifle?

Al Adab| 8.31.12 @ 4:09PM

Ken,
The president also is sworn to defend the Constitution. He is foresworn as he violates his oath of office constantly. He is enjoined to make sure the laws "be faithfully executed" and nowhere to make war against the States.

RCV| 8.31.12 @ 4:54PM

He is also sworn to put down any insurrections, and by God, he will.

TLP| 8.31.12 @ 5:53PM

If the Secret Service obeyed their OATH, instead of just Doing Their JOB?

The Domestic Enemy would already be gone.

Praetorian's!

Obey your OATH!

RCV| 8.31.12 @ 5:57PM

You're a funny guy, TLP.

MK48| 9.1.12 @ 11:12AM

RCV......does TRUTH = FUNNY

Paloma| 9.1.12 @ 12:14PM

The Secret Service is too busy getting serviced in secret to care about any oaths they took. We don't have leaders any more. We have gangsters who act like rock stars. Fools in pin-striped suits and Gucci shoes. Wall Street attempted a coup back in the 30's. If people knew anything about history they'd see that they did the same thing in this day and age, but we don't have any General Smedley Butlers - just more suits and shiny shoes.

Alej| 9.1.12 @ 3:27PM

"Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God !"

Who said that, RCV ?

RCV| 9.1.12 @ 6:27PM

You, apparently. But you have no friggin' notion of what "tyranny" is.

Oldefarte| 9.1.12 @ 6:29PM

"tyranny" is defined by the last four years!!!!!

Alej| 9.1.12 @ 8:15PM

Cool riposte, replete with rationale.

Since you're not up on basic American history, it was Thomas Jefferson.

RCV| 9.1.12 @ 8:30PM

I'm well aware that Thomas Jefferson was the author of the quote. He, however, knew what tyranny meant. It doesn't mean that the democratically elected leader in the freest Republic in the world is someone you didn't vote for.

Idiot.

Zeppo| 9.1.12 @ 10:18PM

Not that it changes your point, but it appears that Benjamin Franklin was the author:
http://www.greatseal.com/commi.....verse.html

RCV| 9.2.12 @ 1:52PM

Thanks, Zeppo! Fascinating historical link. Looks like Jefferson adapted the phrase from Franklin's original on the Great Seal, a fact I was not aware of.

Oldefarte| 9.2.12 @ 10:22AM

Mr. Webster defines "tyranny" as: "cruel and unjust use of power"

DA!

RCV| 9.4.12 @ 7:17PM

Yes, and it's really "cruel" when the other party enacts health care reforms you disagree with! Such tyranny!

Alej| 9.1.12 @ 3:18PM

Ken was talking about taking up arms defensively, in the event our criminal government pushes past the point of endurance. Just like last time around, Yankee boy.

You DO know the North invaded the South, at Lincoln's treasonous betrayal of the 10th Amendment, don't you ? You DO recognize that ALL battles in the War of Northern Aggression except Gettysburg were fought on Southern soil, don't you ?

We didn't want a damn thing from the corrupt North, except a good letting alone. But, like today, the North would have ground to a halt without the South. Today, without Southern oil & gas, you'd freeze in the dark the first winter, and with the Mississippi River bottled up, not a grain of wheat, corn or other produce raised between the Continental Divides would ever make it to market.

I doubt you know how ready we are to respond to assinine attitudes imposed on us by people who choose Kerrys, Bloombergs, Kennedys, Blagojeviches and Obamas to lead them, and influence our lives through Federal intervention.

RCV| 9.1.12 @ 6:26PM

The Civil War occurred only because the wealthy plantation owners of the South, in an effort to preserve a shameful system of owning other human beings for their profit, sought to secede from the Union in violation of the Constitution. Even then, until they fired on Fort Sumter - a national military installation - Lincoln resisted using arms to put down the insurrection.

I don't much care how ready little crackpots like you are ready to "respond". What I can tell you that the national aresenal is so overpowering in this day and age that the firepower available to snuff out instantly any little insurrectionist effort would make short, short work of any such effort.

The American nation -- because that's exactly what it became after the Civil War -- would be quite ready to deal with traitors swiftly and decisively, I can assure you that. Dream on, little Southern boy....

Alej| 9.1.12 @ 8:27PM

"Insurrection?"

Do you understand the definition of "state?"

Before the tyrant Lincoln invaded the several "states," defined as sovereign entities (got a dictionary ? That's why we aren't called the "United Provinces") in the Constitution, the federal government provoked the southern agrarian states into seceding, into dissolving the bonds from Washington, DC, as provided for in the Declaration of Independence and the 10th Amendment to the Constitution, by imposing impossible tariffs on industrial machinery imported from the northern industrial complex.

As I said before, the southern sovereign entities wanted only to be left alone. They had the right to depart in peace. They didn't attempt to to overthrow the government in Washington. THAT would have been an "insurrection."

Got a dictionary, little man ?

