Archive for January 5th, 2010
One Joker Down, 59 To Go: Senator Dorgan Retiring
Breaking News: Senator Byron Dorgan has decided to retire instead of seeking re-election since, after his votes for Healthcare Rationing, everyone in his state, down to the last man, woman, child, and circus animal, hates him.
Enough pressure on the donors of other vulnerable Democrats over the Healthcare Rationing could cause a wave of this sort of “retirement”, which, as used here, means, “getting the f*** out before the people throw your smelly a** out”.
Let the cameras in
There’s call to “let the cameras in” and allow CSPAN to cover the death of the Republic, for historical purposes, as Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid try to ram the unconstitutional Healthcare Rationing bill through Congress in complete secret.
They want to do this behind closed doors, no doubt so voters can’t see how truly stupid Reid is, or how bad Pelosi’s Parkinson’s has gotten. She’s truly frazzled by the demands of CSPAN to televise what she’s up to: in her insane justification for keeping everything shrouded in darkness and secrecy, Pelosi’s been blinking and twitching, her hands shaking, much more than usual.
Parkinson’s symptoms are worse when a person’s stressed — and, we’ve been told, when someone is LYING. All that effort to maintain tone and facial expressions while being dishonest removes mental concentration from wherever its focused to keep the twitching down.
Pelosi was like this in Denver, too, where she lied for the better part of the day, every day, for a full week, twitching and blinking and shaking as she went.
This will, no doubt, be her last year as Speaker, regardless of what happens in November. We’re surprised she’s even running for another term in Congress, we hear she is so sick.
This could all be ANOTHER reason Pelosi and Reid want everything they are doing to be kept so secret, behind closed doors. Not only is what they are doing wrong, something they should be ashamed of, but they both know they look TERRIBLE while up to their plots and schemes.
All the better to let the cameras in, we say.
Governor Palin, the Resistance is ready for you to stand up and lead us to defeat Obama in 2012
Here’s Governor Palin’s latest analysis on the dangerous fumblings and bumblings of the current President and his unicorn-riding, “Muslims are just misunderstood Care Bears with bombs”, “hope is our strategy”, administration:
President Obama’s meeting with his top national security advisers does nothing to change the fact that his fundamental approach to terrorism is fatally flawed. We are at war with radical Islamic extremists and treating this threat as a law enforcement issue is dangerous for our nation’s security. That’s what happened in the 1990s and we saw the result on September 11, 2001. This is a war on terror not an “overseas contingency operation.” Acts of terrorism are just that, not “man caused disasters.” The system did not work. Abdulmutallab was a child of privilege radicalized and trained by organized jihadists, not an “isolated extremist” who traveled to a land of “crushing poverty.” He is an enemy of the United States, not just another criminal defendant.
It simply makes no sense to treat an al Qaeda-trained operative willing to die in the course of massacring hundreds of people as a common criminal. Reports indicate that Abdulmutallab stated there were many more like him in Yemen but that he stopped talking once he was read his Miranda rights. President Obama’s advisers lamely claim Abdulmutallab might be willing to agree to a plea bargain – pretty doubtful you can cut a deal with a suicide bomber. John Brennan, the President’s top counterterrorism adviser, bizarrely claimed “there are no downsides or upsides” to treating terrorists as enemy combatants. That is absurd. There is a very serious downside to treating them as criminals: terrorists invoke their “right” to remain silent and stop talking. Terrorists don’t tell us where they were trained, what they were trained in, who they were trained by, and who they were trained with. Giving foreign-born, foreign-trained terrorists the right to remain silent does nothing to keep Americans safe from terrorist threats. It only gives our enemies access to courtrooms where they can publicly grandstand, and to defense attorneys who can manipulate the legal process to gain access to classified information.
President Obama was right to change his policy and decide to send no more detainees to Yemen where they can be free to rejoin their war on America. Now he must back off his reckless plan to close Guantanamo, begin treating terrorists as wartime enemies not suspects alleged to have committed crimes, and recognize that the real nature of the terrorist threat requires a commander-in-chief, not a constitutional law professor.
