Documenting the Left’s Impact on the Country in Ways Regular People Can Understand It (circumventing the media)
Today’s a day for regrouping, thinking, and cracking the secret to making regular people out there see that the Left has a negative impact on the country. Democrats have a powerful ally and tool in the Ministry of Truth that is our news media; this cabal truly won Barack Obama reelection and kept the Left in power. Largely this is because the public at large does not connect price increases, a lower standard of living, unemployment, and other ills with electing Democrats to office. While Minitru rules the airwaves and continues printing papers chock full of Democrat talking points this is not going to change.
So, how do we change it?
Clearly, last night proved that the majority of Americans have no idea how bad the next four years will be with the Left in control of our lives…and few of these people thought about what the Supreme Court will look like if Obama really does get to nominate 3 or 4 more Justices (especially if Democrats control the Senate that whole time).
Once upon a time, William Randolph Hearst was all-powerful and could start a war on a whim if he wanted…during the reign of yellow journalism. We’re at that place again, but instead of the problem being one man it’s the “Gang of 500″ that comprise the de facto leadership of Minitru. How do we take away their power and make the public at large see that the television, radio, and newspapers are just propaganda devices for the Democrats…and that sending Democrats to Washington over and over again is a bad thing?
I think that’s the missing piece. We can write and read all day on conservative sites and we can print books that only conservatives read…but how do we reach the people who still turn on MSNBC and enjoy what Chris Matthews is saying? How do we get them to realize that if they keep voting Democrat that the entire country will soon look like Detroit?
THAT is the big question of the day.
We know the next four years will be a nightmare and there is nothing we can do to stop that now…so how do we document the nightmare in a way that people who don’t consider themselves conservatives can relate to?
How do we best use the next few years effectively on an individual and personal level?
© 2012, Kevin DuJan. All rights reserved.
Help HillBuzz by Shopping Amazon
"Bee" Advised!
I look forward to your comments. Please follow these simple guidelines:
- Please do not complain about your comment not yet showing up
- Stay on topic of the article ("This is OT, but..." = bad!)
- I will STING if you troll, spam, bait, swear or attack someone
Where did those Rasmussen reported 18 million newly registered voters go…I worked polls 6:45AM – 8 Pm…no one had ever seen the lines in Wisconsin so long…not aft the recall or otherwise…I call BS…If you won’t call it stolen now…When will you? SCTYL SOROS Obama …wake up…uncouth governors right now to bring back the paper ballot….and push other ID…That’s a start….election day not election month
Push ID or ID based registration and early voting.
I voted two weeks early.
There was honestly no excuse for those ridiculously long lines.
We didn’t have long lines at the polling station where I worked, but we did have a 60%+ turnout of registered voters, higher I believe than in ’08. We also had at least another 5% having already voted absentee. At the end of the night the tally from our precinct had Ø winning handily, but by only about 15/16 points instead of the 21/22 he won by in CT last time.
I wouldn’t be surprised that there was vote fraud; we know there was voter intimidation in PA, the NBP were out again, as well as that mural of Obama at the polling place which the polling officials refused to cover up, even with a court order. But given that so many of the places where fraud seems a possibility use the touch screen voting machines, which have no paper trail, how do you do a recount? You can’t. Does that mean that if fraud were actually investigated and proved that they would have to throw out all the results from those machines, thereby disenfranchising far more voters than ID requirements ever have? I just don’t know. At least in CT we only use machines to scan and count the ballots. We always have the paper for a recount.
No and yes.
What you need to push is non-partisan registration. No party or group such as ACORN should be allowed to register people to vote. That system is a creator of voter fraud.
What the USA needs is something like the Australian Electoral Commission. There should not be party hacks involved in handing out any ballots. The people handling ballots and machines should be independent of any party affiliation.
Vote counting should not be done by anyone associated with a party. They should have people who are there to keep an eye on the count, but those people should not be allowed to handle the ballot papers.
There should be no elected positions associated with elections. The Australian Electoral Commission, although it is a QANGO, is independent of either party. Party people can hand out how to vote cards, and then watch the count but that is all.
TruetheVote is going in the right direction, but I see that more is needed. You need to be able to weed out the dead.
Maybe the zombies rose from the grave at the last minute, once again to change those voting statistics.
Either way, if this was truly independent then you would not have the voter suppression that took place before and during the election.
I appreciate input from Australia because it is now a country more free than America….
Is all your voting paper? I smell a rat with electronic voting because we can’t verify exactly who has access to the voting data. The voting programs need to incorporate the kind of tracking that electronic health records do (i.e. where activity of everyone who logs into the data is recorded and any changes or approval are logged under individual ID). All candidates’ organizations then should access to those reports before the election is verified.
I also would like to see more clearcut standards for certifying election results. If there are any, I’m not aware of them.
In my state voter ID lost. The Dems know they get 10% of their votes with fraudulent voting. They won’t allow voter ID. We either have to beat them at their own game or work outside the system and I don’t even know what I mean.
I think we need to start ridiculing all objections to ID based registration and voting. If you have to show ID to write a check and to get a driver’s license, there’s no legitimate reason not to show ID to vote. All states. All elections.
I worked the polls to and the lines were long, but you can’t tell who they vote for. My county and district went Romney, but it’s hard to overcome Philly. Pittsburgh and Erie here in PA.
The Dems give away “free stuff.” Many voters like “free” stuff or things that other people pay for, so they vote for Dems.
How can the “free stuff” vote be counteracted? I am asking this as a honest question.
Also, there needs to be more of a concerted effort by consumers to stop financial support of specific media outlets. I put heavy blame on the media for foisting Barry on us and covering up for him.
When free stuff is all they have left is poverty….
I think you can see the picture.
That’s what it will take. That’s what it took in former Soviet Countries before they revolted.
In socialism everyone is equally poor and success is evil.
Welcome to the United Soviet States of America.
Gah! I meant…
When all they have left is “free stuff” from the government and they are robbed of personal prosperity the only output is poverty.
I will boycott Disney-Time Warner as I have since the Obama mania began. I don’t pay for cable but I have it know because the poeple I live with want to pay for it. I would not. When I had my home I put an antena on the roof at the amazement of my neighbors. That is not an option now. I will always remind the Obama zombies who voted to bankrupt America that theyr are selfish irresponcible children. They will fire back at me with their imaginary “Global Warming” to which I will eply that the science community doesn’t even call it Global Warming anymore (as Obama did in his victory speech) they call it climate change, and duh! yes we all know that climate changes.
Leftist have not only desroyed American culture, they destroyed the highly refined and beautiful cultures of Eastern Europe and replaced them with shit. In 1993 I traveled all over Eastern Europe alone and I was struck by the contrast betwen the old cites built befor the communist blaock and the outragiously large and souless oppressive architecture of the Soviet Union. I was so depressed when I first arrived in Bratislave because I was staying in an area that was built by the Soviets. Then some one I met told me where the old part of the city was and when I found it it was beautiful and full of shop owners selling their handmade products and learning how to be capitolists once again. This is what scared the George H. Bush into advocating his New World Order or a Global dictatorship as dictated by the UN. After the fall of the Soviet Union the worlds elite decided that a world full of people free to achieve wealth and prosperity would be dangerous to their satus quo. So now we will have only a few “TO Big TO FAIL” banks and a news media controled by global elites and their corporations. We will most likely have a world war because that is what the big banks finance and love. Global dictatorship will keep the surfs in their places and make the Gores and the Bushes, the Windsors and the Gettys, the Rockefellers and the Clintons and Soros safe from compitition for prosperity. This is what the EU now has and now we will have our UN controled population soon.
Obama wins because of the heavy minorities within the urban areas. He campaigned at all the universities and promised “young” voters the moon, but not telling them that they would still get the bill in the form of higher payroll taxes, which mean less take home pay. Most worried more about the cost ($9.00p/month)of birth control, but they would be paying higher health care ($2,300), gasoline($4.00p/g) and energy(heating/cooling)bills. And this is not just something they would pay, but their unborn children would also get stuck with their grandparents and parents unpaid debt(23 Trillion).Sad
Yes, the reason that O campaigned the “impressionable” young voters was that their Mommies & Daddies pay the REAL bills. They have not yet found out about real income taxes, real utility bills, real healthcare expenses. Now they can now be on Mommy & Daddy’s health insurance until 26 yrs. Their only true worry is paying for their birth control so Mommy & Daddy won’t find out they are having sex.
These young “impressionables” have been so dumbed down in the public school system unable to critically think, & are now fed a com/soc line of utopia crap in college without the ability to think anything through.
There will come a time when reality smacks them upside the head. Mommy & Daddy will no longer be able to foot the bills, & they will find themselves out in the cold, cruel world. So be it! Welcome to the life of hard knocks!!!
I think this is the first time I’ve ever felt hopeless after an election. Perhaps my melancholy will lift in a few days but I can’t help but feel that hope for this country died in 2008 and we just didn’t realize it.
We see the numbers of people on the government dole increasing in record numbers and as the economy worsens, those numbers will grow. People will not want that safety net removed and Democrats will certainly frame the next Republican presidential candidate as a threat to that net.
Over the four years, we’ve gotten Obamacare, the right to be molested at airports, the right to be wiretapped without being informed, abandoned our ally Israel, seen the Mideast thrown into turmoil with the Arab Spring, and watched as American citizens were forced to dig through dumpsters after a natural disaster. Food, gas and taxes have gone up while jobs, oil production and innovation have gone down. Yet our blind countrymen are begging for more.
I cannot think of how to reach Americans four years from now, because all I can see is a nation in her twilight.
Don’t be hopeless. Be angry.
Hopelessness leads people to sit around and mope. Anger and disgust motivates.
I will probably lose my house this year with the tax cuts expiring and HCR going into effect. $3,400 in taxes average raised on a household come Jan 1. I am BARELY making ends meet with my husband being unemployed.
I’m angry. Like a rabid grizzly bear.
Orwell’s 1984 had a profound effect on me when I read it in high school (in 1984!). I want to capture the imagination of the youth – it’s too last to re-educate the older “gimme” class. I know that dystopian novels are all the rage and may even be moving into the “passe” category (much like the vampire genre), but I have begun writing a dystopian novel aimed at teenagers. Will this novel get through to anyone? I don’t know, but I write, so I have to try.
Dystopian novels are good and can help people understand the world they are living in. “1984″ is useful, as is “Brave New World.” And others.
I think “The Hunger Games” has some real resonance in our world.
Glad you are working on such a novel. Such novels should not be regarded as passe, I would think, particularly in this era. When we are bombarded with continual propaganda from the internet, television, music, everywhere.
I think Kevin is brilliant to have given up television. I watch virtually none of it myself, and I am so much happier now than I used to be. That is not a coincidence.
As Kevin has said, the left understands branding and marketing better than the right. They also control the majority of the entertainment and music outlets and offerings. Thus, they essentially have free reign to pass whatever messages they want to the consumers of their products.
It’s no wonder we are at a disadvantage. The left has worked hard to create their advantage.
Everyone should read The Hunger Games Trilogy. It is frighteningly similar to what is going on now, minus the actual games themselves.
We need to find our Mocking Jay and the resistence. I seriously thought that maybe a Romney win would be our Mocking Jay.
Unfortunately, we are going to have to suffer more to get people to wake up I suspect. Complacency and “it can’t happen here” will be hard to overcome.
What exactly in the Hunger Games Trilogy is similar to what is going on now? Some of us are not as familiar with this series.
How do you defend yourself if you do not know your enemy?
The book publishers in New York – are leftists – try to epublish yourself via BookBaby – not very expensive to do – we need to tell our stories & take over the culture & influence pop culture once again.
I have two completed espionage thrillers and had two separate, legitimate NYC agents represent them. They didn’t sell (perhaps because the bad guys are Muslims, ha!). Anyway, I’ll probably sell them as e-books. I’ve signed a movie option contract on both books and owe the film company a third novel in the series. I haven’t started the third book because this YA dystopian novel that won’t get out of my head. Obama and Obamacare are my inspiration.
Susan
I hope Obama doesn’t toss you in prison for a year like he did to the producer of the video insulting Muhammed who’s only crime was being an American Coptic Christian. It is disgusting that creative people are being censored and it actually started with SNL when Seth Meyers did the CSPAN parody Bailout which had to be edited because Soros did not approve.
He’s not a Coptic Christian, and you need to do your research on this matter. Start with Walid Shoebat.
I am a school librarian and if it is published I will read it, purchase it and make sure all my students know about it.
Thanks everyone – you’ve fired me up to keep writing. Short synopsis: A teenaged girl living in the totalitarian Democratic Republic of America discovers she has a twin sister and a gravely ill father living in what remains of the original United States. She must decide whether to risk her life — and her privileged status as an elite athlete — in order to save the family she never knew existed.
Fantastic idea …. it will resonate with any of the younger generation who are possible to reach. We must not surrender the culture war.
When I was working as an ed aide in a public school system for +10 yrs, I was extremely saddened to find out what classics were no longer part of the curriculum: Fahrenheit 451, 1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World, Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn, Lord of the Flies, etc. I grew up reading these classic novels.
Textbooks filled with classic short stories from America & England written by great thinkers, authors, & poets set in storage for several years & then put out with the trash. The great classics are now replaced by short story textbooks that are multi-cultural in their authorship.
And we wonder what happened????
The Ministry of Truth is in reality the Ministry of Lies. It’s better to call them what they really are, (Ministry of Lies) because the people who voted for the Deceiver do not understand the historical significance of the term “Ministry of Truth.” They may read this and think that “Ministry of Truth” is a very positive term.
The evil leftist Tom Harkin is coming up for re-election in 2014 in the Senate. The current lieutenant governor Of Iowa Kim Reynolds is an awesome woman, and we may be able to convince her to run for His seat. With the lighter turnout in the mid terms, we may be able to get her in.
If you have read 1984 you would understand why we call them Minitru. It is the correct name but it is for the reasons that you outlined. Minitru as a name is very significant.
Even so, it is cute and attractive. You would have to have read the book to get the reference and I seriously doubt anyone reads it in school anymore.
I call them The Enemy Within. That may be a little much, but certainly makes the point.
You have the essence of the book
. Like you I read the book in school.
I remember very well when we reached the year 1984 and MiniTru was expecting the sky to fall in. I can remember the diatribes in the newspapers and the jibes because what was written “did not come true”. They failed to understand the purpose of the book. For starters George Orwell was writing about 1948. Most of what he predicted in that book has come true. In fact we now have CCTV everywhere – talk about Big Brother!!
It would be a good idea to push the book 1984. It was a groundbreaking book, and if it’s not being read in schools anymore, that should change.
I worked in a public school system & it was not being read. Not Brave New World, not Animal Farm, not Fahrenheit 451, not any of the thought provoking classics.
Com/Soc bastions now. All multi-cultural crap & dumb down novelettes. Very sad!!!
Here are my thoughts. In 24 months there will be a mid-term election and a chance to win control of the Senate while keeping the house.
