********** ELECTION SPECIAL**********
November 3, 2008
The end of the Presidential election season is nigh upon us, and in this column The Blazing Truth presents its predictions for the election.
THE PRESIDENCY 52-47 OBAMA
John McCain and Barack Obama have been battling it out over the past few weeks, but an increasingly overconfident, arrogant Obama apparently knows something this writer has come to suspect; the upcoming election will be quite a bit bigger than it should be.
North Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, Ohio, Florida, Colorado, Missouri. These states are in play. Current polling models suggest that if John McCain loses more than one of these states, he will probably lose the election. Current polling models show Obama leading all of them except Missouri and Georgia. But this election isn’t about polls, it’s about who shows up to vote.
This, coupled with $200 million in very questionable donations to the Obama campaign, is why The Blazing Truth is predicting a win for Barack Obama.
Florida officials have reported voter registrations for Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. Georgia Democrats claim it is racist to require a voter to present a picture ID. Virginia officials discovered that out-of-state students are registering to vote in both states. A Missouri judge found that a homeless person has the right to claim a park bench as a home address for voting purposes. Other states are reporting fraudulent registrations numbering in the hundreds of thousands (Georgia) or even more than 1.5 million (Nevada). When the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that officials had to verify the addresses of hundreds of thousands of new registrants including same-day voters, the Ohio Secretary of State appealed to the US Supreme Court and won.
Barack Obama may or may not legitimately win the popular vote or the electoral vote. But he may appear to win, and in the opinion of The Blazing Truth, John McCain does not have the wallet or the stomach to pursue this through legal methods. I pray that I am wrong about this prediction.
THE SENATE
Pelosi’s New Generation 57D-43R
Democrats gain pickups in Alaska (defeating just-convicted Senator Stevens), Colorado, New Hampshire, New Mexico, and Oregon. Dems retain Midwest, Northeast seats and perennials like Baucus in Montana. Republicans retain the Southern states and Wyoming where there is a special election. Unpopularity of President Bush and Republicans in Congress means they do not pickup a single seat.
THE HOUSE
Harry’s Happy 250d-187R-1I
Democrats gain 15 seats in New Jersey, New York, Michigan, and elsewhere.
Eighteen open Republican seats, many in states where Barack Obama is solid to win, demonstrate writing on the wall for more Republican bloodshed.
There are fifty seats in contention, including Murtha’s Pennsylvania-12. He’ll probably win. The other 388 seats will stay with incumbents. Probably 90 percent of the seats will stay with incumbents this year, which is odd considering public approval of Congress is about 10 percent.
Florida-16 returns to Republican hands after sex-scandalized Republican Mark Foley is replaced by sex-scandalized Democrat Tim Mahoney.
GOVERNOR’S RACES
Nobody Cares 28D-22R
North Carolina gets a Democrat. Dino Rossi gives it back to Christine Gregoire. Missouri elects a Democrat named Nixon. But nobody cares. The Blazing Truth predicts no net change; Democrats control 28 statehouses, Republicans 22.
Monday, November 3, 2008
Sunday, October 19, 2008
The Price of Anarchy
October 19, 2008
Cynthia Tucker of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution opined that Republicans cling to three wrong-headed ideas that addle their thinking, which are:
(1) the assertion that Saddam Hussein represented a threat to the United States,
(2) that affirmative action in lending led to the mortgage crisis and
(3) that voter fraud is a serious problem in modern elections.
That's right, Ms. Tucker. I am a Bitter Clinger.
I believe that when S. Hussein controls the flow of two million barrels of oil per day and has designs on invading other countries and hijacking ten million more, he is a threat to the USA and to the world. He has to be stopped - by war if needed. And if the warring powers somehow decide to spare his head, he has an obligation to that cease-fire. But Hussein decided to violate that obligation, and it cost him his crown, his family, his fortune, and his head.
I believe the New York Times article from September 30, 1999, outlining the steps Fannie Mae is taking to provide subprime lending to previously underqualified borrowers, 18 percent of whom happened to be black, is roughly accurate.
I believe that when people show up to the polls without any sort of identification, they should not be permitted to cast a vote.
Not only do I believe these things, but I feel that I am entitled to cast aspersions on my fellow Americans who are in the dissent.
I think there is something seriously wrong with a person who does not support the war efforts of his own country when many thousands of his fellow countrymen risk life and limb. To attack the troops verbally; to say that they as a class are engaged in war crimes; to mock them or protest their families at funerals; to encourage men to desert, or to aid them in desertion, or to praise the men who have deserted as though they are heroes; these are the marks of the traitor.
I think that a loan must be made on good faith, and central to that assumption is the demonstrated ability of the borrower to pay back that which he borrows. When the government secures the loans, it becomes the patsy and the fall guy and so do we. When the Congress (notably Reps. Frank, Dodd, et. al.) pressures Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac to relax their lending policies, it costs us the taxpayers money. This crisis has been brewing for a long time and the timing of recent collapses should be called into question with regard to the elections.
It's bad enough that the poll tax, which was fairly good at weeding out voter fraud, was eliminated because it was "disenfranchising." There's something wrong when you have to show a membership card to go to Sam's Club, but not at Uncle Sam's Club. The fate of the nation hangs in the balance, and should we encourage people to drive from polling place to polling place and cast their Mickey-Mouse and Donald-Duck votes? No way!
It boils down to honesty, Ms. Tucker, and if you bend the rules until they break, there are no rules. Anarchy has a high price - foreign wars, economic troubles, and fixed elections. Time to pay up.
Cynthia Tucker of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution opined that Republicans cling to three wrong-headed ideas that addle their thinking, which are:
(1) the assertion that Saddam Hussein represented a threat to the United States,
(2) that affirmative action in lending led to the mortgage crisis and
(3) that voter fraud is a serious problem in modern elections.
That's right, Ms. Tucker. I am a Bitter Clinger.
I believe that when S. Hussein controls the flow of two million barrels of oil per day and has designs on invading other countries and hijacking ten million more, he is a threat to the USA and to the world. He has to be stopped - by war if needed. And if the warring powers somehow decide to spare his head, he has an obligation to that cease-fire. But Hussein decided to violate that obligation, and it cost him his crown, his family, his fortune, and his head.
I believe the New York Times article from September 30, 1999, outlining the steps Fannie Mae is taking to provide subprime lending to previously underqualified borrowers, 18 percent of whom happened to be black, is roughly accurate.
I believe that when people show up to the polls without any sort of identification, they should not be permitted to cast a vote.
Not only do I believe these things, but I feel that I am entitled to cast aspersions on my fellow Americans who are in the dissent.
I think there is something seriously wrong with a person who does not support the war efforts of his own country when many thousands of his fellow countrymen risk life and limb. To attack the troops verbally; to say that they as a class are engaged in war crimes; to mock them or protest their families at funerals; to encourage men to desert, or to aid them in desertion, or to praise the men who have deserted as though they are heroes; these are the marks of the traitor.
