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If
you needed another reason to avoid Detroit entirely, we have one for
you: there are people impersonating police officers, pulling over
civilians, pistol-whipping and robbing them.
Show
me a city governed by Democrats for two decades or more,
and I'll show you a city in decay. Like Detroit. Super Hero
thoR~ sent me the link to
that story, which in turn reminded me of this AmericanThinker article I
earmarked a few days ago; Schadenfreude,
Michigan, and Mitt's Big Fumble. Mitt's entire campaign was a cluster-fluck.
Most of that was due to media reporting his daily message through
the prism of charges, rumor and falsehood fed by the Obama
campaign. Still, this tale is representative of how GOP
candidates handle those—by now expected— pressures; by
junking their common sense to curry favor. Will it ever
change? No. Not as long as the legacy GOP control
things. If they are not in bed with the NY Times and the DNC.
they act like they are.
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After all, we both know that people in the Motor City, and the state of
Michigan in fact, have brought this doom on themselves with their very
liberal ballot habits of the past 60 years. Conservatives have warned
them about it for at least several decades, to no avail. Hell, even a
casual viewing of Gran Torino or the show Hardcore Pawn tells the
story's inevitable end. This is a colossal "we told you so" moment --
and something Biblical about reaping and sowing comes to mind.
(Memo
to Obama lo-fo's who just got offended: I know Detroit's problems
started well before Obama was out of his choom days, but everything he
has always stood for, and is still out pitching today on the campaign
trail, has been the law in the city for decades. Thus, applied
Obamanomics indeed.)
On the other hand, with the failure of the
liberal mecca of Detroit imminent, and the reasons for it obvious to
anyone not named Melissa Harris Perry -- or is it Melissa Perry Harris
-- this financial holocaust was an amazing slam-dunk election issue for
Mitt Romney and the Republicans in 2012. So what did Mitt and company
do to take advantage of this real life and undeniable object lesson in
applied Obamanomics and other leftist governing fantasies? Nothing
Actually, what the Republican campaign did
was worse than nothing. Mitt and his campaign agreed with Obama
publicly on his handling of the automaker bailouts. Romney knows
better, with his deep background in business in general, and Detroit
auto making specifically. Moreover, Paul Ryan, who also knows better,
agreed with Joe Biden on national TV in the VP debate that poor ole Joe
and Obama had "inherited" a mess from Bush and the Republicans. Ryan
even let Joe "Bite Me" get away with taking credit for saving Detroit!
Check the videotape in case you've forgotten.
Yes, in typical establishment fashion, the official GOP campaign shied
away from the big and confrontational philosophical arguments about
liberal versus conservative economic realities -- and instead ran to
smooch up to the voters of Michigan in a careful and focus-group-tested
way so as not to offend.
I do better with
no words; only pictures. But, you know.
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