Palin smears are nothing new: They've been doing this to us since 1929

Daisy Sunday this weekend, September 7th: conservatives’ Pearl Harbor Day, notable for dems’ revelation then – as so many times before but less dramatically – that they are the masters of trash-mouth politics and ethically-challenged ethnic challenges to traditions with any and every tactic known in the political playbook. Dirty pool, dirty politics – the democrats’ and liberals’ game plan since at least January 1929, and emblematically emblazoned on the nation’s primetime TV screens on September 7, 1964.

Only one airing of the trend-setting “Daisy ad” during a movie of the week, but it’s gotten airing by its heirs in numerous commercials, pamphlets, commentary and journalistic jihadists since. It’s a long and ugly tradition in the political camp that views itself as sacred, holy and noble – long before OTO was even born [Obama, The One, that is], and continues thru this Sunday, the 44th anniversary of that nasty 60-second TV ad of demonic brilliance and effective lying that is still the gold standard of dirty politics.

Kennedy accused Ike of being soft on commies, and weak on defense, to win over swing voters in Cold War nervous environs of ’60 – so expect OTO and Ego [Biden’s most suitable middle name] to accuse Mac of unbelievable, outrageous and mendacious deficiencies. JFK made the weak-on-defense charge stick to Ike, and thus to his VP, Nixon, as many political analysts have noted that “Kennedy ran to the right of Nixon on defense” and then typically displayed a ‘nuance’ after winning: he proclaimed he thought the USA should be first in arms-reduction by offering a unilateral cutback in our nuclear warheads. First, bash Ike for being weak to prove you’re a strong advocate for national defense, then commit the finest act of weakness in a generation. No wonder the Russkies thought a few missiles in Cuba would be no big deal.

Judge Bork was ‘borked’ by Teddy Kennedy during Reagan’s term, and then came Clarence Thomas during Bush-41, declared a juicy target when a black feminazi screeched, “We’re going to BORK this nomination” – and so they did, but with a different result. The same knives came out against Alito, and Roberts, during Bush-43 and are being sharpened with whetstones of lies and half-truths for whatever appointment is submitted to the Senate by President McCain.

Clinton roused anger and eager cooperation by the media and me-too chants by his Congressional cohorts, with scurrilous claims there were dozens of black churches being firebombed by a rampant return of racist demagoguery. Then, a few enlightening, ‘inconvenient’ facts were unearthed by the FBI – no such pattern, mostly locally-motivated arson and revenge acts – and no rally by the media to chastise this demagogic, priapic president. Note the difference then, of the media’s frenzy over the church-bombing claim, to that today of William Ayers’ connection to Obama. Imagine if any conservative in your lifetime had even once shared a croissant with someone involved in bombing black churches: Would the media poo-pooh it so dismissively?

Ya think the Daisy Ad was unique? That cute girl picking daisy petals, then engulfed in an atomic mushroom cloud, set the pattern in bashing Goldwater with a mendacious lie. Its petals have been blowing in the wind for decades, its roots reaching deep into the manure of liberal minds since that fateful day in January 1929.

No tolerance of any variation from their orthodoxy: consider Zell Miller at the last GOP conclave, and this week’s talk from Joe Lieberman. Both ‘traitors’ to the Noble Cause, to be trashed and bashed, as was Zell in numerous articles, including one by Jimmy Carter’s brother. And Lieberman called a traitor in an article this very week.

Mind you, disloyalty to one’s country is to be admired, according to the OTO and Ego brigade, but NEVER DOUBT THE DNC. “God damn America” is nifty and admirable, and art work like “Piss Christ” garners garlands – but imagine the uproar if Lieberman said “Damned Democrats” and an art exhibit featured “Piss JFK” or “Piss MLK” – or daringly beyond imagination, “Piss Obama”!

How many homes owned by a candidate were sought for the record by journalistic jihadists when Kerry was the presidential candidate with the rich wife? Do you know that Biden has not only a son of considerable merit, an Attorney General of their home state, but also a felonious offspring as well? But you know all about a 17 year old girl’s pregnancy, but very little about the drug habits of leftwingers’ siblings.

