In 2008 the Democrats finally elected their kind of President. Kennedy was the last Democratic president from outside the Old Confederacy. Roosevelt was the last non-Southern Democrat to get a majority of the vote.
The reason for this was because the Democratic Convention kept nominating Hubert Humphrey and Massachusetts Democrats and McGoverns the country rejected. Finally the combination of George W’s Vietnam PLUS recession and the threat of “racism” that got Christopher Buckley’s endorsement, they won.
But the bottom line is that America finally got what the Democratic Convention had been trying to sell for two generations.
The Democrats remind me of a dog who keeps bringing dead animals to his master and can’t understand the cool reception they get.
When a hard-core liberal push gets defeated in MASSACHUSETTS, something’s WRONG.
What is wrong is probably the obvious point that Democrats have been blind to for many decades: Americans do not want what they desire.
Period.
It’s a classical problem: they’re too far left. Ho-hum.
Actually the Democrats have the same blindness Republicans do. Both were caught with their pants down when Reagan won in 1980 and Gingrich won in 1994. The congress of 1994 promptly began back-peddling to “the votes are in the middle of the road.”
In short, nothing is happening that we are not familiar with. National commentators, right and left, are always taken completely by shock when the obvious happens. They can’t see reality. They get PAID, on BOTH sides, NOT to see reality.
Those who believe in conspiracies have a touching faith in the good sense of those who wind up in power. A guy who can make money must be a genius in all things, so they can’t make all those mistakes without MEANING to.
If you spent as much time as I have near those with money and power, trying to make them see the simplest realities, the whole conspiracy bit makes you laugh. Yes, they ARE that stupid.
The geniuses who rule the left have one thing in common with Mommy Professor: they have the same basic premise as the conspiracy theorists have: that they are enormously intelligent. Mommy Professor is hopeless because he honestly believes he is an idealist and a genius.
One how thinks he is an idealist is immune to any feeling of loyalty or any pangs of conscience. One who thinks he knows all is incapable of learning. This is the picture Mommy Professor has of himself and this is the picture the superrich have of themselves.
They are absolutely incapable of seeing the obvious.
They have no way of LEARNING the obvious because anyone who points it out to them is considered simplistic. A genius has no use for a simplist.
What happened in Massachusetts is that the Democratic Convention FINALLY got what it want. They elected a black McGovern.
Only a conspiracy theorist could make that mysterious.
#1 by warweaver on 01/20/2010 - 11:20 am
I have reason to believe that white America is stirring.
#2 by Simmons on 01/20/2010 - 11:58 am
White America still thinks “racism” is only about white’s attitudes and actions, and hence in the back of their minds they view this as “illegal.” The day they hold the Mantra view then they will understand that they are “legal” and the other side is “illegal” and immoral, and that will become day they “stir.”
You will even see this viewpoint at the Amren confab, the semi-respectables praying and hoping that one day all the left and respectable PHDs will one day see the light and accept them into the club and not think of them as “illegal” and naughty.
I can understand this yearning for the approval of the white libs as being crucial for some of us. After spending time at DailyKos you find those kids as being the hyper literate, very smart creme da la creme of the crop. Then on our side we have the illiterate haters of learning who stammer on and on about “muds and kikes”, and conspiracy.
And that vast blob in the middle vacilates in desperate need of the Mantra.
#3 by Simmons on 01/20/2010 - 12:13 pm
To clarify a point, yes the white libs at DailyKos are by definition smart, but they are stuck in the freshman year of college and have refused to grow up. What mommy prof told them is TRUTH and that is all they need to know, but at least one thing, they produce the same crap over and over in a very literate manner.
They were told whites are “racist”, and that was all they needed to know, mommy prof is the prophet who has Truth. But ask one of those smart kids what the definition of “racist” is and how it applies to a current issue at hand, and you will draw a big blank. Upon this blankness they start to draw maps of conspiracy like primitives draw on animist spirits to explain the world. They can explain nothing, but thankfully for them they are never asked to by any on the right. The Mantra changes that, “Why are pushing genocide on us?” That is a game changer.
