Posted on 04/26/2010 7:10:23 AM PDT by Michael van der Galien
The Washington Journal’s Daniel Henninger explains why Democrats are likely to lose the elections for Congress in November:
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Henninger explains that “the American people have issued a no-competence vote in their government.” A recent poll shows that confidence in Congress has dropped to a mere 22%. “This report isn’t just bad news for the Democrats, it’s Armageddon for them.”
Whichever political party one supports, it’s crystal clear that Democrats have committed suicide by pushing one progressive plan after another through Congress. ”Something unique happened in the first Obama-year and it’s about the last thing the Democratic Party needed. The veil was ripped away from the real cost of government. This is the nightmare Democrats always needed to be locked in a crypt.”
As Henninger points out, “the spending beast is running naked” and Americans don’t like the sight of it one bit. “The Democratic Party is on the edge of an electoral cliff with a long fall to the bottom. No wonder they’re seeing demons under every bed.”
The problem for progressives is and always has been that voters will stop supporting them and their agenda once they realize just how much it will cost them. This is why leftists always try to hide the real costs of their plans. They try to pay for them, in the short term at least, by raising taxes on “the rich” only, so that the middle class will not feel the pain – not immediately, that is. After a while, main street’s taxes will also be raised, but it is too late for the electorate to rebel by then because the government has become too powerful, influential and intrusive. Put in another way, once Big Brother is watching you, there’s no possible way to escape.
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This is great news, but I won’t breath easily unless this is true on Nov 15.
Good news ........ which is why the “dims” are now preparing to ram through Amnesty and acquire 20 million new voters.
Some polls show the bad approval ratings to be bad for the GOP as well, so we should not assume this necessarily means a landslide loss for the Dems.
Yes, they will lose seats because it tends to be WORSE for them in the polls, but the GOP has caught a bit of the flak just for being in Congress, so some incumbent GOPs may have struggle a bit as well.
Me either!
Especially because we may have “Big Bother” dems, but we have “Little Brother” repubs.
“Little Brother is Watching You.”
The democratio leaders are nothing more than a bunch of socialists, communists, far left radical extremists and they are in the process of turning our country into a third world country, dismantling our freedoms en masse, making our lives miserable with unending taxes.
In order to turn back this tide here is what must be done.
DO NOT VOTE FOR A SINGLE DEMOCRAT IN ANY FURTHER ELECTION. NOT A SINGLE ONE. EVER.
Good plan....except for my in-laws who think obama hung the moon. They chastize ME for watching PG-13 movies, but somehow can justify supporting obama. That log in their eys is looming awfully large compared to my speck.
WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP WIN IN 2010
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published on DickMorris.com on April 15, 2010
(This column is based on a chapter in our new book 2010: Take Back America — A Battle Plan.
Politics is no longer a spectator sport. Those in the grandstands must leave their seats and come down on the playing field to help their side score. That is the key lesson of the Obama campaign. He didn’t just have supporters. He had campaign workers—millions of them.
The Internet has made each of us the center of our own political campaign. We are the campaign. The days when the candidate and a small group of professionals ran things—and the rest of us chipped in money, showed up at rallies, and voted—are over. Now each of us must conduct our own campaign within our own circle of acquaintances, until the circle spreads to include thousands of voters.
Too many of us still labor under the delusion that politics is a top-down game, driven by the manager and candidate whose initiatives filter down to the lowly campaign workers, the foot soldiers on the ground. We wait for our phone to ring or an e-mail to arrive telling us what to do to help win the election.
But in today’s politics, those initiatives have to come from us, not from on high.
This means one thing: you are the campaign! You can be your own campaign media guru, strategist, and manager. You don’t need money. You don’t need fame. You just need to be able to produce cogent and effective campaign messages to send to your friends and associates by e-mail and to the world at large on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and whatever else is invented between now and when you read these words.
Conventional top-down media-driven political campaign isn’t working anymore because we don’t believe what we hear from strangers.
Our politicians suffer from a huge credibility gap. Advertisers face an even wider gap. So it’s no surprise that we attach virtually no credibility to paid political ads. After watching our politicians disappoint us for decades on end, we’re all reluctant to believe the promises they make in their campaigns. (And, after listening to Obama’s pledge to be a candidate who was above party and would bring Washington together, we’re just that much more cynical about believing anything a politician says.)
And here’s an interesting corollary: The more we disbelieve those we don’t know, the more we do believe, and rely upon, those we do know. The old regimen of media propaganda is swiftly being supplanted by old-fashioned word of mouth—recommendations from friends, trusted colleagues, and established, credible commentators—as our main source of information.
In this new era, we—the party’s and candidate’s supporters—must do the heavy lifting. It is we, not the candidate or his staff, who have to get the message out. The campaigns themselves—with their budgets and exposure—become ammunition factories producing shells for us to fire. Why? Because we have credibility they do not.
