Main Street in revolt (Salena Zito)

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | November 3, 2012 | Salena Zito

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Here’s are some of my signs up thru election day.

“Revenge the Benghazi 4: Vote for Romney”

“Remember the Benghazi 4 on Nov. 6th”

“Honor the Benghazi 4; vote Republican on Nov. 6th”

Hold up 4 fingers when you go into the voting place. When someone asks what they mean, say “Benghazi 4”. If they don’t know the story, tell them.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Should have been:

“Revenge for the Benghazi 4: Vote for Romeny”

and

“Avenge the Benghazi 4; Vote Republican”

[Impala64ssa]

It reminds one of the famous quip by New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael following Richard Nixon’s landslide 1972 victory: “I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon.”
I remember. My parents never thought too highly of Nixon, going back to when he was Ike's VP. But they also knew what a disaster a McGovern admistration would've been.

[onyx]

Hold up 4 fingers when you go into the voting place. When someone asks what they mean, say “Benghazi 4”. If they don’t know the story, tell them.

BTTT

[neverdem]

Never once have Main Street Americans heard Washington elites ponder, “What did we Democrats do to lose the confidence of so many voters?”

Plenty of traditional Democrats have voiced such concerns but are not being heard.

I'll take that Pauline Kael quote as a good omen. I can't wait for the wailing and gnashing of teeth!

[Carry_Okie]

I remember. My parents never thought too highly of Nixon, going back to when he was Ike's VP. But they also knew what a disaster a McGovern admistration would've been.

Accordingly, Nixon floated the currency, gave us the EPA, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act.

Of course, McGovern would have abandoned Vietnam to the communists...

The irony of it.

[Windflier]

...what a disaster a McGovern admistration would've been.

Agreed. To this day, I am forever grateful that my vote for George McGovern as a nineteen year old skull full of mush, didn't amount to anything.

[BlessingsofLiberty]

“Accordingly, Nixon floated the currency, gave us the EPA, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act.

Of course, McGovern would have abandoned Vietnam to the communists...

The irony of it.”

Wow!! Great post...well said

[PA Engineer]

Hold up 4 fingers when you go into the voting place. When someone asks what they mean, say “Benghazi 4”. If they don’t know the story, tell them.

With my left hand. My right hand will be in my pocket less I forget civility.

[AZLiberty]

McGovern and Nixon: A reminder that the two main political parties, switching back and forth, have aimed primarily at increasing their own power while reducing the freedom of the individual citizen. Being elected and re-elected is far more important to all of them than preserving the Constitution.

[NVDave]

As the economic situation worsens, I’m here to warn conservatives that this wrath will turn back on the GOP and conservatives if they don’t produce results.

Producing results will require breaking rules of the “conventional wisdom” inside DC. For example, immigration will have to be restricted to reduce the surplus in the labor pool. We’ll have to examine our trade policy - and why “free trade” is neither “free” nor working for us. We’ll have to examine our tax system, as well as take ruthless axes to spending on “stimulus” projects that are useless twaddle (like green energy).

All of this has to be addressed ASAP - and we’re not yet talking about the entitlement beast that is devouring the US budget, nor public employee pensions that cannot be sustained, etc.

I seriously doubt that much of this will actually be addressed with real solutions. There are too many self-indulgent interests who place themselves and their interest ahead of the interest of the entire country and have decided that they’re going to seek financial gain through rent-seeking. They control the fiscal and monetary policy of the US now, and they don’t give a rat’s rear end what happens to the schlubs in flyover country.

[uglybiker]

...liberals, such as Kael, could be gently chided for their heart-in-the-right-place, head-in-the-clouds idealism.

Their hearts may be in the right place, but their heads are stuck somewhere else.

[Einherjar]

{I remember. My parents never thought too highly of Nixon, going back to when he was Ike’s VP.{

“There are no American combat troops in Cambodia. There are no American combat advisers in Cambodia. There will be no American combat troops or advisers in Cambodia.
President Richard M. Nixon, November 1971

just sayin

[2ndDivisionVet]

What color are our uniforms this time?

[Terry Mross]

I don’t believe there is one thing obama could do that would convince those who still worship him to change their oppinion. And that’s scary.

[liberty or death]

I’ve had to tell the Benghazi story 100 times this past week. I am STUNNED by how many people don’t know.

[Lacey2]

"....the national media, the Washington establishment and the bulk of academia will have missed something huge that happened in “flyover” America under their watch."

They "missed" nothing. There is a difference between "miss" and "ignore". It's all about psyops.

[Lacey2]

Remember those stories and movies about the country being run by a super computer?

I think it’s time.

[BADROTOFINGER]

The best post I have seen on this forum in ages. Just, wow!