Is 2008 to be a Transformational Election? (Must read!)

American Thinker ^ | May 21, 2008 | J.R. Dunn

[Ozone34]

“If this list of liberal felonies were extended backward — say, to the 1960s (and what a job that would be!) — how many of them would the left have been forced to answer for?”

I recommend the excellent recent new history of The Great Depression by Amity Shlaes, “The Forgotten Man” for a catalog of liberal felonies back to the ‘30’s:

“The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression” by Amity Shlaes
http://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Man-History-Great-Depression/dp/0060936428

The toxic combination of arrogance, stupidity and masterful control of propaganda by the left is a timeless theme.

[SMARTY]

“This is what the GOP is running against: people who want to lose a war, who are keeping alive an environmentalist scam, who (as a byproduct of that scam) have created conditions of serious hunger across the world, and who would not mind seeing a recession in the U.S., no matter how many people it hurts.”

Ain’t it the truth!!!

[aberaussie]

bttt

[Sgt_Schultze]

Al Gore's global warming is a perfect example, a long-term program designed to push several separate agendas -- political control, economic centralization, and the Green worldview -- under the umbrella of "saving the planet".

Of course, humans (at least liberals) are all-powerful. Once they have "saved the planet" there is no issue they won't be able to claim dominion over.

[ripley]

hats off to the left.

it is not toilet trained, yet it wants a clean earth. it claims intellectual superiority but operates on emotions; it advocates responsibility but only for the opposition; it criminalizes its opposition and behaves like a goon; it screams for justice yet perpetrates injustice. it demands the truth but promotes lies and distortions.

they’re really good, and getting much better.

hail to leftist victory in november 2008!!!

[Russ]

I know there are many here at FR who believe a huge Democrat victory in November will bring about another Republican revolution in 2010. My question is, how much damage will the Democrats do in those two years with a huge majority in both houses and a Democrat president? In those two years we will get strict gun control (or confiscation) laws, national health care, at least two left wing supreme court justices, a repeal of the Patriot Act, retreat from Iraq and the War on Terror and God knows what else.

Is it worth sitting home on election day and allowing these things to happen?

[Jack Black]

(or confiscation) laws,

I am so looking forward to that! So are most of my friends. Should make for an amusing few years. (LEOs charged with enforcing that blatently unconstitutional law may want to consider early retirement. )

[norton]

Russ,
Please note the author's comments on spineless republican politics...

Barring an earthquake in either convention, this election will be a 'huge democrat victory' no matter who gets to sit in the office.

[Sgt Joe Friday 714]

I know there are many here at FR who believe a huge Democrat victory in November will bring about another Republican revolution in 2010. My question is, how much damage will the Democrats do in those two years with a huge majority in both houses and a Democrat president?

Also, people a lot of folks don't consider the possibility that Obama might be a successful, popular President. The dems are wrong but not stupid - they aren't going to make the same mistakes Clinton & Co. did in 1993 & 1994.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

it's always fun seeing grassroots lefties become "experts" on topics they'd never heard of a month earlier

What's fun about it? I always want to throttle these idiots, especially when they're talking about something I know about or someplace I've been.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

The American left is not made to eat its failures. This must change

Amen to that.

[Afronaut]

"I know there are many here at FR who believe a huge Democrat victory in November will bring about another Republican revolution in 2010."

The GOP has left no other choice on the table. If you want more of the backsliding liberal Republican choices for the next 30 years, please follow the disastrous trainwreck of voting against the Rats with a slightly smaller Rat.

I am wondering when folks will finally, if ever, figure out that voting in fear of the liberal has brought us a Congress and a John McCain who are worthless.

America needs a HUGE kick in the pants.

Or it's game over for good.

[L98Fiero]

“The dems are wrong but not stupid - they aren’t going to make the same mistakes Clinton & Co. did in 1993 & 1994”

Yes, they are stupid. They are running an unvetted candidate with no plans at all who cannot win. 40 states R.