Unemployment is will go up and we will fall into another recession. Inflation and gas will also go up, Obamacare will kick in. If played correctly, this could be another 2010 election wave if done right. But everyone has to begin now with a game plan. If you’re a member of a tea party group, please vet possible candidates carefully so they don’t come off as rightwing extremists.
Don’t give up hope, just work hard.
Yes on the vetting. Let’s get our candidates some coaching on how to answer the inevitable abortion question. It’s the law of the land, one Senator or Representative is not going to change that. There has to be a way to answer the question so that the candidate can’t be charged with prolonging the “war on women”.
It’s not just vetting, it’s teaching candidates what not to say. I think a lot of conservatives just say it like it is, and that is okay, but we really need to start thinking about HOW it is perceived by the left. One of the biggest things Kevin has taught us is to AVOID handing them things to bitch and moan about.
That being said, we also need to find KEY points that we want to trip them up with. What is the biggest problem? We don’t seem to know our enemy and we need to identify it better so we can give them things to walk into. Romney played a very clean game, and I’m all for clean games like that, but it’s apparent we need to more aggressive with our messages. Clear doesn’t mean dirty, but it doesn’t mean nice either.
I know that an unabashed conservative Christian could have at least began to shift the culture back to one that would be hospitable to a conservative president. Did you ever notice that leftist cannot even say the word abortion. They will call it anything else like reproductive rights or choice or even health care, but they have a very hard time saying abortion. Conserrvatives need to rub their deep seeded guilt (which I have witnessed in friedns who have had abortion) in their faces. They need to call it what it is and mock people who convince themselve that life doesn’ t begin at conception. If leftist can mock people who don’t believin global warming even after the science community had to stop calling it global warming then leftist should certainly be mocked for not being able to fce the inconvienient truth the life absolutely begins at conception.
We need to wake up to the fact that abortion rights are just being used as a straw man by the left.
Not only that. I guarantee the double dip is coming for the economy and the stock market.
GUARANTEE.
We need to start planning for 2014
#1 FIRE HARRY REID
20 democrat seats up for grabs—-12 most vulnerable
Mark Begich (Alaska)
Mark Pryor (Ark.)
Al Franken (Minn.)
Kay Hagan (N. C.)
Tim Johnson (SD)
Mary Landieu (La)
Max Baucus (Mont.)
Mark Udall (Co)
Jeanne Shaheen (NH)
Jay Rockefeller (W. Va.)
Tom Harken (Iowa)
Mark Warner (Va.)
#2 I Believe the Tea Party is still strong–and may be the best way for us to get out the vote.
-Think about it, a diverse grassroots organization from all walks of life that came together simply because they saw America being weakened by big government policies.
#3 We need to find a way to communicate conservative values to the left—-Listen to Ronald Reagan—he was able to do this
This is hard—but when I think of my gay friends in casual conversation many of the values they espouse are conservative, but they all voted for Obama. Same thing with my hispanic and black friends—
Democrats have somehow convinced so many groups (Hispanics, jews, african americans, women, gays, etc.) that they have their best interests in mind —when conservative values benefit all groups. At some point, these “groups” need to realize that dems always pick winners and losers from among the groups—GM for example unions big winner Delphi and the American Taxpayer Big loser—and at some point democrats will choose policies that benefit one of their groups over the other.
The Conservative value of every ” individual” having a equal rights always makes more sense.
2014 will be a referendum election—-the economy will be worse, we have to be prepared. We have to find a way to combat the false narratives that dems put forth and minitrue promotes. I’m pro-life, but republicans need to expect the rape questions and I believe in their responses they should not even mentions the word “rape”—but that life is life. We can’t let Obama keep using the same line “we can’t go back to the policies that got us into this mess in the first place” Even Obama said in the Debate that the housing foreclosure crisis and economic downturn was due to people buying houses they couldn’t afford in the first place. I’m pretty sure the “affordable housing” policies were policies pushed by dems.
Rhetorical question: If the election was indeed stolen through fraud, would there even be any point in conservatives backing anyone? Won’t the “apparatus” just rig the results again? What methods are to be used to prevent potential fraud?
Good question! Romney won all the states with voter ID. Maybe some republican governors can push for some more. 70% of people think ID is fine, which means opposition is driven by the need for fraud.
The only way anything is going to change is when people are living in the dirt with no roof over their heads, no food in their bellies no cash in their pockets and no gas in their car (if they can still afford to own one!)
The dems won because the mainstream media cast Romney as on of the “hated rich” who prey on poor people… until people have nothing left to lose they will not change their vote. As long as they are on government assistance they will always give allegiance to those that feed and cloth them.
I agree with you Jan. The voters that decided this election won’t get it until they are told no more and there is no other options. This is why citizens in European countries are rioting when faced with austerity measures.
Sometimes the only way to fight fire is with fire, but I’m not willing to accept lowered standards and dishonesty made by opinionated hosts or journalists who are intoxicated with themselves and/or a substance just to win the election game. I already see elections as a necessary evil…if it gets any more evil I will not vote.
The MSM has to feel enough heat from those who feel they are not fairly represented by the reporting. Of course other countries possess state controlled media that have existed for decades. They also have individuals with opposing ideology jailed, tortured, or killed. The UN seems to accept some leaders who engage in violating human rights…I’m not much help am I?
If fighting to get a particular view or belief out to the masses is the course anyone chooses to accept, please be careful. This may play out on it’s own.
Read Atlas Shrugged. Dire poverty only makes them more apathetic.
I agree with you Jan. This means IMO that America is done. The takers will always outnumber the makers now. The only hope is to starve this beast.
For the House of Reps:
1) Don’t raise the debt ceiling, and let the gov’t. shut down,
2) let the Bush tax cuts expire and everyone’s taxes go up,
3) personally take every deduction to the max, reduce your taxes and starve the beast,
4) reduce and part-time employees in preparation for Ozerocare’s full impact,
5) offshore every business where it makes sense, and let a real depression hit this country. When Zero can’t even borrow money and must just print it, then sense may return to the populace.
We are going to personally help out:
1) We are not buying anything major new. The new car is going to not be bought.
2) We are cutting all charities and the government can take up the slack-if it can.
3) We notified our Catholic church that they will have to stop our automatic offering each month. They can let the parishioners with the Obama stickers on their cars be the generous ones. (They aren’t now.) And each action will be conveyed as to why these things are occurring in our circle.
Several of our conservative friends have also decided to do the same thing on their own. Anything to starve the takers and drive this country to a deep recession/depression.
Those are the things I want to know…how to beat them at their own game!!!
Romney polled fewer total votes than McCain did.
To me that’s evidence of vote fraud writ large.
Not sure how to beat that.
It means people just didn’t show up. There were TEN MILLION fewer votes in the election over all.
Conservative and Libertarian people were not happy with a flip flopper who acted conservative to get the COCKtail establishment nomination then pretended to be moderate to try and woo demtards.
Demtards just didn’t know what to do so they voted based on skin color and envy or stayed home.
The GOP needs to burn to the ground for failing the constituency with candidates that only benefit them and not the country, because when it’s all said and done, they are not effected by this. They are rich jerks who will still sit in their gated neighborhoods while the rest of us lose our homes to the United Soviet States of America.
Obama lost even more of the votes he got in 2008 – he lost 20% of them.
I still think there was massive fraud going on, in regard to early voting, double voting, ballots shredded, that sort of thing.
it is coming to something when the UN observers, which the dems wanted because they screamed about ‘voter suppression’, are aghast that no proper voter ID was demanded at the polls.
Boggles my mind too. Most states have voter ID laws. Mine does. That may have to happen at state levels across the board.
Oh and there’s no doubt there was fraud. Democrats can’t live without cheating. As my husband says, when republicans win they have to win handily to avoid an election from being stolen.
There is always a certain amount of fraud in any election. But if it were that large, one would logically expect that Obama would not have lost any votes. Would the Dems reduce Obama’s total on purpose? I don’t think so. The large drop on both sides says that apathy was a big factor here.
I’ve heard between 10 and 18 million less than 2008. However, couldn’t most of those votes be attributed to NY and NJ which have very high populations but I’m guessing very few people were able to vote? And a lot of those people are hard core democrat – so if the bulk of those votes (let’s say 65%) would have gone to Obama, that means he would have won with a margin the same or larger than the popular vote margins in 2008 against McCain (about 10m)? Really??
I am struggling this morning trying to understand how we could have been so wrong about turnout and party affiliation. I thought people were saying in ’08 it was Dem +7 and this year it was expected to be Rep +3? Where the hell did that swing go?
I don’t watch regular tee vee, so I don’t see the Ministry of Lies (I like that name better as someone mentioned above) and am wondering if the fact that I stay on sites like HillBuzz, Drudge, and The Blaze, listen to Mark Levin and Glenn Beck, meant
(1) I just completely missed that the country truly has swung completely to the left (or is just completely uninformed and believes everything the Ministry of Lies says) or
(2) what all the conservatives and their sites said was in fact true, the electorate was on our side, and the Democrats stole this election.
So was I deluded or swindled?
Either way, the sh*t is about to hit the fan.
I am shocked that is the case because there was a higher turnout. I think something is very wrong.
Kevin, there are several statistics that are worth noting as we evaluate where we are and what we need to fix. #1; Obama got 6 million less votes than 2008; and Romney got 4 Million less votes than McCain. So somewhere we didn’t get all the McCain voters out to vote. In addition; apparently on the exit polls, ~53% of the voters believe that the economy is still George Bush’s fault. so we are not really communicating the message that Obama is stifling the economy to the normal voter.
BTW; you were one of my favorite websites to go to during the elections. Thank you for all you did. You are one tough cookie.
I understand my numbers were off a bit off. Obama lost 10 million and Romney lost 2 million from McCain. but hte principle still remains. Also understand the single female vote went all out for Obama.
Forty percent of all babies in the US are born to single mothers. Over the years, studies have shown children with single mothers are more likely to grow up in poverty than children with two parents. People living in poverty are eligible for lots of freebies from the government. (A recent study showed a single mother with two children making $24k per year can end up with benefits that drive her income up to $60k.) Educated in a propagandized school system and with potential subsidies from sugar daddy Uncle Sam, is it any wonder these women vote for the leftists?
You hit that nail right on the head, Cate.
Its even worse. I was part owner of a manufacturing company
and was astonished to find out about the lifestyle of some
of our young shop employees.
They are had girlfriends they lived with with whom they had
children. No intention of getting married. The girlfriends were
on welfare, receiving housing, clothing, medicaid, dental,
school lunches, cell phones, money for utilities, etc. The guys
showed up 3-4 days a week and used their money for their
automobiles and stereos.
They are purposely scamming the system.
And their children will grow up without learning from their father or mother how to have a work ethic and earn an honest living. They will be second generation parasites.
After the results came in I was in shock. My husband is European and he had told me that Romney would lose because people never took the risk of giving up something from the government. Which explains why Europe is in such a mess.
I think the Left in this country has finally turned the tide on us. The election was close, and I believe it was stolen, but we have no way to unsteal it. We are stuck with an electorate that thinks it’s owed stuff from the government and who doesn’t like to be judged for it.
It’s like dealing with a spoiled child. You give in to them to try to win them over, but instead they want more and more and more, until eventually they turn on you for not giving them enough.
I’m afraid that that may be how this all ends up. More and more freebies will be demanded, with fewer and fewer tax dollars available to pay for them. When the poop finally hits the fan, let’s hope we have Democrats in office. Then maybe, finally, these idiots will get the message that the freebies are gone for good.
I do believe that the first domino that needs to fall is the mainstream media and the Hollywood culture, how we do that I don’t know, but Breitbart was right, culture is key.
Culture is key – as a novelist & screenwriter – movies, tv, music etc is the way to influence – which explains why the Soviets had communist infiltrate Hollywood.
And let’s not forget that while we wait for the opportunity to undo what our entitled countrymen have done, schools are busy brainwashing the next wave of voters with the left ideology. There will be little (if any) new conservative voters unless parents are educating them at home. And if you manage to neutralize the attempts of the education system you have to worry about the Internet.
My friends were aghast that their son (who’s 14) wanted desperately for Obama to get re-elected. They’re both die hard conservatives and I asked them who converted him and the response was ‘his stupid friends on the internet’. This young man’s virtual friends carry more influence then his parents.
I am reminded of the Biblical story of Jacob and Esau in which Esau thought nothing of giving up his inheritance for a bowl of stew. Immediate gratification vs. long term quality of life. This is what we are up against now with so many getting “benefits” or handouts who do not consider that the whole U.S economic system is apt to crash from the burden. Getting more and more people on welfare, food stamps, etc. has been part of the plan all along. They will not give up the goodies and do not have the capacity to make decisions for the good of the country. I am pretty despondent about the results last night. My heart went out to Kevin in particular because I know how crushed he must have felt with the disappointment. I half expected him to just close this site, in fact! I’m so glad he did not. We all need to close ranks and figure out the best way to proceed.
“I do believe that the first domino that needs to fall is the mainstream media and the Hollywood culture, how we do that I don’t know, but Breitbart was right, culture is key.”
You can fire them by cancelling your cable TV. If 20 million of us cancelled cable TV the media would be severely impacted – Chrissy and Beyonce will not take a pay cut so they’d have to make up the difference by doubling the cable bills of your leftist friends. I can live without MTV and MSLSD so why should I subsidize them? Cut the cord – you won’t miss them!
TOTALLY Agree! I’m TV-free for almost 30 years now and have NEVER missed it!
I agree with your hubby 1000000%. Obama played to the fear that if goes so do the goodies (that the people pay for, but forget). With the economy in shambles and Romney being honest about necessary changes (that scared me too, I’ll admit) the people ran to the Dems in droves. But eventually we will end up like Europe. Even worse.
We will be much worse of than Europe. Remember Obama was a follower of Rev. Right and learned a very Afro-centric form of socialism. Europe had accumulated centuries worth of imperial wealth that they could buy their subjects with. And alot of the taxes goes to preserving the European culture that was once great. In Europe free operas and concerts are given out in the Piazzas and ssquares and money is spent on restoring the ancient and old architecture that brings tourism dollars to their countries.. But America never stole from the countries we wnet to war with. We have no imperial wealth, we had to create our own wealth. And our tax dollars never goes to supporting anything of refined beauty and class because that is European culture and not the culture of the new America. We will have our tax dollars going to pay parsites to stay parasites and only get of their asses to vote for more free stuff.We will not be like Europe which is heading for disaster too. But we will be like Venezuela or Zimbabwe. We are in deep shit with a president who wants to punish white poeple. Ironic since it was white people who rasied him only to be thrown under the bus or posibly even murderd
When somebody like Ann Coulter or Sean Hannity or Glen Beck write a book, it’s on the NY Time bestseller list almost immediately, and for months later. Obviously, there are lots of conservatives who are reading the books — where are they when it’s time to vote? How do we get the crowds that came to support Chick Fil A out to the polling places?
Everything we read said that there was no way that the 2012 Dem numbers would match 2008, and yet there they were.
This isn’t a helpful post, but I am just baffled by the fact that the conservative point of view is consistently left in the dust. We are not that much of a minority, are we? Are we living in a bubble?
