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Does Peter Beinart at The Daily Beast know it's the heat, not the bubbles, that boils water?
Sister Mister should be thankful every day that at least he's cute.
Please read this article by Peter Beinart over at The Daily Beast, then rejoin me here to talk about how crazy it is. SPOILER: it’s super crazy.
Sometimes, I think I could actually establish a steady career just pointing out the flaws in Beinart’s logic and noting his gross factual errors and departures from substantiated reality.
In this latest piece, Beinart claims that incumbent presidents only lose their re-election bids “when they have serious primary challenges”, citing three instances in the last 75 years when sitting presidents were rendered one-term failures (Ford, Carter, G.H.W. Bush) and claiming the reason they lost is because they were challenged. He then takes the major leap to insist that a president who is NOT challenged seriously is guaranteed re-election.
Which is not just poor logic, but is actually quite insane…and wholly ignores the elephant in the room that is race. The reason Obama will not be challenged in 2012, as I’ve stated many times before on this site, is because he is a black man and the Democrat Party is a Jenga-tower of precariously stacked identity-blocs that wins elections only when said blocs are not at war with one another. Because of the race-baiting nature of Obama 2008, I firmly believe that if Hillary Clinton or anyone else tried to challenge Obama in 2012, that the Obama campaign would paint that person as a RAAACIST for “trying to take this away from the black man” and even if this person succeeded in snagging the nomination, she or he would be doomed in the general election because Obama surrogates (most particularly First Spouse Michelle Antoinette, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Henry Gates, John Lewis, James Clyburne, and others in the Race Industry) would travel the country convincing black voters “to sit the election out” and “teach the Democrats a lesson”, so angry “the nomination was stolen from the black man”.
Unlike Ford, Carter, and Bush, Obama could have a 5% approval rating in 2012 and if he still wanted to run for a second term he would not receive a primary challenge because of the all-out-Race-War his campaign would launch against whoever ran against him in the Democrat primaries. Therefore, 2012 is wholly anomalous to any arguments Beinart is trying to make using past-as-predictor stats from previous elections.
But, even if Obama was white (and, in reality, he is ethnologically more white and Muslim than he is black, no matter how he race-identifies), the logic Beinart uses would still be fundamentally flawed because he confuses causes and effects illogically throughout.
Beinart is the sort of writer who I easily imagine slipping and falling on wet, muddy grass on his way into work and then insisting to everyone that it had just rained torrentially outside…not realizing the sprinklers were running for hours before he pulled up in his car. He also, for some reason, reminds me of a story my chemistry teacher Mrs. Frohwerk used to tell back in high school my sophomore year, about a girl she once had in class who thought the reason food cooked in boiling water was “because of the bubbles”. ”Well, yes, there are bubbles in water when it boils, but that’s not what cooks the food, Brittany,” Mrs. Frohwerk said she explained to the (you guessed it) blonde. “The water’s at the boiling point and the heat energy in the water is doing the cooking, not the bubbles. The bubbles are a byproduct of that energy, just like the cooked food is a result of the time in the hot water”.
I wonder if, at lunch time, Beinart has ever tried boiling pasta in club soda at his desk…while everyone else at The Daily Beast laughed at him. Instead of seeing that sitting presidents destined to lose their elections were primaried and those on course to win weren’t, he concludes the REASON they were primaried is why they lost. In fact, the fact they were on course to lose was the heat applied to the cooking pot and the primary challenge was the bubbles…the electorate was prepped to cook their respective gooses and their primary challengers saw an opportunity to slip in and prevent disaster by taking the party’s standard away from them…which would not have happened if they, and the party, felt no heat on their rumps and a voting public setting the election to BOIL.
I was, oddly enough, a sophomore in high school during the 1992 presidential election, the same year I was in Mrs. Frohwerk’s chemistry class learning about water boiling. That was the very first presidential campaign I ever worked, as a volunteer going door to door throughout Cleveland for the Clintons. I paid attention to the Republican primaries only because there was some new, loudmouthed, radio talk show host named Rush Something-or-Another (just gaining national attention) that some of the conservative guys in my homeroom would listen to on little portable radios in the morning before school started.
