Blame the GOP for America’s First Marxist President

Barack Hussein Obama has prevailed in the 2008 presidential election. Obama not only carried all the ‘blue’ states that John Kerry won in 2004, he also flipped several ‘red’ states, such as Colorado, Nevada, Florida and Virginia, delivering a crushing electoral defeat to John McCain. And the blame falls squarely on the GOP for allowing this Marxist to become president of the United States.

It has been interesting and amusing to read the numerous ‘post mortems’ from conservative and liberal pundits alike. Yet not one of the post mortems has identified the real reason McCain got clobbered. It was not because of Sarah Palin, as many liberals claimed. Palin was the only thing that kept McCain in the game. It was not because middle America suddenly decided they like leftist solutions as opposed to conservative solutions. McCain offered few such solutions himself.

The reason Obama prevailed was because the GOP allowed a false narrative about Obama to stand – a narrative painting BHO as a moderate, reasonable, and competent legislator.

John McCain, for all his problems – deep distrust amongst conservatives, an unpopular Bush occupying the Whitehouse, an ill timed “fundamentals of the economy are strong” gaffe, and a less than stellar campaign team – could have put himself in a strong position to win with a single, courageous act: Opposing the socialist “bailout”. What would have been proof of a genuine free market Maverick, willing to stand and fight big spending socialism, instead turned into a Monty Python skit. McCain first ran with his instincts and stated he did not like the idea of a taxpayer bailout, then swiftly reversed himself – deciding it was his golden opportunity to “lead”. He declared a phony “suspension” of his campaign and flew back to Washington to loudly promote this boondoggle. By doing so, not only did he look contrived and silly, McCain ended up on the exact same side of the issue as Nancy Pelosi, George Bush, Harry Reid, the GOP leadership and Barack Obama. And by being on the same side as Obama, his subsequent claims of prudent fiscal stewardship versus Obama’s ‘tax and spend’ liberalism rang exceedingly hollow.

This episode cost McCain dearly. After chipping away at Obama’s lead all summer, after the negative publicity surrounding Obama and Jeremiah Wright, and then introducing Sarah Palin to America during the Republican National Convention, the wind was at McCain’s back. Palin hit a home run in her speech, and McCain appeared quite clever for selecting her. The conservative base was starting to mobilize.

Then President Bush and Treasury Secretary Paulson announced a financial ‘crisis’ to the world; and McCain (and the GOP leaders) crumpled like a cheap suit. Granted, there were other footprints on his John Thomas, such as the Spanish language ads touting his amnesty plan, his foolish call for the feds to usurp individual mortgages, and his cringe producing knocks against “big oil”; all which helped erode conservative enthusiasm. But the “bailout” debacle was the big one. McCain not only missed the opportunity to side with the people (70% strongly opposed), but he tied himself closer to Bush at a time when Bush’s approval rating slumped from bad to worse. Within 10 days, the polls dramatically shifted from McCain up from 2 to 8 points, to an Obama lead, which was never relinquished.

That was John McCain’s main contribution to his loss (other than being John McCain), but the entire GOP, including the RNC, McCain’s advisors, the NRCC, the NRSC, and other various Republican organs failed as well. They not only failed to win, but more importantly, they failed to prevent a dyed in the wool, radical Marxist from ascending to the presidency. How? By not telling America that Barack Hussein Obama IS a dyed in the wool, radical Marxist!!! It is a nearly unforgivable crime to have failed to “put country first” and do everything in their power to keep this slippery and dangerous subversive from winning.

Had they exposed Barack Obama for who he really is, instead of bowing to the winds of political correctness and decorum, Obama and his democrat allies would have been beaten like ugly, red-headed stepchildren. Instead, they allowed Obama to dictate the narrative of his own life, knowing full well that the MSM was going to support him 100%. The ads that the GOP did run mentioning Bill Ayers were sporadic, and mostly ineffectual, because they never followed up on why it mattered. They never explained to the public that Bill Ayers is STILL a radical Marxist in every sense of the word, and was such when Obama ‘palled’ around with him. They never explained that Obama and Ayers pushed anti-American, radical education “reform” together. They never wove it into the larger story line of Obama’s entire life – a life full of radical associations, and his own Marxist activities. And they failed to clearly demonstrate how that radicalism is setting Obama’s agenda this very day. It was an EPIC FAILURE on the part of the GOP!