And we need states to get a better handle on voting — this business with “lost votes” has got to stop.
Conservatives like myself are vast in number.
But the COCKtail GOP only puts up moderate candidates to attract a WIDER RANGE of voters.
Meanwhile all of us Conservatives and Libertarians with very sound fiscal values are spat upon for the sake of “appeal”.
I have bucked the idea for the last two elections that it might be ok to vote for these “moderates”. I was very WRONG to do so. Sacrificing values for power will get you nowhere with the original base of the burning GOP.
Are you saying that it’s better to give the radical Obama two terms, 4-5 Supreme Court picks, lots of “flexibility,” regulation on steroids, lots of kowtowing to Islam, open borders etc…., than to help elect a moderate Republican whose policies would certainly be more palatable to conservatives and libertarians, and better for the country — because at least you feel proud that you didn’t “sacrifice” your “values”?
What exactly does that gain? Who are you sending a message to?
Romney wasn’t the candidate because he was “put up” by the “COCKtail GOP.” He was the candidate because he chose to run and because the primary voters chose him over the other candidates. And yes, he was trying to attract a wide range of voters — because that’s the only way to win a campaign.
Sacrificing any chance of power for the sake of boasting about the purity of your “values” will get you nowhere in terms of influencing the direction of the country.
In 2008, some conservatives said it was better to allow Obama to win than vote for McCain because (they assured us) then we’d see leftism in its full glory and voters would certainly elect a conservative Republican in 2012. That worked out well, didn’t it?
Aj4coco:
Actually, the Dems lost 10 million votes from 2008. We lost 2.5 milliion, this election was ours to lose and we did. I think the loss of 12.5 million voters in an important election like this shows complete voter apathy or an inclination that their vote doesn’t count. I know mine doesn’t in the overall scheme of things living in a deep blue state.
I feel like a dinosour, an old outdated blob whose only value is the enormous amount of money my husband and I contribute to the welfare state. And no, this i’sn’t a helpful post either, I’m sorry.
Always get your frustrations out. It’s therapeutic and you express valid points and information in the process
Bottling up stress and frustration is actually detrimental to your cardiac health.
Flyegirl, I feel the same way.
Apology for non helpful post.
I must comment upon what you said because I see a similarity in thought.
Six months ago we were living in Canberra which is another Peoples Republic. Prior to that for 11 years we lived in NSW in a location that was locked in for the Liberal Party (conservative and responsible government) and it has a very high proportion of the population that vote for the Liberal Party. It is interesting to note a few things here, first of all, even in majority electorates there can be a swing. What I observed, however, that as soon as the other side shows their incompetence those same people swing back again – at least that is what happens in a seat held by the Liberal Party. On the other side, there was a swing at the last election but not enough to see the seat fall to the other side. The seat in question is now held by a raving climate change nutcase.
When we moved, we ended up in the seat of Dobell. It is a swinging electorate. The current member for Dobell is under a big thunder cloud, yet we cannot get rid of him. To cut that long story short, it is a story all about union corruption. However, the difference here is that because it is a swinging or marginal electorate it gets a lot of attention. Nevertheless, there is a different feeling about living in an area where one’s vote actually counts.
I feel like that too. When he first got elected, I lost my job. I figured i could live on my savings, so i worked for free in my family business for three years. Then they kept wanting more and more “free stuff” so I left. I’m still on my own with no unemployment…I don’t want help from Uncle Sugar, so I make stuff to sell.
It is going to be up to the states to keep the walls from totally crashing in. We picked up some Rep Governors – that’s a start. I know here in AL we rejected Obamacare – with a constitutional amendment.
I worry about the court.
I go from mad to weeping. I just learned part of OCare could take away my HSA. I’m a diabetic and if I have to end up on OCare – I know I will not receive the treatment I need, just the cheapest. This terrifies me to no end.
Someone mentioned this morning the churches need to get their acts together, give up the tax breaks and start preaching without fear from the govt.
It all boils down to the media. They now control the country. And even with the likes of Fox News, we can’t fight them. It has to be done from the inside and that could take generations.
Back to work. At least I still have a job.
Jolene you hit a nail on the head. Yes. All churches should be willing to give up the tax breaks and preach as Christians. However, they will not do that.
100% agreed! I mean after all if they are doing the will of God, the bible tells us GOD will provide. they should not lean on govt tax breaks, imho.
You are both right. Three years ago I approached my Pastor about a letter writing campaign against FOCA (Freedom of Choice Act), I asked him what our church was doing and was told that our church would not do anything because they are afraid of losing their not-for-profit status.
What a disappointment…
They should give up the status for what is RIGHT and JUST — for all those unborn babies who will be murdered over the next four years.
Too many churches have been infiltrated by The Communists and The Free Masons. Bella Dodd a former communist who later converted wrote of this grand scale plan to destroy the Catholic Church from within. I faxed hundreds of arch diocese throughout the entire country in2008 before the elction trying to get churches to raise awareness of Obama’s aggresive support of Infaticide. My efforts failed and my family memebers who attend church much more often than I do voted for Obama inspite of what I presented to them about Obama’s defeat of The Born Alive Infant Proitection Act.
For several years, the churches have been doing Pulpit Sundays where they give a political speech and send it it IRS. Volunteer attys have been begging the IRS to try and take the charitable status. Glenn Beck announced on Friday that the IRS issued letter ruling that it had no authority to restrict speech in churches. Of course, they now have to hire 16,000 IRS goons to implement obamascare.
Obviously, I don’t know your particular situation (Type I, Type II, etc.), but with OCare we will all have to take better care of ourselves and empower ourselves with information.
This will start by educating yourself cutting edge research and diets not the 30 year old stuff that your doctor will tell you about health and nutrition. And of course you may need to radically change your diet away from processed foods and grains.
Personally, I am not going to use OCare unless it is for acute trauma. Otherwise, I think I’ll go to Bangkok, Thailand for my vacation plus routine medical care.
I’m 55 years old.My dad is 80 and my mom is 73.
You would think that by now I would be as sharp and astute as my folks.And that at their age their mental faculties would be diminished…nope.
I called them this morning to see if they were ok after last nights debacle.
Yep.
They were better than ok and they had this analysis:
Elections come down to 11 states and whoever controls the purse strings to handout programs can continue to influence votes.
BOOM.
I’m stealing what your parents said and using it in my tagline. Thanks for it!
It’s clear what we need to do, we need to re-educate the plurality of Americans who think government can do no wrong.
Every business that cuts back its workforce to pay for Obamacare needs to clearly spell out what it’s doing and why. Every business that closes up in one part of the country to move to a place with lower taxes or a more favorable business climate needs to explain why.
Every individual who flees high-tax states for low-tax ones needs to come out and explain why.
Short of a John Galt strike, people need to know that the government can’t take care of them without the money they expropriate from the wealthy. We need to start treating capitalists as heroes, and undo the damage the media does casting them as villians.
We don’t have to be negative explaining these things. We just need to explain how economic reality works, and let the way the government runs the economy speak for itself.
Call them Job Heroes.
I think you were partially right. Obama did destroy the Democrat brand, made it toxic. But only in his second term.
2016 looks brighter because after 8 years, the public can’t be that stupid. The question is, will the changes over the next 4 years be reversible?
That’s the question I’m grappling with myself. Have we permanently turned a corner into socialism, or can we recover?
If the public is that stupid, then in 2016 you will have Biden as President. What a very horrible thought.
I don’t know.. we left california because they were….
It’s snowing here just outside Philly and as I try to recover from the shock of last night I realized-of course it is snowing-half the country voted like Edmund in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe-they just want more Turkish Delight and they don’t care what the consequences will be for their brothers and sisters-nor more importantly-for their future children.
The White Witch lives. The weather forecast for the next 4 years is a spiritual winter.
Hopefully Aslan is still close by.
Excellent comment. Damn Turkish Delight. I pray Aslan is on his way and that he knows some of us will shun the Turkish Delight.
polishmama-I wrote that as I was only able to stomach leftover Halloween candy today;) I had been fasting from sugar prior to the election.
I am planning on watching a couple movies this weekend:
Idiocracy
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (something I can enjoy with little honey badger)
The Lord of the Rings trilogy in honor of Kevin who was SO right in pointing out the O symbol as the eye of Sauron.
And then I am going to stockpile against the army of Orcs that will be coming looking for their free Turkish Delight (oh my-I am mixing metaphors-but it fits!)
I was personally seeing it as Voldemort’s rebirth at the end of Goblet of Fire… the bad is taking over but the good will fight and win.
Activism. Be heard at townhall meetings but be informed and disciplined. Don’t allow the left to paint you as a ”loon”.
msnbc has a low following but we need to work on the ”Big 3” which more low info voters watch. Also, we need to look into more alternative media.
More citizen journalists. We need to hold minitru accountable, hold their feet to the fire and call them out.
Deconstruct the Chicago Political Machine. Learn from it and prepare. But plan for something even worse, its better to be more than ready. I still cannot figure out what the youth vote sees in this ticket. How can the economy not be important to them.
Be hyper vigilant for cheating. There has to be a way to stop this.
This comment fits better in this thread.
*
Kevin, I strongly urge you to spend a great deal of time trying to destroy the Cocktail Establishment.
THEY are the ones that failed us. There were ten million less votes yesterday than in 2008, and Romney got LESS VOTES THAN JOHN FARKING MCCAIN!!!
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/11/republican-turnout-in-2012-election-less-than-2008-and-2004/
The Cocktail Party needs to go down. Explode. Burn.
The people of this country need a party they can believe in. A truly conservative candidate that’s not just a nice guy that changes his positions based on the wind. That’s why Reagan was awesome. From the first step he was “This is what I believe and why!” We need to STOP with moderate candidates! STOP STOP STOP!!! Democrat light is what turns all the conservative and libertarian leaning people away!
Republican is once again a dirty word in my vocabulary. I am and Independent Conservative waiting for a real Phoenix to rise out of the ashes of the Republican COCKtail establishment when it burns to the ground. I will never sacrifice my standards again to vote for a guy who is just “good enough”. I’ve done that for the last two elections and it HURTS. Either I get a Conservative candidate, or I will not vote in the presidential elections anymore. If we can find them for state and local elections, there should be no trouble to find and put one up for federal.
And honestly, if the GOP implodes and disappears altogether. Perfect. All of us conservatives, libertarians, and capitalists will found a new party just like the founding fathers.
Liberty, Independence, Freedom, Equality.
Life.
Yes. The Country Club Republican Party is over. That needs to end now.
Phoning it in from the golf course or the cocktail party is no longer going to get it done.
The GOP hierarchy is out of step with today’s America. Obama may be a ‘fluff’ president, but at least he’s connecting with people through popular culture. I’m not saying that is the greatest or most dignified thing for a president to do, but it can work.
GOP must compete in the pop culture arena. And it has to expand its list of effective messengers. Like Rubio. Like Mia Long. Like Allen West. I know Long and West (maybe) lost last night, well, then put them in positions of power in the RNC.
There is a lot of work to do. It’s going to take time. No moment like the present to get started.
It’s not ridiculous at all. Mr. T and Michael Jackson both visited the white house during Reagan’s term. They didn’t’ care about parties, just that they were able to serve their country by helping with Nancy Reagan’s child centered projects.
Chris Christie should be the first to go. I was willing to give him a little bit of break when he sucked up to BB after the storm but when he said publically that the phone call from that moron, no talent Bruce Springteen brought “tears to his eyes”, I regurgitate my last 3 meals.
When people like Rubio lose, I am more convinced than ever the Chicago machine had a lot to do with the outcome of the election.
There’s just too much that doesn’t add up. I believe there was more voter fraud than ever. There was something rotten in Denmark.
We have an economic crisis of epic proportions and Romney was a financial turn around guy. Couldn’t have been better. We need more people to run against incumbents on the Democrat side to beat them up in the primaries at all level of government. Consider becoming a Dem – ugh – that would be repulsive.
What good is a candidate no one will vote for? Hated by their own party because they sacrifice values for appeal, and hated by the left ONLY because there is an R next to their name.
FYI all Conservatives are fiscally responsible, hence “conservative”. If they aren’t responsible then they are outright rejected by conservative voters. It’s literally the number one quality we search for.
This is worth reading so I will post in it’s entirety.
http://www.boblonsberry.com/writings.cfm?go=4
THE GOP DIED LAST NIGHT
The Republican Party died last night.
Somewhere in the suburbs of Cleveland, on the shore of Lake Erie, in the decisions of some suburban voters, the Republican Party stopped being a nationally viable political organization.
Oh, it will continue to exist.
But it will likely never again truly contest for the presidency. The nation has changed, the values have been replaced, the demographics are different.
The demographics are insurmountable.
Last night was a tipping point, a dance on a razor’s edge, and it went the other way. What was undoable last night will become increasingly impossible with each passing year. The margins will grow, the base will shrink, the tide will turn and the day will pass.
The Republican Party died last night.
Oh, it will continue to exist.
There will be the name and the elephants, but nationally, conservatism is playing against an impossibly stacked deck.
The nation had a clear choice. Each party ran candidates who were true to type. The Republicans ran conservatives and the Democrats ran liberals and it was a rout. Nothing changed except that Republicans got rebuffed across the board.
America wants Democrat.
More specifically, America wants liberal. It wants an activist, empowered government, imposing fairness and supporting entitlement.
That’s what America wants.
At least half of it wants that. Half and a tiny bit more.
And the inexorably shifting demographics of the nation ensure that that tiny bit more will grow steadily, cementing the liberal majority and creating an electoral impossibility of replacing it.
Last night was the last chance.
It was the last chance to gain a last national electoral victory over the Democratic coalition – Latinos, blacks, gays, feminists, trade unionists, government employees and welfare beneficiaries. The last chance to let a Republican president advocate the conservative, constitutional principles upon which American society was built.
But America said, “No, thanks.”
The majority preferred more of the last four years to anything Mitt Romney and the Republicans were offering.
The constituent communities of that majority are only going to grow in size and prominence in American society. They are going to increasingly dominate our society and politics.
Four years from now, more of the older conservative voters will be dead, and more of the younger liberal voters will be registered to vote. The Latino community, essentially co-opted by the Democrats into an aggrieved permanent minority status, will, like black voters, be larger and more Democrat. Four years from now, the cultural shift away from traditional values will be more advanced, thanks to more brainwashing by school teachers and sitcoms.
Those members of our society who typically identify with the Democratic Party are increasing. Those members of our society who typically identify with the Republican Party are shrinking.
You do the math.
Certain, Republicans will keep running. And some of them, no doubt, will win. But they will be a different sort of Republican.
They will not be conservative. Certainly not socially or morally conservative.
They will bend over backwards to avoid the principles of moral conservatism, so as to not disrespect a social norm.
They will be Democrat-lite.
Or they will not win.
Last night was our best chance.
And America chose the other team.
Almost $3 billion was spent on the presidential campaign. Untold tens of millions of dollars were spent on congressional campaigns across the country. And nothing changed.