Man, there are eleventy things in the above that make me feel SO OLD.
Pat Buchanan was a joke candidate who did not seriously endanger President Bush’s path to securing the Republican nomination in 1992. I guess I’m probably at least 5-10 years older than Beinart, so I honestly don’t know where he got this, but it’s going far beyond creatively remembering that race to insist Bush was in any danger of losing that nomination bid.
Bush carried 50 states and the District of Columbia in the 1992 primaries, for a total of 72.84% of the vote to Pat Buchanan’s 22.96%.
For some historical perspective, here’s how every president since Ford did in his nominating contests:
* Gerald Ford won his primary in 1976 with 53.29% of the vote to Ronald Reagan’s 45.88%, with Ford winning 26 states to Reagan’s 24. Democrat Jimmy Carter went on to win the general election. 1976 is as bad as things have yet gotten for a sitting Republican president come nomination-time.
* Jimmy Carter secured the Democrat nomination in 1980 by a vote of 51.13% to Ted Kennedy’s 37.58% (and Jerry Brown’s 2.93%, which was his win in California). Carter took 37 states and Kennedy won 12. Ronald Reagan went on to win the presidency, defeating Carter. 1980 was the nadir of support a sitting Democrat president has reached when it came time for re-election nomination.
* Ronald Reagan was almost completely unopposed for his nomination in 1984 (with perpetual also-ran candidate Harold Stassen dropping out moments after dipping his toe into the race, seemingly just for personal amusement). Reagan won all 50 states for a total of 98.8% of the vote.
* In 1988, George H.W. Bush won the Republican nomination with 67.90% of the vote to Bob Dole’s 19.9% and Pat Robertson’s 5.02% (the men had 41, 5, and 4 states in their columns respectively). When Bush ran for re-election in 1992, he secured the nomination with a 72.84% win over Pat Buchanan but lost the general election to the Clintons (despite getting MORE primary votes this second time around than he did four years early when he was nominated with 5% LESS support as Reagan’s VP).
* In 1996, the Clintons won their re-election primary with 88.98% of the vote to Lyndon LaRouche’s anemic 5.47%, easily besting the “it’s his turn” Dole ’96 campaign. 1996 was the highest re-election nomination percentage a Democrat has had in modern times.
* George W. Bush cleaned John McCain’s media darling clock in 2000, with 62.00% of the vote to McCain’s 31.23%, winning 43 states and DC while McCain claimed only 7 states (and Alan Keyes won none, though he did have 5.08% of the vote).
* Bush ran for re-election in 2004 wholly unopposed winning 100% of the vote, before going on to best John Kerry in the general election. 2004 was the highest re-election nominating percentage Republicans have had in modern times, but it was not the easiest win that they’ve had (which was Reagan ’84…an 18% win carrying 49 states).
* Hillary Clinton won the 2008 Democrat Primaries with 47.9% of the vote (18,046,007 cracks in the glass ceiling) but the DNC awarded the nomination to Obama, despite him winning just 47.4% of the vote with a total of 17,869,542 votes cast for him. In 2008, the Democrat presidential candidate was awarded the nomination with a NEGATIVE PERCENTAGE of the presidential primaries vote.
Just looking at these numbers, only an Obama cultist of the highest order couldn’t see that Obama is in deep trouble for 2012 right from the start because he didn’t break 50% of the vote total in his FIRST nominating contest, and actually was handed the nomination with a negative primaries percentage share. The Leftist media keeps trying to convince everyone that the wounds from 2008 have now all healed, but the things the Obama campaign did to Hillary Clinton and her supporters two years ago will never be forgotten — and many Jacksonian/Clinton Democrats (like myself) will most likely never vote Democrat again in our lives because we remain so thoroughly disgusted by our former party.
If the argument is that Carter lost in 1980 because Ted Kennedy’s challenge in the primary divided the party and made it impossible for him to win, then I argue that no challenge is needed for Obama in two years because the damage the DNC did in 2008 by handing the nomination to Obama when he had a negative percent of the primary vote was substantial enough that it already precludes him from a re-election win.
