Posted by
TOTA on Monday, September 08, 2008 10:59:05 PM
ASSORTED LEFTISTS:
Republicans have a lioness, you have a 'widdle putty tat', and it's driving you crazy.
Those of you with no scruples are feeling the thrill of letting your true nature show through. You others that sound like you've gone off the deep end are simply temporarily deranged by the sudden change of tide.
Both groups know that the election lynch-pin is Palin. If you can pull that pin, or damage it, you might possibly win in November. If Palin shines as she always has, you lot have ZERO hope. Zilch, zippo, nada. ZEEERO. That's one zero, followed by nothing. And things will go much better for republicans in the congress and state houses than anyone now predicts if Palin holds up. Oh - and you don't have to worry about us being this nasty about one of your pro-abortion hysterical feminists when you finally put another woman up for a top job - it's not our nature to be this nasty. That's why you fail in talk radio - your nastiness comes through and most people find it tedious and/or repulsive.
No matter how bad things are, you haven't changed the structure and makeup of the country enough for voters to put this strange and untested man into the seat of world power. McCain probably could have picked anyone and won.
Most people see in Palin a strong, smart, and courageous woman. The left is so blinded by political ambition that you no longer recognize virtue when you see it, or you are incapable of acknowledging it. The more your attacks on her are at variance with what the rest of the population sees in her, the more lunatic you seem to the normal people.
The left in general does not understand America. Only about 20% of the voting population thinks like they do, and another 15-20% are so dependent upon government that they support your people out of self interest. That's your hard core support, 35-40%. The rest of the population is relatively self-reliant, and only susceptible to the kind of blatant demagoguery peddled by Obama when things are very uncertain. ("we are the ones we've been waiting for" - this is pure, un-distilled Marxist activist tripe.)
Notice that Obama hit his highs when the credit crisis was blowing up, oil prices were at their highest, and it wasn't clear that real progress had been made in Iraq. All of these issues are beyond his touch now; his positions are either gone or unsustainable in a general election. It matters not a whit what you leftists think of his ideas, the country at large is not going to swallow, no matter how loudly the left screams "racism". Most of the rest of us think his ideas stink, because they always fail wherever and whenever they're tried. It takes the hubris of thinking you are smarter than everyone else to even peddle his snake oil.
Most of what he had to 'offer' middle American voters is gone. He now sounds to more and more people like a typical leftist peddling favors for votes. And his favors come with strings - his 'tax cuts' are largely credits doled out for government-approved behavior only. Every instinct the man has is to look for systemic unfairness, racism, 'warmongering', or free market excess as the root of every problem, and government and soft power as the answers. Europe shows you what government and soft power get you. America is not buying.
After this election the country will be more divided than ever. Unfortunately for the left, your best spokesman will probably be irretrievably discredited as at least a closet racist and capitaphobe. When the economy improves, it will be another election under the country's belt during which the left said things were worse than at any time since the great depression - and that only radical leftist change could save us. You don't have too many tries left with this line of rhetoric before it gets so shopworn that even you are afraid to use it, for fear of revealing your idiocy. Add the likely turnaround in Europe due to free market reforms, and your utopian dreams will have to wait another generation or two to gain any traction. By then, we'll have amended the constitution to finally keep you permanently in check. If you want to dominate a population and control every aspect of their lives, you'll have to move to Canada.
TOTA
PJ O'Rourke (paraphrasing): "To liberals, freedom essentially means being able to run around with your pants down."