I think that a loan must be made on good faith, and central to that assumption is the demonstrated ability of the borrower to pay back that which he borrows. When the government secures the loans, it becomes the patsy and the fall guy and so do we. When the Congress (notably Reps. Frank, Dodd, et. al.) pressures Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac to relax their lending policies, it costs us the taxpayers money. This crisis has been brewing for a long time and the timing of recent collapses should be called into question with regard to the elections.
It's bad enough that the poll tax, which was fairly good at weeding out voter fraud, was eliminated because it was "disenfranchising." There's something wrong when you have to show a membership card to go to Sam's Club, but not at Uncle Sam's Club. The fate of the nation hangs in the balance, and should we encourage people to drive from polling place to polling place and cast their Mickey-Mouse and Donald-Duck votes? No way!
It boils down to honesty, Ms. Tucker, and if you bend the rules until they break, there are no rules. Anarchy has a high price - foreign wars, economic troubles, and fixed elections. Time to pay up.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Why Obama Will Lose
When Howard Wolfson analyzes the ruins of the McCain train wreck, it should be noted that the train has not in fact, crashed... yet.
Wolfson would love to be the biographer of the failed opposition, and in three weeks he will have that privilege, because in fact, he has attacked both McCain and Obama, and one of them will lose on November 4. (As a Hillarian, Wolfson considers both of these men the opposition.)
But Wolfson neglects the possibility that Obama could still lose this race, just as he kept losing big-state primaries this spring. Here are the reasons Obama will lose on November 4:
10) Iran, Iraq, Israel, and al-Qaeda
Barack Obama was wrong about Iraq and the surge, and the strange comment about Iran being a "tiny country" that doesn't present a threat to us should have awakened public caution about the Big O. Obama's back-door negotiations with the government of Iraq should make us all shudder, his stated commitment to Israel is not believable, and Iran's fast-track pursuit of nuclear weapons make it the centerpiece of trouble for the next several years. If al-Qaeda should strike, if Israel should pre-emptively strike Iran, or if there are other statements by Obama that departure should predate victory in Iraq, the election could yet hang in the balance.
9) The Money Trail
It's late in the campaign - probably too late; but there is still time for someone to put out the word that the most expensive campaign in American political history is laced with foreign and improperly-disclosed cash, possibly more than $200 million of it. While McCain has published his donor list online, large and small, Obama has not told the public about numerous small donations that have been raised through PayPal and other online sources. If the amount is less than $200, he doesn't legally have to; but this is a loophole the campaign has driven a train through. Other limits, such as the $2300 and $4600 personal contribution limits, have not been handled correctly. The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has been involved in rooting through some of this, but not much, and not out loud. Someone should draw some attention to the irregularities.
8) Several Major Scandals
The public has no idea who Tony Rezko is or what he is whispering to federal prosecutors. The public has no idea why ACORN is being investigated in 11 states, or deep connections to Obama going back over 15 years (or this year when the Obama campaign paid them almost $900,000.) Bill Ayers and the Reverend Jeremiah Wright know Obama very well, but the public doesn't know just how well. How does a Kenyan named Odinga have anything to do with Obama, and what happened when Jerome Corsi went to Kenya to publicize his anti-Obama book? Which New Englander is the biggest supporter of Iran in the U.S. Senate?
7) His Name Is Barack Hussein Obama (And He's Black)
Or, "he's half-white, 25 percent black, and 25 percent Arab," or some crazy concoction. The folks are always hearing something different; he's Muslim, he's Christian, he's an ex-Muslim, he praises Muslims, he's with the Black Separatists, he's not really a U.S. citizen, he was born in Kenya, he's supporting this radical Muslim (Odinga) over there, his brother George is in Kenya living on $1 a month, and so forth.
Seven years after 9/11, the folks are a little bit worried about a Muslim-named man seeking high office, tight-lipped about his own background, especially if he is a little bit uncertain about American themes like strong military, American work ethic, opportunity, ownership, and energy independence.
6) No Respect For The Common Man
In the Obamasphere, average white guys are abnormal cavemen types, chanting incoherently while offering sacrifices to their cloud gods and spending huge chunks of disposable income on firearms, hunting dogs, and taxidermy. Did Obama have much chance with the white male vote in the beginning? We don't know; but how badly can he do with this demographic and still win on November 4?
5) Blew Off Hillary
Obama did a bang-up job of clobbering Hillary Clinton by focusing early campaign dollars on states with caucuses. Hillary nearly caught up by winning big states and bribing superdelegates, but couldn't get Florida and Michigan seated; also the winner-take-all rule which would have won the contest clearly for Hillary was absent. Obama could have redeemed himself at great personal expense by bringing in Hillary as VP; failing to do this cost him votes in the Hillary faction.
4) Who The Heck Is Joe Biden?
Yes, Joe Biden has been sitting in the Senate since he was 30 - you have to be 30 to be a Senator. He's 65 now; what has he done, other than plagiarize speeches and be 180-degrees-wrong on almost every foreign policy for 35 years?
3) Hope & Change: Work With Crazies & Hope They Change
Obama's associations with ACORN, Ayers, Dorhn, Rezko, and Wright are long and deep; they are the foundation of his political and financial power. Up until now, the playbook has determined he should renounce the deed and not the person until the pressure builds, then throw them under the bus. It's getting mighty crowded under Obama's bus.
2) Obama Is A Marxist
What we do know about this guy is, he is hell-bent on taking money from the rich, regardless whether it helps the national bottom line or not. "Fairness," is all we get out of the guy. Fairness my butt. The only difference between Karl Marx and Obama is, Marx wasn't actually mad at rich people for being rich.
1) We Have No Idea Who This Guy Is
Obama has the lightest, thinnest resume on file in a century. The Presidential resume reassures the folks. We need to see who the guy is and develop a picture in our heads as to what he can do for the country. McCain has a big, thick resume that tells us he's a stable guy and he does what he says he'll do. Obama wrote two autobiographies and we still don't know who he is.
Wolfson would love to be the biographer of the failed opposition, and in three weeks he will have that privilege, because in fact, he has attacked both McCain and Obama, and one of them will lose on November 4. (As a Hillarian, Wolfson considers both of these men the opposition.)
But Wolfson neglects the possibility that Obama could still lose this race, just as he kept losing big-state primaries this spring. Here are the reasons Obama will lose on November 4:
10) Iran, Iraq, Israel, and al-Qaeda
Barack Obama was wrong about Iraq and the surge, and the strange comment about Iran being a "tiny country" that doesn't present a threat to us should have awakened public caution about the Big O. Obama's back-door negotiations with the government of Iraq should make us all shudder, his stated commitment to Israel is not believable, and Iran's fast-track pursuit of nuclear weapons make it the centerpiece of trouble for the next several years. If al-Qaeda should strike, if Israel should pre-emptively strike Iran, or if there are other statements by Obama that departure should predate victory in Iraq, the election could yet hang in the balance.