Beinart’s assertion that Obama’s “a lock for 2012″ is ridiculous to me for the simple reason that so many of us who were Democrats back in 2008 are Independent now, and I just don’t see a way the DNC can lure these people back into the fold between today and 2012. From where I stand, looking at all those past nominating contests, there’s never been a president that’s won re-election who had less than 50% of the vote when he was first nominated. A negative percentage of that vote is just “historic and unprecedented”. THIS is a statement that can be supported by facts…unlike Beinart’s argument that “no president has won re-election that had a serious challenger”.
I keep coming back to that 1992 Bush example Beinart uses because it’s just so ridiculous. I remember that race so well and know for a fact that if Ross Perot had not been encouraged on his vainglorious run the Clintons would have never won the White House. Bush coasted to a win very easily against Pat Buchanan, who did not have a realistic chance in Hell of winning the nomination.
Ronald Reagan and Ted Kennedy were both SERIOUS challengers to Ford and Carter respectively in their nominating contests, and they only got 45% and 37% of the vote respectively. Buchanan didn’t come anywhere near that, taking just 22% against Bush in 1992. If not for third party Perot, Bush would have won re-election fairly handily, I bet, since most of Perot’s votes were siphoned-off Republicans and conservative-leaning Independents who I highly doubt would have backed the Clintons.
Beinart so wants Obama to win a second term and not join the ranks of the failed one-termers like Ford, Carter, and Bush that he’s wishcasting in spades for 2012.
The Daily Beast really shouldn’t allow this if it wants to be considered a serious, reputable news source and not some random fanboy blog.
While Obama won’t be primaried in 2012, it’s not because he will be a strong re-election candidate…but because opponents like Hillary Clinton who would have primaried a white male president such as Ford, Carter, or Bush won’t risk their political futures doing so because once that nuclear Race Bomb is dropped with “you are taking this away from the black man” allegations there is no hope for a Democrat to go on to win the general election, since blacks will sit their butts home on election day mad that Obama is not on the ballot. When 91% of blacks give Obama strong support, after two years of dismal failure and broken promises, their race-pride guarantees permanent pariah status in the Democrat Party to any politician who would DARE run against him.
Only a fool would believe she or he could win the general as a Democrat with blacks sitting home in protest, upset “the nomination was stolen from the black man”.
Honestly, I think blacks would stay home in 2012 even if Obama decides not to run for a second term, using health or family reasons as an excuse to retire. I believe they would still see it as “they wouldn’t let him run again” and be so disappointed they couldn’t vote for someone of their race that they just wouldn’t care enough to turn out in the numbers Democrats need to win.
This would be exacerbated by a smart move by Republicans in making Lt. Colonel Allen West the Vice Presidential nominee in 2012, as I advocate and will campaign for in the next two years. If Democrats don’t get 75% of the black vote to turn out, they’re toast. A double-punch of Obama not running and having a charismatic and awesome black candidate on the Republican side of the ballot would be a nightmare for Democrats since I seriously bet they’d muster an anemic 60% of the black vote in 2012 if the stars aligned and Fates conspired this way.
I’m sure Peter Beinart at The Daily Beast disagrees with all of this, and that he already has a big bottle of Veuve on ice in his mini-fridge under his desk. I imagine he dreams of popping that open on Election Day in two years, and maybe even cooking something in all those bubbles if he and his office mates get hungry while celebrating what they believe is Obama’s inevitable re-election.
But the fact he is not going to be primaried says more about the Race Industry’s bully tactics in the Democrat Party than it does about Obama’s general election fate.
Creative Writing Assignment of the Day: What would other presidents be doing to address the Gulf Spill Disaster?
We’d love you to chime in with a bit of creative thinking today, and imagine alternate dimensions where different people are President of the United States right now. Everything else is the same in the scenario involving oil seeping out of the floor of the Gulf, but instead of Dr. Utopia the Lightbringer as president, someone actually equipped and able to do the job is sitting behind the Resolute Desk.
