To Lift Again A Tattered Flag

I have no pedigree from an Ivy League school, I don’t live in or near the vaunted Beltway, I don’t have a degree in Political Science or Psychology.  I’m just a 60-year-old woman whose lifespan has included the presidencies of Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Hussein Obama.

Barack Hussein Obama has generated more debt, dependency and decay than any president in the history of this great nation.  He is the man the Las Vegas Review-Journal described as “a narcissistic amateur who seeks to ride this nation's economy and international esteem to oblivion.”

We have witnessed him spend everything and build nothing, nothing for four long years.

The Left insists that the Chicago Messiah has received a bounce in the polls from appearing to be “presidential” during the Hurricane Sandy disaster as he “comforted” a woman in a photo-op while in New Jersey.

I vehemently disagree.  The words this errand boy sent by grocery clerks uttered in Springfield, OH ushers an anger in me that I cannot describe.  Revenge?

Those words are a window into the soul of this scrawny little emperor.  He wants to stay in power.  Why?

The answer to that question is encapsulated in the following quote from Valerie Jarrett, Iranian-born Communist sympathizer and Barack Obama’s Senior Adviser:

“After we win this election, it’s our turn.  Payback time.  Everyone not with us is against us and they better be ready because we don’t forget. The ones who helped us will be rewarded; the ones who opposed us will get what they deserve. There is going to be hell to pay.  Congress won’t be a problem for us this time. No election to worry about after this is over and we have two judges ready to go.”

What American president that you know of has people around him who think and speak like this?  Clearly, this is the revenge the president was referring to and it’s terrifying.

With one day to go before the election, everybody and their brother are offering their predictions on who will win.  You can drive yourself insane with an interactive “Path to the White House” or you can trust Silver’s “science”.  Either way, you’re spinning your wheels.

Jay Cost, at the Weekly Standard, believes the rising power of the independent vote will determine the outcome of this year’s election.  “I am not willing to take polls at face value anymore. I am more interested in connecting the polls to history and the long-run structure of American politics, and when I do that I see a Romney victory.”

I’m tired of seeing the Chicago Messiah’s obedient followers wearing T-shirts that read, “Obama said I’m gonna knock you out.”  I’m tired of hearing blathering fools like Bill Maher threaten, "If you're thinking about voting for Mitt Romney, I would like to make this one plea. Black people know who you are and they will come after you."  Oh, and let's not forget those threats of riots in the streets if Romney wins.

If The Left believes that people are going to stand by and let this lunacy continue unabated then somebody is off their meds.

Call me a Pollyanna, call me a kook, but I see a Romney victory, too.  For the love of country and to lift again a tattered flag.

Maher's Attacks

To the Editor (of The New York Times):

Re: “Please Stop Apologizing,” by Bill Maher (Op-Ed, March 22):

We’re both women who have worked in Democratic politics and the media for decades and find Bill Maher’s misogynist treatment of women candidates deeply disturbing. Coincidentally we both hail from Alaska—where women are treated as equals—so perhaps our threshold for this kind of behavior is less than here in the Lower 48.

Mr. Maher has implicitly attempted to tie his own demeaning attacks on women to the unrelated issue of partisan-motivated fake outrage, which we agree is tiring. While others have been held to account for their sexism, Mr. Maher remains unrepentant for his attacks on women in public life.

How can we expect women to run for office when they are essentially told to “lighten up about” and accept misogynist attacks? The Women’s Media Center has found that such attacks on women candidates have a measurable negative effect on how voters view them.

Our message to Mr. Maher and his ilk is: Please start apologizing.

PENNY LEE
KIRSTEN POWERS
Washington, March 23, 2012

Ms. Lee is the former executive director of the Democratic Governors Association. Ms. Powers is a political commentator who worked in the Clinton administration.

Via a thread at Memeorandum.