Posted on 10/29/2004 5:51:37 PM PDT by joanie-f
At the risk of being labeled an inveterate pessimist, as we approach what may prove to be the most critical election day in our republic’s history, I cannot help but feel a sense of discouragement about America’s future (accompanied, of course, by the knowledge that He works in miracles, so nothing is ever hopeless).
As I see it, we will witness one of three likely outcomes of the November 2nd vote:
(1) If the election is close, the thousands of leftist trial lawyers hired by the DNC and/or Kerry/Edwards, who are already gearing up to take this election out of the hands of the American citizenry and place it in the hands of activist judges, will shift into high gear, and begin an all-out effort to use a combination of validating massive voter fraud, and fabricating pseudo-legal accusations against Bush/Cheney forces, to steal this election. They are preparing to make Florida 2000 look like a romp in the park.
I find it fascinating, although certainly not out of character for these supposed defenders of truth and justice, that they and their kind despise and defile Richard Nixon, whose only major offense was the attempted cover-up of a third-rate political burglary. And yet, faced with the prospect of unveiling blatant voter fraud in Illinois and Texas, without which he may well have been the victor over Kennedy in ’60, Nixon, rather than contest the votes in those highly suspicious precincts vote counts, passively accepted the highly questionable results. The reason: he did not want to put our republic through the kind of cataclysmic Constitutional crisis that would have ensued.
Fast forward forty-four years and we have the same party that was the source of the questionable vote counts in both Chicago and Houston/Dallas, not only not seeking to avoid such a Constitutional crisis, but scheming feverishly, days before the votes are even cast, to see to it that one occurs. Why? Because they are enemies of the Constitution, and will stop at nothing to see to it that an ultra leftist (who, by definition, harbors no allegiance to anything but a globalist utopian agenda) sits in the White House. The Constitution … and America’s sovereignty and security … be damned.
If Tuesday sees the above scenario, we may not know the results of this election until well into the month of December, when the electoral college must meet to choose the new leader of the free world.
(2) If Kerry/Edwards are victorious on the 2nd, the voters of America (although probably not a majority of them – since a statistically significant number of dead people, house pets, felons, illegals, and people with multiple residences will have cast their votes for the democrat ticket) will have voted on the basis of superficial, Madison-Avenue-created, sound bite ‘knowledge’ that bears no resemblance to truth. The majority of Kerry/Edwards votes will have been cast -- thanks to a combination of voter apathy and rampant media bias -- without the benefit of a genuine knowledge of the democrat candidates’ decades-long resumes that exhibit an unambiguous adherence to a treasonous, anti-American agenda.
(3) Bush/Cheney will be victorious. This will be a remarkable outcome (occurring in spite of all borderline criminal machinations), and will only occur if the Republican ticket’s genuine support is nothing short of landslide proportions, the likes of which could not even be negated by massive voter fraud and pre-election plans to steal the electoral votes of swing states whose totals appear close.
But, even if Bush/Cheney are victorious, we cannot long rest on our laurels and assume that all is well. Far from it.
After an election loss, leftists do not simply lick their wounds and accept the voice of the people. And the stakes in this election will magnify beyond all reason the leftist penchant to attack, subvert and destroy those who took victory from their grasp. Elitists, after all, were destined to rule, to dictate, to dole out largesse to the masses. And when the masses do not place them in the positions of power to which they have been called, elitists become enraged, and insatiably vindictive. Civility and law/truth/justice will find themselves obscured by the obsession to gain the power that was not won through the normal channels that representative republican government supplies.
The mainstream media will be relentless in the criticisms, attacks, and counterfeit stories aimed at the President and his lame-duck administration (After all, what price has Dan Rather played for his unprofessional, agenda-driven ‘reporting’ of the Bush/National Guard memos story? The collective long-term yawn with which the public has reacted to his journalistic charlatanism has simply provided the unaccountable media a green light for more of the same).
Even small errors of judgment on the part of this President will be grotesquely magnified so as to rise to the level of an impeachable offense. And the war on terror – especially that portion of it occurring within the borders of Iraq – will be consistently painted with a broad black brush, with the objective of portraying it as Bush’s Waterloo, and America’s final imperialistic failure.
