Last week I declared that Mitt Romney would win the GOP nomination. Nothing has changed my mind since last Saturday. Romney hasn’t sealed the deal yet, but Gingrich is crashing and the former governor should win Florida on Tuesday. At this stage it would take something incredible to keep us from an Obama versus Romney match-up.
Much will be written about head to head polls between Romney and Obama, but I’m here to tell you that they don’t matter. Ronald Reagan trailed Jimmy Carter by over 30 points six months before the election. President Obama trailed John McCain two months before the election. President Obama will be judged on his record and on the economy. Say what you want about Mitt Romney, but trying to brand him as an extremist will not work.
Mitt Romney is boring. He’s not quite as robotic and uncharismatic as John Kerry, Al Gore, or Bob Dole, but it’s not a stretch to compare him to those gentlemen. Romney is the steady hand. He’s the guy you call when everything else has failed. In other words, he’s the guy who will beat Obama if the economy doesn’t improve before November.
President Obama’s problem is that people have tuned out. Obama has no plan to make the economy better. He’s out of ideas. After all the adulation and all the grand speeches, what is Obama’s core conviction? Sure, the liberals still love him, but they loved Clinton. Democrats are a loyal bunch. It’s a collection of voter blocs. Give us your subsidies, affirmative action, unions, trial lawyers, hand-out recipients and those who’ve been brainwashed into believing that abortion is the ultimate civil liberty. The Democrats love to pat themselves on the back for their diversity, but no one is immune from the pandering hand outs. That is why the Democrats are fundamentally opposed to reducing the size of goverment.
If you reduce the size of goverment the Democrats would suddenly have issues with their voting base. Can any argue otherwise? How many people on food stamps vote for Democrats? Wouldn’t it bad for Democrats if any of the people dependent on the goverment could take care of themselves? So President Obama is out of ideas. If he allows pipelines, invests in real energy, or really reduces the size of the goverment he would be hurting his political party.
In the grand scheme of things far too many people are dependent on the goverment. It will be nearly impossible to roll back the tide. However, there aren’t enough dependents to keep Obama from losing. If gas prices go up over the summer Obama could lose in a landslide. The Republicans could have a super majority in the Senate. That would be the true test of our goverment. Would the Republicans have the guts to starve the beast? It will be very unpopular. Look how the union thugs in Wisconsin have behaved. Liberals and conservatives have very different ideas about the role of goverment. The reckoning is here.
I had hope that Obama would be a president that transformed the debate in the United States. Instead, he made things worse. He loves to talk about himself except when he’s blaming others. I don’t dislike the President. He seems like a nice guy. Most Americans like the 44th president, but that doesn’t mean they think he should continue.
Will Mitt Romney be any better? I doubt it, but could he be any worse?
Last night’s New Hampshire debate was a strange affair. Mitt Romney has a commanding lead in New Hampshire, so one would assume he would be attacked by the other candidates. Instead, the only person who went after Romney was George Stephanopoulos. The mainstream media is just flat out irritating. Just when I think a debate can’t get any worse ABC lets a former Clinton campaign staffer moderate.
In the movie War Room, which chronicled the 1992 Clinton campaign, Stephanopoulos celebrates the victory and surmises that the United States will finally have universal health care. I think of that moment because the 2012 election is going to be about the economy and about ObamaCare. Yet, there wasn’t a single question about ObamaCare. The only question about the economy was about infrastructure.
Instead, Stephanopoulos asked questions about states banning contraceptives, gay marriage, and gay adoption. The candidates spent 30 minutes on issues that aren’t important and about which a President has little, if any, power to change. Stephanopoulos’ stupid question about contraceptives led to what I believe is Romney’s best moment in the campaign.
I thought Romney handled Stephanopoulos’ question about contraceptives very well. The whole premise of the question is comical. Stephanopoulos is supposed to be fair? He has no business moderating a debate, nor does what’s-her-face. The questions were ludicrous. One can gain insight from how delusional liberals are about the current state of affairs simply by watching these media yahoos rodeo clown their way through a debate.
The nation is on the brink of financial ruin and they’re worried about gays getting married and having kids? None of the GOP candidates pointed out that they share the same position on gay marriage as President Obama. I’m so excited that Stephanopoulos is back to host This Week. I didn’t even notice he had left.
If Mitt Romney is sworn in on January 20, 2013, he should shake Ron Paul’s hand first. Ron Paul has been the center of each of these debates. He attacks everyone and the liberal moderators love asking him questions. I can’t see how last night’s debate changed the race. Mitt Romney is simply running out the clock. Exit question: Could a Donald Trump moderated debate be any worse that what I watched last night?
