In a post on his blog entitled, “The issue was Obama-hatred,” and featuring a picture of the president as the devil, the Democrat attacked the American people for having the attitude of, in his words, “We hate President Obama, and you should too.” Posted on 11/15/2014 2:18:46 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Florida Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson, the 17th richest Member of Congress with a net worth of $26 million, whose wife and children are currently on public assistance, took to his blog Wednesday to opine on why his party was beaten so handily in the midterm elections. It wasn’t policy, it wasn’t the economy, it wasn’t jobs, it was hatred of President Barack Obama.
In a post on his blog entitled, “The issue was Obama-hatred,” and featuring a picture of the president as the devil, the Democrat attacked the American people for having the attitude of, in his words, “We hate President Obama, and you should too.”
Citing a joke he claims to have overheard at Disney World when a father said, “Blame Obama, Shawn. It’s all Obama’s fault,” as his evidence, the Congressman best known for absurdist appearances on MSNBC and rambling House floor speeches, says hatred of the president is why Democrats now have so few representatives in government.
His analysis, littered with links to a page where people can donate to his reelection, is that Republicans “ran an issueless, issue-phobic campaign. I don’t remember any of them promising to suppress voting, prohibit all abortions, indulge polluters, give huge tax breaks to billionaires and multinational corporations, gut Social Security and Medicare and shred the right to organize – even though that’s exactly what they’re going to do. Instead, the Republicans said ‘Obama stinks, and we’re against him.’ In fact, that was all they said.” (Emphasis is his, where he embedded his fundraising link. The link has been removed.)
He concluded his post with (again, the bold is his, the links have been removed):
There was an oft-circulated post-election chart pointing out that Obama had slashed the federal deficit, slashed unemployment, increased consumer confidence, etc., etc. But I would venture to say that none of that matters to those voters who had become convinced that Obama is Beelzebub. Or Mephistopheles. Maybe both.A new Gallup poll show the Americans, by a margin of 53 to 36 percent, want Republicans to set the agenda for the country, not Obama. Gallup also found the popularity of the Democratic Party to be at an all-time low of just 36 percent.Obviously, there are other lessons to be learned from the 2014 election. One could, for instance, compare the 18-point loss of Mark Pryor, who campaigned as the Most Conservative Democrat in the Senate™, to the 11-point victory of, uh, me. Surely there are plenty of lessons to be learned from that compare-and-contrast.
But the only lesson that matters to the GOP is this: What President Clinton called “the politics of personal destruction” works for them – big time. Which is why I can predict, unfortunately, that over the next two years, we’ll be seeing a lot of this:
Courage,
Rep Alan Grayson
The sad part is we live in a country where this clown can get elected.
Dem Congressman: Hatred Of Obama BECAUSE OF HIS DISASTROUS POLICIES Only Reason Republicans Won
Fixed it.
Great pic of Hill though, one of his kids must have
done it.
No - it’s what Democrats were/are doing to America.
I could have sworn it said it was it’s policies that were being tested in the election. So it appears that as usual
Grayson can’t separate Obama’s policies from the color of his skin, typical rat racist.
Well Alan Grayson, we did not approve of Hitler either, whats your point?
Mr. Grayson—explain the 2006 election to me then.
His actions are worthy of hatred. Secondly, Obama started it with the ‘Blame Bush’ no matter what meme.
We hate what he has done to this country. It’s a mess. It will take years to get it back on track...an ethical and moral nation once again....where government is not in your face at every turn.
Alan Grayson. ROTFL!!! The lawyer clown on the Hill. One of those “stupid Americans” Gruber was telling us about. The boy is a loon.
That is a true Democrat.
Fixed it for you...
Not only was he re-elected, he lost once after holding office and than ran again and won...
The man is clinically insane..
The congressman is a pathetic clown. That someone actually voted for him suggests that insanity reigns.
I don’t hate the perp, but do hate everything he stands for.
Sometimes I used to beat my wife up....
Grayson outspent Carol Platt 7 to 1 to win re-election by 10 points.
“Hatred of Obama is the only reason Republicans won”
OK, so? Suppose for a moment that’s true.
What does that mean should happen next? It’s just another variation on the Leninist view that elections where non-Bolshevik forces win are illegitimate.
Lenin laid this all out in his “What is to be Done?” in 1902. Thomas Franks copied it in 2004. Paul Krugman and Gail Collins write about it every day.
They mean to fight us.
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