Has Liberalism Jumped the Shark?
by Leigh ScottThe term “Jump the Shark” has been with us for a while. The clever metaphor is used for the moment when something of cultural significance begins to lose its luster, and descends into lameness. It is a reference to the T.V. show “Happy Days,” specifically the episode when Fonzie water skied over shark infested waters. This is the precise moment where the show began to decline.
Republicans and conservatives are dancing with glee every time a new poll comes out showing Obama’s poll numbers going down faster than a Hilton (Perez or Paris) after a nice dinner and a couple of cocktails. The support for things like Universal Health Care, closing Gitmo, and Cap and Trade are sinking even faster. Yet, that’s not the whole story. Something else is going on here. Something that begs the question: Has Liberalism “Jumped the Shark”?
Ehhhh…
Over the last sixty days or so, we’ve seen some amazing things. We saw a “wise Latina,” a self-described “affirmative action baby” claim that her statements were taken out of context or merely “meant to inspire,” and that race has nothing to do with her job performance. The White House has re-branded the $787 billion “stimulus package” a “stabilization package.” Our Vice-President, devious genius that he is, stated that we need to, “crazy as it sounds,” spend like lunatics to avoid bankruptcy. A gay blogger and gay civil rights champion called a black guy “the worst thing [he] could think of…a faggot.” We saw our government allow Iranian protesters, who peacefully challenged a rigged election, get shot in the street. Concurrently, we demanded that a tin-pot dictator be reinstated after his government got wise to his schemes and legally booted him.
All of these little vignettes, as well as countless others over the last month or two, do not bold well for our little leftist friends. They are examples of liberalism in action, naked and unfiltered. They are the equivalent of an “unforced error” in tennis. There is no opposition baiting these mistakes and revelations. This is in their own voices, not through the analysis of a Rush Limbaugh “teachable moment,” a Glenn Beck meltdown, or Hotair.com “quote of the day.”
It is liberalism unplugged, on display for all to see.
Identity politics, when viewed in its purest form, is racism. Keynesian economics, when distilled to its basic concepts, flies in the face of common sense. Re-branding political policy doesn’t change its ultimate effectiveness. Hypocrites are hypocrites regardless of the causes they support, or claim to champion. The U.S. should not be about “nuance” when it comes to foreign policy. We must always stand on the side of freedom and democracy.
For the first time in a long time even a casual observer can clearly see what modern liberalism is all about.
In an episode of “South Park” the boys encounter the Underwear Gnomes. They are a society of magical little creatures who steal your underwear in the middle of the night. When the boys ask the Gnomes about their motivation, they explain that they are doing it for “profit.” The first step is to steal underpants. The third step is profit. When pressed about the second step there is only silence. The Gnomes don’t know how to transform the stolen underwear into profit, but they continue to steal it anyway. They work tirelessly, stealing underpants in their quest for profit. But without that second step, they will get nothing. Hmmm, what does that sound like? Great goals, but no solid plan of getting there? That’s modern liberalism. It’s an ideology that lacks principles No step two. To make matters worse, most of the very mechanisms of liberalism (unions, racially segregated interest groups, attacks on capitalism) act counter intuitively to its goals.
I say its “jumped the shark” because, without a strong set of timeless principals to guide it, this political ideology is a fad. It’s had a lot of great, good looking, and popular spokespeople. Last November it had an awesome ad campaign (one so good, Pepsi apparently felt the need to steal it). It’s all style and no substance. And like the Spice Girls, Beany Babies, Cabbage Patch Kids, and the leisure suit it is destined to fade into obscurity.
Young people, you know those folks who haven’t lived as much as you but know better than you, have always been the bread and butter of hippie liberalism. But they have a very short attention span, especially the kids today. During the election, they were all about it. But now they are really into Adam Lambert and “Twilight”. Obama and Co. had hoped that the kids would stay in the mix, using the twitter and the Facebook to keep it real and spread their positive message of nationalization of private industry and wealth redistribution. Sadly, the kids have chucked Obama into the virtual trash bin, right next to the video of the Ally McBeal dancing baby.
