Posted on 03/17/2014 12:44:28 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Former Obama White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs appeared on the “Meet the Press” roundtable Sunday and laid bare truths about Washington, and his former boss’s spokesman.
As the show’s featured guest, White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer painted a ludicrously optimistic portrait of the 2014 midterm elections for Democrats, stating emphatically, “I believe we will keep the Senate.”
Later in the show, Gibbs admitted the Democrats could “absolutely” lose the Senate. He added: “If [Obama] doesn’t get more involved in raising money and making this a choice, as Dan Pfeiffer said, you lose the Senate. And, if you lose the Senate, turn out the lights because the party’s over.” …
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“They do not want to go down in flaming defeat.”
Or could it be more cunning. I will step down to make way for another Dem pol. That Dem Pol says, “hey, I didn’t vote for Obamacare or anything else associated with Obama, therefore: Vote For Me, I’m your Dem rep who’ll make sure the freebies keep coming.!”
Sorry, I trust the Dems as much as I trust the Devil.
I see a hugh wave midterms that would make 2010’s look like a little kids pool.
....Or to be caugh up in a political bloodbath.
Nah. You were doomed when you woke up with that kind of attitude.
It’s not the only thing that needs to be addressed. Limp, neutered, liberal R candidates are the other main problem.
Ignoring criminal acts of politicians and political machinery is suicidal.
IOW you are 100% wrong.
Never said that every loss is due to fraud. But clearly there were at least a few, which is a few too many. When you have multiple precincts in Philadelphia and Cleveland, for example, reporting ZERO votes for Romney in the last presidential election (never mind that Romney to some degree ran as a RINO), there is direct evidence of fraud in vote counting. Even in predominantly black precincts, there are some anti-Obama voters. There are shutouts in baseball and football, but there are no shutouts in electoral politics this side of the Soviet Union. Don't know how Pennsylvania and Ohio would have gone if the elections there were reasonably honest, but they obviously weren't.
Look at Coleman vs. Franken in Minnesota and the phony recount - conducted under the auspices of a Democrat secretary of state - which flipped a Coleman win into a Franken win.
Look also at the House race between incumbent Bob Dornan (definitely a conservative Republican) and Loretta Sanchez in southern California over a decade ago. There was evidence there of massive voting by aliens and fictitious relatives, enough to tip the election to Sanchez.
In the last presidential election, I followed state-by-state polling (by reputable pollsters with pretty good track records) in the presidential race closely, to just before election day. About the only ways to account statistically for Obama's consistent outperforming of poll estimates in all the swing states would be fraud and cheating - which goes beyond the measurement capabilities of the best pollsters - and/or flawed polling techniques. Given the history of these pollsters, it is logical to think that the fraud and cheating had the greater impact on the discrepancies between the reported vote results and the pollsters' projections.
And some very strange anomaly occurred in that presidential race as well: never had a president been re-elected to a second term with fewer popular votes than in he received in his first election. Plus, in another rarity, the total presidential vote for 2012 was less than in 2008, even though the population definitely increased during that time. Which begs the question: did anti-Obama voters fail to show up, or were many Romney votes simply not counted - especially in swing states?
Despite all these clues to fraud and cheating going on, no one on "official" Republican ranks is making this much of an issue, the fear seeming to be that anyone who proposes measures to improve election procedure integrity will be tarred with the "R" word. Until Republicans get more aggressive on election integrity, it will be difficult to win back the White House and even the Senate this year.
I think most fraud takes place where democrats are likely to win anyway. The recent election for Mayor of Detroit was an interesting race. It wasn’t so much about fraud as it was an attempt to manipulate the race by deciding who could run and what votes would be counted.
It doesn’t make it right and it does need to be addressed.
Now let's examine campaign funding fraud. Obama liked to brag he was so popular and tech-savvy, he had raised a billion dollars for his rerelection.