Whether Democrats or the MSM realize it or not, a Resistance Movement is forming in this country. Regular citizens are starting to band together in preparation to do what political leaders and those in government are too stupid to do: resist this current president’s desperate slouch towards socialism and his fey, effete, ludicrously naive approach to Muslim terrorists.
Islam wants to destroy the West.
Islam is not a religion: it is a political, commercial, ideological, and criminal organization disguised as a religion so that it can use Liberals within our own borders as Fifth Column enablers of its attacks upon US interests.
The Resistance needs a leader, and we hope Governor Palin stands up in 2010 and becomes that woman, so in 2012 she can become our president.
Run, Sarah, RUN!
About the Chicago 2011 Mayor's race
Ron Huberman (in the fabulous orange tie), will succeed Mayor Daley in 2011
A lot of you have been emailing us to ask what we are hearing about the 2011 Chicago Mayor’s race. Here’s a collection of little bits we picked up during the holidays, here and there at various events, and from conversations with people we know here on the ground who follow politics closely:
(1) Winning the Olympics was Mayor Daley’s only ace to stay in power; it would have created a patronage and money laundering machine that would have kept Daley in office beyond 2016. While he’s currently limited in who he can bribe and what millions can be diverted to his family and friends, the Olympics would have given Daley an unregulated, unsupervised slush fund from which to secure political allies and ground teams to essentially make him an Emperor, instead of the petty king he is now. Without the Olympics, Daley is now largely powerless. Expect him not to seek another term in 2011, because he won’t win.
(2) Daley was always about rivaling his father, surpassing his own time on Chicago’s throne. By the conclusion of this current term, he will have certainly done that. Millennium Park is Daley’s crowning glory…sitting right next to a park dedicated to his father in 1976, but 1000 times more grand. We live in a city of Pharaohs here, and the son has eclipsed the father in this dynasty. There’s nothing Daley can realistically accomplish on a massive scale in this economy, so it seems there’s no reason for him to run for office again.
(3) Daley’s son is a screwup, who’s in the military now in hopes he can be redeemed as a veteran. Perhaps the longterm plan is to install him as the third Mayor Daley twenty years from now. The current Mayor was also a screwup growing up, so it’s not unprecedented. There was also a gap between the first Mayor Daley and his wayward son’s taking back the office…where historic “firsts” held the seat warm for the second coming of Daley (first black mayor, first cross-dressing mayor (who was also the first black mayor), first female mayor (who didn’t look as nice in dresses as the first black mayor did), etc.
(4) Mayor Daley has been grooming Ron Huberman, currently the head of Chicago Public Schools, as his successor-placeholder. Huberman would be the first openly gay mayor of Chicago, and only the second openly gay mayor of a major city (after Houston). Daley put Huberman in charge of the CTA (our transit authority) so Huberman could get his connections to the union thugs there, and now that he’s in charge of the schools, he’s in with the thugs in the teachers’ unions too. It was Daley’s intention to stay in power until 2016 by winning the Olympics, but since that’s not going to happen now, things are being sped up for Huberman.
(5) What makes Huberman Daley’s perfect replacement is that so many people think he’s black, but he’s not, he’s Israeli-born. But, black voters just race-vote in elections, and if they think someone is black, they will vote for him. Charles Manson could be elected to office in Chicago if the Southside was somehow convinced he was black. We wish and wish this was a joke or that we were exaggerating, but it’s true. “Lemme see a picture of him” is what black voters ask when deciding whom to vote for. Not, “Does he know what he’s doing?”, “Is he qualified?”, “Will he do a good job?”. Nope, if you look enough like them, then you are in. Huberman has that going for him. Most white people think he’s black, too, but in the Will Smith/Dr. Utopia way that yuppies in Chicago adore. Huberman is the new Utopia here…and he will be Mayor. The machine will see to it.
