Posted on 09/15/2009 12:51:41 PM PDT by Kaslin
“La la la. I can’t hear you.” That’s what la-la liberals spent the entire weekend saying when confronted with the reality of the September 12 march on Washington. Confronted with an oncoming tsunami, many on the left spent the weekend quibbling over how many drops of water it contained. Others ignored it completely.
While liberal bloggers were claiming there were mere thousands of conservative marchers in DC, rather than a million, they refused to address the political ramifications of the protests. They used the equivalent of my child’s favorite method of tuning me out when I am telling her grandmother a story of the latest embarrassing, adorable thing she’s done – putting her fingers in her ears and repeating “la, la, la, I can’t hear you.”
The phrase “conservatives taking to the streets” is one that I have not yet gotten used to hearing quite yet. But as foreign as it still sometimes seems to me, it must be 100 times more difficult for liberals to grasp the concept. I get it. I understand that they must be in shock.
I understand that they are desperate for any way to change the subject. But to look at pictures of throngs of people stretching on for blocks and blocks and blocks and block and to try to pretend there were only a few thousand there is delusional. Many of those on the left may have convinced themselves that their eyes really didn’t see what was there, but I suspect they know exactly what is happening. They are just not yet at a place where they can face the reality of it.
It is not just hundreds of thousands of protesters marching with anti-Obama, anti-big government signs that Democrats are seeing. They are also seeing very real poll numbers that match the mood of the tea party protesters. Over the weekend the Associated Press reported, “Despite sweeping Democratic successes in the past two national elections, continuing job losses and President Barack Obama's slipping support could lead to double-digit losses for the party in next year's congressional races and may even threaten their House control.”
The AP report continued, “…it could be the most toxic environment for Democrats since 1994, when the party lost 34 House incumbents and 54 seats altogether. Democrats currently have a 256-178 edge in the House, with one vacancy. Republicans would have to pick up 40 seats to regain control.”
I don’t blame liberals for wanting to ignore and deny the truth in front of their faces. It must be a horrible shock for them, after such incredible successes in 2006 and 2008, but they do so at their own peril.
More threatening than the raw number of those who have showed up at tea party protests and town hall meetings over the past eight months, is the makeup of the protesters. As Mark Hemingway at National Review Online noted, “…overall it was an undeniably sober and informed crowd, especially in comparison to your standard left-liberal protest march. These people have jobs, are influential in their communities and you can be darn sure they plan on voting next November.”
Those on the left who have not completely buried their heads in the sand have to know that for every one of these people who took time out of their lives and spent considerable money to travel to Washington, DC to protest, there are many, many more at home standing along with them. There are others, like me, who could not make the trip due to other obligations. (I was home with a child sick with pneumonia.) But those of us who didn’t have the financial means or the available time to make a trip to the nation’s capital, will have no trouble finding time to vote next year.
My friend, blogger Terresa Monroe Hamilton, wrote of those politicians not yet hearing the message of those protesting over the past eight months, “You are so out of touch with the American people, it is staggering. You see millions march on DC, millions more gather across the nation, and yet millions more converge in their homes screaming at you to stop it and yet you march on trying with all your evil might to bring down our nation and our patriots. Not to be indelicate, but screw you… Americans are not backing down and you should fear for your jobs…”
Conservatives are asking, “"Can you hear us now?" Many of those on the left, as well as politicians of both parties, are not yet ready to answer “yes” out loud and in public, but rest assured they are hearing us. Those who haven’t heard yet are not worth worrying about anyway. They are living in a la la land, an alternate reality, but it won’t be long before they will face the reality of the real world. The only question is whether or not it will be before or after Election Day 2010.
Confronted with an oncoming tsunami, many on the left spent the weekend quibbling over how many drops of water it contained.
MONEY LINE!
Equally important is we need to get out and vote in the primaries. I’m not sure McCain would have been much better than Obama.
