That sounds just like a novel I wrote.
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!
That sounds just like a novel I wrote.
A lot of posts on this thread sound like novels you’ve written.
>>>We have a warrant for your arrest.<<<
>>>Please come with us...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.<<<
I read that and the pit in my stomach dropped. My ancestors in central Europe believed that they were living with happy-go-lucky beer drinkers famous for poetry and romantic symphonies, and they willingly stepped into the trains and were transported into extinction via poison gas. Here we are again.
I am not eager for death, but I am also not willing to step into the train and voluntarily send myself to be murdered by the state. My town is even smaller than yours, and more remote, and I can’t imagine what it would take to get anyone to come up here to the edge of the treeline and take my moose gun - which killed plenty of Germans in its day. I do not want to die, but if they are standing at my door to disarm me, I will cry because I will miss my son, but I will also pray that my sacrifice is his chance for living a free man. If the Jews had killed one Nazi for each Jew taken to die, maybe the Third Reich would have fallen a lot sooner. I’ll keep that in mind as I defend my liberty, even to death.
Whew.
Unfortunately.
Quite a few young people associate socialism with “free” college and university. They are vastly uninformed.
You forget that at least half of the American people will cheer Oprah’s Obama throughout his administration no matter what he does. He won’t be vulnerable in 2012, and the clintoids know it because the liberals will shill for him no matter what.
I don’t think it’s anywhere near half. The bloom will drop from his rose very quickly, and the MSM is already widely despised...Obimbo can’t crush the New Media.
The fools who vote for Obama and the rest of the Demo Socialists (Pelosi, Biden, Kennedy, Schumer, Reid, Rangel, Frank, etc.) think they will receive free medical care, free retirements, free housing, free food, free vacations, free education ....
They like to hear that someone else, such as “the rich” or “big oil” will pay more taxes. The fools don’t realize that high corporate taxes are passed along in the form of higher prices, and that there are not enough “rich” taxpayers to pay for all the socialist programs.
The Demo Socialists and their ignorant constituents have learned absolutely nothing from the collapse of the former USSR.
A personal situation here has thrown me off of writing for 2 months, so I’m hoping Foreign Enemies will be ready about March, maybe.
Thanks for the update. Hope everything is well.
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