Troll traffic on conservative sites is down. Look at Facebook, MySpace, YouTube etc. The number of political postings supporting hippie liberalism is almost non-existent. Even more remarkable, the message boards and postings on non-political sites is trending libertarian and conservative when political topics come up. Perhaps most humorous of all, the State Run Media has failed to make any recent conservative “scandals” or “revelations” stick. People just don’t care to hear it. They want results not more talk. Bush isn’t the president, Sarah Palin resigned, Rush Limbaugh isn’t backing down. Dare I say that people want to “move on”?
Make no mistake, they aren’t going to evaporate right away. Even “Happy Days” went on for 100 episodes after the infamous moment (and we got two seasons of “Joanie Loves Chachi”), but the end is nigh. At some point in the near future (probably in the lead up to the 2010 mid-terms) the pundit class is going to have to ask “can the Democratic Party relate to voters?” Can the party of Howard Dean, the Daily Kos and Keith Olbermann remain relevant?
With the kids bouncing onto the next big thing, and without any real successes to point to, the hippie liberals are left with their usual crew: trial lawyers, race hustlers, and unions. There are a few hard-core ideologues out there, but the true, honest liberals who are all about those lofty goals will soon abandon the freak show assembled in Washington.
With hippie liberalism “jumping the shark”, people are going to need a new fad. It has to be bold, fresh, and at least on paper, original. A new form of “pop politics” will emerge. The good news for everyone, is that the Republicans “jumped the shark” at some point in 2005. We are heading towards a whole new era in American politics.
Hopefully it will be more effective than this whole Pepsi, I mean Obama thing. I wonder what it may be….
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Nice job summing up the current form of liberalism.
Does Obama want everyones underpants
/Hahahaha
Excellent posting!
I've noticed this too, leftist troll traffic is down wherever I go too. Now they are going to have a disaster and can't blame the conservatives, and many of the youngsters that were so gung ho on Obama are finding out exactly WHAT they voted for. This is a good life lesson for them, that they're not babies any more and that they do have to have a hand in their own lives and future. Independence is a wonderful thing, isn't it?
Obama and the Democratic Congress and Senate are leaving that jumped shark far behind by now, so it should be an interesting mid-term election. NOW I have hope.
I would would vote for Hillary right now
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Indeed, liberalism can not stand scrutiny, and now they find themselves where they don’t like to be fully exposed. A true conservative party needs to emerge with true American ideals, of freedom, small govt./low taxes, love of family/country, …this is an opportunity if the dim-wits in Washington don’t screw it up to vanquish ‘60s radicalism once and for all. Yes I believe liberals have, “jumped the shark,” seize the moment.
I have said for years the left would die by the sword of identity politics, that sword had been unsheathed.
Ya' know, I've thought of that myself.
I was thrilled watching Hillary lose in the primaries, just because of my intense personal dislike for her and her so-called "husband". Be careful what you wish for…
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does that mean hillary gets a thrid rate show after we cancel obama's?! her socially awkward side-kick is north korea.
Okay, I'll say it. Sarah Palin.
Yeah. And the reaction from our leftist friends in D.C., to the slow awakening of America, is to throw unconstitutional rules tantrums in the House, trying to enforce speech codes on the opposition. More brutal hypocrisy, as the cookie crumbles. Sigh.
NOTE TO DEMOCRATS…………..
Sometimes when you win…………you really lose………………..2010.
One thing that would help: the currently seated Republicans need to take the gloves off and start using the "S" word.
Yes, that's right. Socialisim. Let the Dems explain the difference between, say, "Universal Health Care" and "Socialized Medicine".
Let them explain why saying, "It's good for everyone to spread the wealth around", is not the same thing as, "From each according to his ability to each according to his need".
Let them explain why a 60% controlling interest in General Motors is not "government ownership or control of the revenue producing industry".
We have a socialist president. We have a socialist congress. Why be so polite about it? Who is it we're afraid of offending?
