Dodging Democrats
By Angela PennyThe Guardsman
If non-conservatives don’t break through our collective malaise and vote for Democrats this November, we are putting ourselves in danger of surrendering political control to a small group of uber-conservative zealots.
The only people who would benefit from this are religious fundamentalists and greedy billionaires.
Republicans have been busy trying to rebrand themselves as the right choice for getting the United States out of its economic quagmire, when actually they’re the party that got us into this mess.
Meg Whitman has spent over $104 million to gain the lead in the race for California governor by using slick MTV-esque television ads expressing her campaign’s elevator pitch: "People know she knows how to create jobs. Jerry Brown is a time machine to failure"
Whitman helped to build e-Bay, a company plagued by identity-theft scams, which laid off 10 percent of its employees in 2008 and continually increases its income by raising transaction fees.
Wasn’t this the argument that Schwarzenegger used to get elected? He knew how to make money which most career politicians don’t seem to know how to do?
Politics is not business. It’s dangerous to take her buzz phrases at face value and not dig deeper. And dangerous to think your vote doesn’t matter. It does.
Obama may not have been able to flip a switch and turn the country into the red, white and blue nirvana we would have liked, but who knows where we would be if John McCain and—God forbid—Sarah Palin were in office right now.
Obama would not have been elected without the enthusiastic participation of people who usually don’t vote, a large part of whom are young.
According to the New York Times, “far fewer 18- to 29-year-olds identify themselves as Democrats ... the economic reality of a weak job market has taken a toll on their loyalties.”
In California, Jerry Brown and Barbara Boxer are losing their respective races for two of the most important political offices in the country.
According to Rasmussen Reports, a polling company that tries to predict election outcomes, Brown would lose his bid for Governor if the election were held today. The scorecard shows Brown with 42 percent of the vote and Whitman with 46 percent. And, she’s up a point since last week.
From the same source, Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer is 4 percentage points behind Republican Carly Fiorina in the U.S. Senate race.
We need to turn this around. No politician is an island; they require the support of other elected politicians to get business accomplished.
Right now Obama is trying to get tax breaks for the middle class (those earning less than $200,000 per year). Republicans are blocking it because it contains some tax increases for the wealthiest Americans.
Meanwhile, Republicans are blaming Obama for not making more financial progress.
The most popular political pundit of all time, Rush Limbaugh, makes it seem that if Obama and Nancy Pelosi didn’t exist, there would be jobs for everyone and no taxes. America would be the superpower the pilgrims intended it to be. Our borders would be secure and the world would be as Jesus Christ intended it to be, with men marrying women and Wonder Bread building our bodies 12 ways.
Religious fundamentalists are attempting to deny my freedom of religion. Because I don't believe that Adam and Eve were actual people who lived in a garden and there was a snake and an apple, then I'm going to hell and somehow persecuting those who believe that Charles Darwin was the equivalent of the tooth fairy.
There are more of us than there are of them, but apathy, frustration and ADHD are our enemies here. We must focus and set aside our differences for at least the present. No person, much less a politician is perfect.
When Obama recently commented that the mosque being built in downtown Manhattan was not a bad idea, other democrats immediately jumped on him.
Whitman recently ran an advertisement with Brown debating Bill Clinton in the early 1990s. She and her party are trying to separate and defeat the opposition, and it’s working.
Liberals are bashing Obama right and left and they just can’t afford to do that—at least not until after the election.