9) The Money Trail
It's late in the campaign - probably too late; but there is still time for someone to put out the word that the most expensive campaign in American political history is laced with foreign and improperly-disclosed cash, possibly more than $200 million of it. While McCain has published his donor list online, large and small, Obama has not told the public about numerous small donations that have been raised through PayPal and other online sources. If the amount is less than $200, he doesn't legally have to; but this is a loophole the campaign has driven a train through. Other limits, such as the $2300 and $4600 personal contribution limits, have not been handled correctly. The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has been involved in rooting through some of this, but not much, and not out loud. Someone should draw some attention to the irregularities.
8) Several Major Scandals
The public has no idea who Tony Rezko is or what he is whispering to federal prosecutors. The public has no idea why ACORN is being investigated in 11 states, or deep connections to Obama going back over 15 years (or this year when the Obama campaign paid them almost $900,000.) Bill Ayers and the Reverend Jeremiah Wright know Obama very well, but the public doesn't know just how well. How does a Kenyan named Odinga have anything to do with Obama, and what happened when Jerome Corsi went to Kenya to publicize his anti-Obama book? Which New Englander is the biggest supporter of Iran in the U.S. Senate?
7) His Name Is Barack Hussein Obama (And He's Black)
Or, "he's half-white, 25 percent black, and 25 percent Arab," or some crazy concoction. The folks are always hearing something different; he's Muslim, he's Christian, he's an ex-Muslim, he praises Muslims, he's with the Black Separatists, he's not really a U.S. citizen, he was born in Kenya, he's supporting this radical Muslim (Odinga) over there, his brother George is in Kenya living on $1 a month, and so forth.
Seven years after 9/11, the folks are a little bit worried about a Muslim-named man seeking high office, tight-lipped about his own background, especially if he is a little bit uncertain about American themes like strong military, American work ethic, opportunity, ownership, and energy independence.
6) No Respect For The Common Man
In the Obamasphere, average white guys are abnormal cavemen types, chanting incoherently while offering sacrifices to their cloud gods and spending huge chunks of disposable income on firearms, hunting dogs, and taxidermy. Did Obama have much chance with the white male vote in the beginning? We don't know; but how badly can he do with this demographic and still win on November 4?
5) Blew Off Hillary
Obama did a bang-up job of clobbering Hillary Clinton by focusing early campaign dollars on states with caucuses. Hillary nearly caught up by winning big states and bribing superdelegates, but couldn't get Florida and Michigan seated; also the winner-take-all rule which would have won the contest clearly for Hillary was absent. Obama could have redeemed himself at great personal expense by bringing in Hillary as VP; failing to do this cost him votes in the Hillary faction.
4) Who The Heck Is Joe Biden?
Yes, Joe Biden has been sitting in the Senate since he was 30 - you have to be 30 to be a Senator. He's 65 now; what has he done, other than plagiarize speeches and be 180-degrees-wrong on almost every foreign policy for 35 years?
3) Hope & Change: Work With Crazies & Hope They Change
Obama's associations with ACORN, Ayers, Dorhn, Rezko, and Wright are long and deep; they are the foundation of his political and financial power. Up until now, the playbook has determined he should renounce the deed and not the person until the pressure builds, then throw them under the bus. It's getting mighty crowded under Obama's bus.
2) Obama Is A Marxist
What we do know about this guy is, he is hell-bent on taking money from the rich, regardless whether it helps the national bottom line or not. "Fairness," is all we get out of the guy. Fairness my butt. The only difference between Karl Marx and Obama is, Marx wasn't actually mad at rich people for being rich.
1) We Have No Idea Who This Guy Is
Obama has the lightest, thinnest resume on file in a century. The Presidential resume reassures the folks. We need to see who the guy is and develop a picture in our heads as to what he can do for the country. McCain has a big, thick resume that tells us he's a stable guy and he does what he says he'll do. Obama wrote two autobiographies and we still don't know who he is.
Why McCain Will Lose
When Howard Wolfson analyzes the ruins of the McCain train wreck, it should be noted that the train has not in fact, crashed... yet.
Wolfson would love to be the biographer of the failed opposition, and in three weeks he will have that privilege, because in fact, he has attacked both McCain and Obama, and one of them will lose on November 4. (As a Hillarian, Wolfson considers both of these men the opposition.)
If McCain loses, there are several watertight rationales:
10) Obama Played Him Like A Chump On Financing
John McCain has no business receiving public financing for the campaign. TV advertising costs big money and Republicans have a lot of it. Unfortunately, Barack Obama pledged public financing and didn't keep his pledge. More unfortunately, McCain pledged public financing and he kept his pledge. Now, Obama leads McCain in TV spending by 3-1. You'd think that McCain would have learned how to operate in the wake of McCain-Feingold, but McCain dropped the ball on getting money for his campaign.
9) Wouldn't Cry Foul
Instead of cocaine, Obama is now addicted to power and he keeps hitting foul balls (ACORN, shady overseas contributions, whackjob associations, Soros, Rezko, and total lies in the paid media and the friendly media.) McCain could have aggressively confronted Obama but he did not.
8) The Lame Campaign
McCain's ratcheted tenor sucks, especially compared to Obama's smooth bass. The "Straight Talk Express?" Oh, give me a break. That woman narrator on the TV ads sounds stilted. The stump speech is boring. Until Sarah Palin was chosen for VP, America was asleep, and we're starting to nod off again. When people get excited about the candidate and think the candidate will win, they start giving. Right now McCain is the underdog, which is where he has been during most of the time he has been running for President.
7) Equivalences And Smear Wars
When McCain started to say ACORN, Obama's folks pointed to the 2006 photo of an ACORN event McCain attended. When Palin mentioned Rezko, Obamatites reached back to the 1980s and found the Keating Five. When conservatives mention the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Obamatites link McCain to John Hagee. The O-B-C-Y-A campaign has always come up with a way to equivocate Obama's mountains of shame with McCain's molehills - in between bombing
McCain with the "smear campaign" charge.
6) He Didn't Treat It Like A Race
I've seen John McCain in a number of venues but the McCain that annoys me the most is the one who is too busy complimenting Obama to attack him. McCain believes in a principled debate, and maybe he has a background of principled opponents. The Viet Cong were not principled and neither is Obama. McCain should always lash out at this enemy with every limb.
5) Legislative Failures
McCain "suspended" his campaign to attend to the bailout bill, and didn't get any boost in so doing because he didn't sell the idea that the original bill was crap and the revised bill had the protections we needed. He didn't even sell the notion that the Democrats created the housing crisis in the beginning. Another thing that really gets my goat is, much of the really lousy legislation of the last 20 years has the name "McCain" on it at the top. McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy, and McCain-Lieberman are all bad pieces of work, and two of those lemons are law now.
