Election day open thread
Bookworm on Nov 04 2009 at 9:47 am | Filed under: Open Threads
I’m running, but there’s no reason you can’t kvell about the victories in Virginia and New Jersey. They are a big deal. Also, Michelle Malkin takes a sanguine view of Hoffman’s narrow defeat in New York’s 23rd District. While I worry that the Republican Party will take it as a sign that RINO me-too-ism is the way to go, Malkin thinks it was a wake-up call for the Party. What do you think?
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This sort of belongs in the “heroism” thread…but if you have a bit of time, read about this amazing man – that I’d never heard of before!
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2009/11/freddy-spencer-chapmans-one-man-three.html
We’re back to the scorpion (Obama) riding the frog (America) metaphor. If the damned scorpion would just deny the urge to sting in midstream, he could make it safely to shore and kill the frog with no risk.
But just like the scorpion, Obama cannot resist his own nature. His refusal to watch the election results was motivated by his narcissistic petulance. “I WON’T watch those poopyheads do the wrong thing, especially after I told them what was the right thing!” That is not going to sit well among Americans who don’t cotton to chickens**t nancy boys being in charge.
Another segment—huge in this case—is not going to like Obama’s now overtly pro-Marxist politics. If ever there were an open-and-shut case for celebrating the triumph of freedom over slavery, the fall of the Berlin Wall is it. But our tone-deaf scorpion is bent on being true to his nature.
I love it when they do it to themselves.
He’s not watching (election results) He’s not going (to Berlin).
Of course not, the new Brothers Grimm (Axelrod & Emmanuel) are keeping him entirely too busy in fairy land.
Mirror, mirror on the wall…who’s the fairest of them all .
The election results were a stern warning to all of them.
If they want to play hard ball and keeping pitching fouls -they have to remember, we’re holding the bats, as I suggested in my letter to the R committee. We’ll see what happens next November. In the meantime, they’re all on notice …straighten up and fly right.
snip/regarding NY23 and fuzzy scuzzy.
We do not bend left or right but prefer to be up’right’ and choose the best candidate, even if he/she is not on the GOP slate.
I see it as a wakeup call. The Republican Party bosses chose the S person : dictating to the masses instead of taking input from the masses. Hoffman had enough problems with being a carpetbagger and not being a very telegenic/photogenic type person: definitely not the affable politician type.
Wake up call, indeed – we give them the license to drive and we can just as easily revoke it.
Pull them over for Drunk Driving for Power.
They ran the stop sign, floored the accelerator and kept making wrong turns and in the process left some nasty tread marks.
Check these out…
http://tcotreport.com/23ny1.html
http://www.pressrepublican.com/0100_news/local_story_306234640.html
I was listening to Mark Levin this afternoon when he took a call from a lifelong Virginia Democrat. The man, very polite and soft-spoken, told Levin that thanks to Levin’s radio show he had been doing some serious reading up on the Constitution and has concluded that he made a big mistake voting for Obama. He said he now realizes that Obama’s extreme left ideology is contrary to the letter and the spirit of the Constitution.
I hope that more and more people will be driven by The One’s thuggish paranoia to listen to the likes of Levin, Medved, Limbaugh and Hewitt. Once they hear the humor and content, I expect there are going to a few million more people by next November who will be sounding a lot like that Virginia fellow.
suek, I checked them out.
Whew! I think Dan Brown has enough material for another novel.
Well, well, well, well.
Obama plays the see-no-evil hear-no-evil game (hands over eyes. hands over ears. “la la la la la”.) This is reminiscent of his summertime game: “What tea party protests? I haven’t heard anything about them.” That was soon followed by, “They’re just a bunch of mean, vicious malcontents, whining. And they’re DANGEROUS. They’re inciting people to violence!” When that didn’t work, they fell back on the tired old usual: “They hate Obama because he’s black. They’re RACISTS.” Expect the same three-step to occur here.
In addition, he’s playing his tired, tired old Bush card. As the Drudge headline says: “One year on, Obama cites struggle with Bush legacy.” In 2011, will he still be complaining about Bush, blaming it all on Bush? Beat that dead horse, beat that dead horse!
Meanwhile Pelosi and the others are claiming “We won the election results.” You go, girl! That’s the way to stick the stork head into the ground. I don’t mind this kind of wishful thinking, denial of reality at all! You keep right on doing it. It’s perrrrrr-fect. Keep right on doing that.
This is all so very enjoyable. If only it weren’t so (temporarily) harmful to this wonderful country of ours, these games the Democrats are playing.