RCV| 9.1.12 @ 8:36PM

In enacting the Constitution of the United States, the People of those states allocated certain powers to the national government and others to the constituent states. The sovereignty of the latter was thereby limited. And that allocation of powers could only be altered through the process of Amendment as stated in the Constitution. A contract cannot simply be unilaterally abrogated by one of the parties. Secession was invalid, and the insurrection treasonous. The biggest mistake was not the war; it was the leniency with which the leaders of the rebellion were treated afterwards. We won't make that mistake next time around.

aware| 9.2.12 @ 11:42AM

Alej, you are 100% correct and I agree. Excellent post.

aware| 8.31.12 @ 6:20PM

Any body advocating violent overthrow of the State is insane. They already have "legal" right to make you dead and take everything you have or will have. And they take their monopoly on "legal" force as their prime directive, even more seriously than their "legal" right to steal.

Saying you will take up arms gives them the very best excuse, as if they needed one, to make you very dead. It happens all the time. Even as we post.

Alej| 9.1.12 @ 3:21PM

Thus sayeth the "anarchist!"

Got a dictionary ?

aware| 9.2.12 @ 11:39AM

Look, Alej, notice I am AGAINST lawlessness? And I already have in the above post used that dictionary to show you what political anarchism is. What more do you want?

I say what I have in this post because I KNOW what the State is, a monopoly on violence in a given territorial area.
Ever read Franz Oppenheimer's The State? Or Rothbard's Anatomy of the State?

I am a political anarchist because I believe in Law instead of the perversion of the Law. I do not support the State for the same reason I do not support a Mafia or any other criminal gang.

If you would put aside your adversarial attitude you will see we are not very far apart.

Try this: http://www.caseyresearch.com/a.....420ED0312B

Oldefarte| 9.1.12 @ 6:33PM

On 11/6/12 we will take that ' "legal" right to make you dead ' and shove it so far up their "Statist" anul cavity that it will blow their eyeballs and every other to political Hades!!!

aware| 9.2.12 @ 12:00PM

You're depth is breathtaking, as usual.(sarc)

Louis Jenkins| 8.31.12 @ 9:26AM

Unfortunately, even with the election of new talent we may see another recession/depression, double digit no less. Time will have to be given to the repair. If we get more of the same ole' same ole' there will be blood in the streets, maybe not immediately, but in the future. Mr. Ferrara, your article is a very good one. Too bad you haven't written these words before now. You last line included the numbers 1776, and we all realize what happened then.

TruSkeptik| 8.31.12 @ 10:56AM

Your final reference to 1776 is most welcome, although perhaps too late in the game. As pointed out, the left has been infiltrating American politics for generations. The left is nothing if not patient while the right is perfectly willing to pretend they do not see what is happening right before their eyes. The coming battle will be extraordinary.

Trialdog| 8.31.12 @ 11:05AM

Thank you Mr. Ferrara. Your witnessing the rise of of today's progressives in college and law school mirrors my own experience. Not all law students during that time were politically active. I was and, like you, witnessed the hard left students become, in effect, ground troops for the revolution. I remember how much they hated Reagan, capitalism, and had a never ending list of grievances growing out of "imperialism." I chuckle when I see Obama stumping for Derek Bell and recall the academic debates Bell was embroiled in. I've tried to share my experiences and thoughts with others. For the most part, given they did not attend law school or were politically inactive, it is hard for them to understand. You articulate the thoughts beautifully. Thank you.

Who Knows?| 8.31.12 @ 11:32AM

Bravo, Mr. Ferrara!

It is truly exciting, even riveting, living through these days, as America teeters on the edge---dive down into a Marxist hell, or rise up and proclaim freedom, once again?

I’m reminded of something I pondered, way back in the 60’s, right after turning 18---during the Cold War, the idea that at any time, a nuclear bomb exchange could happen, the real possibility of imminent death was there.

So, what if you knew a missile was on its way, and you were to die in ten minutes? What would you do?

My brother and I, assuming we had a little more time, said we’d find a woman and make love, at least to die in the arms of someone.

Then, in 1967, near Chu Lai, Vietnam, during the Tet offensive, I DID “die”. Who would have believed my previous pondering would come true?

During a nighttime attack, with rockets flying across the fields---we were in no danger---we watched in awe. When a huge explosion, mushroom shaped, filled the sky, I immediately assumed it WAS a nuclear bomb—and, that I was seconds away from being ripped to shreds.

Despite “knowing” this, I still ran to the bunker and hugged the floor, as the body shook in fear. “I” wasn’t really afraid, though---just MAD I apparently wouldn’t get to live my whole life, to a ripe old age. I even wondered what it would feel like when the blast tore the body apart.

Who Knows?| 8.31.12 @ 11:42AM

Soon enough, the expanding air did shake the nearby hooch, and THEN I got really depressed! I was doomed to die a slow and painful death of radioactive poisoning!

In a minute, though, the other guys, none of whom had joined me in the bunker, said it wasn’t a nuclear bomb---it was the ammo dump!

“I’ve” been “dead”, ever since. That is, it became apparent to “me” that being the body is NOT all it’s cracked up to be.

What an assumption, believing it is!

“Fool, if you think it’s over…..”

Change of consciousness, is not consciousness of change.

Or, is it the other way round?

Consciousness IS.

You say, “I am conscious.” What that truly implies, is “I am consciousness”. Or, “Consciousness is me.”

Are YOU aware of all this?

Yup, whether YOU “know” it consciously, or not, YOU are being consciousness is being YOU.