4) Republicans Aren't "Mavericks"
When you get right down to it, Republicans are the establishment in this country and not the anti-establishment. Democrats riot, rumble, and rage. Republicans have to go to work. We don't want to go across the aisle. We want to win. We don't want hope and change. We want low taxes and less government. For many years, Republicans have seen McCain loved by the popular prints as the moderate Republican defector.
3) Just Plain Too Old
Reagan wasn't balding, wasn't graying, and was still riding horses and chopping wood as he sought the Presidency. John McCain is an old man who looks and acts his age, and the statistical odds do not favor eight (or four) years in the Oval Office. McCain's good shot at the Presidency was in 1996 or 2000, not now.
2) Didn't Want It Enough
Obama is aggressive, assertive, and vulnerable. McCain didn't effectively rebut Obama's charges of "third Bush term" or "tax cuts for wealthy," and they stuck. Obama is very vulnerable in 2008 because politically, he's just a kid. No governorship, no leadership, just a sound follower to the most left-wing elements in a party headed by no-goodniks and 1960s hippies. For McCain, life goes on after November 4 and it's "business as usual" on November 5. At least Bob Dole wanted it enough to quit the Senate when he was the Majority Leader.
1) Not Conservative Enough
John McCain believes in the sanctity of human life, and this is a fine thing. Other than that, McCain has been dragged kicking and screaming away from the open-borders position; he didn't support the Bush tax plan; and although he did choose a conservative VP, rumors that he would pick a left-winger like Lieberman had weight because, well, we all wondered that he just might. Bob Dole was not a conservative but tried to play one for six months, and never really pulled off the trick; ditto McCain.
Wolfson would love to be the biographer of the failed opposition, and in three weeks he will have that privilege, because in fact, he has attacked both McCain and Obama, and one of them will lose on November 4. (As a Hillarian, Wolfson considers both of these men the opposition.)
If McCain loses, there are several watertight rationales:
10) Obama Played Him Like A Chump On Financing
John McCain has no business receiving public financing for the campaign. TV advertising costs big money and Republicans have a lot of it. Unfortunately, Barack Obama pledged public financing and didn't keep his pledge. More unfortunately, McCain pledged public financing and he kept his pledge. Now, Obama leads McCain in TV spending by 3-1. You'd think that McCain would have learned how to operate in the wake of McCain-Feingold, but McCain dropped the ball on getting money for his campaign.
9) Wouldn't Cry Foul
Instead of cocaine, Obama is now addicted to power and he keeps hitting foul balls (ACORN, shady overseas contributions, whackjob associations, Soros, Rezko, and total lies in the paid media and the friendly media.) McCain could have aggressively confronted Obama but he did not.
8) The Lame Campaign
McCain's ratcheted tenor sucks, especially compared to Obama's smooth bass. The "Straight Talk Express?" Oh, give me a break. That woman narrator on the TV ads sounds stilted. The stump speech is boring. Until Sarah Palin was chosen for VP, America was asleep, and we're starting to nod off again. When people get excited about the candidate and think the candidate will win, they start giving. Right now McCain is the underdog, which is where he has been during most of the time he has been running for President.
7) Equivalences And Smear Wars
When McCain started to say ACORN, Obama's folks pointed to the 2006 photo of an ACORN event McCain attended. When Palin mentioned Rezko, Obamatites reached back to the 1980s and found the Keating Five. When conservatives mention the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Obamatites link McCain to John Hagee. The O-B-C-Y-A campaign has always come up with a way to equivocate Obama's mountains of shame with McCain's molehills - in between bombing
McCain with the "smear campaign" charge.
6) He Didn't Treat It Like A Race
I've seen John McCain in a number of venues but the McCain that annoys me the most is the one who is too busy complimenting Obama to attack him. McCain believes in a principled debate, and maybe he has a background of principled opponents. The Viet Cong were not principled and neither is Obama. McCain should always lash out at this enemy with every limb.
5) Legislative Failures
McCain "suspended" his campaign to attend to the bailout bill, and didn't get any boost in so doing because he didn't sell the idea that the original bill was crap and the revised bill had the protections we needed. He didn't even sell the notion that the Democrats created the housing crisis in the beginning. Another thing that really gets my goat is, much of the really lousy legislation of the last 20 years has the name "McCain" on it at the top. McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy, and McCain-Lieberman are all bad pieces of work, and two of those lemons are law now.
4) Republicans Aren't "Mavericks"
When you get right down to it, Republicans are the establishment in this country and not the anti-establishment. Democrats riot, rumble, and rage. Republicans have to go to work. We don't want to go across the aisle. We want to win. We don't want hope and change. We want low taxes and less government. For many years, Republicans have seen McCain loved by the popular prints as the moderate Republican defector.
3) Just Plain Too Old
Reagan wasn't balding, wasn't graying, and was still riding horses and chopping wood as he sought the Presidency. John McCain is an old man who looks and acts his age, and the statistical odds do not favor eight (or four) years in the Oval Office. McCain's good shot at the Presidency was in 1996 or 2000, not now.
2) Didn't Want It Enough
Obama is aggressive, assertive, and vulnerable. McCain didn't effectively rebut Obama's charges of "third Bush term" or "tax cuts for wealthy," and they stuck. Obama is very vulnerable in 2008 because politically, he's just a kid. No governorship, no leadership, just a sound follower to the most left-wing elements in a party headed by no-goodniks and 1960s hippies. For McCain, life goes on after November 4 and it's "business as usual" on November 5. At least Bob Dole wanted it enough to quit the Senate when he was the Majority Leader.
1) Not Conservative Enough
John McCain believes in the sanctity of human life, and this is a fine thing. Other than that, McCain has been dragged kicking and screaming away from the open-borders position; he didn't support the Bush tax plan; and although he did choose a conservative VP, rumors that he would pick a left-winger like Lieberman had weight because, well, we all wondered that he just might. Bob Dole was not a conservative but tried to play one for six months, and never really pulled off the trick; ditto McCain.
Friday, October 17, 2008
The Blazing Truth Endorses McCain/Palin
To be sure, our endorsement of John McCain and Sarah Palin for President and Vice-President will not shock any of our regular readers, who have agonized along with us during the long primary season.
John McCain is an all-American hero. He is bright, witty at times, honest, and a man who can get things done. Plus, McCain is pro-life, and while other politicians claim to be against pork-barrel spending, McCain has a long record of opposing pork-barrel spending. We wish that McCain's conservative roots were not merely trained on abortion and earmarks.
The addition of Governor Palin to the ticket adds a rare bit of conservatism to a quiet, moderate, and mature campaign which is now sadly the only obstacle to the coming Obama Presidency.
At two and one-half weeks out, the Blazing Truth does not concede the Presidential election to Mr. Obama, but prospects for McCain/Palin and Republicans this season do not look rosy by any standards.
Mr. McCain requires an external force to negate the winds of Obamacity and drag him kicking and screaming to victory. Call it God, call it karma, or call it 527 groups, some other force must move the candidate to victory.
