Posted on 10/15/2014 5:15:45 AM PDT by Kaslin
On Oct. 12, the Sunday edition of The Washington Post reported their "Election Lab" estimate that the Republicans will win six more seats in the House and eight more Senate seats, and projected it was 95 percent certain that Democrats will lose the Senate.
But on NBC's "Meet the Press" that morning, newly installed host Chuck Todd stubbornly persisted in the usual Republicans-in-deep-trouble narrative. Based on the judicial failure to take up gay marriage cases, Todd previewed the program by asking, "Is it time for conservatives to surrender in the culture wars?"
Later, Todd underlined his point: "Whether it's on abortion, whether it's on same-sex marriage, whether it's on marijuana legalization, the culture wars have shifted to the left. Many Republicans are trying to acknowledge that general public shift. And yet, it's going to cause some heartburn."
We're in the middle of an election cycle where red-state Democrats are running away from President Obama on gun ownership, on border control and on energy and "climate change" crackdowns. So isn't proclaiming a "national shift to the cultural left" a rather desperate spin for the losing side?
Todd is doing exactly what the liberal media routinely do when it comes to Democrats, Republicans and social issues. When Democrats in red states try to tack to the center or avoid social issues that might estrange them from voters, there is no "national shift" worth noticing. When Republicans in purple states try to tack a little bit toward the center or stay quiet on contentious issues, it's time for a "surrender on the culture wars."
Several Republicans made the decision to rebut the shameless Democratic lie that they "oppose birth control" by supporting over-the-counter sales of birth control. Is that "moving left"? Or is it merely trying to rebut a lie? Didn't the move to the left begin when Democrats forced employers to pay for birth-control pills under Obamacare? Isn't that a new extreme? Not to Chuck Todd. Obama's incapable of extremism, or extremism in the defense of abortion and contraception is no vice.
Parenthood is pushing hard in Colorado and North Carolina against Republicans who have ever favored "personhood" legislation that recognizes the unborn child is a human life from conception. That is the staunchest pro-life stand.
Now flip that script, and imagine Chuck Todd asking Planned Parenthood whether their public stand for "post-birth abortion" is politically smart. The national media hounded Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock about rape exceptions in 2012 Senate races, but this fall they won't whisper the name "Kermit Gosnell" or mention the 2013 hearing in the Florida legislature where a local Planned Parenthood staffer insisted it was a "woman's right to choose" whether a baby born alive can be murdered.
There is apparently no identifiable or embarrassing extreme when you favor abortion. Journalists describe pro-life legislators with words like "strident," and extremist Planned Parenthood is merely a "women's group."
As the Democratic Party skids toward defeat, NBC can only ask, "Is the GOP retreating?"
There is a danger when kowtowing establishment Republicans work too energetically to assuage the liberal media, since these journalists are shameless enough to then accuse the GOP of "surrender." Republicans need to keep identifying the leftist extreme on the "culture wars" -- those powerful liberals who mock people who are "bitter clingers" to their guns and religion. They ought to push back on the media's liberal cultural agenda, especially on abortion, which finds it perfectly acceptable to kill a baby in the ninth month, but truly grotesque to provide children their school lunches without enough broccoli or whole grains.
The American public isn't moving "leftward" at all. In fact, what's happening is that this country is moving very far along the road of what I call "hypocritical libertarianism." Basically, we want government out of our lives completely -- except when it comes to paying for things that we can't afford ourselves. That's how you end up with a nation of aging retirees and drug-addled younger people that is $17 trillion in debt.
That's also how you end up with alleged "conservatives" at Tea Party rallies holding up signs like this:
I approve of this message. The more uncertain we are about a possible close outcome, the more motivated conservatives will be to vote. I am not pleased with many of the republicans we have, not when I would prefer conservatives, but in this general election especially, with Obama's last two dreadful years in power looming, it is important to elect even RINOs rather than far left extremists. Let Chuck Todd claim republicans are in trouble. I'm okay with that, especially if it tilts just a few bonus races in our favor.
No.
When you are right, you don’t surrender just because you are losing.
THANK YOU...I have been cussed and had all kinds of horrible comments because I believe you get the dems out, even if it’s one step at a time electing a few RINOS along the way.
It makes no sense NOT to vote or voting for another ‘Ross Perot’ who will give the democrats the election. I wonder about the FR thinking process that would rather allow a RAT to take the spot instead of working toward the goal of eventual real conservatives.
You are the first common sense I have seen in a while.
Anybody else getting an eerie feeling of deja vu.......b/c we were all saying basically the same thing back in 2012...... Obama could not get reelected....he had famously flubbed the debates, his 2012 numbers were in the tank....and so on......
Later we found out the conniving Chicago O-Team---- kingpins of criminal politics---fixed the election----all the dirty work done in crucial swing states. In Chicago they vote when they please, as often as they please.
Jerome Corsi's book also noted 2012 voter fraud was enormous....that we could not win in the future unless we had voter ID.
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These words sent chills up my spine. Obama confidently saying: "I don't think Democrats will lose the Senate."
He K-n-o-w-s something.
Let us pray.
Gen AC McAuliffe
We are about to take some weird and frightening populist turn IMO.
Nature abhors a vacuum. And we have a vacuum as the bulk of the population has pretty much turned on both parties.
The first charismatic opportunist who comes along and scapegoats someone for all of our problems, and promises to punish that someone, will be swept into power.
What I have referred to on FR as the American Hitler.
I would not be surprised one bit to discover that this guy and his sign are an Alinsky-style trick to discredit the Tea Party.
Alinsky engaged in deviant sexual conduct to “defy the system”.
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