Talk Radio has a massive audience, but it is a self selecting audience. Apolitical and swing voters generally do not tune in, and most liberals don’t either. The only way for Obama’s real narrative to have reached the masses who don’t hang onto Rush’s every word, and who don’t spend their time reading Red State and Free Republic, was for the GOP hierarchy (including McCain) to raise hell about it. It was the only way the MSM was going to mention it. Instead we witnessed the spectacle of the RNC and McCain campaign scolding those in the Republican Party who tried to run such ads. And when a very brave congressman, Michelle Bachmann (R-MN), appeared on Chris Matthews’ program and declared her suspicion that Obama may hold anti-American views, the NRCC pulled her funding and she was treated like a pariah in the party. Not one GOP leader rushed to her defense. It was a prime opportunity for Republicans to tell the world WHY Obama’s views should be considered un-American. Instead, they cut and ran, just like they did from every Obama controversy.

No matter how many uppercuts talkers such as Mark Levin, Rush, Hugh Hewitt, and Savage delivered to Obama’s chin, and no matter how much dirt the rightwing blogosphere uncovered, the powers that be in the Republican Party refused to join the fray, leaving the MSM to counter and gloss over anything negative about Obama that seeped into the national dialogue.

The Republicans have lost their nerve. Worse, they have lost their revulsion to socialism and Marxism and have devolved into politically correct, overfed capons. No other explanation suffices to illustrate their frightened, AWOL status on the following subjects:

* Obama’s mentor for roughly 10 years in Hawaii before he moved off to college was a man named Frank Marshall Davis. Obama reveals “’Frank” as his respected mentor and adviser in Dreams of My Father, and recalls him fondly – nights of reading poetry together, drinking booze, and learning about the plight of blacks in America. Frank Marshall Davis was a radical Marxist and racist - and a pedophile. (Read all about Frank on Wikipedia here and in more detail from American Thinker here).

* Obama, in his first book “Dreams”, bluntly stated that once in college he actively sought out radicals as his friends. Quote: “To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists.” How many of these radical and Marxist friends did the MSM seek out for interviews? Absolutely ZERO. (Read “Obama’s Socialist Roots Run Deep” here).

* Obama was a member of the New Party in the early to mid 1990s. The New Party was a group of radical leftists founded in order to unite the Communists, the Socialist Workers Party, Community Organizers, and other various fringe groups into a more effective political party. There are photographs of Obama proudly standing with its leaders and articles in their publications celebrating his state Senate victory, and his membership in the NP. (More at Newsbusters here and Human Events here).

* Obama’s African father, Barack Hussein Obama Sr. was a card carrying Marxist. Though as a child Barack did not know his father, once older he began serious correspondence with him. And he subsequently dedicated his first book to this man in 1995. Obama Sr., amongst other things, advocated the “communal ownership of land and the forced confiscation of privately controlled land”, nationalizing foreign owned properties in his native Kenya, and “no limit to taxation if the benefits derived from public services by society measure up to the cost in taxation which they have to pay”. Pure Marxism, and a heavy influence on Obama Jr. (PrestoPundit has a good primer on Sr.’s marxism here.)

* Obama’s very own mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was also a dedicated leftist her entire life. Obama credits her with having the most influence on his young life, saying “”the dominant figure in my formative years… The values she taught me continue to be my touchstone when it comes to how I go about the world of politics.” She has been described by her friends as a “fellow traveler” – code word for communist. (Townhall.com has more here).

* Obama married Michelle Robinson. While Michelle can certainly be charming, she had to learn on the campaign trail to not portray America as a greatly flawed and depressing country – which of course only her husband could fix. Twice she stated she was “for the first time proud of my country” before such nonsense reached the media and she was forced to backpedal and whitewash. Her admonition for women to reject careers in “corporate America” in favor of “community service” reeks of class warfare. Her Princeton college thesis is pathetic race victim pablum sprinkled with hackneyed socialism. (Slate dissects it brutally here.)

