Posted on 10/28/2008 5:13:11 AM PDT by NationalConservative
Undeniably, a powerful tide is running for the Democratic Party, with one week left to Election Day.
Bush's approval rating is 27 percent, just above Richard Nixon's Watergate nadir and almost down to Carter-Truman lows. After each of those presidents reached their floors -- in 1952, 1974, 1980 -- the opposition party captured the White House.
Moreover, 80 percent to 90 percent of Americans think the nation is on the wrong course, and since mid-September, when McCain was still slightly ahead, the Dow has lost 4,000 points -- $5 trillion to $6 trillion in value.
Leading now by eight points in an average of national polls, Barack Obama has other advantages.
Not a single blue state is regarded as imperiled or even a toss-up, while Obama leads in six crucial red states: Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Ohio, Missouri and Colorado. Should McCain lose one of the six, he would have to win Pennsylvania to compensate for the lost electoral votes. But the latest Pennsylvania polls show Barack with a double-digit lead.
Lately moving into the toss-up category are Nevada, North Dakota, Montana and Indiana. All voted twice for George W. Bush.
Not only is Obama ahead in the state and national polls, he has more money, is running far more ads, has a superior organization on the ground, attracts larger crowds, and has greater enthusiasm and more media in camp. And new voter registrations heavily favor the Democrats.
Though Congress is regarded by Americans with a disdain bordering on disgust -- five of six Americans think it has done a poor job -- Democratic majorities are certain to grow. Indeed, with Democrats favored by 10 points over Republicans, Nancy Pelosi's majority could grow by 25 seats and Harry Reid could find himself with a filibuster-proof majority of 60 senators.
Democrats already have 49, plus two independents: Socialist Bernie Sanders and Independent Joe Lieberman. Their challengers are now ahead in New Hampshire, Virginia, North Carolina, New Mexico, Minnesota, Oregon and Colorado, with a chance of picking up Georgia, Alaska, Kentucky and Mississippi.
We may be looking at a reverse of 1980, when Reagan won a 10-point victory over Jimmy Carter, and Republicans took the Senate and, working with Boll Weevil Democrats, effective control of the House.
With his tax cuts, defense buildup and rollback policy against the "Evil Empire," Reagan gave us some of the best years of our lives, culminating in America's epochal victory in the Cold War.
What does the triumvirate of Obama-Pelosi-Reid offer?
Rep. Barney Frank is calling for new tax hikes on the most successful and a 25 percent across-the-board slash in national defense. Sen. John Kerry is talking up new and massive federal spending, a la FDR's New Deal. Specifically, we can almost surely expect:
-- Swift amnesty for 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens and a drive to make them citizens and register them, as in the Bill Clinton years. This will mean that Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona will soon move out of reach for GOP presidential candidates, as has California.
-- Border security will go on the backburner, and America will have a virtual open border with a Mexico of 110 million.
-- Taxes will be raised on the top 5 percent of wage-earners, who now carry 60 percent of the U.S. income tax burden, and tens of millions of checks will be sent out to the 40 percent of wage-earners who pay no federal income tax. Like the man said, redistribute the wealth, spread it around.
-- Social Security taxes will be raised on the most successful among us, and capital gains taxes will be raised from 15 percent to 20 percent. The Bush tax cuts will be repealed, and death taxes reimposed.
-- Two or three more liberal activists of the Ruth Bader Ginsberg-John Paul Stevens stripe will be named to the Supreme Court. U.S. district and appellate courts will be stacked with "progressives."
-- Special protections for homosexuals will be written into all civil rights laws, and gays and lesbians in the military will be invited to come out of the closet. "Don't ask, don't tell" will be dead.
-- The homosexual marriages that state judges have forced California, Massachusetts and Connecticut to recognize, an Obama Congress or Obama court will require all 50 states to recognize.
-- A "Freedom of Choice Act" nullifying all state restrictions on abortions will be enacted. America will become the most pro-abortion nation on earth.
-- Affirmative action -- hiring and promotions based on race, sex and sexual orientation until specified quotas are reached -- will be rigorously enforced throughout the U.S. government and private sector.
-- Universal health insurance will be enacted, covering legal and illegal immigrants, providing another powerful magnet for the world to come to America, if necessary by breaching her borders.
-- A federal bailout of states and municipalities to keep state and local governments spending up could come in December or early next year.