What do you think the following people would be doing to handle this catastrophe and how effective do you think they would be:
(1) Hillary Clinton
(2) Sarah Palin
(3) John McCain
(4) Joe Biden
We didn’t make things TOO radically different from our own reality, in that all of the people above COULD be president right now if a few things played out differently between 2008 and today. Clinton won the Democratic nomination and general election. Palin became McCain’s VP, and after he resigned for health reasons, she was made 45th POTUS. McCain won the general. Biden was elevated to president after Obama resigned due to Parkinson’s complications, etc.
Take as many of the above as you’d like, but just imagine how each of them would be performing right now, what she or he would be doing to stop the leak and avert further disaster, and how the Media would be treating their efforts.
It’s an exercise that proves just how much voting in the right person really does matter, because we believe all the tools and resources are available RIGHT NOW, in this dimension, to solve this problem. The only thing we lack is a president competent enough to effectively marshal them.
Very Interesting Development in Hillaryland: Why is President Clinton fundraising for Hillary '08 debt again — when it was all repaid in 2008?
We don’t know what’s going on here, but this is incredibly interesting.
President Clinton sent out an email a few days ago, with another of the contests he’s used in the past to fundraise for Hillary Clinton’s campaign — this time, it’s a contest to win a day with him in New York City, where each donation is an entry into a raffle for this prize. During the 2008 campaign, there were several of these opportunities offered — but the last time the Clintons did this was in December of 2008.
Here’s the email:
Do you notice something interesting right off the bat?
The “Hillary Logo”, used during 2008 is back, just without the “for President” underneath it next to the American flag swirl.
Now, this logo has not appeared for a while.
Usually emails from President Clinton come to us from the Clinton Foundation, or by way of NoLimits.org, which is the organization Ann Lewis is running for the Clintons, to keep all of Hillary’s campaign volunteers and friends in contact. NoLimits.org effectively took the place of HillPAC — since Hillary Clinton became Secretary of State and removed herself from politics.
In December 2008, two big events at the close of the year were supposed to clear all of Hillary’s campaign debt: one was the “Conversation with Hillary Clinton” hosted by America Ferrara, and the other was the John Mellencamp concert a week or so later. We remember hearing in January 2009 that all the campaign debt was gone — and we heard several times that all of the 2008 books had to be closed by the time Hillary was sworn in as Secretary of State.
We have not heard anything else about campaign debt since 2009.
Now, almost a year and a half later, there’s this email from President Clinton fundraising for the debt again.
It just doesn’t make any sense.
UNLESS what’s happening is that HillPAC is back up and running again, clandestinely, and the Clintons intend to use this fundraising to funnel money into candidates nationwide they support, but the DNC doesn’t.
This trick was used by the Obots in Missouri recently. Claire McCaskill pretended to hold a fundraiser for herself last month, because Robin Carnahan did not want to stand on the stage with Obama. So, McCaskill did it instead, and then funneled all the money raised at the event to Carnahan. She probably kept at least $1.00 — but said “the excess” went to the Democrat actually running for office in 2010 (which would be Carnahan, since McCaskill isn’t up for re-election — and humiliating defeat — until 2012).
Now, the last part of all of this that’s truly fascinating is that late last night we emailed someone from Hillary’s 2008 Illinois Finance Committee and asked him what was up with all of this. This is a guy who’s very important, and doesn’t respond to every email, especially if we’re asking about something crazy, or badgering to know whether Hillary will run for president again. The guy wrote back this time, and told us “that is interesting” and then told us to contact another person we know, who talks to the Clintons regularly.
So, there’s something there.
SOMETHING is going on.
We just don’t know what yet.
If we had to guess, we’d say this is about how bad of shape the Democrat Party is in right now. Obama is dragging down Democrats all across the country. Anyone he campaigns for fails miserably. Obots are losing primaries left and right. Fundraising is way down. The party is clearly Whigging out of revelance.
Are the Clintons being called in as the last-ditch effort to save the party…or is this Clintonian 11th dimensional chess for 2012?
We’ve also noticed several instances where Hillary Clinton has been noting lately how tiresome it is to be traveling the world so much…and all the comments she’s been making about looking forward to daughter Chelsea’s upcoming wedding and finally being a “Mother of the Bride”.
