Posted on 10/04/2012 2:57:43 AM PDT by nathanbedford
It will not be necessary to adduce arguments to conservatives on these threads that America was on the brink of the precipice and liable to cascade over into the void of debt. We must either radically change course or surrender this great experiment in liberty to the statists led by Barack Obama. The odds that Obama could be stopped seemed to be lengthening as the Romney campaign was running out of time and out of geography.
I believe that as at 9:29 PM Eastern standard Time America was hurtling toward that void. An hour and a half later it might just have happened that Romney managed to reverse the arc of this election and opened for himself a realistic chance to win.
An empty suit is like a soufflé, when the air goes out the whole thing collapses. Obama is the classic empty suit who has been propelled since infancy through the best schools (from the most exclusive prep school in Hawaii to Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard Law), bestowed with great honors (president of the Law Review, Nobel Peace Prize) and into posts (instructor at University of Chicago Law School, Illinois State Senator, United States Senator, President of the United States of America) for which he was qualified only by virtue of his race and his radical ideology. The whole contrivance imploded last night as the air went out of Obama's campaign in one great rancid and embarrassingly public fart.
I expect to see intensity among Republicans increase and intensity among Democrats decrease. I even expect to see a measurable if limited fall off in support by African-Americans for Barack Obama.
I expect to see increased donations to Romney and to the Republican cause and a decrease in donations to Obama and to the Democrat cause.
I expect to see improvement in Romney's poll numbers nationwide and in the swing states of more than the traditional one and 1/2 to 2% accruing to a challenger who wins the first debate.
I do not expect it, but I would not be surprised to see a few of the mainstream media deciding it is not too late to save their reputations and restore their integrity.
I expect to see a much more aggressive Obama in the next debate but I expect that will reveal a very unseemly personality who will not contrive to be effective but only petty and he will not restore his image from tonight's debacle.
I expect Paul Ryan will be able to cope with Joe Biden whom I expect to be much more aggressive than he otherwise would have been, but it will not avail.
I expect to see a more robust and aggressive line of attack assumed by Romney's surrogates in the immediate future. I expect to see an aggressive congressional investigation into Benghazi, for example. I expect to see breaks in the ranks among Democrats over this and other issues in the wake of emergence of whistleblowers and the need by careerists to save themselves. I expect to hear demands that Romney make specific his plans for the economy no more.
In short, I expect to see the arc of the campaign changed toward Romney's favor. I have no idea who will win this election, that is still too close to call. Obama still has the levers of the presidency and he is fully capable of triggering an October surprise and he will have plenty of cover to do so in the flaming middle east. An October surprise is an option which has concerned me since my last vanity in March: Never mind the Ides of March, beware the Surprises of October
The Rino did what he had to do last night. He now has a chance to win this election but only if he does more of the same from now until the last ballot is cast. As Robert E Lee replied when asked if the South would win the Civil War, "we will win if it be God's will and every man does his whole duty."
Romney did his part, now we must do ours, it might still not be enough.
I NOMINATE THIS FOR FREEPER POST OF THE YEAR:
“An empty suit is like a soufflé, when the air goes out the whole thing collapses. Obama is the classic empty suit who has been propelled since infancy through the best schools (from the most exclusive prep school in Hawaii to Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard Law), bestowed with great honors (president of the Law Review, Nobel Peace Prize) and into posts (instructor at University of Chicago Law School, Illinois State Senator, United States Senator, President of the United States of America) for which he was qualified only by virtue of his race and his radical ideology. The whole contrivance imploded last night as the air went out of Obama’s campaign in one great rancid and embarrassingly public fart.”
Incidentally, I have been railing about the misuse of the word to "Swiftboat" when the media should be saying to, "Bork." I do not think I will win the fight either.
Finally, one can apply many criticisms of statism to Abraham Lincoln, our first Republican president, if one wanted to look into the historical origins of the party deeply enough. One might also make serious criticisms of the radical Republicans and reconstruction from a classical conservative perspective. The first progressive president, I suppose, was Teddy Roosevelt.
