Posted on 11/10/2008 3:39:40 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Rasmussen:
“31% of voters thought that a President Obama would cut their taxes. Only 11% expected a tax cut from a McCain administration.”
This speaks volumes. Obama has basically promised billions of dollars of new spending, but people somehow fell for this.
John McCain hates spending, and probably would have cut taxes, but he was not able to articulate it - or perhaps the media delibrately smothered the message.
The stock market did not seem so easily fooled.
This was the media’s election. They went all out to protect Obama and treated McCain like they did Bush. When I spoke to people .. this weekend, the Obama voters were not leftists. They were the ignorant types who really hadn’t tuned in more than to buy the happy enthusiasm from the media. Most had no idea what the man really stood for at all. 6
Actually, bubba clinton campaigned in 92 for tax cuts. However, after entering office he “discovered” he was not able to despite the “hard work he did” and we received the largest tax increase in history. [ushering in the Republican landslide in 1994] 11
“Never write a check with your mouth that your ass can’t cash” What a coincidence.That’s the same excuse the last Democrat president used to cancel his promised tax cuts. 5
The last 3 weeks before the election, when the most ignorant of the sheeple were watching, Obama campaigned as a conservative, “95% of Americans will get a tax cut, yada yada ... “ Too bad the Republicans didn’t have a conservative at the top of their ticket. 14
Hoyer: Don’t count on Obama delivering on promises
CNN News Live | 11/10/08 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2129373/posts
Just on CNN, Congressional Democrat Hoyer talking about all the promises Obama made to win the election. In rather blunt terms, Hoyer cautioned that, because of all the “conservative Dems” that have been elected to Congress, no one should expect any of Obama’s tax cut promises to actually happen for, oh, “12-24 months,” if then because, you know, the economy is in bad shape and many new Dems will balk at further increasing the national debt (now at $11 trillion), blah, lie, blah. This may be the all-time record of a Democrat announcing that last week’s promises are, ah, ‘no longer operative.’ Hoyer suggested that since Obama has had his first highly classified briefing on the world economy, he may be forced to back-off on his campaign pledges.
The Polls Show That Reaganism Is Not Dead
By SCOTT RASMUSSEN
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122628429302812557.html?mod=djemEditorialPage
Barack Obama won the White House by campaigning against an unpopular incumbent in a time of economic anxiety and lingering foreign policy concerns. He offered voters an upbeat message, praised the nation as a land of opportunity, promised tax cuts to just about everyone, and overcame doubts about his experience with a strong performance in the presidential debates.
Does this sound familiar? It should. Mr. Obama followed the approach that worked for Ronald Reagan. His victory confirmed that voters still embrace the guiding beliefs of the Reagan era.
During Reagan’s campaign, the nation suffered from high unemployment and high inflation. This time around, data from the Rasmussen Reports Daily Presidential Tracking Poll showed that Mr. Obama took command of the race during the 10 days following the collapse of Lehman Brothers — when the Wall Street meltdown hit Main Street. Before that event John McCain was leading nationally by three percentage points. Ten days later Mr. Obama was up by five and never relinquished his lead.
Mr. Obama’s tax-cutting message played a key role in this period of economic anxiety. Tax cuts are well-received at such times: 55% of voters believe they are good for the economy. Only 19% disagree and see them as bad policy.
Down the campaign homestretch, Mr. Obama’s tax-cutting promise became his clearest policy position. Eventually he stole the tax issue from the Republicans. Heading into the election, 31% of voters thought that a President Obama would cut their taxes. Only 11% expected a tax cut from a McCain administration.
The last Democratic candidate to win the tax issue was also the last Democratic president — Bill Clinton. In fact, the candidate who most credibly promises the lowest level of taxes has won every presidential election in at least the last 40 years.
But while Mr. Obama was promising to cut taxes, the Bush administration took the lead on a $700 billion, taxpayer-backed bailout bill — with very little marketing finesse. Few Americans supported the bailout, and a majority of voters were more concerned that the government would do too much rather than too little. In terms of getting the economy going again, 58% said that more tax cuts would better stimulate the economy than new government spending.
A Rasmussen survey conducted Oct. 2 found that 59% agreed with the sentiment expressed by Reagan in his first inaugural address: “Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” Just 28% disagreed with this sentiment. That survey also found that 44% of Obama voters agreed with Reagan’s assessment (40% did not). And McCain voters overwhelmingly supported the Gipper.
The real challenge for the new president will be attempting to govern with a message that resonates with most voters but divides his own party. Consider that 43% of voters view it as a positive to describe a candidate as being like Reagan, while just 26% consider it a negative. Being compared to Reagan rates higher among voters than being called “conservative,” “moderate,” “liberal” or “progressive.” Except among Democrats, that is. Fifty-one percent of Democrats view that Reagan comparison as a negative. There’s Mr. Obama’s dilemma in a nutshell.
Mr. Obama won the White House promising tax cuts, but he will be governing with a Democratic Congress bursting with desire for a more activist government. As he faces this challenge, he might remember the fate of another man who made taxes the central part of his campaign: the first President Bush, whose most memorable campaign line — “Read my lips, no new taxes” — was as central to his victory as Mr. Obama’s promise to cut taxes for 95% of Americans. George H.W. Bush famously reneged on that promise. Voters rejected his bid for a second term.
Mr. Obama ran like Reagan. Will he be able to govern that way, too?
Mr. Rasmussen is president of Rasmussen Reports, an independent national polling company.
“He is just a puppet”....
Damn ! I KNEW he reminded me of something!
He DOES look just like a marionette, with invisible strings. There has NEVER been more of a puppet on a string
than Obama.
Errr, start a revolution perhaps?
Oh, it will. And I will LMAO! I think he will have a moment similar to Ashlee Simpson on SNL when her lip-synching went awry.
