Posted on 01/22/2015 6:03:57 AM PST by HomerBohn
As President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union speech Tuesday night, I saw all of 2015 flash before my eyes. “Bold Call to Action in Obama’s State of the Union, Even if No Action Is Likely,” read one headline. And below it: “Obama Speaks as Though His Party Won the Midterms.” Both headlines hail not from a conservative rag but from the New York Times.
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“Watching an emboldened Mr. Obama, it would have been easy to forget that he was standing there just two months after the biggest electoral repudiation of his presidency. Indeed, with economic indicators on the rise and his own poll numbers rebounding slightly, he made no reference at all to the midterm elections, offered no concessions about his own leadership and proposed no compromises to accommodate the political reality,” wrote Times reporter Peter Baker.
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GOP leaders didn’t do the party any favors by picking newly elected Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa to deliver the Republican response. In eat-your-vegetables mode, Ernst recalled her small-town childhood, when she had only one good pair of shoes — so when it rained, her mom slid a plastic bread bag over each foot. “They had very little to call their own except the sweat on their brow and the dirt on their hands,” Ernst said of her parents and grandparents.
All I could think was: Is this how the GOP thinks it can attract new voters? Obama is talking about “free” community college — a terrible idea that will drive up tuition — and the GOP counters by extolling the good ol’ days when Iowa kids had only one good pair of shoes? Shoot me.
Methinks the GOP has come down with a bad case of opposition fatigue.
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Ernst was as animated as a robot call….over-rehearsed and totally lacking any kind of spontaneity. GOPe men in charge of such things have no clue because they are severely lacking in personality themselves. Would anyone want to invite McConnell to a party?
I get it that under those circumstances the only thing she could do was introduce herself. The only thing that made me nervous was her support of free trade and the US jobs it would create. Is she a little naïve that when the globalists say "free trade" what they mean is no tariffs on goods manufactured outside the US by slave labor? I wish what she'd said was trade that supports the US worker.
I donated to the Ernst campaign because her resume is what I want in female leadership....the ability to be a conservative woman and succeed in mostly male leadership and business environments. I'm glad she didn't say anything about the invasion of the US. I'm a bit worried she isn't as "with us" on that one as she was when soliciting our donations as a constitutional conservative.
Yeah, I like her a lot still. I hope when she's had a little time to find her way, she's totally with Ted Cruz. Otherwise, my donation was misplaced.
That sagging puss and monotone speaking voice would throw ice water on any gathering.
I see very few comments and no expansion on his Korean wife. I did read that she had some connections to North Korea.
If you liked and admired your middle school principal, you loved Joni’s speech
After the country listened to president “Eddie Haskell on coke” jiving for an hour, promising everyone free lunch, free recess, free toys, free allowance, and free vacation, the Principal stepped up and assured them there will be additional crossing guards and new band uniforms
guess who gets the student body vote....
Free trade is not a globalist thing. Read Sowell.
I had no problem with her message, as far as it went. But I heard it on radio.
I love Joni, but (sorry!) I hope she soon ditches the matronly military haircut.
Enrst was whiney and annoying to listen to, like she was begging a petulant child to listen to her
The makings of a good Republican.
At some point in time, someone, somewhere is going to get on a stage in a park or a town square and say the things millions of us long to hear.
When that someone comes along, Katie bar the door.
But, suburban soccer moms speaking in safe platitudes aint it. I am sure she's a very nice, conservative person but it's not what is gonna cure the patient. Not even close.
Isn't that sexist to say that? Imagine if someone said that about Hillary....
As a party speech I give it a “D+”, as an Ernst introduction I give it a “B”.
A “D+” is over-achievement for the GOPe.
But maybe not.
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She ain’t no Sarah!
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Maybe we could start with"Let me tell ya how I wore bread bags on my shoes and got here 40 years ago before the communists burned all the ladders that could get you here too". Lawdy, even that would get me hooting and hollering.
I was driving home from a class I am taking last night and caught some radio host filling in for another radio host. It was a black woman, that much I could tell from her voice--I have no idea who she was, or even who she was filling in for. SHe spoke about how she took several busses as a teenager to get to out of the ghetto and into her job at a suburban McDonalds.
And all she thought those days was not, "Oh these evil rich people, look how they live, they took it from ME to live this way". All she thought was, "THIS is how I am going to live someday".
Such a simple message, yet the Republicans can't even tell it the way she did. Big difference between the way this lady tells it and the same ol' bread bag story.
It had me hooting and hollering in the car. YES---this resonates. This is the way to convey it.
I miss Palin and Bachman!
Obama or Ernst, they were both speeches heavy on platitudes and short on substance.
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