After three long years President Obama has finally found some part of goverment he wants to cut. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure it out. Democrats will only ever cut one part of government, and that’s defense. The President has outlined a plan to reduce the number of military personnel by 490,000.
I’m sure Republicans will be up in arms because they never ever want to cut defense. The entire budget needs to be cut and defense is one of those areas. But let’s be real: this President is a pandering coward with no real intention of reforming our nation’s budget. The fact is that we could eliminate our entire defense department and still be on the road to bankruptcy. Cutting defense is the only move a Democrat will make because it won’t hurt them with their voting bloc.
What is Obama’s plan to fix our fiscal nightmare? Raise taxes, subsidize companies going bankrupt and eliminate defense. That’s the reality. President Obama’s poll numbers aren’t great right now, but they’re not as bad as they should be. He could still get reelected. Obama has done nothing to address our fiscal crisis. He’s just stepping on the accelerator.
For over a decade I’ve marveled at liberals’ paranoia about people without health care and about climate change. It’s shocking because the biggest problem facing mankind isn’t health care or the weather. If the United States goes bankrupt the world with fall into a type of chaos that hasn’t been seen since the 1930s. Enjoy it while it lasts, America. The freeloading is almost over and you’re living on borrowed time, both figuratively and literally.
When it comes to the theater of Christianphobia there’s no better example right now that Tim Tebow. The NFL has had countless famous college football players who weren’t good enough for the league. I’m not saying Tebow isn’t good enough, but if he’s not, that hardly makes him unique.
The only unique thing about Tebow is that he’s a Christian. He’s not just a Christian, but an outspoken Christian. A Christian who could have been aborted at birth if not for the faith of his mother. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to understanding why a God hating liberal wouldn’t like Tim Tebow.
Our secular culture seems to understand everything except Christianity these days. It’s odd in a nation with complete religious freedom that a growing number of people have zero tolerance for Christianity. Christians are taught to speak boldly in the name of Christ, but few have the courage to do so anymore. No one wants to offend anyone. How far the modern Christian has fallen; 2,000 years ago you could face death of you preached the Gospel, now all you do is alienate your friends and co-workers. ESPN has a perfect example of religious ignorance in another one of its moronic Grantland articles:
It so happens that 95 percent of the population of the Philippines is Roman Catholic. Catholic doctrine just happens to be in conflict with what Bob Tebow and his son preach in regard to personal salvation. (To devout Catholics, for example, sins are not forgiven “by faith alone,” but through the sacrament of reconciliation as administered by a priest.) Bob Tebow’s goal is not to convert unbelievers. It is to supplant an existing form of Christianity. So who’s the actual Christian here? This is not an idle point to be made. Down through history, millions of people have died in conflicts over what a “Christian” really is, which is what so exercised Madison, and also what brought down a lot of Hitchens’ wrath upon religion in general. History says that as soon as you start talking about “the only true message” in this regard, you guarantee that, eventually, people will get slaughtered in the town square.
Charles P. Pierce writes for Esquire and contributes to NPR. He also wrote a book called Idiot American. Apparently he’s an expert. We’ll start with the fact that 80 percent of the Philippines is Catholic. Writing about religion in a sports magazines apparently means no fact checking. Oh no, “the one true message.” This is what made Jesus Christ an extremist from the beginning.
Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.” John 4:16
This is one of the fundamental differences between Catholics and Protestants. Jesus Christ talked about “the one true message.” The Catholic church is kind of like the McDonalds of Christianity, or better yet, a middle man. Jesus clearly said that he’s the “way, the truth, and the life.”
Charles P. Pierce seems to believe that in a world of doubt there would be no war. Apparently religion is the sole reason for conflict. As if greed and a lust for power or any number of mankind’s unfashionable traits have no bearing on the history of the world. Pierce’s problem isn’t with Tebow, but with God. Here’s the money quote:
Before he ever took a snap in the NFL, he appeared in an anti-choice television ad with his mother that was sponsored by Focus on the Family, an influential anti-choice, anti-gay-rights organization founded by the Rev. James Dobson
How sad. Pierce doesn’t have to contribute money to Dobson, but my tax dollars help pay for this bigot’s appearances on NPR. If you read the Gospels Jesus is anti-choice, anti-fornication, anti-adultery, and anti-gay-rights. To put it bluntly Jesus is anti-sin. That’s where we reach the boiling point. No one is preaching to Pierce except his own conscious and that’s what convicts us all.