I got a subscription offer from the Washington Post today. I wouldn't subscribe if they reversed the process and offered to pay me! By the way, did you notice NYT stock down in the 8's now? It's a beautiful thing. Several years ago the price was up around $50.
Gingrich Warns of GOP Catastrophe
NewsMax.com ^ | 11 Feb 08 | Newsmax staff
Posted on 02/12/2008 12:22:25 PM EST by seanmerc
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1969143/posts
In a rousing speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Sunday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich called for a conservative “declaration of independence” from the Republican Party.
He also warned that Republicans face a “catastrophic” election this year unless the GOP changes course.
Gingrich pointed out that on Super Tuesday, 14.6 million voters took part in the Democratic races, compared to 8.3 million Republicans.
“There were 14.6 million Democrats who thought the presidential nomination was worth voting for, and there were 8.3 million Republicans on Super Tuesday,” Gingrich said.
“That is a warning of a catastrophic election. I was in Idaho this last week, and Barack Obama on last Saturday had 16,000 people in Boise. The idea [of] the most liberal Democratic Senator getting 16,000 people in Boise was inconceivable.
“And every person who cares about the conservative movement and every person who cares about the Republican Party had better stop and say to themselves, ‘There is something big happening in this country. We don’t understand it. We’re not responding to it. And we’re currently not competitive. And if we want to get to be competitive, we had better change and we had better change now.”
Gingrich stressed that he was not commenting on any of the current candidates for president.
Rather, he said, “this is a comment about the conservative movement, and it’s a comment about the Republican Party, and all the candidates currently running fit within those two phrases. But it is about all of us. It is about our Congressman, our Senator, our governors, our county commissioners, our school board members.
“And let me make this very clear, I believe we have to change or expect defeat.
“And I believe that this is a time for the conservative movement to issue a declaration of independence…
“First of all, I think we need to get independent from a Washington fixation. There are 513,000 elected officials in the United States and the conservative movement should believe in a decentralized United States, where every elected official has real responsibility, and we should be developing a conservative action plan, at every level of this country, and not simply focused over and over again on arguments about the White House…
“I also think that we need to declare our independence from trying to protect and defend failed bureaucracies that magically become ours as soon as we are in charge of them. We appoint solid conservatives to a department and within three weeks they are defending and protecting the very department that they would have been attacking before they got appointed.”
Gingrich drew considerable applause when he continued with his “independence” theme:
“There is one other declaration of independence we need and this will startle some of you. And remember I say this from a background of having been active in the Georgia Republican Party since 1960. In a fundamental way, the conservative movement has to declare itself independent from the Republican Party.
“Let me make very clear what I’m saying here. I am not saying there should be a third party – I think a third party is a dumb idea, will not get anywhere, and in the end will achieve nothing.
“I actually believe that any reasonable conservative will, in the end, find that they have an absolute requirement to support the Republican nominee for president this fall…
“As a citizen, I would rather have a President McCain that we fight with 20 percent of the time, than a President Clinton or a President Obama that we fight with 90 percent of the time.”
But he warned: “If we run a traditional consultant-dominated tactical Republican campaign, like we’ve seen in the last eight years, we will be defeated this fall, and we will be having a CPAC meeting next year talking about how we rebuild for the future with either President Obama or President Clinton in charge.”
bttt
The one positive thing I’ve done is stop watching State Media of any kind. My mind has been assaulted daily for years with ‘their message’ and I’m not going to let them do it anymore.
It’s driven me to post fantasy driven articles some of which has got to have some readers think I’m delusional. I fear for this Republic and that fear has driven me to the edge of despair but I will not go over.
Without the constant daily input from the media, I can and will return to more reasonable state of mind and my singular news source will be here.
I just pray that there are some Conservative Republicans who will arise from the ashes and stop the madness in our country.
Thanks Jim, for all you do.
Bring your binoculars. We want to see every inch of the long fall until they hit bottom.
Okay, who’s got the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch?
Grabbing peoples’ 401(k)’s,Dow at 5000,ban on drilling,windfall profits tax on big oil,causing $5-6/gal. gas,yep,those guilt-ridden white folk wanting to make history by voting for the Messiah will sure get a bad case of buyers remorse.
bttt
I love it when the enemy underestimates us!
That is an astute truism. The one salient characteristic that is common to all lefties is that they are emotion-driven creatures. They do their best to tune out logic and reality.
Just as soon as the GOP nominates a conservative that is NOT ashamed of his or her positions, we’ll vote for them, and I would imagine so will most of the country.
The powers who run the MSM think only this idea will save them; “Damn reality, we need more liberals and leftist slant. We’ll be back in the black in no time.”
Civil War
We need to plant seeds everywhere. And enact some laws to guard against voter fraud:
1. Photo ID required to vote. Everyone has one. If you don’t have one, get one. You can’t use a credit card, cash a check buy alcohol or (in the case of the POOR that they’re so worried about) cash and use your food stamps. You need it to get on a plane.
2. If you apply for an absentee ballot, you must have it in 3 days prior to the election. If you can’t and then need to cast your vote in person, bring your absentee ballot to the polling place either to have it counted there or to be shredded so you can vote “live.”
3. No more early voting. If you want to vote early, it’s called an absentee ballot. Get one.
4. ACORN and its progeny should be banned from all future voter registration drives. Registration forms should require the “number” from the state-issued ID - that way addresses can be checked in advance against the state databse.
5. Iraq had the right idea. When you vote and leave the polling place, an indelible ink stamp is placed on top of the left hand (skin is thin there and ink cannot be removed easily. NOW try voting in several precints.
Don't throw me in that briar patch. Only four years later, in 1968, we had a Republican president and Ronald Reagan warming up in the bullpen.
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