Posted on 07/09/2010 1:48:03 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Of all the problems Democrats face this fall, none may be more challenging than trying to win back the support of independent voters.
President Obama has been going backward with independents for more than a year, and the Democrats stand to suffer the effects in the November elections. The Gallup organization reported this week that just 38 percent of independents now approve of the job Obama is doing, the lowest point in his presidency and down from 56 percent a year ago.
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Jim Dyke, another Republican strategist, said other policy decisions by the president have turned off independents. "The health care law is a good example," he said. "They view it as a government expansion that will increase the deficit, and they are uncertain how it will impact their health care services [and] coverage. They don't believe that the stimulus package has created private sector jobs."
"This is not a liberal country," said Republican strategist John Feehery, "but it is now being governed by liberals in a liberal way, so it was almost a certainty that this reaction would take place."
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“What about liberal Jews?”
I am Jewish and aside from being embarrassed and ashamed of my religion, I am afraid that they will continue to vote Marxist.
Real Jews are Conservatives. These people aren’t Jews. They are Marxists who carry the label of being Jewish.
Amoung non-Jewish there is a similar disease called “Liberation Theology”. (Marxism in a religious wrapper, like Rev. Wright)
I am Baptist and as a group we do not suffer from that illness, but I have observed “Liberation Theology” proponents up-close and personal beginning in the early 1980’s. They are Commies hiding in other’s clothing.
All are traitors to the nation and to any legitimate faith. They have made a “pact with the devil”.
“The Obama administration acts more like an ‘occupying force’ from outside the US........their cultural and political values are foreign to most Americans.”
Yes, its far more than just a Chicago political style thing. Within this administration there is a deep seated resentment of America’s success and their goal is clearly to cut us down to size. Have you ever once heard Obama or anyone in his adminstration profess their love and admiration for this country and what it stands for?
“Independents are nothing but Democrats in drag”
I tend to agree with your humble opinion. As an acedotal case in point, I was recently talking with someone whose highly compensated spouse is, shall we say, part of the Democratic machinery. He claimed to be an Independent. Yeah, right.
Adapted from a lecture delivered at Hillsdale College on February 1, 2010, during a four-day conference on “The New Deal,” co-sponsored by the Center for Constructive Alternatives and the Ludwig von Mises Lecture Series.
EXCERPT Unlike most Americans, President Obama still bristles at any suggestion that our nation is better or even luckier than other nations. To be blunt, he despises the notion that Americans consider themselves special among the peoples of the world. This strikes him as the worst sort of ignorance and ethnocentrism, which is why it was so difficult for him to decide to wear an American flag lapel pin when he started running for president, even though he knew it was political suicide to refuse wearing it.
As President Obama hinted in his Berlin speech during the campaign, he really thinks of himself as a multiculturalist, as a citizen of the world, first, and only incidentally as an American. To put it differently, he regards patriotism as morally and intellectually inferior to cosmopolitanism.
And, of course, he is never so much a citizen of the world as when defending the world’s environment against mankind’s depredations, and perhaps especially America’s depredations.
In general, the emotionalist defense of the earth—think of Al Gore—is now a vital part of the liberalism of our day. It’s a kind of substitute for earlier liberals’ belief in progress.
Although his own election—and secondarily liberalism’s achievements over the past century or so—help to redeem America in his view, Obama remains, in many ways, profoundly disconnected from his own land.
REST HERE http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis.asp
I agree. Why be such a pansy?
A very profound and disturbing statement. Thanks for the insightful info.
Aside from his multiculturalist views, another dimension of his personality that constantly comes into play is his narcissism. As stated in the lecture, he clearly does not like what he views as America's ethnocentrism and exceptionalism, yet he is a self-centered elitist. So he is, on a personal level, that which he does not like on a national level.
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“He claimed to be an Independent. Yeah, right.”
He probably also claimed to be brilliant.
(All Socialist/Progressive/Democrats are brilliant,
dontcha know?)
I read John Fund's article. He doesn't explain how the rats in the Senate get 60 votes in a lame duck session.
John Weaver..used to work for McCain...left his Senate office to become a Democrat...then went back to Republicans later...to be the MSMs go-to guy for Republican quotes.
He also was the source for the McCain “affair” story in 2008.
38 percent of independents now approve of the job Obama is doing, the lowest point in his presidency and down from 56 percent a year ago.
It’s depressing that the approval rating is not lower. It’s hard to believe that there are any independents who support this administration
Perhaps they'll just "deem" their bills passed...we're not dealing with a legitimate government any longer and they're taking less and less concern in hiding that fact.
“we’re not dealing with a legitimate government any longer and they’re taking less and less concern in hiding that fact”
Time is running out for the Destructive Democrats. Frank Luntz was on Hannity tonight saying that polls are showing them far worse off than in the period leading up to the 94 election when they lost both houses in a massive defeat. Let’s hope there is change in 2010. LOL.
I have a few thoughts on that...firstly, great if true. Secondly, conservatives can't become cocky or complacent, they need to turn out as if they were down in the polls...the only poll that counts is the voter box. Which brings my to my third thought...democrats have no compunctions about violating the will of the people, either through lawsuits (see Sen. Franken to WA Gov. Gregoire (local for me)). So not only do conservatives have to win, but they have to exceed the ability of democrats to commit voter fraud...which may be large.
And even given that, the federal government is so far outside it's Constitutional limits that to cut to bring it back would appear (to the average uninvolved voter) to be massive reform.
Oh, I don’t doubt that they have plans to do so, but the GOP will be able to throw up enough road blocks to stall any action until a new congress is seated.
Believe me when I say, I hope you're correct, but as an independent, I don't have that level of faith in the GOP in general to do the right thing. There are individuals who will roll that way, but the party as a whole seems to have too many RINO's for my level of trust to reach that extent.
Bob Bennett ?
“The president doesn’t appear empathetic, though I’m sure he is,
What is with Republicans? Why is this Bozo “sure he is”, and why do Republicans feel compelled to prop up the opposition?
I agree. It never ceases to amaze me, either. Little, stupid comments like this help the enemy.
He should have said “The president doesn’t appear empathetic and I see no proof that he is. I see a total disregard for....”.
John Weaver’s not even a Republican. He’s a McCain ‘strategist’ who famously switched parties years ago.
Some of these types are planted or “moles”, I beleive.
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