So, to recap:
(1) NoLimits.org is not only still very active, but recently went through an upgrade
(2) Several “Hillary is 45″ and “Hillary 2012″ groups recently energized email updates and reaffirmed their contact lists
(3) The old Hillary campaign logo is alive and well and living on in President Clinton’s emails — for the first time in a year and a half
(4) The Clintons are fundraising again for Hillary’s campaign apparatus
(5) Team Hillary here in Illinois agrees “something” is going on
(6) The Democrat Party is in real trouble, and everyone knows it
(7) Hillary Clinton keeps making statements that make it appear she’ll be resigning as Secretary of State after November’s elections
Your guess is as good as ours as to what the real deal is…but it’s all very, very interesting.
Three Women Will Save This Republic: Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and Michelle Bachmann
Hillary Clinton is currently the only capable person working in the highest levels of our government. She alone is preventing this disaster of an administration from spinning COMPLETELY out of control. The only thing that allows us to sleep well at night is knowing Hillary is out there, somewhere, wide awake, putting out fires and stopping as much insanity as she can — working inside the administration.
Sarah Palin is our western hope. Our champion in the shadows. We believe she is preparing, from outside government, to take back this country for the American people and restore our Republic in two years. May she have the strength, courage, and support to complete her mission. She is our Artemis, our Joan of Arc, our great hero when we need her most. Thank Heaven for her.
Michelle Bachmann is just about the only worthwhile member of Congress. She is a Resistance Leader. In fact, she actually STARTED the American Resistance. We’re putting a photo of her up on our Wall of Heroes here at Buzzquarters to remind us to work hard every day to stop the Leftists in whatever they are doing. This woman needs to be made Speaker of the House by popular acclaim in 2011. She is going to personally fight every illegal thing Democrats are doing in ways the wimpy males of the GOP have never had the testicular fortitude to do. Bachmann is showing them how to man up, put down the rocks glasses, and leave the cocktail parties long enough to do what voters want them to do: FIGHT BACK against these lunatics.
Our Republic is in the hands of these three women.
Hopefully, millions more women and men with their fighting spirit will stand with them in all that they do to end The Golden Age of Hope and Change and restore our Republic, drive the Leftists from power like the snakes from Ireland, and obliterate the DNC once and for all.
Research Project: Document the MSM's use of "polarizing" against Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton
This is another long-term project, which will take a while, but we’d like to see where the use of the word “polarizing” as a weapon against Sarah Palin started.
This is an easier task than figuring out where “polarized” was first used as a weapon against Hillary Clinton. The MSM has been doing this to her for decades.
The MSM attacks on Palin, however, began August 29th, 2008.
We think we can ultimately create an excellent graph and chart from this data, illustrating the use of “polarizing” as a concerted attack on both women, with the American media colluding to destroy these two female candidates.
“Polarizing” is a code word, in the way the black community and various race-baiters like Al Sharpton, Henry Gates, and Jesse Jackson forever claim every other word is coded RAAACISM! against blacks.
Well, “polarizing” is a misogynistic, sexist, gender-based weapon aimed at women.
To stop it, we need to identify how it’s used, its history in the MSM, and the impact it has on female candidates.
It’s a big project, but we have to start somewhere.
Democrats will regret alienating the Clinton Coalition in 2010 and 2012
Here’s a very detailed, big-thinking article over at RealClearPolitics that is well worth a read when you have time to sit down, take a few notes, and really contemplate it: Can the Clinton Coalition Survive the Age of Obama?
It’s FASCINATING…but very detailed, and we honestly had to re-read it a few times to fully appreciate the thousand or so important things that it said.
Essentially, the authors look at the Coalition Bill Clinton assembled in 1996 for his second term, bringing “Jacksonian Democrats” back to the fold. These are, essentially, the “Reagan Democrats” who ditched the party in DROVES after Jimmy Carter…the same people who, in 2008, Dr. Utopia, our illustrious current president, called “bitter, gun-and-religion-clinging, people who don’t like anyone different from themselves”. Or, in words his Liberal friends and fellow race-baiters would say, RAAACISTS!
