Andrew Sullivan Asks...

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[4est_4est_Gump]

Polls lie.

Pollsters are in the tank for Republicans.

These polls are under-sampling Democrats who are angry and voting in droves...

All we know is that you Republicans are getting desperate and ignoring all the Romney-Ryan lies.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Maybe some catchy tag-line.


Something like "Hope and Change", to pull him out of the mire.


Ten Bears may be making a stand here.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Changing Hope!

 

[Wat_Tyler]

You need to slap some hot iron on that.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Rub some dirt on it Johnny!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I do not believe for a minute that Mitt Romney, had he been president, would have failed to give the Greens his backing in some shape or other.

So what happened to liberalism and the Democratic Party?

Well, I am at fault — I have to admit it — I and my generational cohorts who sought to turn the Democratic Party in our direction from 1968 onwards. We managed to turn the Kennedys with us. A family that was staunchly anti-communist went wishy-washy, first Bobby and then, of course, Teddy.

They played to our rabble of hippies and New Leftists, wanting to be of us and like us, to smoke pot with us and drop acid, to boogie until they dropped, and to sleep with as many women as they could. It went on and on with only temporary restraints and interregnums.

And then came the rise of Obama, forty years later and the self-hypnosis was complete. Not even 9/11 could stop it. Gone was the country that had the spine to stop Nazism and communism. Here was the country whose leader went to Cairo to tell the citizens of the Arab Middle East — those citizens that practiced misogyny and homophobia as if we were still in the ninth century, for whom the separation of church and state was a delusional psychosis, who made all their neighborhoods more judenrein than Hitler and nearly Christian-free as well and now have elected the Muslim Brotherhood and similar fundamentalist groups to lead virtually all their people — that all was America’s fault and that we would make amends.

Crazy, huh?

No wonder they stampeded.

Well, we are at a crossroads now clarified by Mitt Romney’s VMI speech. The time has come to make a choice or it will soon be too late.

And how important is foreign policy in this election? Well, how about ninety percent of it? The economy is indeed in a disastrous state and may get Romney elected, but the truth is presidents have far less to do with economic affairs than they do with foreign affairs. Capitalist economies have the capacity to right themselves, even if their leaders are doing everything possible to sabotage them.

Not so foreign policy. The president and his people run the show. Do we want any more of this? I think not.

Roger L. Simon, PJMedia
http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2012/10/09/foreign-policy-is-romney-the-new-jfk/?singlepage=true

 

[Wat_Tyler]

We all died a little in that damned war.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Ah re'con so...


*spit*

 

[kbate]

And how important is foreign policy in this election? Well, how about ninety percent of it? The economy is indeed in a disastrous state and may get Romney elected, but the truth is presidents have far less to do with economic affairs than they do with foreign affairs. Capitalist economies have the capacity to right themselves, even if their leaders are doing everything possible to sabotage them.

I call and raise a pre-election QE3.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAD6Obi7Cag

 

[mercury14]

Vette jumps off the Rasmussen bandwagon as soon as he can cherry pick another poll he likes better.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Yeah, what does he know about this?


My new wheels had better fit!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The force is with you.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I call and raise a pre-election QE3.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAD6Obi7Cag

We are now experiencing QEweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

In an acutely reasoned article for American Thinker, economist and member of the Ludwig Von Mises Institute Monty Pelerin warns that the United States is “one election away from tragedy.” Pelerin is not alone in mounting this argument; many commentators and political analysts are in agreement that November 6, 2012, may be one of the most fateful dates in the entire pageant of American history, no less crucial than another resonant date, April 12, 1861, when Abraham Lincoln responded to the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter. For there is a growing—though perhaps insufficient—consensus on the part of a notable segment of the American public, Republican candidates for office, and a number of disaffected Democrats that the coming election is essentially a plebiscite and that the future security, coherence, and prosperity of the nation will be decided on the first Tuesday of November of this year. “There are but a few weeks left,” writes Andrew McCarthy in a review of David Limbaugh’s The Great Destroyer: Barack Obama’s War on the Republic, “before the nation either dramatically alters course or cruises on to the abyss, perhaps irreversibly.”

A victory for Mitt Romney would allow the nation to return, if only partially, to its historical roots as a constitutional republic and free market economy. But if Barack Obama should win re-election, America will inexorably go the way of the crushingly indebted, under-employed, imploding European Union, as well as gradually surrendering much of its autonomy to an advancing Islamic presence and the inroads of Shari’a law. It would continue to rely on the dubious expedient of soft power and international diplomacy (aka, accommodation and concession) to defend its interests, thus subsiding into political desuetude. A second term for this president will yield a nation drowning in debt, undergoing a rapidly declining material equity, and increasingly vulnerable to Islamic subversion.

