Posted on 05/19/2009 4:40:13 PM PDT by Michael Eden
If you're a conservative, you've just gotta like this.
In the wake of a poll released after April 24, 2009, Democrats were loudly proclaiming a study showing Republican identification had dropped to 21%. The mainstream media pundits all agreed that the Republican Party was clearly dead. What the talking heads failed to mention was the fact that both parties had declined in identification (with independents growing and now representing the largest group), and the actual difference from the earliest poll result shown from January 2008 showed the Democrats had only picked up two points.
But get a load of what has been happening since:
Selected Trend on Party Affiliation: 2004-2009
|
Republicans |
Independents |
Democrats |
Republicans (including "leaners") |
Democrats (including "leaners") |
|
|
% |
% |
% |
% |
% |
|
| 2009 May 7-10 |
32 |
34 |
32 |
45 |
45 |
| 2009 Apr 20-21 |
27 |
36 |
36 |
39 |
50 |
| 2009 Apr 6-9 |
24 |
40 |
35 |
34 |
53 |
Just who has been losing, and just who has been gaining? With independent leaners factored in Republicans have pulled even with Democrats. And Republicans have gained 8 points while Democrats have lost 6 in just a month's span. If you go back to April 9 - just a little bit over a month ago - the Democrats (who were 16 points up) have lost 14 of those points. And while the polling isn't specific enough regarding independents, I don't doubt for a nanosecond that conservative federalist-loving Libertarians are swelling the exploding ranks of independents, either.
Where are all of you mainstream media talking heads? You know, you guys who pronounced - and who are STILL pronouncing - the death of the Republican Party and conservatism based on the other poll a month ago? Where are you now? Where's your "fair, accurate, and objective" reporting? Are you still mocking the Tea Parties with sexual innuendo that only you perverts understood in the first place? Where are your pronouncements of the demise of the Democratic Party now? You damn nest of dishonest propagandist demagogue snakes.
Nothing revitalizes the Republican Party like Democrat control of both the executive and the legislative branches. In just a few short months of hyperactive and incredibly expensive liberal unchecked power, Democrats no longer represent a majority of the nation, for the first time since 2005.
We've seen the worm turn just like this before: following the disaster of Jimmy Carter in 1980; and again following the disaster of the first Clinton term in 1994. People begin to realize that giving liberals power is rather like giving kindergartners loaded guns.
This comes on the heels of another beautiful new poll that shows 51% of Americans now identifying themselves as "pro-life" versus only 42% who identify themselves as "pro-choice".
Democrats and the mainstream media have been ever so eager to pronounce the death of conservatism, but we aint going anywhere.
Meanwhile, the Democrats have a Speaker of the House who is having an increasingly difficult time keeping her various stories straight even as she undermines national security by falsely claiming the CIA lied to Congress. The Democrats have a Senate Majority Leader who is very unlikely to win reelection in 2010. They've got a Vice President who stupidly revealed the location of the VP's bunker. Most political analysts outside of the mainstream media establishment would likely agree that such behaviors are not the best way to build the party brand.
Obama also faces looming catastrophes on the international front. A single terrorist attack and the President's own Democratic Party may turn on the commander-in-chief who relabeled the "war on terror" the "overseas contingency operation" and then relabeled "terrorist attacks" as "man-caused disasters" to save their own political skins. Iran will almost certainly develop nuclear military capability under Obama's watch. Pakistan - along with its nuclear arsenal - is looking more vulnerable to collapse almost by the day. North Korea has thumbed its nose at the U.S. and has restarted its nuclear weapons program. And there are literally more international crises developing than you can shake a stick at.
It is with that background that Democrats - who relentlessly demagogued and demonized George Bush over Gitmo - are now cringing their way into the very Bush policy they previously worked so hard to undermine.
As the world collapses, don't think that Americans will continue to listen to the Democrat's claims that it is all George Bush's fault. The world is their baby now.
But what will likely ultimately most undermine the Democratic Party is that Democrats rammed through a porkulus package which is accomplishing little or even nothing - and which is actually locking out the counties that needed stimulus the most while giving the most funds to counties that needed it least.