Ya think the Daisy Ad was unique? The leftwing petal pushers have been littering the soil with their lies and disruptions of campaign comity since 1929’s dirty deposit of one million dollars by the DNC, in a special slush fund explicitly dedicated to trashing the newly-elected GOP president. It took until that summer to find ‘The Ghost’ to do the DNC’s dirty work: Charles Michelson, a figure lost to journalist’s jihadist ‘first draft of history’ awareness, much as Muslims believe any ‘history’ before the life of the Prophet Muhammad is irrelevant.

Remember Newt’s historian dustup? The incoming Speaker had to dump her, with so many other knives in his back at the time – the beginning of David Bonior’s daily ‘attack Yorkie’ broadsides – that the incoming official house historian had to desperately retrieve her academic tenured position she’d resigned to take Newt’s appointment. For she had once critiqued a curriculum on the Holocaust for its mere summarizing of Nazi themes, noting it should actually quote the dastardly utterances directly, to give that ‘point of view’ more directly and authentically. She was skewered by the oh-so-willing media for being ‘sympathetic’ to the Nazi point of view. A lie, damned lie, a Petal Pusher’s umpteenth distortion. Ultimately, major Jewish groups retracted their petals from her reputation, but the deed was done.

One more whack.

So much history lost to the memory hole of the leftwing media – so many lately claim that Reagan was loved by the media, since he was a charming guy. But remember Lesley Stahl’s first anniversary piece on CBS news, labeling Reagan’s first year foreign policy as a failure? She sandbagged him in a very lengthy story, but the joke was on her – all her visuals were faithful to the Reagan image, though her chatter on the V/O [voice-over] on the soundtrack was a relentless rant on his failures. The Reagan honchos noted to her that, It’s the visuals, Leslie, poor girl! It’s not the V/O on the eardrum that sets the tone of emotion and feeling, but the visuals in the retina. Not for lack of trying though – the results inadvertently pleased Reaganauts, but not media-noughts determined to put Reagan in his place.

And Bitberg! That cemetery dedication by Reagan was an occasion of great glee, and many frontpage rants, and op-ed skewerings, for Ronnie appearing at a German cemetery which included buried SS officers in one of its distant corners. Eventually, on deep inside pages, the full story – the ‘second draft’ of that piece of history – noted that the officers’ deaths came from their executions, for opposing their Nazi masters. German patriots of the classic kind, who’d belatedly seen the darkness around them, Schindler-like, acting on their aroused morality, and their souls found dark graves. Bet ya never saw that ‘correction’ on page one of the NY Times’ draft-of-history.

No, the media tried, oh so desperately did they try to trash Reagan. As they had “Hooverized” others on the right, as willing accomplices of the DNC, the jihadists jabbed and punched at Reagan. Now their journalistic memories are full of holes, remembering themselves as actual friendly fellows. If so, it was a case of the most disastrous ‘friendly fire’ devastation in political history – save but for Reagan’s true charm and grace and simply more appealing to the public than they jihadists could manipulate.

And so it goes – dismissive and even surly at the POW history of McCain – that Mac and his brigade keep reminding them of it. As if his story is less important than the never-challenged wet-kiss biography of imprisonment and its implied [and accepted eagerly] qualification for a national presidency of South Africa by Nelson Mandela. Now there’s a community organizer – terrorist who found inner calm during his long prison days, and thus his ‘qualification’ for running a nation in the midst of its greatest political turmoil.

A ‘first woman vice-president’ offering was Geraldine Ferrarro, in ’84, whose experience was as a third-term member of the House – not even a senator, never a governor or mayor [even of a tiny city]. Somehow that election’s media saw her heroically, rather than as having limited capacity and experience. Our hopeful Pal In Power, or Saracuda as some prefer, had more experience for ascension to the Oval after a week in Juneau than Ferrarro has to this day. Sarah’s tenure is less than we might like but as Henny Youngman said when asked, How’s your wife, he replied: Compared to what?

And back to Mr. Newt: his back was painted with the target of a lying tale eagerly advanced by the left and jihadists, that he’d asked his first wife for a divorce while she lay in a hospital bed, recovering from mastectomy surgery. A lie of the highest order, which had been investigated at length years before his Speakership, by an Atlanta reporter, who verified the truth in considerable depth, even on CNN in February of ’95. But for years after that reporter’s destruction of the rumor-as-story, lefties and some reporters referenced this over and over as evidence of Newt’s questionable character.

