Is the Republican Landslide a Realignment of Political Stars?

Okay, Karl Rove has marked her off as a nutcake, Charles Krauthammer is citing the Buckley rule, and almost no one believes that Christine O’Donnell can recover in Delaware, with less than two weeks to go. And that may well be the case.

But Delawareans are missing the chance of a lifetime to rid themselves of the Joe Biden-style failed liberalism that has made their state all but irrelevant over the last 30 years. This week’s debate between O’Donnell and über-lefto Chris Coons should tell them that.

When O’Donnell asked Chris Coons to show her where the separation of church and state exists in the Constitution, the audience howled and scoffed. The next day she was excoriated in the media. What a dunce. Of course it exists.

But ironically, this is the essence of what is wrong with the Republican Party in this country. Most Republicans in Washington today have been so backed into the conservative closet that they would have cowed to Coons suggestion that the constitution doesn’t provide the right to religion in the public square. They would have danced and zigged and zagged and parsed words—anything to avoid saying that prayer in schools is constitutional.

Ms. O’Donnell did none of the above. She stood up. And the crowd’s reaction was a clear reflection of the damage the media and academia have done in the 40 years they have been left unchecked by the public. Hence we now have the Lindsey Grahams and John McCains and Olympia Snows who are no more Republican than Hillary Clinton. (In John McCain’s case: You are what you raise, buddy.

The country is about to make a hard right turn, and, oddly enough, the Republican Party seems to be the last to understand the reasons for it. The old-school party thinkers like Michael Steele have chalked O’Donnell off as unelectable in Delaware, when they should be sending a boatload of cash. They are still bogged down in archaic partisan strategies and the black-tie politics of the past. Even Eric Cantor sounds old, trying to identify with the Tea Party.

Cynical, you say? Probably, but I can’t help but remember Bob Dylan’s words: “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” I believe in two years John Boehner will be toast and a whole new crop of young energetic, conservative Republicans will be readying themselves to be sworn in, in Washington. In other words, it doesn’t end here, with O’Donnell’s likely defeat in Delaware.

The Republican Party is looking for control this November; the people are looking for change. That is why over 50 percent of the public took a chance on Obama. But, of course, Obama turned out to be a 1960s radical throwback. Real change constitutes a reversal of the ideas that got us into this mess to begin with. The Progressive ideas the Republican Party has reluctantly but by and large given into for the last 50 years.

If you are under 50, you probably haven’t a clue of what I’m talking about, but look up your grandmother. Ask her what it was like when gas was 30 cents-a-gallon and a movie didn’t cost a fortune. Ask her how it was before gay rights, abortion and outrageous taxation brought on but a bloated federal bureaucracy.

November 2 will not be an end to O’Donnell or many others like her. It is the housewives and plumbers and the people who actually had to work their way through school who will take back this country.

So what may seem like a Republican landslide next month may in fact be a realignment of political stars in Washington, and it hopefully won’t end until the scoundrels who are running it now are gone.

“Palin, Bachmann, and … Christine O’Donnell? OMG! And They’re So Hot!”

I’m doing this YFI so forgive a little rambling and the various typos.

This, the Democrat chitchat at DNC headquarters in D.C. right about now. Of course this is only the rumor, but one can almost hear them. “Someone get Hillary on the phone! Hillary, yeah, it’s me. Hey, I thought you said 1992 was the Year of the Woman.” Pause. “Or was that 2008, right before Barack Obama’s Double Eagle bus put tread marks up your, er … presidential bid? Actually, Hillary, we may need your help in 2012 … Right … we’ll get back to you.” Click. Buzz.

In the meantime, the DNC and its public relations arm, ABC, NBC, the New York Times et al launch a media blitz against roughly 60 percent of the American public. Right. Makes sense to me.

This all started when David Letterman went on a 10-month-long sex-obsessed monologue about various parts of Palin’s anatomy. (Personally, way back in the 1970s, I suspected Letterman was a panty sniffer. The guy creeps me out.)

But has any of it worked?

In two short weeks Christine O’Donnell, has gained six points against Chris Coons in Delaware. What is wrong with this picture? Even Karl Rove and Charles Krauthammer said she couldn’t win. Rove said she was a crazy. But wait a minute … How long has it been since Rove and Krauthammer have been out of Washington?

Okay. O’Donnell may not win in Delaware. Then again, she just might. But that is not the point. Whether Sarah Palin can win a bid for the GOP nomination in 2011 is irrelevant as well. The point is that these women, along with Nikki Haley, Sharon Angle, Michele Bachmann and a host of others are garnering more attention than a papal visit, with absolutely no assistance from the national media.

C’mon, all you big government Republicans in Laguna Niguel. When is the last time you saw a major national political figure run a presidential primary fishing expedition off a FaceBook page? Try never. Yet Palin has had astounding success.

The DNC, Democrats in general, recognized early on what the Republican establishment has yet to get its head around: Palin is dangerous to their hopes of ever achieving a national mandate again in our lifetime. She has systematically broken rank with the RNC time after time and has a dazzling primary endorsement record. And her candidates have a knack for coming out of the hole to win.

