Posted on 04/24/2012 8:18:35 AM PDT by Kaslin
Barack Obama thinks that you’re stupid. And, if you’re one of the 45% of us who still support him after Solyndra, after Fast and Furious, after the GSA scandal, after the voter ID controversy, after the Buffett Rule, after the Secret Service Scandal, and so on, you might be.
If you don’t believe me that he thinks you’re stupid, consider the following.
I watched Meet the Press recently, and their roundtable on the War on Women—that is, the Democrats’ agitprop to frighten women to the safe, warm, familiar cocoon of the Democratic Party. They’ve been doing it for decades, and the fact that they are returning to this tactic now tells me that they are afraid—Rasmussen has Romney up by two points already and it’s only April; he doesn’t even have the nomination officially yet; the real money hasn’t been spent yet.
The fact that they are using this tactic means that they actually believe that it will work—that is, that you are dumb enough to fall for it. The only thing more infuriating than that would be if it actually did work, and the fate of United States of America—and thereby the world—was determined by such pettiness.
Fortunately, it does not yet appear that it will happen that way. Men vote too. We can all thank God that, despite the Democratic elite’s low, cynical, deterministic view of the world,it is simply not good enough to divide people up into campsbased upon characteristics determined before they were born and slap a red or blue label on each one. People are still free, thinking beings, not just automata resulting from their genetics and environment. Thank God!
You can imagine my shame, then, to see that Republicans have stooped to the level of Democrats in playing divisive politics—and playing it on Democrats’ terms. Representative Bachmann, whom I admire greatly and who I think is a great voice for the conservative movement, debated Senator Gillibrand, for what proved to be a good demonstration that what they were doing was a waste of time.
In order to get around disputing the false premise that “forcing insurance companies to cover contraception” is the same thing as “helping women,” Representative Bachmann had to logically contort her way into arguing that high gas prices, high food prices also hurt women.
No kidding. They hurt everyone—why is it even worth saying?
Not to be outdone, Senator Gillibrand would not let Representative Bachmann get away with saying something pointless—she managed to lower the debate even further. As Democrats have done for decades, she brought up sexual liberty as being a women’s issue (as though it did not take two to, um, tango).
The meta-question was, who understands women better, Democrats or Republicans? As a Republican, I hope that the answer is neither. We shouldn’t be pitting the genders against each other any more than we should be pitting the races against each other; it accomplishes nothing for our country, no matter how many liberal base (and I mean that in more than one sense) voters donate to re-elect Obama.
I reject the whole notion that women have some sixth sense that men don’t have, or that women are affected disproportionately by economic realities. The market doesn’t care who you are—all the market cares about is what you bring to the table. That’s what makes it so beautiful.
It goes against the spirit of the Constitution, of the Enlightenment, and of classical liberalism more generally to put the genders in rivalry, or even to speak of them as having inherent inequalities. In fact, this is usually the criticism of classical liberalism—that, in contrast to previous schools of political thought, such as Aristotelianism or Thomism, it is atomistic, and treats people as “individuals” or “actors” (who don’t exist) rather than men and women (who do exist).
Conservatives should not be trying to out-factionalize the factionalizers; we should instead be returning to our principles—free markets not free healthcare; free minds, not free contraception. That’s real fairness—the blind equality of the market, not the pandering of hack politicians to frighten the ignorant into line.
I think the Dems have gone from a Political Party to a Con Party
Pubbies do too!
I find it disturbing that it is reported that twice the number of “Evangelicals” will vote for Obama in ‘12 than did in ‘08.
Of course, that’s exactly what that report was intended to do - discourage conservatives and Christians.
I’d be interested in what defines “Evangelical” for the purposes of the survey.
Well, you know, after virtually nominating Romneyoff, they may just be right.
And we think Democrats are stupid, nothing surprising here. =/
My pastor made an interesting comment that I had never thought about before.
I had always thought the phonies in church thought God was not real, and they just used church for business and dating “networking”
My pastor said there are some Christians who think they are but they are not.
That explains a lot about the leftist politics of some of my fellow church members.
I tried to talk them through the truth, but some people have no passion for truth when it conflicts with their ideologies.
Since Jesus said “I am the Truth”, those who reject truth for political reasons are in for a rude awakening someday.
While I agree in principle with the above, I believe that Democrats generally put their ideas into better sound bites. This makes their platform and philosophy more "digestable" to voters.
It's not enough for the GOP to say, "we're for a smaller government and less spending, because we're for freedom!" There are people that would sacrifice freedom for "a little security..." It's not enough for the GOP to say, "we want the free market to fix healthcare..." -- there are too many people (to the credit of the education system), who don't know what free market principles are.
We need to do a better job articulating why our approach beats their approach, and we can't do it with generic, broad-brushed explanations. Words like "economic freedom," "smaller government," and "personal responsibility" are too abstract for many, and the Democrats will define these words for us, if we don't get there first.
Romney is going to be our man. We just proved it.
Qualify them with the Barna questions:
•Do absolute moral truths exist?
•Is absolute truth defined by the Bible?
•Did Jesus Christ live a sinless life?
•Is God the all-powerful and all-knowing Creator of the universe, and does He still rule it today?
•Is salvation a gift from God that cannot be earned?
•Is Satan real?
•Does a Christian have a responsibility to share his or her faith in Christ with other people?
•Is the Bible accurate in all of its teachings?
By splitting men into a gay vote, he won’t be our man for very long.
America will be finished soon by feminism and illegal immigration.
This is wholesale unconstitutional subversion of the nation.
End Womens’ suffrage!
Republicans have stooped to the level of Democrats in playing divisive politics.
And the MSM calls them evil and dangerous.
In addition to Schumer, the only other Demo-Rat (or for that matter, Senator) in attendance was his little lap dog, Dick Turd-bin.
Nuttin but another Dog and Pony show and another not so subtle effort to influence and intimidate SCOTUS who are set to hear arguments tomorrow on Arizona's immigration laws.
They would all say yes to those questions.
They just make up ludicrous rationalizations when I ask them how they can support certain politicians who support. anti-christian policies.
It’s called cognitive dissonance.
I call it choosing to be stupid.
One was raised as a Jew by holocaust survivors. She accused ME of acting like a Nazi who would rat out their neighbors to the secret police just because I shared truths about how her beloved democrats were engaged in very un-Christlike behaviors.
Her bigotry against conservatives really put the nazi in Ashkenazi. I expect nothing but the most complete hypocrisy from liberals, just like their Pharisee forefathers.
70 million votes for him proved his point.
Bump
I’d say killing babies would be the defining issue for a Christian.
I’m sure the person in question would rationalize that somehow.
Best just to avoid that person.
Luke 10:2 - the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.
Don’t waste your time.
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