John McCain is an all-American hero. He is bright, witty at times, honest, and a man who can get things done. Plus, McCain is pro-life, and while other politicians claim to be against pork-barrel spending, McCain has a long record of opposing pork-barrel spending. We wish that McCain's conservative roots were not merely trained on abortion and earmarks.
The addition of Governor Palin to the ticket adds a rare bit of conservatism to a quiet, moderate, and mature campaign which is now sadly the only obstacle to the coming Obama Presidency.
At two and one-half weeks out, the Blazing Truth does not concede the Presidential election to Mr. Obama, but prospects for McCain/Palin and Republicans this season do not look rosy by any standards.
Mr. McCain requires an external force to negate the winds of Obamacity and drag him kicking and screaming to victory. Call it God, call it karma, or call it 527 groups, some other force must move the candidate to victory.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Don't Be Sorry...
October 12, 2008
RE: Sorry, Dad, I'm Voting for Obama, by Christopher Buckley
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-10/the-conservative-case-for-obama
THE BLAZING TRUTH RESPONDS:
My dear Mr. Buckley, I would hope that you as a learned man would accept a criticism from someone who has already been where you wish to go.
Election day is 3-1/2 weeks away, and your article calls to mind 1992, the year a challenger named Bill Clinton went up against George H. W. Bush and won. Like today's Republicans, Bush had lost his way. Never a social conservative, Bush broke his iron-clad no-new-taxes pledge and voters remembered it. The ever-so-short Bush recession was played up by Clinton as "the worst economy in 50 years," and there was a giant savings and loan debacle.
No longer would the public believe a tax pledge from Bush, and in the end this was the principal undoing of Bush in favor of the younger, hipper Bill Clinton.
The Clintons promised an ethical Administration; they delivered a nightmare. They promised a fix for Social Security; they didn't even offer one. They promised school reform and delivered nothing. It took so long to connect Osama bin Laden to the 1993 WTC bombing, Clinton refused to accept bin Laden as a prisoner because he didn't have a legal reason to hold bin Laden.
Selecting Mr. Clinton gave ground when ground should have been taken. Ronald Reagan won the Cold War because he wouldn't back down. Clinton lost round one of the War on Terror to Osama bin Laden because Clinton refused to fight. Reagan fostered democracy in Nicaragua; Clinton sent troops to a Muslim v. Christian conflict in Bosnia and backed the Muslims. Reagan reduced marginal federal income tax rates from 70 percent to 28 percent. Eight years of Clinton increased the marginal rate to 39.6 percent, flooded our Southwest with illegal aliens and increased our prison population by one million persons.
Eight years of Clinton cost us the current Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac crisis and the current North Korean standoff. Eight years of Clinton cost us a rededicated Saddam Hussein, the head of Osama bin Laden, and 9/11. Eight years of Clinton cost us a trillion dollars in new taxes. Eight years of Clinton cost us an Emmy for Al Gore and made him a superstar tree-hugger worth 100 million dollars.
The Clinton years were a cipher and a retreat when an advance was sorely needed. As our military was taken apart to produce the savings promised by "reinventing government," Jamie Gorelick produced a "wall" that kept the CIA and FBI from sharing terrorist intelligence, and sensitive nuclear, satellite, and missile technology went to the Chinese.
Somewhere in the eight years, Hillary Clinton became enough of a New Yorker to represent them all in the United States Senate. The Supreme Court tipped left with Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Stephen Breyer. Marc Rich, Pincus Green, and many others received late-night absolutions while Clinton received late-night donations. Clinton actually met with Yasser Arafat.
Somewhere along the way, every school child learned that oral sex is not sex, lying under oath is OK sometimes, and a subpoena isn't worth squat if you can ignore it for two years and find the documents later in a box in your closet.
Mr. Clinton himself, sans Presidency, has developed assets of more than 100 million dollars and retains potentially many years to spread his infections to the public, and by infections I refer mostly to his political views.
My greatest foible as a voter, Mr. Buckley, was to cast a vote for William Jefferson (nee Blythe) Clinton under the guise of disciplinary action against Mr. Bush Senior. If I could recall that ballot, like a defective Pinto, and in so doing magically undo the damage done by Mr. Clinton's two dismal terms, I would gladly surrender my (meager) worldly possessions. But I cannot, and when you assign Mr. Obama to lead the nation and the world, you cannot undo the damage that shall be done.
One, or two terms of Mr. Obama will warp this country and the world; I doubt that any of us will recognize the country in 2017.
The Supreme Court will be forever altered? Or John Paul Stephens will still serve at 96, Ms. Ginsberg at 83, both Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy at 80, and two more justices into their late 70s -- statistically not one chance in two hundred. These are lifetime appointments.
The new President does not face an ongoing Independent Counsel, which was the only check of the Clinton appetites for money, power, and libido; appetites which were strong enough to require the public destruction of Kenneth Starr.
Mr. Obama's slim resume, dirty hands, and support for radical enemies in both church and state, foreign and domestic, should have shocked you away from him and I cannot grasp why this has not happened.
I can tell you that I appraised Mr. Clinton very badly. I thought that he, having already experienced the negative effects of a sex scandal and having learned from it, could not possibly risk the damage of a relapse, but I was wrong. I thought that he was much too smart to be duped by treaties without teeth and trust without verification, but I was wrong. I thought that he was a "new" Democrat who would work in bipartisan fashion, but I was wrong. I thought he cared about values or people, but I was wrong. The most remarkable abilities of Mr. Clinton were to say and do as he damned well pleased and get away with it; to assess the winning side and take it; to shift blame; and to destroy opponents by any means.
In a contest between Mr. McCain and Mr. Obama, it is patently obvious who holds the stronger resume, who holds the values similar to yours and mine, whose friends are fiends, who will abuse appointments and pardons, who is extreme left and who is center-right, and this will not change.
Using the ballot box to discipline Mr. Bush who is not running is insane, and using it to castigate Mr. McCain for a few campaign mistakes is an empty gesture.
Mr. Buckley, I challenge you; do not do this thing, do not support this most liberal of liberals, and you shall not be sorry, neither to your Mum and Pup nor to your own mirrored face.
RE: Sorry, Dad, I'm Voting for Obama, by Christopher Buckley
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-10/the-conservative-case-for-obama
THE BLAZING TRUTH RESPONDS:
My dear Mr. Buckley, I would hope that you as a learned man would accept a criticism from someone who has already been where you wish to go.
Election day is 3-1/2 weeks away, and your article calls to mind 1992, the year a challenger named Bill Clinton went up against George H. W. Bush and won. Like today's Republicans, Bush had lost his way. Never a social conservative, Bush broke his iron-clad no-new-taxes pledge and voters remembered it. The ever-so-short Bush recession was played up by Clinton as "the worst economy in 50 years," and there was a giant savings and loan debacle.
No longer would the public believe a tax pledge from Bush, and in the end this was the principal undoing of Bush in favor of the younger, hipper Bill Clinton.
