"As the son of exiles, I understand what it means to lose a country."
So he understands what happens when communist revolutionaries take over a nation through an armed revolt and turn dissenters into political prisoners. A lot of connection to what's happening in America today, right?
I mean, seeing the Democrats win landslide elections the past two election cycles, including watching President Obama receive nearly 70 million votes, more than any candidate in American history, is exactly like witnessing a violent revolution. Exactly the same.
And seeing left-of-center programs programs like the very watered-down health care package, and proposals intended to save the world, is kind of like tossing your enemies into political prisons and letting them die from dehydration. Exactly the same.
And suffering through less than two years of President Obama has to be exactly like dealing with 36 years of continuous, uninterrupted tyranny on behalf of the Castro brothers. Why, it's just amazing conservatives aren't fleeing to Costa Rica to escape the terrible, oppressive regime in power within the United States right now.
The funny thing, of course, is that the Tea Party camp is the crew dressing up like revolutionaries right now.
But this also shows just how far Rubio will go to push the meme Democrats are really some type of destructive force pushing not only a philosophically wrong agenda, but one that will totally end the American way of life. The hyperbole is ludicrous.
All this is especially funny to me since there is no way Marco Rubio will get a majority of votes in the Senate race this year. He could win, of course, but the current front-runner is polling in the low 40s. I guess it's fine to conservatives win with a plurality as long as they are Republicans.
But even if the Rubios and Joe Millers win on Election Day, I'd like someone to point out they are coming in without the majority support of their state voters, and they they represent not an outspoken majority but a group of well-organized activists who came out ahead in three-way races during a mid-term. And then I hope they remember that people like Rubio did so comparing the Obama administration to one that seized power and allowed zero dissent.
Hopefully, though, a majority of Florida voters will see through this insane, extremist rhetoric, and remind Rubio that voters can still stop nutjobs from seizing the reins of power here.
I have news for you - the nutjobs won the presidency in 2010. The reason the nutjobs at sites such as Daily Kos snipe at the President is because he's not as much of a nutjob as they'd like. He's made some horrible appointments (Kathleen Sebelius for one), but he's not been as bad as I expected, and he appears to be personally honest, a trait not usually associated with Democrats coming out of Illinois (especially Chicago).
ReplyDeleteObama's election had one very good feature to it - it expanded the number of little boys and girls who can now realistically harbor the dream that they too could grow up to be President of the United States. That's a good thing - it might lead to a conservative Latino or Latina being elected President someday
But we did win it. You don't like that. I get it. And I am sure someday that someone closer to your ideology will occupy the White House again, and I will suffer the chagrin then.
ReplyDeleteWhat I don't like with Rubio's tactic, though, is the comparison to some oppressive regime. Politics is often about hyperbole, I know, and our side was guilty of plenty of that during the Bush years, but to suggest the liberal policies of the Obama administration (and I am one of those nutjobs who'd appreciate them a little more to the left) is akin to "losing a country" is an affront of Democracy disguised as a defense of it.
Winning a three-way still counts as a victory, as more than one victorious Democrat knows from personal experience. I don't recall President Clinton announcing "since I won only 43% of the vote, I don't have a mandate to govern". Actually, Clinton reached 50% in neither of his successful elections
ReplyDeleteWhoever wins, wins and whoever loses will have six years to get ready for the next attempt to unseat the incumbent
As for as over-the-top political ads, I remember well the massive lies and innuendo in the LBJ ads run against Barry Goldwater. I was only twelve at the time but I remembered the campaign of 1960 as being so much more civil, probably the last relatively civil presidential election we have had
p.s. - Obama received 69.4 million votes, about 7 million more than Bush received in 2004. McCain's total was the 3rd highest in history - which proves nothing other than the population of the United States continues to grow at an alarming rate. I don't know where Obama's voting % is other than it is not one the ten highest in history
Apparently about 56% of the registered voters actually voted in 2008, an increase over several prior elections but not as high a percentage as some presidential elections of the past and a disgrace compared to voter turnout in many other countries
Despite all your talk about Crist, this seems like the perfect time to bring forth a centrist party. Perhaps Charlie will become senator from a huge state, then become an alternative to the bickering radicals of the left and right? It is a bit of a stretch, but there is always the possibility that voters will desert all these extremists and elect a centrist President with fiscal conservative roots, environmentalist credentials and intimate knowledge of America's social alternative?
ReplyDeleteDoesn't a vote for Rubio or Meek simply continue the political extremist games that are destroying American politics?
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