[Roccus]

IF the election is close and IF McCain wins, all the vote fraud and charges of voter fraud that will ensue will cause the American people to lose all faith in the electoral process. The rats already have the "disenfranchised" and their lawyers in place awaiting orders. (judges also)

[chesley]

Exactly my question.

Damage to the body politic that the left does is NEVER reversed. Look how long we've been fighting to return the abortion question to the states.

The roll-over Republicans have GOT to go. But not in the general election, in the primaries.

I truly sympathize with those who cannot bring themselves to hold their noses and vote for McCain. But a) we had no evidence that the country will be ready a Republican government in four years, or that the Democrats will have a free election then, anyway. Look how often they have accused us of stealing elections. Projection? I think so. Bird in the hand and all that.

And b) in 4 years they can cause incredible amounts of harm that cannot be reversed unless the Rs win both the Presidency and a veto-proof Congress, and several newly appointed YOUNG leftist Supreme Court justices die. Something one cannot decently hope for, and what are the odds, anyway?

John McCain isn't much of an option, but he is the only option for the conservative movement. He doesn't deserve the Presidency, but America does not deserve the alternative. The only alternative you Libertarians, Constitutionalists, other third party-ers, and gonna-sit-at homers.

[sport]

If all the individuals that are clamoring for change to Hillary and Obama were sane and lucid they would not like the change that they are going to give them.
Instead they have a self inflicted case of terminal stupidity. This, will in the end, cost them not only their lives, but the chance to die peacefully.

Any doubters to this refer back to the Soviet Union under Stalin, Germany under the National Socilaists, Communist China under Mao and the Red Guards, and Laos under the Kimer Rouge [Sp?]

[chesley]

Exactly my question.

Damage to the body politic that the left does is NEVER reversed. Look how long we've been fighting to return the abortion question to the states.

The roll-over Republicans have GOT to go. But not in the general election, in the primaries.

I truly sympathize with those who cannot bring themselves to hold their noses and vote for McCain. But a) we had no evidence that the country will be ready a Republican government in four years, or that the Democrats will have a free election then, anyway. Look how often they have accused us of stealing elections. Projection? I think so. Bird in the hand and all that.

And b) in 4 years they can cause incredible amounts of harm that cannot be reversed unless the Rs win both the Presidency and a veto-proof Congress, and several newly appointed YOUNG leftist Supreme Court justices die. Something one cannot decently hope for, and what are the odds, anyway?

John McCain isn't much of an option, but he is the only option for the conservative movement. He doesn't deserve the Presidency, but America does not deserve the alternative. The only alternative you Libertarians, Constitutionalists, other third party-ers, and gonna-sit-at homers.

[af_vet_rr]

I know there are many here at FR who believe a huge Democrat victory in November will bring about another Republican revolution in 2010. My question is, how much damage will the Democrats do in those two years with a huge majority in both houses and a Democrat president?

The question you (and every other Republican) should be asking is this: How much damage will the liberal Republicans do for the next 20 years if we don't start replacing a lot of them in the next few elections?

I hear people say "well a liberal Republican is better than a Democrat, so just hold your nose and vote". That is the absolute worst thing you can do for two reasons: First, you are rewarding that liberal Republican and his liberal actions with your vote. You are encouraging him and the GOP to continue to act in a liberal fashion.

Second, a vote for a liberal is still a vote for a liberal, regardless of whether they have an "R" or a "D" next to their name.

[ripley]

“i know there are many here at FR who believe a huge democrat victory in november will bring about another republican revolution in 2010.”

i was being sarcastic and facetious in my comments. i do not believe that a democrat victory will bring about another republican revolution in 2010. i do not believe that a democrat win will be beneficial in any way except for the furtherance of the internationalist agenda and the watering down of the U.S. constitution.

i should have put the /sarcasm off/ sign at the bottom.