The Clintons promised an ethical Administration; they delivered a nightmare. They promised a fix for Social Security; they didn't even offer one. They promised school reform and delivered nothing. It took so long to connect Osama bin Laden to the 1993 WTC bombing, Clinton refused to accept bin Laden as a prisoner because he didn't have a legal reason to hold bin Laden.
Selecting Mr. Clinton gave ground when ground should have been taken. Ronald Reagan won the Cold War because he wouldn't back down. Clinton lost round one of the War on Terror to Osama bin Laden because Clinton refused to fight. Reagan fostered democracy in Nicaragua; Clinton sent troops to a Muslim v. Christian conflict in Bosnia and backed the Muslims. Reagan reduced marginal federal income tax rates from 70 percent to 28 percent. Eight years of Clinton increased the marginal rate to 39.6 percent, flooded our Southwest with illegal aliens and increased our prison population by one million persons.
Eight years of Clinton cost us the current Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac crisis and the current North Korean standoff. Eight years of Clinton cost us a rededicated Saddam Hussein, the head of Osama bin Laden, and 9/11. Eight years of Clinton cost us a trillion dollars in new taxes. Eight years of Clinton cost us an Emmy for Al Gore and made him a superstar tree-hugger worth 100 million dollars.
The Clinton years were a cipher and a retreat when an advance was sorely needed. As our military was taken apart to produce the savings promised by "reinventing government," Jamie Gorelick produced a "wall" that kept the CIA and FBI from sharing terrorist intelligence, and sensitive nuclear, satellite, and missile technology went to the Chinese.
Somewhere in the eight years, Hillary Clinton became enough of a New Yorker to represent them all in the United States Senate. The Supreme Court tipped left with Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Stephen Breyer. Marc Rich, Pincus Green, and many others received late-night absolutions while Clinton received late-night donations. Clinton actually met with Yasser Arafat.
Somewhere along the way, every school child learned that oral sex is not sex, lying under oath is OK sometimes, and a subpoena isn't worth squat if you can ignore it for two years and find the documents later in a box in your closet.
Mr. Clinton himself, sans Presidency, has developed assets of more than 100 million dollars and retains potentially many years to spread his infections to the public, and by infections I refer mostly to his political views.
My greatest foible as a voter, Mr. Buckley, was to cast a vote for William Jefferson (nee Blythe) Clinton under the guise of disciplinary action against Mr. Bush Senior. If I could recall that ballot, like a defective Pinto, and in so doing magically undo the damage done by Mr. Clinton's two dismal terms, I would gladly surrender my (meager) worldly possessions. But I cannot, and when you assign Mr. Obama to lead the nation and the world, you cannot undo the damage that shall be done.
One, or two terms of Mr. Obama will warp this country and the world; I doubt that any of us will recognize the country in 2017.
The Supreme Court will be forever altered? Or John Paul Stephens will still serve at 96, Ms. Ginsberg at 83, both Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy at 80, and two more justices into their late 70s -- statistically not one chance in two hundred. These are lifetime appointments.
The new President does not face an ongoing Independent Counsel, which was the only check of the Clinton appetites for money, power, and libido; appetites which were strong enough to require the public destruction of Kenneth Starr.
Mr. Obama's slim resume, dirty hands, and support for radical enemies in both church and state, foreign and domestic, should have shocked you away from him and I cannot grasp why this has not happened.
I can tell you that I appraised Mr. Clinton very badly. I thought that he, having already experienced the negative effects of a sex scandal and having learned from it, could not possibly risk the damage of a relapse, but I was wrong. I thought that he was much too smart to be duped by treaties without teeth and trust without verification, but I was wrong. I thought that he was a "new" Democrat who would work in bipartisan fashion, but I was wrong. I thought he cared about values or people, but I was wrong. The most remarkable abilities of Mr. Clinton were to say and do as he damned well pleased and get away with it; to assess the winning side and take it; to shift blame; and to destroy opponents by any means.
In a contest between Mr. McCain and Mr. Obama, it is patently obvious who holds the stronger resume, who holds the values similar to yours and mine, whose friends are fiends, who will abuse appointments and pardons, who is extreme left and who is center-right, and this will not change.
Using the ballot box to discipline Mr. Bush who is not running is insane, and using it to castigate Mr. McCain for a few campaign mistakes is an empty gesture.
Mr. Buckley, I challenge you; do not do this thing, do not support this most liberal of liberals, and you shall not be sorry, neither to your Mum and Pup nor to your own mirrored face.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
FOR GOD'S SAKE, DON'T PICK LIEBERMAN
August 14, 2008
Dick Morris and Eileen McGann have the ultimate VP solution for John McCain: Joe Lieberman. The senator from Connecticut parted company with mainstream (and by mainstream I mean left-wing) Democrats by supporting the war on terror, supporting the war in Iraq, even appearing at the 2004 Republican National Convention to speak on Bush's behalf. Lieberman was primaried for his apostasy and now has the official scarlet (I) beside his name because of it. Lieberman has become a pressure valve in the Senate because the slim Democratic majority falls apart without his assent. After the election, Democrats will no longer need him.
Lieberman is to conservative Republicans what Benedict Arnold was to the British - a useful turncoat they can admire from a great distance, but for whom there is no genuine allegiance or affection. Arnold was an American general who defected and became a shunned colonel in the British army, never well trusted by his superiors, and hated in his land of birth.
Morris' argument that Romney is a no-go because he didn't do well in the primaries falls a little flat. Romney won 9 primaries and two caucuses in a field that included surprise candidate Mike Huckabee. Remember that Bush 41 didn't do very well either, winning only 6 states and DC, even though the field was fairly weak. Reagan/Bush went to the White House twice, and Bush/Quayle once, falling to the Clinton machine only after 12 years.
Morris' second argument that consensus and bipartisanship are well-served by a McCain-Lieberman ticket does not seem to hold water. Voters on the Republican side who are outraged by broken borders, gay marriage, Hillarycare and the liberal blockades against Alito and Roberts don't want bipartisanship. They want to win. A Lieberman gambit soft-sells conservative ideals and tells the voters McCain isn't serious about them. Morris' choice may have some appeal among moderate Republicans. I hope moderates will accept Romney; this is more likely than conservatives accepting Lieberman.
Morris mentioned Abraham Lincoln's choice of Andrew Johnson as a model of bipartisanship that McCain should try to match. However, history reveals that Lincoln was barely in his grave when Johnson's cronies forced the Black Codes (servitude) on newly-freed blacks in the South. Republicans hated Johnson for this outrage, forced votes on the new laws in which blacks could participate, and impeached Andrew Johnson on 11 counts. By a single vote on each of 3 counts, Johnson escaped conviction and removal from office, and in 1868 he ran for President as a Democrat. So much for bipartisanship.