To cite Roger Kimball’s objective recapitulation, this is the president who is defined by “the $16 trillion federal debt, the 8.3 percent unemployment when he promised to have it down to 5.6 percent, the annual deficit, which he promised to halve, hovering around $1.5 trillion,” as well as “the disaster that is Obama’s Islamophilic Mideast policy—our consulate overrun in Benghazi, our ambassador murdered, Obama is told 90 minutes into the assault, he goes to bed….” One might also mention Obama’s empowering of the anti-American Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and the hospitality extended to Islamic organizations and individuals at home.

David Solway
http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-rebuke-of-sam-slick/?singlepage=true

 

[mercury14]

David Solway
http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-rebuke-of-sam-slick/?singlepage=true

AJ referencing a Pajamas article that's referencing a Thinker article - cross-posted on on multiple threads. Gump_Alt and his giddy hard-on for incestuous op-ed pieces is always fun to watch.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

In The Flight from Truth, French political philosopher Jean-François Revel remarks that “the average human being seeks the truth only after having exhausted all other possibilities.” Obviously, his insight also applies to the average American citizen, except that, judging from the previous election, his or her credulity may be practically insurmountable and not all the possibilities may be exhausted before the boom is lowered. In this connection, I am reminded of a distinctly proleptic passage from Thomas Chandler Haliburton’s 1836 satirical collection The Clockmaker: The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slicksville, a hilarious portrait of a gullible electorate, which I reproduce in full:

I allot, said Mr. Slick, that the Blue Noses are the most gullible folks on the face of the airth—rigular soft horns, that’s a fact. Politics and such stuff set ‘em a gapin, like children in a chimbly corner listenen to tales of ghosts, Salem witches, and Nova Scotia snow storms; and while they stand starin and yawpin, all eyes and mouth, they get their pockets picked of every cent that’s in ‘em. One candidate chap says, “Feller citizens, this country is goin’ to the dogs hand over hand: look at your rivers, you have no bridges; at your wild lands, you have no roads; at your treasury, you hante got a cent in it; at your markets, thing don’t fetch nothing; at your fish, the Yankees ketch ‘em all. There’s nothing behind you but sufferin, around you but poverty, afore you, but slavery and death. What’s the cause of this unheard of awful state of things, ay, what’s the cause? Why Judges, and Banks, and Lawyers, and great folks, have swallered all the money. They’ve got you down, and they’ll keep you down to all eternity, you and your posteriors arter you. Rise up like men, arouse yourselves like freemen, and elect me to the Legislatur, and I’ll lead on the small but patriotic band, I’ll put the big wigs thro’ their facins, I’ll make ‘em shake in their shoes, I’ll knock off your chains and make you free.” Well, the gooneys fall tu and elect him, and he desarts right away with balls, rifle, powder horn and all. He promised too much.

This is the charlatan, aka Barack Hussein Obama (with a soupçon of Joe Biden), who promised too much and delivered too little, but who may conceivably win the day and the Legislatur. Unless, by some miracle of destiny, a plurality of American citizens (and Electors) awakens to the bitter truth that the man they elected in 2008 to the highest office in the country is a kind of impostor or confidence man whose rhetoric stands in inverse relation to his achievements, a man who obviously does not regard the country he was entrusted to govern as in any way exceptional or lovable, whose wife is on record as saying that the U.S. is “just downright mean,” a man whose antecedents, formative influences, shrouded résumé, and mendacious biography typify him as something of a stranger to the very inheritance he claims to represent. And those who swallow his line, as Slick observes, “expect too much from others, and do too little for themselves.” Even worse, “they think they know everything, but they get gulled from years’ eend to years’ eend.”

David Solway
http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-rebuke-of-sam-slick/?singlepage=true

 

[kbate]

AJ referencing a Pajamas article that's referencing a Thinker article - cross-posted on on multiple threads. AJ and his giddy hard-on for incestuous op-ed pieces is always fun to watch.

Indict the source. Ever a strong counter argument.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Don't you have some prescribing to do for your LT alt in another thread?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The last angry Democrat snarling...


An Army of Won

Hope and Chains 2012!

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Indict the source. Ever a strong counter argument.

Don't you imagine that he pronounces the c when he says that aloud?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Indict the source. Ever a strong counter argument.

Don't you have some prescribing to do for your LT alt in another thread?

Ease up. The guy is on his last bottle of Hope, and as usual, someone handed him a bottle half-empty...

 

[mercury14]

Indict the source. Ever a strong counter argument.

AJ posts something completely off-topic as usual and I need to make a counter argument, eh?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Don't you imagine that he pronounces the c when he says that aloud?

The loud angry little voice in his head assures him that it is an A-...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Ease up. The guy is on his last bottle of Hope, and as usual, someone handed him a bottle half-empty...

. . . and probably wanked a load into it as well.