Posted on 10/10/2014 10:17:10 AM PDT by IChing
It was pretty ugly back in 2006. War fatigue and the sharp political divisions over Operation Iraqi Freedom combined with residual fallout over the federal response to Hurricane Katrina. President Bush’s popularity had steadily declined, partly also due to his base’s disgust with him pushing amnesty for illegal aliens. He watched his Grand Old Party get massacred at the polls, losing control of both houses of congress in the mid-term elections that November.
Democrats were elated. The preceding several years of humiliation and defeat were over, and they sensed their continuing resurgence. Sure enough, they parlayed their catbird seat all the way to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, catapulting the most inexperienced, radically far-Left, and probably ineligible candidate ever into the Oval Office, based mainly on the unusually deep tones of his voice and skin, not to mention the “historic” overtones of what he represented — and what he so eloquently misrepresented.
It’s taken the broader electorate quite awhile to come out of the false spell cast on them by Obama, but they mostly have. It’s turned into a rude awakening. His administration is a disaster, with an unending parade of high crimes, abuses, and colossal frauds exposed. His approval ratings have dropped to the correspondingly same low point as Bush’s had in 2006.
That’s why certain political analysts are saying that the mid-term elections about to be held next month are going to be a repeat, in political reverse, of the incumbent slaughter seen in the 2006 mid-terms.
Obama is where Bush was, in terms of how far along for both men in their respective second terms, and his party’s prospects are looking about as bad as things were for the GOP then. One difference is that the Republicans already control the House of Representatives now, but it looks like voters are about to give them back the Senate, with a significant number of seats in the House added on.
In terms of Senate seats, we might not see a numerical landslide. However, what that chamber changing hands would say about people’s trust of Obama and his party, and the ramifications for Obama’s final months in office, will amount to a political holocaust.
For conservatives, there is now a chance to undo at least some of the damage done by this criminal administration, and perhaps even undo the mistake of allowing him into the White House in the first place.
The Democrats deserve it. They crammed Obamacare down the country’s throats, despite the fact that a clear a majority of the population did not believe in it nor want it. It was shoved on us as strictly a Democrat-only supported program, with not one single Republican representative or senator voting for it (what kind of ‘representative’ government is that?). The blatant lies that were told by Obama and his friends in their months of loudly arguing for Obamacare have finally been shown to the entire nation for what they are, a gross fraud of proportions unseen in our history; deliberate deception and treachery affecting a sixth of our nation’s economy, harming businesses and millions of people at a time when we are already struggling to make ends meet in an economy limping along on faked numbers.
Then there are the dozens of other abuses and abominations that the Obama presidency and Democrat majority power have brought. If I tried to itemize them here (did I just type ‘itemize’? don’t get me started on the IRS), I’d never stop typing — or, my keyboard would seize up from the vomit and tears cascading down on it.
Still, no assessment of the coming Democrat bloodbath would be adequate without at least touching on the double-apocalyptic implications of the ongoing ISIS and Ebola catastrophes.
Barack Obama has been shown to be so derelict in his job, ignoring all kinds of urgent intelligence and advice about ISIS from wise and experienced people for months and even years on end, until backed into an impossible situation — impossible chiefly because we must somehow stumble on as a country without a real Commander-in-Chief. Instead, we have an anti-American interloper, a sneering saboteur who only clogs up the office while brashly refusing to get out of the way while blaming others for his failures, even as he reluctantly gives a somber speech and belatedly takes token action. The few allies we have left don’t trust us anymore, and the enemy scoffs at us while freely recruiting from among the Muslim segment of our population and lopping off the heads of our citizens, here and abroad, right in front of our faces.
Meanwhile, a few short years after the Obama administration rejected enhanced quarantine and travel restrictions specifically designed by previous CDC staff to deal with threats posed by the deadly Ebola virus, Obama (who himself is now being called “the African virus”) and his present flunkies refuse to even consider putting prudent flight bans in place, even now that Ebola is being brought over on crowded planes.
Obama and his remaining supporters seem to think that the best way to approach the Ebola threat is to increase our contact with it, instead of reducing contact with it. They are actually saying and doing that!
Banning commercial flights into and from Ebola-stricken countries would not preclude charter and military aircraft from transporting critical aid shipments and willing personnel to the hot zones to assist with treating and controlling the spread of Ebola. Alas, such sane and reasonable safety measures are beyond the ken of ideologically malevolent agents such as the bug-chaser Obama, who actually relishes the idea of America being brought down a notch or three or however many, to be closer on par with his father’s continent.