-- The first trillion-dollar deficit will be run in the first year of an Obama presidency. It will be the first of many.
Welcome to Obamaland!
re: affirmative action: the decline of the FAA and air safety and travel coincides with the government directive from the early 90s to hire only women and blacks until “the FAA represents the general population.”
Get a load of this!!
He forgot to mention Obama’s new national security force.
I can hear Obama giving this speech. It even fits his oratory style, right down to the numbered points. Carter's Malaise Speech
Lost in the Buchanan article is the coming capitulation to terrorism and terrorists states, and the dismantling of our military. Perhaps Buchanan agrees with him on those counts?
If the Democrats have a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate you can count on it. The scenario I envision is that there will be the inevitable repeat of Columbine or Va. Tech to which the Democrats will call for the ban on the manufacture, sale and possession of all semi-automatic weapons. This will include shotguns as well as pistols and rifles. They will throw in a national firearms registration provision for good measure.
Of course none of this will fail to deter the next lunatic from shooting up a school or post office so when that happens the next move will be to ban the manufacture, sale and possession of ALL hand guns and repeating arms. So there goes revolvers, pump shotguns and lever action rifles.
And with if the Democrats hold 60 seats in the Senate the Republicans won’t be able to do a thing about it. Just like that 50 million Americans will suddenly become criminals.
So, to all of blue-collar types in Michigan and Pennsylvania and Iowa and Wisconsin and Minnesota who pull the lever for Obama because he’s for CHANGE, don’t be surprised when the knock on the door comes and the man who wears to star says, “Our records indicate that you own a Remington Model 1100 shotgun that has not been turned in as required. We have a warrant for your arrest. Please come with us”
I hope they have nifty and distinctive uniforms. For IFF Identification.
Then they are going to DIE! You come for my guns, you die. Simple as that. YOU HEAR ME WASHINGTON?????
From what I glean from his writings, rantings and recordings, BHO is definitely a Marxist leaning Socialist. To pretend that they are outraged by the charges from the Right and McCain campaign which they call desperation tactics, there is no doubt that an Obama administration, coupled with a Democratically controlled Super Majority congress, there is no end to the Socialists policies that will be unleashed in 2009. Mark my word, this will indeed be the beginning of the new United States Socialist Republic. Little did we know that when the USSR folded that we would eventually take their place in history. I just hope and pray that our socialism doesn’t last 75 years like theirs did.
Yet another anti-Obama, pro-McCain column from Buchanan. And, yet again, silence from the Buchanan-haters who have been slandering Pat in this forum on a regular basis for years.
If the Democrats pick up seats in Congress I expect an immediate “assault weapons ban” that will include ten times the number fo firearms in the banned list than the 1994 list. Ammunition and parts will be included as well. We’ll see the BATFE get triple funding. It will be an all out assault on firearms.
If it really comes to that, which the leftists in power dream of, I think that might be the time to die for the country. I can't imagine the local police (population 10,000) coming down a dead end, one mile dirt road and asking us for our hunting rifles. I think I might be prepared to make my last stand in my home, not in jail or the camps being rumoured "they" are building.
Have you read the first few chapters of "The Turner Diaries"? Regardless of _the rest_ of the book, Mr. Pierce was dead-on in his predictions.
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:NiM9Rkc8M0IJ:www.tworca.org/TurnerDiaries.pdf+the+turner+diaries+online&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=7&gl=us&client=safari
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- John
...Fly,,,Fly my seesaw, take my place, it’s for freeee... Nice graphic...
The pitchforks will be out for 2012 as the American People will be fed up with Obamacide bleeding the nation. I fear it will be worse than Pat says as the US id “tested” international front with a weakened military being sent all over the world as “peacekeepers.” Like Wilson who played the Peace Card and got us into WW I—so will Obama bring us into WW III. He will divide this land as it hasn’t been since 1860.
Point well taken about the military. I just don’t know where their allegiance will lie, push come to shove. I suppose one can look at what happened in Nazi Germany with the Wermacht to get some sense of precedence. However, our nation is different in that we have a strong sense of liberty and individual freedom; I feel that the “spirit” resides in our armed forces and I hope it would be very difficult for them to fire on Americans.
If half of these events come to pass, Obama has no chance of holding Congress in 2010. I'm torn between him moderating his Marxism in hopes of a second term, or %$#@ing things up so badly, so quickly, that we no longer have elections.
I would look for many to desert and take their weapons with them.
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