It is the structural anomaly of American politics in which conservatism as an ideology is in ascendancy but where Democrats have acquired control of virtually everything.
In a companion thread from the New York Post the headline describes the extent to which this victorious combination for the Democrats is coming unraveled:
PRESIDENT OBAMA'S POLL NUMBERS CONTINUE TO TUMBLE (independents disapprove by a whopping 66%)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2329922/posts
Rasmussen says that Obama's approval among unaffiliated voters is now down to 38%.
I confess I do not understand what motivates an independent. I am a party ideologue and conservative to the core, in fact, I describe myself as a "foaming at the mouth, flopping on the floor conservative." The airy detachment of an independent is simply unfathomable to me. It is incomprehensible why someone would vote for someone else to rule over them because the man said he was for "hope" and "change?" Even less can I understand why someone would want someone to be Commander in Chief at a time when we are engaged in two wars, an Economist in Chief at a time when the country faces the most ominous economic crisis in generations, because the man is African-American. I am unmoved by a political movement which seeks to assuage white guilt for vicarious sins and I am nonplussed when it succeeds.
I am acutely sensitive to that which so many independents evidently are oblivious. I am jealous over our Constitution and resent whoring after false ideologies. I treasure our constitutional rights and actually resent intrusions. I cannot understand indifference to these things. I want small government and the rule of law and I cannot understand the mindset which is so easily seduced by personality. I do not understand a voter who votes on personality or other than principle, the video image rather than party, slogan rather than substance.
Like soldiers in our civil war or in the trenches in World War I who spontaneously make a Christmas truce with the enemy, I can understand the leftist. The leftist knows that we are engaged in a struggle to the ideological death. He is our mortal enemy and must be defeated or he will kill us but I do not understand the Scooby- Doo- ism of the detached Independent. Don't they know that politics is what determines who gets what and who is made to pay for it at the point of a gun? Don't they realize that this election might determine whether their children live or die in a foreign war or in a domestic "human catastrophe?" How can they decide these issues because they like someone's smile?
It is damned frustrating to know the people who think this way are the ones who decide our fate. It must be equally frustrating to leftists when the power of their boy' s smile is wearing thin. But our job is not to curse the independents but to find the key to whatever it is that motivates them.
