Awesome: New GOP ad lowers the boom on Dems over subprime disaster
posted at 5:15 pm on October 3, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Via Ace. Gut reaction: One of the best ads I’ve seen this year, although part of that feeling admittedly is due to the intensity of my bitterness at the Democrats over this. I want to see them punished for it, this ad punishes them, ergo it starts off already halfway to being a “great” ad. Biases aside, though, try getting and holding a viewer’s attention for 90 seconds on a subject as dry and complicated as mortgage policy. Does this do it? Thanks to the arresting music and graphics, you’d better believe it. More, please. (But leave Bush out of the next one.)
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Every time I see Barney Frank speak, I wonder, “Does he have teeth?” I’ve never seen them! Anyone?
Neocon Peg on October 3, 2008 at 8:02 PM
He may have dentures - which can be removed. Teeth…um…can hurt.
ManlyRash on October 3, 2008 at 8:06 PM
Manly Rush:
Like I said McCain did do a couple of ads on this issue and I hope he does more. But it is not just McCain that is taking the heat here, the whole Republican party is being blamed for this as well, so it seems to me that the rest of the party can make an attempt to defend themselves as well.
And I am not asking you to knock yourself out. But this stuff about how we are just so helpless and can’t do anything is ridiculous.
Terrye on October 3, 2008 at 8:08 PM
I am sorry I keep saying manly rush instead of manly rash. I must have some aversion to the latter, but I can not imagine what it might be.
Terrye on October 3, 2008 at 8:16 PM
/sexist
Calm Before the Storm on October 3, 2008 at 8:22 PM
This might help change the mental image: many years ago, when Broadway performed actual stage plays instead of musicals, there was a comedy/melodrama/farce called “Egad…What a Cad.” When I was in high school in the mid-1970’s the drama department performed this play.
The villain was named Bertram Oleander. The hero was named Manly Rash. When I saw the play I thought that Manly Rash was the most stupid, inane, absurd name I ever heard in my life and I never forgot it.
Naturally, I chose it for my moniker the second I joined Hot Air.
Yours very truly,
ManlyRash on October 3, 2008 at 8:26 PM
You say that like it’s a bad thing. So…are you a female? If so…can I buy you a drink?
ManlyRash on October 3, 2008 at 8:27 PM
Manly Rash:
Ahhh, now it is clear. But if you intend to pick up women on line it might be a good idea to consider calling yourself something a little less suggestive.
Terrye on October 3, 2008 at 8:33 PM
I want an ad that combines Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Rezko, Wright, Khalid Al-Mansour, Franklin Raines, Barney Frank, ACORN, Maxine Waters, Richard Daley, and William Ayers. There needs to be mention of the $30 million in unaccounted foreign money.
Vocally, ominous. For the background music, something heavy and in a minor key, that builds into a crescendo, until the last moment, when it fades off into silence with Barack Obama lazily sucking on a cigarette.
indythinker on October 3, 2008 at 8:33 PM
Is there a regulation that requires political TV adds to be 30 seconds long?
Could they just pay for 60 maybe?
The sub-prime mess takes some explaining, but the payoff is huge.
Thune on October 3, 2008 at 8:34 PM
Yup…the attention span of Idjit voters.
ManlyRash on October 3, 2008 at 8:40 PM
Heh…and I want to spend a weekend in Vegas with Megan Fox doing the shaggy dog on the Strip. Anyone else care to share their fantasy?
ManlyRash on October 3, 2008 at 8:41 PM
Got your attention and piqued your curiosity, didn’t it?
So…what’s your sign?
(I’m leading with my chin…say the right thing)
ManlyRash on October 3, 2008 at 8:42 PM
I see you are spreading your rash around tonight, Manly. Has everyone sharpened their pitchforks? First to go, this toothless, brainless, waste of air rep from Mass. I was up there a couple of weeks ago. Boston. I can see why he gets reelected….wow, must be something in the water.
Sorry to any MA conservatives. You must live underground.
HornetSting on October 3, 2008 at 8:43 PM
I’m all out of Gold Bond Medicated Powder. If I’m gonna itch, the whole farking world is gonna itch. Misery loves company.
