Indeed!
Posted on 10/28/2008 5:13:11 AM PDT by NationalConservative
Undeniably, a powerful tide is running for the Democratic Party, with one week left to Election Day.
Bush's approval rating is 27 percent, just above Richard Nixon's Watergate nadir and almost down to Carter-Truman lows. After each of those presidents reached their floors -- in 1952, 1974, 1980 -- the opposition party captured the White House.
Moreover, 80 percent to 90 percent of Americans think the nation is on the wrong course, and since mid-September, when McCain was still slightly ahead, the Dow has lost 4,000 points -- $5 trillion to $6 trillion in value.
Leading now by eight points in an average of national polls, Barack Obama has other advantages.
Not a single blue state is regarded as imperiled or even a toss-up, while Obama leads in six crucial red states: Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Ohio, Missouri and Colorado. Should McCain lose one of the six, he would have to win Pennsylvania to compensate for the lost electoral votes. But the latest Pennsylvania polls show Barack with a double-digit lead.
Lately moving into the toss-up category are Nevada, North Dakota, Montana and Indiana. All voted twice for George W. Bush.
Not only is Obama ahead in the state and national polls, he has more money, is running far more ads, has a superior organization on the ground, attracts larger crowds, and has greater enthusiasm and more media in camp. And new voter registrations heavily favor the Democrats.
Though Congress is regarded by Americans with a disdain bordering on disgust -- five of six Americans think it has done a poor job -- Democratic majorities are certain to grow. Indeed, with Democrats favored by 10 points over Republicans, Nancy Pelosi's majority could grow by 25 seats and Harry Reid could find himself with a filibuster-proof majority of 60 senators.
Democrats already have 49, plus two independents: Socialist Bernie Sanders and Independent Joe Lieberman. Their challengers are now ahead in New Hampshire, Virginia, North Carolina, New Mexico, Minnesota, Oregon and Colorado, with a chance of picking up Georgia, Alaska, Kentucky and Mississippi.
We may be looking at a reverse of 1980, when Reagan won a 10-point victory over Jimmy Carter, and Republicans took the Senate and, working with Boll Weevil Democrats, effective control of the House.
With his tax cuts, defense buildup and rollback policy against the "Evil Empire," Reagan gave us some of the best years of our lives, culminating in America's epochal victory in the Cold War.
What does the triumvirate of Obama-Pelosi-Reid offer?
Rep. Barney Frank is calling for new tax hikes on the most successful and a 25 percent across-the-board slash in national defense. Sen. John Kerry is talking up new and massive federal spending, a la FDR's New Deal. Specifically, we can almost surely expect:
-- Swift amnesty for 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens and a drive to make them citizens and register them, as in the Bill Clinton years. This will mean that Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona will soon move out of reach for GOP presidential candidates, as has California.
-- Border security will go on the backburner, and America will have a virtual open border with a Mexico of 110 million.
-- Taxes will be raised on the top 5 percent of wage-earners, who now carry 60 percent of the U.S. income tax burden, and tens of millions of checks will be sent out to the 40 percent of wage-earners who pay no federal income tax. Like the man said, redistribute the wealth, spread it around.
-- Social Security taxes will be raised on the most successful among us, and capital gains taxes will be raised from 15 percent to 20 percent. The Bush tax cuts will be repealed, and death taxes reimposed.
-- Two or three more liberal activists of the Ruth Bader Ginsberg-John Paul Stevens stripe will be named to the Supreme Court. U.S. district and appellate courts will be stacked with "progressives."
-- Special protections for homosexuals will be written into all civil rights laws, and gays and lesbians in the military will be invited to come out of the closet. "Don't ask, don't tell" will be dead.
-- The homosexual marriages that state judges have forced California, Massachusetts and Connecticut to recognize, an Obama Congress or Obama court will require all 50 states to recognize.
-- A "Freedom of Choice Act" nullifying all state restrictions on abortions will be enacted. America will become the most pro-abortion nation on earth.
-- Affirmative action -- hiring and promotions based on race, sex and sexual orientation until specified quotas are reached -- will be rigorously enforced throughout the U.S. government and private sector.
-- Universal health insurance will be enacted, covering legal and illegal immigrants, providing another powerful magnet for the world to come to America, if necessary by breaching her borders.
