Steyn's at his best in this one!
Posted on 08/10/2012 4:54:41 PM PDT by Zakeet
The other day, I passed a Republican Party county office here in my home state, its window attractively emblazoned with placards declaring "Believe in America. Romney 2012" and "New Hampshire Believes. Romney 2012." There's not a lot of evidence for the latter proposition, but I'm certainly willing to believe that Romney believes that New Hampshire believes.
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If it were up to me, the {Romney's] campaign slogan would be "You're screwed, losers. Steyn 2012" — or, after yielding to the consultants' internals showing that moderates want something more sunny and upbeat, maybe "Get real, you chumps. Steyn 2012." That's the reason I'm not running. Well, that and the Hawaiian birth certificate.
I wouldn't claim to know what America believes or even what "New Hampshire Believes," but this is what I believe — that another four years of the present statist ascendancy will seal America's fate.
As noted here previously, the International Monetary Fund predicts that China will become the world's dominant economic power by 2016. So the guy elected in November will be the first president since Grover Cleveland to know what it feels like to be the global also-ran.
Even this, however, understates the size of catastrophe the United States faces. There are no precedents in history for a great power spending itself to death on the scale America is doing. President Obama has added $5 trillion to the national debt, and has nothing to show for it. Do you know how difficult that is to do?
(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...
Steyn's at his best in this one!
In the last three years, he has "created" 2.6 million new jobs — a number that does not even keep up with the number of (legal) immigrants who arrive each month. Obama does not "create" jobs, he creates disabled people: in the same period as 2.6 million Americans signed on with new employers, 3.1 million signed on at the Social Security Disability Office.Don't you just live the Mark Steyn? And don't you wish you could rip the Wee Wee just one tenth as well as this guy?Obama is the first president in history to create more disabled people than workers. He is the biggest creator of disabled people on the planet. He has disabled more people than the Japanese tsunami. More Americans have been disabled by Obama than have been given cancer by Mitt Romney. "Ask yourself, 'Are you more disabled now than you were four years ago?' Obama 2012." Followed by the wheelchair logo with the Obama "O" where the wheel should be. In the Democrats' Dependistan, the wheelchair ramp is downhill all the way.
Obama has A LOT to show for it. He's been able to buy the complacency of America. We know something is wrong, but the checks keep coming, so America is not worrying too much.
Thanks Zakeet. That out-take was killer. He nailed him.
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On top of that Obama has avoided so much blame that there are actually some freepers willing to sit this one out.
Yep.
Electing Romney will just slow it down a bit.
I always say: It doesn’t matter if Thelma is driving the T-Bird at 80 MPH, or Louise is driving it at 100, the car is still going over the cliff.
Unbelievable isn’t it?
Sure is....
“Get real, you chumps. Steyn 2012.”
That be funny. I don’t care who you are!
Apparently, not very hard, it happened in less than 3 years.
Funny but it misses the point: how do you deal with a debt that exceeds the net wealth of the average American?
Answer: you don’t because you can’t.
We’re well into the spiral. That may be why the gop isn’t making much of an effort. They don’t want to be as associated with it.
Steyn is, as usual, right on the mark!!! I agree 100%!!! Now....I know Romney is really McCain repeated, a weak sister that does not fight for neither his political life, his dignity, his reputation, and his country. He’d rather be a nice guy, shoved around like a paper doll or tiger by the Obama dirt bags!!! Problem is: He is all we have!!!
So......this weekend, as he travels through the so-called toss up states in his campaign tour bus, I ask, I request, I implore, I beg for thousands of America patriots and lovers to turn out publicly, show up at his stops and rallies and cheer him on.
The visual impact of large, motivated, excited, supportive crowds is impressive and meaningful in TV land, plus.....you can coax Romney to courage by your presence and words to stick it back to the Obamabots. I know all of you get it. Thanks!!! We must win this one. Romney is not at stake, our great, magnificent, free country is!!!
Clear, concise, and to the point.
Steyn makes me so jealous I could spit.
I wish I could write only 1% as good as he does.
If anything is going to improve, it needs to be taken back. It will be long, hard row to hoe.
If not the last exit, at least it amounts to a rest area. Demographics will eventually doom America, but a Romney victory and GOP majorities in the House and Senate would at least slow the dying process long enough to allow people time to prepare for it.
Maybe the milquetoast pantywaist candy-assed soft-focus “Believe in America” shtick will prove sufficient under a relentless barrage of nakedly thuggish attack ads designed to Barry Goldwater the guy.
I’ve had that same thought. Who would even want to tackle this mess? Things are such a mess, you’re chances of turning it around in 4 or even 8 years would be slim but your chances of being forever associated with decline are damn near 100%.
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Sadly you’re quite correct.
Honestly, why do demographic changes have to necessarily doom America? As the white vote gets smaller on a percentage basis, the democrats have shown that they are getting a smaller percentage of it as well. If the dems lose any percentage of the hispanic or black vote than they got in 2008, they lose.