While many economists believe that the economy will recover (including many economists who predicted that the economy would recover as well or better without a stimulus), there is an increasingly likely probability that any recovery will be temporary. The more than $12.8 trillion the administration has spent, loaned, or committed will ultimately devalue the currency and lead to economy-crucifying stagflation (a condition whereby inflation rises while the economy remains stagnate seen in the 1970s under Carter).
A quote from a CNS News story should awaken anyone who thinks the future will be rosy:
By 2019, the CBO said, a whopping 82 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP) will go to pay down the national debt. This means that in future years, the government could owe its creditors more than the goods and services that the entire economy can produce.There's little question that the anvil will fall on the US economy due to the near doubling of the national debt as Obama adds a projected $9.3 trillion to the $11.7 trillion hole we're already in. Obama is borrowing 50 cents on the dollar as he explodes the federal deficit by spending four times more than Bush spent in 2008 and in the process adding more to the debt than all presidents from George Washington to George Bush combined. And as previously stated, Obama's spending will cause debt to double from 41% of GDP in 2008 to a crushing 82% of GDP in 2019.
Obama promised again and again that 95% of Americans would get a tax cut (which actually just means more welfare for the 43.4 percent who already don't pay any federal income tax at all even as our small business owners who employ most American workers are increasingly taxed into oblivion). But Obama is going to make your upcoming new car dramatically more expensive; he's going to make your energy dramatically more expensive; and just for your information the average 30 year old will pay $136,932.75 just for the interest of just Obama's 2010 budget over the course of his or her working lifetime. Americans will be paying FAR more of their money to the government - and we will have only Democrats to thank for it.
The only two questions are 1) how soon the ten trillion ton anvil will fall on the U.S. economy, and 2) whether it will be too late for conservatives to save the country by the time the electorate return to their senses and realize that they voted for a gaggle of fools in 2008.
This would be good news if it ;meant that people were equally disgusted with BOTH parties...
ooooohhhhh, boy.......four months in and pubbies are tied with the dems? LOL
The only thing I fear is that he’ll survive a Republican takeover of Congress like Clinton did. It re-energized Clinton despite all the hearings and scandals, and he had a willing press to aid him in taking credit for all Republican ideas while giving the GOP the blame for the missteps.
I don’t want people to be equally disgusted with both parties. I want people to be disgusted with Obama, with Pelosi, and with Reid and the Democrats.
Were Bush and Republicans wonderful? No way in crazy.
But anybody who thinks Republicans are anywhere near as bad as Democrats seriously needs to stop smoking their crack pipe.
The entire GOP still needs to successfully fix its own fissures, before I really see anything with this.
Good point there.
Nobody demonizes and demagogues like Democrats; and nobody takes credits for the successes of others while ignoring their own failures like Democrats either.
What I want to see - and hold Republicans to rabidly - is REAL conservatism.
I want to see Republicans jump all over the spending, and come together to seriously work toward GUTTING it. Or this country is done for.
No one else is able to do that. Democrats won’t, and Libertarians - with all due respect - are unlikely to build enough power to take over before the U.S.S. Titanic hits the iceberg.
“The only thing I fear is that he’ll survive a Republican takeover of Congress like Clinton did. It re-energized Clinton despite all the hearings and scandals, and he had a willing press to aid him in taking credit for all Republican ideas while giving the GOP the blame for the missteps.”
The good/bad thing about Slick Willie was that he was a shape-shifter who changed his positions to suit the political winds. 0bama on the other hand is an out and out marxist who is so high on his own supply and his ‘communism for dummies’ ideas that he will stick by them no matter what happens.
God works in mysterious ways—the Kenyan may be a blessing in disguise to this country. Perhaps the American people finally realize that they made a terrible mistake this last election.
At this point, Obama is not overly worried about the polls reflecting his or the Democrat Congress’ standing with the people. His strategy for perpetual rule makes elections only tangential to his ultimate goal.
By controlling the census from the White House, with Rahm “Da Bomb” Immanuel overseeing it, And with the appointment of many new federal judges, the Obamunists will be able to gerrymander new majority Democrat districts almost without challenge (it is unlikely that many Republicans would object, because most of them want to preserve THEIR personal stake at the feeding torugh. Those who do make noise — well, their dictricts will just be redrawn so that they have no seat left.
By the time the 2010 elections roll around, there won’t be enough districts left to mount any meaningful challenge to The Lord Messiah Obama...
