The Rout Is On...In Most Places

Jim Geraghty's latest breakdowns on the races across the country are found below. The momentum is clear and it will take a miracle of some sort to stem the rising tide but everyone on the Right must keep talking about the elections with their friends and make sure they get out to vote in their respective areas. The media will be spinning all sorts of stories like this, since they are the water carriers of the Left. It only displays sheer desperation and a realization that the high watermark of 2008 is well in the rearview for them. As always facts are stubborn things and all the numbers and facts point to a certain Democrat bloodbath. The Governor races looks like a likely 13 statehouse pickup for the Republicans. Ouch! Taking out the toss-up races, RCP has it 31-19 after November's election day. This plays a large role in redistricting after a year ending in a zero. The Senate looks out of reach even if Mike Castle was the nominee in Delaware. It would have been close but picking up ten seats was always a tall order, more importantly the almost six-seven seat pickup completely destroys the near filibuster proof majority the Democrats have had for almost two years. Control of the House is paramount though to thwart Obama's hard left agenda so let's hope the momentum continues and on November 10th we can all breathe a sigh of relief.

The Rout Is On. - The Campaign Spot - National Review Online

Man This Is Pathetic

In my movie trailer voiceover voice (just pretend, OK? sheesh)......From the people who brought you the critically acclaimed "Man Caused Disaster" and "Overseas Contingency" comes the latest suspense filled, action packed, political thriller....."Global Climate Disruption"

I guess since we know that global warming isn't actually occurring as severely as the enviro lobby wished, here comes this more generic term. While Al Gore laughs all the way to the bank with his carbon trading scheme, this administration seems to have hired every technocratic hack in America to further enrich the enviro kooks. I mean look the 'War On Terror' was not the greatest name as in it wasn't all that accurate. Tough to have a war on a tactic the enemy uses but everyone in the country knew what it meant because it was plain and straightforward. Once again the Left fighting the battle on 'common sense'.

This guy John Holdren fits right in with the Progressives surrounding this President. He's a throwback to the '20's-30's era of Progressives. You know, the ones who favored eugenics. More homework for any liberal readers I have, check out what your intellectual forefathers have wrought before just assuming modern liberalism has the purer motives than anything us classical liberals propose. In the 70's this guy wrote a book called Ecoscience, gripping stuff if you favor a single mother having their baby's seized from them against their will and given to other couples to raise. Or it's a quick read if you feel that sterilizing the population through poisoning our drinking water with infertility drugs will curb population growth and natural resource depletion. Yeah just give it a tumble, I'm sure you will enjoy its lighthearted nature. I'll take my right wingers who think masturbating is dirty over this truly demented crap.

More Post Mortem on DE

First off wanted to highlight Yuval Levin's quick observations on The Corner at NRO. Yes it's more or less what I said last night but delivered much more succintly than I could. I also was in a discussion over Facebook with a center-left friend of mine who found O'Donnell to be distasteful due to her religious views, the masturbation thing, abstinence,etc. For the record I believe abstinence education should be a part of a kids sexual ed in school. Many districts have imposed it successfully without making it into some sort of religious issue. Look if we are gonna hand out condoms willy-nilly to 12 year old kids, shouldn't we also offer them the alternative side of it. You know, like telling them don't have sex until you are a little more mature. I know common sense generally doesn't have a place in the liberal agenda but I'm just saying. Anyways here were my thoughts to him on the primary and then I will be done talking about it....I hope:

It's just funny how taking something she said in 1996 is relevant but Obama's past associations with anti-American radicals is not. It's funny how her suing her former employer is relevant but Charlie Rangel, a freaking criminal, wins his Democratic primary by a 2 to 1 margin and we get nary a peep from MSNBC. It's funny how O'Donnell is all over the news but why is the media silent during the parade of people leaving O's economic team. Peter Orszag, Christina Romer anyone? All that being said, she is not an ideal candidate (due to the sideshow her career has been to this point, 2 electoral losses prior, the lawsuit,etc.) but not nearly the nutjob the frothing at the mouth liberal media (and some in the GOP establishment) have made her out to be. Mike Castle was a liberal and for all intents and purposes was a Democrat, a lot less ideal for the supposedly conservative GOP. This is why he lost and I'm totally OK with it, even if she doesn't win it's one less liberal pretending to be a Republican.

Contemplating the Price of Cheap Political Rhetoric

Excellent piece as usual by Thomas Sowell. As the title of my post suggests he provides good thought and clear points on how "social justice" and other such terms affect our society and policies. Give it a read, you won't be sorry.

The Money of Fools - Article - National Review Online

Thoughts On O'Donnell in DE

A few things strike me with the results in Delaware tonight. There has been a lot of Conservatives squabbling over her candidacy. One look at my Twitter feed over the last few days would make that obvious. You had some in the blogosphere and establishment GOP backing Mike Castle; and the tea party, Sarah Palin, with others in the blogosphere backing O'Donnell. I kind of stayed out of it because my thought is to leave this to the primary voters in the state of Delaware. I see the arguments on both sides, the moderate Castle while not a conservative would have gotten the Republicans one seat closer to firing Harry Reid as majority leader. He was leading in all major polls in a hypothetical matchup against Coons. O'Donnell on the other hand speaks of true conservative principles and had the energy of the tea party behind her.