Let's get back to what the Vice-Presidency is; the fine print on the box detailing what happens if the product fails. If McCain serves out his term, all is (presumably) well. If not, we get a sort of Bizzaro McCain that, but for terror, is roughly as far left as Barack Obama and will presumably appoint Ginsberg or Breyer type justices to the Supreme Court. To conservatives, Joe Lieberman has all of McCain's flaws and many more, yet has only the terror thread as a virtue. He's pro-gay, pro-choice, pro-gun control, pro-big government, and pro-everything else they're against. To those who are wary of 71-year old McCain, Joe's 66 years offer no relief. Joe looks old and sounds old. Joe has no military background and is a lifetime lawyer/politician. To those who want a governor or a leader, or a proven vote-getter, Joe is none of the above. In 2004, his best showing was 11% in Delaware. He only got 5% in his own state.
Conservatives will accept Lieberman on the stage at the convention, but they will not accept him on the ticket. They'll take the maverick, but not the McGovern.
Dick Morris and Eileen McGann have the ultimate VP solution for John McCain: Joe Lieberman. The senator from Connecticut parted company with mainstream (and by mainstream I mean left-wing) Democrats by supporting the war on terror, supporting the war in Iraq, even appearing at the 2004 Republican National Convention to speak on Bush's behalf. Lieberman was primaried for his apostasy and now has the official scarlet (I) beside his name because of it. Lieberman has become a pressure valve in the Senate because the slim Democratic majority falls apart without his assent. After the election, Democrats will no longer need him.
Lieberman is to conservative Republicans what Benedict Arnold was to the British - a useful turncoat they can admire from a great distance, but for whom there is no genuine allegiance or affection. Arnold was an American general who defected and became a shunned colonel in the British army, never well trusted by his superiors, and hated in his land of birth.
Morris' argument that Romney is a no-go because he didn't do well in the primaries falls a little flat. Romney won 9 primaries and two caucuses in a field that included surprise candidate Mike Huckabee. Remember that Bush 41 didn't do very well either, winning only 6 states and DC, even though the field was fairly weak. Reagan/Bush went to the White House twice, and Bush/Quayle once, falling to the Clinton machine only after 12 years.
Morris' second argument that consensus and bipartisanship are well-served by a McCain-Lieberman ticket does not seem to hold water. Voters on the Republican side who are outraged by broken borders, gay marriage, Hillarycare and the liberal blockades against Alito and Roberts don't want bipartisanship. They want to win. A Lieberman gambit soft-sells conservative ideals and tells the voters McCain isn't serious about them. Morris' choice may have some appeal among moderate Republicans. I hope moderates will accept Romney; this is more likely than conservatives accepting Lieberman.
Morris mentioned Abraham Lincoln's choice of Andrew Johnson as a model of bipartisanship that McCain should try to match. However, history reveals that Lincoln was barely in his grave when Johnson's cronies forced the Black Codes (servitude) on newly-freed blacks in the South. Republicans hated Johnson for this outrage, forced votes on the new laws in which blacks could participate, and impeached Andrew Johnson on 11 counts. By a single vote on each of 3 counts, Johnson escaped conviction and removal from office, and in 1868 he ran for President as a Democrat. So much for bipartisanship.
Let's get back to what the Vice-Presidency is; the fine print on the box detailing what happens if the product fails. If McCain serves out his term, all is (presumably) well. If not, we get a sort of Bizzaro McCain that, but for terror, is roughly as far left as Barack Obama and will presumably appoint Ginsberg or Breyer type justices to the Supreme Court. To conservatives, Joe Lieberman has all of McCain's flaws and many more, yet has only the terror thread as a virtue. He's pro-gay, pro-choice, pro-gun control, pro-big government, and pro-everything else they're against. To those who are wary of 71-year old McCain, Joe's 66 years offer no relief. Joe looks old and sounds old. Joe has no military background and is a lifetime lawyer/politician. To those who want a governor or a leader, or a proven vote-getter, Joe is none of the above. In 2004, his best showing was 11% in Delaware. He only got 5% in his own state.
Conservatives will accept Lieberman on the stage at the convention, but they will not accept him on the ticket. They'll take the maverick, but not the McGovern.
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Why Clinton/Obama Is Hardly A "Dream Team"
January 19, 2008
In the top tier of Democratic hopefuls, we find Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards. With two caucuses and a few primaries reporting, pretty much everyone else vying for the Big D this year is out of the running, unless something weird happens. Weird things do happen.
Among the top three we have zero governors, zero mayors, and zero ambassadors. We have zero entrepreneurs, zero teachers, zero doctors, zero farmers, and zero veterans.
We have basically one vision for the future:
1) Increase taxes.
2) Grow government.
3) Cut the military, surrender in Iraq, ignore Iran, North Korea and a panoply of mischievous state actors.
4) Open the borders.
5) Give more power to unions, the gay mafia, the United Nations, and the usual half-wits.
6) Activist judicial appointments.
7) Pardons for anyone with a big enough checkbook.
Now that we have dispensed with the issues, what remains is personalities.
We have three liberal senators with an average of five years’ experience among them.
We have three millionaires and three lawyers.
We have a masculine woman, a feminine man, and a (half-) black man.
Hillary Clinton
We have pretend experience – Hillary pretends 35 years of experience. Her experience is that she’s been married to Bill, who has supplied her with prestigious law firm jobs, mansions to live in, and a Senate seat. Bill’s book barely mentions her outside of the failed health care initiative.
Hillary’s official experience is, she was handed one big assignment and blew it (in Arkansas she was given the education reform project and blew that.) There are thousands of documents articulating what Hillary has done as First Lady. They are sealed from the public and she will not release them. Based on her public comments about Bill, George W. Bush, and so forth, basically she has been tricked and fooled a lot.
But Hillary has a lot of credentials she doesn’t mention, like her legal work on behalf of Black Panthers; the Madison Guaranty scandal; her West Wing activities, including the hiring of Craig Livingston and the firing of Billy Dale; and her financial shenanigans from cattle futures to Vincent Foster to gifts and pardons.
Hillary has a “listening campaign,” but she only listens to people who agree with her. She earned a million dollars from books about the family dog and cat (Buddy and Socks); the dog got run over in 2001 and she gave the cat to Bettie Currie because she didn’t want it anymore.
There are hundreds of different, devious ways a President can use the office for ill – pardons, appointments, investigations, tax audits, executive orders, misuse of secret information, and widespread fraud and bribery. Money that can’t be funneled to the officeholder can be funneled to the spouse, or some legal apparatus such as the Presidential library or the Presidential defense fund. Hillary knows all of the dirty tricks and she will absolutely hit the ground running.
No American should trust her, and that conclusion is based on what we do know.
John Edwards
We have an obscenely rich champion for the poor – John Edwards, who earned fifty million dollars as a trial lawyer getting huge judgments against hospitals, a trucking company, and a manufacturer; who recently worked as a hedge fund manager; who has a mansion roughly the size of a Wal-Mart. Edwards’ speeches focus on “two Americas,” one rich, and one poor. It’s ironic for someone who has earned so much money as a trial lawyer to tell poor people they can’t succeed because the system is corrupt.