(6) Some of you have a wild idea that Rahm Emanuel will return to Chicago to run for Mayor. We don’t see how that happens, because he can’t win. There’s no love for Emanuel in this town. Not even all the hot young guys working in big law firms or brokerage firms (who owe their current high-paying positions to whatever positions they put themselves in, on the down-low, with Emanuel in the past) are all that fond of him. The man may not be a very generous lover, but he’s sure kind to young men he wants to keep quiet about whatever went on in their relationships. If he’d run for Mayor, Emanuel would see all of these stories come out. Daley’s people would see to that, because Emanuel is not part of Daley’s succession plan. And everyone in Boystown knew the quickest route to big success in the Loop was catching Emanuel’s wandering eye at a party somewhere. An all-male party.
(7) Emanuel wanted his crony Sara Feigenholtz to win the special election for his Congressional seat, but she lost to Mike Quigley. Feigenholtz would have relinquished that seat back to Emanuel in 2012 if he wanted it back, knowing Dr. Utopia would not be getting a second term. Quigly intends to keep that seat for himself, so there’s no going home again for Emanuel with Congress. He’ll more likely than not end up at a big lobbying firm making tons of money, or perhaps he’ll be installed as the new Chairman of the DNC after Tim Kaine. But, we doubt he’ll ever run for elected office again. As Chief of Staff, he’s made too many new enemies who’ll want to tear him down if ever they get the chance. Emanuel is too smart to ever give them that chance.
(8) What Daley wants to see happen is for Ron Huberman to become Mayor after him, a gay man with no children and no dynastic potential. After Huberman, provided the next generation of Daleys has cleaned himself up enough in the military to be presentable, Mayor Daley seems to want his son to succeed Huberman the Placeholder. And the Daley reign then continues for another 25 years or so deep into the future, where, combined, this one family would have ruled Chicago as a personal fiefdom for 75+ years. Take that, Kennedys of Massachusetts.
(9) What’s really preventing Daley from winning another term in 2011 are the parking meters. You have no idea whatsoever what HATRED people now have for Daley over his decision to sell the City’s parking meter collection to a private firm for 99 years. Daley got $1 billion from that, and promptly wasted it on various graft and corruption sprees. In the meantime, the private firm running the meters now raised the rates fourfold — it now costs a fortune to drive your car in Chicago, at the same time it’s now costing $2.25 to ride a bus, with NO FREE TRANSFERS. People here are angry it’s costing them hundreds a month just to go to work and run errands. All because of Mayor Daley, who presides over a city with the largest tax rate in the country.
The only way he would have won another term would have been if he’d had the Olympics boost to count on. That would have made him Emperor, but since Dr. Utopia and Mrs. Utopia and Oprah lost the Olympics to Rio, Daley’s now a lame duck.
Republicans will, as they always do in this state, run a crazy person as their token candidate. The Machine will put up a few weird black candidates that cancel each other out, and Huberman then goes on to win the party’s nomination and then the general. Chicago gets a fabulous new Mayor, Daley heads to “retirement”, but continues to be the giant spider pulling on all the strings, and somewhere in a uniform the next generation of Daleys attempts, desperately, to get his sorry act together to soon toddle in daddy’s, and grandpa’s, footsteps.
We will not stop working to elect Scott Brown, no matter who tells us we have to. Nobody comes between us and Senator Hottie McAwesome. NOBODY.
Great Merciful Zeus, that is one fine-looking man. He also happens to be the ONLY hope any of us have of saving this nation from the insane Healthcare Rationing bill the 60 Democrat fools in the Senate insist on foisting upon us against our will. There is only one angle left open to us from which we can stop the destruction of our economy and the ruination of our healthcare system: that angle is the former centerfold, Scott Brown, HOTTIE McAWESOME.
Last night, we had a conversation with a good friend of ours heavily involved in machine politics here in Illinois, who told us we need to stop helping Scott Brown.
If we ever wanted to work in this town again, that is.
We’ve gotten that threat so many times, now, we long ago stopped listening.
“This time you need to listen, though, because you need to be aware of who you are making mad this time,” our friend said. “The Obama people hate you, so Liberal bridges are burned forever with you. Going after Mark Kirk and Aaron Schock has the Republicans upset with you, so you’re on bad terms there. And now, taking on Martha Coakley is pissing Clinton people off, because Martha was a big Hillary supporter and Emily’s list is behind her, so you are alienating the last people who still like you. If you want to work in politics, you are running out of options, especially here in Chicago”.