Laugh, and lap, it up!

Nick| 8.31.12 @ 12:18PM

Thank you for your service, WK.
And, Welcome Home.
Semper Fidelis.

JD| 8.31.12 @ 11:52AM

Ferrara is dead wrong. The defeat of a Democratic incumbent in a presidential election is a speedbump. The entitlement mentality remains, and the march left will continue.

Seek| 8.31.12 @ 12:11PM

Much as I oppose Obama, I must note that Peter Ferrara succumbs to the popular fallacy of the omnipotent second term. The metaphor "lame duck" exists for a reason. The last president whose second term could be called effective was Eisenhower. Subsequent to that, Nixon never got to finish his second term. Reagan, Clinton and Bush II did, but in severely weakened condition; they accomplished little relative to their first term.

The notion that if re-elected, Obama can "do whatever he wants" is contradicted by historical experience. That doesn't mean, of course, that we should sit complacently and take things for granted. Fight back.

Mike G| 8.31.12 @ 1:01PM

Reagan, Clinton, and Bush II accomplished little in their second term because they adhered (somewhat) to the constitution. King O has already shown that he has no regard for it.

Bob Grant| 9.1.12 @ 1:53AM

I beg to differ. There's a little ace in his pocket called The Executive Order and he's demonstrated he's not afraid to use it and boasted as much during an interview this week.

That, coupled with the continual stacking of the federal bench with radical leftist judges who will rubber stamp everything he does, and yea, we're pretty much FUBAR if he's reelected.

Mario| 9.1.12 @ 8:47PM

You obviously are a moron and an ignoramus. You never heard of executive orders. And I don't know what you are talking about, but Reagan's second term was better than his first term since the economy was booming.
Bush Junior had a good second term until the Dems took the House in 2007 and intentionally ruined the economy.
Clinton's second term was better than his first since the GOP House and Senate kept him in check, allowing for a booming economy. And that's with the threat of impeachment.
Even with a dominant GOP House and Senate(if we win), Obama could be very dangerous especially on the foreign policy side. He has plans for a "civilian force" under his command only. That should have red flags screaming.

Petronius| 8.31.12 @ 12:47PM

The reason Marxism will never be debunked and its believers disabused is its grounding in childish sentiment and formulation as a fairy tale and requires only emotional investment and defiance to all opposition. The Republican establishment refuses to fight them and tries to accommodate them like indulgent parents instead of beating their arrogant asses and sending them to bed without supper.
The Liberals will eventually destroy this country. And when there is nothing remaining for them to take they will meet their bitter end at the hands of all of us they robbed and prefer to die on our feet than live on our knees. We cannot defeat them politically so long as They control our cultural institutions barring Conservatives from admission. Clerics, academics, and media figures don't run for office.

RCV| 8.31.12 @ 6:00PM

Yes, it's a shame how Clint Eastwood has been barred from Hollywood and never honored for his work. Or how Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and Michael Medved just can't find an airwave that will carry their message. Or how Dinesh D'Souza has such problems publishing his books or producing his movies.

What a litle whiner...

nathan| 8.31.12 @ 8:49PM

Yes, poor Rush and his 500 million dollar contract. I really feel HIS pain. Please just please abuse me this way. Sean has two shows, a radio and a TV show and yes, he tells us constantly how bad he had it early on but he sure makes up for it now. Oh come on. You're joking right?

Paloma| 9.1.12 @ 12:18PM

Petronius, did you mean to say "neo-liberalism" will eventually destroy this country? Rush and his ilk are promote neo-liberal policies, conservative ideals.

nathan| 8.31.12 @ 2:12PM

I'm going along reading Peter and thinking yeah sounds reasonable until I get to this:

Paul Ryan and his brave, courageous, innovative budgets will have been discredited and repudiated as well.

"brave, courageous, innovative"? A budget that doesn't balance for 28 years? A medicare proposal that doesn't kick in at the earliest until 2028 despite the fact that medicare right now is insolvent? I mean Rand Paul's budget which talked about doing real balancing in five years, or the Gary Johnson who is equally aggressive and talks about killing off whole agencies, yeah those two guys are brave and courageous. But Ryan? He's just kicking the can down the road to when he and MR are long gone and don't have to deal with it. Brave indeed.

Understand, BHO is ghastly. We all agree. No question. But please, Ryan and MR based on their speeches, short on specifics, don't look hugely better, especially on the economy. Medicare for example has to be addressed NOW which means people on it today and joining it today have to be part of the solution TODAY not in 2028. Because by then on medicare alone, we will be broke as a country.

Whoever wins, grab your survival gear folks. You're going to need it.

Mario| 9.1.12 @ 8:49PM

You're an idiot. Paul Ryan's Budget cuts all the welfare trash program without touching our military. Obama doesn't even have a plan except to cut our military to fund all the welfare trash and drug addicts.

Bob Grant| 8.31.12 @ 3:03PM

How does one get the message out when more people choose to tune into Honey Boo Boo than the republican convention?

Any bets on who they will be pulling the lever for in November?

Did you know a federal judge panel struck down the Texas voter ID law yesterday?

I just want to point out the fact that this will be an uphill battle....SO GET OFF YOUR ASS AND MAKE SURE HE'S NOT REELECTED!!!