Nah - What I mean is I’m disgusted with POLITICIANS, both parties are full of them... that’s why both parties should be treated with disgust. A single individual may be good/competent, but politicians are a group and dedicated only to themselves.
Not if we have a VETO PROOF Majority in both Houses (I know..it’s unlikely), However if we do then his presidentcy is effectively irrelevant!! Wishful thinking..
Then elect Statesmen (with a conservative/constitutionalist) governing philosphy no matter which party they come out of, Republican, Independent, Democrat doesn’t matter..
NOT IF we take the states..then the Democrats will be checked, and they won’t controll the census redistricting processes.
I understand, but the thing is that we’re be led by politicians regardless. If people wait for the perfect politician before they vote for a party that better represents their ideals against one that despises everything they stand for, they will get those politicians who despise everything they stand for.
We need to become more personally involved in the conservative cause and in the Republican Party and shape them NOW.
_THAT_ is exactly what I was aiming for.
1) A flat tax for all Americans (how is that for equality?)
2) Huge reductions in Federal spending
3) Lower corporate taxes
4) Giving no quarter to terrorists or rights for that matter
5) Secure our borders
6) Term limits for all federal offices not otherwise laid out in the constitution
7) A line item veto amendment
8) Stand by Israel's right to exist and defend her right to exist
9) Be proud to be an American. The greatest country on Earth. Don't apologize for our greatness, set an example for the rest of the world.
10) Last but not least; respect life.
These are my ideas, you might disagree with some of the points or want to add your own.
You are part right, part wrong, if I read what you’re saying correctly.
We do indeed need to become more involved. However, we do NOT need politicians. We need leaders and statesmen who are not utterly incompetent in politicians, NOT politicians who are good at politics and only act like they are competent in [most] all other fields.
Clinton had a great economy and didn’t have to deal with what Obama is dealing with now. People are freaking out over the economy and how Congress is handling the detainee issue.
Obama is doing himself in and all that needs to be done is to let him make a mess of himself. A Republican Congress can handle the country, make the decisions that need to be made, and then Obama can be broomed out and hopefully a Republican President will be inaugurated.
As for the press, the press was the behomoth it was because the internet hadn’t fully matured to the point where news organizations bloomed, created by web users themselves and independent of the MSM. Now we have ways of getting our message out and connecting with other conservatives.
If Palin had run in the nineties she would have lost because the MSM was the sole means of getting information to the public. With this, the press tried its usual tricks, but it was an even fight between the public who got their information independent of the MSM to people who still listened to the MSM.
This past election was the first one in which the general public fought back against the smear tactics that the MSM was promoting. Perception is much, but now there are many more ways of the public getting info that isn’t unbiased and people are able to send videos that haven’t been manipulated of candidates.
We saw a lot of stuff that wouldn’t have been reported, the stuff about Jeremiah Wright, the black panthers intimidating voters, and the clips of Zero promoting the youth gestapo.
That’s what made the vote so close and I think it’s going to tip in favor of Republicans if the party leaders don’t throw it away. Zero is handing victory on a platter, all we have to do is make sure that no one screws it up and we get a really strong candidate up there.
At the moment we need to set the stage. We can’t just go out there. We need someone with an undisputable background and credentials and the right team behind him/her. We need people who have the ability to go to victory and keep everyone going. Looks help, but that’s what makeup is for.
The thing that makes me go for Palin, is that no matter what is thrown at her, she manages to come out smelling like a rose. Nothing sticks.
Well, if you can say, “He’s a governor, congressman, senator, whatever, but he most certainly is NOT a politician,” I concede your point.
I would argue to enter the field of politics makes one a politician. You might be a good politician who looks after the best long-term interests of the people, or a bad one who looks only after his/her own career. But either way, you’re a politician.
Websters doesn’t define “politician” as “self-serving sleazeball.” It defines “politician” as “a person who is active in party politics; a seeker or holder of public office.”
Sorry, but if you don’t want a politician representing you, get your own island.
Otherwise, start striving to support conservative politicians. Recognize that none of them are perfect, and sometimes that have to strike deals to get the best policy they can (as opposed to being completely naive), and work to make the Republican Party as good and as solidly conservative as we can.
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