No matter the results of this election, the one and only thing that can prevent the ultimate success of the leftist agenda, many more horrifying terrorist attacks within our borders, and the eventual demise of the glorious American experiment, is the American citizen.
If the polls are accurate, a man who is seeking the Presidency of a nation he loathes is at least within striking distance of a leader who, although his domestic policy weaknesses are numerous, has conducted the war on terror, and the beginnings of the rebuilding of a liberated nation, with something close to brilliance. It would appear that the average American citizen needs either a more responsible, realistic set of priorities, or to spend significant time contemplating the serious, prophetic warning of one of our visionary Founders:
No people will tamely surrender their liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and virtue is preserved. On the contrary, when people are universally ignorant … they will sink under their own weight without the aid of foreign invaders … Samuel Adams in a letter to James Warren, 4 November, 1775
~ joanie
Amen.
Amen Joanie.
This post must have been posted when FR was having real problems today. :-)
- I am totally serious. Ask your average Kerry supporter the following questions:
Should we privatize Social Security?
Should we privatize medicare ?
Should we eliminate the federal minimum wage?
Should we eliminate federal welfare?
Should we eliminate the Dept of Education?
Should we eliminate the IRS?
Should we eliminate ANY Federal entitlement program, or ANY federal agency?
Should we stop the federal funding of abortion?
Should we get out of the U.N.?
Should we stop funding the U.N?
Should the federal government have the power to regulate private property?
We all know that 9 out of 10 Kerry voters are going to give you a resounding “Hell NO!” to 9 out of 10 of the above questions, and every one of those questions define what a socialist believes in.
But c’mon, let’s be honest; a large percentage of Republicans would answer “No” to those questions as well.
“Most Kerry voters are idiots who either want anybody but Bush or who believe Kerry’s lies.”
- I disagree. Look I live in one of the most socialistic states, in one of the most socialistic areas of the state (NW Oregon near Portland) These people don’t believe in Kerry; they believe in *socialism.* look I talk to them. They believe in the promise of the big government tit, and *that* is socialism.
“Most Kerry voters are idiots .”
-Well, that may be true. Some may be stupid, as ForGod’sSake maintains as well. I believe they are intellectually lazy, not stupid.
I’ve given many different liberals/socialists the book -“The Road to Serfdom” by Frederick Hayak,but do you think any of them will read it??? Not a chance. They won’t even glance through it.
“They wouldn’t know socialism if it came up and bit them in the a$$.”
- Minuteman, they ARE Socialists, so maybe they should bite themselves in the A$$! ;^D
Regards
Joanie, you are truly an inspiration. Thank you for all that you do, for your energy and being willing to use it to educate others about what is happening in this country.
I read your post and then prayed it as a prayer myself.
About your questions about the IRS, Social Security, the Department of Education, welfare, etc.---do you think the people you are talking about even REALIZE that all of these programs are unconstitutional? No! They are so used to living in a country where this stuff is accepted that they don't even realize that these programs threaten the republic.
If they got educated, most of them would realize that they are being led down a road they don't really want to go down. Like Joanie and ForGod'sSake said, they are "useful idiots" who don't know any better. They aren't avowed socialists, they are socialists by default.
Let's agree to disagree. We don't need dissention in the ranks right now. :-)
All of the sketchy early reports make it look like your prayer is going to be answered. But let's keep praying anyway!
Sorry Les, have to agree with the Minuteman on this one.
He nails my exact experience dealing with supporters of the Left around me & the essence of the term useful idiot with his statement.
However today's Liberal-Socialist merits a new distinction, so in as much as they're useful idiots?
...they've also become dangerous ones.
>"Sorry Les, have to agree with the Minuteman on this one.
He nails my exact experience dealing with supporters of the Left around me & the essence of the term useful idiot with his statement." <
- Semantics aside, I think we are all in agreement. I won't argue with the "socialists by default" about supporters of the left...but you can talk until you are blue in the face with most of them...and you won't change their minds on anything.