What’s up, sweet thang? What brought you to Boston?
ManlyRash on October 3, 2008 at 8:46 PM
Hubby and I visiting a couple of friends. Now hubby wants to move to New Hampshire. Love the “live free or die” thing, but living so close to so many blue states gives me the “itch”. Pass the Gold Bond, Manly.
Got your snake kicking boots yet? (They’re actually called “shit kicking boots”), but this is family hour.
HornetSting on October 3, 2008 at 8:49 PM
Gotta go take hubby to doctor….night all. Keep up the faith!
Hornet.
HornetSting on October 3, 2008 at 8:53 PM
AND!!!
Salt it all with DRILL DRILL DRILL
Calm Before the Storm on October 3, 2008 at 8:55 PM
I told eveyone the GOP and McCain would wait until after the House passed the bill. McCain didn’t want to posion the well like the idiot speaker Pilosi.
sophiesmom on October 3, 2008 at 8:58 PM
Couldn’t they do three 30-second spots titled Part 1, Part 2, Part 3? Buy three spots during a one hour TV show and run them in sequence.
Kafir on October 3, 2008 at 9:00 PM
McCain and Palin need to POUND THIS ON THE STUMP at every rally, at every stop, EVERY DAY FROM NOW UNTIL THE ELECTION.
JustTruth101 on October 3, 2008 at 9:00 PM
SHOW THIS IN MICHIGAN!!!
Sorry for the caps - I’m frustrated with the dolts here.
Candy Slice on October 3, 2008 at 9:01 PM
I know conventional wisdom is that political ads need to be short, but this should be aired in its entirety in ad buys. The issue is to complex to do it justice in 30 seconds.
Also, McCain needs to explain exactly why it is the Dems’ fault that Fannie and Freddie increased the numbers of subprime loans. Liberals had good intentions in their efforts to increase home ownership through subprime lending, but it resulted in catastrophe in the housing market. It’s simply another example of government action doing more harm than good.
BryanS on October 3, 2008 at 9:04 PM
Don’t expect that McCain and Palin will be repeating this. Here are posts from three conservative blogs repeating the same thing.
Jawa Report
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/194302.php
Weekly Standard
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/10/mccain_not_planning_to_go_for.asp
Riehl World View
http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2008/10/if-accurate-the.html
I think NRO has repeated this too.
I’m afraid we’ve gotten excited for nothing. I’m glad I ate only a half helping of crow. Thanks, McCain.
BuckeyeSam on October 3, 2008 at 9:06 PM
Manly Rash:
Yes, it did get my attention in a ghoulish disgusting sort of way. I suppose it just depends on what kind of impression you want to make.
Terrye on October 3, 2008 at 9:08 PM
I hope the message gets through, but I’m a little worried. I wish there was a white heterosexual Democratic who said something stupid about this crisis and could be put into this ad. Where is Chris Dodd when you need him?
thuja on October 3, 2008 at 9:11 PM
I guess I could start calling myself Feminine Hygiene.
Terrye on October 3, 2008 at 9:11 PM
House Minority Leader John Boehner had this to say, following the passage of the bailout bill:
Boehner nails the issue in a forthright way. Nancy Pelosi should take a lesson on what real leadership sounds like and what it can accomplish.
onlineanalyst on October 3, 2008 at 9:13 PM
Then how can Obama have his own TV channel on DISH satellite?
Oink on October 3, 2008 at 9:14 PM
$$$, brains and shamelessness.
McCain has bipartisanship and a crooked smile.
Do the math.
ManlyRash on October 3, 2008 at 9:15 PM
Yeah, they stood on principle. Is that why so many of them voted for a bill laden with over 100 BILLION dollars in pork?
ManlyRash on October 3, 2008 at 9:17 PM
A similarly powerful ad aired on CNN(!) during Lou Dobbs’ show this evening.
Didn’t quite catch the sponsor, but I believe it was Right-something-dot-org. If you’ve seen it, let me know where to find it… I have some leftish friends who really need to see it!