DO SOMETHING!!!

Theolonious| 8.31.12 @ 3:10PM

Let us pray MITT ROMNEY fires OBAMA's appointees, repeal OBAMA CARE, and frequent FRIDAY Exec Orders. If not, might as well be BO. Sarah Palin who could have propelled that Fool to the WH. BRIE EATING GOP dis real PEOPLE. AMERICANs raise kids on her PRINCIPLES. GOP AS BAD AS THE DEMS. John BO & MITCH McC are just as BAD as Peloshi/REID, once behind a CLOSED DOOR. I haven't had meaningful employment since the LINDSAY-ITES allowed OBAMA to get elected! WHY DID I NOT START A BUSINESS, the 60k I was relying on in the HOUSE I HAD to sell kinda DISAPPEARED. REMEMBER it was the GOP LEGISLATURE then that allowed WALL STREET to not take their LOSSES , allowing the banks/feds to devalue American HOUSEHOLDS REAL WORTH. At least assemble PACKAGING line the REAL GOP's new low startup no BEN. pays $7.25 at. I DO BELIEVE ITS CALLED CRONY CAPATLISM. OBAMA/PELOSI/REID JUST RAISED THE GOP MODEL TO AN ADVANCED ART FORM. FM, you haven’t heard the best. EARNING a , the amount of RETIREMENT SSI I am entitled disappears. At 54 , $96,000 tpaid in since 14y/o in 1972 , SPENT supporting PROGENY that elected THE ONE! GOP does not want to pay me my SSI or Medicare anymore than the DEMS. Yes I am shouting,,pounding on my desk also!Well let me run. I got to go to my 12hr shift FOLDING BOXES in spite of 2 COLLEGE DEGREES. Like many I made of the mistakes of actually being successful and make a good salary in a previous LIFE.

nathan| 8.31.12 @ 3:21PM

MR cannot "repeal" ACA, only congress can do that. He can sign whatever congress puts on his desk, but since ACA is legislation, it mostly (I say mostly, the executive has "some" leeway here but constitutionally and note I said constitutionally) it will require congress to act before Romney can act. At least I think that's how it works in this country?

nathan| 8.31.12 @ 3:17PM

Again, I totally agree, BHO is horrible, ghastly does not deserve re election. But what is so really disturbing isn't it is that the republicans just continue to nominate really rotten presidential candidates? Outside of Reagan, who has been very good? Dole? Blah. Bush Senior? Next. Bush Jr? Maybe one of the five worst presidents in American history. McCain, a confirmed RINO. MR. Marginal at the very best. A better candidate would not just be even in the polls with BHO, he would be 20 points up by now. We simply cannot afford any more republican candidates/presidents like these. The republic cannot afford this. There's too much at stake.

Bob Grant| 8.31.12 @ 3:47PM

We, as voters, can only choose from who's available AND electable.

EVERY potential conservative nominee was simply too green.

Hence, we have Romney.

In my opinion, he's slowly evolving into a true conservative because of the conditions of the country as described in Mr. Ferrara's article.

He might pleasantly surprise you. At any rate, he's the candidate so get on board. Not part of the solution, part of the problem....

Nick| 8.31.12 @ 6:07PM

I hate to tell you this, Nathan, but.....you are a RINO!
(Or, a liberal troll. Take your pick.)

nathan| 8.31.12 @ 8:41PM

LOL Sticks and stones . . .

Actually I'm not a republican, not any more. What I am is . . . . Drum roll please . . . a

CONSERVATIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A real one by the way. Not a what passes for "conservative" on this site or most sites these days. I actually know and SUPPORT the Constitution, I understand the Founders better than just about everyone here, I insist that everyone, left and "RIGHT", obey the document, that "good intentions" is not a valid reason to violate the document, IE "defense of the country" that republicans as well as democrats have to play by the rules. (Gee what a novel thought!). I am not a neocon imperialist who wants to go out and play "democracy" jihad and in fact I don't believe in "democracy" a form of government Madison called the vilest on earth. I believe like Ron Paul that the best thing we can mostly do is stay out of other people's business. Finally I am somewhat fanatical about defending individual rights both here and abroad and I do not defend detainee abuse under ANY circumstances. (Nor did Washington or Reagan so I'm in good company.)

Questions?

Nick| 8.31.12 @ 9:01PM

You wouldn't know what the U.S. Constitution contains if James Madison smacked you upside your head with it, Nathan.
As I've shown you, many, many times.

Mario| 9.1.12 @ 8:43PM

You are an idiot. Ron Paul and Reagan are NOTHING alike. Ron Paul abandoned Reagan within two years of his adminstration. And no true conservative would want drug legalized.

cicero| 8.31.12 @ 4:24PM

The price of liberty is constancce vigilance. It is never a one shot proposition. The thing that has always struck me about socialism is that those who bring it about never share in the poverty that results. All you need to do is look at the denizens of the present administraation, and their supporters. None of these people have ever produced anything, or worked in the real world. President O is a prime example. He has never had a real job, nor has his wife. However, they are worth over $10 million. How did that happen. All of our federal bearuocrats, and state and municiple workers - they are being paid more than the citizens they supposedly serve, with benefits that have been stripped from the working class years ago due to financial reality.

