Posted on 11/24/2006 5:53:57 PM PST by neverdem
"The Republicans lost because they were too conservative." "No, not conservative enough." "They lost because they disappointed the religious right." "No, because they are too tied to the religious right."
Many of us feel the loss was due to what I call "McCain-Soros."
Ever since the passage of McCain-Feingold, money has poured into organizations such as MoveOn.org, which in turn demonizes Republicans, painting a portrait of them as the incarnation of evil. The ads have had as their goal one thing: leaving a sour taste in the mouth of the electorate over anything Republican, conservative or religious. It has worked. The soft Republican, such as Sen. Lincoln Chaffee, went down with the tough Republican, such as Sen. Rick Santorum.
These ads, paid for by George Soros, Peter Lewis and other multi-millionaire leftists are the direct result of, and have been made possible by, the passage of McCain-Feingold, which opened the door to unlimited spending by left-wing fat cats on behalf of liberal candidates and causes. Until its passage, contributions were, basically, limited to the political parties and candidates themselves, but with a cap. Until the passage of McCain-Feingold, a cap was placed on how much Soros could underwrite in his lust for power and influence.
Sen. John McCain (R.-Ariz.) has made it possible for George Soros and other billionaire transnationalists to effect and determine the outcome of our elections and thus U.S. destiny, indeed world destiny. And that is exactly what the wealthy internationalists have always craved.
Certainly, McCain was aware that if the most liberal member of the Senate, Russ Feingold (D.-Wis.), was pushing a piece of legislation, its purpose was not to help conservative causes but the far left ones that are Feingold's life's mission. Indeed, Feingold had a hard time finding a sponsor across the aisle willing to proffer the "bipartisan" aura he needed to gain passage for this liberal dream.
Feingold understood, as we now all do, the Achilles’ heel of John McCain. To wit: I am the "cleaner" and wiser Republican. I stand out from the pack. "Take the dirty money out of politics" became McCain's slogan. He did, and now we have the "clean" money of George Soros and Peter Lewis, so clean that it can be spread around, infinitely, for every left-wing cause. It was noble, a campaign finance "reform," so befitting of Mr. Noble.
President Bush did not veto it. We didn't fight it, assured that it would be overturned by the courts as "limiting free speech." But, it wasn't overturned. Everyone passed the buck hoping that the next link in the process would stop it.
Democrats since Bill Clinton do one thing: they campaign every day as if it is the day preceding an election. They demonize Republicans, our motives. The message they telegraph is not so much about our policy but our "sinister" goals. It is Halliburton, profiteering from war, mean-spiritedness, dogmatism over compassion. It is 24/7/365.
The purpose of the ads is not to illuminate their political positions. It is to destroy the Republican candidate and officeholder, the persona of the conservative. Through osmosis -- after a five year daily barrage of ads on radio, TV and in newspapers -- it appears to have worked.
Republicans, on the other hand, don't begin serious campaigning until the month before the election and have never learned the Goebbles technique so familiar, and comfortable, to Democrats: demonize the person, demonize the group. Do so every day, until respectable people find it offensive to be associated with, let alone vote for, such terrible people. The Muslims are doing it against Israel, against Jews, and they are indeed swaying Europe, prevailing.
The paid-for-by-Soros ads contributed mightily to the Republican defeat. Having won the House and Senate, Democrats can save some money by no longer having to pay for as many ads since they will use their committee positions to demonize and destroy conservatives through Democrat witch hunts under chairmen who have a Torquemada/Inquisition-like intent toward those they are "investigating." Instead of paid ads, the mainstream media will for free, as news, nightly furnish Americans the audios and visuals from the congressional hearings -- the images -- that will make anyone associated with the Republican party look like a thief, greedy, a conspirator -- Al Capone.
Companies that contributed too much to Republican candidates will be hauled in and scrutinized under a series of bogus charges. The public will love it, for the Democrats and 527s have spent the last few years laying the demonization groundwork regarding companies such as Exxon, Phillip Morris, Merck, Diebold, Halliburton, Wal-Mart: big oil, big tobacco, big pharmaceutical, giant retailers, etc. If "smart," these companies will mend their ways and learn their lesson regarding who should be the major beneficiary of their contributions. After all, inquisitors simply want and always accept repentance.
So thank you, John McCain, for your tireless efforts in behalf of McCain-Soros, clean money and motives and "reform." You have helped bring your party down. Thanks for being the gang leader of the “Gang of 14,” which stood in the way of up-or-down confirmation of conservative justices. Hats off to you for redefining torture so that effective interrogation of jihadists is forever impossible. As a reward, you wish, now, to lead the party and become its Presidential nominee and standard bearer. I don't think so.
Soros $$$ was funneled to McCain through SEIU and a PAC called “Republican Mainstreet” which McCain is head of.
They also supported DeDe in NY23rd.
http://www.mainstreetpac.com/index.html
5 October 2009 by Guest Author No Comment.The following is a press release from the Republican Main Street Partnership PAC.