This is fine with me. Let them ignore it or pretend it is insignificant. If they go ahead and ram their insane leftist crap thru regardless of what they are seeing and hearing - and if the anger and activism are real - they will be crushed in 2010 and probably in 2012 as well.
The real question is: Will the GOP have the courage and will to reverse the leftist agenda? Or will they just go along while wringing their hands and whining about “fairness”, “decorum” and the “rules of the senate/house”?
They longer our enemies cover their ears, call us nasty names, and remain in denial, the easier it will be for us to vanquish them utterly!
That depends on us. On whom we vote for in the primaries. On how effective we are at educating our friends and neighbors regarding what and and whom they should be voting for—and why.
I agree with you completely
2) The Tea Party people were almost universally polite, well-spoken and cleaned up after themselves. (Witness by contrast the attendees at most pro-Obama rallies with their mass produced signs, and thinking processes.)
3. The proper symbol for all of our protesters, regardless of the specific issues of each, is the Gadsden Flag, the rattlesnake on a yellow field, that should now start appearing at every public event in the nation where TV cameras are present.
Congressman Billybob
Latest article, "A Million People Prove that NPR Doesn't Count"
Before we get a headache over the 2012 Presidential election we have to concentrate on congressional election in 2010 so we can repeat 1994 and win the House back and perhaps gain some seats back in the Senate
We do have to work harder to get good candidates to begin with (in the primaries), and while I think McCain would have been awful, I don’t think he’s a crazed megalomaniac and I don’t think the people surrounding him would have been anywhere near as bad as those surrounding Obama. One of the things we have to consider is that you get not only the president, but all the people in his party, so while there would have been a lot of RINOs, we still wouldn’t have had David Axelrod, Emmanuel Rahm, etc.
I like to call them Bliss Ninnies.
I have always defended Bill O’Reilly when he was attacked here by some freepers, because I have found him fair and unbiased. Lately however I have screamed at my TV because I could not take it anymore. Last night when he said there were only 75,000 people at the rally in DC was such a situation
14 months until elections. That’s a political eternity.
Some really good stuff can happen between now and then, and some really bad stuff can happen.
Freedom and liberty are still playing defense, and barely holding their ground. The statists still run the school systems and the colleges.
Biggest lesson of the past couple decades or more is that we must not trust ANY politician to do the right thing. We The People will need to continue holding their hand and, occasionally, kicking their butts.
Another good step would be to arrange for theater style seating during any get-togethers with our reps. The kind of seating where they stand down in the well and look up at us, arrayed through ranks of seating above them. This is the reality that needs to be reinforced in their minds.
I agree entirely, but I don't think the majority think of that when they pull the lever for president. The apathy on our side after 8 years of Bush certainly didn't help in 2008. I'll say one thing for "The One/Messiah," is that he's united Republicans in a way that John McCain could never hope to accomplish.
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He’s united conservatives (true liberals),
not so much the GOP, which is infested with elitists
in need of a purging.
Years ago the company I worked for offered an early retirement package. Our joke was those with even half of a brain took the package. About 4-6 months later the company went on a rampage of firing people. Most of those people who didn't take early retirement got terminated with no real package. Those in the home office got a free Kinko box to put their personal stuff in before security escorted them off the property. George 76 and I have joked about the free Kinko's boxes for a few years.
Flash forward a couple of years, and about a dozen of us had been hired as consultants by a former peer, who, also, took the early retirement. At one of the first meetings of the new company, one of the guys who didn't take the early retirement package was moaning that we, who took the early retirement package had insider knowledge.
Our new boss said "Hey you were in a dark tunnel that that had railroad ties across the bottom with rails on top of the ties. For months you kept hearing the engine coming closer, the lights flashing and even the engineer blowing the train's whistle. Those of us with half a brain found another tunnel that took us safely outside, and you stayed and ignored the obvious."
Our new boss looked at a couple of us and shook his head. The whiner didn't last long in his new environment.
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