* For twenty plus years Obama (later joined by wife and kids) sat in the pews of Trinity United Christian Church, home of his “great friend and mentor”, Pastor Jeremiah Wright. Everyone is familiar with Wright’s racist and anti-American rants that received some media coverage back in June. However, the larger story is that Rev. Wright and his ‘church’ are devoted adherents to Black Liberation Theology. Black Liberation Theology is a particularly noxious and ardently Marxist worldview. And Barack chose this institution willfully and continues to heap praise on it, despite being forced to finally toss the good Reverend under the bus during his campaign. (Much more on BLT here and here).

* Barack Obama traveled to Kenya in 2006 as a sitting US Senator and campaigned (illegally so) for socialist presidential candidate, Raila Odinga. Odinga was defeated, but due to his post election agitation, riots ensued and more than 1500 Kenyan citizens were murdered. Kofi Annan brokered a power sharing agreement to stop the violence and Odinga was appointed Prime Minister. This is a man who was so enamored with Fidel Castro that he named his first born son Fidel in his honor. (Newsweek’s sanitized essay on Odinga here, and the real Obama/Odinga story here from the Washington Times).

* Obama, as we have found out from the unrepentant terrorist himself since the election, was much more than just “neighbors” with Bill Ayers. According to Bill, they are “family friends”. That Obama was blatantly lying about the extent of their relationship is inarguable. But even the relationship that was ‘on record’, as political allies in Chicago politics, and allies in getting their education ‘agenda’ realized through the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, was highly exploitable. For starters, Ayers may have quit advocating bombings, but he never once stopped advocating Marxist dogma, especially as it applied to education in America. And Obama was in lockstep, going so far to give a glowing review of Ayers’ 1997 book, A Kind and Just Parent, praising the Marxist gibberish as “a searing and timely account of the juvenile court system”. It has also been shown that there is a very real possibility that Ayers either edited or co-wrote Obama’s ‘Dreams’ book. (NR’s Stanley Kurtz has more on the Obama/Ayers working relationship).

* Obama has an ongoing relationship with Code Pink, the Marxist, anti-war outfit most famous for protesting outside of Walter Reed military hospital and at military recruitment offices. Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans was a principle Obama ‘bundler’ during the campaign, raising tens of thousands of dollars, and arranging events for Obama. Even after Evans stormed the stage at a Palin speech and was arrested, the MSM refused to report on the links and friendship with Barack Hussein Obama. (FreeRepublic covered this topic best, here, here, and here).

The above close associations are only a partial list, for brevity’s sake. But there are many others, including radical islamist and former black panther Khalid al-Mansour, a man identified by civil rights leader (and Obama supporter) Percy Sutton as ‘sponsoring’ Obama during his Harvard days. Obama denies knowing him, yet al-Mansour and Sutton told the media the opposite. Also, “close friend” Rashid al Khalidi, Black Liberation soulmate and anti-semite Louis Farrakhan, his self described “spiritual advisers” such as the Marxist priest Father Pfleger and Reverend James “house niggers” Meeks, official campaign artist and Marxist propagandist Shepard Fairey, and Communist Party USA board member Tim Wheeler, who was honored by Obama with his own blog on the official Obama/Biden campaign website; all remained virtual unknowns. It goes on and on.

So what prevented the GOP and the McCain campaign from exploiting the history of Barack Obama and telling the true story about his politics and worldview? Shouldn’t the urge to prevent such a radical from gaining the presidency of this blessed nation have outweighed any fear of being labeled racists and fear mongers by Obama’s cheering section in the MSM? Only a fool or a leftist could have been comforted by Obama’s attempts to sound notes of moderation during the general election.

There was a reason that Obama received endorsements from North Korea’s official news outlet, Cuba’s Fidel Castro, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, the Communist Party in the US (CPUSA), France’s Socialist Party, The New Black Panther Party, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the radical Palestinian party Hamas, British communist MP George Galloway, Libyan dictator Momar Kaddafi, Calyspo Louie’s Nation of Islam, Nicaraguan communist Daniel Ortega, and virtually every radical, leftist, socialist and Marxist organization in existence.

