"Election have consequences. "
Posted on 05/28/2009 3:16:00 AM PDT by Scanian
There appears to be a side to the Chrysler bankruptcy that has the look of an ugly partisanship not seen in this town since Tricky Dick was in the White House composing his enemies list and checking it twice every night while watching the evening TV newscast.
Bloggers on the Right side of the Blogosphere are up in arms over data suggesting that President Barack Obama’s White House auto industry potentates are targeting for closure Chrysler dealers with records of contributing either to Republicans like Sen. John McCain or to other Democrats in the 2008 presidential primary.
Posts at RedState, Reliapundit, American Thinker, Gateway Pundit, Joey Smith and Doug Ross pointed initially at the remarkable number of closed Chrysler dealerships whose owners happen to have been contributors to Obama opponents, mainly Republicans.
But those observations were all couched with important qualifiers, particularly that all conclusions were necessarily preliminary, pending completion of a comprehensive analysis of the political contributions by all closed Chrysler dealership owners had been done and comparison of those with contributions by dealers who are not being closed.
That said, when multiple dealers who have been closed are found to have contributed millions to Republicans and mere hundreds to Obama, the serious number-crunching cannot be completed too soon.
Meanwhile, Ross seems to be ground zero for this story, and I encourage you to check out his multiple updates at http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2009/05/red-alert-did-campaign-contributions.html.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfexaminer.com ...
—bflr—
"Election have consequences. "
“We won.”
Thank you Mark Tapscott, CPAC’s Conservative Journalist of the Year! This reminds me of the showdown with Dan Rather and the GWB fraud...the Moron Media is completely in the tank for the commies.
This would not be surprising in the least. I’m a bit gobsmacked that they tipped their hand so soon, tho’...SSZ
“Nice car dealership you got here, pally...wanna keep it nice and pretty?” </Guido>
All of the effective reporting occurs in the blogosphere anymore.
And what did Nixon do with this 'enemies list'? Nothing.
Whereas Clinton used the IRS to audit his political foes. And Obama closes down their businesses.
The warm & fuzzy hippies grew up and became Republicans or libertarians. The latent totalitarians among them became Dems.
The Chicago political machine.
well, they know they’ll get away with it...which leads me to believe that violence will be coming our way to this country.....because there are many angry people out there....
If all of you are expecting the MSM to start looking into this AND other stories about Obama, you’re going to wait a long time. SSI recipients are getting $250 stimulus checks right and left while everyone else pays. I’m sure that’s been in the news, but I sure don’t read much about it.
"Right here, you capitalist pig republicans..."
Well, the info is out there, and can be checked...thank God for the internet.
From the first time I heard that guy on Cavuto talk about his amazement that his “successful” dealership (top 2 percent) was being closed and he had no idea why, it just seemed to me that it must be politically motivated.
Time will tell.
Word is getting out there...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2259229/posts?page=49#49
Post 49.
The communist “democrats” are in full over-reach mode. I say just keep feeding them rope and document EVERYTHING. They are too stupid to stop and incapable of realizing the mere peasants know when they are lying, cheating stealing, obfuscating, forging, etc.
A simple solution - Don’t buy Chrysler. or Government Motors.
because there are many angry people out there....
And there will be many many more before Obama is run out of the country.
In the tank?
The members of the "news" industry are self-admitted liberals, American Communist propagandists.
They do not represent a free press.
Yes..... Don Hill Pontiac/Jeep Kingsport Tennessee
The Hill Family are very conservative Christians who back conservative candidates.
That’s good. I’m saving that one.
Fox and Friends is about to do a segment on this topic- it’s going mainstream...
Coming up after the break..
When will that be?
“Fox and Friends is about to do a segment on this topic- it’s going mainstream...”
When a SF paper covers this (even if only in the opinion section) then you know the story is going to break big.
Chicago politics gone national
“Whereas Clinton used the IRS to audit his political foes. And Obama closes down their businesses. “
Can we still consider the Communists “Democrats” just because they call themselves Democrats?
Up to, and including the destruction of The United States.
I missed that segment—was it any good?
A simple solution for us consumers. Not going to help the terminated dealerships very much.
You beat me by s longshot in the wakeup dept .. ;)
What sense did you get from the discussion ?
Serious concern or describing the ‘rumors?’
Did they talk to any affected dealers ?
I don’t put IRS intimidation past this crew for
one second.
I’m not sure what to make of it yet- someone with a better grasp on statistics than I have will have to figure out the original ratio between Dem and Repub owners to start with- and then figure if there’s a correlation based on that.
Here’s a link about the F & F segment:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259750/posts
Just now I was over at The Corner and Jonah Goldberg posts about it- but remains very skeptical:
http://corner.nationalreview.com/
He received an email from a read that said:
Remain skeptical.
Auto dealers are generally a pro-Republican bunch, so most of their giving is of course going to be to Republicans.
Also, minority-owned dealerships also took a hit in the closings, a group that I don’t think would appear on any Obama Enemies List. Check here: http://www.seattlemedium.com/news/Article/Article.asp?NewsID=96770&sID=3&ItemSource=L
Of the 789 Chrysler dealers who were notified that their contracts will not be renewed, 38 are minority owned…
At the end of April, there were 154 minority dealers in Chrysler’s 3,181 total U.S. dealer body network….
You’ll see that 4.8% of the auto dealerships closed were minority owned.
Total percentage of all Chrysler dealerships that are minority owned? 4.8%
Not going to help the terminated dealerships very much.
No matter how you look at it there isn’t much the consumer can do about the terminated dealers. It they switch to some other auto company, buy there!
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