Some conspiracy-theory types have speculated that Obama’s refusal to protect our homeland’s population from the influx of Ebola is a strategic ploy to protect his party from an impending massacre at the voting booths — by allowing Ebola to take hold and spread here on our shores, the resulting panic and public health threat (a national emergency if there ever was one) would give him cause to suspend the mid-term elections, lest people gathered in crowds at polling places increase the chance of spreading the deadly virus.
That theory would only somewhat go against the CDC’s own highly dubious claim that Ebola is only transmitted by bodily fluids, but can we really put a scheme like that past this administration? For that matter, if Ebola does start spreading rapidly here, and regardless of untrustworthy official proclamations, would you want to go into crowded public places? Maybe you’d risk your life to go vote at some neighborhood school cafeteria crammed with hundreds or thousands of others milling in and out throughout the day and evening, to occupy the same cramped booths marking and casting their ballots, but many people wouldn’t. Obama and his Democrats can count on that scenario to at least reduce turnout and alter the outcome of elections.
Either way, there will be blood. Best to shield ourselves from the splatter. Oh, and if you’re white and live in or around St. Louis, I suggest Kevlar too.
I’ll wait until after the elections before I comment... Obama was elected twice by idiots on both sides. Those who voted for him and those who refused to vote because they didn’t get their perfect candidate. Romney sucked without a doubt but we’d have been far better off than we are now.
Who knows.
I suspect its going to be harsher than even FNC or the GOPe consultants are letting on.
Damn right I’ll be glotting! Watching the dem/libs ganging up on the bridges like lemmings won’t hurt my felings.
Alison Lundergan Grimes Refuses To Answer Whether She Voted For Obama - Not Once But 4 Times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NpAqyHs3RE
We’ll see how 2016 goes. If we see President Cruz (may God support this intention!), then everybody who refused to vote for Romney will be entirely vindicated.
Who knows how much the dems have perfected the art of stealing elections by this point....
Boy, we conservatives really showed ‘em who was boss in 2006, didn’t we? We taught those Republicans a thing or two that they will never forget. Let’s do it again, guys, you know that you can. Reid is counting on us.
Dunno. I think we’d be in roughly the same spot with Romney.
Though we might actually have a budget.
He was certainly a crappy candidate though. He didn’t deserve to win.
We need to keep working until the election.
I was still a lurker in '98, but boy I remember all of the "How sweet this is going to be!" posts leading up the election. Mid term jinx plus second term jinx plus scandal jinx. How many seat were the Democrats going to lose? They picked up seats, because they were out working. We need to not make that mistake again.
The only people who can be blamed for election losses are the candidate and party, the voters are not responsible unless you think they have a duty to vote for those they don’t like.
“It was pretty ugly back in 2006. War fatigue and the sharp political divisions over Operation Iraqi Freedom combined with residual fallout over the federal response to Hurricane Katrina.”
ALL of which was MANUFACTURED by the Enemy Media!
“President Bush’s popularity had steadily declined, partly also due to his base’s disgust with him pushing amnesty for illegal aliens.”
All of his own doing.
It appears that there are a few cracks in the Enemy Media front - lots of articles posted here as of late, critical of 0bama from left-leaning publications. So, that’s hopeful.
Republicans are very good at snatching defeat from the jaws of Victory. I’m not holding my breath.
Good points. The fact that democrats are fleeing from Obama and that prominent journalists are turning on him gives me reason to believe.
Please. Let's not slander fine, upstanding, but intellectually disadvantaged idiots by comparing them to the traitors on both sides who voted for Barack Obola.
Since the best thing that can be said about one party is that, at times, they’re not quite so bad as the other party, perhaps the best strategy in the near term is to keep both parties from achieving total control. It pains me to think there may be some positive in voting for a democrat but I’m considering the options.
And how can that be? Boehner and McConnell will still control the Republican Division and Karl Rove, Democrat operative, provides their directions and money.
It is curious that she does not simply lie about it. That’s what Democrats do. That’s what politicians do. No one can dig up voting records like that to prove her a liar.
A rational American citizen, has a DUTY to choose and then vote, based on the available candidates, which one would help or harm the country.
If this responsibility is too hard for you, you can choose to say that "you don't like" a candidate and therefore will take your ball and go home.
We can all suffer, because you wouldn't vote because you "don't like" the candidate.
When kids do this, we call them spoiled brats, when you do it, you want to claim to be conservative.
You, and your fellow travelers, mirror image of the looney leftys, will condemn all of us to your chosen version of hell.
Romney is a mainline Republican. He did not want the Presidency. The pinnacle for such a one is the Nomination of His Party in recognition for his value to the Party. But actually being president is a drag and Republican Big Men don't want that. They get their Nomination then they lie down- take a fall. Bush I tried to do that and succeeded the second time. Dole did it. McCain did it.Ford did it. Romney did it. Bush II was less than enthusiastic and at least didn't do anything overt and won.
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