Right on. It seems that Obama in particular has "jumped the shark" I believe he doesn't realize that it was pretty much in the cards, so to speak, that he would be President and therefore misread America as a whole. Personally I think that this is the fault of the MSM, but nonetheless, IMO, Mr. Prez may one day realize that, *gasp*, he does have very different ideas, and most do not agree with said ideas, that aren't good for our country and the American people as a whole. That is if he isn't too full of himself, but I doubt it.
you are talking in circles to the dems…they will never understand this. "i win BUT i lose…how is that possible?!"
Don't misunderstand me: I like Sarah Palin. I wish she hadn't been thrown under the bus by our Great American War Hero and his campaign managers. I wish she hadn't been caricatured by the media so that the average American thinks she's an idiot.
In retrospect, I wish she'd had better personal judgment and said "No" to McCain and spent the time prepping herself for her own national campaign.
I wish I'd hit the Powerball…
I hope Mr. Scott is right about the future and his points are faultless. However let's be clear about what we are dealing with here. The Dems have the White House and large majorities in both houses of Congress. They have powerful and devoted allies in the media, academia and the permanent government bureaucracy. They are also utterly ruthless and willing to put political gain over national interest every time. They invert Clausewitz's maxim and see "politics as war by other means." Right now the Left is floudering because they finally have to face the realities of the adult world. But when election time rolls around they will beat the same old drums about "fat cats" and "the selfish rich" and promise (and promise and promise) the voters everything for nothing. Conservatives have to have the fire in the belly for such a fight.
Don't misunderstand me: I like Sarah Palin. I wish she hadn't been thrown under the bus by our Great American War Hero and his campaign managers. I wish she hadn't been caricatured by the media so that the average American thinks she's an idiot.
In retrospect, I wish she'd had better personal judgment and said "No" to McCain and spent the time prepping herself for her own national campaign.
I wish I'd hit the Powerball. I wish Salma Hayek would return my calls…
It seems like this whole scenario was arranged in order to teach OBAMA a life lesson. Sure will be an expensive one.
And I don't think he is listening.
His racism showed this week, and he's getting an unexpected slap-down in the polls over it. But there are none so blind…..as those who are never wrong.
All true except that what you're speaking of isn't and never was "liberalism". Maybe we can even take back the true meaning of the word in a few years. I would hate to see "liberal" go the way of the swastika. A perfectly good thing co-opted by crazies, its meaning twisted and forever out of bounds.
Liberalism HAS jumped the shark.
Dems are now reeling in sand shark Barbara Boxer after her two recent disastrous performances.
Your post is right on- makes me think about that turncoat Lindsey Gramnesty again. Who was that wuss afraid of offending? Sotomayor? He has let us down before with that amnesty bill and several other things I could mention. No guts- period.
Sadly, I agree with most of your points. What I see in the day-to-day is selfishness, greed, laziness, ignorance, and a sense of entitlement. All around me. People who want something for nothing tend to skew democratic.
Working for a living, taking care of your own family and accepting the responsibility for your own choices and actions are quaint virtues.
We have a perfume salesman in the White House, and most of the people I know are still quite content with that.
Great article. In fact it inspired me to send Obama a weeks worth of my dirty underpants complete with exhaust burns. They couldn't be any more smelly than the crap the Democrats and Obama have been fouling the atmosphere since the election. Now, if I could just get that stimulus check and buy more…..
Here is something that is being missed.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti...
Boxer and Kerry are treating her comments as NEEDED to be refuted. If she is not that powerful or that uninteresting to the independents then B and K could ignore her.
Personally, I think the reason Obama wants his agenda on healthcare passed next week is Sarah will start to move about the country.
as s service to any future trolls I will save them the time by typing the following:
BusH!sl&r/St@l!n
Darth Cheney/Rove
Abu Ghraib
yellow cake
Halliburton/Blackwater
Wide Stance
articulate
straight-up
Faux Nudes
Repuglickin
Now that that is out of the way, I'd like to see what some of our more thoughtful left wingers have to say.
Al dente anyone?