Dr. Utopia was shellacked by Jacksonians in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, and everywhere else in the 2008 primaries where Jacksonians recognized the Clinton moderate brand and wanted absolutely no part of Liberal socialist insanity by way of Dr. Utopia and his condescending “bitter clingers” remarks inside the Getty Mansion in San Francisco.
In the article above, the authors note that in 1996, Bill Clinton appealed to not just these Jacksonian Democrats, but also to Independents in the suburbs who wanted law and order, good schools, safe streets, low taxes, and responsible government spending. These suburbanites are culturally and fiscally conservative, thinking family and entrepreneurialism first, with absolutely no interest in a sweeping Liberal agenda anymore than they wanted to jump into any Right wing religious zealotry.
If you notice, these people the writers talk about in 1996 as part of the Clinton Coalition are the very same people who stood with Hillary Clinton herself to the end in 2008. They also include many conservatives on the Republican side who, to this day, say they would rather have had a third Clinton term with Hillary in the White House than to have Dr. Utopia in office today.
We have not seen anyone else, ANYWHERE, make this realization yet.
Instead, for more than the last year, we’ve constantly been berated by the MSM that 2008 was such a historic election, that the “youth vote and the black vote” were phenomenally large and that Liberals have secured a permanent majority and hold on this country in a monumental landslide of an election. All of that is sheer and utter nonsense.
The “Clinton Coalition” article notes that 2008 was actually primed for a Democrat of the Clinton mold to win 60% of the national vote…while Dr. Utopia only won 53%. They claim Bush’s second term, in particular, had been perceived as an upper-middle-class independent voters’s personal nightmare: out of control social policies, massive spending, two wars spinning out of control, financial collapse of businesses and banks, etc. The authors note “the right Democrat candidate could have put together a massive Presidential majority” by building a new coalition of not just the urban elites, blacks, dyed-in-the-wool loyal Dems, but also the suburbanites and Jacksonians as well.
Dr. Utopia did not do that.
It’s apocryphal to call his victory a landslide, beacause it wasn’t. Landslides happened in 1920/1932/1952 and 1980, as the authors note. Hillary Clinton would have had a landslide victory in 2008, if you read what the authors are saying and factor in what we’ve told you about the primaries: she won all of the people the authors say did not vote for Dr. Utopia as they should have.
Another thing the authors don’t note but we have repeatedly told you: the only reason Dr. Utopia won at all in 2008 is because Republicans sat their butts home. If the GOP had managed turnout at George Bush’s 2004 re-election levels, President John McCain would be in the Oval Office today.
One of the things that makes us the most furious around here is whenever we read anything derogatory and dismissive of PUMAS on Republican sites. While Republican after Republican we knew sat on their fat lazy backsides in 2008, eating their fudgecicles and drinking their bourbons, claiming “Oh, McCain is not conservative enough for us, so we’re just going to not vote this year because that will teach the GOP a lesson…and Obama will be a new Carter and then we’ll get a new Reagan in four years, heh heh heh”, moderate Democrats like us went traipsing through most of the Midwest riling up as many Jacksonians as we could to vote Republican — most for the first time in their whole damn lives. We had dogs sicked on us, rocks thrown through our windoews, nonstop hate mail sent to us (to this day, as a matter of fact), because we were lifelong Democrats who knew what Dr. Utopia was, who clearly saw what he planned to do to this country, and who understood his term in office would be four long years of nonstop reckless spending on socialist/communist/radical entitities like ACORN (just as George Soros directed).
Read the “Clinton Coalition” article. The reason Dr. Utopia won by 53% and not 60%, as he should of, is because of PUMAS. The article calls us “Jacksonian Democrats”, and maybe that’s what we all were before 2008, but we’re PUMAS now and forever baby. The majority of us will never call ourselves Democrats again. Those of us here at HillBuzz are still weighing that decision, because being a Dem has been part of our cultural identity our wholel lives. None of us step into a church except for funerals and weddings, but we all still call ourselves Catholics. However, increasingly, the Democrat Party has done so many terrible things in the last two years that we now call ourselves “Clinton Moderates” more than anything else. That’s “PUMA” for short.
