Posted on 11/04/2010 2:31:31 AM PDT by Scanian
Unwilling to delay until tomorrow mistakes that could be made immediately, Democrats used 2010 to begin losing 2012. Trying to pre-emptively drain the election of its dangerous (to Democrats) meaning, all autumn Democrats described the electorate as suffering a brain cramp, an apoplexy of fear, rage, paranoia, cupidity -- something. Any explanation would suffice as long as it cast what voters were about to say as perhaps contemptible and too trivial to be taken seriously by the serious.
It is amazing the ingenuity Democrats invest in concocting explanations of voter behavior that erase what voters always care about, and this year more than ever -- ideas. This election was a nationwide recoil against Barack Obama's idea of unlimited government.
The more he denounced Republicans as the party of "no," the better Republicans did. His denunciations enabled people to support Republicans without embracing them as anything other than impediments to him.
He had defined himself as a world-class whiner even before Rahm Emanuel, a world-class flatterer, declared that Obama had dealt masterfully with "the toughest times any president has ever faced" -- quite a claim, considering that before the first president from Illinois was even inaugurated, seven of the then-34 states had seceded. Today's president from Illinois, a chronic campaigner and incontinent complainer who is uninhibited by considerations of presidential dignity, has blamed his difficulties on:
George W. Bush, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, the Supreme Court, a Cincinnati congressman (John Boehner), Karl Rove, Americans for Prosperity and other "groups with harmless-sounding names" (Hillary Clinton's "vast right-wing conspiracy" redux), "shadowy third-party groups" (they are as shadowy as steam calliopes), the US Chamber of Commerce and, finally, the American people. They have deeply disappointed him by being impervious to "facts and science and argument."
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
You cut off the article right where it really started to get good.
George Will abruptly morphs into Glenn Beck.
It is called the 300-word excerpt rule.
This, and the following paragraph go even further to explain progressive thought than anything I've heard Beck present.
That was my thought. It's too bad we didn't have another month. We probably would have won the Senate.
I’m just sayin’.
Just when you thought you couldn’t hate Hussein any more...
Everyone needs to read the full article.
Brilliant!
And they never will, and that is a good thing.
At least obama has transformed the Democrat Party to the Communist Party. Now we can isolate them and attack.
somehow, the extremely intelligent (according to them) liberals cant figure out why they got crushed.
they think they just didnt get their message out clearly enough for the stupid voters to understand. hahaha, they cant comprehend the idea that their message was clearly understood, and rejected.
oh well, sucks to be them. I just hope they spend the next 2 years “clarifying” their message. so much for Carville’s 40 year democrat reich.
0bama didn’t transform theDemocrat party into the Communist party.
He and his party merely began to believe that his election signified that Democrats no longer needed to hide their true intentions.
Liberals/Progressives are forever whining about how the "religious right" wants to "impose" it's views on everyone.
Here is my view: "There are none so blind as they that will not see."
Everything in the "progressive agenda" is about imposing views, behavior, habits, lifestyles, commodes, light bulbs, automobiles, houses, banks, menus, EVERYTHING, on others.
They don't want to inspire, they want to dominate, and control ... and at the base of their psychology is the belief that their intellectual superiority makes them singularly capable of divining and defining and directing the behavior of everyone through a leviathan central government.
The reaction of the electorate in this election was not about a lack of understanding of the lofty goals of progressives ... exactly the opposite. We understand them all to well.
As a rule, if liberals/regressives are complaining about it, it's because they are already doing it themselves. If they complain about greed, it is because they are already salivating over taking more of your paycheck. If they complain about foreign money funding political campaigns, it's because they are already taking in foreign money by the boatload. If they complain about corporate influence in government, it's because they are already allowing Citibank and Goldman Sachs call the shots. And as they now complain about the American people being stupid, uninformed, and not understanding what a wonderful job the Democrats have done over the last two years, it's because they were counting on the American people to really be ignorant and not understanding exactly how badly they were being screwed.
George Will will get dyspepic in Amampour’s Sunday morning panel having to listen to the liberals whine about stupid voters not appreciating the genius that is Barrack Obama.
Well, I think a lot of them ARE possessed of inordinately high intelligence.
Take Alan Grayson, for instance. Graduated Summa Cum Laude from Harvard in 3 years. But has there ever been a more unbalanced congressman?
The trouble, I think, is the “know it all” attitude that often comes with being thought of as the “smartest guy in the room” wherever you go.
They certainly think they know better than the voters who put them where they are.
Failure to win more Senate seats was disappointing but it occurs to me that the 2 new Democrat senators elected did so by almost running away from 0bama. Manchin tried disassociating himself from the far left policies. In my state Blumenthal had rallies with 0bama but his TV ads and debate performances never mentioned him. In fact he seemed to run against “Washington.” Whatever that means. But he surely did not embrace the current administration or congressional leadership. Even if he had, he would have won anyway as too many people in this state cast their knee jerk votes for Dems no matter what.
It was no surprise that Demo states would reelect Mikulski, Boxer, Wyden, Schumer, and probably Murray. Colorado is a huge disappointment though.
It’s the difference between knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge is a wonderful thing, but if you don’t know how to use it appropriately, it’s worthless.
CC
Liberals/Progressives are forever whining about how the "religious right" wants to "impose" it's views on everyone.And that right there says it all: I'm almost 60 years old and in my life I have never had the religious anything impose its views on me. Leftie scumbags, on the other hand, have imposed on me since I was old enough to realize it.
It is easier to be the smartest guy in the room when your mind is not restrained by conscience, dignity, and generosity of spirit.
I have known a lot of guys similar to Grayson. His intellect is narrow and his personal desires are at the center of it.
He is not so much "alpha dog" as he is "rogue elephant."
Inadequate messaging is the cover story. The truth is that they were unprepared to sufficiently corrupt the election process to get their desired results. Only in a few critical instances did this succeed, notable AR, IL and CA. Even there their success was not complete. They have a lot more work to do.
Since most of the Progressive's efforts now must be surreptitious they are in a perfect position to bring their base, the unions, into a national effort to undermine the 2012 elections without undue scrutiny. They have the entire branch of the executive federal government fully engaged on their behalf. Look for it and you will find the tendrils of corruption growing like a fungal root system into every nook and cranny of the electorate process.
Democrats are not mortally wounded. They are not even substantially injured. They are merely out of public view for a long enough season to accomplish their next task.
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