The one thing I can't agree with here is the claim that liberalism lacks a fixed ideology. It has ideology coming out the ears and is very simple: all people should have the same amount of "stuff" — whatever stuff happens to be the issue: money, power, health care, you name it. Liberals are levelers and they don't care how much misery they must inflict to bring it about. In fact, the last thing they care about is prosperity.
At bottom, liberalism is about serfdom: you must work to support the government. You get to keep only what the government lets you keep.
This is what people need to see. Otherwise, in a few years, the liberals will recover and make yet another comeback.
Too bad the rope didn't break and Fonzie slowly sank into a messy situation… But perhaps you're right. One of the portents may have been Barbara Boxer's inane act of bringing race into a Cap and Trade session. She was slapped upside the head by her own style of race card identity politics – and rightly so – but I still don't think she gets it. I hope the new wave will be more Libertarian than Republican, with a conservative movement that resists the urge to do what the left does – inject government into every stage of our lives. There have been too many Republicans who say they want to minimize government, but when elected, trip over themselves in enacting their pet restrictions.
Did any of us EVER THINK we would see the day when we could even consider Hillary as a viable option??
Maybe there really is Global Warming…….
I don't really understand that guy at all. Maybe he keeps his ear that close to the ground in terms of what his constituency thinks. I watched some of his speechifying (read: "questioning") during the Sotomayor hearing and he sounded pretty good. Made some good points. Then decides to vote for her?
As I recall, he did much the same during Clinton's impeachment.
Liberals can't jump my shark. I eat'em for lunch. I have been getting quite a few lately. But they taste bad and are less filling. I bet we will see the rise of ODS very soon and it won't be the conservatives suffering. The mental liberals are going to start a run on antidepression drugs. 2010 will be declared the Year of Therapy for 'progressives' after the midterm election.
A friend of mine says that most people he runs into don't have ANY political ideology at all, they just have that laziness, ignorance, and sense of entitlement you were talking about. They don't want to talk politics, they don't want to think deep thoughts. The American population, as it stands, is a Washington bureaucrat's wet dream.
Ahem: It's "bode well", not "bold well".
It's also telling that, the majority of people I talk with don't actually know what socialism is, they just think it's something vaguely "bad" and so, therefore, Obama couldn't be one of those. Because, they voted for him.
Ewwww…have you been chewing on someone's underwear?
OK, I just thought of about half-a-dozen different things to say in response to that, none of which are suitable for family viewing.
I guess "Jumping the Shark" is the liberal slogan and the right wing movement uses "KICK IN THE NADS" There has been a HUGE jump to the left for the entire country becuse of ONE ADMINISTRATION….. this country still has NO idea where we are headed and the MASSES WILL NOT READ ANYTHING THAT PUTS the MESSIAH down, the bad thing is MOST americans still read PRINT media nd that is where the crux of this issue lies… IMHO, the press has pushed this more then the MESSIAH himself,…. we have NEVER had a BAD article regarding this man in 6 months and I am sick and tired of it…. they give this man a HALL PASS on what he has done and what he is trying to do……Prime example, MOST PEOPLE STILL THINK THAT THE ECONOMY IS BUSH'S FAULT!!!! what type of idiots are they???
"I say its “jumped the shark” because, without a strong set of timeless principals to guide it, this political ideology is a fad."
Well, I don't think it is a fad – in fact the term "left" and "right" came from the time of the French Revolution when those of more conservative beliefs sat on the right side of the parliamentary hall while those of the more liberal….
Of course even the term "liberal" became perverted over here. A true liberal is libertarian.
There will always be left and right – they ebb and flow though. I do believe that this country will be in a real mess by 2012.
Does this critique of liberalism contain anything new?
"Liberals can't jump my shark. I eat'em for lunch."
yes but then you choke on the Liberals' waterskis and die. And then get eaten by the shark. too bad for you!
Yeah…there were some underwear jokes.
Most far left Liberals aren't smart enough to use waterski's. The few that do, can't keep them on their feet. I like to start at the head and eat downwards anyway. It's more fun to watch their brain explode, first.