None of us can imagine voting Democrat in 2012 unless Hillary Clinton is the nominee. There are a lot of new readers here over the last few days who found us because of an article we wrote detailing our reappraisal of former President George W. Bush. We here at HillBuzz fully intend to campaign for the Republican nominee in 2012 so that Dr. Utopia gets only one term and there can still be time to save this country from the socialist cancer this terrible man has stitched into the fabric of our nation. If Sarah Palin runs for President, we will quit our jobs and move to Ioawa to ensure we do everything we can to stop Dr. Utopia from gaming the Caucus like he did to Hillary. We will relive the nightmare of the last two years’ of our lives, learning from everything Dr. Utopia and the DNC did last time and make sure they do not win again. Those crazy Leftists must be defeated so that, someday, the Clinton Coaltion of 1996 and the Hillary Dems of 2008 can take back the Democrat Party and boot the deranged Carrter/Utopia elements out.
The “Clinton Coalition”, while not touching on PUMAS, and not even mentioning the Republicans who sat their sorry asses home in 2008 because “McCain wasn’t good enough”, notes that Dr. Utopia won in part because he created such intensity in the liberal, urban, and racist black base of the party. That’s another thing Democrats and the MSM don’t like to talk about, but the biggest racists we have ever met in this world are black people. They came out in droves to vote for someone they knew absolutely nothing about, just because his skin was the same color as theirs. These same low-information racist voters are the ones who keep expecting the current president to send them free checks in the mail, or give them reparations and other prizes. Increasingly, we hear them grumble that their guy isn’t doing anything for them. Blacks are the most notoriously unreliable voters in the Democrats’ coalition. While they will ALWAYS turn out in big numbers for a black candidate, and will always abandon people who have been good to them, like the Clintons, if a black they don’t even know appears on the ballot too, they just might not be so eager to turn out in 2012 because Dr. Utopia is already president. There will be no impetus for them to “make history” as the MSM kept putting it. ”The first black president elected to two terms” is not a great motivator for these people. It won’t motivate the urban liberals too, or the LGBTQ community either. All of that magical mojo was used up in 2008, never to be repeated again.
We are telling you — and we hope to Heaven some of you listen — that Republicans will never, ever win the racist black vote, the delusional liberal urban elite vote, or the low information LGBTQ vote. It is a waste of time to even try, because none of these groups vote rationally and will always pull the lever for the Democrat — with the exception of blacks, who will vote for anyone else who is black, regardless of party, ability, or any other qualification.
2012 entirely hinges on three things:
(1) the GOP running a candidate who turns out their base, so that few idiots sit at home “to teach the GOP a lesson” because they believe the candidate is not conservative enough
(2) that candidate needs to talk only about creating jobs, lowering taxes, reining in spending, providing law and order, stabilizing the economy, securing energy independence for this country, protecting our citizens, and providing a solid education and path to a good future for our children. NO talk about social issues…no attacks on gays…no crusade on abortion…no fodder for the Race Industry
(3) balancing (1) and (2), the candidate needs to appeal to conservatives while standing tall and strong as someone Jacksonian Democrats, PUMAS, independent voters, and Clinton Moderates, whatever you want to call us, can get behind
Ladies and Gentlemen, that person is Sarah Palin.
If she goes for it, she’ll be the 45th President of the United States.
Read the “Clinton Coalition” article, because everything in there points to Dr. Utopia’s defeat in 2012. If Democrats are smart, they will convince Dr. Utopia to pull an LBJ and announce he has a medical illness (most likely Parkinson’s, which is sympathetic) and cannot seek a second term.
And then the Democrats should nominate Hillary Clinton.
But, 2012 will not be an automatic win for her in the general election as it would have been in 2008. Remember what the “Clinton Coalition” article said, about voters responding to Bush, the financial collapse, and everything else they blamed Republicans for. Well, in 2012 voters will be blaming Democrats for all of Dr. Utopia’s broken promises. On top of that, the reckless spending this White House and Congress are engaged in will have perhaps permanently ruined our economy by 2012.