It is the siren song of Marxism. Come to me and I will make you feel good. Just give me all of your wealth, and the other guys' too, and I will care for all your needs. But since I am so wonderful, you will have to support me in a style that you will never see. Your poverty of soul and substance is an unfortunate result, but we will work on that.

Paloma| 9.1.12 @ 12:21PM

Love this, Cicero! The implementation of Marxist ideals, or socialist ideals always results in mass human suffering. Hitler was working toward the same goals, but history focuses on the mass murder aspect without explaining the political ideology behind his butchery. Marxism will never work as long as human beings act like human beings.

supremecourtlegislator| 8.31.12 @ 6:04PM

The leftist in his leftist mind
Has goodness and evil intertwined.
He throws each in the maw
For the good of us all,
And wipes out man to save mankind.--the Book of Obamaricks

There is a dreadful little drama
Which concerns the cockroach Obama.
He backstabs and he steals,
The red liquid he spills,
As he slouches toward Aceldama.--Ibid.

Think of the unsinkable Titanic
As it sank in the North Atlantic,
Of the human debris
In the ice-bergy sea.
Was it Obama who ran it?--Ibid.

O's an economic psychopath
Who's outdating the Grapes of Wrath.
He's unable to figure
The problem that's bigger
Isn't his math but his aftermath.--Ibid.

nathan| 8.31.12 @ 8:45PM

I'm not a fan of poetry except in song lyrics, hiku's and limericks, but this wasn't bad. Nice work. I'm not sure I fully understand it and I'm not really into the "find the hidden meaning" stuff that my instructors bugged me with in school, but still, nice work.

Carroll | 8.31.12 @ 11:31PM

Under Obama, however, the heart and soul of the party has been let out of the closet and revealed (only for those paying attention, however, not the millions who so stubbornly still are not). And that heart and soul is Che.

BackToBasics| 9.1.12 @ 12:05AM

I think the built-in troubles facing America are already severe enough so that it is impossible to say what may happen and how the country and its' leaders might respond to great turmoil even using our own history as a guide.

In hindsight, 9-11 did not shake us to our core. After about 6 months the democrats began their assault on the Republic and Republicans as before 9-11 and increased the tempo and severity of their divisive attacks.

I think America will yet be shaken to it's core even more than the Civil War did. What happens after is impossible to see. One of the first things to go will be Republican worry about conforming to political "correctness." Once the tanks take to the streets and bullets start flying in earnest and maybe many people will not have enough to eat, all this PC-fluff that has most Republican leaders knock-kneed and tied up will evaporate.

America will NEVER get above the mess we are in unless the English language reverts to common-sense again.

BackToBasics| 9.2.12 @ 11:26AM

1 Thessalonians 5:23 - "For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then suddenly destruction will come upon them, like pain upon a woman in childbirth; and they shall not escape."

BackToBasics| 9.2.12 @ 11:27AM

Car quand ils diront, la Paix et la sécurité; alors subitement la destruction les trouvera par destruction, comme la douleur sur une femme dans l'accouchement; et ils ne s'enfuiront pas.

BackToBasics| 9.2.12 @ 12:41PM

Acts 13:25 - "Et comme John a fini son ministère, il a dit, qui croyez-vous que je suis ? Je ne suis pas le Messie. Mais, regardez, il vient après moi. Je ne suis pas noble de défaire ses chaussures."

BackToBasics| 9.4.12 @ 6:35PM

Sonderegger copied Peter Ferrara's post and then also copied my post. He put an advertisment in each one. His post's were deleted so my comments were to him before deletion.

Martin kzovich| 9.1.12 @ 7:49AM

If the 2012 election mirrors the 2010 election it will prove all polls were wrong and the polsers liars.
But to the point what will the Marxist Deomcrat Party do ?

Two options in my view:
Go the route of the Billy Boy Clinton making things appears to be acceptable to moderates and so called independents except all the while controlling all governmental elements after which there is only one party

Go the route of sabotage,encouraging hatred and violence. The Marxists do not like losing anf if we recall the 2000 election t6his is just a mild hint of what might come.

Paloma| 9.1.12 @ 11:58AM

I can agree with most of what is written here but think the author needs to take a look at what has happened to arms sales to foreign countries under Obama because it is rather shocking. Under this President our supply of arms to foreign countries has skyrocketed and the US now supplies over 75% of armaments to countries around the world. So much for the Marxist beliefs for a peaceful planet.

Bob Grant| 9.1.12 @ 12:31PM

If you look at this in terms of him being an anti-colonialist, it kinda makes sense.

Kinda like him forcing NASA to open it's arms to the muslim world.

It's seems nutty and illogical at first blush until one puts on their obama-is-an-anticolonialist-glasses and the picture starts forming in ones mind.

Food for thought.