So the sexual, homophobic, racist and wacko attacks are understandable. These women scare the bejesus out of them. In fact, all conservative women do; they are counterfactual to the Left’s understanding of the modern woman.

Democrats see everything as sexual, homophobic or racist in nature when it comes to the Right. And so now Barry From Washington has kicked off a road-show campaign to scare the American public into believing that the Tea Party movement is somehow the most recent incarnation of the Ku Klux Klan. Well, that is certainly the subtext here.

Nathan Bedford Forrest would roll over in his grave. Question: How did this President get elected? I mean, if these people are, indeed, throwbacks to the Reconstruction-era racist South, then just how is it a handsome, intelligent black man gets elected in twenty-first century America? Liberals make up less than 20 percent of the electorate.

Could it be they are not racists, just fed up with the racial politics of the past? Hmm.

This all comes under the heading of Any Port in a Storm. A prayer for a last minute deus ex machina in the face of a landslide that will not only sweep many career Democrats out of office in November, but will sideswipe the left flank of the Republican Party as well. The ones who have forgotten who sent them to Washington and why they are there. Who woulda thunk John McCain would get religion?

I hope Christine O’Donnell and Sarah Palin both fool all of us in the next two years. It would serve lazy, out-of-step Republicans right. It will send the DNC back to rethink its 40-year campaign to destroy the most perfect form of government in human history.

A Question of Competency or Patriotism?

Barack Obama is a very angry man. He grew up angry. During the course of his upbringing he was exposed to some of the most rancid thinking American society has to offer. His mother spewed her hatred for America from the time she was in high school, his grandfather placed him under the influence of pedophile-communist Frank Marshall Davis, and he learned at a tender age to despise this country’s form of government.

While most black Americans view him as an African American male, the President has neither history nor interest in the civil rights struggle of the 1960s, or of Afro-American politics in general. He is African but not African American. The best description would probably be African Indonesian.

He was coddled in his views into adulthood in liberal universities, and he joined the Trinity United Church of Christ because of them.  Obama may not be a racist but the indications are there when one considers the views of Jeremiah Wright, a man he has admitted to thinking of as “an uncle.”

Obama’s views on Israel and Jews in general—his obviously pro-Muslim leanings—fly in the face of modern Christianity, yet the media have diligently to this day run cover for him. Even Bill O’Reilly at Fox, who was in the best position to expose him during the 2008 campaign, simply could not believe that then Senator Obama could have such fetid and archaic opinions. But Black Liberation Theology is out in the open with its anti-Semitism and anti-White American rhetoric.

It is distasteful to say that an American president hates his country. Just as we have all been taught not to call another person a liar, to question one’s patriotism is serious business. In fact it is so incomprehensible that most Americans simply cannot believe it.  As a nation we have learned to by-and-large trust our government and it offends our sensibilities to believe that such a glitch could have occurred. We cannot have elected a radical extremist to the presidency.

But the question remains: Is it true?

In order to believe otherwise one would have to accept that this top-of-the-class Columbia-Harvard educated young man is completely incompetent. To believe that in 18 short months Barack Obama could take a serious downturn in the U.S. economy and turn it into a nightmarish mountain of debt and regulation by accident, further choking off private business and jobs, defies all rationality. Even the dumbest president has an advisor or two—no matter how ideological—who can see the ramifications of these actions.

No. Incompetency is not an issue here.

Start with the Justice Department: Obama’s buddy Eric Holder has turned the DOJ into an arm of the ACLU overnight. In the face of a public outcry he has dragged his feet in prosecuting the admitted 9-11 terrorists. He has ignored cases against domestic extremists like SEIU and the New Black Panther Party and marched ahead with prosecutions of Arizona and investigations of perceived civil rights violations by Whites.

Homeland Security: Rick Perry requested drone support on the Texas border years ago. This Administration dragged its feet for months before deploying even one, while cartel violence is spilling over the border with alarming regularity. Arizona is leaking like a sieve and Napolitano continues to maintain that the border is safer than ever.

State Department: Obama—and this goes directly to his anti-Semitic leanings—has gone out of his way to torpedo US-Israeli relations.  The climate between the two nations is at its coldest in history.
He has offended our greatest ally, Great Britain and created rancor where none previously existed.

Treasury: Incompetence?  You call it.   Timothy Geithner has been in charge of over $1 trillion and has yet to net one private-sector job.  His relationship with AIG in the Fannie Mae debacle was dubious when Obama nominated him.

Defense: Although Robert Gates’ credibility cannot be questioned, Obama’s prosecution of the Afghan War literally reeks of defeatism or an intentional waste of American lives and resources, take your pick.

Interior: For 40 long days the Administration either neglected or intentionally failed to commandeer the resources that could stave off much of the oil blowing out of the Deepwater Horizon well from reach vital wetlands and beaches on the Southern Coast.

Barack Obama has never been slow a day in his life: he is fast on the basketball court, has a lightning-quick wit, is fast on debating issues, and is arguably a rhetorical genius. Yet during the Christmas Day Bombing incident, the Deepwater spill, the Fort Hood Massacre, he has been spectacularly AWOL until the worst of the damage has been done. Why?

This president does not have an incompetence problem; he has a patriotism problem.