We each have our areas of expertise. A doctor or nurse’s opinion of Obama’s health-care bill will carry great weight with his or her peers, relatives, and friends. A small business owner will be very credible discussing the problems he’s facing in the marketplace and how Obama’s policies are stopping him from expanding his business or creating new jobs. The opinions of soldiers and their families carry great weight when they report on how Obama’s Afghanistan policy is hampering the war effort and emboldening the opposition. A construction worker’s opinion of the housing market will get our attention. When a banker or investor describes the chaos Obama has caused in the markets, everyone listens intently.
We are all experts. We are all media creators now. We are all the campaign.
Our audience is a large circle of people and we’re at its center. We have school and college buddies, office colleagues, family members (even if we have to climb pretty far out on the family tree), members of civic and fraternal groups, clients, social friends, and other associates. We have the parents of our children’s friends, people we know from their schools. There are people we forward jokes to, or share articles about our favorite sports teams with, or send out Christmas cards or letters to every year.
If you want to make a difference in 2010, now’s the time to start reaching out to all those people to spread the word. They are your constituents—your electronic precinct.
The Internet allows us to reach our circle with little effort and no cost. You do it all the time. The only difference is, in 2010 you should make it part of your campaign.
In the old political-machine days, campaign workers were each assigned an election district or precinct to canvass. Their political task was defined geographically, and our politically minded ancestors walked from one house to the next spreading the message—identifying favorable voters, working on the undecided, answering arguments or questions, resolving doubts, and, finally, making sure their party’s supporters actually voted.
Now our precinct is an electronic network that can spread across the nation. It includes everyone we know and those strangers who we can reach. They don’t live in one neighborhood; but they are our beat nonetheless.
They are the votes we need to deliver on Election Day.
So follow the example of the precinct workers of old Tammany Hall: Make a list of your constituents and go talk to each of them—by e-mail, by Twitter, by YouTube, by Facebook, even by phone.
Sound them out about their political preferences. Learn what issues matter to them. Make notes on their criticisms of Obama—and their positive ideas, too. Figure out what gets them motivated.
Then craft a strategy for each voter on your list. Formulate a plan to win them over. Work on what issues to push, what themes to strike, and how to approach each voter.
Remember to think of yourself as a publisher. The job of the campaign staff, and the candidate, is to produce ammunition in the form of issue positions, statements, and campaign material. Yours is to fire it off, distributing it to the right people. You’ve probably been trying your friends’ patience by forwarding jokes or baby pictures via e-mail. Now you can use the same tool to send something they may actually be interested in: videos of a promising candidate or stories about his or her campaign speeches. Surf the Web for articles and other materials that are helpful to your campaign. Reach out to other sources of information that might generate good material for your campaign (i.e. make sure to get our columns from DickMorris.com). Search far and wide for ammunition—material to send to your list, aiming each blast at the right targets.
So it’s up to the grassroots—which means us. Don’t wait for instructions. Don’t look for leaders. Take politics into your own hands and mobilize your precincts!
PLEASE FORWARD THIS E-MAIL TO FRIENDS AND FAMILY
THANK YOU!
What the stupid fuc*s in the democrat party are unable to comprehend is that if you tax “the rich” it will ultimately affect the “not rich” as the former rein in spending and find novel tax avoidance means. Further, as “the rich” also are the employers in this country, they will begin to lay off workers from their small businesses as costs (taxes) increase.
As an employer I wouild canvass my parking lot, and make sure that the first to go are employees whose vehicle bears an Obama/Biden sticker. And, I would make clear that their termination is due to the changes brought about by Mr. Hope-n-Change.
My strategy:
1 - vote out all Democrats
2 - vote for all independents or third party candidates
3 - don’t help elect any Democrat by throwing my vote away in a close race
4 - vote for the best candidate with the most integrity and honesty
Good plan. Fire or lay off the Obummer supporters first!
Exactly. I think a lot of long-term GOP incumbents are going to have big problems in the fall, because they are seen as insiders and part of the problem.
Yeah, I will need to exhale. The extra time will give us a few days to understand what we elected. “What” is the proper word.
I can think of many I hope will have huge problems in the Spring and Summer primaries (cough, McCain, cough).
Very true. I love to read these forecasts, but the oldest advice in the world is “Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.”
The next six months can bring a lot of new variables, but I I can only hope that things get even WORSE for the Dims. I hope their whole miserable, stinking, corrupt party collapses.
“Exactly. I think a lot of long-term GOP incumbents are going to have big problems in the fall, because they are seen as insiders and part of the problem”
Agreed, and in many-many cases you are correct they are a part of the problem.
Exactly. I hope I am wrong, as I would like all the GOP to sail to victory to keep from spending money on that race. But, polls have made a good point that gets ignored here....the GOP incumbents don’t fare too well in the minds of the poll-readers right now.
I like your interpretation of Hope and Change.
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