Very good. I agree the events of the last couple of weeks don't, ah, bode well for the lefties. Good points, too, about the questionable strategy of relying on the attention-span-of-a-butterfly types as a base.
Even though modern "liberalism" is strikingly without solutions to its perceived problems, I think you're missing the point that Leftism has been nothing more than grievance-mongering since the days of Diderot (rich) and Voltaire (aussi.) The Great Unwashed have never been anything but cannon fodder for the battles of the privileged, which would otherwise be only vicious hair-pulling conducted in faculty lounges.
The current "We gotta fix it or we all gone die" crowd gained its everlasting mantra when Karl Marx (upper-middle-class child of privilege) penned the immortal Das Kapital (which may as well have been titled Eat the Rich – Kill Your Parents,) wherein he posited "In the Brave New World of Socialism, the Little People will take over the means of production, and then….and then….and, uh…..a miracle will occur! Or something."
The contemporary crop of imbeciles is the inevitable result of 40 years of public "education" in leftist platitudes at the expense of basics like reading, spelling and history. I agree that the ultimate solution for "liberalism" is exposure of its true nature, and the necessary ridicule that would hopefully ensue. What worries me is that there may not be enough of an audience left.
Nope. Some things just don't change because liberals are still full of the same old crap. That is what is bound to make the fad die out.
I agree that the candidate for 2012 hasn't emerged yet, but if Obama, Inc. continues on their current path, the speeches for the candidate are writing themselves. I think the momentum is building for a conservative canditate who would say any combinations of the following:
"The United States is the greatest country in the world, offering a model of freedom that citizens of other countries yearn for. The very best of our citizens have bled and died around the world in the cause of freedom throughout our history, and I will not apologize for the United States of America, and shame on anyone who does."
"The personal liberties of our citizens must be protected at all costs. Rights are not granted by the government, they should be protected by it. Health care is not a right, and the government should not be in the health care business. What I propose is tort reform that will bring down the ruinous costs of health care in this country."
"The era of politicians who come to Washington "to do good but end up staying to do well" should end. I propose term limits for Congress."
"You cannot spend your way to prosperity. We are in hard times, as we have been at other times in our nation's history, and together, we can work our way through them with common sense, limited government, and cost cutting."
I'd vote for someone like that.
Just have to post in order to compliment you on the "underwear gnome" anology, great stuff Leigh!
Don't underestimate the State Run Media's ability to regroup and repackage the message in order to trick the idiot class into (once again) supporting Democrats for the 2010-2012 elections.
Never let your guard down. We must keep running hard THROUGH he finish line!
Keep your eyes on Senator Jim Demint. And keep him in your prayers.
No, but that's all he's going to leave us with.
that is a whole differnt direction. I'm tired of using "Al Fresco" but my new one is forever ruined. Thanks lol
that is a whole different direction. I'm tired of using "Al Fresco" but my new one is forever ruined. Thanks lol
it's "bode well," "principles," and "it's" (9th paragraph). Friendly editing: they were clearly honest mistakes, but I get irritated when over-educated/under-intelligent liberals dismiss an entire position because grammatical mistakes somehow mean the writer doesn't know what he's talking about. Argumentum ad grammaticum, so to speak. Best defense is to not give them an opening.
Aren't you presuming that there ARE thoughtful left wingers?
Somehow or other, I got signed up for the Democrat newsletter. This one was about Senator Jim DeMint's campaign to kill the health care reform. Instead of calling for open debate on the issue, Jen O'Malley Dillon emailed asking for donations in order to stage an advertising campaign to smear DeMint. That's the majority party for you–you know, the one that promised an end to "politics as usual" and "partisan bickering".
The fatal flaw of liberalism is summed up by the parable comparing a house built on rock versus a house built on sand.
Liberalism is built on a foundation of lies, which will never stand the storm of Truth.
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Part of Obama's problem is that he still thinks he's on the campaign trail.
Someone should tap him on the shoulder and tell him that the election is over…..
The thoughtful libs are rapidly shutting up, and the hateful ones are either shutting themselves off entirely because they know they can't defend what's going on or they've jumped ship. And the irrational few continue to spew bile, but there are always those few.
