“I’m so glad we had that storm last week. ‘Cause I think the storm was one of those things. No. Politically, I should say. Not in terms of hurting people. The storm brought in possibilities for good politics.”
Doug Powers @ Michelle Malkin.
It has long been apparent that Chrissy Matthews was soft in the head. Now it apparent that Miss Mathews is a hard heart ted old bitch. Rather ghoulish to gloat over the deaths of what fifty people.
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Why the nation lost on Tuesday, from John Hinderack, Powerline:
Turnout this year was 14 million voters fewer than 2008. Obama’s total was down around 9 million votes, and Romney got about 5 million votes fewer than John McCain. I can understand why Obama’s vote total was down sharply, but how in the world did Romney, with a well-run, well-financed campaign and an energized Republican base, get 5 million fewer votes than McCain? These numbers astonished me when I heard them this morning, but I think I may be able to explain them.
If you don’t play, you can not win. Republicans lost because they stay home. John McCain run a pitiful campaign four years ago but somehow got five million more votes than Mitt Romney.
Some Observations on the American Disaster ;
There are many thoughts that accompany the disaster that has befallen America this day. The prevailing thought, however, comes down to being wary of the tendency for instant analysis, and rather waiting for things to take shape before leaping to some conclusion. As John Cornyn, NRSC chair suggested, “we have a period of reflection and recalibration ahead for the Republican Party.”
Well, no kidding, John. Man, I tell ya, you ain’t gotta hit that boy over the head with a 2*4 more than 15-20 times before he figures there’s something amiss, huh? I can’t help but think his conclusion will be the GOP needs to tilt left.
Of course, the fact is that’s the reason they lost… that they tilted left trying to reach the mythical “center”. Look, gang, There’s a right and a wrong and either side may hold either.. but the ground in between the two is always evil, and will be rejected as such.
Longtime readers will recall I’ve been saying for quite some months prior to this election that the GOP rejection of anything that smacks of real conservatism, was going to doom any elective efforts to failure. … that it would work far better if our candidate didn’t speak conservatism as a second language. The GOP, because of it’s efforts to block and otherwise silence the Tea Party, share in the blame for this loss, last night. I’ve been saying all along that the GOP needs to embrace conservatism where it is found… and that includes the Tea Party. They didn’t and that’s at least a part of the reason for this failure.
That said, thoughts of what the future holds, because of this re-election of Obama, can hardly be avoided. A few of them, in no particular order:
- 20 trillion in new debt.
- The debt ceiling will breached before the end of 2012.
- Fiscal cliff. Period.
- The estates of Ayn Rand and George Orwell will greatly benefit.
- In light of this re-election, the charges of America being a ‘racist country’ must inevitably fail… until of course Obama needs to blame someone/something for the failure of his far leftist policy.
- Israel now figures they’re on their own, and takes unilateral action designed to reinforce it’s own national security.
- Remember the Depression? Get ready for another. (As an aside, Obama’s the first since FDR to be re-elected with so high an unemployment rate.)
- We’ll now get to see just what he meant by his “revenge” comment.
- Benghazi will now exist on the radar of the press.
- Nationalizing energy companies, and the skyrocketing of energy prices.
- The resulting economic crash will possibly stain the Democrats forever. The outstanding question, of course, is “Will we survive it”?
And that last one is the real thing, folks. The country just shot itself in the head for “free stuff”…. and I wonder if there will be anything to salvage once the voters figure out that it was all an illusion. At the moment, I have no answer for that one.
And I can’t get over the feeling that somewhere, Cloward and Piven are smiling.
Addendum:(Eric)
That wiggling mass of opportunistic protoplasm known as Chris Christie will find his career limited to New Jersey state government… And that will be limited now that what New Jersey conservatives are left, have figured out what and who he is.
Addendum II: (DavidL)
WTF over. President Petty wins re-election, with no plan Dirty Harry Reid ‘rats gain more seats in the Senate. The House goes more republican, as do the statehouses. Color me confused.