-- A federal bailout of states and municipalities to keep state and local governments spending up could come in December or early next year.
-- The first trillion-dollar deficit will be run in the first year of an Obama presidency. It will be the first of many.
Welcome to Obamaland!
trick or treat
Was it Pat that coined the phrase "Pheasants with Pitchforks" in his 92' run?
Should also mention a new Komsomol, to brain wash young people with socialist doctrine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komsomol
Indeed!
Don’t forget all the gang-bangers that will be let out of jail and onto our streets because they were victims of “racial profiling.”
The sell-off in the stock market will be massive on Nov. 5 if BO wins. No one will want to sell after his capital gains taxes go into effect. If there is any kind of a dead-cat bounce this week, sell into the rally. The man is a Marxist and will follow the splendid examples of Castro and Chavez in making everyone equally poor.
Nonsense! When Obama and the Democrats allow the 2003 tax cuts to expire, the entire federal income tax rates go back up to the higher tax rates of the year 2000. This will raise taxes on low income, middle income, and high income! Everyone's take home pay will decrease once the 2003 tax cuts expire.
How about criminalizing homeschooling? I can’t imagine he’s going to allow that to continue. Children might learn something he hasn’t approved, and could escape whatever brainwashing he has planned for them.
Uggh!
Alaskan Independence Movement anyone,....?????
It’s a scary thought. I’m praying that this will not happen.
If Obama gets in, it’s time to move away from big cities which may be targeted by an emboldened enemy—whether foreign or domestic.
The results of affirmative action can be seen, and has been seen, throughout the fed. Much of the reason why the bureaucracy moves at such a snails pace. The fed unions protect the lazy, incompetent and violent.
Ya might think, but in our state (MD) the public school system can’t even handle the percentage that it has. They build new schools and then put in trailers right away, because they can’t keep up with the student populations.
The homeschool folks from our county are old school public school teachers and they seem to have a disdain for what is going on and are very happy to accomodate homeschool families that we know.
My children go to a private Lutheran school and it costs us a pretty good percentage of our income to do that ~ contracts have been down over these past few years ~ I don’t know that we could homeschool if we had to. The option of public school is NOT even on the table.
Many of the teachers at my children’s school are retired public school teachers who seem to have a contempt for the current system, as well as a 20 to 25 years each of experience in education as it was meant to be.
Buchanan left-out Obama’s ugly disposition and hatred of whites. He has hid his scowl and sneer well during the campaign but it slips-out sometimes. He is a racist hate-monger who, once in office, will be off his leash. There will be a “cold civil war” between the real US and the Obama hate-mongers. We live in interesting times. Americans are most determined and centered when pushed into a corner. An Obama election will reenergize the right like nothing since FDR.
Also, watch for the DOW to plunge to below 5,000 and the country to slide into depression. NO ONE will invest under an Obama Marxist administration. When the public finds that it won’t be getting a goodie basket from The One, it will errupt in the same mindless rage that Obama used to get elected. Declaration of martial law by Obama to skirt the elections in 2010 and 2012 is a real possibility. When Obama comes for your guns there is a real chance the local police in most of the country will just balk and refuse to comply with Obama’s fascistic orders. Make sure you can do without essential services — including electricity — for days at a time.
2- Talk Radio. Kiss everyone but Rush goodbye.
3- Guns. Envision a world where only the gummint has guns. It's for your own good.
4- Courts. I expect that both Stevens and Ginsburg will retire the day after he's sworn in.
5- The “rich”. suddenly, we all become “rich” and taxed accordingly under the new tax code.
6- The Internet. They will try to get “speech fairness” enforced on the WWW.
7- Russia. The Soviets will test him and he will fail miserably. Then Bin Laden, the Hugo, the Imanuttajob, then Lil’ Kim...
8- The UN and America's best days are behind us. He will inform us that we are no longer that beacon on the hill but just another world player.
9- Gas. Expect $9 gallon gas in less than four years and the corresponding economic decline.
Many Americans will die for the sake of “change” for change’s sake. It'll be 1992 all over again, but with more dire consequences and a media that will cover it all up for the black guy.
So go ahead and vote for Barr.. That'll teach us.
I do look forward to the NRA and other conservative groups using the same lawfare against Obama that the left has used to poison the Bush Administration.
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