For starters, the Obama people can go Obama themselves. Those Utopians, while chanting “Hope and Change!” in 2008, threw rocks through our windows, threatened to kill us, called us RAAACISTS every day, and harassed us by phone, email, and in person for the better part of two years — all because we didn’t support a man we knew well here in Chicago, someone we believed was unqualified, ill-prepared, and too dangerous of a socialist to have in the White House. So, forgive us if we never in our lives want to work for any Liberal candidates EVER. Those people are crazy. They are thugs, bullies, and allies of ACORN and the SEIU, both of which we believe to be criminal organizations. If not domestic terrorists. So, no thanks to ever being on a Liberal’s campaign. No matter how much we need the money, we just won’t go there.
As for Republicans, for some reason we’ve become a favorite target in regards to Kirk and Schock, but we haven’t told you anything that even young children in Chicago already know. We do not want to see Democrat Alexi Giannoulias become the next US Senator from Illinois. This is the same position we were in in 2008, in not wanting Dr. Utopia to win the Dems’ nomination, before not wanting him to win the General Election and become president. Giannoulias is going to win the Dem primary in a cake walk…so we’ve skipped ahead to try to do everything we can to keep him from winning the General Election. Mark Kirk, the likely Republican nominess, will not beat Giannoulias because Democrats are going to out Kirk in the race, exposing him as a liar. At every single Republican event we’ve ever gone to, people talk openly about Mark Kirk being gay, with more than a few of them telling us we need to look into who Kirk shares a condo with in Washington, because they insist there’s something going on there. We’ve never taken the time to do that, because we have no interest whatsoever in figuring out which Republicans are gay and which ones aren’t. A few cocktails at young Republican gatherings usually works wonders to that end — as there isn’t anything that comes off faster than Brooks Brothers blazers and Dockers when an open bar is rocking.
We keep trying to warn Republicans that Kirk should not be their nominee, for the simple fact that we want to see the Republican win that Senate seat. Kirk will not win, for two reasons: (1) his vote for Cap & Tax and (2) he will be outed and exposed as a liar.
It’s not the fact that he’s gay that will sink him. It is 2010, and we do not believe Republicans, even the most conservative, would vote against someone because he is gay. We do, however, think people will vote, in droves, against A LIAR. Kirk claims to be one thing but is another. If he does that with one part of his life, what else is he doing it with. The man cannot be trusted, and Democrats are planning to make sure voters know that. We know for a fact this will be one of the paths of attack Giannoulias will use against Kirk.
Just because we go to Republican dinners and cocktail hours these days doesn’t mean we ever stopped going to Democrat ones.
Some of you howl that we “need to stop outing people!”. As far as we’re concerned, Kirk’s not “in”. We moved to Chicago about five years ago. One of the first things we heard in the gay community here was that Mark Kirk is gay. We have heard that repeatedly and consistently since, from both Democrats and Republicans. If we talked about the sky being blue, it would be less common knowledge than this about Kirk.
What’s really interesting is that the LGBTQ community is mad at us too, regarding Kirk and Schock, because we “are messing up the plan”, apparently. LGBTQ activists have been blackmailing Kirk for years in Washington, getting him to vote the way they wanted on various bills, so that no one would “out” him in The Advocate, Genre, Instinct and the other major gay magazines. That’s the big threat the LGBTQ community uses: do what we want, and we keep your secret, but step out of line and run for an office we don’t want you to win, and you are toast, Mary. Kirk’s about to find out that the LGBTQ community was fine with him being a Congressman, but that Democrats do not want the Republicans to win the Illinois Senate seat, so all the old deals are off.
We are telling Republicans this is going to happen so next month they can, while they still have a chance, field a candidate for the Senate who will not implode according to the long-standing plan Democrats had in place to take out Kirk when the time came.
The GOP’s mascot is technically an elephant, but it really should be an ostritch.