#4 by backbaygrouch4 on 01/20/2010 - 3:36 pm
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2010/senate_race/
Bob, your work is still paying dividends. Scroll over the election results map. Coakley carried large cities, the Yankee suburbs to the North and West of Boston and the still Yankee Berkshires. Outside of whacko Cambridge the heaviest margins in the East are Jewish enclaves like Brookline, Sharon and Randolph. The key was the Irish Riviera, the Catholic South Shore, those folks who moved out of Southie and Dorchester because of busing. It is the Reagan Coalition Redux that won.
Again, again and again, the political key is White Protestants, less the Abolitionist strain New Englanders, and the ethnic European heritage Catholics. There is no other political combination devisable that can produce majorities for our interests.
You will not hear it from the MSM or the Respectables, but the root of the Brown victory is race, the dispossession of the White Catholic working class by racist social engineers. It is happening on the national level to all White European heritage Americans. Yes, there were issues and issuea are important. Put observe closely how the the voters divided on those issues. They separated along the old racial borders. Our army is out there and it is necessary to keep them together as Reagan brought them together. Just look at the map, count the numbers, it still works.
#5 by BGLass on 01/20/2010 - 8:36 pm
I just found this site and like it, thanks. It’s true democrats are like mangy dogs bringing dead animals to the master over and over. It’s strangely embarrassing to watch. When that doesn’t work, they go get something else, maybe Haitians, or whatever, thinking maybe THEY’LL be stupid enough to like them and go for their lunacy-policies. At times, it’s like nothing will ever be stupid or dead enough to agree with them.
#6 by Dave on 01/20/2010 - 10:47 pm
I just love the phrase “populist anger” so popular in the MSM. It is a perfect Establishment phrase, a grudging acknowledgement that a public that actually works for a living exists.
This in distinction to the people who sit with the gods. Nancy “can’t you see I’m trying to save the Planet!” Pelsoi is flummoxed by the results in Massachusetts. Evil reactionaries are derailing her agenda, blind to the fact that she is a goddess who came to the earth for the sole purpose of doing good.
That the Establishment is dumb goes without saying, but they are still running a tyranny.
And anyone who knows how the Federal Tax Code operates understands the real ambit and capriciousness of the police powers that tyrannize our society. These police care less about the stupidities that are endlessly folded into the Code by a posturing and idiotic Congress.
You have to be a very abstract thinker to think yourself out of the notion that America is a dictatorship when you understand America operationally which most people don’t.
Nevertheless, they haven’t killed off free speech and the reason is that it simply isn’t doable in this part of the world. The other thing they have had a tough time doing is keeping Americans from guns and ammunition. It just two basic things they have been unable to do.
Meanwhile, the victorious Brown wasted no time in praising John McCain.
That should caution you about the real meaning of things.
#7 by warweaver on 01/20/2010 - 10:54 pm
grouch:
despite Simmons’ understandable, and redoubled, negativism . . . I agree. Sorry Simmons. You must have been attuned for far longer than I. I’m not completely immunized to the tickle of a victory (ala the S.C. Gamecocks).
And so I repeat: I sense the white race, RACE (not demographic), is stirring . . . .
#8 by shari on 01/21/2010 - 9:59 am
Running against the health bill is not nearly enough,and won’t keep things intact. The only real reason anyone honest might run for office would be to use the mantra as a platform and indict the whole damned bunch. Don’t know if the ATP will be do that,or be able to do that yet. We’ll see. I think that we are seeing something begin to harden.
#9 by backbaygrouch4 on 01/21/2010 - 2:40 pm
To clarify, describing the fault lines that can be exploited in no way means that Scott Brown will vote a White Nationalist line. His history points elsewhere. He was first elected in a special election from a state senate district that was designed to reelect a radical lesbian, Cheryl Jacques [rhymes with fakes]. Once in, he conducted himself in such a way as to not anger or arouse the the opposition. My guess is that he will become a RINO’s RINO with his eye on the next election in Massachusetts.
Scott Brown is an exceptionally well organized, tireless, disciplined campaigner. He is also very likable. But his eye will be on the next prize, that is, a Senate election in 2012. As an incumbent he will avoid agitating the liberals and that means placating them. His election demonstrates how to divide the electorate in a way to win in a storm. That will not be the case in 2012.
Remember, the election on Tuesday is now the election on the day before yesterday. His campaign points out a winning formula. Do not read much more into than that.