Why the GOP has won seven of last ten Presidential elections
By Mike DeVine, Legal Editor for The Minority and HinzSight Reports
Attention all conservative Republican nervous nellies that have declared defeat ad naseum for the last 23 months based on the refusal of our candidate to aggressively attack the opposition: The McCain-Palin campaign is taking the gloves off and attacking Obama’s radical leftism.
Baseball happens every Spring. Democrats get exposed for the out of the mainstream leftists they are every fourth October just in time to lose the presidential election.
Like many of the teeth gnashers here, I wish we would expose liberal Democrats for the intellectually and morally bankrupt forces they are 365 24/7, rather than join in the MSM’s denial and cover up of the vile, failed policies advanced by McCain’s “honorable” friends in Congress. If we did, we would have built oil refineries and nuclear power plants since 1978; drilled for oil off the coasts of the Lower 48; appointed Bork to the US Supreme Court; taught a heroic version of history to our children in neighborhood schools; and made it impossible for man that parked his butt in the pew of a Hate Whitey America church for 20 years to make it to Iowa.
But, one thing I do know from having been intimately involved in every presidential campaign since 1980 (the first five of which as a Democrat Party official): Liberal democrat presidential candidates get exposed before election day and lose.
Americans vote on one day (I know we have early voting now, but my point is that no candidate is “ahead” in March, April, etc., despite polls as nauseum.). Most Americans do not live and die for politics like most of us bloggers. They know that they don’t have to, because they have voted before; spotted the leftist and prevented the leftist from owning the nukes.
They know its not hard to spot the leftist, ans that they can do so near in time to the election.
McCain knows this too.
Moreover, unlike past years when not elected Presidents (and not re-elected)Carter, Mondale, Dukakis, Gore and Kerry held medium to large opinion poll leads in most months and days leading up to the last few days before the actual vote, Obama is already most well known for his racist pastor. They have heard Rev. Wright preach God-damn America sermons.
Now, they are about to meet a real world example of an acting out of Rev. Wright’s views in Obama’s first political fundraiser and radical education reform partner, unrepentant 60’s radical terrorist, William Ayers.
Obama was the first chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a school-reform group of which Ayers was a founder. Ayers also held a meet-the-candidate event at his home for Obama when Obama first ran for office in the mid-1990s.
Obama is also an example of acting out, albeit is a more subtle way. Obama was asked by pastor Rick Warren about good and evil in the world and named Darfur and the streets of America. He expressed a desire to meet Chavez and Ahmedinijad before General Petraeus; took money from MoveOn.org that called him “Gen. Betrayus”; and later spoke to the group without denouncing their ad.
Sarah Palin took off the gloves yesterday:
“This is not a man who sees America as you see America, and as I see America,” Palin said. “Our opponent, though, is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect — imperfect enough that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country. Americans need to know this. … I think, OK we gotta get the word out. This is in fairness to the electorate we gotta start telling people what the other side represents.”
“Apparently Senator Obama has no problem associating with someone like that, and somehow thinks that this unrepentant terrorist is rehabilitated,” she told FOX News.
Obama and the left never speak, like Palin did of “America as a force for good” or of the oft used phrase of Ronald Reagan, “American exceptionalism.” He never speaks of victory in Iraq, but only of “ending the war” and “protecting” the troops as if they were children victims. He has accused our troops of being morally equivalent to the terrorists (who kill innocents as a tactic of war) in Afghanistan with regard to the killing of civilians.
John Kerry did the same. The whole party save for Joe Lieberman have accused President Bush of lying us into war or remained silent in the face of this scurrilous enemy-emboldening lie. They played politics with the credit crisis last week and with war for five years.
Obama and the leadership of the national Democratic Party are vile, and it appears the exposes the MSM branch of the Dem party refuses to do, will now be done for them and for the American Party.
It happens every four years. Mondale promised tax hikes. Dukakis thought the Pledge of Allegiance too offensive for school children but convicted murderers and rapists on furlough acceptable. Kerry conspired with the North Vietnamese; saw G.I. Joes (except for himself) as Ghengis Khan; and littered the White House lawn with metal.
The inevitable details of how and why liberals lose are being seen by more people. People are shifting their attention to the campaign. This is when it happens. Behold its glory.