Just because you want to pretend something isn’t going to happen doesn’t mean it’s not going to happen. If Republicans really want to run Kirk so badly, because they delusionally believe he can overcome the Cap & Tax business, then have him come out now before Giannoulias can use his lying about this against him. If not, the scion of the mob’s banking family will be the next illustrious Senator from Illinois, in a seat the GOP could have picked up if it had run someone without the fatal flaws of Kirk.
It’s the same thing with Schock. He’s being groomed to run against Dick Durbin in 2014. He is a nice, nice guy who the MSM is building up so that they can tear him down in 2014. He’s handsome and vain, which is a dangerous combination in politics. When the MSM runs photos of him shirtless, frolicking with big-busted bikini-clad babes poolside, Liberals are restaging the old Hollywood Photoplay shoots for Rock Hudson, Troy Donohue, and Tab Hunter. Get Schock to play the Liberace game, create a false facade, and lie to voters claiming he is straight — when any time he’s in Chicago he turns up in Boystown. Just because he goes to bars like MiniBar, which does NOT allow the local photographers working the bar scene in to take snaps of patrons (unlike other bars like Sidetracks, Roscoes, Cocktail, SPIN, Lucky Horseshoe, etc. that allow the Boystown equivalent of papparazzi to work the crowds taking shots for publication in the three or four local Chicago gay magazines and papers), does not mean he’s keeping a low profile…and it does not mean photos do not exist of him having a gay old time here in Boystown.
Democrats think and plan in the long term. They love building a file on a Republican and using that file, and the pressure of outing, to force that Republican to vote the way they want him to. Voters should know that someone they are sending to Congress to represent them will instead first be representing those who are blackmailing him.
We maintain that if Schock comes out of the closet now, he’ll defeat Dick Durbin in 2014 and become a United States Senator. We promise we would work for his campaign. He’d be a great-looking, smart, well-dressed, young Republican gay man giving a whole new face to gays in politics. The Left would not know how to defeat him. The editors of Advocate and the other gay rags would be apoplectic, because there’d be no way to tear him down. We think he’d ultimately become Vice President. Who knows how far he’d go…if he would just come out.
If we see you in bars out in Boystown, with our own eyes, we think it’s fair to talk about seeing you out in bars in Boystown. Why should we pretend we didn’t see you there, still wearing the exact same white polo and khackis you wore to the Republican event you just spoke at in Wrigleyville about an hour and a half before? What good does playing make-believe do anyone, including yourself?
We want to see Giannoulias lose in 2010 and Durbin lose in 2014. If Republicans insist on running candidates we know for a fact Democrats have plans in place to bring down, we will try our level best, at highest volume, to warn Republicans against making mistakes that will cost them those seats. Go ahead and hate on us all you want for that, but you have no idea how terrible it will be to have the mob banking Giannoulias family in control of a United States Senate seat. The damage that will be done is unfathomable.
So, that’s how we’ve managed to tick off Liberals and Republicans lately, but not supporting Martha Coakley’s been the most costly thing we’ve done lately.
As we told you many times, it was a GRUELING decision for us to make because we are so grateful to the courage Coakley showed in standing with Hillary Clinton in 2008 when the Kennedys, John Kerry, Deval Patrick, and Democrats in Massachusetts all pressured her to back Dr. Utopia. Coakley held her ground, and remained a Clinton delegate to the end. We can only imagine the Hell the Utopians put her through. If we, as lowly volunteers, were harassed by Dr. Utopia’s supporters night and day for not backing him, we shudder to think of what they did to a public figure like Coakley.
And, yes, we always like to support a woman running for the Senate. There needs to be more women in the Senate. Some of you don’t like when we say that, but it’s the damn truth. Women are 51% of the population, but have 17% representation in the Senate. We want to see that equalized by electing excellent, capable, independent, strong, and courageous women to the Senate — women who will use their intelligence, knowledge, wisdom, and life experience to serve their consituents, and the nation at large, well.
In the case of Martha Coakley, we supported her Senate run until it was clear Democrats intended to ram the Healthcare Rationing bill through Congress, at breakneck speed, in secret, largely in the dead of night, in the runup to Christmas.
