Thursday, August 11, 2011

Could the Tea Party actually be Obama's salvation. No.

Could the Tea Party actually be Obama's salvation in 2012?
Salon's news editor
Steve Kornacki is creaming, er dreaming over the prospect

In other words, the possibility that he'll wind up a one-term president has never seemed so real. Economic anxiety is what motivates swing voters, and the more they feel it, the more eager they are to vote out incumbents. This is the rule that explains why Jimmy Carter lost his job in 1980 and why George H.W. Bush lost his in 1992, and there's no real reason to think it won't apply next year if the economy doesn't turn around.

Unless ... well, have you seen the latest poll on the Republican Party's image?


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Let's put aside that this Kornacki chap would rely on CNN polling as basis for anything.  And forget that the NY Times just published a memorandum from Bill Clinton​’s pollster Stanley Greenberg​ that warned :
  • Voters in the developed world are turning away from Democrats, Socialists, liberals and progressives.
  • Voters feel ever more estranged from government—and they associate Democrats with government.”
  • If they are to win trust, and votes, Democrats must show they are as determined as the Tea Party movement to change the rules of the game
  • This distrust of government and politicians is unfolding as a full-blown crisis of legitimacy [and] sidelines Democrats and liberalism."
Because CNN may be on to something, and Kornacki has  misinterpreted it. '

If  asked to identify myself as a Democrat, Republican or Independent, as my voter registration board does, I must respond Republican so  I can vote in the Republican primary.  Besides, I view "Independents" as Democrats in disguise to game the pollsters, or idiots who can't name either of their U.S. Senators.  But
I am one of these Republicans touted by CNN .

  • A lot of that anger seems directed toward the GOP.  According to the survey, favorable views of the Republican party dropped eight points over the past month, to 33 percent. Fifty-nine percent say they have an unfavorable view of the Republican party, an all-time high dating back to 1992 when the question was first asked.

I want every establishment Republican defeated in 2012.  But, I certainly don't want them replaced by Democrats.  Egad!  I want them replaced by Tea Party candidates with an established public record of being conservative.  I will bet money that a good chunk of the "Republicans" cited  in that poll want the same thing. 


9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Most liberals don't get it. TEA is orthodox conservatism.

Daran said...

Same old story. When they asked how people felt about the war in Iraq the counted every bad opinion in the 'surrender monkey' column, including those who preferred to turn the place into a giant glass parkinglot.

molonlabe28 said...

You don't need to be a weatherman to see which way the wind's blowing, as the inimitable Bob Dylan wrote.

And right now is so reminiscent of the buildup to the 1980 election.

IIRC, it was August of 1979 (maybe 1978) when Carter ensconced himself at Camp David for 3 weeks and had a pitty party/sobfest with Congressional Dems (Mary Rose Oakar, of Akron, said that they all (including Carter) just had a big cry - which Carter denied (albeait rather unconvincingly after being frightened by a rabbit in the pond).

Obama and the Lilliputians at the Fed and Treasury know that they have unsuccessfully fired all of their ammo at the economy and nothing has worked.

The electorate, when it actually turns its attention from Dancing with the Stars, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and American Idol, disdains weakness.

And Obama has no remaining Presidential authority.

He has bartered it all away (the Stimulus and socialized medicine) and blows with the wind at this point.

I think that a Perry-Bachman ticket would have long coattails in the 23 contested Democrat Senate elections and also in the House.

Sarah's my favorite by far, but I would be happy with a Perry-Bachman ticket.

Anonymous said...

Lets see, the dems controlled all three branches and spent like crazy. they created spending programs that will cause lots of pain to cut back. now the reppubs agree to serve equally on a commitie ti "solve" the problem, taking half the blame for any cuts or tax raises? Thats plenty good politics.

wmprof said...

"when it actually turns its attention from Dancing with the Stars, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and American Idol" Lol, Ain't Happenin'!!

At least not until a "flash" mob shows up in THEIR neighborhhod. Better have your "to go" bag ready.

JMcD said...

Many Democrats are wishing they had nominated Hillary...say she should run in next election.

Dernocrats?

JMcD said...

DERNOCRATS....not a typing error
Dernocrats...Democrats
Looks a lot the same, no?
B-(|)

molonlabe28 said...

If a flash mob shows up in my neighborhood, it had better be a big one.

But that will never happen here in East Tn unless some boys in the hood are feeling suicidal (like suicide by cop, except that it would be suicide by armed redneck(s)).

My neighborhood is a mix of highly-armed rednecks and too many college professors who drive Volvos and have faded Gore stickers on their bumpers.

Rodger the Real King of France said...

sigh - our flash mob is unfortunately the state government

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