Oldefarte| 9.1.12 @ 6:36PM

Peter Ferrera is by far the very best writer that TAS has. This editorial was amazingly outstanding, truthfully honest, and superb. Bravo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TexasLadyJuanita | 9.1.12 @ 11:15PM

This article took my breath away. Obama thinks our middle class is decadent compared to the suffering in other countries. The people come here from Mexico to get away from poverty, in order to make money. Why has it not occurred to the masses of poor to change Mexico into a Republic like the one they keep coming to. The other confusing thing is that there are many Mexicans who want to make us Mexico. There are so many countries that need to create an America in their own country. But, they cannot, for they do not understand our liberty, our Constitution, and our the ability to govern ourselves. Our enemies within have kept our borders open - to allow in those that do not have the ability to govern themselves. This is the reason also that the ghetto pimps keep their supporters on the government dole - more people that cannot govern themselves. What are the rest of us to do? - We The People who understand the Constitution and Liberty? What happens when we are outnumbered? I pray to God that He will interfere. I am so very blessed; and I do know how the story eventually ends. The ability to look evil in the eye and call it evil - Americans are just now waking up to understand how necessary this is.

GGM| 9.2.12 @ 8:01AM

To ignorant fools who think the US military is going to side with the jihadist Obama I have bad news. I was in the US Army . You should know the following pertinent facts.The soldiers who were REAL soldiers and saw combat were overwhelmingly white and approximately 40% were from the Southeast and at least another 45%-50% were from red states or held conservative views . They intensely despised Obama. A few actually spoke about plans to stage a coup if Obama was reelected. These real soldiers included patriotic Hispanics so don’t bother with R word although I don't give a sh-- if you do. The vast majority of soldiers from the racial group who supports the jihadist Obama were not in combat. So the “progressive” traitorous trolls who think they can count on having “firepower” advantage, you are sadly mistaken. I am sure there are enough sane , intelligent voters to rid the US of the biggest traitor in US history .But if it came to a civil war ,the left wing will be at a incredible disadvantage. Using the American Civil War as a template for a possible Civil War if the jihadist traitor is reelected doesn’t apply to the current situation. It is not North vs South but it is true Americans vs anarchist Stalinist traitors. The firepower is infinitely greater on the “True American” side

Butch| 9.3.12 @ 5:27PM

Thank you sir. I was wondering if we'd ever get a rejoinder to RCV's blustering. I know there is no way my Louisiana-native AF Special Forces nephew would ever train his weapons--which are most formidible--on his mother.

Cincinnatius| 9.2.12 @ 10:27AM

I agree with every point made by the author but would like to suggest he forgot to make one: the American people will not go quietly into Obama's good night. For example, Mr. Ferrara suggests one more appointment by Obama will result in repeal of the second amendment. Maybe so, but it might be a very hazardous place to live for all supremes and Obama as well, as the revolution which would arise from such actions would be on a scale difficult to ignore. Instead, I would suggest that there are still those who will not relinquish their "inalienable rights" so easily, choosing instead to "water the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants!" as is the American way.

Jardino| 9.2.12 @ 5:16PM

Reagan was not obsessed with balancing the budget, nor did he engage in social engineering by defunding everything he disagreed with. Section 8 of the Constitution grants powers to the Federal government: tax, borrow, promote science, regulate commerce and promote the general welfare. Reagan worked with Congress to raise Social Security taxes and extend the program's solvency to 2040. Would that get him nominated by the GOP today?

Mimi | 9.2.12 @ 7:43PM

Look...We have been forced by pure circumstances to reign in federal spending ! If Mitt get elected he has the " BainLike" knowledge and know how to dig into this thing and solve it quickly! Watch close....see his confidence HE KNOWS WHAT HAS TO BE DONE and will waste no time getting this country turned around.
He says he will help families... give a good boost to prosperity for EVERYONE!
There is NO reason in the world we can't promptly WIN this election....NONE!
I wondered during the primary...why he got so much financial support from the business world...it was MONEY that defeated the less prepared candidates even though we slaved to get the most Conservative guys in there...it was Mitt who like cream stayed on the top!...He had the smarts of the U.S.A pushing him ....they knew what most of us didn't Mitt a creative number cruncher. America get confident...the MAN OF THE HOUR and the best help he could get beside him is on the case....they will zero in on our economic recovery like lasers...Expect quick and great things....Cheers!

Oldefarte| 9.3.12 @ 10:19AM

Partially true. Reagan tried [as did Bush] to inact budget decreases, but both had to fight the majority Democrats in congress, and therein lies the problem. It's not enough for conservatives/Republicans to elect REASONABLE/RATIONAL candidates, if the Democrat are in control of both the Senate and the House. It will be imperative in November to not only elect R/R but more importantly elect as manay as possible Republicans to congress. It's a numbers thing, and a POTUS is hopelesslly deadlocked unless they have those numbers [just ask BHO what happend to his H&C after the 2010 elections]!!!!!

Timely Renewed | 9.2.12 @ 7:15PM

Unfortunately, the solution must go deeper than simply replacing this arrogant ideologue. The present and future abuses of the Obama presidency are only manifestations of a national government which began expanding far beyond its original constitutional bounds long before Barack H. Obama came to the White House. At the foundation of the federal leviathan is Supreme Court decisions since 1937 which have stripped away the Constitution's limits on federal power. We can only hope to be permanently free of this or future administrations of its ilk when we restore the original limits on the national government. Given how entrenched that Supreme Court jurisprudence is, and the leftist judges Obama has already appointed, this can only be done by constitutional amendments restating those original constitutional understandings. See http://www.timelyrenewed.com.