Exit question, will President Petty some how find a mandate among Big Bird, binders, and bayonets? Don’t bet on it.
I believe Romney will win. He feels like optimism, and Obama — who once owned the word “hope” — seems petulant, divisive, and ungrateful.
Ann Althouse.
Barack Obama, President Fifty Seven States, is just not very smart. That, in of itself is not a capital sin. Howver, in addition to not being smart, Obama is a small petty and spiteful man. That should disqualify him from pubic office, from Jawa Report:
Obama Wants Revenge Against Romney
Revenge? An odd word to use to appeal for votes. But Obama said during a speech in Ohio, “Vote! Voting’s the best revenge!”
Revenge for what? For having the audacity to publicize Administraion failures? For threatening to repeal Obamacare? For expecting the Commander-in-Chief to have a higher regard for our military? For criticizing handling of foreign policy affairs that led to the deaths of four Americans?
It’s pretty sad when a Presidential candidate, rather than earn votes based on accomplishments and issues, has to appeal for vengeance against a political opponent. Or maybe in Obama’s narcissistic mind, he is in an unjust war fighting for his very existence.
Revenge for what? The Romney campaign has been issue based. It has been Team Obama who has campaigned on the personal. Obama did not call for revenge for the murder of Ambassador Chris Stevens, rather he only seeks to bring his killers to justice. You can attack OBama’s country, and he does not take it personal. Attack his candidacy, and that he takes personal. How odd. How sad.
Addendum: Mitt Romney’s response, video:
Hat tip: RS McCain.
I doubt that Barack Obama knows what an OODA loop is, but Mitt Romney is inside his.
We’ve got people in New York City that are dumpster diving for food. No food no gasoline no electrical power and freezing their back sides off.
Just about 4 years ago candidate Obama was screaming at George W Bush about his response to Katrina. Of course the usual mantra was chanted about how the right was racist and that’s why they didn’t respond as they should to New Orleans.
Yet what is the response to this circumstance? Save for a photo op with the all too willing Chris Christie of New Jersey, there has been no direct involvement from this White House as regards this tragedy. He continues to campaign as if there is nothing wrong.
I would suggest that were this George W Bush in the White House doing these things, the press would be having a coniption fits 24 by 7 right to election day.
Perhaps the Democrats don’t think that we have a memory as regards the rhetoric a 4 years ago. Or maybe they think if they don’t mention it the whole thing will just go away.
And by the way I already posted these thoughts once last night and it didn’t show up on Facebook. Gee, I wonder why?
Well the sport of basketball was invented by a white man. It may be possible that some whites can play the game. I say that in the United States, white anti-black racism is largely a thing of the past. Case in point, looks what qualifies as racism now. Is racism restricted to whites, or is there such a thing as black racism from Post Game:
Are Minnesota Timberwolves Too White?
Minnesota Timberwolves fans may notice something different about their team this year. In a league in which American-born black players made up 75 percent of roster spots in 2011, the Timberwolves will have an opening-day roster comprising just 33 percent black players (five out of 15).
According to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, this year’s squad will be the league’s whitest since the 1980s Boston Celtics.
Is that a problem?
Some civil rights leaders in Minneapolis think so. Tyrone Terrell, chairman of St. Paul’s African American leadership council, told the Star-Tribune that he thinks the unbalanced roster could be seen as a ploy by the ownership to sell the team to a majority-white fan base.
I would call the Timberwolves roster interesting, as in unusual. However Tyrone Terrell is not raising questions. He making accusations, and accusations require evidence, of which the article provides none.
Now suppose, just suppose, that Terrell’s theory that the Timberswolves created a disproportionately white roster to cater to their fans in very white state, Minnesota. Is that racism or just good business? Are the Timberwolves somehow obligated to lose money to maintain some secret league quota of black basketball players?
Is diversity just another word for s black racial quota? The Timberwolves have wide range of ethnic groups represented, just not the apparently required amount of blacks. Is Diversity just Dog Whistle for Racial Quota?
