…are in free fall.
Deservedly so. He lied his way to reelection. I think there’s a lot of buyers’ remorse out there from a year ago.
Related: Also sprach Obama:
The most telling line, the one that encapsulates the gulf between the boundless fantasies of the faculty-lounge utopian and the messiness of reality, was this: “What we’re also discovering is that insurance is complicated to buy.” Gee, thanks for sharing, genius. Maybe you should have thought of that before you governmentalized one-sixth of the economy. By “we,” the president means “I.” Out here in the ruder provinces of his decrepit realm, we “folks” are well aware of how complicated insurance is. What isn’t complicated in the Sultanate of Sclerosis? But, as with so many other things, Obama always gives the vague impression that routine features of humdrum human existence are entirely alien to him. Marie Antoinette, informed that the peasantry could no longer afford bread, is alleged to have responded, “Let them eat cake.” There is no evidence these words ever passed her lips, but certainly no one ever accused her of saying, “If you like your cake, you can keep your cake,” and then having to walk it back with “What we’re also discovering is that cake is complicated to buy.” That contribution to the annals of monarchical unworldliness had to await the reign of Queen Barry Antoinette, whose powdered wig seems to have slipped over his eyes.
There’s more.
We’ve been here before. Then Obama gives a nice State of the Union speech and picks up enough support to skate through the next year.
Reagan was a communicator. Thomas Sowell points out that, that is the problem with today’s conservatives… they don’t know how to communicate winning ideas. We aught to be able to completely shut down the stupid emotional arguments of the left but don’t seem to know how. Done right, each argument should only have to be destroyed once for them never to be able to bring them up again. Marilyn Vos Savant did that years ago about unequal wages by gender. If the wages are less for woman, why hire any men? Wouldn’t that give them a huge competitive advantage?
Instead we wait until they destroy us with implementation and let them destroy themselves. That’s waiting too long.
Facts can only win over emotion when the recipients of the facts are capable of understanding them. I’m afraid we may have passed the tipping point on that.
“Facts can only win over emotion when the recipients of the facts are capable of understanding them. ”
OR….if they experience them. You don’t have to be very educated to properly react to:
1) Being dropped from your health insurance
2) Being told that the plans to select from are going to cost you a lot more both in premiums and deductible
3) (And this is the dicey one for the lo-fo’s) Recognize you are being forced to buy things you don’t need to finance other people’s insurance.
True, until now the leftists have been pretty good at insulating their base from the ill effects of their polices OR convincing them that the ill effects they experience from leftist policies are actually the result of those polices not being fully implemented due to interference from the right.
But the Obamacare debacle is going to be real hard to sell as GOP interference instead of leftist incompetence. But they’re trying their best.
“We aught to be able to completely shut down the stupid emotional arguments of the left but don’t seem to know how.”
Except you can’t because liberals will mindlessly repeat the same thing no matter how many times you debunk it. Witness Bahdad Bob and Jim right here.
Rand, your first link is the wrong link.
Tammy Bruce also had something interesting to note.
Used and betrayed. No, you can’t keep your gynecologist. You can’t keep your pediatrician.
Obama’s numbers are indeed in free fall, though he’s yet to plumb the depths that Bush did in that regard.
The key issue with Bush was that he manged to piss off a lot of Republicans – his numbers only hit the basement after the Amnesty debacle. Look at the poll internals; after that, he was getting a lot of disapproval from Republicans.
Obama has yet to alienate a big chunk of his base, though he’s working hard to do so. The young, especially, are finally waking up to what a raw deal they have gotten, but it’s taking time.
The best hope for Obama and the Democrats is that the Republicans will do something mind-numbingly stupid that is guaranteed to piss off a big chunk of the Republican base, and at the very least rile them enough to withhold support for many R’s is the voting booth (and certainly withold donations to the party committees). Look at the internals for the exit polling in 2006 and 2008 for a glimpse of what this looks like – depressed R turnout.
My prediction; the Republicans will, through great effort and expense, do just that (again) and snatch defeat from the looming jaws of victory. This means “Welcome back, Speaker Pelosi”.
I hope like hell I’m wrong, but I see no sign of it. Even now, you have Republicans such as Bohner distracting from the Obamacare mess with promises like “Immigration reform isn’t dead!”
We’re not called “The Party of Stupid” for nothing, though I really do wish the party leadership would stop working so damn hard to reaffirm that moniker.
“We’re not called “The Party of Stupid” for nothing”
It took a lot of hard work to earn that moniker.
Letting whack jobs like Beck run the party information apparatus. Letting drug addicted
dropouts like Limbaugh become the face of the party. Letting alcoholic jesus freaks into
the oval office.
That was 20 years of hard work
Limbaugh? I have no idea what he’s like, except I do recall the drug scandal and the manifest hypocrisy involved.
Beck? Didn’t he retire a few years ago?
I don’t see how either of the above qualify as “running the party information apparatus” any more than sundry far-left cranks can be said to be doing the same on the other side.
Now, as for stupidity, try thinking of the situation in reverse; what if Republicans were giving Democrats advice on what Democrats should do to win more elections; how idiotic would Democrats need to be to take such advice? It’d be like a storekeeper taking the advice of the store’s regular shoplifters regarding where to put his security cameras.