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Anyone Else Shocked That One Election Didn’t Magically Fix Everything?

Posted on | March 16, 2011 | 15 Comments

by Smitty

Insty links the Examiner about the Dems being Muhammed Ali, letting the GOP wear themselves out before delivering a knockout. I don’t think the analogy has much going for it. The Progressive position itself looks more like this old Harry Reid pose behind Rep. Sonny Bono (R-IP)

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Sonny Bono and Harry Reid, an immortal combination


The 2010 election has been called a restraining order. As a squid, I am bound by character to point out that the ship of state has been cruising with left standard rudder on for, oh, a century. We’re way off Constitutional course. 2010 really didn’t give us rudder amidships, much less anything right of center. We’re still set to stack up on Socialist shoals.

The ones that hate our guts are betting on a lack of will/attention span/commitment to liberty from the Tea Partiers. That’s why they continue to piss down the public back while rejoicing in the precipitation. I, for one, hope that HotAir publishes a book with a title along the lines of “Obamaturisms: a Cacaphony of Cock-Ups” next spring, to celebrate three complete years of the Mad Ass-Hatter on parade. Such a tome, annotated with historical ties to the preceding century, would be a helpful reminder to the electorate that This. Crap. Must. Halt. Conservatives need to double down in their efforts both to reform the GOP and to convince the Left that their ideas are as desirable in contemporary America as those of the Loyalists during the Revolutionary War.

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  • Rodtheold

    Smitty
    I thought only Jarheads used the term “squid”. You showed me,

    Go Sarah!

  • http://annoytheleft.wordpress.com/ Sean

    Squids are allowed to use “squid” in a self deprecating way.

    What I’m seeing, even here in leftward Washington State, is that the Tea Parties are in it for the long haul. I expect the ranks to ebb between election cycles but the core, a significant core in fact, remains.

  • http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sniggy sniggy

    Conservatives need to double down in their efforts both to reform the GOP and to convince the Left that their ideas are as desirable in contemporary America as those of the Loyalists during the Revolutionary War.

    How supremely condescending. Isn’t it enough that you convinced yourself of that and wish to convince everyone else on the right?

  • Bill54

    It will take more than a doubledown, I think, and so far the Republicans seem unable to do anything towards that end. So we aren’t anywhere near even deflecting our course to sta’board anytime soon. The economic typhoon is on it’s way and we need to get alee of the storm ASAP.
    Fellow squid. Well, photo anyway!

  • sniggy

    The Republicans seem to be giving up already on the next Wisconsin fight at the ballot, the libruls are fired up though:

    http://dailykos.com/story/2011/03/16/956857/-About-the-supposed-Republican-recall-efforts-in-Wisconsin

    The perils of governing like an ideologue and overreaching your mandate deluded by the 2010 midterm gains.

  • Anamika

    While reading these comments by Hillary about her future plans a thought crossed my mind:

    What if Sarah Palin is nominated by the republican voters, the economy is in crisis and Obama toxic? What if Obama decides not to run for a second term (for the greater good of the party) and Hillary steps up in a dramatic fashion? Anything can happen!

  • Anamika

    While reading these comments by Hillary about her future plans a thought crossed my mind:

    What if Sarah Palin is nominated by the republican voters, the economy is in crisis and Obama toxic? What if Obama decides not to run for a second term (for the greater good of the party) and Hillary steps up in a dramatic fashion? Anything can happen!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1385852725 Richard Mcenroe

    Tell the truth, I was hoping for at least a few red white and blue unicorns.

    But if this is going to be more like the Solomon Islands campaign than than Desert Storm, so be it. See you in the primaries, Cornyn and Boehner.

  • Anamika

    Did Herman Cain just lose it totally?

    Using unusually harsh words, a potential presidential candidate echoed some previous comments: claiming that Planned Parenthood’s original mission was to “help kill black babies before they came into the world.”

    Herman Cain went on to say that the sexual and reproductive health care provider is carrying out its mission of “planned genocide.”

    I don’t think any right minded person would want this nutbar anywhere near the top of the GOP ticket let alone take over the presdiency.

  • Serfer1962

    Anamika your comments on Cain are why he needs seasoning & vetting. What he said was true as the founder of planned parenthood’s goal was racial elimination but what else don’e we know, will surface or what?
    The search for POTUS candidate selection must be tempered and so far only Gov Palin seens to be an adaquate pilot for the great Ship America steering for the right course.
    Hey squid, thanks for the boats…SF

  • Anamika

    so far only Gov Palin seens to be an adaquate pilot for the great Ship America steering for the right course.

    Indeed!

  • Anamika

    And here we have Michele Bachmann saying her first act should she run for president is to offer her birth certificate:

    “I’ll tell you one thing, if I was ever to run for President of the United States, I think the first thing I would do in the first debate is offer my birth certificate, so we can get that off the table.”

    Thanks for the offer Crazy Bachmann, but really that is not what most of us would like to see. Nobody with a functioning brain questions whether either Bachmann or Obama is a native born American citizen. It would be far more meaningful if Bachmnan offered to release the results of an I.Q. test. Statements such as the one above only lead rational people to question her intelligence and whether she should be taken serious as a presidential candidate.

  • Yup

    Well said Smitty. At first I thought Robert wrote this, and then saw it was you. Either way….you’re right.

    Obama CAN be beat in 2012, and more conservatives gains can be had in the REST of the country.

  • Anonymous

    No, it’s actually a fair portrait of where we’re heading…. except that Smitty can’t bring himself to admit that it won’t be an election that fixes things; it will be a second armed Revolution, after which the Left will in fact face the same choice the Loyalists did after the first Revolution: Leave, STFU, or die.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1385852725 Richard Mcenroe

    You need to go look up the Margaret Sanger Project.

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