Coakley said she’d be a solid YES vote on anything Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Dr. Utopia wanted to pass. She came out and said, in no uncertain terms, that she would not think for herself or do what was best for Massachusetts and the nation. Instead, she would just do whatever the DNC told her to do. She would, thus, represent the Liberal-controlled Democrat party and not the people of Massachusetts, and Americans at large.
Martha Coakley, thus, lost our support.
The nation needs Democrats to be taken down to 59 votes so Harry Reid cannot circumvent debate and ram dangerous legislation through the Senate without anyone reading it.
It is as simple as that.
We would, in fact, campaign against Hillary Clinton herself if she did anything as dangerous and stupid as vote YES on a bill this enormous and world-changing as Healthcare Rationing. We love the woman. We would go to Hell and back for her. We’d gladly take bullets for her and work our hearts out for just about anything she wanted…as long as it didn’t harm the country we love.
We are Americans first. Clinton loyalists second. Democrats last.
Coakley’s decision to blind-vote Democrat put our support for her at odds with what’s best for this country. It’s as simple as that. In the future, we see ourselves helping Coakley, when she intends to be an independent voice doing what’s right for her constituents. At that point in time, we will work our hearts out for her. In the meantime, we are ALL ABOUT Scott Brown, HOTTIE McAWESOME.
And, that puts us in the position where moderate Democrats and feminists are mad at us now. “What do you mean you’re not supporting a woman for the Senate? And she’s a Hillary supporter, you are traitors for not backing her!”.
Nobody ever said it was easy to stand up for what you believe in.
These are strange times politically. Former enemies are now allies, and former allies morph into opponents here and there.
Our goal is to always do what we think is best for this country, not best for any party, not what’s best for any of the people we’ve always supported, and not even what’s best for ourselves personally or professionally.
We love America too much to watch it slide backwards, or veer off on a destructive track towards socialism and economic ruin.
It doesn’t matter to us who we make mad by taking the stances we do, because we’d be madder at ourselves if we didn’t do all we can to stop the destruction this White House and the current Liberal-Socialist incarnation of the DNC has in store for the nation.
Why did Rasmussen not mention "Joe Kennedy" in his polling?
Please chime in on this if you spend any time observing Scott Rasmussen’s polling methods, because it’s of critical importance to the Massachusetts Senate special election: why did Rasmussen deliberately not mention “Joe Kennedy” when polling the race?
Joe Kennedy is running as the Libertarian candidate.
He is not one of the horse-toothed, entitled, would-be “American royalty” Kennedys, though with a name like “Joe Kennedy”, absolutely NO ONE we know believes he’s NOT one of the Hyannis Port crowd. Everyone who we’ve spoken to in Massachusetts believes Joe Kennedy is either Ted Kennedy’s son, grandson, or nephew.
We believe there’s going to be a lot of muscle-memory voting for “Joe Kennedy” from older Democrats who are so used to pulling the Kennedy lever for “the Kennedy seat” all these years. Great Merciful Zeus, it is a struck of fortuitous dumb luck a man named Joe Kennedy is running in this race and on the ballot. Even though he is a Republican, we believe he will take more votes away from Democrat Martha Coakley than he will from Republican Scott Brown. The votes he’ll get from Coakley are from the elderly, the confused, and the low-information voters who believe they’re just voting for Kennedy again.
Well, they will be, but it’s not THOSE Kennedys.
We are truly stumped as to why Rasmussen phrased their Massachusetts poll this way:
“Who do you favor for U.S. Senate? Scott Brown, Martha Coakley, Some other candidate, or Not Sure?”
Rasmussen chose not to include “Joe Kennedy” in that mix, but instead phrased it as “some other candidate”. Why?
Martha Coakley refused to do any debates with Scott Brown unless Joe Kennedy was on the dais too — we think because she wanted the opportunity to reiterate that Joe Kennedy is not one of the cover-up-murder-and-rape-Kennedys. Coakley is beginning to realize, perhaps too late, that many Democrats are going to vote “Kennedy” and not for her, not because they want a Libertarian to win, but because voting “Kennedy” is the thing we were trained to do for years by the unions, and there isn’t enough time to undo this now.
We can’t think of a single valid reason Rasmussen chose to go the “some other candidate route”. It’s a big head-scratcher.
