Posted on 09/05/2014 7:09:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
Don't underestimate the power of the "undocumented" voter.
DemocRATS are grifters doing whatever it takes to maintain power and enrich themselves and their friends using other people’s money- it’s a lifestyle choice.
Barone forgot to mention that the Democrats’ #1 hope of winning a GOP-held Senate seat is political neophyte Michelle Nunn, who just happens to be the daughter of Sam Nunn, who served as a Democrat U.S. Senator from GA from 1972 to 1997, that their gubernatorial candidate in GA is the grandson of Jimmy Carter (who served as governor from 1971 to 1975 and as president from 1977 to 1981), and that their only chance at picking up a GOP-held U.S. House district in FL is political neophyte Gwen Graham, daughter of Bob Graham (who served as governor from 1979 to 1987 and as U.S. Senator from 1987 to 2005).
Lifestyle choice? We need to add another letter -- G for Grifter -- to the LBGTQ etc. melange.
The author needs to wake up. This isn't a game anymore. These people are playing for keeps.
Andrew Cuomo... Jerry Brown...
Interestingly, they're both sons of something else, too.
I doubt it.
Politically, election-wise, the Democrats can get to 50% with almost any presidential candidate they nominate.
And that number will continue to slowly go up.
New immigrant citizens - 750,000 every year - vote 80% for the Democrat Party.
Meanwhile, every year, more elderly Conservatives die than elderly Democrats.
The legacy card has been played in politics since John Quincy Adams days, but the numbers in recent days strike me as off the charts. There is an entitlement mentality in politics and it extends to both sides of the aisle. The Bushes, of course, but also Romney, Liz Cheney (Wyoming wasn’t buying that one), the list goes on.
Right here in Kansas, the heart of flyover country, the right of royal succession is often assumed. Senator Nancy Landon Kassenbaum was the daughter of Presidential candidate Alf Landon. Kathleen Sebeilus’ father was governor of Ohio and her father in law was the Republican Representative for Western Kansas. Senator Pat Roberts’ father was the Chairman of the Republican National Committee until fired by Eisenhower for accepting a bribe.
What is new is that we are beginning to see 2d and 3d generation political fledglings who have been bred, born, and raised within the ring around the throne that is the Capital Beltway. They are disconnected from their parents and grandparents home states, but they insist that they have a birthright to represent these miserable sods in Congress. In the era of celebrity politics, the dull witted seem to be willing to vote for them.
“The author needs to wake up. This isn’t a game anymore. These people are playing for keeps.”
Yep, “Free Stuff” and Government dependence will never get old. Just ask FDR. That’s where it went into high gear.
“Given the present course, very soon elections will be meaningless just as they are in other totalitarian systems.”
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Six years ago is very soon?
“Meanwhile, every year, more elderly Conservatives die than elderly Democrats.”
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Those who, like me, are old enough to remember when we still had some semblance of freedom we will have to console ourselves with that. As for the future the only hope is in the tendency of youth to rebel, they certainly have plenty to rebel against now, those in power are pushing ideas that have failed to produce anything other than misery anytime and anyplace they have been tried and those ideas are as old as the hills but they are trying to pretend to be the thinkers of the future. It is as if someone were trying to sell stone knives as “cutting edge” technology. The truly brilliant idea that has only been tried for brief periods in a very few places is freedom and very few seem to realize that free is a SUPERLATIVE. There really are no degrees of freedom as some seem to believe, there are only degrees of repression. If that doesn’t sound right ask yourself if there are any degrees of FREE gifts, if someone offers you a GIFT for ten cents, is that MORE FREE than a GIFT that costs you twenty cents? No, it is of LOWER COST, anything that is actually free can not cost you anything, if it costs a tiny amount we may say it is free “for all practical purposes” or something similar but it is not truly free. There are no free people on this Earth, there are only some who are less oppressed than others, the inhabitants of the USA are becoming MORE OPPRESSED with each passing minute.
Indeed, I can’t believe he didn’t mention the Georgia ticket.
Plenty of old democrats die, but some of them keep voting......
Democrats are gone. Communists have taken the spot.
Who would have thought “hope and change” meant segregation and the rise of a modern Jim Crow—with Blacks as oppressors?
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