No public figure, since the late Senator Sheets Byrd, would dare suggest too many blacks were gainfully employed. Yet a black can make a similar charge with impunity.
Barack Obama in full campaign mode at the Democrat National Convention:
America, I never said this journey would be easy, and I won’t promise that now. Yes, our path is harder – but it leads to a better place. Yes our road is longer – but we travel it together. We don’t turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up. We draw strength from our victories, and we learn from our mistakes, but we keep our eyes fixed on that distant horizon, knowing that Providence is with us, and that we are surely blessed to be citizens of the greatest nation on Earth.
The week on the campaign trail:
This is a tough time for a lot of people; millions of folks all across the Eastern Seaboard, but America’s tougher. And we’re tougher because we pull together, we leave nobody behind, we make sure we respond as a nation and remind ourselves that whenever an American is in need, all of stand together to make sure we’re providing the help that’s necessary
Ambassador Chris Stevens could not be reached for comment. Apparently Barack Obama, a/k/a Dim Won’s, rhetorical eloquence is limited to memorizing a few campaign talking points. It seems Dim Won is not even smart enough to realize when his talking points have become out dated.
Hat tip and Reax: Nice Deb:
“We leave nobody behind.” Apparently it’s a favorite Obama talking point. How sickeningly ironic.
Well he did bring their bodies back home.
I took liberal science, and according to liberal science, correlation establishes causation:
Hat tip photo and reax : Pat Dollard
The rocket/climate scientist speaks…this is a bimbo absolutely desperate to validate herself as a sophisticated, superior, visionary leader of an imaginary New Right…see, if you’re not stupid, then she can’t be smarter than you, and she can’t lead you; she has no ‘very special’ purpose. I’d like to hear her dissertation on why global warming/climate change is real. Guess what? She doesn’t have one. Cos that’s not what this is about.
It is a well known fact that blonde hair, in females, causes utter stupidity. What more evidence do you need besides Megan McCain?
I was asked once why businessmen in general are usually soul anti-government. I quickly responded by saying that it’s because they’re the ones that deal with the results of government. All of it negative.
Just recently former presidential candidate George McGovern died. I noted with interest David posted a note on that topic. He quite rightly called McGovern a hero for his military service. My read was that David had some serious questions about the rest of his “service” , as do I.
McGovern was one who invariably thought government was the answer to any given issue. He never met a government program he didn’t like. He was a true dyed in the wool socialist, not unlike our current President. Like Obama, he believed in imposing high taxes so as to redistribute wealth from the rich in order to guarantee every American a minimum income… regardless of their working or not.
Until, that is, such time as he relinquished his office and retirement and tried becoming a small businessman. He had a small fortune to invest because of his years in government, but he found it difficult to justify those actions of his while in government, whilst he wore the hat of the businessman.
He examined these two different worlds rather eloquently I thought in 1992. He wrote in the Wall Street Journal that year….
George McGovern
In 1988, I invested most of the earnings from this lecture circuit acquiring the leasehold on Connecticut’s Stratford Inn. Hotels, inns and restaurants have always held a special fascination for me. The Stratford Inn promised the realization of a longtime dream to own a combination hotel, restaurant and public conference facility — complete with an experienced manager and staff.
In retrospect, I wish I had known more about the hazards and difficulties of such a business, especially during a recession of the kind that hit New England just as I was acquiring the inn’s 43-year leasehold. I also wish that during the years I was in public office, I had had this firsthand experience about the difficulties business people face every day. That knowledge would have made me a better U.S. senator and a more understanding presidential contender.
There is more than a tinge of regret here in this writing, and one need not be clairvoyant to see it. He has begun at the point of this writing back in 1992 to understand the kind of damage that he’s done to the American business and to America as a whole. He still is addicted to liberalism, and still quite willing to defend his fellow leftists and cast them in good light. But there is no denying that the next paragraph is Reagan influenced;
Today we are much closer to a general acknowledgment that government must encourage business to expand and grow. Today we are much closer to a general acknowledgment that government must encourage business to expand and grow. Bill Clinton, Paul Tsongas, Bob Kerrey and others have, I believe, changed the debate of our party. We intuitively know that to create job opportunities we need entrepreneurs who will risk their capital against an expected payoff. Too often, however, public policy does not consider whether we are choking off those opportunities. . We intuitively know that to create job opportunities we need entrepreneurs who will risk their capital against an expected payoff. Too often, however, public policy does not consider whether we are choking off those opportunities.