Barack Obama
We have an orator who doesn’t say anything. Barack Hussein Obama – yes, Hussein – has a book that says nothing and until three years ago was a state senator. His insertion into the U.S. Senate tracks back to a certain nameless California judge’s ridiculous decision to open the public records of the ugly child custody claims made by Star Trek actress Jeri Ryan against her husband, Jack Ryan. When Ryan left his campaign, there was very little time for the Republican Party to select a new candidate, and their eventual choice, Maryland native Alan Keyes, had already blown four elections and took 89 days to blow a fifth one.
Barack Obama’s home is on a million-dollar lot that Obama couldn’t afford – until the lot was suddenly split and a shady partner agreed to buy the other half, the one without a house on it, for the same amount Obama paid for the half with the house, and just leave it there. That partner is now under indictment for election fraud, for activities unrelated to this. We’re expected to believe that Obama’s victory in Iowa makes him worthy of the Big Nod. Twenty years ago, Jesse Jackson won eleven of these “victories.”
Now, say some, eliminate Edwards, join Hillary and Obama, and you have the Dream Team – but you don’t. You don’t lose much, but you don’t gain anything. You basically have a two-headed monster with no credibility and no moral sense. Like a used car dealer, Clinton/Obama tells you to buy this car because it has low miles and is good on gas, but they won’t tell you it has a blown engine. “Stay away from the Republican dealership,” they’ll say, “because it’s cursed.”
The Democratic Party is what it is – a corrupt, immoral party given over to lawyers and teachers’ unions, befouling the military, with the belief that America is inferior to the United Nations. These two twits are worse than average because when the smokescreen of platitudes clears away, they are a pair of opportunistic phonies with some particularly bad plans for the country. Clinton/Obama makes Gore and Kerry look wise and wholesome, and that’s not cool.
The best hope for Democrats is to keep voting for “Uncommitted.” Only a floor fight can remove the Three Stooges and emplace a decent Democrat.
In the top tier of Democratic hopefuls, we find Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards. With two caucuses and a few primaries reporting, pretty much everyone else vying for the Big D this year is out of the running, unless something weird happens. Weird things do happen.
Among the top three we have zero governors, zero mayors, and zero ambassadors. We have zero entrepreneurs, zero teachers, zero doctors, zero farmers, and zero veterans.
We have basically one vision for the future:
1) Increase taxes.
2) Grow government.
3) Cut the military, surrender in Iraq, ignore Iran, North Korea and a panoply of mischievous state actors.
4) Open the borders.
5) Give more power to unions, the gay mafia, the United Nations, and the usual half-wits.
6) Activist judicial appointments.
7) Pardons for anyone with a big enough checkbook.
Now that we have dispensed with the issues, what remains is personalities.
We have three liberal senators with an average of five years’ experience among them.
We have three millionaires and three lawyers.
We have a masculine woman, a feminine man, and a (half-) black man.
Hillary Clinton
We have pretend experience – Hillary pretends 35 years of experience. Her experience is that she’s been married to Bill, who has supplied her with prestigious law firm jobs, mansions to live in, and a Senate seat. Bill’s book barely mentions her outside of the failed health care initiative.
Hillary’s official experience is, she was handed one big assignment and blew it (in Arkansas she was given the education reform project and blew that.) There are thousands of documents articulating what Hillary has done as First Lady. They are sealed from the public and she will not release them. Based on her public comments about Bill, George W. Bush, and so forth, basically she has been tricked and fooled a lot.
But Hillary has a lot of credentials she doesn’t mention, like her legal work on behalf of Black Panthers; the Madison Guaranty scandal; her West Wing activities, including the hiring of Craig Livingston and the firing of Billy Dale; and her financial shenanigans from cattle futures to Vincent Foster to gifts and pardons.
Hillary has a “listening campaign,” but she only listens to people who agree with her. She earned a million dollars from books about the family dog and cat (Buddy and Socks); the dog got run over in 2001 and she gave the cat to Bettie Currie because she didn’t want it anymore.
There are hundreds of different, devious ways a President can use the office for ill – pardons, appointments, investigations, tax audits, executive orders, misuse of secret information, and widespread fraud and bribery. Money that can’t be funneled to the officeholder can be funneled to the spouse, or some legal apparatus such as the Presidential library or the Presidential defense fund. Hillary knows all of the dirty tricks and she will absolutely hit the ground running.
No American should trust her, and that conclusion is based on what we do know.
John Edwards
We have an obscenely rich champion for the poor – John Edwards, who earned fifty million dollars as a trial lawyer getting huge judgments against hospitals, a trucking company, and a manufacturer; who recently worked as a hedge fund manager; who has a mansion roughly the size of a Wal-Mart. Edwards’ speeches focus on “two Americas,” one rich, and one poor. It’s ironic for someone who has earned so much money as a trial lawyer to tell poor people they can’t succeed because the system is corrupt.
Barack Obama
We have an orator who doesn’t say anything. Barack Hussein Obama – yes, Hussein – has a book that says nothing and until three years ago was a state senator. His insertion into the U.S. Senate tracks back to a certain nameless California judge’s ridiculous decision to open the public records of the ugly child custody claims made by Star Trek actress Jeri Ryan against her husband, Jack Ryan. When Ryan left his campaign, there was very little time for the Republican Party to select a new candidate, and their eventual choice, Maryland native Alan Keyes, had already blown four elections and took 89 days to blow a fifth one.
Barack Obama’s home is on a million-dollar lot that Obama couldn’t afford – until the lot was suddenly split and a shady partner agreed to buy the other half, the one without a house on it, for the same amount Obama paid for the half with the house, and just leave it there. That partner is now under indictment for election fraud, for activities unrelated to this. We’re expected to believe that Obama’s victory in Iowa makes him worthy of the Big Nod. Twenty years ago, Jesse Jackson won eleven of these “victories.”
Now, say some, eliminate Edwards, join Hillary and Obama, and you have the Dream Team – but you don’t. You don’t lose much, but you don’t gain anything. You basically have a two-headed monster with no credibility and no moral sense. Like a used car dealer, Clinton/Obama tells you to buy this car because it has low miles and is good on gas, but they won’t tell you it has a blown engine. “Stay away from the Republican dealership,” they’ll say, “because it’s cursed.”
The Democratic Party is what it is – a corrupt, immoral party given over to lawyers and teachers’ unions, befouling the military, with the belief that America is inferior to the United Nations. These two twits are worse than average because when the smokescreen of platitudes clears away, they are a pair of opportunistic phonies with some particularly bad plans for the country. Clinton/Obama makes Gore and Kerry look wise and wholesome, and that’s not cool.
The best hope for Democrats is to keep voting for “Uncommitted.” Only a floor fight can remove the Three Stooges and emplace a decent Democrat.
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