I was not around in 1976, but understanding what started happening to the Republican party at that time has some parallel in today's disagreements. An outsider Governor who was bucking the GOP establishment which at that time believe it or not was very entrenched in the Northeast blue blood culture. The man he beat for the 1980 Republican presidential nomination, George H.W. Bush, was the poster child for the ruling class. The Southern stronghold had not developed yet, although Nixon famously used the Southern strategy to win the Presidency twice. That governor was Ronald Reagan and his brand of conservatism has changed the party for the better forever. Not trying to give a history lesson here but it is to put the debate over O'Donnell-Castle in some context. This kind of stuff happens for the heart of parties all the time, and it can be productive if people take away the right lessons. What has occurred nationally is a mood of not anti-incumbency but anti-big government and dead set against out of control spending, plain and simple. People are looking for candidates who espouse that line of thinking regardless of party stripe. The Republican Party has always been the one that has been the ideological home of this line of thinking since Abraham Lincoln, save a few exceptions(Teddy Roosevelt,Herbert Hoover). So if this battle over O'Donnell and Castle move the party closer to actually adhering to these principles instead of paying it lip service as it did during the Bush years, then I am all for it.

The thought that only moderate Republicans like an Arlen Specter should be nominated in the Northeast to me is nonsense. As a conservative who was raised in New Jersey and now lives here I hear this argument all the time. Yes of course this is not Alabama and most voters in our state are not as conservative. But they are mostly independent and if you constantly trot up candidates that are not discernibly different from the Democrat, why the hell would the electorate choose them? If you cannot articulate a true alternative to the leftist liberals that run as Democrats up here than you will not win. An independent voter is going to vote for the Democrat because at least they know what they will be getting. Look at what has happened to the GOP in New York, it is a total dysfunctional joke mostly because they consistently send up total squishes that the electorate cannot understand what their principles are.

At the end of the day what makes your party relevant is winning elections. In that vein I understand the urge to elevate the candidate who can just win, but this presidency has given us a unique opportunity to right the ship of the GOP. That is more important for long term success in opposing the Progressive agenda and forging a future based on the principles contained in the Constitution. Just think, two years ago the punditry were writing the obituary of conservatism and the GOP. I have been saying since day one they misread the 2008 election so greatly that it would bite them in the ass. Just didn't think it would happen in the first mid-term. I will support Christine O'Donnell even with all her flaws, even if the NRSC will choose not to, and wish her much luck in the general. She will need a lot of it. I just hope Republicans don't start openly sounding like libs in bashing the Tea Party movement. The establishment needs to learn to work with the grassroots or November's gains will not be as dramatic as some think. Shooting itself in the foot has been the party's specialty as of late so I won't put it past them.

The Joy Of A Salesman (off-topic)

If you are a sales rep you will totally get this. If you aren't...thank whatever God you worship that you have never had this conversation as I have numerous times in my second career as a salesman. It is NSFW as it includes some salty language.

Liberal Despair

Ah yes, the "country is just a bunch of irrational boobs" argument. Liberals are in a pit of despair and hopefully soon a pit of irrelevancy. They somehow see Obama as the "voice of reason incarnate". I am not sure how as the only one he seems to be making sense to these days is the ever shrinking hard Left of this country. Unfortunately for us the Progressive Left still controls the narrative in print and broadcast news media. No matter how many viewers O'Reilly, Hannity or anyone on Fox News gets it is still behind in raw numbers to the three major networks. Granted fewer and fewer people are getting their news from Katie Couric and the like, but why wait until 6:30pm to get your news when you can get it all day right here on the Internet. That network audience will only shrink more rapidly as the baby boom generation ages.

The story here as Ben Smith writes below is that in fact this "irrational doofus" (my term) string of logic will be the new Democrat Party strategy, and implemented by most "journalists". Do we see more public anger and distrust of government than ever before? Not really, it's always been the underlying fabric of this country. I just think in this day and age with the Internet and 24/7 media these things can organize very quickly. We know that as entrepreneurs and innovators this country has no peer. And why has that been the case? Largely due to the fact that for most of this country's existence we have allowed private individuals to control their own destiny to an extent and kept the hand of big government out of their way. All across Europe you see countries rejecting much of their Bismarckian ways. The excesses of government spending and deficit spending, which has been the canard of liberal Keynesian economics for as long as it has existed, has finally hit a breaking point with some in the Eurozone. But they are learning and clawing back to prosperity along the way. The weakness of the Euro due to the collapse of the free spending countries seems to be helping along too in an interesting paradox. The fact remains that center-right coalitions continue to govern most of these countries out of their slide. Save for the exceptions of Italy,Greece,Portugal and Spain (the so called PIGS) the trend continues to move to the right.

The liberals here should start asking themselves the question: Who ushered in this current climate of "irrationality"? Is it possible that people could have legitimate concerns over government metastasizing beyond control? Could it be that the majority of Americans feel the Progressive agenda is wrong for the country and it never will be right? Progressives' whole existence is driven by the fact that they know best. That the university professors and intellegentsia know what is best for the majority. They would love nothing more to centralize power in a strong Federal government to forever be able to drive that point home to you....you irrational American idiot.

POLITICO: Liberal despair: Age of irrationality - Ben Smith - Liberal despair: Age of irrationality