I think the smart ones are getting mighty tired of "We Told You So" everytime something happens that we swore would happen and they swore wouldn't.
Hey…I'm a cook. That's the only context I have for "al Dente".
I wish I could be as optimistic as the author, however, liberals rarely if ever are capable of seeing their true selves or the long term results and unintended consequences of their actions/causes, etc. As far as liberal troll traffic being down, this is because as far as they are concerned right how, they hold the ball. Liberals are not defenders of anything, they are attackers. Their guard is down. Once conservatives come back into power the trolls will reappear.
You can't be surprised, they are using the Alinsky method after all….
Senator Bumpkin, er, Graham, does nothing other than what McCain tells him to do. He represents the worst of politicians – someone in it for his own benefit without conscience or concern for the good of the country or of his constituents.
He has lauded himself for his "principled compromise", and I don't think he's even smart enough to understand the contradiction in itself.
He is a discrace to his country and to his state.
Neither one of you could possibly be serious about Hillary. Same wolf, different sheep costume.
Gosh I hope liberals have jumped the shark. I made the mistake of wandering over to a liberal blog last night, and after reading a few posts, I was literally sick to my stomach. To see these social, moral and idiotic ingrates basically urinate on everything that is good, and right and true is nauseating. It's like a poison that creeps into your entire being. I'm ratcheting up my efforts to defeat them any lawful way that I can. I've never felt the need to be more politically active in my entire life.
Except the Franking Commission won't let them use the words "government run healthcare" to refer to the reform plan.
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As a member of the House Judiciary Committee, and later the advisory committee to the Senate, he voted for impeachment of Clinton, and that is one of the reasons people supported him when he ran for Senator.
But as power corrupts, he has become wholly corrupted once he gained power as McCain's deputy in the Senate.
At least in the upstate of South Carolina, there are a lot of people outraged with him. He didn't even win Greenville County in the 2008 election, but sadly, won the rest of the state.
Had the election been McCain v. Hillary, I would have voted for Barr. But the Big O was just too much of a threat to spend my vote that way. But between Hillary and McCain, I saw very little difference.
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Well, campaigning for higher office is the only "job" Obama has ever had. Aside from his "community organizing".
It's really about all he's qualified to do. He looks more and more like a clueless dilletante, selling a "plan" that has to be written by somebody else.
Thanks to President Obama, most of the Democratic Party has jumped the shark. Their policies and broken promises are on full display and it's not pretty.
Salma Hayek is ignoring you too, huh?
"Left" and "right" are European political constructs that are or should be innappropriate to American policitcal discourse. Left is more collectivist/socialistic/communist and Right is more fascistic/dictatorial in Euro-speak. In the US, it's better to use Conservative and Statist or Liberal/Classical Liberal and Statist. In the European spectrum, either end winds up with total government control. In the American spectrum, you should be moving between anarchy and total government control.
I never read the liberal blogs, unless you count ABC News online.
The funny thing is that no one's actually writing a plan. It's like they're just waiting for something to happen that will magically fix everything.
It's going to be really interesting once the love-fest with this administration is over and Obama has to answer for his mess….
in our glee at Mr. Obama's downfall- let's not forget that it was conservatives that gave us Bill Clinton's second term. 1-1/2 years into his term, you couldn't find anyone who voted for the guy; then in '94 conservative Republicans were elected in a landslide, went about fixing things…Clinton got most of the credit…we got Clinton, term 2.
Very close – liberalism is about servitude to the state. If you can get more by influencing those in power to give more to you after taking more from someone else, well, then that's okay.
Otherwise, well stated!
Hey everybody, this sums up everything!!
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/010944.h...
But, they've retreated into their echo chambers for the most part. They aren't as busy out posturing about how defeated and broken we are like they used to. Heck, I haven't even been taunted by my thoughtful lib friends about "The party of 'No'" talking point they used after Specter went to join his ideological buddies.
I hear that. After some of the things I read last night, I feel like I need to warn him about his own personal safety as well.