Uesful idiots indeed.
BTW, it's looking like Ohio is going to be this years Florida...
If Kerry/Edwards are victorious on the 2nd, the voters of America (although probably not a majority of them – since a statistically significant number of dead people, house pets, felons, illegals, and people with multiple residences will have cast their votes for the democrat ticket) will have voted on the basis of superficial, Madison-Avenue-created, sound bite ‘knowledge’ that bears no resemblance to truth. The majority of Kerry/Edwards votes will have been cast -- thanks to a combination of voter apathy and rampant media bias -- without the benefit of a genuine knowledge of the democrat candidates’ decades-long resumes that exhibit an unambiguous adherence to a treasonous, anti-American agenda.
I know a lot of Kerry voters, but not a one of them understands what real socialism is OR what John Kerry's record shows. They are voting from Joanie's "Madison-Avenue-created, sound bite 'knowledge' that bears no resemblance to truth". And when you try to show them the truth they act like you are insulting their intelligence. To be honest, there isn't much there to insult. :-)
Even if we have some semantics differences, let's all hope we're going to be celebrating tonight.
I'd agree with that.
"I won't argue with the 'socialists by default' about supporters of the left..."
Couldn't even if ya wanted to because it's true.
"...but you can talk until you are blue in the face with most of them...and you won't change their minds on anything."
That's the whole point.
They cannot rationaize their positions, it's damned near Pavlovian and methinks a *form* of mental illness.
Trouble is there're an awful lot of *sick* people out there my friend, so many in fact the 'Rat leaders have been able to identify the key characteristics so they can appeal to that kind of madness.
It's nuts.
"Uesful idiots indeed."
Yes, and as I said their ignorance may be uselful to *them* but it's becoming increasingly *dangerous* to the entire republic.
"BTW, it's looking like Ohio is going to be this years Florida..."
Yea-yea, and if not OH, then it'd be ( fill in the state ) which is just how it's going to be for the remainder of our lifetimes, I'm afraid.
The Liberal-Socialists have found a *seam* & they'll pound way at it until they can no more, then move on to another angle.
There's a modus operandi being employed here by the Liberal-Socialists that's getting rediculously easy to percieve.
For example when the suckers create a phony issue?
Next thing ya know they're marching out one or more of their dickhead quisling Senators and/or Congresscritters -- who no one's ever heard of -- to pitch, shill and/or defend the abhorent behavior.
Ever notice that?
Well there're 51 states and they can tamper with any *one* of 'em just *like* they did with FL at will.
So if I were you?
...I'd get used to seeing that kinda crap.
Whew! After spending most of last night on the Daschle fiasco...
FWIW, and in my most humble opinion, the MSM sets the agenda. Period. Paragraph. Now, given that every time Pubbies make a move to give something BACK to the states or rein in some bloated federal program, the MSM begins screeching about stealing candy from babies, pushing little old ladies down stairs and us just generally being nasty people. I've said it a hunderd(thanks Mud) times, without the MSM, the Dims message wouldn't make it across the street. Think about it. What would the landscape of America look like if the MSM was on our side. IMO, the media is the biggest and most dangerous threat our country faces. Pravda's got nothing on these guys.
FGS
FGS
A LOT of 'em are just like that; but, let us not forget a huge number who pull the lever for Liberal-Socialist candidates because that's what their parents did too, eh?
It's almost as if these kinds are trying to get the parent's *appoval* -- even if from the grave -- although they'd never done one thing in their adolecent life that'd have merited approval, anyway.
Weird, pathological, very real & now dangerous when they appear in large numbers with their hands out.
"And when you try to show them the truth they act like you are insulting their intelligence. To be honest, there isn't much there to insult."
HA!!
Ain't it the truth ever.
But I gotta say, I was shocked to see how many supposedly educated & well heeled people support the Liberal-Socialist quisling candidates
So shocked in fact I actually asked the question [here] publically how that condition could possibly exist.
FBD provided a number of valid reasons that when added together answered my questions.