Yet the GOP leaders watched in silence as conservatives in the blogosphere and talk radio documented these endorsements and associations and tied them to his voting record and his current policies. Policies that include radical gun control, giving out welfare and calling it tax cuts, pushing for surrender to the islamists in Iraq, lifting all restrictions on abortion, pushing an education policy right out of Bill Ayers’ handbook, using Marxist Saul Alinsky’s tactics for polluting the election process, threatening US sovereignty with global UN tax proposals and unfettered illegal immigration, his call for a powerful “Civilian National Defense Force”, his promises to gut missile defenses and many other high tech military systems, a radical energy agenda aimed at curbing fictitious “global warming”, and his proposal for nationalizing health care.

Fellow conservatives, next time you find yourself enraged about a far reaching, socialist Obama policy which erodes and undermines our military capabilities, our free market economy, our sovereignty, or our Christian heritage, be sure to thank the leaders in the Republican Party. When it was time to stand and fight with us and expose the Marxist candidate to the American people, they chose the poisonous ‘safety’ of political correctness instead; to their eternal shame and to our nation’s catastrophic detriment.

You are absolutely correct. Perhaps even before the primaries began our fate was sealed but the Primaries were a definite eye-opener.

When Republicans had control they could have killed the funding for ACORN and other corrupt leftist groups existing on the taxpayer dime.

The “eye-opener” in the Primaries, for me at least, was that Republicans are just as shallow, prone to be star-struck and as likely to become good sheeple as Democrats.

I heard convoluted rationalizations, as well as shallow reasoning throughout the Primaries. You see, Republicans were looking for an American Idol all their own. It just so happens that the Democrats are far better at that game.

I said well over a year ago; if Duncan Hunter isn’t elected in 2008, the demographics will have changed in such a way that 2012 will not matter to Conservatives. If McCain had been elected it would have only mattered in the short-term. He would have killed 2012 for Conservatives just as effectively as Obama will.

Please do not fool yourself, as I did, into thinking that anything will be learned from this election. The Party has lost its core and is just a fragile, thin veneer of its former self. The Zero-elect is nine weeks a way from being sworn and we are already seeing Palin 2012 signs. A very nice lady, that I like, but do not know enough about her to start supporting her this early. We should be careful of the Frankenstein’s we create.

If the Primary in 2012 becomes just another popularity contest and we go about it as if we are choosing a Homecoming Queen, our reward will be the same as this year, defeat. We have to get to work on getting solid Conservatives into Congress in 2010 and then we, as Republicans, can indulge ourselves in speculation about 2012.

"John McCain, for all his problems – deep distrust amongst conservatives, an unpopular Bush occupying the Whitehouse, an ill timed “fundamentals of the economy are strong” gaffe, and a less than stellar campaign team – could have put himself in a strong position to win with a single, courageous act: Opposing the socialist “bailout”. What would have been proof of a genuine free market Maverick, willing to stand and fight big spending socialism, instead turned into a Monty Python skit."

Precisely. It was an opportunity both to stand up for conservative principles and turn the finanacial crisis (and therefore the election) around on the Democrats, who bore the most responsibility for it anyway.

"Vote for the MOST CONSERVATIVE in the primary and accept the nominee in the general. Anything else, such as 3rd party voters, only end up with the same results as McLame and is nothing more than a pathway to CONSESSION SPEECHES."

That works pretty well if you are a republican first, conservative somewhere down the list. There are many who are conservative first. Get over it. McCain lost because he was just about the worst candidate that the GOP could have nominated.

Instead of slamming third party voters, which is getting you absolutely nowhere, why don't you work to change the GOP primary structure so that a bunch of liberals don't get to start off choosing the nominee. Too many folks will just go with the one they perceive to be the 'winner' after that.

Actually, the GOP is more directly responsible for Sen. Obama than you know.

In 2002 Illinois had an incumbent Republican Senator, Peter Fitzgerald. Sen. Fitzgerald had run using his own money as a reform candidate, beating out the Illinois Combine’s handpicked candidate. During his term in office the office of U.S. Attorney for the district of Northern Illinois came open. As custom, Sen. Fitzgerald nominated on behalf of the President a replacement. As was decidedly NOT the custom, Sen. Fitzgerald nominated not a well-connected lawyer from Cook County, LaSalle St. (the financial district in Chicago) or Springfield (the Illinois state capital), but someone that nobody knew - a prosecutor from New York, Patrick Fitzgerald (no relation) who had been busy putting Mafioso in jail.