We think that if Kennedy was polled by name, that Scott Brown (aka, Hottie McAwesome) would have actually won the poll. He’s just 9 points behind Coakley in this race now, and we think a “Kennedy” on the ballot will snatch at least a good 6 points more from Coakley than “some other candidate” would. A point or two would also be won by Brown in that instance, because there are those in Massachusetts who would probably vote Republican instead of Democrat in an attempt to keep a third-party Kennedy from somehow winning the race (since, despite the Kennedys best efforts to the contrary, the people of Massachusetts do not wish to remain forever serfs in “Camelot”).
Did Rasmussen do this on purpose for some reason?
We know we asked this yesterday, but what impact do you think “Joe Kennedy” on the ballot will really have, especially since so few in Massachusetts seem aware an actual election is happening on January 19th?
Our logic is this: if they are so ill-informed that they don’t even know there’s voting to be had, the people who wander into polling places that day won’t have any idea “Joe Kennedy” is not who they think he is, and we bet a great many of them will blind Kennedy-vote as usual, throwing the race to Scott Brown, whose supporters ARE highly informed and motivated to vote in this race (because he is, as we’ve repeatedly noted, HOTTIE McAWESOME).
What think you?
Question of the Day: Will Republicans get off their butts and do something for once in Massachusetts?
There are three things we’ve learned about Republicans, from our time campaigning alongside them as Democrats for McCain/Palin, and from the friendships we’ve formed with Republicans that we’ve carried on since the campaign:
(1) Republicans give up easier than any creature on Earth and are the most susceptible lifeforms known to “Eeyore Syndrome”.
(2) Republicans love sitting on their butts more than any creature known to man; equal to this propensity for posterior positioning is their love of complaining about things they make no effort to change (in this respect, they are almost as bad as the black community, though they’d blanche at admitting this).
(3) Republican men in their tight khackis and little blue blazers sure love to talk a good homophobic game, but get an evening of cocktails in them and, well, welcome to Boystown.
The most effective weapon employed against Republicans is concern-trolling, which is the pathogen that stokes Eeyore Syndrome in Republican ranks. Democrats have used this type of political toxin for years. The Internet is just the newest carrier and distribution system for it.
Concern-trolls are often paid Democrat activists, but they don’t have to be. They could be volunteers working off scripts provided to them, or they could just be random Democrats working on their own based on previous field experience. They infiltrate forums, message boards, and other online communities and do things to bring morale down and encourage Republicans to take their default positions of sitting on their butts, doing nothing, and letting Democrats win — especially when races are very close.
Concern-trolls are often very, very clever. Some of them go deep cover, and make repeated posts over weeks or months that seem like they are really part of a group, before they start to undermine it with defeatism. “Oh, there’s no way Scott Brown can win Massachusetts. I mean, like, I like him and everything, and I love the nickname Hottie McAwesome, but come on, it’s Massachusetts, a Republican can’t win there. This is all just a waste of time”.
That’s an actual comment that someone tried to leave on this site today, that we blocked. It is classic concern-troll.
They proffer defeatism, make little statements that try to show they’ve been following the group and know the lingo and board humor, and try to play the role of a concerned friend who is worried about you spending your energy on something that will lead to disappointment.
The goal of a concern-troll is to breed Eeyores.
Eeyores are people who drag down the spirits of everyone around them, saying “It’s hopeless! We’re going to lose! There’s no way we will win!”. So, instead of doing anything productive, Eeyores plop their butts into a couch, complaining about how terrible the Healthcare Rationing bill is, while simultaneously wailing about how “there’s no way to stop this, no way to defeat the Democrats, we should all just give up!”.
Whenever we go to the Southside, we hear garbage like this in the black community, too. There are a few restaurants we LOVE in Bronzeville, where we’re the only white people in the place, so we take a back table and just listen for hours. The conversations you hear there are classic Eeyore, tinged with ample amounts of racism. Black people gathered together on the Southside of Chicago have the most vivid and active imaginations you will ever encouter: there is someone plotting against them around every corner, conspiracists working in concert to hold them down around every bend. Apparently, there must be whole skyscrapers full of those laboring day and night to make sure people who only complain about their situations and never work hard to change them never get anywhere in life. “Why should I bother, when “they” just keep on keeping me down?”, is common Eeyorism in the black community. We report this as FACT because we HEAR IT here in Chicago. We hear much, much, worse actually.