Obama is still in the White House. The Democrats still control the Senate. Republicans still control the House of Representatives. The pundits say America voted to break the grid lock, that it voted to demand team work. It did no such thing. It voted to maintain the status quo.
So we have gone on a long, painful and expensive national journey, and it has left us exactly where we started.
A couple of House seats this way, a couple of Senate seats that way, and Obama on top of the whole thing.
That isn’t change, that is business as usual.
Conservatism has become a regional philosophy, the Republican Party a regional party. It will win governorships, it will win seats in the House or Senate, but it will essentially be a phenomenon of the South and Midwest.
Where traditional values endure and dwindle, the Republican Party will still be relevant.
But those places will shrink and shrivel. And each year, the gap between those who support conservatism and the number needed to win a national victory will grow.
Last night was conservatism’s last stand.
And it lost.
And there are people calling themselves conservative who wouldn’t vote for the decent, responsible, accomplished turn-around guy because they stamped their little feet and said “He’s not conservative enough; he’s a RINO; I’m staying to true to my principles and sticking it in the eye of the GOP cocktail crowd” (that supposedly foisted Romney on us). Lotta good that does.
Another thing: It seems that leftists are less likely to sit out and throw the election because they’re peeved that the Dem candidate isn’t leftist enough. They’ll vote for the Dem candidate because that’s the one who will move the country slightly in their direction, or at least stop it from going the other way.
Conservatives sometimes put their pride in ideological purity above the pragmatic choices actually available to them — while simultaneously criticizing Dems for putting good intentions above actual results.
The Communist Party USA has no problem endorsing Obama, but some Tea Party organizations refused to endorse Romney. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
I feel the same way you do. But did you vote for Romney (or maybe I should say, against Obama?) Because I did, and I can’t help but feel there were millions more of us after these four years determined to vote Obama out and willing to vote for almost anyone else as long as that was going to happen. I certainly was a lot more determined to vote for Romney than I ever was for McCain, and thought I felt that vibe from a lot more people as a whole. Am I that wrong about that? Did all the calls to us as conservatives to GET THIS GUY THE HELL OUT OF OFFICE fall on deaf ears?
Don’t forget – we also lost some serious CONSERVATIVE candidates last might – Allen West and Mia Love come to mind immediately. What does that say about the hope for a conservative candidate in the future?
Eliza,
Voting AGINST Obama was the only reason I voted (in the presidential race). I always vote in local and state matters.
You’re right. Mia and Allen were tossed out. The problem with coattail results in elections is that they go both ways. If people hate the presidential candidate it can drag down other people of the same party affiliation regardless of record. Mia and Allen were railroaded, but it is not the last we will see of them. They are future stars of whatever Phoenix party rises out of the ashes.
the loss for both Mia Love and Allen West is enough to suggest there might have been voter fraud, especially where Allen West is concerned.
Mia Love did extraordinarily well in her run against the incumbent. She went down by a mere 1000 votes.
The third party candidate got 5000+ votes, probably from Mia. That’s why she lost.
He’s asking for a recount, I think she should too. I wouldn’t be surprised that both of them would be targeted for fraud. The lefties hate it when one of their slaves escapes, They believe they should own all blacks, hispanics, gays, women.
That is what I think!
I have said for years that the only way to change peoples minds and hearts is through education and I don’t mean public schools.
We need to view the ideas of Constitutional Conservatism and leftism the way an ad agency would view a product. Identify the demographic, where they get their info from (tv, msm etc,) and then target them specifically. Present small easily understandable ideas and examples and show stark contrasts between competing ideologies as well as a constant steady pushback against false information.
We really only do this during an election and its too little, too late. These ideas have to be presented repeatedly over time for them to be absorbed almost like a form of brainwashing (but for the cause of good not evil). Conservative websites are essential and do this already but they are preaching to the choir and if we don’t reach out and actively fight for our misguided fellow Americans then we have lost the battle for sure.
I don’t exactly know the best way to accomplish this but believe that if conservative think tanks would focus on this starting right now, we would be much farther ahead by the next election. Ideas not feelings are the driving force behind conservatism and as a whole we do a poor job of persuading people over to our side.
Sorry for being so long-winded, I hope you get the general idea. Kevin, keep up the good fight, you are a beacon of light in a sea of darkness. God Bless you and God Bless America.
Judy you are very correct, however if the COCKtail GOP keeps blocking these efforts in favor of having “broader appeal” and going for moderate candidates it can’t be helped.
GOP needs to burn.
How do you propose to stop all the millions of GOP primary voters — regular folks — from nominating the candidate who has broad appeal? Romney was not chosen in a smoke-filled room somewhere.
Yes – and do it in a way that people are attracted to. Look at the low income minority mothers who have taken on the corrupt schools and flipped them to charter schools. Awesome.
Who goes down into the ghetto and helps those teens set up internet businesses to run? Or some sort of businesses to run? A private jobs corp?
Ronmey lost because he and Republican Establishment decided to exile Ron Paul supporters and Libertarians. This is a large chunk of voters who just decided to sit home. Republicans will never win another election, because of demographics, unless they embrace Ron Paul supporters, and stop being empire loving statists.
Problem is with the Ron Paul supporters is they won’t hold their nose and vote for someone else (like a lot of us did with McCain) because they get their panties in a snit because their guy didn’t get picked.
I wasn’t for Romney this time – but he was for a lot more of what I stand for than Ron Paul does or would ever stand for.
Until those that don’t get their way with a candidate stop kicking rocks and blowing snot bubbles and staying home instead of voting, we will never get along.
Ron Paul is the real extremist. Mitt Romney was by far the better candidate.
Aussie, I don’t dissagree with your comment. However, Romney and/or the GOP did a horrible thing during the RNC by not allowing Ron Paul to speak. In fact, they should have offered all of the republican primary candidates the opportunity to speak to their followers. But what was one of the things that the RNC did first – make sure no future libertarian or tea party candidate can win a GOP seat….how’s that for working across internal party lines. They blew it when they didn’t invite Sarah Palin and they blew it when they snubbed Paul’s followers. Yes, Paul has some odd views, but he also has some very sound fiscal conservative perspectives that had Romney adopted would have made Gary Johnson a moot point.
The GOP allowed votes to be counted in Spain, they allowed leftist debate moderators, and they allowed us to lose several winnable Senate seats. They lost us Mia and West’s seats….these should have been critical wins for the party, but nope – they are tea party patriots.
The GOP does this every time….and just today they are already picking the 2016 candidate for us.
We need to get rid of the GOP as step number 1 and it needs to begin before 2014.
Get rid of the GOP? With what? Paulbot morons?
I’m not a Ron Paul fan, but I wish they would support the conservatives. And unfortunately, we only get 2 parties to choose from that have a chance to win a major election. How can we get the GOPe to be more open to true conservative principals? I was too young to remember what Reagan went through, but how did he get to be our candidate? Will we ever be able to have our nominee be more like Reagan? If Sarah Palin had ran for President, would she have had a chance?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s02SypCcYIc&feature=g-all-u
Thank you, Kevin, for again being the sole voice of sanity today.
While everybody else is apportioning blame to Romney, or to the strategy which didn’t appeal to blacks/youth/wimmin, the role of the corrupt media, Minitru, is conveniently overlooked.
They did not write or talk about Benghazi, nor Fast & Furious, nor Solyndra, nor the campaign contributions in their millions from e.g. China. Instead it was ‘lady parts’ …
How can we overcome this – first by also taking a cold hard look at the New Media, whose writers seem to be more intent on looking like better Minitru writers – well, with some exceptions.They need to be called out.
Next we must think about using the social media, even if it’s uncomfortable for many of us.
It is also worth thinking about having grassroot ‘new’ media, where local news, or county level news, can be collected and made available to a wider public.
After all, many old, printed newspapers did start out as local newspapers.
I think it’s time to start homework type clubs where large groups of people across the country focus on one issue like charter schools, or Benghazi, or shutting down the coal plants, and come up with a presentation of that issue. So it’s not The Heritage foundation saying it but a jury of people that include people from all walks of life – saying hey, not only did we find this, this and this…but here’s what happens when this takes affect in other countries (an availability heuristic).
For another example we have this unelected board of 15 people who will give thumbs up or thumbs down to medical procedures. Obama’s Death Panels which already took away mammograms for women under 40. Then show any of the hundreds of examples from the UK and Canada where people were told – No – we have the drug or treatment – but you can’t have it because you’re too old, or whatever. People need to build these databases for comparison.
Why don’t we attack the teachers unions on the sex perverts that are uncovered everyday in public school? All the drunkards, all the abusers..and the unions protected them. The teachers’ unions “Dirty Secret.”
I have more….
Long term, the only path to turning things around is to recapture the mass culture, which the left has owned for decades.
I do not know how to do this. I do not even know if it is possible, but as long as the mainstream culture marinates in left wing platitudes, things will not change.
Get rid of cable TV ASAP. Keep the TV but just use for Netflix.
Get rid of Amazon Prime free streaming videos – canceled mine last night.
Cancel all magazine subscriptions to liberals rags even the ones you get for free from relatives at Christmas. I just canceled The Economist – who just re-endorsed Obama, Vanity Fair which is pure filth and I hardly read, and The New Yorker which carries some of the most bigoted anti-Mormon anti-Christian articles I’ve ever read.
Sign up for the Wall Street Journal -online which is very cheap – to support the business perspective. I have more….
Gigi can I recommend that instead of calling publications such as The Economist, “liberal”, that you insert one of the following: Leftist, Marxist, Communist. The Economist does not preach true classical liberalism and it should be called out for being another left-wing mouth piece.
There are many of us who are even Keynesians but we are not leftist. People should learn the difference between what Keynes actually wrote and what the neo-Keynesians such as Krugman advocate. It is not the same thing.
In other words, there are times when the Keynes approach can be the right approach, but those times are limited. Leftists want to keep the approach in place, even when there is a need to shift direction. To this I add that increasing taxes outside of a time of world war is not the correct approach and will only lead to failure, but leftists cannot understand this notion.
Don’t think the Wall Street Journal is conservative. I’m going to cancel my subscription to that. Good editorials, but the rest is pro-commie.
I’d say get rid of Netflix too. My husband and I have made it a priority NOT to give Hollywood our dollars. The subject matter, the language, violence, sexualizing women. Who needs that in their life?
The only thing left to do is to hold the House to the fire to stymy him in his most egregious efforts at socializing America. As far as Obama is concerned there is still Fast and Furious as well as Benghasi hanging over his head. Unless of course, the Committees headed by Darryl Issa and Cummings figure they’ve lost “the mandate” to prosecute the Obama Administration, including Obama himself. But then again, there is that “holding their feet to the fire” even on those two issues. Obama may have won the election but he is still just a man.
There is also the corruption of his pay to play activities including money given to Solyndra and other failed enterprises.
On top of that there is also questions over lavish White House parties. They need to be called to account for the lavishness of those parties.
There are many questions to be answered, but Benghazi is now the most important because Treason was committed.
I’m shell-shocked. I mean, I knew Obama would win in “08, all the numbers pointed to it. But this year? Between the polls, the internals of those polls, the numbers of people at the rallies, and what most of the pundits were saying, Romney would win.
I feel like I’m becoming paranoid, but something doesn’t add up. In fact, I think something is “rotten in Denmark”.
no, I also feel that way. Something is very wrong about the whole thing…
I think Michelle in her first comment/question hit the nail right on the head. Latinos, single women and young adults like free stuff. I’m convinced that even Ronald Reagan couldn’t have won this election because he wasn’t offering enough free stuff.
So it begs the question…what has to happen for the left to see the light?
Is it mass homelessness and hunger? Is it riots in the streets over food and gas?
Living the post-Sandy mess on Long Island I can tell you that there is a very fine line been order and chaos.
As for me…I will do every single thing that I can over the next two years to pay the least amount of taxes possible. I will do my best to avoid patronizing those people or businesses that supported this administration and it’s “free stuff” agenda. That may be extended another two years depending on the mid-term election results.
And lastly…I will remind all of my family, friends, neighbors and acquaintances that I have a gun and know how to use it. If you are looking forcibly take from me what it rightfully mine…you may ultimately succeed but I can assure you that I will do everything that I can to prevent it.
How many of those Latinos were in fact legal citizens in the US? In other words, I bet that a large swag of those who were voting were illegals. The Democrats do not want voter ID laws because it helps them to use those illegals to swing elections. Perhaps this is what happened in Florida.
It makes no sense to me that normal conservative Hispanics would vote for someone who believes in killing babies in the 3rd trimester.
Speaking of guns, this didn’t take long.
http://www.examiner.com/article/victorious-obama-rockets-back-onto-gun-control-radar-with-un-arms-treaty
Back to our states. We need to keep supporting and electing conservatives on the state and local level, at least those of us who live in red states. We just elected an Hispanic, republican senator here in Texas. I think krauthammer is right, the future of the party is bright.
I will also say that I have a number of Hispanic friends who are proud GOP voters and who are involved in YR and GOP groups. We need diversity in our ranks and that happens locally. I plan to join a women’s R group out here in the suburbs and invite my lady friends and neighbors to join me. While part of me wants to give up on politics, a larger part of me wants to fight even harder… Mostly because I have a son and I don’t want him to see me as a quitter but as a fighter.
And lastly, we must pray. I was so hopeful that RR could turn the country around and I’m mighty disappointed. But, God always takes care of His people. He is stronger than the federal government. He is stronger than the leftist movement. He is and always will be! This isn’t over.
Forgot one thing: support sites like hillbuzz! Like crazy!! We must lift each other up and sites like this are so helpful. Donate when you can or hit the amazon links for holiday shopping. Thank you Kevin and Tamminator for all you do.
The only possible way to change the media is to stop watching and buying from their advertsers…..you have to hit in them where they are vulnerable. I refuse to watch any of their news channels. I will get my info from Fox or internet. There has to be a list of advertisers out there, it would be ez to do. So many alternative brands….could send letters to companies explaining why not buying their product, even if they advertise on Fox….i am sad but not ready to lay down, i want to fight back!
Does someone watch TV who can let us know the advertisers?
One million moms does a lot of that work. http://onemillionmoms.com/
Fox has gone quite a ways toward the dark side.
Why Obama won:
The Media voted their lies
Blacks voted their melanin
Women voted their lady parts
Students voted their coolness IQ
Illegals voted their amnesty
Gays voted their gayness
The 99% voted their envy
The poor voted their poverty
The USA voted its destruction
My boss had an odd experience today, but it goes back to what Kevin has said about skin color.
He went to the bank this morning and on the way in the door, a black lady behind him got a phone call. He could obviously hear the conversation because they were so close. She said, “yes my president won,” then she turned to look at him and said, “and the white people don’t like it.” He had some choice words for her he did not say, but just kept on walking.
The black hate is still here in this country and Obama expanded it.
There are people working on that. One group is Raging Elephants.
http://www.ragingelephants.org/ I donate a little when I can.
I wonder how she will feel about “her president” when she’s out of a job
It will be Bush’s fault!