Patrick Fitzgerald has put about 66 politicians and lobbyists and influence peddlers in jail. The Combine hates him. The Combine hated Sen. Fitzgerald. They spent years sticking knives in his back. And in an election year when the GOP was desperate to keep every single Senate seat they had, the Illinois GOP, acting as a part of the Combine, refused to support Sen. Fitzgerald and were preparing to run someone against him in the primary.

So the Senator resigned, rather than spend another term fighting BOTH parties. The sitting GOP governor also declined to run for re-election and is currently sitting in jail, being sent there by Patrick Fitzgerald. And the Illinois GOP picked a candidate, Jack Ryan, who ended up being non-viable well into the primary after his divorce papers came public and it was revealed that his ex-wife (Jeri Ryan, 7 of 9 in Star Trek) accused him of trying to get her to have sex with someone else while he watched at a Parisian sex club. Their second candidate was Alan Keyes, who is way too conservative to ever get elected in Illinois and was a Maryland resident to boot. Of course, the GOP was floundering during all this with no Party chair for 30 days in the middle of the election because the incumbent Party chair had to step down during the election because it was determined he was using State employees on State time to do partisan political work, and the party is so filthy that it took a month to find someone to take the job.

All of which allowed the Democratic candidate a clear path to election - then-State Senator Barak Obama. So give a big thank you to the Illinois GOP for this situation. Their greed and corruption led directly to this.

Shouldn’t the urge to prevent such a radical from gaining the presidency of this blessed nation have outweighed any fear of being labeled racists and fear mongers by Obama’s cheering section in the MSM?

Don't forego the notion, of willing participation, we have traitors in the party.

What explanation could there be for the monumental failure of a completely republican government?

I have long surmised that the radical Court decisions, were allowed to go unchallenged because the House and Senate, were not so disappointed as relieved that there agenda is promoted and the courts have to take the blame, Letting them go on with their illusion of being conservative, while cooperating with the enemy.

Why didn't the Toe-Tapper resign, so an untainted Conservative could run?
How did it take so long to out this pervert?

Sell your sanctimonious BS on Hannity's show, FRino. I am a conservative REPUBLICAN, not a conservative DUmocrat. The party of Lincoln and Reagan is not a dirty word. The GOP is not the party of Goober Grahamnesty and Juan McLame even if they have the nomination. That said, I don't take my ball and go vote DUmocrat when the chips are down and things don't go my way. Sometimes you put country first and accept the nominee and hope they will see the error of their ways.

Voting FOR the most conservative in the primary is putting the CONSERVATIVE FIRST. Sitting it out to "teach the GOP a lesson" or voting 3rd party is the gameplan of the DNC (Divide N' Conquer) and strategy for surrender. McLame proved that "reach across the aisle" and "bi-(polar)partisanship" is a pathway to CONCESSION SPEECHES and Reagan's 1984 model is a clear illustration of the possibilties of REPUBLICAN CONSERVATISM.

I was against FRino’s here during the primaries...and was told the most conservative wasn't “electable” and should vote for a RINO like FLIP Romney, Tutti Fruity Rooty, Mrs. Paul or anyone other than the REAGAN CONSERVATIVE who was running and standing up to the Kennedy wing of the GOP. It was those same RINO FRaudheads who are now saying Palin was a ‘drain on the ticket’ and is the reason that HUSSEIN Obama won.

In that way, 3rd party DUmba$$es are just as bad as RINOs. You both help to water down the GOP with LIEberalism and both help to get RINOs and DUmocrats elected time after time. Allowing the DUmocrats to maintain control or gain more power is what brought terrorism to our shores and what is destroying our economy and selling us out to socialism. If you're not working with the Republicans to make sure their CONSERVATIVE platform is respected and RINOs are tossed out, they you aid the very enemy you claim to be against. To those who still claim the parties are the same and we should sit it out or vote 3rd or 4th party....thanks for being a tool of the left - the DNC could not buy support like you give them!