And 2-3.5 years from now as we approach another election cycle, please remember that October before the election is early enough do all the stuff we want everyday and win the presidential election and remember all the pre-election polls that passe for daily sustenance that were wrong.
October non-surprises: liberals get known by those that need to know, when they need to know it.
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
October 5th, 2008 at 9:31 am
The challenge this year is that Obama will not just sit back and take it as Kerry and others did. He’s already announced plans to come back hitting hard on the economy and how do we know ads on Charles Keating and McCain’s divorce won’t be aired? We must be careful, but overall I think it would be the utmost of fallacy for us not to attack him on these things.
October 5th, 2008 at 9:38 am
I sincerely hope the GOP keeps up with the exposes (where’s my tilde?) each and every day until the election, with more fervency than ever. This country really needs to know what Obama is. There are enough facts, not just heresay, they can utilize to make their case. I’ll bet at least half of those who have a starry-eyed perspective of the senator from Illinois would turn tail and run straight to the GOP if they really knew what this man represents. The other half think just like he does and are beyond hope. Come on, McCain/Palin – leave the gloves off and grow some nails!
October 5th, 2008 at 9:40 am
Too late. By this time in 2004 Kerry was already identified as a flip-flopper who had also contrived a honorable military record.
This is 60 days too late but it may help deny Obama some legitimacy as president.
October 5th, 2008 at 9:48 am
This may be utter hearsay and rumor, but I am hearing that the McCain campaign/RNC might have damning video evidence against Obama that they are holding onto and are going to release later this month. If this were the case, it would make sense that they wouldn’t attack Obama on these things until October.
October 5th, 2008 at 10:13 am
Obama now prepping ads to say that mccain wants to change the subject and not talk about the economy…
McCain should simply respond with something like this:
“As you have observed over the past 21 months that Sen. Obama has been running for President, he has been only been consistent in one area, and that is that he has consistently dodged and avoided any serious discussion about the group of folks that he chooses to hang out with and who have been instrumental in informing his outlook and political leanings. It is Sen. Obama who is desperate to run from a review of his friends. It is Sen Obama who has time and time again sided with convicted felons, liberal party hacks, and unrepentant terrorists, and it is Sen Obama who wants you to take at face value that it is mere coincidence that he has chosen to pal around with terrorists. Its a sad day when we as a nation can see through the rhetoric and staged imagery, smears and lies, and know that the would be emperor does in fact have no clothes. It is Sen Obama who got his political start and launched his run for the presidency from a domestic terrorist who aided in the bombings of the US Capital, and who’s group killed a police officer in one of their bombings. That Sen Obama does not want to talk about his friends is no surprise. It is rare indeed that one person would be willingly associated with such a radical, criminal, and self admitted terroristic group of friends – and rarer that this individual would have the audacity to believe that the american people would not see through the charade.”
October 5th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Yeah, except liberal Gore actually got more votes than Bush and liberal Kerry almost won and would have if not for 60k people in Ohio. I wish it were the case that liberals were just rejected out of hand but we’re approaching the point where that is no longer true.
Think of it this way. In 1988 would the country even be considering voting for someone like Obama? With his ties to terrorists? No way!
Let’s see McCain talk about the truth about Obama’s record. Let’s see him expose Obama for the radical that he is. I hope I’m wrong but I think we’re going to lose anyway now. The country is trending left. It sucks, but it’s not going to do us any good to pretend that it isn’t. The Republican Party would do well in the future to only nominate those that can articulate conservative principles. We have to win the country back. It’s not even to just yell “liberal” anymore because it’s not packing the punch it used to. I voted for McCain in the primary. I wish I voted for Romney. He probably would be losing now even worse than McCain and any Republican would likely be losing in this environment. But at least he could comeptently articulate conservative economic principles. That’s what we need going forward. The conservatives are always going to have an advantage when security issues become paramount because the country as a whole is not as dovish as the Democrats. But we’ve totally lost our way as a party on economic. The public is not with us. We need to change that ASAP. If we don’t, the only time we’ll win is when the Democrats obviously and royally fuck up and they can’t blame it on anyone else. We either nominate people that can articulate sane economic principles or we allow the country to turn into a 1 1/2 party-state, like Canada.
I’m serious about this. Republicans have not won the public over with an economic message since 1994. We lost in ‘96 and ‘98. We played Democrat with “compassionate conservatism” in 2000 and we won purely on security issues in ‘02 and ‘04. We can’t wait for national security issues to propel us to victory all the time.