To the degree that McGovern is correct here, what he fails to recognize is that the only reason such changes in perspective occurred was because the Democrats through the Reagan/Bush years had a figurative gun to their head. They were forced to adopt reality after being hit over the head with it for three presidential terms. Still, he does at least begin to ask the right questions. He spent an entire lifetime signing off on tax increases that affected real people, real businesses, put many people out of work, and stifled economic growth. He did so on the belief that there was no negative consequences to these laws. To these ideals. This 1992 op-ed of his is if nothing else and admission that his ideals and his actions based on those ideals did indeed have negative consequences.His article also provides a bit of insight as to why the Obama administration finds economic recovery so elusive.
Alas, that perspective, that overt acknowledgement of reality, that he was wrong about the socialist agenda, left McGovern instead of the older statesman, something of a pariah within the party. After all, if the Democrats were forced into admitting what McGovern did, that the ideas and ideals behind the their agenda were wrong, that they actually hurt the very people they claim to be trying to help, most of Democrat party ideas and ideals would have vanished decades ago. As it is, the Democrat Party of today would never have nominated McGovern, having gone so far to the left as to barely acknowledge his existence.
Indeed, every single roadblock McGovern mentions in his piece, still exist today. As an example, take his point about healthcare costs… who wouldn’t take the premiums of 1992 over what we have after 20 more years of government attempting to control healthcare costs? Eventually McGovern would be forced to admit the reality that every time government intrudes in healthcare, ostensibly to lower costs, costs actually rise.
He was well on his way to that understanding, when he wrote:
The problem we face as legislators is: Where do we set the bar so that it is not too high to clear? I don’t have the answer. I do know that we need to start raising these questions more often.
The natural progression of things, given more time, would have in the end led McGovern to the conclusion that perhaps the bar should not have been set at all, being the exact opposite of that which was written into the Constitution. The idea of Limited Government, as prescribed by the founders, was an idea that somehow gave McGovern the slip.
Still, McGovern, in the end, had it all over Obama. He unlike Obama, could admit he was wrong. He just couldn’t bring himself to admit WHY.
Tags: Barack Obama, BitsBlog, George McGovern, Liberal, politics
An Eulogy for two fallen American heroes:
A short distance from the American compound, two Americans were sleeping. They were in Libya as independent contractors working an assignment totally unrelated to our embassy. They also happened to be former Navy SEALs. When they heard the noise coming from the attack on our embassy, as you would expect from highly trained warriors, they ran to the fight. Apparently, they had no weapons, but seeing the Libyan guards dropping their guns in their haste in fleeing the scene, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty snatched up several of these discarded weapons and prepared to defend the American compound.
Not knowing exactly what was taking place, the two SEALs set up a defensive perimeter. Unfortunately Ambassador Stevens was already gravely injured, and Foreign Service officer, Sean Smith, was dead. However, due to their quick action and suppressive fire, twenty administrative personnel in the embassy were able to escape to safety. Eventually, these two courageous men were overwhelmed by the sheer numbers brought against them, an enemy force numbering between 100 to 200 attackers which came in two waves. But the stunning part of the story is that Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty killed 60 of the attacking force. Once the compound was overrun, the attackers were incensed to discover that just two men had inflicted so much death and destruction.
As it became apparent to these selfless heroes, they were definitely going to lose their lives unless some reinforcements showed up in a hurry. As we know now, that was not to be. I’m fairly certain they knew they were going to die in this gun fight, but not before they took a whole lot of bad guys with them!