"Even if we have some semantics differences, let's all hope we're going to be celebrating tonight."
I can live with semantic differences, my friend.
...it's the ideological ones I've trouble with. {g}
Ha! Just how many of my personal friends do you know anyway? (Quite a few, it seems) :-)
It amazes me how many people look at their vote as a "family tradition". Not that I have anything against unions, mind you, but many of them are from union families with long histories of voting the Democratic party line. They would be struck by lightning if they pulled a lever next to an R name.
The more I'm listening to Fox News today, the more I'm thinking Joanie's #1 outcome is what we're going to be facing. We might not know who are next president is for weeks. Votes cast before the polls opened, people being turned away because someone else already voted in their name, harassment at the polls, slashed tires on Repubican vans that were supposed to transport voters, etc. The thugs are out in force.
I'll accept the intellectually lazy part of your statement with an added caveat:
Main Entry: id·i·ot
Pronunciation: 'i-dE-&t
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French ydiote, from Latin idiota ignorant person, from Greek idiOtEs one in a private station, layman, ignorant person, from idios one's own, private; akin to Latin suus one's own -- more at SUICIDE
The suicide thing might be an interesting aside but, I didn't want to take the time to follow that trail. Ignorance seems to be the primary fault with idiots. Driven by intellectual laziness? What has generally happened with the work ethic in America? Why? Our problems are all interlocked. A finely woven fabric of discord that will be hard to overcome. But, do we have a choice whether to overcome it or not? No. We(conservatives) have got to figure out a way to break the the grip and the bondage that's sure to come if we don't act.
To me the MSM is the driving force behind it all and my candidate for public enemy #1. Your mileage may vary ;^)
FGS
Morning guy. That's what I was trying to say ;^)
FGS
Vary myass, you're absolutely right as usual.
The Liberal-Socialist quisling mediots will destroy this republic, in the end.
It's the damnedest thing watching a parasite kill the host, but that's precisely what the quislings are doing.
"That's what I was trying to say"
Said pretty darned good, too.
Thing is, they're not going to get away with wrecking it without reprocussions.
...not by a country mile.
HA!!
I *think* everyone knows *our* friends.
Seems that kind are all the same, same character profile, same shtick, same extended hand.
"It amazes me how many people look at their vote as a 'family tradition.'"
Amazing yes, but not a mystery either.
After all, *Mum & Dad* would never do anything to hurt [me], right?
It's almost become a *gene* that's passed down from generation to generation and only under -- what seems like -- the most extraordinary circumstances is that chain broken.
I can tell you in my case when it was, it was akin to what fundamentalists call "rebirth".
Most intoxicating, freedom, when one realizes they're really never had it.
"Not that I have anything against unions, mind you, but many of them are from union families with long histories of voting the Democratic party line. They would be struck by lightning if they pulled a lever next to an R name."
That's right.
My father was a big union guy, just ask joanie.
BUT, the union he ran & what unions et al have become in the past 30 years seem to in all but a few instances -- like Teamsters, for example -- changed, radically.
I see union guys riding all around the town I live (a BIG union town) with "I'm Pro-Union" stickers on the back of their [mostly] pickup trucks, and the the background of these stickers is always an American flag.
Go figure.
I believe there's only one word to describe such a phenomenon & that'd be Orwellian.
"The more I'm listening to Fox News today, the more I'm thinking Joanie's #1 outcome is what we're going to be facing. We might not know who are next president is for weeks. Votes cast before the polls opened, people being turned away because someone else already voted in their name, harassment at the polls, slashed tires on Repubican vans that were supposed to transport voters, etc. The thugs are out in force."
The thugs are *always* in force.
Be careful of Fox, will you?
They're *not* a friend of conservatives & one empowers the absolute worst segement of our society with our very psyche by believing a *thing* that comes outa their lying mouths.
It's in their best interest to keep everyone in a state of terror & depression, hell's bells even the gd'd weather channel's become nothing more than peddlers of fear.
It's sickening.
Fox, like all the rest, are friends to one thing & one thing only.
...themselves.
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