The article notes that it took Bill Clinton’s controlled spending and budget surpluses to convince voters Democrats weren’t spendthrift loons after Jimmy Carter.
Three years from now, Dr. Utopia, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid will probably have put those old Carter terrors back into everyone. It honestly could be another 20 years before Americans trust Democrats with a budget again.
Hillary might very well be the Democrats’ only hope in 2012…because if made the nominee, at least she will have a shot, unlike Dr. Utopia…but he may well have done so much damage that she can’t win.
If everything continues to align as it is now, a woman will indeed be President in 2012, be it Hillary or Sarah…and we will work our heart and souls out for her on the ground whichever one it is who takes on Dr. Utopia because we just can’t let this man have a second term.
We honestly don’t think America would survive it.
First Ladies Update: October 20th, 2009
Here’s something new we’re starting here, hopefully on a daily basis: a thread dedicated to what the current and former First Ladies of the United States are up to. If you have any info on the whereabouts and activities of Betty Ford, Rosalyn Carter, Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, Laura Bush, or the current First Lady, post the links here.
Hillary Clinton, to us, graduated from former First Lady into her own special sphere, as we see her now as Secretary of State and former Senator more than as a former FLOTUS. She will always be a former FLOTUS, obviously, but at this point in her life she’s already exceeded Eleanor Roosevelt as the most accomplished and hardest-working former FLOTUS this nation has ever had.
Whether you like the woman or not, you have to give her that. We happen to adore her…and look forward to many more years of HRC on the national scene, every day building more of a legacy for herself, waking up each morning to make this nation better and stronger (and, currently, doing her level best to be the one voice of reason and grown-up sensibility in an administration bespotted with itself and completely out of control).
So, what are the FLOTUSes up to?
The Current First Lady: Here’s an interesting read from SybillSpeaks, regarding Mrs. Utopia’s crusade against junk food (something that, we’re sure, could positively destroy her friendship with bestie “chit chat buddy” Oprah, Lake Michigan’s own Charybdis). Apparently, Mrs. Utopia wants her face put on McDonald’s wrappers and cups, warning people not to eat so much. So THAT explains her fashion choices. All along we thought they were just hideous lapses in judgment, but here they were nobel attempts at appetite suppressants. Somewhere, Norwegians are already scrambling to hand out the prizes.
Jackie Kennedy: According to all seismic data available, she’s still rolling in her grave at a steady pace, due to the MSM’s constant insistence that vintage Givenchy and Chanel is in any way reminiscent of Jason Wu coffee filter dresses or frocks made from couch upholstery.
Barbara Bush: Check out this article on WowOwoW and see how it takes a potshot at Barbara Bush, calling her “Marie Antoinette” for making remarks after Hurricane Katrina the Left enjoys hammering her on. Now, take in the silence punctuated by the sound of crickets in terms of the same media ever talking about the things that come out of our current First Lady’s mouth. Like how, twice in one day in Wisconsin during the 2008 primaries, she insisted she was proud of her country for the first time only because she and her husband were winning things and getting lots of attention. Or, how about when she ridiculed the Bush tax rebates by saying, “$600 can’t even buy me earrings”. Then there’s the disaster that is the current First Lady’s “organic garden” on the White House lawn — a garden much ballyhooed and trumpeted that’s completely ignored by the media now. Why? Because the arugula’s not growing, and the whole plot’s not considered actually organic because the land it’s planted on is riddled with chemicals and who-knows-what the current First Lady’s crackerjack team didn’t bother to sort out before declaring themselves “100% green and organic”. Sounds a little like a certain Petit Hameau that proved an inauthentic embarrassment for the real Marie Antoinette — who actually probably would have thought $600 was a lot to spend on earrings and was never as bad as people made her out to be. AND, we must note, was proud of her adopted country each and every day until the very end.
Laura Bush: h/t LandmarkSocietyWNY Laura Bush was the speaker at the annual Advocacy Luncheon; she talked about the Preserve America and Save America’s Treasures programs, which she championed as First Lady. She told the assembled preservationists, “Whatever you’re doing, you’re making sure that future generations of Americans can enjoy the natural and historic treasures of our nation.”