Consider these tenets of the Navy SEAL Code: 1) Loyalty to Country, Team and Teammate, 2) Serve with Honor and Integrity On and Off the Battlefield, 3) Ready to Lead, Ready to Follow, Never Quit, 4) Take responsibility for your actions and the actions of your teammates, 5) Excel as Warriors through Discipline and Innovation, 6) Train for War, Fight to Win, Defeat our Nation’s Enemies, and 7) Earn your Trident every day ( http://www.navyseals.com/seal-code-warrior-creed).
Thank you, Tyrone and Glen. To the very last breath, you both lived up to the SEAL Code. You served all of us well. You were courageous in the face of certain death.
And Tyrone, even though you never got to hold your newborn son, he will grow up knowing the character and quality of his father, a man among men who sacrificed himself defending others. God bless America !
By Dr. Charles R. Roots Senior Pastor Former Staff Sergeant, USMC Captain, U. S. Navy Chaplain Corps (Ret), via SocttonCapeCod’sWebBlog.
Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty had more honor and integrity then the State Department Defense Department and the White House.
A recent campaign ad from the brain behind the Obama campaign, video:
Hat tip and reax: Anne Sorock: Legal Insurrection:
The Atlantic published a piece by Connor Simpson ridiculing conservatives’ reaction to the Obama Virgin Voting ad by pointing out that it is conservative old white men who are “outraged.”
Simpson posted screen shots from four white men, linked a few other white men, and proceeded to write an entire article about the collective outrage of old white men:
I did not introduce the subject of Lena Dunham’s sexual appeal, or utter lack thereof. However as the subject has been thrust into the arena, I will respond.
Funny, I am old, white and male. Dunham neither gets me hot, nor bothered. She might if she were but cute, looked like a girl, had some personality or wit. Alas, Dunham is zero for four. Rather she looks like she auditioning for the next revival of Peter Pan.
Tomorrows campaign video, Ramming it in for Romney/Ryan
Addendum. Steven Crowder takes Dunham’s political virginity, As Rhett Butler might have said, “Lena you need to mocked by a man, and by a man who knows how” video:
Hat tip: American Spectator.
John McCain, the naval aviator, was a true American hero. McCain the United States Senator is a national disgrace. from Washington Free Beacon:
After playing coy for much of this election cycle, the former Secretary of State Colin Powell endorsed President Barack Obama Thursday morning for reelection.
Powell famously endorsed Obama over his opponent Sen. John McCain in 2008 and campaigned with Obama—once even spasmodically dancing at an Obama rally with hip-hop mogul and .067 percent owner of the New Jersey Nets, Jay-Z.
As reported by The Hill, on the “Kilmeade and Friends” radio program today, host Brian Kilmeade asked the Senator about today’s Powell endorsement and McCain unleashed a scathing attack on the rapidly aging former Secretary, “Gen. Powell, you disappoint us and you have harmed your legacy even further by defending what is clearly the most feckless foreign policy in my lifetime,” McCain said.
Senator, there are no conservatives left whom could be disappointed with Colin Powell. There train left the station with the last of Powell’s conservative credentials somewhere around Aught Four.
Lana Wachowski formerly Larry Wachowski claims to been ridiculed as a man. Now he claims to be women, and he is totally ridiculous, from Gawker:
On Saturday, Lana Wachowski was honored with the Human Rights Campaign’s Visibility Award at the organization’s annual gala in San Fransciso. The resulting 25-minute acceptance speech is a highlight (if not the highlight) of her public output thus far.
“I began to believe voices in my head — that I was a freak, that I am broken, that there is something wrong with me, that I will never be lovable,” she told the crowd, recounting the isolation and bullying (by a nun, no less) of her youth.
The speech is an eloquent exploration of the complexity of her coming out:
Land you are free to change your name. However you wee conceived as male and you will die as a male. Sex is immutable.
Barack Obama,a/k/a Dim Won, is a many of many words, but few thoughts. Dim Won’s entire take from three debates:
Hat tip:Elizabeth Price Foley Instandundit