For three years the press and the left have spent considerable time telling anyone who would listen that the Tea Party movement was a racist fringe group full of extremists. When Jared Loughner opened fire in Tucson the left blamed the Tea Party. When the truth finally came out it turned out that Loughner was simply insane with no coherent political philosophy, either left or right. The Tea Party had nothing to do with it.
Now we have a group of anarchists camped out all over the country. They’re not huge in number. They’re not winning the hearts of minds of the average American, but they have the sympathy of the left and the White House. It’s not surprising. Obama is friends with people who used to be in the Weather Underground and have an appetite for a New Left revival. The President went to a church for 25 years with pastor who blamed the United States for 9/11. The mainstream press that combed each Tea Party for nut jobs has remained silent at the violence and depravity of the Occupiers all over the country.
Isn’t it news that a protester pushed a police officer in front of a moving bus? The whole world is watching? Really? Where is the outrage at the sexual crimes at Occupy Wall Street? The politicians that are allowing this lawless anarchy to continue are cowards. This isn’t a peaceful group. If they are going to behave like animals it shouldn’t be allowed to continue. It would be in Democrats’ best interest to kill off this movement now. If this drags into next year it’s going to be an albatross around the party’s neck; 99 percent of Americans are sick and tired of OWS.
With the nation facing economic uncertainty and a pile of other problems, Sen. Tom Udall of New Mexico has introduced a constitutional amendment to regulate campaign contributions. Every liberal should be forced to read James Madison’s Federalist 10 until they get it. Well, maybe should they should start with the Constitution first.
The amendment would effectively reverse two landmark Supreme Court decisions — the 1976 ruling in Buckley v. Valeo, which said spending money in elections is a form of speech, and the 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which ruled it unconstitutional to regulate the money spent to influence elections by corporations and unions.
Let’s just chuckle at the fact the Democrat controlled Senate has time to think about this and can’t even bring Obama’s reelection campaign jobs bill up for debate. I touched on this yesterday, but does anyone on the left think through this stuff? Obama received more money from banks and Wall Street in 2008, but apparently his constituents are occupying Wall Street?
It seems the left isn’t concerned with evil corporations when they’re funding Democrats. Or maybe they’re just too willfully ignorant to notice the hypocrisy.
If we only taxed the rich...
A constant liberal talking point is that the top one percent of American have exploited the rest of the country to acquire their wealth. It’s simply not true. These claims are based on outdated statistics that haven’t adequately changed as the country has changed. James Pethokoukis has an excellent analysis that defines five reason why income inequality is a myth.
“Remember when even upper-middle class families worried about staying on a long distance call for too long? When flying was an expensive luxury? When only a minority of the population had central air conditioning, dishwashers, and color televisions? When no one had DVD players, iPods, or digital cameras? And when most Americans owned a car that broke down frequently, guzzled fuel, spewed foul smelling pollution, and didn’t have any of the now virtually standard items like air conditioning or tape/CD players?”
No doubt the past few years have been terrible. But the past few decades have been pretty good—for everybody.
My guess is most of these trust fund types haven’t never wanted for anything their entire life. Their faux outrage is based on a rich yet empty life filled by guilt. By almost any measure most Americans are better off now than they were ten, twenty, or thirty years ago. The trust funders should dedicate themselves to helping the poor to ease their guilt instead of asking the state to do it. That’s the point, though; they don’t want to do it.
Obviously rich kids aren’t the only ones protesting. The other people are union members, hipsters and wannabe hippies. The non-union working class has no time for a movement that absolves the government from any blame. These occupiers are woefully led astray by bad statistics and bad leadership. Sadly, so is much of the left.
Here’s a great “protest” song by reason.tv. When you see fat people complaining about starving in the street and Facebook groups devoted to disseminating information you have to wonder, is this the real face of poverty? Only a spoiled society could complain about wealth distribution when even the poorest citizens are better off than the richest citizens one hundred years ago and the vast majority of people in the world today.
Before any accuses me of being some heartless rich person. I grew up in what we call “poverty” when I was a child. I was able to put myself through college. Through hard work my parents were able to enjoy a comfortable life. They did this without complaining and without seeking government assistance. Meanwhile, Club Soda worked three part-time jobs and freelanced when he got out of college. Club Soda does not recall ever expecting or wanting anything from the government, nor did he expect to make lots of money right out of college.
Yesterday Sarasota had its very own Occupy Sarasota event in front of the Bank of America building downtown. This was an amazingly hilarious small mob of former hippies and typical leftists. There were some libertarian elements involved, but the Robin Hood sympathizers were mainly from the left. The crowd was around 100 people and most of the crowd dispersed after the cameras left. This wasn’t an occupation. It was a media event.
The marathon protest attracted a diverse crowd. College students with dyed hair and tattoos mixed with retirees in dress clothes, the unemployed, artists and business owners.