Odd. This same tech-savvy team completely botched a simple healthcare.gov web site.......now blamed for the O/Care flop.
BTW, the "billion dollar candidate" then announced later in the same campain that he had run out of money----and to "borrow" bigtime in order to continue his campaign.
So where did all the money go? Did the Obama team file all the necessary FEC disclosure reports? Maybe the FEC reports (if any) falsified? (cackle)
The basic pitch of the Left is based upon a Blame & Envy Cocktail. Those who ascribe to the egalitarian/collectivist fantasy that makes a grievance out of other people's success, and blames the successful for every failure, feel justified in cutting corners--in altering the rules, because they have bought the myth that the rules were made to keep them--or those with whom they identify--down.
Unless you confront this mindset, you are naively assuming that everyone has certain basic ideas of fairness in common. There is, in fact, a figurative ocean of difference in what different factions mean by "fairness."
William Flax
If this is a party, I’d hate to see what the funeral would b like.
For tactical reasons, most of us would like to see a Reaganesque revival of Conservative Republican principles; but it is suicidal to merely hold our breaths.
William Flax
I’m breathing...
I think things will have to get a bit worse (hopefully not a LOT worse) before they get better.
I agree 100%. Ignoring illegal acts or any kind of wrong behavior merely invites increasing amounts of the same and worse. It helps escalate the wrongdoing. It’s being an enabler and helper, in fact.
The basic pitch of the Left is based upon a Blame & Envy Cocktail. Those who ascribe to the egalitarian/collectivist fantasy that makes a grievance out of other people's success, and blames the successful for every failure, feel justified in cutting corners--in altering the rules, because they have bought the myth that the rules were made to keep them--or those with whom they identify--down.
Unless you confront this mindset, you are naively assuming that everyone has certain basic ideas of fairness in common. There is, in fact, a figurative ocean of difference in what different factions mean by "fairness."
Great post and blogs, Ohioan. In my fantasy ideal world, you and many like you would be outstanding political science professors, teaching college students that they are playing with fire if they allow themselves to be hoodwinked by the left. Such an education would dovetail neatly with what they are seeing all around them in the age of Obama.
Unfortunately, it is the Professors who are doing the "hoodwinking."
It is, truly, the mountebanks in higher education who have corrupted the whole debate. (For example, see the Chapter in my Conservative Debate Handbook on Myths & Myth Makers In American "Higher" Education.) And because most of the major main stream journalists are too dense to ever challenge the Professors who conditioned them, the "playing field," has been stacked against us.
This is why we need to start attacking the flawed premises of the Left, rather than 'walking on eggs' to sound politically correct. The reality is that egalitarian collectivist fantasies serve the interests of no one but demagogues--who exploit the make-believe grievances--and those who know how to game the system, to sponge off their neighbors, through programs that subsidize bad decisions & corrupt behavior.
In a very real sense, every one else, rich or poor, black or white, faithful believer or religious skeptic, or whatever, is an actual victim of the real social wrong of our era.
William Flax
This is why we need to start attacking the flawed premises of the Left, rather than ‘walking on eggs’ to sound politically correct.
And THAT is why Rs are 99% useless! They have no courage, thus my tagline.
I just clicked your link, very interesting reading.
I am all for eliminating all fraud related issues, but don't for a minute think that will change most electoral outcomes.
Right on both points.
In Detroit, the powers that be refused to allow Democrat Mike Duggan on the ballot so he ran as a write in. When he won the primary as a write in, the locals stripped him of some 40% of his votes so the GOP SOS stepped in and made them count the votes. By the time the general election rolled around the local officials had figured out that SOS Ruth Johnson wasn’t going to play games with them and Duggan was elected first white mayor of Detroit in a half century.
I see applying the law equally as a means of building better democrats. When Ruth Johnson ran for the office in 2010 she was targeted by the fake tea party scam and it was an Oakland county prosecutor (D) who exposed the scam and prosecuted the democrat officials behind it.
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