Obama's Suicide Mission
Barack Obama once commented that he had a gift. I remarked soon thereafter that in German Gift is the word for poison. I am persuaded that for the Democratic Party President Obama is the gift that keeps on giving.
Consider this morning's New York Times, which reports that "President Obama’s political advisers, looking for ways to help Democrats and alter the course of the midterm elections in the final weeks, are considering a range of ideas, including national advertisements, to cast the Republican Party as all but taken over by Tea Party extremists, people involved in the discussion said."
Could the Obama administration do anything that would help the Republican Party more than to advertise that the party has been taken over by women and men of principle and that it now stands for something?
When his critics describe Barack Obama as having been a Manchurian candidate, I sometimes wonder whether the mastermind behind his candidacy was not Karl Rove. What goes around comes around, as they say.
UPDATE: Now from Politico we hear that the White House is vehemently denying the truth of the lead story in The New York Times cited above. “The Times is just flat-out, 100 percent wrong,” a White House official said. “The first time Obama’s advisers heard about a national ad campaign is when the story showed up on the Times’ website last night.” Did the reporters at the Times let the cat out of the bag? Is there suddenly adult supervision at the White House. Stay tuned.
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May '10
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If I understand this all correctly, the GOP has established a sham, astroturf movement to take itself over.
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And this sham, astroturf movement has succeeded. What next?
May '10
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Paul A. Rahe
And this sham, astroturf movement has succeeded. What next? · Sep 20 at 4:48am
Oh, I'm a deep pessimist, though cheerful. I see no hope for a revival of the Constitution, dead and gone these many years.
Sep '10
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I have often thought of Karl Rove typing up the fake Bush Air National Guard memo then telling others in the White House, " Hey y'all, watch this".
Jul '10
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In Salena Zito's article on West (by God) Virginia, she features a gentleman (ehem) who says;
1) The Stimulus worked
2) the Economy is in a shambles
3) Obamacare is a Great thing
4) he has no idea what is in Obamacare
With supporters like that, is it any wonder that the Democrats believe they can talk out of both sides of their mouth regarding the Tea Party and Get away with it?
I'm sorry but Logic isn't thier strong suit.
All in all when in the presence of true liberals I think that Christians should be ashamed.
Jesus admonished Christians to have the faith of a Mustard Seed.
Clearly, liberals have the faith of an avacado pit.
Jun '10
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mesquito
Paul A. Rahe
And this sham, astroturf movement has succeeded. What next? · Sep 20 at 4:48am
Oh, I'm a deep pessimist, though cheerful. I see no hope for a revival of the Constitution, dead and gone these many years. · Sep 20 at 4:53am
I share the pessimism, trying for the cheerful. There are off-ramps on the Road to Serfdom but I don't see any turn signals. I am supporting tea-party candidates that I think are probably flakes just as an act of defiance, expecting that the congressional Republicans will roll over or be rolled. Has any society come this far toward statism and reversed course?
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The Times piece, whatever its accuracy, passingly but revealingly mentions Lisa Murkowski's charge against Joe Miller: "Alaska is not fair game for outside extremists." It seems to me a steep challenge to successfully portray one's opponents as extremists without successfully portraying oneself as one of us -- hence Murkowski's use of the word 'outside'. The furious denials coming out of the White House suggest that at least someone has realized that today Obama isn't able to deliver any message on the back of his fundamental similarity with the generic American voter. Paging Joe Biden...
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And now that story is gone from the Times' front page...
May '10
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Serves them right for forgetting to get it approved in advance.
May '10
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Hey, the White House is finally talking some real sense!
Actually I suspect that the error in the Times article was in calling it a national buy. Of course it will be a targeted regional buy aimed at critical races.
May '10
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Every couple weeks I'm reminded of (and then mention here) Rob's parody in NR a few months back in which he suggests that Dems will begin running attack ads which target the American people.
Targeting the Tea Party is basically that.