That gloating hostility started in 2008. I know someone who used to work in a majority-black workplace and got along well with everyone. The day after that election, or maybe before, some turned haughty and a little cold toward him. Some also thought their pay would immediately double. Instead, the store closed within a year.
I think it started the day OJ was found not guilty, I was working in an office where only 2 of us were white. It was in a city where our clientele was 90% black. I didn’t think we had a problem until that day.
For some time I have had a belief that conservatives have it in their power to bring down ALL U.S. leftie newspapers.How? If every person who has a subscription to a leftie paper cancels it, we can crash that part of the media. If you absolutely MUST have a physical paper, at least give up the Sunday paper.
We can take them down, and it will not take long. I am planning a blog that will try to get the word out.
No, I don’t know what will rise up in the place of leftie newspapers, but it surely can’t be worse than what we have.
How about it? Have you cancelled your subscription yet, everybody?
We should support the papers which supported Romney this time around.
Yes, consider the LA Times one subscriber down as of this morning.
I was quite disappointed last night as well.
As a Christian, I am finding solace in Scripture today. In his letter to the Romans (13:1,7), Paul speaks to the attitude we should model about authority. “Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established.The authorities that exist have been established by God…. Give everyone what you owe him: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.”
Jesus still reigns even though it might not feel like it today. May I share with you an excellent sermon from one of today’s greatest pastors, Mr. John Piper, on the subject of God’s power and His sovereign will. http://www.desiringgod.org/resource-library/sermons/the-sovereignty-of-god-my-counsel-shall-stand-and-i-will-accomplish-all-my-purpose
Thanks for giving me a new perspective on “MiniTru” and President Obama, Kevin. I look forward to following your blog in the years to come.
Well, I m not sure that my post on the other thread even posted..so, I will try again here..it fits better here anyway.
I am attempting to inject a little hope here..perhaps our one and only last hope…the TRUTH.
We need to ALL be “birthers” now. Before you roll your eyes and stop reading, PLEASE bear with me and read to the end..then do some research…and THINK about this…the TRUTH would give us the result that even a Romney Presidency would not be able to give us, if Obama is proven not to be eligible, ALL of his laws, EO’s, appointrments ( think Sotomayor and Kagen) etc, would instantly become null and void.
In 2008, we birthers PLEADED with our Reps to PLEASE challenge Obama’s eligibility before they “certified” him. At that time, we were only saying that he was not a “natural born citizen”, we weren’t at the point that we are NOW..having reason to question if he is even a CITIZEN, let alone a “natural born” one.
All that we needed was ONE Senator, and ONE member of he House, none of them would do it…we got back all kinds of excuses…everything from.”.I believe he was born in Hawaii, and therefore IS a “natural born citizen”..to “I can’t do that, I would be laughed out of Congress”.
We turned to the Courts, and got nothing but a run around.”.lack of standing, you can’t prove individual “damages”, the latest one…Obama’s reps said….”but, but, you can’t ask this because Obama is not officially the Democratic Nominee untl after the DNC convention.”….PLEASE research these cases, yes, the attorney’s may have been too “passionate” about it, yes, some of them made some mistakes..but NO court in the land has EVER looked at Obama’s evidence and ruled on that because they have always come up with an excuse not to make him release any evidence.
Please research the case of LtCol Terry Lakin. Whether you agree with what he did or not, please look at the “case” and you have to question WHY Obama let it go that far….THEN came up with a Long Form BC…..only AFTER Lakin was stripped of his rank, benefits, and did time in Levenworth.
Anyway, I am not going to rehash all of the cases, and I hope you won’t have to read all of them before you see that I am telling the truth. Let’s carry it forward a little bit…
Throughout all of this, we have had elections coming up….we elected “Tea Party” candidates, in part because they hinted that they would pursue this, and then they didn’t. We then ( shame on us) allowed them to wimp out on us..we listened to their excuses about being more “effective” if they “focused on Obama’s policies” rather than stand up for the truth and face the ridicule of the left…shoot, at that point, we were even getting ridicule from the right….and we continue to get ignored and ridiculed from BOTH sides.
Well, now here we are..the day after the election, and we wimped out, we let them ignore the truth, we let them focus on “policy”, we let them ignore the evidence that Sheriff Joe worked so hard to obtain….we told Donald Trump to shut up and questioned his motives when he AGAIN tried to give us a “flag of truth ” to run with…and LOOK WHERE WE ARE!!
But, we have ONE last hope….if we fail at this..I am going to admit that I am DONE, I am done with the Tea Party, I am done with Republicans,, I am done with it ALL…I will no longer even TRY to fight for our Country while we sit on our greatest weapon…the TRUTH.
Here’s the plan..
Don’t they have to “certify” Obama again? I say we write, call….HOUND every one of our Reps…at the least, the Republican ones and DEMAND that they challenge Obama’s eligibility before they certify him…every last one of them!!!..Senate and House. DEMAND that Obama release a certified hard copy of his BC…DEMAND that Obama release his college records, and show us what “Nationality” he claimed to be then. DEMAND that he release anything and everyhing that he needs to PROVE that he is an American Citizen…every record that we need to prove that he legally changed his name and citizenship back after his adoption…etc.
There is NOTHING “EXTREME” about asking our “President” to prove that he is eligible for the office…nothing there to “ridicule”, nothing to be ashamed of..he OWES that to us!!!! If there is any “shame” to be had, it is from those who DIDN’T demand that he provide, at least, undeniable “Proof of Citizenship”. The reason that he has not done this so far, the reason he fights it so hard isn’t to “Play” us..it’s because he CAN’T.
We TRIED it “their way”, and it failed..now it is time we demand they try it “our” way.
What do they/we have to lose now?? Can it get any worse?
You “in”?
Andrew Breitbart. Breitbart was a the warpath against the established media. He stood against every lie thrown at him and belted those bastards in the teeth with the truth.
We need him back. We need to study his method and use it to make a difference. I am saddened by what has become of “The Bigs”, it is a gossip blog now. Nothing hard hitting, nothing gritty and real.
James O’Keef has real promise – big promise. He is fearless and honest, has integrity and intellectual depth. Contact him Kevin. He’s a good place to start I think.
Commit to only doing business with republicans or conservatives if possible.
Also saw this on another site:
When you propose robbing Peter to pay Paul, Paul will only be too happy to vote for it.
This F’in Guy (TFG) should have been a slow hanging curveball for the GOP to nail out of the park.
All it would take is a rock-ribbed, authentic conservative who articulated conservatism clearly and used Hussein’s words and actions against him. This should have been EASY.
But at the start of the GOP primary season Romney was shoved down our throats as the only guy who could beat BHO. I said then that he would be McLame 2.0 and cede the entire issue of ObamaCare to the demlibs which he did.
An authentic conservative was needed – I said it then and I say it now. I’m not sure there was one available – possibly Santorum, Palin, Jindal – but I know that conservatism is not Romney’s default stance. He should have gone after BHO with the same drive and passion and intensity that he used against Newt and Santorum.
I was VERY concerned during and after the final debate when Romney kept agreeing with BHO, complimenting him while leaving WAY TOO MUCH on the table. No mention of Benghazi which, by itself, is reason enough for impeachment and murder charges against BHO, Clinton and Panetta. When Mittends showed up in that 3rd debate, I had HUGE doubts about him winning but the polls and so forth as it got closer to yesterday were encouraging, all for naught.
Combine a non-conservative moderate with the massive voter fraud / Scytlgate that LameCherry uncovered, no wonder we have 4+ more years of TFG.
Besides the travesty of TFG in the WH, we got:
- Voter turnout was lower than 2008 and 2004
– Lt. Col. Allen West lost re-election in FL
– Alan Grayson won in FL
– Scott Brown lost in MA
– Elizabeth “Tonto” Warren won
– Jesse Jackson Jr. won (while in the Mayo Clinic for mental health issues)
– Mia Love lost
Only God can save us now which is probably the point He made yesterday by letting this happen. He is our only hope.
EXACTLY!!!
Where’s that quote from Reba? That’s some crazy sh*t.
Kevin, baby. I’m so glad you are back and in fighting form! I’ve been miserable all day like someone died and Ive been praying for you especially. And Justin, too.
I believe it is a time for prayer and lots of it. I am confused and sad … I’m asking for God to show me how his blessings will come from this harrowing experience. I’ve had bad times work for good all my life and my expectations are high. Over my dead body will they steal my hope!
I bet that there is no moderate Senate Democrat, they lied to everyone.
Kevin, thank you for being yourself. I wish I was in Chicago right now so I could buy you and your gentleman a drink, because you were a bright spot in a very trying and difficult time. But now we need to pick up the pieces.
I won’t lie–I cried last night after I learned what had happened. I did indeed have hope, and instead of hope or change we got . . . King Barry. Again. But I’ve always been good at getting angry, and in addition to being sad I am very angry indeed.
I think the most important thing we can do here now is not lose the fire. The Tea Party needs to turn up in the streets again, because we need to make our voices heard and if the MSM won’t report on our peoples’ press conferences then we can at least shout loud enough to reach the people passing by. We need to be loud, we need to be active, and we need to not let his royal majesty get away with one single dirty trick. Hang Benghazi around his neck and make him eat ashes for what he’s done and will do to this country.
Sadly, I think Alinsky’s Rules may be some of our best weapons in future. We’ve played the game like civilized people, and gotten steamrolled by the Left’s dirty tricks. We need to hit them hard, demoralize them, not give them a chance to fight back. If we let ourselves fall into despair because we lost this election, we’ll be handing them every election for the next four years.
And we need to look into possible voter fraud here. With such a close run, even a few hundred votes can tip the balance, and a Chicago politician can steal few hundred votes in his sleep. We need to find the fraud, and expose it as loudly and publicly as possible. Refuse to be good little compliant citizens.
I am trying to be optimistic.
There is a bright side to this. People who thought that Obama was a magical black man are in for a very rude awakening when the real impact hits them. There have not been enough people affected by Obama’s policies, if we are to assume Obama won on the up and up. These same people who voted for another 4 years of misery (unknown to them of course) will actually be hit the hardest. I do not wish ill will on anyone, but the reality is there. It cannot get better with the Lefties in charge. Up until now they haven’t felt enough pain, they have only been warned. Once they feel the impact of their decision, maybe they will wake the heck up.
Unfortunately, the rest of us will have to suffer while the dopes figure it out. But I take comfort that we have educated ourselves and are prepared for the very tough times ahead.
We do not have to be negative about the realities we face, but we must face them. It is going to get bad before it gets better. But that doesn’t mean it won’t ever get better. We will just have to brace ourselves for storm and be ready to do what needs to be done to fix this…No matter how hard it WILL be. We can do this.
JenB has it exactly right. People haven’t been hearing the message for the simple fact they haven’t experienced the pain yet. It’s like trying to convince someone they are asking too much money when selling their house. Absolutely nothing you tell them will convince them. Only when it sits on the market for months and months with no offers will they finally get it.
Maybe four more years of Obama is the painful medicine Americans need. Maybe they need to experience a second recession and watch us fall off the fiscal cliff to see the light. Maybe they need to see their taxes, food and gas prices go up even more. Maybe they need to actually experience their employers dropping their health insurance, and be unable to afford to buy their own and then get fined for not buying it in order for people to wake up. Throughout history, America has often gotten extremely close to the communist/socialist stove, but never actually touched it, because we’ve always managed to pull ourselves back. And over time, that caused us to become complacent and start to believe the stove isn’t really that hot. Maybe we need to finally get burned in order to fully realize to stay away from the stove. But once that happens, once we get badly burned, Americans will remember for a VERY long time.
It is going to be a long, hard road, but we can do this. We may have lost, but we are not a minority. We are half the country. We don’t have to convince everyone at once. We just need to start with a few good, hardworking people who truly have been bamboozled and don’t understand what they voted for.
Thanks for all your work and encouragement on this election, Kevin.
At least one post Internet article sees a silver lining, which I hope comes true:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/11/what_have_they_really_won.html
Jon – Thanks for the link to American Thinker.
Between Kevin and the other great folks here, Rush and that article, I’ve moved from the ledge, back through the window and am shutting it.
Something you’ve always yelled about, the Right ignores pop culture.
How many of those Obama voters Tuesday were the “low information voters” we laugh at? The people who…
* Their only news comes from John Stewart
* Watched the multi-part Obama family interview on Entertainment Tonight
* Never miss “The View”
* Thought Romney would (actual Twitter memes) outlaw tampons, outlaw birth control pills, outlaw coffee and put gays in concentration camps because they believed stories from PARODY websites.
* Hate the EEEEVIL rich, but practically worship Jay-Z & Beyonce
As much as we value substance more than style, the battle needs to be fought not just in the headlines but in the pop culture trenches. Not only do our people have to break through into these non-cable news outlets, they need to be prepared for the sucker punch questions that will come from the lefty gatekeepers. Akin and Mourdock may have been good men and meant well, but the clumsy way they tried to answer the abortion and rape related questions gave the left soundbites. Romney passed on doing Letterman, The View and MTV. I don’t blame him because he would not be entering a non-partisan interview, but next time our candidate will not be facing media creation they feel they need to prop up.
We have a great bench of young, photogenic MULTICULTURAL candidates with wonderful backstories who may have lost yesterday, but can now lay groundwork for the party and to get back into power positions. We need to get them out there. Mia Love needs to be positioned to fill in on The View or The Talk. Alan West needs to get booked on Leno. Conservative comedians need to join forces to create a right-leaning version of THE ONION. (Big Parody?) Destroy the rigid, humorless stereotype of conservatives and the left will not have such easy pickings telling the low info voters that the GOP is EEEEEEVIL.
Substance and style do not have to be mutually exclusive.
John Stewart has three homes all held in trusts named after his dogs.
Bono takes his checks in the Netherlands where the tax rate is just 2%.
Harrison Ford hides his cash on the island of Nevis in the West Indies.
Warren Buffet is still in court with the IRS over Berkshire Hathaways 2002 taxes.
Rich leftists are hypocrites who survive by feeding others to the shark hoping they will be eaten last.
Exactly. It is the same in my country. It is the same in the UK and elsewhere. They are rich and they are the biggest hypocrites of them all.
After all the bilge Bono has spouted for years about the rich not paying their fair share he should be dry shaved and tossed off Beachy Head.
I really would love to see Hellywood tank. I haven’t been to a movie in at least 10 years. I cannot stand those people. But, it won’t happen…the biggies will still be popping in to the WH. Am wondering if the 0′s will continue with their obscene lifestyle? When all of us serfs are struggling. Of course they will. I believe the perks are the most important part of the deal to the grifters. 0 hasn’t worked a day in his life except to campaign. And that damn near killed him. He’s so frail its pathetic.
The bill has come due!!
Minitru will come down, because the little, precious darlings will reap what they have sowed! It has already started…….stock market down 300 points today, dollar dropped last night after the election was called! How long do you think they are going to listen to MSM telling them how good everything is, when they see it getting worse and worse for themselves. Their people control 2/3rds of the government..should be enough to make the pain go away…ya think?? This time, the Democrats are going to have to pick up their own tab…….didn’t get to foster it off on the Republicans as the Republican’s recession or depression! And we are all much smarter now than people were under Woodrow Wilson about what causes economic hardships….they need to learn it as well!!