Demonstrators included people like Amy DeBorja, a 48-year-old Bradenton radiology student sporting a peace sign necklace and “General Strike!” T-shirt, who said she wanted to make sure the left is heard as loudly as the right in the coming elections.
I guess the crowd was as diverse as a typical leftist Sarasota event. There were hardly any young people or minorities. It was a collection of retired pension fed wannabe hippies taking it to the man. The Sarasota Herald Tribune didn’t cover the woman wearing a “eat the rich” sign or the two women chanting “F*** the state,” and “F*** capitalism.” Another dull nitwit had a hammer and sickle sign. How many millions more have to die before idiots in this country realize it’s a symbol of totalitarian genocide?
Pretty much every local media source covered the event. I’ve attended kickball games and dodgeball tournaments in the Sarasota area that had more participants. The Sarasota Tea Party event on April 15, 2009 had well over 1,000 people. The unoccupied in Sarasota barely topped 100. This isn’t a popular uprising.
Over the last two months all we’ve heard from the left is the supposed extremism of Michele Bachmann/Rick Perry/ Ron Paul. Actually that’s all we ever hear about anyone to the right of Joseph Lieberman. Justice Robert Bork was too extreme. Ronald Reagan was too extreme. Even Justice Roberts was labeled an extremist. It’s tiring and it’s just lazy, but no one calls the press and the left out for it.
When Barack Obama ran for president in 2008 the media overlooked his relationship with a former member of the Weather Underground and dismissed his twenty-year relationship to a psychotic pastor. The title of Obama’s book The Audacity of Hope was inspired by a sermon by Jeremiah Wright. Nevertheless, the press issued a pass and the world moved on. It was an amazing thing to behold. Barack Obama was one of the most unqualified people ever to be elected. There was literally nothing known about the man and yet the press failed to do its job because they were so enamored by his candidacy.
In 2008, the Obama campaign ran under the flag of hope and change. His administration was supposed to find common ground and bring the nation together. Three years later the nation is more divided than it has been in a generation. There is always someone else to blame for the nation’s problems. Obama blames the economy on his predecessor. He blames gridlock and partisanship on the GOP even though Democrats have enjoyed huge majorities for two years.
When Obama enjoyed large majorities he didn’t concentrate on the economy. The President decided that it was time to push a massive new entitlement through Congress. The hubris by Obama and the left has been amazing and virtually unprecedented, excepting Oedipus Rex. The nation is upset because the government is out of touch. When Medicare and Social Security were made into law they were popular from the onset. ObamaCare is still massively unpopular. Instead of dealing with this reality all I hear from the left is “death panels.” They still have no concept about rationed care. Two years of constant debate and the left still hasn’t learned anything.
After the tragedy in Arizona in January the left was quick to blame Sarah Palin for the attack even though no one knew the attacker’s motivation. When it turned out the guy was a sociopath that had no political leanings there was no apology and the myth lives on..
If the left is so passionate about extremism it’s time for them to call off the dogs. At an Obama campaign rally Labor Day event AFL-CIO leader Jimmy Hoffa said the following:
“We got to keep an eye on the battle that we face: The war on workers. And you see it everywhere, it is the Tea Party. And you know, there is only one way to beat and win that war. The one thing about working people is we like a good fight. And you know what? They’ve got a war, they got a war with us and there’s only going to be one winner. It’s going to be the workers of Michigan, and America. We’re going to win that war,” Jimmy Hoffa Jr. said to a heavily union crowd.
“President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let’s take these son of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong,” Hoffa added.
Not to be outdone Vice President Joseph Biden called Republicans “barbarians.” It’s really unbelievable stuff. Just a few weeks ago Biden was overheard calling Congressional Republicans terrorists. Will the White House apologize for this stuff? If there’s enough outrage I’m sure the White House will give a speech about it. That’s what this administration does well: talk. In January, Obama called for “civility” in public discourse and for people to talk “in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.”
Even if Obama is reelected the legacy of this administration is sealed. What could this President ever offer the American people at this point? He’s an ineffectual leader who only makes pretty speeches. The gig is up. No one cares anymore.
You can identify them by their fruit, that is, by the way they act. Can you pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Matthew 7:16
We’ve had three years of words that do not match actions. His administrations has fanned division instead of healing, Instead of solving problems he blames everyone else. The true test of the man came after his major accomplishment. When the United States killed Osama Bin Laden the President was quick to point out how he helped make it happen. Beware of a person who is quick to say “me” when things go well and quick to say “you” when things aren’t going well. That’s the legacy of President Obama.
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