Oldefarte| 9.3.12 @ 10:21AM

True and we can only do as you suggest by electing as many R's as possible[even Akin in Mo]!!!!!

Carroll | 9.2.12 @ 10:38PM

"liberal" academics tutoring the next generation in the proper, socially acceptable attitudes to worker revolution, and providing cover for each other on the acceptability of more and more radical views.

Mickle | 9.2.12 @ 10:42PM

Oldefarte| 9.3.12 @ 10:22AM

I'd suggest more like UBL!!!!!!!

BackToBasics| 9.3.12 @ 12:23AM

Carroll, Mickle and Sonderegger all copied and pasted from Ferrara's article. Sonderegger also copied my first post.

Since you link to chaussures (French for shoes) often like you did in an above post, I'll send another quote for you.

Exodus 3:5 - "And the Lord God said, do not come closer: put your shoes from off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground."

BackToBasics| 9.4.12 @ 6:37PM

Snoderegger's copied posts, mine and Ferrara's with advertisements inserted, were deleted by AmSpec staff.

Osamas Pajamas| 9.3.12 @ 2:25AM

THE AGE OF OHBUMMER, KING OF THE REPUBLIC OF LIES, PART I

OhBummer is a b00b and a fool for attacking the American Tea Partiers. Heck, he thought that he had all of us hoodwinked, hornswoggled, and bamboozled. He’s annoyed that the Tea Partiers are not grateful to him for hijacking the American healthcare system --- the greatest act of vandalism perpetrated upon the American people since a gang of jihadi frootloops and loonytoons hijacked some planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center towers --- and the Pentagon, and made a failed attempt to crash into the White House --- and instead drilled a hole in a Pennsylvania farm thanks to some very courageous American passengers.

And --- now widely seen for what he is --- the president presents a problem for the Democrat-captured media. They pump out his propaganda for him --- and, like the opinion monitors in Ayn Rand’s novel, “Atlas Shrugged” --- they are dodging brickbats and rotten vegetables.

He’s pompous, pampered, and pretentious --- a pseudo-intellectual fop. He’s a glorified, smooth-lyin’ dandy, and slicker than Sick Willie Clinton. He’s a dictator-on-the-make, a bloodsxcking, predatory humanitarian thug, and a low-down skunk.

Osamas Pajamas| 9.3.12 @ 2:25AM

THE AGE OF OHBUMMER, KING OF THE REPUBLIC OF LIES, PART II

He’s a fraud and a swindler. He lies when he inhales and he lies when he exhales; his oxygen is the falsification of reality. He lies, placidly and laconically, as if deception were a soporific drug.

He’s a friend of the poor and the downtrodden --- indeed, you can hear the milk of human kindness sloshing around inside of him when he walks.

He declares himself the post-racial leader --- “Let me be clear!” he intones --- and he hides behind his race, daring his critics to put their reputation for fairness at risk.

He pauses to ponder the portent of his propaganda --- and it is fakery; he smiles and his mendacity comes shining through. Shake hands with Barak Hushpuppy OhBummer --- “The Mistake of ‘08” --- the illegal alien squatter in the White House until his “papers” have been lab-tested for age and chemicals, etc --- the community organizer of the OhBummer Wrecking Crew, the more-fascist-than-socialist Fleabagger-in-Chief, the closet Muslim with the mix-and-match morality, the King of The Republic of Lies --- and America’s first and last Arab president. Now count your fingers. Then wash your hands.

http://wwwdotyoutubedotcom/wat.....SWSzY#t=28

Oldefarte| 9.3.12 @ 10:25AM

Amen!!!!

Martin kzovich| 9.3.12 @ 7:07AM

This election: You vote either for a Marxist-Stalinist State or for Free market capitalism. There is no middle ground or compromise or third way period.

Martin kzovich| 9.3.12 @ 7:12AM

I think Obama is the equivalent of a suicide bomber only he would be a suicide politician. His one and only mission was to destroy our economy and national security as much as possible in one term. From the outset he admited he would get a second term and he knew exactly why.

Martin kzovich| 9.3.12 @ 7:13AM

I meant not6 get a second term.

Oldefarte| 9.3.12 @ 10:32AM

Missing my guy's [TLP's] Words-of-Wisdom here on this excellent article on THE ONE. Has anyone noticed the current lack of a political lineup for the DNC's convention in NC? Todd drug out Cutter this AM for her usual KISSIN & BOWING TO THE KING, and then they are re-running this Spanish mayor Villarubio [sp] 24-7. Where's Pilosi with her ARE YOU SERIOUS? What about Sharpton and Jackson screaming racism over Travon? Where's Barney eating his CFA sandwich? Were's Van Jones and Jeremiah Wright shouting GD, AMERICA????????