Sadly, this is true for me as well. It hurts me every time I think this thought, but I can't help but think there needs to be an intellectual qualification to vote. I know the problems with this, who gets to ask the questions and all? But it just annoys me to no end that the majority of people that voted in the last election were hopelessly naive and did not know the basics about anything economic, political, or otherwise.
It should not be a popularity contest, and this last election was just that. It boiled down to a choice between the "Cool, hip black guy" and the "Rich, stuffy, old white man". That is what the election boiled down to for the vast majority of voters. And now we reap the consequences.
Exhaust burns? LOL! Never heard that. I'll have to remember that when I try to SHOUT those out of the family laundry!
I think that is something that the Republicans have to realize–they can't just keep saying "It's socialism" and expect that the majority of Americans are going to be appalled. Most of them have absolutely no idea what that means. We have to draw the picture for people, and the Republicans have been doing a singularly lousy job of doing that.
I don't think that the author is saying that liberals will come to their senses. Rather, I think he's saying that all the people the liberals fooled into voting for them by misrepresenting what they really are will come to their senses, because they will see the results of liberal polcies, and that they will see that liberals don't govern as they campaign.
And I thiink he's right about that.
If there's a decent opponent in 2012, all that will have to be asked is "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?".
I've been to some liberal blogs and tried to bring up an opposing view (I was civil, I SWEAR!). The flood of venomous responses was immediate and vicious. and when I tried to refute the one individual that did respond with civility, I was kicked off.
This was at DailyKos, I've gone there since to see what has their panties in a bunch on any given day. I would swear the average age of the posters there is around 13…..
Well, I am only in the sense that I believe she would have been more of a pragmatist, and therefore less purely ideological in her agenda, than Obama has now shown himself to be.
I don't enjoy it, believe me – but I feel compelled to keep up with what the evil little buggers are up to. Not meaning this literally of course, but what movie was that that asked, "if it bleeds, we can kill it"? I've also found quite a few useful links from the useful idiots that I can actually use to countermand them.
They need to take that message to the people in a public forum. Who cares about the "Franking Commission"?
The thing I keep reminding myself is that Obama won the popular vote by only seven million votes. Now, I know that the popular vote doesn't matter (unless we're talking about the 2000 election). But that still means that there were a LOT of people who didn't vote for Obama.
There IS a base there – and it's one that CAN be tapped.
Personally? I think our own Andrew Breitbart should run.
Obviously not the Congressman who's already leaked it to the media.
Well, from my point of view it was Bob Dole who gave Clinton "term two". What a horrible campaign he ran. It was frighteningly reminiscent of the horrible campaign John McCain ran last year.
That's why I said earlier that we need a viable national candidate to rise up and seize the opportunity presented. It isn't enough for the dems to just blow their lead in the polls.
Oh, I hear you. The policy of the blog I visited was that you can NOT be censored merely for a difference in ideological thought, but that is bull. You can be as polite as pie and IF you get the comment posted, you'll be piled on. Others, can call for actual violence – as was inferred in the case of DeMint, or actually refer to Michael Steele as a "lawn jockey", the post will stand, and they'll be backslapped, faved and fanned by the plethora or morons who post there. Eye-opening, actually, if you can bear it.
Great find, Hank
or Leigh Scott…..the dude has some serious hair…..if a nice smile can get Obama elected…..just sayin……
I'm just wondering why this didn't surface during the campaign.
because someone doesn't agree with obama's policies, a liberal will attack with " YOU'RE RACIST " !
where as a smart conservative would have an articulate eloquent conversation and discussion. the liberal who has no brain capacity to calmly discuss will pounce with "YOU'RE RACIST" !
It's the equivalent of clapping your hands over your ears and shouting LALALALALALA
It's juvenile and silly….
The term “Jump the Shark” has been with us for a while. The clever metaphor is used for the moment when something of cultural significance begins to lose its luster
Much like articles that wonder whether <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&num=100&q=has+%22Jumped+the+Shark%3F%22&cts=1248460739149&aq=f&oq=&aqi=" title="">something has jumped the shark.
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