Posted on 05/21/2009 10:19:11 AM PDT by JoeBOTW
WASHINGTON – Barack Obama's presidency has ushered in an era of centrism, with the country experiencing such a boost in independent voters that they now make up the largest proportion of the electorate in 70 years.
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Centrist? The only way to see Obama as a centrist is if you say he is halfway between a national socialist and a soviet socialist ... right in the center between those two forms of tyranny.
Centrism?
Rest of headline - "expected to return to conservative values by year-end 2009
NOW it's correct!!
A couple of problems with their analysis.
1) "Independent" doesn't necessarily indicate that a person is "centrist". There've been times where I've been an "independent", yet I am more right-wing than even most of the people here on FR. Increasing numbers of independents is indicative of one thing and one thing only - more people of all persuasions are fed up with the current two major parties.
2) Further, when you look at actual data, such as this very recent Gallup poll on party affiliation, you see that independents most certainly are not cresting some wave. Indeed, the I's, the D's, and the R's are running right about even right now. The I's have been higher in the pst, which objectively destroys the entire thesis for this MSM article.
If liberals stand on their heads, the world probably looks perfectly normal to them.
Centrism, moderate, “middle of the road”....it’s all a bunch of fabricated MSM & Democrat spin to force conservatives to concede the debate which also advances the leftist goals more into the mainstream.
I think the lft nmisunderstands what has happened. People are fleeing the democratic part but haven’t found their way to th rght yet. We need a fiscal conservative to shine the light for them to make the cross over. If we find someone soon it will be the 1980 election all over again. More people right now are anti tax and pro life than ever before, please someone pick up the torch and lead!
The Big Lie is that McCain was on the Far Right and the 1968 bomb throwing radicals in the Democrat Party are now the middle of the road. Communism, here we come.
I think the shift towards independent has more to do with the growing dissatisfaction with both parties, and has little to do with one’s position on the political spectrum.
IMO here is what is needed - candidates who will pledge honest government that looks out for the interests of taxpayers as a whole. Candidates who will pledge to cut government payrolls by at least 20 percent over the next eight years - and will cut the fat (bureacrats and administrators), not the muscle (such as military and fire and police). And candidates who will pledge to align all unfunded and underfunded entitlements - government pensions, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid - with what actually can be afforded, not what is promised.
That would be a huge seller.
“I think the lft nmisunderstands what has happened. People are fleeing the democratic part but haven’t found their way to th rght yet. We need a fiscal conservative to shine the light for them to make the cross over. If we find someone soon it will be the 1980 election all over again. More people right now are anti tax and pro life than ever before, please someone pick up the torch and lead!”
Correct.
The GOP was rejected in 2006 and 2008.
The voters did NOT vote for the kind of big Govt cultural elitist liberalism that Obama/Pelosi/Reid are engaged in.
We have a ‘jump ball’ electorate and if the GOP rallies around limited Govt, freedom and practical competent solutions to real problems, we will win those independents.
The liberal MSM calls it ‘moderate’ and ‘centrist’ when conservatives get defeated by liberals.
it’s their latest liberal label bait-and-switch.
See here:
http://travismonitor.blogspot.com/2009/05/statesman-celebrates-stupidity-in-texas.html
“Increasing numbers of independents is indicative of one thing and one thing only - more people of all persuasions are fed up with the current two major parties.”
What you said! I haven’t voted for a Democrat in years and I had to struggle to vote for McCain. If Sarahcuda hadn’t been on the ticket I’d have voted Libertarian (my party of choice when I’m not scared witless by the unholy Democratic candidate).
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