For all the talk of demographics and the fatalistic view that we are ‘doomed’ one just has to look back at the 2010 midterms which paint a more optimistic picture. Where am I wrong on this??
Yep, you’ve nailed it. Couldn’t agree more.
Yeah, there are times when it’s a real pain to be right.
BUMP!
Motivation requires respect... and respect is earned... not given.
LLS
The mid-term electorate tends to be a smaller, more energized, more ideological slice of the population. In Presidential election years, the electorate is the whole enchilada.. more minorities and more people who aren`t otherwise involved.
In which case, I confess to being "guilty". It was I who voted for Ross Perot..."to send them a message".
Here in VA willard will be mobbed by 10s of his supporters.
I’ve never seen an election like this. The ads on TV and radio are nonstop. And no one seems to care.
I doff my hat to MS. How he continually turns such phrases eludes me. Superb!
And shout, at the top of our lungs, "Defend Youself! Defend The Country. Defend US, Dammit!".
I've voted in 10 Presidential elections.Haven't missed a single one for which I was legally eligible and I'm proud to say that every candidate for whom I voted got at least 100 Electoral votes.And I don't intend to break that streak this November.
I agree with you and I intend to support Romney as actively as I possibly can.
One thing about him, he does fix things. I think that should be his slogan: Mitt fixes things.
I don’t know if he can fix the mess we are in, but I was horrified to read that our national debt is a million dollars per family. That’s terrifying.
Somebody needs to at least start really try to fix it. Guaranteed Obama 2.0 will only make it worse.
It's not about blame, its about "principles". I was in that camp earlier this year until I realized that sometimes it really is better to vote for the lesser of two evils.
I think we can control Romney down ticket, but we will never control Obama down-ticket because he does not care at all about the rule of law.
Once he withdrew and then came back in, I dismissed him.
Remember what he said about what the FRee Traitors were trying to push though?
It took a little time, but that sucking sound came and went.
Look what’s left. IMO, he sure nailed that one.
If he hadn’t pulled out, I may very well may have voted for him. I was seriously considering it.
“I support Romney, and I’m not rattled by a bad week’s polls. But I am bothered that Romney’s insipid message does not rise to the challenge this nation faces. Maybe the milquetoast pantywaist candy-assed soft-focus “Believe in America” shtick will prove sufficient under a relentless barrage of nakedly thuggish attack ads designed to Barry Goldwater the guy. But John Podhoretz, editor of Commentary, thinks not:
“This is a race he should be able to win,” he wrote, “so if he loses, it won’t be because Obama won it. It will be because he lost it.”
Just so. Cometh the hour, cometh the man. The hour is late, and the man needs to get in the game.”
Devastating.
But correct.
We see how that worked out, right? I'm not being confrontational - I am guilty as well.
I'm voting for Romney, I'm saving my "message" my "principles" this go-round to try and get this country back on track.
I know RomneyCare, all that stuff..but its well beyond that now, this is our Country. Regardless of the social messages and disagreements, I do not believe Romney hates this country. I believe that Obama does, though - and I'm voting against him.
It is time to ignore the social issues and just get the kenyan OUT!
We'll deal with the social issues after the election.
“There are no precedents in history for a great power spending itself to death on the scale America is doing”
That’s why they’re going for the Extortion-Racket, with HillaryRomney Extortion-Care.
And Obama has spent the last 3 years wearing out the “it’s the last guys fault” line that when it’s true it will hold no value.
“I’ve never seen an election like this. The ads on TV and radio are nonstop. And no one seems to care.”
Please read what I wrote in this post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2909469/posts?page=46#46
Especially towards the end.
Anyone who is deeply disturbed by the willful destruction of their country for starters ....
I’m not faulting either of you. You did what you thought was right. At least you were thinking.
If you want to blame someone, blame the guy who ran one of the worst campaigns I’ve seen a politician run.
I’m convinced Bush either thought he couldn’t lose due to the successful Desert Storm, or he didn’t actually care if he won or lost.
I was left scratching my head for months that year, as Bush seemed to play rope-a-dope and allow Clinton’s people to pummel him without so much as a burp in response, and he didn’t go after Clinton on the obvious.
“Believe in God, God Eternity”
I was faulting myself. Yes, I did what I thought was right, at the time, even knowing that I was voting for a kook. But, upon reflection, I concluded that I had served no useful purpose and, in fact, contributed to a calamity and would never vote third party again.
The supreme test weas McCain. I passed. Just barely.
In contrast, voting for Romney is easy.
You just, uh, “believe in America”, use guys, and everything will be copacetic!
Only voted for Bush once. Did not vote for McCain. Am so far still determined not to vote for Romney.
I’ve had my fill of Leftists.
If the GOPe wants my vote, they can help get someone nominated that I can vote for.
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