Snow reignites fight over job outsourcing

Look at the catch phrases and buzzwords the Rats are tuning up this time around and you will see an eerie resemblance to those used in '92: "disconnected", "out of touch", "doesn't care about the common man", and "more interested in global politics than domestic needs".

The only up side of the scenario you paint is that Kerry does not have the charisma of Bill Clinton and there is no Little General to bleed votes from the Bush campaign. It is arguable that Clinton could not have won in '92 without Perot. That's not in place this time around and won't be.

But the Bush people need to lock Snow in the White House basement until after the first Tuesday in November. Either that or give him the economic mission to Sarawak or some such place. Anything to shut him up.

I agree that the "likability factor" that Clinton had is lacking for Kerry. Still, the media will carry his water and try mightily to do a makeover of Kerry so that he is more appealing than he presently is, which is not very much.

The Perot effect? I don't know, I've seen it argued both ways and data has been presented that seems to support both sides of the argument, did he hurt Bush 41 or not. But the bad thing is that the negative perception of Bush on the outsourcing/offshoring issue is impacting what has been primarily a Republican/conservative demographic. This is why I don't understand why the White House election team seems to be so politically tone deaf on this issue. At least the Rats understand the political dynamic: you don't screw the groups who form your natural constituency. The Rats know they have the minorities and unions in their pockets, so they say and do things that make them think that they'll look out for their interests. The message the group being affected by the offshoring issue seems to be getting from conservatives and Republicans is, screw you. Telling people "screw you" is not a way to win votes, or elections.

But the bad thing is that the negative perception of Bush on the outsourcing/offshoring issue is impacting what has been primarily a Republican/conservative demographic. This is why I don't understand why the White House election team seems to be so politically tone deaf on this issue.

Because the Bush strategists already figure they have the base locked up because we have nowhere to go. And they may not be far from wrong. Here are four core issues for a lot of conservatives where Bush has missed the mark by a country mile:

1. Campaign Finance Reform -- limits free speech. He should never have signed it. Sets the precedent for more First Amendment assaults.

2. The Assault Weapons Ban -- Bush has already publicly stated he will sign it if it ever gets to his desk. And this one will be even more restrictive than the last one.

3. Open Borders and Amnesty for Illegals -- it gives sanction to the invasion of our country that has been underway for years. Cheap foreign workers whose benefits will be supported on the taxpayer dole. Their kids will never be assimilated into the American culture thanks to the one-world, multi-cultural America-haters who run the public schools.

4. Offshoring -- 'Nuff said. Especially on this thread.

Who do we support if not to GWB? John Kerry? Pat Buchanan? Ralph Nader? Karl Rove may be saying f-you to the base, and he may be right to do it. The base doesn't like the shift toward globalism? They can sit in the middle and suck on it. At least as far as the Bush campaign strategists are concerned.

I know there's no way I can cast a vote for John Kerry or any other leftist whacko. And the Bush campaign knows this. What's ominous is that both sides of the political landscape come to the same conclusion on offshoring but from different vantage points and for different reasons.

The left sees a global socialist utopia, the worker's paradise envisioned by Marx but never realized. And hand-in-hand with this goes political dominance for leftist politicos. The multi-national corporations see an bottomless pool of cheap world-wide labor that can never be exhausted and can never rise to challenge their economic dominance.

What they both seem to miss is that economic globalism leads to political globalism. And you can kiss goodby the novel liberties that were uniquely American when that happens. Or maybe they do know it, but they just don't care.

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