I’m really pessimistic about the future of our party. It’s out fault that the public has even gotten to the point where they’d consider voting for this clown.
October 5th, 2008 at 10:28 am
Gamecock triumphs again. Great post.
October 5th, 2008 at 10:48 am
As to your original premise.
You seem to be alluding to the popularity or the in-touch-with-the-peopleness of the two parties.
If that is the issue, then the measure is simply how many voters support the two parties.
I.e. – the popular vote – not necessarily how it is distributed electorally.
And by that standard, the Democrats have won 3 of the last 4 presidential popular votes. So your premise of an -out-of-touch Democratic party is belied by the facts. The only election that the GOP has won in the past 20 years, in terms of raw popular support, was one in which a sitting president barely scraped through in the midst of a war – an election that a great majority of Americans now regret.
Your post is actually a perfect example of how out of touch your party is with the American people. In the midst of a terrible financial crisis, in the midst of a broader economic downturn, when tens of millions of people are seeing their retirement savings evaporate, and have great insecurity about their health care, and they see the rise of powers like China and the medicrity of the schools our children attend, when all these issues are crying out for leadership, your party standard bearers are going to use the last month of a presidential campaign talking about Rezko, and trying to dodge Keating, and what some professor in Chicago that Obama was worked on education reform with – what he did back in the sixties.
Here is a prediction for ya. This mud-slinging nonsense will backfire big time, and turn a 8 point defeat into a rout.
October 5th, 2008 at 10:51 am
Great post, but I think Gary may have it right.
McCain needed to let the 527’s loose a little earlier. Also McCain needs to have a platform targeting middle class voters who don’t like the way things are going, but don’t want to vote for a radical like Obama. Forcing them to chose between no domestic agenda and Obama is silly when you could give them the option of selecting middle class tax cuts, energy independence and a balanced budget.
October 5th, 2008 at 11:10 am
A. McCain’s best chance and golden opportunity to change Washington and win the election was to vote AGAINST the bailout. Instead he voted for the pork laden earmark adorned Christmas tree.
B. McCaIn should propose a 20% across the board tax cut immediately to shake up his economic plan and change the headlines.
October 5th, 2008 at 11:51 am
The Spirit of ‘76
What McCain can learn from Gerald Ford about closing a gap.
by Stephen F. Hayes
October 5th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
AP Video: Palin Criticizes Obama’s ‘Terrorist’ Connection
October 5th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Because I give Sarah Palin the benefit of the doubt, that the 44-year-old governor was at least loosely familiar with the terrorist activities of William Ayers, and his established ties to Barack Obama — and I wouldn’t rule out the possibility that she only found out about Ayers this past year from Sean Hannity — I am nevertheless dumbfounded and perplexed by her intentionally leaving the impression that there were details about Ayers well-documented past that Palin first learned just yesterday in reading the New York Times. Why would she deliberately seek to reinforce the insulting narrative of her being a ‘clueless airhead’? Is it possible that she is fully immersing herself into the caricature of ‘Joe Six-Pack’, believing that the lowest common denominator in this country, the ignorant masses, want someone as uninformed as themselves, someone to whom they could personally and intellectually relate, to represent them in the White House?
October 5th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Aron: It seemed to me that Palin was just playing on the stupid controversy about what newspapers she reads.
October 5th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Aron,
Have you not described, in the latter half of your comment, the essence of the GOP strategy for the past 8 years?
October 5th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/what-does-gov-palin-have-in-her-right-ear/
October 5th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
#14 you nailed it
#9 Thnaks DK, and I agree re middle class, but McCain essentially let the state gop party’s loose after he first chastized a NC GOP ad that featured rev wright. The 527s aren’t waiting for McCain. I just think that McCain and others are doing what happens re GOP ads most elections, 7 of 10 we have won, ie they run most ads when voters get attentive in October.
October 6th, 2008 at 10:20 am
Listen up. I am a democrat and know that no one in the military or civilian leadership would be given a clearance with this guy’s background. Ayers and Rezko, Wirght and Farrakahn. Need I say more folks. DO you really believe the Feds would allow an average citizen a clearance if they had this guy’s background. HELL NO! He is a radical. And if that doesn’t get you going what about the campaign manager who had a photo of Hugo Chavez in their campaign office last summer…. Start thinking… radical OBama