We will not have “another” recession…it will be worse than that. So all the little, oh so smart, lefties are going to learn the merits of capitalism…..through pain. Their oh so cool president, has much more than feet of clay!
I do not feel sorry for them. I feel sorry for us…who tried to do better, and couldn’t. But at least, we know we better prepare!!
Remember coal is gone, fracking for oil is probably gone, too.
Folks, this might seem odd…..
But I am not discouraged nor disheartened one bit – at all!
“We have only begun to fight!”
_______________________________________________
In response to Kevin’s question, I believe we must start with this fact.
People who only rely on the MSM – all forms – are NOT really
Low Information Voters.
They are in fact “No Information Voters.”
We cannot expect them to do their “homework” and learn the truth on their own. Like reluctant school children, we must use their own skill levels to make them curious and seek and want to know the truth.
To present them with facts that jar their “fairy-land MSM-made universe” only results in their outright rejection of reality.
However if they start to see the cracks and illusions and are given the way to think about those hypocrisies and falsehoods of the current leadership and MSM it will be much harder for them to deny reality. These “no information voters” are similar to “know it all” school children who are convinced they know more than they really do know. You do not what to embarrass them with the truth, but you do want to tactfully and subtlety help them find the truth ‘on their own.” Kevin probably remembers some of his school teacher nuns techniques in doing this.
That it for – some food for thought – because I have to move on to other things now.
Agree. Nothing brought it more to light than those man on the street interviews where Obama voters were presented with Obama’s own policies and past behaviors but presented as those of Romney and the people on the street were against all the policies – like Obama snuff film /kill lists. The people were stunned when told the truth. STUNNED. That’s why I think we need an big information push.
The House of Representatives needs a professional charismatic spokesperson.
Due to the re-election of Barack Obama the has been a lot of talk about how to survive the next four years.
This is what I am doing:
Cut back on expenses, we think a lot of luxury items are necessary but they are not. Cut the Cable, you really don’t need it.
Buy utilitarian not prestige
Smaller charity donations, closer to home (Sorry, New Jersey go see FEMA)
Plant a garden if you can it’s very therapeutic
Share deals with friends
Barter and trade (I just got my gutters cleaned in trade for setting a guy up and teaching him how to list and sell on ebay)
Bake, buy your flour and yeast in bulk. Bread freezes nice.
Reload, repair, and reuse
Knit or crochet – my daughter is making all of her Christmas presents this year.
Above all starve the beast! Do anything you can to reduce your exposure to taxes. This includes the tax on things like gas and food. Craigslist works great if you are careful.
One more thing -
Whenever possible stop patronizing business’ that supported the leftists campaign. It’s not a boycott, it’s a choice.
Call up your friends and neighbors and see when they’re going grocery shopping, to church , to meetings. And ride together. The more people carpooling, the less highway trust fund dollars. We’ve been subsidizing the ruining of neighborhoods for decades. The
bad boys run us out with HUD slums, and have the roads ready for
where we move to next.
Oh in Illinois whenever possible DON’T use the tollways. They were paid for DECADES ago. I have a lot of friends who are doing this.
My hubby and I are going to divorce on paper to avoid HUGE taxes – our kids are grown and we wont tell them anyway!
Wicked Cool!
This statement alone tells me how anti family our govt has become
It’s been going on for years. The tax advantages for two single people living together vs a married couple is staggering.
Not a bad idea at all…
AMEN! AMEN!
RE: “Above all starve the beast!”
That goes triple for all the Lie-Stream Media – cut cable, cut out national news broadcasts (why give them the ratings?), cut out all print media.
Use groups such as the Tea Party as a starting point from here on out. Use these groups to educate people on how government at local levels is set up.
But do it in this manner. We have ongoing education on how local, federal, and state government works. What the different divisions of power is in each case. But you need to show some interest at each level to received more of the knowledge we have to give.
For starters: can you name your city or county comissioner?
Your at-large- comissioner? Your school board member? Your state house member? Your state senator? Your rep at the US House of Representatives? Your State’s senator in the US Senate.
We’ve lost representation through all levels of government, and it starts with not paying attention or showing up at elections at the local level. To get the federal government out of our lives involves electing local officials who leave the “bacon” in Washington, instead of in their districts.
Everytime local elected officials bring home the bacon or
brag about “how much they’re doing for their districts” by how
large a pot of federal funds they manage to whore, there’s a trade off. School districts get addicted to Title 1 ( poverty # based) federal funds. Education doesn’t improve. But overpaid jobs programs pop up with these funds for their buddies ( at least around my neck of the woods in Atlanta).
Local control is where it needs to start. Educate yourself and others on how HUD works. How Title 1 works. How the federal tax code works. You’d be amazed at how much many groups stock prices depend on how many slums are built, how many
people are incarcerated, and how many moms are knocked up without dad being in the picture. Name a social program that
invariabily sucks, and you’ll soon find out that there’s some way
that it’s been engineered as a tax break for wall street.
Here’s a plan:
http://twitchy.com/2012/11/07/comedian-stephen-kruiser-reveals-his-plan-for-fighting-the-left-taking-back-the-gop/
One more thought….. on persistence…..
“Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
Calvin Coolidge
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Calvin_Coolidge
PERSISTANCE
One of the most heroic women in history was Princess Noor Inayat Khan. In 1939 she was writing children’s stories and reading them on a Paris radio station. In June of 1943 she parachuted into France as the “pianist” for the OSS group Madeleine. Before she landed the network was exposed by the SS and many operative liquidated or captured. She was given orders to abandon the operation and make for the channel. She refused in the hope she could salvage the critical Paris underground network. For four months she road a bike though Paris locating surviving operatives and relaying messages to London. She was betrayed to the SS on Oct. 13th 1943. She was interrogated for the next 45 days. She never betrayed any information. She escaped and was recaptured twice. On September 13th 1944 she was executed. Her last word was “liberte”.
If a 30 year old woman who loved to write children’s books can be transformed into a warrior and exhibit that kind of courage. We can certainly deal with this setback. So suck it up and quit letting the media define us.
Thank you for that excellent example of inspiration!
http://www.amazon.com/Spy-Princess-Life-Noor-Inayat/dp/0750950560/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1352483654&sr=1-7&keywords=Noor+Inayat+Khan
Thanks for all you do Kevin. Yours is the only political site I could bear to read today.
What if employers started attaching memos or posting notices whenever they had to make a “change” directly or indirectly caused by an Obama policy. Something like: “Due to the results of the November 2012 presidential election, the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) will continue to be implemented. As a result, on January 1, 2013, the Company will be reviewing what steps it must take to cut overhead costs in order to remain in business. This includes salary cuts, layoffs, higher deductions for healthcare premiums and any other unforeseen consequence of ObamaCare.”
One last point, without the threat of a re-election hanging over Obama’s head, there is nothing preventing him from bulldozing his agenda through.
He won’t temper his ambition to prevent future democrats from suffering either. How much help did he offer his fellow democrats who were also running for office? NADA. If our jaws dropped at the audacity of the Democratic party before, I have a feeling we’re in for an astounding surprise. These people have no moral compass and will do whatever it takes, through fair means or foul, to remain in power. There is a reason the phrase ‘nice guys finish last’ exist. What if the best way to save the country from Democratic shenanigans is to let her fall under their weight? I can’t believe I’m asking that question, but I’m finding it difficult to envision any strategy that involves a sound, rational argument. Clearly that won’t work.
Today, Harry Reid announced that he’s going to push new rules in the senate that will limit the GOP’s ability to filibuster. Wonder why he wants to remove the only tool Republicans have to oppose bills a Democratically held Senate?
And so it begins…
The Dems loved the filibuster when they were stopping the GOP from cleaning up the Fannie/Freddie mess before it turned catastrophic.
Harry Reid – a Tool of Dictatorship –
that only Adolph could love, oh and Barry Hussein!
The minute the commercials hit with Romney saying he would overturn RoevWade, my husband said his goose was cooked. The next conservative candidate should just say it doesn’t matter if a person is for or against abortion, the government doesn’t have any business regulating it. This is the one area that conservatives fail in. The democrats know they can use the abortion issue to bring them down every time. Most of the commercials in Colorado seemed to be aimed at women losing their right to abort. I think we need to come across less intrusive in child bearing issues. We have a better chance of winning if we take this issue off the lefties ammo list. Just a thought.
I agree, but it would mean that the economy was so great that people only cared about social issues. I think that way too (ie more pro-choice or no talk from Republicans). But with so many Reps leaving the federal scene (yet they increased governorships, including pro-life Pence of IN) it makes me think that it is simple political prejudice.
Notice Obama NEVER promoted his agenda. He had to lie and scare people and the media never called him out on it.
I still think DuJan’s right about the Dem civil war. It may not come now, but Hillary is leaving after January, meaning she sees this pres as so toxic she’s getting out a la Powell with W. When the economy goes to heck and when Obama is caught partying with JayZ, Michelle taking another expensive vacation while Americans suffer, plus the realization that O-care will STILL leave millions uninsured, the Dems will have a Civil just like the Reps.
I am a pro-choice lib, but declare myself as an Independent now. You do NOT vote for a candidate that broke all of their promises and made your life worse just because he’s black or Dem or whatever. Also, I am sick of the hate speak that they claim is “tolerant”
I believe they should say, “its the law of the land and there are more important issues at hand, such as …” then do the leftist shuck and jive and change the narrative. And every time asked about it, repeat.
Interesting an Military Insider suggest “watergate him’
http://theulstermanreport.com/2012/11/07/military-insider-watergate-him/
We have nothing to lose and everything to gain. It’s about minimizing his authority.
A Military Insider suggest that there are plans to “watergate him” – meaning Obama. I say we need to “watergate” the media as well.
http://theulstermanreport.com/2012/11/07/military-insider-watergate-him/
Fox News used to be my home page, but today they are showing an incredible insensitivity to their viewers, by plastering huge photos of Obama, one after another, that we can’t avoid.
Have they decided to kiss up to him now?
Anybody but me want to bombard Fox with complaints about this?
Are they trying to taunt us? Do they even care about conservatives except as a way to make money off of us?
I use Google as my home page — for that very reason. They sometimes are not too caring about their viewership. I’m also ready to stop watching the morning show too.
I’ll say again, where did all these votes go? Did this actually happen in 2008 also and I missed it? How did Romney get LESS votes than McCain?? Are these people in line actually there to vote for Obama?
http://twitchy.com/2012/11/06/pics-fired-up-voters-report-long-lines-in-gop-heavy-areas/
W.T.F.?
Election malfeasance? (This is not the exact thing as “voter fraud” but of course can include “voter fraud.”)
Prognastacators know that the very best predictors of the future are those things that have happened in the past.
Some running in the 2012 elections have a history of having election malfeasance (“the wrongful performance of a normally lawful act; the wrongful and injurious exercise of lawful authority”*, or “the performance by a public official of an act that is legally unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law; wrongdoing (used especially of an act in violation of a public trust).”**
*http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/misfeasance
**http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/malfeasance?s=t
I went to watch Palin debate in 2008 with a GOP group. I asked GOP host, a local councilman, if the campaign had a plan to deal with msm attacks. He said they were shocked by the vitriol directed at Palin but the McCain guys hadn’t mentioned a plan to deal with it. I said I’m new to the party and even I know the press hates you. He looked shocked but I knew they would do nothing. But, I was happy to see that Palin fought back after the election and very well. We need more people who aren’t afraid to fight and can give a great comeback. The Cheney’s are great at it. Most GOP people can’t talk politics on a basic level. I don’t want to hear how you worked for Reagan or take a 2 year course on constitution. Just answer loudly and with confidence and we’re halfway there.
The election results are not possible. My gut is screaming there was fraud. I don’t know how they did it but the election results are simply unbelievable. Even Chuckie Todd had called Florida for Mitt, Cutter had warned obots about early polling returns. What changed within a matter of hours?
And with Holder at DOJ ALL of this will be swept under the rug, just like F&F, Benghazzigate, Solyndra. We have been taken over by a dictatorship. Sorry for the hyperbole but that is what happened.
Hell, even the POS knew the jig was up. You could tell by his demeanor, the tears, the half-empty stadiums, the lack of enthusiasm.
It does not compute.
UM is talking about two party coordinated fraud to pave the way for jeb.
Who knows.
But my gut tells me this was a stolen election. I have read enough about black box voting that I know how possible it is. Even Mitt was stunned. He didn’t even have a concession speech ready.
We are screwed. And now Valjar is out for payback. Against who? Why, us, of course. Just got an appointment for pistol permit fingerprints.
Apparently it’s not a minute too soon. Holder will be calling for gun rights laws to be struck down.
Remember how for about the last 3 months of the summer the Obama campaign REFUSED to release the fund raising numbers – but was quoted as saying “RELAX! WE GOT THIS COVERED!”
Then all of a sudden the release a statement of how they have raised over a $ Billion Dollar$.
I guess O-Bot Zombies are expens….=X
Sample letter to use when appropriate:
Dear (add name of merchant or service provider here)
I have no idea how you voted in the recent election, and I have no desire to know. I do feel that I should inform you, though, that your company will not be receiving the business I had planned to give you (add details if desired) because of the results of the election. the uncertainty of the next four years has convinced me that I must not spend any more money than is absolutely necessary. I regret this will mean we cannot engage in a mutually beneficial business deal.
If you voted for Romney, you likely know how I feel. If you voted for Obama, you are now seeing one result of that vote.
Thanks, (sign your name)
With a few revisions, it could also be sent to charities you are no longer able to support to the same extent, OR even to school teachers to explain why there is only a “thank you” card and no gift this year (almost all teachers support Obama due to the thug unions) – of course, if you know good teachers who were NOT Obamabots, reward them doubly!
I also strongly, strongly encourage any of you who qualify for any sort of government benefit to LINE UP AT THE PIGSTY and get what you have coming. It’s time for those who pay into the system to get some benefits. If you are old enough to qualify for social security, consider taking it now. We need to make sure the full extent of these “entitlements” are tapped by those who are eligible for them. I know many conservatives who could qualify for food stamps but won’t use them on principal. In my opinion, the time has come to go along with the government pyramid scheme to the fullest extent possible. We need to quit propping it up. The three most important words we need to keep in mind now are accountability, accountability and accountability. Play the entitlement game their way and let them pick up the pieces.
Thank you Jules H. I think you explained why I feel the urgency expressed in my above post…I need to do something NOW. If I wait until the left learns it’s lesson, I will be homeless. We already can’t get enough hours at the only job we can find right now to pay the rent.
I was hoping and praying that things would start to look up the moment that Romney was elected…to just hold on. I have also been one of those people who would definitely qualify for Government assistance/food stamps at least..BUT have never signed up for them because I didn’t want to be part of the problem…so we have gone to the local food banks ( have to share what little THEY give with the ones who DO receive food stamps…which kind of irked me) but we were thankful for what we could get.