Republicans, you are as bad as the black community sometimes.
You don’t want to work hard to win a race like Scott Brown’s in Massachusetts, even though you know Brown would single-handedly stop the destructive Healthcare Rationing bill Democrats are attempting to ram through Congress in almost total secret — and yet you complain and wail that there’s nothing you can do to stop this.
The hell there isn’t anything you can do.
How about getting off your butt and doing some phone-banking for Scott Brown? Yes, phone-banking is the absolute pits. We hate, hate, hate talking on the telephone. Hate it. Talking to strangers on the phone is even worse. But, we wanted Hillary Clinton to be the nominee in 2008 so badly that we phone-banked for her EVERY SINGLE DAY from January through June 3rd. That’s six straight months of calling into 27 different states, talking to thousands of strangers, and costing us a fortune in minutes overage charges on our cells. When Clinton suspended her campaign on June 7th, we picked up the phones starting June 8th and phone-banked for John McCain. Starting August 30th, we phone-banked to elect Sarah Palin Vice President.
We are phone-banking for the next two weeks to elect Hottie McAwesome the next United States Senator from Massachusetts. And we are DEMOCRATS. We are working harder than 90% of Republicans to elect Scott Brown to the Senate, and we are DEMOCRATS.
If calling you bigger Eeyores than the paranoid and lazy black community didn’t motivate you to get off your butts, we hope that does. Are you going to forever let a bunch of gay Hillary Democrats in Chicago work harder than you to elect REPUBLICANS to office in strategic seats that can save this nation from financial ruin at the hands of the Liberals controlling Washington?
We’ve been to many Republicans’ houses in the last two years. Your couches sure are comfy. Most often, they are enormous, made of fine leather, and cost in the tens of thousands. Your butts sure must feel good cushioned in those seats. Our furniture, in our Democrat apartment, is a hodge podge of things dead people left us and stuff we bought for $30 at the Brown Elephant Thrift Shop here in Boystown. We don’t even have a TV to zone out in front of. Maybe this is why it’s easier for Democrats to get off our butts and do things: our furniture’s not as good as yours.
This is a center-right country. The Republican Party is the party of people who love and respect this country. There are more people in this country that share Republican values than Democrat ones. The ONLY reason Democrats win in head-to-head matchups with Republicans is because Democrats never quit, never give up, never surrender, while Republicans often barely deign to show up.
You think everything is beneath you.
You have too much you want to watch on TV, or too many bottles of new wine you can’t wait to try, or too many cocktail parties you need to go to, so you don’t bother to do any of the hard grunt work needed to win elections.
You have a mistaken belief that “somebody else” will do all the stuff that’s needed to be done, because you really just want to show up for the victory party, because you have a great new dress you want to wear to it.
You surely can’t find time to phone-bank because that would mean putting down your blackberry, iPhone, or iPod for a while, and when’s the last time that happened?
People, to save America from socialism, you need to cork the chardonnay, pull yourself off the Corinthian leather, stoop (in your minds) to doing grunt work, and stop falling for the Eeyore mind games Democrats play on you.
If Scott Brown is elected in Massachusetts, it’s the equivalent of that ragtag band of rebels taking down the first Death Star. It will be a critical and unexpected blow to the current Democrat Party, which has been overrun by Marxists. The Resistance Movement that’s forming in this country comprises Democrats, like us, who are trying to bring the party back to the center where it belongs, as well as Republicans who need to wake up and start committing to action on a strategic level to thwart the White House’s plans to turn this nation into a dictatorial socialist utopia of his own making, with his personal cult of personality replacing our Constitution and 234 year track record of capitalist success.
These next fourteen days are critical.
If ever in your lives you were destined to get off your butts and do something, it is now.
Will Republicans in Massachusetts and nationwide listen?
You tell us.