Today, the Republican Main Street Partnership PAC announced its support for Republican state legislator Dede Scozzafava in her campaign to replace John McHugh (R) as the Representative for New York’s 23rd Congressional District. “Now more than ever, as Democrats have racked up record deficits and are now pursuing a trillion dollar government takeover of healthcare, we must elect thoughtful Republican candidates like Dede Scozzafava to rein in out of control spending and return the government back to the people,” said Representative Fred Upton (R-MI), head of the Main Street PAC.
Dierdre “Dede” Scozzafava is a lifelong North Country resident. Prior to being elected to the New York State Assembly in 1998, Dede dedicated much of her life to public service. She served for four years as a Village of Gouverneur Trustee and was Mayor of the Village of Gouverneur from 1993 through 1998.
As a Member of the Assembly, Dede was appointed to the position of Minority Leader Pro Tempore for the Assembly Republican Conference. She is the first woman to ever hold such a prestigious leadership position.
“Dede Scozzafava is a Republican who has the experience necessary to encourage small business growth and help bring jobs to upstate New York. Dede will add a thoughtful, commonsense voice to Congress, and every working family, veteran and senior in North Country will be better off with Dede Scozzafava as their representative. The Main Street PAC is proud to support Republican Dede Scozzafava for Congress,” concluded Upton.
Thanks for saying that. Did W ever veto anything?
I also notice a LOT of folks here seem to have forgotten how all fired up McStain was to give illegals amnesty not all that long ago...
It’s Reynolds Aluminum time again.
Some people never learn from their mistakes. You may call it bashing-I call it reminding. As bad as zero is, W contributed greatly to the present situation.
And I’d still appreciate an answer-did he ever veto anything? I do seem to recall him threatening to do it once.
Frankly, I’ve had it with backstabbing RINOs like Juan and am more than fed up with having to hold my nose while I vote for the lesser evil etc. And that will happen every time McStain is on any ballot. As Mass. just showed, we can do so much better.
I’m sure my stance on amnesty is much different than yours. Just like my stance on obeying existing laws. And should the subject come up again in DC(I’m betting it won’t before November) I think you will be the one much more suprised at the country’s reaction. The anger at it all and being called bigots over it didn’t just go away like you may think. And yes, I’ll keep on reminding others of it, thank you very much.
Ohio has crossover voting but DeWine got 70% of the primary vote. The two challengers were not well-known enough to get more.
And Palin is going to campaign for him this fall?
Might be time to start *wondering* about her too.
I mean the old elitist commie is up there in years is he not???
The scandals on the right are fully met by scandals on the left. But nobody in the press is suggesting that John Edwards scandals tar the entire Democratic party, the way that Foley et. al. was used to tar the Republicans. That difference is the result of a full court press of electioneering.
It's an Alinsky technique to hold the other guy to impossible standards. Your 'police ourselves' approach could never have done enough to please they left. They would have found fault even if we ran Mother Teresa as a candidate.
Sen. Stevens of Alaska was one of the scandal victims, until after he'd lost and we found out that the prosecutors held back evidence showing he was innocent. So staying clean isn't sufficient.
Yes, they didn't always walk conservative. But a steady drumbeat of propaganda doesn't help keep the conservative on the straight and narrow.
The battle of ideas is not just an every-4-years election campaign. It's an on-going thing, and we aren't in it. George Bush I and II both totally ignored it. And that's the thesis here. There's a continued battle of ideas, and the Soros crowd are in it constantly and at high volume and intend to win. We are getting shouted down. You can't win in the battle of ideas if you aren't heard.
From The Fallacy of Campaign Finance Reform by John Samples
accessed at http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/734501.html
In recent history, Republicans have generally raised more money than have Democrats. Republicans have also relied more heavily on money to fight elections. In contrast, Democrats can count on unpaid labor provided by members of their coalition and favorable free coverage by a largely sympathetic national media.
Neither volunteers nor the media have been seriously regulated by campaign finance laws.
By reducing a Republican advantage while ignoring a Democratic strength, campaign finance law has generally biased elections toward the Democrats.
As we shall see, the 1974 Federal Election Campaign Act—the foundation of campaign finance regulation—responded to certain threats to the Democratic majority that then controlled Congress.
> McCain will never live the day without opposing Obama,
> the man who defeated him in 2008. Petty and revengeful
> and megalomaniac, YES. But quite USEFUL in the age of
> Obama!
While this is an insightful thesis, McCain just urinated all over it by offering to “reach across the aisle” again and strike a compromise with the DemoncRATs on the Health Scare bill.
To twist the knife, he offered amnesty to the tens of millions of illegal immigrants.
And just to make it all the more painful, he took a photo op with the newly elected Scott Brown, who should know better than to lend his credibility to the twisted backstabbing lunatic McCain.
I fear that Scott Brown will be taken under the wing of the RINO “moderates” in the Senate and sell us out.
After a few months in DC, Scott Brown won’t even be hearing his own message; the very message that got him elected.
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