Plenty of blame to go around, some have said, and others who have bought into this argument of Collective Guilt, the last is a significant flaw in this otherwise excellent gathering of all the reasons Barack Obama should not have been elected president, and all the reasons it was 1. unnecessary and 2. the responsibility of a clear majority of the voters who have made the Popular Culture the measure of all things.

I'm not much into Collective Guilt, but that's not really my main point, which is this: We all knew by March that John McCain was likely to be our nominee, and it was pretty obvious by the time of the North Carolina Primary that Senator Obama would likely be the nominee of a fiercely passionate mass movement, with all the attractions mass movement have for those who cannot or will not face their own personal responsibility as an objective reality.

The presidential primary system is no where to be found in the Constitution, though the primary voting is mentioned in the latter day Poll Tax Amendment.

One way to prevent this from happening again, if there is another again, is to challenge the legality of the national political parties characterizing themselves as "private institutions." When the State pays for your process of selecting a nominee, that make the Party in that state a public institution.

Also, the presidential primary process allows states and groups of states to form pacts that diminish the strength of other states, without explicit approval of congress.

This is all mapped out in various places, though you will need to hunt for it. But if you want to understand how you were screwed, it was the presidential primary process, a violation of the Constitution, and the Voting Rights Act.

Ask yourself, how an open stuffed Republican Primary in New Hampshire is better than the "smoke-filled" rooms and plain old presidential conventions these "private" institutions (when it suits them) held in the past? The reforms of the mid to late 20th Century may have become orthodoxy, but they have clearly failed. First, they nominated George McGovern in 1972 (after, as a failed candidate of the Chicago disaster of 1968, he was put in charge of reforming the nomination process four years later.) Guess who was put in charge of reforming the Democrat presidential primary process after the 1972 disaster (for the Democrats, that is)?

The Governor of Georgia, who then became the nominee in 1976.

I could go on and on, but just as we correctly suspected the election was lost when Phil Gramm was defeated by Bob Dole in New Hampshire in 1996, we correctly suspected the election was over when John McCain was the last man left standing this past year.

The time is long past for us to devolve the illegal presidential primary system, in one fell swoop.

The presidential primary system is broken, illegal and plain wrong. It's got to go.

Have to agree with the analysis as I have shared the thoughts; blamed the 'same' for same reasons. (Wrote FoxNews so many times; pleading with these media Journalists (beyond Hannity MO) to just tell the 'truth' about Obama. Name the name so that more could connect the dots. While they did better than any network; nonetheless, they could/would not, say the 'S' word (socialist) and for certain; would never utter the 'M' word.

'Joe the Plummber' changed all that; but it was 'too little; too late'. Obama was already playing the role of President.

Challenged as well, the Repubs...wondering, how it is; in all their public analysis of Obama; his idiological roots were ignored. . .roots from which grew, Obama's entire personna and 'will to power'. So much truth; so little told. Our Military fighting for 'Freedom' and our own, here at home; silent on our political battlefront.

Another disaster McCain inflicted; just as he was 'peaking'; was to offer his Constituency at McCain Rally; that they (we) 'had nothing to fear from an Obama Presidency'; that he was a 'good man'. . .I wondered then and there; then what IS the point of all this; why are people knocking themselves out for you? What a message!

Of course, like many, continued to support the only opposition to Obama; but many Repubs did not; and many more; never were on board to begin with. They were of the mind that we 'deserved Obama' and in four years, Conservatives would recover with Repubs learning a lesson.

So shortshighted and along with all the above; we now have a world-sized pain and suffering.

Let's see how he stacks up to past presidents, after he governs for a while. He may or may not be more Marxist than FDR, who tried to take over the judiciary by packing the Supreme Court, put American citizens in concentration camps, and set up the makings of a command economy and the start of cradle-to-grave socialism.

Then there was Nixon who institutionalized Johnson's Great Society programs, instituted wage and price controls, pushed through a national speed limit, and had his own little goon squad to take care of political opponents.

Oh, and George W Bush lately is taking steps to nationalize the banking system.

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