I told my Boyfriend last night that I am DONE with that….I am now going to have MY hand out for any possible Government freebies that we can get…which probably won’t be much because we have no dependants..but..whatever we can get. . I hate the idea of doing this, so thanks for “seconding” my “justification” for it. I tried to avoid it..I really did…now, I don’t care.
Sharon, what part of VA do you live in? We live in VA too.
HI Jules….I live in SW VA,,….where O gave his “You didn’t build that” speech.
On the election map, it was the little blue dot in the sea of red,,,,as usual.. sigh,
I disagree with that last part. We are no longer making enough to help pull the wagon, but I’ll be danged if, as an able-bodied adult of sound mind, I’m going to climb into the wagon to be pulled. My husband and I aren’t young, and have been ultra-frugal since we were married, through both thick and thin. No vacations, no movies, maybe 1 dinner out every few years, and we still have the same thrift store living room furniture from when we started out. No kids (didn’t want to go into debt), but if we’d have had them, they’d be long gone from the nest by now
To supplement my work as an independent contractor which happens to be very seasonal, I started a business in 2004. Nothing fancy – just me, working from this computer I sit at, at home, doing something I enjoy and am fairly good at. It did quite better than I expected, and in 4 years time, my annual income from it had tripled what I was earning from my seasonal regular work. But then In 2009, my seasonal work began seeing cuts here and there, and the online business began a fast plummet, which would have been a death spiral, except that my overhead is so low. Then my husband lost his job. My business only makes about 10% what it did in 2008. Hubby was practically forced into Socialist Security after collecting unemployment, due to his age, even though he’d been working steadily right up till he lost his job. But no one would hire him.
In spite of all that, however, there is absolutely no way that I’ll ever sign up for any gov’t freebies, especially under this evil regime – I would rather spit in Onada’s hand, and do without certain things as much as we must. I’ll just have to work harder to find a way through this. The Lord will provide our needs in His time.
I call this attitude nothing more than old fashioned American self respect; others may think of it as stubbornness. But, whatever.
JulieH:
Your thoughts are similar to mine. We have no need now to push for a sound budget anymore. Thus anything that starves or bankrupts the government has to be good in my eyes. So cut the funds, cause a decline in economic activity, and creates greater drains is good in my view. I like your letter and will borrow it. My first recipients are a car dealer and my parish. Here is what I posted above:
For the House of Reps:
1) Don’t raise the debt ceiling, and let the gov’t. shut down,
2) let the Bush tax cuts expire and everyone’s taxes go up,
3) personally take every deduction to the max, reduce your taxes and starve the beast,
4) reduce and part-time employees in preparation for Ozerocare’s full impact,
5) offshore every business where it makes sense, and let a real depression hit this country. When Zero can’t even borrow money and must just print it, then sense may return to the populace.
We are going to personally help out:
1) We are not buying anything major new. The new car is going to not be bought.
2) We are cutting all charities and the government can take up the slack-if it can.
3) We notified our Catholic church that they will have to stop our automatic offering each month. They can let the parishioners with the Obama stickers on their cars be the generous ones. (They aren’t now.) And each action will be conveyed as to why these things are occurring in our circle.
Cheers
Claire d. loon (love that name) I admire your self-reliance and dedication. I truly do. When my hubby was in school during the aftermath of the disastrous Carter years, we lived on $480 per month with a rent of $200 out of that, and never used food stamps nor any form of assistance. (I had voted for Carter, but then became a Reagan Democrat and never looked back – now proud GOP.) I agree that those of us who decide to tap into these programs need to be careful not to grow dependent on them and thus vote Democrat. However, we are being foolish in my opinion if we stubbornly refuse to access the benefits WE PAY FOR and have long paid for through high taxation of every cent we bring home. I am not eligible for any benefits at this point but even if I was drawing some I would gladly give them up in exchange for a fiscally responsible system. Now, being saddled against our collective will with four years of the ever more disastrous implosion of our country, I think the time has come to get what we can out of the government before it goes under. They have forced this game on us and as I see it, we have no choice but to play along with THEIR RULES so that the ultimate consequences of what they are forcing on us will be all the more clear, and we will at least be a bit better able to cope with the inescapable austerity that lies ahead of all of us. I do respect whatever you decide to do. God bless us all with wisdom during these harsh and bewildering times.
Jules, please understand that in no way did I intend my post to be a slam at you, or anyone else. I did not even see your second post referring to this subject when I posted mine, but only your first, in which you seemed to be encouraging anyone who was eligible to line up at the trough. That is a decision that is very personal and individual, and I really do completely understand where you’re coming from, as my DH seems to tend to reason that way, as well. I just couldn’t bring myself to do that right now – maybe I am stubborn (well, heck yeah, I am! LOL), but also, I can think of a lot of other ways I’d rather humiliate myself first, that suit my temperament more, but which others might personally find more disagreeable. But, perhaps even that could change, given the right (or wrong) circumstances….
I keep saying “Just think – in a few years, we’ll be referring to right now as “the good old days.” We might even end up getting divorced on paper, as someone else above mentioned doing. Ha. Right now, I see things like people with multiple degrees doing house cleaning or scavenging for scrap metal to pay their bills, and even at my age, I’m seriously contemplating making up flyers offering to mow lawns and paint for nearby neighbors, all for payment under the table, of course.
God bless us, every one!
Allen West is demanding a recount! He was ahead 2000 in the count until the St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections decided to recount thousands of early votes. When she was done, he ended up loosing 4,500 votes. He’s right that sounds real fishy. He want a hand count. I hope he gets it.
Allen West was robbed! Take a look at this page from the St Lucie Supervisor of Elections website and tell me if you see anything fishy!
http://www.slcelections.com/Pdf%20Docs/2012%20General/GEMS%20SOVC%20REPORT.pdf
141% turnout. How do they do that?
Mirrors and holograms.
Let me make it clear as there is a lot of information on this website.
Total votes recorded in 2008 = 46,987 (registered voters 157,667) 31.7% turnout
Total votes recorded in 2012 = 124,031 (registered voters 175,554) 70.6% turnout
Did almost 3 times as many voters think it was more important to keep Obama in the White House as did to get him there in the first place?
In dem stronghold polling places like St. Paul A.M.E. Church there were FOUR times as many voters in 2012 vs 2008. (2070 vs 519) or (64.6% vs 17%)
West is right St. Lucie STINKS.
But, but, but….. 10 million less people voted this year /sarcasm
You realize just 280,000 votes spread though 4 critical states would have flipped the electoral vote to Romney.
St Lucie District alone accounts for 77,000 votes that were not there in 2008.
Put your tinfoil hat on and noodle this. Just 10 districts in critical states with inflatable turnout like St. Lucie and a republican would never see the presidency again. Scary ain’t it. Now tell me why the republican poll watchers were forced out in Philly. Wasn’t PA in play in the last poll. Bet the turnout in Philly was 115%.
WOW & WOW. 141%, never heard of 141%. More than the entire. Me thinks something is verrrrryyyy fishy.
Please visit link below. Insightful plan from Land Destroyer of how we best use coming years to bring REAL change.
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2012/09/tipping-balance-of-power.html
I have been pushing the ineligibility issue based on the CONSTITUTION for a long time
Kevin let me publish this, I got some pathetic lefty attacks which always fail the logic/law tests…
Weasel Zippers lets it publish but WZ does not focus on the ineligibility
But FOX wouldn’t go there, nor Rush, nor Mark Levin, I’ve fought with Michael Medved (the traitor)…they won’t get into Article II Section 1 Clause 5…all traitors.
I know lefties L=O=V=E that Obama is ineligible and an Indonesian citizen, makes him “cooler” because they hate the Constitution and America fundamentally…
but if more Americans just understood the fundamentals of the Constitution it couldn’t have hurt insofar as preventing this mess to begin with
Here Obama openly admitted he was born a British citizen, and his father was never a US Citizen…
How duh!
I so agree with your comment..please see mine from earlier…I have spent my excess frustration today stating the case I made above…here and there..more to do.
Yes, in 2009, “Birtherism” was a Constitutional Issue that no one really understood or most of us couldn’t argue it very well…and yes, we got bombarded by the left with insults, ignorance,.they didn’t CARE!! Then from the Reps, we got the “excuses” I stated above.
As you stated, then Rush, Fox, the heads of the Tea Party Organitions. etc..wouldn’t let us “go there”..when Glenn Beck started openly ridiculing us, and even feeding back the same BeeEss we got from the left….I was “done” with him and the rest of them.
Then in all embarrassing honesty, I started “buying into the idea” of keeping it sort of quiet”, letting it slide, “maybe our candidates had a point, let them focus on the issues..try to get elected, or reelected on those…..and then work on making Obama a 1 term “President”, and VOTE him out…we see how that worked out.
But, you know, SINCE that time….even more and more information came out that he might not be a citizen at all….we have forged birth certificates, forged selective service registrations, multiple Social Security numbers etc…..but, we birthers continued to let it slide, thinking,,”let’s VOTE him out!!’
When Kevin told us their plans to retire to Hawaii in January…I thought to myself that this would be the best case scenario….LET him screw things up so badly that the left would be destoyed for generations, leave the Conservatives in charge,.then ride his lazy stupid arse into the sunset. If that happened, we conservatives would have THANKED him, but enjoyed it while the LEFT tore into him about it. This really appeared to be exactly what was going to happen..what he seemed to WANT to happen..perhaps he and we BOTH overestimated the intelligence of his devoted moonbats,
Anyway, now that it didn’t and we are left wondering what the hell we can do, if anything , to reverse this….I fully belive that we need to encourage our Republican reps to all stand up when it comes to certifying his appointment,,to have them all stand up and say..”Not so fast..it seems we have a citizenship issue that you have to answer to our satisfaction first.” THAT would get the attention of the media.!! ..it would expose the left..that they don’t care about any laws, or the Constitution…..they even let a non-citizen be nominated, and then elected to be CIC of our Country…and the media covered for them. Then they could refuse to certify him, he would be kicked out of office and prosecuted as a usurper,,,,no relying on leftist Judges, no impeachment proceedings, no Democratic Senate to stop it, and we could be rid of Obabmacare, Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Kagen, Sotomayor, and so much more…THEN we could have Romney and Ryan certified as our new President and VP..because THEY are eligible, and they received the next largest number of votes. Anyone can double check me on this..I would welcome it..but I believe that would be the way it would work. Wouldn’t that be SWEEEEET revenge?..Also, it would be faster than trying to re-educate the typical Obama voter,
How ’bout it? Are we going to do this?
I know this sounds silly but hear me out. We could all re-register as Democrats… Then, when it comes to the primaries, we can vote for their weakest candidate to make sure he/she is the nominee. Then of course during the actual election, vote Republican all the way!
I work in what was once a Republican stronghold and heard from a fellow teacher who is a leftist that she is a registered Republican so that during the primaries she can vote for the weakest Republican candidate. We can play their games too…
I also agree with some prior posters, I have made the decision that I am only supporting my church and Wounded Warriors. When asked for a donation for anything, (girl scout cookies, sports teams, local fire department, Operation Santa, etc.)my response will be,
“I already support too many Americans through my taxes, go ask a democrat.”
“I already support too many Americans through my taxes, go ask a democrat.”
Oh, Gfan, I’ve had a similar thought rattling around my head today … I write a monthly check to a charity, so I don’t answer the door or phone to charity appeals … but, could that change in the future? It’s what the lefties really want, everything funneled through them …
So lethargic are you saying that the goal of leftists is to control who we can donate money to? That we should continue to write checks?
I do struggle with what I said because as a Christian, I know that God calls me to share what I have. I also know that the more I give, the more I am blessed.
BUT, I am just really, really, really p’ssd off by the entitlement mentality and cannot believe that the America I love(d?) is no more… this is not the country my father, grandfather and cousin fought for…
I agree with lethargic. Private money to individually selected charities undermines dictatorship power. What we SHOULD stop doing is donating money to any org also government funded … The mediocrity of gov funded programs must be fully exposed.
There are so many of us now … Roughly half the country … Who oppose the left. We are, if you will, infiltrated into every walk of life like the left has infiltrated the media. Because there are so many, quiet but targeted resistance could cause quite a headache to powers that be. the whole tea party resistance and Romney campaign have been just that. We only need actionable ideas (like the one above). Old GOP establishment has got to go. Young leaders must take over … Our platform can easily leverage the considerable history and reach of the “grand old party”. Sign me up!
The GOP has got to stop running candidates like Matt Doheny, a nominee in my district in New York…. He is a womanizing drunk… Is this the best they can do??? The one who lost to Kirsten Gillibrand before she became NY Senator was a wife beater… then we had a democrat, Scott Murphy who was voted out after one term by a wonderful, decent man of integrity, Chris Gibson. He was then redistricted out of our community by a LEFTIST judge in Brooklyn… Now we are STUCK once again with a democrat who voted for Bathhouse Barry Care.
Sorry for my many posts this evening, I have to vent.
Oh I don’t know……it worked for Menendez didn’t it?
I give charitably of my time (a lot of hours) & $$$ to organizations that I have vetted. What are their philosophies? Who & what do they support? How much are their administrators being paid by %ages? How many actual $$$ see their intended ends?
I support the Salvation Army, Boy Scouts (not Girl Scouts-they changed their ideology & pledge), local food pantry with canned good, & my rural fire department.
Examples –
• The American Red Cross President and CEO Marsha J. Evans salary for the year was $651,957 plus expenses
• The United Way President Brian Gallagher receives a $375,000 base salary along with numerous expense benefits.
• UNICEF CEO Caryl M. Stern receives $1,200,000 per year (100k per month) plus all expenses including a ROLLS ROYCE . Less than 5 cents of your donated dollar goes to the cause.
• The Salvation Army’s Commissioner Todd Bassett receives a salary of only $13,000 per year (plus housing) for managing this $2 billion dollar organization. 96 percent of donated dollars go to the cause.
Military organizations: American Legion, DAV, VFW, VVA, & MOPH commanders received $0 salary. All donation go to veterans & their families.
Kevin, I am reporting for duty. I am a programmer and I am envisioning app that people can put a few key numbers into and it will tell them how much Leftist policies are costing them. I could do the programming but I would need some help from some Hillbuzzer tax accountants to figure out the numbers.
What does everybody think about this?
I think the media (TV and movies) is key. What would today look like if for the last two decades every business man in a movie was portrayed as a hero who provided a valuable service or product to his fellow human and as a result became rich. And being rich was portrayed as good.
Remember that bull****er, “Julia”? Ha ha! How about a time line of our own? Julie is born, Julia wants to sell girl’s out cookies but cant because ordinance requiring shop license for salespersons, Julia wants to get into a certain magnet school but isn’t a minority, Julia this Julia that. Julia dies after living below poverty level for two decades after retirement on what is left of social security.
Wow, I like the timeline!
I think the app sounds marvelous… I would use it to back up my argument to leftists…
I love your idea of having businessmen play starring roles, kind of like the movie, THe Pursuit of Happyness… that was inspirational.