So I suppose one could say that the idea of a "Rino" comes about only in the modern conservative movement beginning with Bill Buckley and Kirk. But I take your point.
All the best,
As I listened to this bumbling, stumbling, inarticulate loser, I smiled to myself knowingly. I figured that even as far gone as the US was/is, the electorate couldn't possibly be that debauched. Alas, I was wrong on that count; as many have said, it isn't 0 that is the disaster, it's the fact that a majority of people in this country voted for him.
Four years later, his performance(s) have only degraded. What we're seeing now is what admissions staff saw during his school days, what publishers saw when reading "his" manuscript, what the Nobel committee saw during the interview process. But could any reveal the truth? Hah - AA manifested in all its glory.
It might just be time for American to takes off its collective beer goggles.
a drubbing of the highest order”
Nicely articulated, sir.
excellent
On a level playing field Ryan will abuse Biden to the point his Wife will have nothing to do with him...if you know what I mean.
After last night, the Media/Moderator will do their best to rig the VP debate.
I do think they will still be too much in shock to do anything in regards to the VP debate that is coming up.
Obama will always have a large share of support from the 47% takers who feed off the makers, and he is counting on that. We saw a rare glimpse of Obama without his mask on last night. He is uncomfortable being challenged in any way. This is not how he was brought up. I also still maintain that he could personally care less if he wins another term or not, which belies his outward display on stage last night. His hardcore syncophants are the driving force for their poster boy. They will not retire quietly. Debate performances do help set the tone but rarely offer the decisive knockout blow. I have no real expectations that Romney and the GOPE are willing to drop their usual self inflicted congeniality to the opposition in order to win. This will be their undoing if they go the way of McCain from here on in.
To paraphrase Josey Wales, Romney and his team need to get mad dog mean, with a happy warrior smile, of course.
Fourierian socialists ~ more likely the Fourierian Socialists were all down there in Texas coming up with some new way of justifying slavery ~ see: http://coursesite.uhcl.edu/HSH/Whitec/LITR/5439utopia/models/resposts/2011/11rp2/rp2Seth.html
The peeps don't have to answer their phones anymore so they're not!
The problem is that all of things we still rail against were begun by Republicans. Put simply one can not save the Union by destroyng the Constitution.
Wouldn’t Nullification & Secession have been nice weapons to use in fight on Roe or Obamacare, for example?
I would simply urge you to read Judge Abel Upshur’s Commentariess on the Constition in response to Justice Joseph Story’s view to see the fallacies of your response.
The question ultimately is: If the Republican
Party was actually the Party of small Government how did we end up $140 Trillion in debt? While only talking about $16 Trillion of it? And of that 25% is Government spending which is overhead to the taxpayer.
Perhaps, I should mention another avenue for your exploration and that is Charles A. Dana (Brook Farm) who was Marx & Engel’s editor at Greeley’s NY Daily Tribune for 9 years prior to the War he went on to become one Stanton’s of Stanton’s chielf staff members ..... Try reading Marx & Engels on the American Civil War. You might be surpised to see the link between the Union Army and militant Germans from the failed Socialist’s revolutions of 1848. Names like Weydemeyer, Sigel and Schurz.
It doesn’t seem to me that one can fix anything with out knowing exactly how it was broken in the first place...
To this end, I don’t think Buckley and others were helpful.
T.R. was representative not the exception.
Best,
Shubel
Your musings humble we mere Screamers
Well done....i concur
Mitt sees the problem as Obama in office. He has not and will not address the increasing lawlessness of the fedgov. He’s fighting for a job. He is not fighting for the Republic.
Don’t bother. Your non-analysis is not interesting.
“Dont bother. Your non-analysis is not interesting.”
Sheesh! You’re a weirdly hostile dude. Whatever.
I am going to be in Charleston for about a week but I would love to talk with you more about that.....when I get back.
Figure out who/where Stonewall worked before the CSA and you will have found my G-G-Grandfather.
What I am trying to get you to see is analogous to finding the arrow in the FedEx logo. Once you see it. It (the pieces of the puzzle) becomes dominant in your new view......
Otherwise, Why study history?
Best,
Shubel
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