Posted on 11/06/2014 3:56:42 AM PST by Kaslin
The Duke of Wellington said of his close-run victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo that the French "came on in the same old way, and we sent them back in the same old way." Something like that happened to the Democrats in Tuesday's
midterm elections, as they lost the Senate, a few more seats in the House and additional governorships. They came on with the same old strategy, but this time they went down with it.
Obama and the Democrats chose not to defend the administration's record of the last six years. On foreign policy, no Democratic chorus seconded Obama's 2013 claim that this chaotic period in world affairs has been the most stable time in recent memory.
No Democratic senator insisted that Obama's Russian reset had calmed Vladimir Putin.
Democrats did not argue that Obama had rightly distanced the U.S. from Israel.
Could Democratic candidates have pointed to the Middle East -- the Iranian bomb-making efforts, the civil war in Syria, the collapse of post-surge Iraq, the rise of the Islamic State -- to confirm Obama's diagnosis that these were mostly manageable problems?
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In a charitable mood, I am inclined to think that the compelling myth that holds the Democrat party together is the immutable belief that conservatives and Republicans are racists and they are not. This shibboleth they hold fast to despite any evidence to the contrary because they have to. Whatever emotional satisfaction they gain from submission to the tyranny of leftism would be wiped away if they actually considered the evidence of the harm their theories cause in real life. By holding fast to racism as the great divide between them and everyone else, they need never look across the divide to see the wreckage they leave behind.
Believing they are superior on the issue of race and further believing that there is no more important question on Earth, leftists hold fast to their ideology. So when a good-looking, articulate, African-American appeared on the scene, it is understandable that they thought, like the Aztecs on the arrival of Cortez, that they were witnessing the arrival of the Messiah. No critical thinking required.
Besides this fits in nicely with Nathan Bedford said first Maxim of American politics which I now have the shameless opportunity to repeat for the second time today:
All politics in America is not local but ultimately racial.
It's indefensible.
This is a period of great danger, with a psychotic narcissist in command of everything from the nuclear football to our open borders. I’d compare it to you-know-who in the Berlin bunker, hating his own people for their disloyalty, and their inability to perceive his unique genius, and vowing to bring on his own Gotterdammerung.
Hanson raises a great question.
At Waterloo, it was never quite clear whether Wellington's redcoats had won the battle or Napoleon's veterans had blown it.
In the same manner, did the Republican agenda win on Tuesday, or did the predictable Democrats simply lose?
If Napoleon had our media the history books today would speak of his smashing victory at Waterloo.
The problem for Obama is he must pick a place and an enemy. He is obviously sympathetic to militant Islam and he is relatively sympathetic to leftist governments like China and not unfriendly to thugs like Vladimir Putin. So where does Obama find an enemy? If he wants to fight somebody I would recommend Iran but that would advance America's interests by depriving them of the bomb so he won't go there. He might turn up the heat on Isis if only to generate a rally around the flag and rally around the president effect but that would run counter to his basic sympathies.
I fear he might turn his attentions to the far Pacific where China would pose a truly existential threat but one which might intrigue Obama.
As far-fetched as all of this sounds, this speculation, and it is speculation, is based on the assumption that Obama hates the country which he leads, is determined to see it diminished, but he is a narcissist who believes that he alone has insight into truth and light. An empty suit who has prospered by adopting a communist line, a man advanced beyond his competence because of a facility with speech and the color of his skin, a narcissist with the narcissist's absence of conscience, Obama is dangerous.
Perhaps the crew of the Pequod will mutiny and not follow their Captain Ahab into the briny deep. The election says that the whale (i.e., the People) has been aroused and is a little angry already. Another poorly aimed harpoon (executive amnesty) may send it over the edge. We can only hope.
Perhaps the most interesting player in this drama will be Barack Obama who must decide how he will exit the stage. I began by asserting that the Democrats must recognize that Obama is an "alien force" whose allegiance is not to the Democrat party which he opportunistically regards as a vehicle to exploit, but to the Communist Party. After six years, when even before his first inauguration we on Free Republic identified Obama as a communist, I believe those of us who got it right are entitled today to state the obvious: Obama does not carry allegiance to the Democrat party but to his ideology and he will sacrifice the Democrat party and Democrats in general to further his one world, utopian, Saul Alinsky community organizer ideology.
Obama succeeded in ignoring the results of the 2010 election and pivoting to the right and was rewarded for his obdurancy by reelection in 2012. Nathan Bedford's first Maxim of American politics: All politics in America is not local but ultimately racial and that implies that Obama sees the world through the prism of race and will exploit the race card to mitigate the damage his socialist ideology will cause his own legacy and his putative party. He will do this because 2012 told him that race demagoguery succeeds.
So Obama will govern with minimal regard for 2016 if it comes at the expense of his personal ideology. Clever Republicans will find ways to expose what Obama will do and force Democrats to risk severe party discipline or defeat. Watch Hillary, if she can pivot the Democrat party creating a new axis away from Obama and unto herself even before she is nominated it is possible that Democrats can desert Obama with impunity. It is typical of the Clintons to attempt to triangulate and Obama might just offer her an open field.(emphasis supplied)
Thinking of what followed Waterloo, St. Helena would be a good place for Obama to go while he writes his memoirs. The only question is—are there any golf courses there?
To extend the analogy... agree that the most likely leader of the mutiny will be HRC. She and BHO are both alley fighters who will go for the jugular and very much in public. Hopefully, they will fatally wound each other and spread enough collateral damage (everybody gets soiled in a shit fight) that the damage can be undone by another big win in 2016.
I think that he would turn against the “militia” boogieman, if he can only gin up a pretext. Fast & Furious shows that he won’t shrink from a false-flag mass-murder operation for a political outcome.
He’d love nothing more than to ignite CW2 as his own personal Gotterdammerung and revenge against the “racist” American people.
We had hints in that direction during the Occupy Movement and we might see violence from places like Ferguson Missouri ignited around the country.
I suppose talking points would mention Shays rebellion and, of course, the rebellion of the Confederate states in support of slavery. The media might just echo that line. The strife would go a long way toward doing away with gun rights and rendering constitutionalists in general illegitimate.
At least they’ll have to come up with a different false flag operation than a stadium massacre by a supposed white militia terrorist.
Obola has a high mortality rate for the careers of Democrat politicians.
Hillary will be going after her far left women as her main constituency.
Triangulation is what saved Bill Clinton. Today's Dems are toast.
I don’t think her health will hold out, uh, one way or another. Same goes for Lieawatha/Fauxahontas. And same goes for Lurch. And two of them are past losers.
“...if Republicans will act like conservatives.”
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Unfortunately, most of them are not trained actors which they would need to be to act like conservatives.
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