Theo Prinse| 9.3.12 @ 10:42AM

This very comprehensive article though lacks the superior predominance within US geo-politics of the islam oil dependance of the US, Europe, Japan etc and the policy of high oil pricing based on the limitation of oil ?? of the OPEC since 1973 and in relation to the geo-military policy of the US neo-conservatives like Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, John McCain and Zbigniew Brzezinski etc. to prefer Muslim fundamentalist above Arab etc. secularist regimes to mitigate US Islam oil dependence for US made arms trade. Servitude bowing Obama-Davis and his Arab spring with the Saudi’s and the Egyptian Muslim Brothood sunnies and the Clinton’s with their Muslim Brotherhood Outreach policy are competing with each other.
In Germany and the Netherlands Al Gore has his anti-nuclear environmentalists full heartedly support the massive influx of Muslims in their centralized and anti America European Union.
That is why the Free World must support Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan to become energy independent in 2020.

billwitten| 9.4.12 @ 1:29AM

I was a member of the Republican Party until June of this year. I joined the party in 1988 when I turned 18. My father was active in the party as was my grandfather.
I've heard the excuses too many times. My father told me of the Goldwater campaign and the war within the party. The progressive Republicans fought the Conservatives (Constitutional Conservatives) for years and years. I hate it but they won. We elected two Bushs, our nominee in 2008 was McCant (the collaborating POW who threw the MIAs away) and our current nominee is Romney. I remember articles like this when bush I & II were up for election/reelection and when McCant was up. Each time I voted the pary line with a terrible taste in my mouth. I won't anymore. The treatment of Ron Paul and those who voted for him in the primary (myself included) was just too much. The Progressives that make up the GOP now can kiss my Libertarian butt.
I am not a "let it burn" guy. I have twin 2 1/2 year olds an 11 y/o and a 16 y/o. I am also a former 11b (Army Infantryman) and I was in both Just Cause and Desert Shield/Storm and in Bosnia in November & December of 1995 (as a "civilian" that time). I know what war looks like and I pray it doesn't come here.
Maybe I'm just a bitter old-school conservative or maybe I am the wave of the future. Only time will tell but I am sick and tired of defending progressive Republicans. I'll send my money to DeMint's SCF and hope we get enough seats in the Senate to protect us.

SusyQue| 9.4.12 @ 2:32PM

Our culture has been spiraling downward for a generation. Christians have been indulging in worldly pleasures and have not put the Lord first. The downward spiral began when the bible, Christmas songs, and prayer was taken out of the schools. If we honor God, he honors us. If we ignore God and his commandments, he ignores us. When ooo was elected it was to show christians that they must repent or suffer the consequences. That is what is happening now, in great numbers. You observed the GOP convention....prayers and worship were woven into the theme of "We Can Do It! " Electing a righteous man to lead this country
is a big first step. The Chicago gang are sodom and gomorrah rolled into one. They need to be evicted from the White House, beginning with ooo. Clint Eastwood nailed it...“And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.”
.

Lee4| 9.4.12 @ 11:20PM

Norman Thomas, who ran for POTUS six times on the Socialist Party ticket, said in a speech in 1944: "I no longer need to run for President on the Socialist Party ticket. The Democrat Party has adopted our platform". Woodrow Wilson was the first Socialist Pres, then remember FDRs New Deal; Trumans Fair Deal; LBJs Great Society and the War on Poverty (another war we haven't won); Jimy Carter; now Obama. In addition, I personally have stopped calling them the Democratic Party. There is nothing democratic about them,however, if you repeat something often enough, some people will think they are democratic. Stop it!.

Laura Parker| 9.11.12 @ 2:22PM

Hello all,

I have been most interested in all your comments. As most of you, I too am concerned about the state of our economy and individual freedom in our beloved country that we call america.
I first wanted to correct an error in statement from Cicero, I believe... in which this writer states that Obama and Michelle have not held a private sector job. This statement is not correct. Obama worked as an attorney for a time and when President Obama was elected President Michelle Obama was working as a hospital administrator in private industry. She made over 100,000 dollars from what I recalled. The Obama's were not poor then.

In addition, David Axelrod's parents were communist according to a friend of mine who grew up in his neighborhood. I think my friend said they lived in New York area somewhere. It would be interesting to do a biography on him and his family to learn more about them. I wonder why the media hasn't done so?

Laura Parker| 9.11.12 @ 2:25PM

Also, I was very interested in folks got a bit passionate about this country and started to attack one blogger named aware. I understand how you all felt... and I think you all need to really hear what Aware was saying. When a persons says they are an anarchism--- what this brings to mind is a person who believes in violence to oppose authority with no regard to rule of law. I do not believe that is what this blogger was saying in his definition of himself.

Laura Parker| 9.11.12 @ 2:26PM

He first said, he does not believe in violence to take over a government. And secondly, he believes in the rule of law. What I found interesting is that if you all as patriots believe that God gave us as a people individual rights and this nation as you all claim... then what is keeping you all from believing that God can protect these rights he gave us from him?. If a government is to stay in place, then that government must be in place because of the beliefs of all the people to unity under the power of God. I found that I actually, agreed with Aware on these two points.

Laura Parker| 9.11.12 @ 2:33PM

I am a patriot. I believe in the rule of law. I do not believe in lawlessness. I believe in God. I believe that God can bring about his will on the people. We maybe a people that are stubborn and pig headed at times, but God finds a way to bring us all to our senses to stand against evil. It is evil that we are fighting here. As you all have noted, progressiveness is in both parties. It's going to take God's guidance to get us out of this mess.

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