Left And Right Politics

Ani of No Quarter interviewed Marc Rubin of The Denver Group. Here are some highlights but be sure to click the link and read the whole interview.

As Governor Rendell of Pennsylvania pointed out, the DNC insisted on nominating the weaker candidate. Aside from the obvious consequence of making the election harder to win, what do you think are some of the short and long term consequences of such an action to the Democratic Party going forward?

Harder to win? Try impossible to win. One candidate ‘landslided’ the other in 13 of the biggest states in the country, not just won, but won by landslide margins and they sent out the loser. They deserve to lose and lose big. The short term consequences are short term pain for long term gain because a massive Obama defeat will get rid of Dean, Pelosi, Brazile and the Obama wing of the party and get it on the right track again.

The DNC is using various scare tactics to get everyone to fall in line. What is your response to their favorite ploys?

a) McCain as neocon?

As rated by conservative groups, McCain has the worst conservative voting record of any Republican member of Congress which is one reason Rush Limbaugh hates him. I’m going to write a post specifically addressing all of this because it’s so ludicrous.

b) Threats to reverse Roe v. Wade?

As for Roe v. Wade, it’s designed to scare people who are ignorant of the law, the limits on the power of the executive [branch] and how the legal system works. It’s virtually a done deal that Roe v. Wade will never get reversed in a McCain presidency and if you want proof, no Presidents were more opposed to Roe v. Wade than Bush and Reagan and nothing happened in 16 years of both administrations and for logical reasons. It won’t happen under a McCain administration either.

c) Conservative SCOTUS appointments?

Appointing judges is a crap shoot. Look at David Souter. Besides, even conservative judges respect court precedent and only in extreme and compelling circumstances are willing to overturn long-standing decisions and it hardly ever happens and it wouldn’t with Roe v. Wade. There is a big difference between conservatives WANTING it to be overturned and a court doing just that, assuming you could even find a case where someone with the standing to bring a law suit would do it.

d) What about the DNC and media pushing that if one does not vote for Senator Obama, one must be racist? How effective is this tactic?

Martin Luther King said he dreamed of a day when a person would be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin. That day has obviously not arrived for Obama, his campaign and those in the DNC, who think making an issue of race and using it to try and intimidate weak minded people is the way to win the election.

Any objective person would come to the conclusion, based on everything known, that Obama doesn’t have the character, courage or the conviction even to be an effective Senator much less President. Using accusations of racism to try and intimidate people into voting for an unqualified candidate will backfire among everyone who sees through it and resents it.

That doesn’t include patronizing knee-jerk liberals such as Keith Olbermann and others like him; the kind of patronizing pseudo-liberals that Lenny Bruce made fun of in the early 60’s, who want to show how un-racist they are by drumming up support for someone with the ethics of a dishonest used car salesman.

But it’s a good reason the polls can’t be trusted. When Obama and his minions try and use the race card to intimidate people, those who do feel intimidated will say one thing but will do another. The more they do it, the more they alienate the people they are trying to win over, so the tactic of trying to get people to prove they are not racists by voting for him, like taking some kind of loyalty oath, smacks of racial McCarthyism, and while it might be successful with some, most people will reject it.

Soon after Obama told a crowd of 1,500 people to “get in their face and argue with them” (speaking about those of us who don’t support him for President), it seems his followers are following what he told them to do.

SARASOTA, Fla. (970WFLA)– Police are looking for vandals who spray-painted “Obama” on Republican headquarters in Sarasota. The building, located at Tamiami Trail and Stickney Point Road was vandalized late Tuesday night. In addition to spray-painting the outer wall, the suspects tore up a number of campaign signs.

A spoof of left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore from Airplane! writer/director David Zucker. Starring Chris Farley’s brother Kevin Farley, Kelsey Grammer, James Woods, Trace Adkins, Dennis Hopper, Robert Davi, David Allen Grier, Leslie Nielsen, and Jon Voight. Opening Oct 3rd.

My grandparents (from both sides) came from Europe and they always thought their greatest accomplishment was becoming an American citizen. They’ve told me many times as I was going up, how they loved the fact that they were given the chance to be an American.
Unfortunately that is no longer the case with the new wave of immigrants that are coming here illegally. As a matter of fact the numbers of immigrants coming over the border is growing at an unbelievable rate. That is because we allow our politicians to not just help them get into this country, but they even help them get established as to where to find jobs, pass bills that will allow them to get bank accounts and last but not the least get subprime mortgages.

Yes, you read that right, mortgages.

When I went o get a mortgage, the lenders had my wife and I jump through hoops in getting paperwork as well as the 10% down to get it. We’ve paid off our mortgage and didn’t ask for any handouts in the process. Our credit crisis is the way it is because of bad lending practices and lack of true credit from the borrowers.

While I was looking through my daily blogs I came across this post from Michelle Malkin that I wanted to share with our readers that might have missed her article. Her post on illegal immigration and the mortgage mess really got my balls twisted and I wished that there was something that I could do, but it’s gotten to the point that our own government doesn’t really listen to us anymore.