There is no doubt however, that there is a war being waged against white men…
They have been emasculated and are portrayed in the Hollywood as idiots, fools or absent from the family.
I do not permit my children to watch tv programs where there is an absent father or one who is the butt of the families jokes.
I long for the days of the Waltons, My Three Sons, and Little House on the Prairie…Strong father figures who provided for their families.
Maybe Republicans should start screaming about the War on Men!
Many shows portray the father figure as a complete idiot. As well as a lot of commercials. Commercials are probably worse but I always skip the commercials.
Little House on the Prairie was great… ah the good old days.
DH just told me that in Michigan, they defeated the Big Labor constitutional amendment and they beat back the removal of Republican Supreme Court justices. Look how bad Michigan has been hurting, and it finally got through to them … is that what it will take to wake people up? But once they’re awake, the volcano can erupt … we cannot win by meeting Minitru head-on … we have to go around at the grassroots level somehow …
GOOD NEWS:
At least 50 million voters still “get it” about America and have some virtue (internal government).
BAD NEWS:
At least 50 million (maybe) voters don’t get it, they’re like bacteria growing on an beef agar plate, they just eat and take and eat and take until they will eat eachother and poison eachother from entitlement greed.
HOW DO WE COEXIST WITH LIMITLESS TAKERS? The moochers and looters? We will be at $20 Trillion debt.
That’s just it, we have to live side by side, and OUTSMART THEM.
The PRODUCERS have to SPEND THEIR OWN MONEY VOLUNTARILY to create goods and services on their own benefit, goods and services that the Obama government inevitably screws up. For example, education…contribute to an education service, academy, that charitable amount is just that much less that the corrupt government can take.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=s02SypCcYIc
In this way, you BOX OUT the moochers and looters.
“they’re like bacteria growing on an beef agar”
Which reminds me, I must watch Idiocracy again.
Voter turnout in 90 Philadelphia districts was over 90% AGAIN.
I really don’t think that’s possible do you? I mean elderly, sick, out of town, passed out, in jail or just complacent should be 20% to 30% of turnout.
Next election our Philly poll watchers should be ex-marines.
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/harrisburg_politics/Top-Republican-questionable-that-Philly-turnout-was-so-high.html
This is a super fantastic blog that I just discovered. My random thoughts to help.
2014 Senate races start today and a young variety of candidates with conservative values will do it.
GOP -the “O” needs to be change to OPTIMAL or something other than ‘old.”
Deluge social media on Dem sites with documented facts, gently, nicely, and not preachy. Government supported libs spend hours and hours doing this. Make a goal to hit one a day with a polite factoid and sound logical, not passionate. Disguise your passion to gently persuade. No bashing, polite to those that bash you.
My friends who voted democrat were all single issue voters. Libs one because they appealed to all the one issue voters. Gay couple- gay marriage issue. Talk about states rights, individual rights, EQUAL benefits.
government intrusions into our privacy –
Show women voters that they have less equal pay and less jobs overall since 2008. Stick with provable facts and provide links to things like the truth about Libya.
I cannot turn off my TV as I enjoy movies and dramas but I haven’t bought a Starbucks coffee in 10 years. I am highly conscious of the shows I watch and GBC died a quick death after 30 minutes with me and didn’t last a half a season because it was so radical.
Chin up, gloves on, and ready to start tomorrow.
sorry on the typo Libs “won” I type phoneticly – and I am so fired up I did not proofread,
I would drop cable in a heart beat but then I would not have FOX….
Welcome aboard. You’ll like it here. Everybody here is real.
Just remember Kevin is a writer not a blogger (he works real hard and earned the title) and we don’t use the terms “liberal” or “progressive” because leftists love being called by those names.
I get all my Fox online so I don’t miss it. Besides they have been getting a little wobbly lately.
Tired Warrior, thanks for saying everything I would have said.
There have been some great short term ideas presented in this thread….but I think we also need to be thinking “long term” if we truly want to get our country back.
My recommendation is we go underground and spread our influence from within, as they have done for the last 80+ years. We need to get ourselves into the the public school system and systematically start converting the teachers and students into conservativism. Yes – it will suck to be in Unions…but we need to have good intel from within to counter the lefts’ educational doctrine successfully. We can do this. They are not that smart and we can beat them at their tactics. We just have to be very methodocal and, most of all, patient. They can’t see us coming or we will fail.
For example, we can start by slowly intruducing small exercises using critical thinking and competition. We can then start selectively picking the history lessons in their current text books to focus on and quickly pass over the pro-leftist ones. Again – we can’t think only short term because this has been a multi-generational thing….we have to devise a strategic goal and plan that may take several generations to be successful.
Bottom-line: We need to get our public schools back. We need our country to no longer expect and demand “entitlements”. Until entitlements become “not cool” we will remain a socialist country. We need to reclaim our history as well….but that’s another mission entirely….
How do we do this. I think we need some how-to manuals. Maybe we should start froming cells.
In regards to our schools:
For starters we get all Howard Zinn textbooks removed from the schools. Why on earth have we tolerated this lefty loonie to preach his propaganda to our children in the form of a history lesson. Insanity. (I realize the man is dead now but we still use the history books)
We can distribute free pocket Constitutions to all of our schools.
I have been looking into this program.
http://www.mountvernon.org/educational-resources/teachers-students/george-washington-portrait-program/support
Kevin, how can one man make a difference? Look to the Bible, David & Goliath. In modern terms it’s called asymmetric warfare.You win using non-traditional means that exploit weaknesses in your opponents system. Alinsky understood this before it had a name and wrote a manual on it. Within these tactics are the answers and once discovered they will be tough to counter. I think it’s Minitru that must be paid attention to first…..
I think you are right. Can you give some concrete ways in which we can start this?
I commented earlier today about how we have to go after the media and the culture.
Throughout the day I continued to think about it, about how we could do it, and drive the Leftists crazy while doing it.
I’m beginning to think the solution may lie in the little things. We can drive them crazy by nitpicking every little thing they say and do.
I’m thinking that millions of people becoming pests everywhere, all of the time, would be effective. Let’s turn the tables on them. Lefties are always offended by something, let’s be offended too and if we get the old “we changed that because someone complained,” then we need to ask them why that person’s complaint was more valid than ours, (and make them answer that question).
We also need to stop watching network and cable news, no more ESPN guys, no more conservative bashing sitcoms or talk shows. Let’s harass The View, get in their faces, tell them we’re offended when they behave like slutty racists. We need to cancel our newspaper and magazine subscriptions, and, most importantly, we have to support the media that supports our point of view.
Turnabout is fair play and I suspect that these bullies are the same as all the rest, they crumple when they’re called out.
I had an experience at my son’s high school last spring. I was turning in his registration forms and the registrar was so surly and mean that I actually asked her, “Are you giving me attitude?” I could tell she was shocked, and she immediately defensively said, “No.” I looked her right in the eyes and I said, “Sure feels like it.” A couple of students were sitting behind her giggling so I Iooked over and asked them where the Principal’s office was and they told me. That cranky woman turned white as a sheet. I did complain about her surliness to the Principal himself, (I never talk to intermediaries – don’t do it either). He was all apologies and said he’d talk to her about it.
Turns out she had been rude to several of my friends a few days before. When I told them the story they told everyone. Now they know me in town as the Mom who went after that nasty registrar. I’m a local hero because I keep having these epic run ins with rude lefties, government employees, and clerks. I don’t back down, and I don’t shut up, and if they think that their messiah being re-elected is going to stop me they have no idea what they are in for.
We have to double down, we have to stand tough, we have to call them out on every lie, every rude, nasty comment, every insult, every offensive word or action. We have to be relentless, and we have to stop being afraid.
It’s frightening the first few times, but after a while you realize that most of the people around you will agree with you. I actually mocked and eviscerated a stupid eco-nut in a shop in Berkeley, California, and when she walked out the door, I got applause.
So, for those of you who haven’t done it before, start small, build your confidence, and then go for it with both barrels blazing. It’s actually fun to watch them crumble and start blathering nonsense. You will also be surprised by how many people around you will be supportive.
We can no longer sit around and wait for someone else to do something. The Tea Party was the first round, now it’s round two.
We have to infiltrate our schools, the left teach our kids this, we need to clear them out and replace them with teachers that will teach them our Constitution, Freedom…now how do we go about this?
We were up against an incumbent, which was hard enough. The only Republican to unseat an incumbent in the last 100 years was Ronald Reagan, who already had a lot of name recognition which really helped him to win. Also, he was very positive and dynamic about America and that drew people to him. (This is from my WWII veteran relative).
We need to concentrate on the next election in two years to win back the Senate with better candidates – it seems to me that there has to be more focus on this, perhaps with coordination with the Tea Parties. We need to reach out to the single women, who voted in droves for Obama, to “unbrainwash” them. We need the Republican party to stop Democrats from voting in our primaries – this is ridiculous, really. And we all need to use social media as much as possible, encourage everyone just as Breitbart suggested, as it grows it will help us to counterbalance the mainstream media more. Social media is still very new and it will take time, but the mainstream media is falling away, maybe not fast enough but it is. And we need to put this election behind us, stop blaming anyone and move ahead.
Just my two cents
Every day, usefacebook or other to publish one truth being ignored by minitru. And, like Tim says below, WE NEED TO STOP COOPERATING ON ALL LEVELS.
1. We should reward our allies and punish our enemies commercially in all areas of our life. When you have a plumber come to your house, ask are you red or blue? If they say blue hire someone red. We need to do this for everything. Don’t go to that movie or that Springsteen concert. It would be great if we had some kind of “Jornolist” but for people we need to boycott.
2. Our Reps need to stop going on Sunday morning talk shows. In fact they need to boycott all MSM. If our Reps refuse to do this then we should not vote for them or buy their books We must refuse all MSM contact and refuse to engage in any way.
3. We need to stop cooperating on all levels. We need to filibuster and obstruct. Why are we afraid of what the MSM would say about this tactic? They ridicule us in whatever we do already.
4. We need to define simple core values. Mine are low taxes, pro gun, pro life and pro Israel in that order. We must stand for something. We can’t want power for powers sake.
5. We should commit little acts of non violent sabotage. Lets say all the readers call the same phone # at exactly the same time, we all withdraw money from an ATM. Make it fun, legal and irritate someone.
6. We need to start an underground resistanceof non violence and have the mentality of a resistance.
7. We need a coalition of common self reliant people. We need to distance ourselves from the large cap company(they don’t create wealth).
I’ve been thinking more on this. Maybe we all need to do a major reaasesment of what we have believed in the last 12 yrs. Maybe we should out-populist the populists. Should we doing a major Mea Culpa on these wars? Should we say we were wrong to follow the clarion for war? Would it be so hard for me or you to admit this? Maybe we should reconcile this angst and bring the boys home. And finanly say no more. Maybe we should out-dove the doves. How about the Patriot Act. Should we become the party of civil liberties. I think my mea culpa is that I blindly supported Bush and the blue blood rinos. I say no more!
Kevin,
I’m going to go out on a limb to make a bold prediction that Obamacare will be a bust by the end of Obama’s presidency. As of election day, a Rasmussen poll showed that 54% of the people wanted it repealed. More than half don’t like it just from hearing about it, before actually experiencing it. That number will go up at least 10 to 20 points within two years of its inception.
Obamacare is not like other entitlement programs where you sit back and collect “free crap” as Steven Crowder refers to it. Obamacare is perceived to be an entitlement to free medical care but in the end you get nothing for free and when the people see that, they will not like it. The majority will not like it or want it.
The Supreme Court allowed states to opt out of the Medicaid expansion. With more than 30 states now Republican controlled, many if not most will opt out. Fact is, the states just can’t afford it. Millions will not get Medicaid in these states. They too will want it repealed and replaced with a better system.
Doctors are already refusing to accept medicare patients. Under Obamacare, their payments will be far less than what private insurance is paying them. My Primary Care Physician told me what medicare pays now, is less than what it costs to do business. A few years ago the Mayo Clinic announced they will stop accepting medicare patients at all of their facilities. More will follow as successful hospitals and medical centers are out to make money, not just provide quality healthcare. Those on medicare who live in sparsely populated areas will either not be able to find a doctor who accepts them or have to travel to find one. Furthermore, the best doctors don’t need to accept medicare. They are busy enough with patients on private insurance. So those on the Gov’t dole will be stuck with mediocre medical care at best with long waits to get an appointment. That puts life at risk. The Democrats theme of “Republicans want you to die” should be changed to “Democrats want you to die.”
I live in an upper middle class area. Most of the residents have families and are employed by large corporations. Once Obamacare kicks in, theses companies will drop the expensive insurance coverage for a family and opt to pay the much cheaper penalty. They’ve been threatening to do this and I have no reason to believe they’re bluffing. Not only would the families be forced to give up private insurance with excellent coverage, but wealthier people would feel humiliated and embarrassed to be forced onto a health plan perceived to be a program for poor people.
Other than the reasons stated above, there are and will be many court challenges to smaller things in that law. Additionally, the 20 plus tax increases they snuck in will become reality and that will be another stake in the heart. And last, record number of employees will either be fired or cut down to part time hours. Part timers making less money will be forced to pay the $600 fee themselves.
Right now it sounds good to the 46% of the people who don’t want it repealed but that will change when it directly affects them and their health.
Unfortunately, those 20 new income taxes are only going to affect the % taxpayers, not the taxeaters.
Not true, some of those taxes will be thrown upon the middle class such as the 2% real estate tax.
I consider the middle class to be taxpayers. Note, I did not say 1%, I simply said % meaning the percentage of people who are taxpayers. Taxeaters are those who pay no income taxes.
The real ticking time bomb in Obamacare that nobody is talking about is the malevolent repetition of the phrase “there shall be no judicial or administrative review” — meaning when the unelected, Obama-appointed committees decide what health benefits to bestow on you, you have no recourse if you don’t like their decision. Download the actual text of the Obamacare act — all 2600+ pages of it — and then do a word search with the terms “no judicial administrative review” and just see how many things they have absolute say on. It’s really quite terrifying. Nowadays when the insurance companies say no, you can fight them (as Kevin has described in another post). Under Obamacare, no arguing back with their decisions.
“How do we get them to realize that if they keep voting Democrat that the entire country will soon look like Detroit?”
Well, hate to say it, but if the present Detroit electorate is any example the lesson is unlikely to ever be learned.
The Left always accuse others of doing exactly that which they themselves do. Problem is they largely get away with it due to their great skill in, and proclivity towards, the utterance of pathological lies. Combine this with our other known obstacles and I fail to seize upon a great deal of optimism any longer.
yes, i feel hopeless, too. how could people stay home for vote for ron paul or any third party? throwing away their vote to make some idiotic statement that’s lost in the wind a moment later. i am through with politics forever, now. i am sickened by this vote for a man who is simply a traitor to this country.
good luck to all the young people who voted for him. their lives will continue to get worse until they only have a vague memory of what freedom and opportunity once looked like.
it all makes me so sick and i mean that literally.
http://www.luntzglobal.com/
great web site about the terms we use!