October 28th 2008
Dems Busy Counting Their Nasty, Nasty Eggs
W
hile the more sober Dem commentators are trying to explain away Obama’s fascination with redistribution of wealth, the more blood-thirsty are busy dancing on the grave of the conservative movement. They’re forgetting that the body’s not in the ground yet.
Case in point:
The modern conservative movement is dying in front of our eyes, and its death throes aren’t pretty. As John McCain heads for likely defeat, the GOP is eating itself. Right-wing politicians and pundits who never criticized Bush in eight years are suddenly jumping ship like rats, while bitter-end loyalists angrily accuse them of being “pathetically opportunistic.” After months of veering from one tactic to the next, McCain has finally settled on one message for his campaign, but it’s absurd: claiming that the party whose signature is tax cuts for the rich is really on the side of Joe the Plumber.
Meanwhile, 3.1 million real Joe the Plumbers across America are sending Barack Obama hundreds of millions of dollars, a torrent of cash that is helping to flush the GOP down the national toilet.
That’s the always quotable (not a compliment) Gary Kamiya, writing today in Salon. (You may remember Kamiya; I wrote rather extensively in September about his appalling ignorant and sexist piece, The Dominatrix, subtitled, “Sarah Palin is trying to seduce independent voters.” In his self-penned Salon bio, he admits he:
…lives on a street with cable cars with his wife, Kate Moses, and her son Zachary. He likes big cities, ’50s paperbacks with gratuitous cleavage on their covers, Steve Young, backpacking, Italy and people who like to talk. …
After moving to California, he attended Berkeley High, where the student government was run by a dadaist cabal; put in a brief, LSD-riddled stint at Yale; and some aimless years later washed up in the UC-Berkeley English Department …
In other words, he’s one of those San Francisco loons who hasn’t invested a brain cell in trying to understand conservative thought because he’s so busy making snide jokes and outrageous statements about it, thinking all the time he’s mainstream. Oh, how I hope and pray McCain pulls it out – stopping Obamadness is fine, but grinding Kamiya’s face in his smug self-assuredness is even better!
Whatever the outcome of the election, it won’t be the death of the American conservative movement. Kamiya seems to miss the point that McCain is not the captain of the movement. Most of us voted for someone else in the primaries and accepted McCain with some reluctance when the old fighter got the nomination as conservatives split their votes between several candidates. But since then, Obama’s hard left, redistributive politics would make Lincoln Chafee look like a conservative Republican, so McCain’s OK with us.
You just can’t blame him for what’s going on with conservatism. That happened last spring and summer, as we watched a moderate take the ticket; the campaign since hasn’t been about conservatism, despite the partial return to the fold Palin brought with her.
Back to Joe the Plumber. Kamiya can rattle his PC-approved, SF-issued blunt, wobbly saber, but he does so while ignoring the changes in the poll numbers since redistribution of wealth entered the campaign with Joe. In spouting the 3.1 million donors, he ignores that Obama is running a crooked campaign, refusing to set up contribution software that matches the donor’s address with that on the credit card, so he can steal contributions. How many of your 3.1 million are from people who are committing fraud with Obama’s approval, Kamiya? How many are donations from King Kong, Bart Simpson or Daffy Duck?
You have to wonder what world Kamiya’s been on for the last eight years:
There’s something surreal about how fast the GOP has gone from arrogant triumphalism to its death throes. Just yesterday, the GOP’s mighty Titanic was cruising along, its opulent decks lined with fat-cat financiers and neoconservative warmongers, all smoking cigars, drinking champagne and extolling the deathless virtues of their fearless captain. The compliant media issued glowing dispatches. Karl Rove cackled with glee as he plotted out a permanent Republican majority.
Rote, rote, rote; it’s the chant of the closed-eyed Left, even down to the thought that the media, the left-leaning, Obama-backing media, are compliant to the Bushies.
Kamiya goes on with more of this sort of analysis that, while it plays well with the majority of Salon readers, wholly misses the point. And the point is as big as an elephant. It is not conservativism that will die should Obama be elected, it is liberalism. The capture of the Democrat Party by the hard-left, socialist, redistributive, anti-war, anti-American minority will have been realized and classic American liberalism, already on life support, will be euthanized.
As for conservatism, should Obama win, it will grow like Topsy, becoming healthier than ever. Americans reject redistribution, as Gallup found way back in June:
When given a choice about how government should address the numerous economic difficulties facing today’s consumer, Americans overwhelmingly—by 84% to 13%—prefer that the government focus on improving overall economic conditions and the jobs situation in the United States as opposed to taking steps to distribute wealth more evenly among Americans.
Conservatism is the only wrench the 84 percent will have available to them to throw into the cogs of Obama’s socialist machine. Thank goodness it’s a strong wrench.
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October 28th, 2008 at 8:44 am
Newsflash, hero:The body was in the ground the moment you morons made McCain your nominee instead of Romney.
October 28th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Newsflash, Newsflash. Read the post, remember Sun Tzu: Don’t underestimate your enemy.