>>Expect the same three-step to occur here.>>
Heh. Michelle Malkin has a post up with a photo of a protester carrying a big sign that says “It doesn’t matter what this poster says – you’ll just say it’s racist anyway” or something pretty close.
>>stick the stork head>>
Ostrich, Mike…Ostrich! Storks deliver babies…they don’t stick their heads in the sand! Thank heavens ostriches don’t deliver babies!!
Economics for children. I don’t think this particular Dr.Seuss story was available when my kids were of the right age. Give it to somebody you love for Christmas!!
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/06/dr-seuss-on-economy.html
Just ran across this: (be sure to read the comments – they’re almost as interesting as the article)
http://blog.simplejustice.us/2009/11/04/the-poisoned-water-of-maricopa-county.aspx?ref=rss
I’ve been an Arpaio admirer. This makes me wonder. But then you have the fact that people keep re-electing him to office. Is this a case where the justice system has become so protective of defendants rights that the ordinary citizen loses theirs – and so abuse of the system results in protection of the citizen? Even though it’s supposed to be the other way around? I don’t know…
Conservatives’ money went to pay for specious attack ads against Hoffman run by the NRCC like this.
Conservatives’ money went to support a GOP candidate who shares the same socialist alliances with fellow SEIU/ACORN/New Party/Working Families Party activist Patrick Gaspard, the Obama White House political director who intervened in the race to secure Scozzafava’s endorsement of Owens.
I’ll keep saying this because it needs to be said. Especially for those in denial.
The purge required of the Republican party is always rejected on the basis that people don’t want to do what needs doing. They want to compromise, as in deny the fundamental problems and hope they can appease their enemies into a ‘grand alliance’.
Many people, regardless of their ideology, have no solution for getting rid of the internal saboteurs of the Republican party. They either say that such things are an acceptable cost of ‘big party’ politics, or they say that it will alienate ‘moderates’ (like Ozzie), or they say that social conservatism isn’t going to win the votes needed. Never do they say what they are going to do about the internal sabotage evident in the Republican party, carried out by Republicans on other Republicans. Nowhere do they accept the magnitude of the problem. And no when have they accepted the drastic purges needed to resolve the issue.
It’s cowardice. It’s not stupidity. It’s not ignorance. They don’t need me to tell them anything. They’ve seen, again and again, what Republicans have done to Republicans, not to help the nation or even the party, but to help Democrats win or enrich their own bank accounts.
They don’t know how to make things better, but they seem very frenzied and passionate about rejecting a purge. Denial is not an issue exclusive to only Democrats or the Left. It’s a human trait designed to protect human flaws, egos, and ambitions. But there are times when things are desperate enough that human denial becomes counter-productive to human survival.
Crowder, the on air personality from PJ TV, said in response concerning the ‘wine sipping’ Republicans that undermined Sarah Palin’s campaign, that he wasn’t a wine sipping Republican because he lacked excitement on Sarah Palin. As if this disproved the internal corruption of the Republican party, unseen and undealt with by popular consent. People are naturally parochial in that they don’t see a threat if the people they know don’t see a threat or if they don’t see a threat amongst the people they know. But the world consists of abstract and concrete aspects not limited simply to the village we grew up in.
The Democrats may lose an election or two, in the coming years. But ultimate victory will not be seen for us if the Republican party isn’t purged of saboteurs, insurgents, traitors, greedy idiots, and corrupt Democrat quislings. There is no strategy alive that can ignore, deny, or bypass this truth. If people aren’t convinced by the facts that have happened so far, they may need to suffer more in the coming years before they will accept enlightenment on this score. That may even be right and proper, for I suspect we were not made to be able to feel pain to further ignorance.
Endure. In Enduring, grow strong. Victory requires a price in terms of sacrifice: the sacrifice of enemies and allies.
Profoundly said and summarized, Ymar.
Ymarsakar:<blockquote><I>They either say that such things are an acceptable cost of ‘big party’ politics, or they say that it will alienate ‘moderates’ (like Ozzie) </I> </blockquote>
Haven’t heard from Ozzie in a while. Perhaps Ozzie realized no one was being convinced. After all, when 28 of the last 37 years we have had Presidents whom bible-thumpers supported, and we have seen no indication of any movement towards the creation of a theocracy during that time, Ozzie’s frenzied fears didn’t hold much water.
Tags still don’t appear to work. And I am using Firefox.
Gringo, the comment gui for wordpress is using the visual image style. That means it won’t be reading html at all, except some limited varieties.
And the option to change back to pure html, with line parsers, isn’t here.
It’s gone, you see. Like much of the treasury’s funds, controlled by Obama’s cronies.