bump
Posted on 01/24/2010 8:19:05 AM PST by Salena Zito
In a political year in which voters want to "throw the bums out," the last thing any candidate should do is run as the bum.
That's why Gov. Jon Corzine, a Democrat, lost his seat in New Jersey in November.
It's why candidates such as Democrat Creigh Deeds in Virginia's gubernatorial race, Republican Dede Scozzafava in New York's congressional race and, yes, Democrat Martha Coakley in Massachusetts all lost.
They ran as bums - slang for incumbent.
One can only imagine President Barack Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, saying to anyone within shouting distance last Tuesday night: "The people have spoken, the bastards" - channeling Democrat Dick Tuck's California state Senate concession speech of long ago.
Races always swing in one of two very different ways: left versus right (ideological) or inside versus outside (disconnected).
Main Street's outsider message to the Political Elite's insider soiree finally has caught the latter's attention.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
we woke up the move on org and its machine... they are meeting this week end .. now we have to bring the A game ever time.. and get it better.. they are not going away.. we have to keep the attention and focus.. through them out .. as we can ..
Here is what 0’s new political guru is telling the Dems.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2436092/posts
How Dems can prevent a November nightmare: Pass Obamacare (Plouffe-Wash Post)
Washington Post ^ | 1-24-10 | David Plouffe
White House in full”Disconnect The Dots” mode. State of Union will form a template for the Socialist media to disconnect the dots.
By bringing back Ploufe, zerO is signalling to (D) congress people that he believes they cannot run winning their own campaigns and that he will now run them.
That should go over real big with the (D) congress people.
One arrogant sob trying to run another group of arrogant sob’s campaigns.
". . . every word of [the Constitution] decides a question between power and liberty. . . ." - (National Gazette, January 19, 1792)
A candidate who studies, understands, and can communicate the ideas of liberty which motivated those who wrote that Constitution will be as revolutionary a candidate today as were those men of 1776 and 1787.
Who has the courage to expose the fraudulent ideas of those who, in both Parties, by their arrogance and actions, have undermined "the People's" Constitutional restraints in order to accumulate power to themselves? Who will be bold enough to tell our youth that they were born to be free of dependency on "rulers," determined to enjoy their Creator-endowed life and liberty, and knowledgeable about the documents of their liberty?
The Left has pushed it so far now, that never, since 1776, has there been a time in America when younger generations would be as receptive to the Founders' ideas as they would be today--if someone would clearly articulate those ideas. Who will come forth?
That's not yet 'real clear'! It will be much clearer after the 27th, though, so we don't have long to wait. In fact, for the 'outsider message' to have been 'heard' (yes, I know they're listening), Obama will have to admit to his long list of failures. And that's something his ego is totally incapable of allowing.
Gov. Deval Patrick of MA, gave his state of the state speech the other night, and the next morning it wasn’t covered by the news outlets. Talk about a tree falling in a forest. Most amusing. He’s Obama’s BFF — popularity around 21% and falling. Lies, more and higher taxes, incompetence, etc.. They’re even trying to put a toll on I93 at the border with NH! Usual Liberal crap, they had state cops stopping cars at the border a few months ago to see if they’d bought any big ticket items in NH (to avoid onerous MA state tax, recently upped more than 25%), such as a TV, computer, etc.. Maybe Obama can get Deval to campaign in those state races where he’s unable to do so.
Personally, I sorta hope the democrat leadership continues to miss the message!
We need to have a "rediscovery" of those revolutionary ideas of liberty today.
Sadly, the current Administration and Congress are promoting counterfeit ideas that have led to oppressive government control of the lives of people wherever they have been tried.
Ideas do have consequences! (Weaver) The Founders' ideas made America a place of refuge and light for the oppressed who lived under the kinds of rule that this Congress and Administration are trying to impose.
Jefferson's First Inaugural contained these wise paragraphs:
"Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe; too high-minded to endure the degradations of the others; possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the thousandth and thousandth generation; entertaining a due sense of our equal right to the use of our own faculties, to the acquisitions of our own industry, to honor and confidence from our fellow-citizens, resulting not from birth, but from our actions and their sense of them; enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man; acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter--with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow-citizens--a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.
"About to enter, fellow-citizens, on the exercise of duties which comprehend everything dear and valuable to you, it is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our Government, and consequently those which ought to shape its Administration. I will compress them within the narrowest compass they will bear, stating the general principle, but not all its limitations. Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of election by the people--a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism; a well disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burthened; the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith; encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid; the diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason; freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety." (Underlining added for emphasis)
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