The truth: They’d had ongoing divorce proceedings almost completed by the surgery date, and Newt phoned the hospital room to inquire on her recovery, their daughters with their mother, who said she’d like to get the final papers signed that day. The settlement was generous, for the wife and also for the daughters, including considerable college funding. It was the wife who suggested, on the phone, that Newt come to the hospital with the papers, and use a hospital notary public to witness them, rather than wait the week or more before she was discharged.

The list of even fellow conservatives during Newt’s reign who didn’t know that revealing truth is gargantuan – this being the one ‘doubt’ they held most uncomfortably, though otherwise quite enthusiastic of his work. Add that August declaration at a journalistic conclave, by “60 Minutes” jihadist Mike Wallace, that once he’d viewed Newt directly, without media filtering [on a hotel TV, of Newt’s college course instruction], he found him so very different than he’d come to believe him to be from media portrayals – and you have one more petal of Daisy dastardly deeds reaching back at least to The Ghost in 1929.

And who was The Ghost? The political forebear of Begala and Carville and Oberman and Maddow. In June of ’29, a few months before the new president Herbert Clark Hoover was stomped by the stock market crash and its residue of the Great Depression, the DNC hired media maven Charles Michelson to ‘invest’ that million dollars – when a million dollars bought a lot more than it does today – by planting rumors to generate stories in papers and on radio [well before TV and the worldwide web]. The rash of lies was so effective that a counterweight came in a book entitled, “Why Are They Telling So Many Lies About Mr. Hoover?”

Which was a best seller. For the public’s goodwill lasted almost long enough to have re-elected Hoover, but for the August 1932 march on the capitol by WW-One veterans seeking early payment of a promised bonus for military service. Their desperation turned ugly, with military forces sent to quell their rowdiness, and soon the bayonets and blood turned the public against Hoover. He’d given explicit orders to Army chief of staff Douglas MacArthur to do no such violence, but MacArthur was so enraged at what he considered disloyal actions by men once under his command that he couldn’t restrain his rage.

Hoover fell on the sword, took the blame for the imbroglio to protect his chief general’s reputation, with historians only decades later learning that MacArthur was being MacArthur. And witnessing that fateful week’s news coverage, a very relieved and cheered candidate FDR proclaimed, “This will make me president” – since it came after a bulging pile of lies by Michelson’s lie-hole drilling machine.

For you see, Hoover was elected in ’28 with a slightly larger percentage landslide than the percentage which defeated him – another bit of ‘first-draft history’ that’s hard to unearth, for all teachers and all texts claim the largest electoral victory in history for FDR in ’32. Technically, it can be cherry-picked: as the electorate had grown in four years, and the turnout was monstrously greater than in recent memory, then it is true that FDR garnered more votes than any winning candidate had ever received. More dirt from their lie-hole.

Why was Hoover so politically resilient, in the midst of such economic disaster, until that Bonus March disaster? Simple: He was a hero, an INTERNATIONAL hero, whose shrewd leadership and management skills [he was an engineer – no, not a social engineer, but a real one, who actually solved problems, rather than make them worse] saved at least a half-billion lives from starvation, in Germany, Belgium, Finland, Russia, etc. And all with virtually total private sector financing. He was so diplomatically effective arranging details of delivering food relief amidst WW-One battles that all the warring powers gave him full freedom for his relief caravans to pass freely across borders, which became known as the “Hoover Passport” in the popular press. No such international privilege like it existed before, or since.

His overwhelming victory in ’28 devastated the DNC: their candidate, the charming, articulate NY governor Al Smith, was simply supposed to win easily. How could he, a professional politician with charm and grace and sparkling speaking skills, be swamped by a man never on a ballot before? The victory enraged the DNC, which raised its million smackers in time to start smacking Hoover even before his March inauguration. But for the delay in finding a qualified hit man in Charlie Michelson, it might have begun before the swearing in platform had been built.

Michelson eventually fell out of favor with the DNC, well into FDR’s regency, and published his memoirs by the title “The Ghost” – and slipped from political visibility. But his tradition continues, thru Ike’s shellacking as being weak in the face of Russian ferocity, to Goldwater’s trashing by those daisy petals, and more petal pushers still pushing their manure on Bork, Thomas, Reagan, Newt, Bush, Cheney – and forever into the future.

And now we have MSNBC and Rachel Maddow! Yep, fasten your seatbelt, Saracuda, our Pal In Power after election day. You’re the latest to get a dose of Charlie – who was memorialized by Hoover, in his retirement in NYC [who ‘outlived the bastards’ by some years, his death early in JFK’s term – appropriate, eh?], with a picture of Michelson engraved upon the inside bottom of a decorative chamberpot, which Hoover proudly displayed on his fireplace mantel.

Wonder if his granddaughter, Margaret Hoover of Fox’s foxes, has that chamberpot? You do know what a chamberpot is? Maybe the RNC might issue new chamberpots, for purely decorative purposes – and engrave OTO and Ego on the inner bottom. Could be a best seller for fundraising, in the coming seven weeks.

And on the outside of the chamberpot: little vignettes of the manure piles they’ve heaped on conservatives since Michelson set the stage and established the standard of the Daisy Ad of September 7th, 1964. If Michael Reagan’s analysis is held dear – that Palin is the reincarnation of his father – then the daisy destruction machine of ’64, against Goldwater, will be trumped by an enraged left that will raise the stakes and put a stake in her political heart. Or they will dye trying – try to dye her as an extremist, and shrill, yada-yada-yada: a la Goldwater and Reagan.

It’s nothing new – they’ve been doing it on TV for at least the 44 years since Daisy petals were plucked and incinerated by that atomic mushroom. And before then, back to the summer of ’29: A full 79 years’ tradition bequeathed by “Charlie” and inherited gleefully by Rachel Maddow, who has the chutzpah to say that our Palin is nasty!

Don’t just fasten your seatbelt – install an eight-point NASCAR racing harness and wrap-around airbags. Enroll in SERE training like McCain and other fighter pilots undertake: Survival [of the attack], Evasion [of capture], Resistance [of interrogation], Escape [at the first opportunity].

For it will be a searing campaign – 79 years’ accumulated veteran DNC skills at political nastiness won’t be wasted a bit by the left in the coming seven weeks. And when we win nevertheless:

SEND THE DNC A SPRAY OF DAISIES… a funeral spray. But don’t believe they’re dead. NEVER. Their mendacious hand will pop out of their political grave; the petal pushers will live again.

Which is why this election – as were all elections the prior eighty years, and all will be that are yet to come – is the Most Important Election of our lifetime. Just like making your bed – it freakin’ never ends.

And what is worse, the playbook is practically UNCHANGED since the days of Herbert Hoover, and it was especially effective because the economy really WAS bad then. But no matter how bad things were in 1932 (the year Roosevelt was elected), they were MUCH worse by 1938, after some six years of the New Deal. But for the Second World War, which gave our industrial base a tremendous boost when they went into war production (at a HUGE incurred debt in the period 1940-1946), probably we would have still been floundering up through the 1950s or longer. If we had ever recovered.

We were worse off, during the Great Depression, than even Cuba is today. And for the same reason - personal initiative was almost totally choked off, and the wrong behavior was being rewarded. Lawlessness was prosecuted rather ineffectively at many levels, and class warfare was tacitly encouraged.

That was a good read. I didn't know about the MacArthur had gone ballistic on the WWI vets and this destroyed Hoover's chances of reelection. We are all lead to believe it was Hoover's bungling of the economy.

My question is: was MacArthur worth Hoover covering for him and losing the election to FDR? My first impulse is to say no since it ushered in the New Deal, prolonged the Depression and MacArthur's contribution to winning WWII didn't seem to be that important, at least to my knowledge.

I watched Mr. Smith goes to Washington this weekend. The feeding frenzy that the press whipped up against Mr. Smith reminded me so much of what they did to Sarah..oops Governor Palin and her family. There’s the scene where the boy rangers are distributing their homemade newspaper defending Smith are riding in a car and the big shot media hired thugs sideswipes them.

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