Paul_in_NJ on October 3, 2008 at 9:17 PM
So…your interested. Excellent.
The deepest kind. So…what IS your sign?
ManlyRash on October 3, 2008 at 9:18 PM
That’s happened to me occasionally in the past. If you’re using Firefox, try restarting it. I think that’s what worked for me.
FloatingRock on October 3, 2008 at 9:22 PM
Fucking win! Cut it down for TV and run the living crap out it. Seriously, this is the best thing I’ve seen all year. I wish we had a real conservative running at the top of the Republican ticket who would “approve this message”.
holygoat on October 3, 2008 at 9:26 PM
We don’t. Sorry.
ManlyRash on October 3, 2008 at 9:27 PM
I was just researching that very thing when it brought me here. (imagine that) I think being the good
queerqueen that he is, he probably had them pulled.R D on October 3, 2008 at 9:30 PM
OK, this might make more sense.
I was just researching that very thing when it brought me here. (imagine that) I think being the good
queerqueen that he is, he probably had them pulled.R D on October 3, 2008 at 9:30 PM
R D on October 3, 2008 at 9:33 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081003/pl_afp/usvote;_ylt=AtaHDqIyjzSfql_kfa.kGmSM5QcF
Palin gets momentum out of the debate and McCain takes the weekend off. Great.
Mark1971 on October 3, 2008 at 9:36 PM
Don’t be so hasty to classify Dodd as hetero. Hadn’t you heard about the 3-way sandwich?
fossten on October 3, 2008 at 9:41 PM
In Boston I believe it’s called the “Waitress DP.”
I could be mistaken, of course.
ManlyRash on October 3, 2008 at 9:43 PM
I isn’t a McCain add it is the NRCC but I like it
KBird on October 3, 2008 at 9:45 PM
The phrase is “Drill BABY Drill”!
RobertCSampson on October 3, 2008 at 9:46 PM
Couldn’t resist. :)
turfmann on October 3, 2008 at 10:09 PM
Here is the strategy….
First, the blame for this mess has to be laid at the feet of FM & FM and the dems who enabled it. AFTER the internal polls show that MOST people understand the connection, the next ads will link Oslime-a to FM & FM.
After that, Rezko, Ayers, and the rest of his vile associates will be be hung around his neck like millstone.
Of course during this entire time, his traitorous comments and actions, coupled with his liberal economics of tax and spend, will be gov Palin’s job to keep hammering on the trail (because she draws the HUGE crowds). John will stay mostly positive and draw the stark distinctions between his plan for economic growth and Oslime-a’s plan to spend the economy into stagnation and further job loss.
csdeven on October 3, 2008 at 10:16 PM
OUCH. It’s not contagious…I wear a full body condom.
ManlyRash on October 3, 2008 at 10:19 PM
Here is the strategy….
First, the blame for this mess has to be laid at the feet of FM & FM and the dems who enabled it. AFTER the internal polls show that MOST people understand the connection, the next ads will link Oslime-a to FM & FM.After that, Rezko, Ayers, and the rest of his vile associates will be be hung around his neck like millstone.
Of course during this entire time, his traitorous comments and actions, coupled with his liberal economics of tax and spend, will be gov Palin’s job to keep hammering on the trail (because she draws the HUGE crowds). John will stay mostly positive and draw the stark distinctions between his plan for economic growth and Oslime-a’s plan to spend the economy into stagnation and further job loss.
John McCain stickes to his bipartisan guns and loses the election.
FIFY
ManlyRash on October 3, 2008 at 10:20 PM
It’s a long ad. To be fair, it takes a relative bit of time to connect the dots.
However, if one takes the time to view it, it’s devastating.
Marybeth on October 3, 2008 at 10:20 PM
IF one takes the time. Idgit voters don’t. And THEY will decide this election.
ManlyRash on October 3, 2008 at 10:31 PM
The ad would probably have more power if so many Republicans hadn’t voted for the Crap Sandwich.
William Teach on October 3, 2008 at 10:34 PM
I told my a$$clown R congressman yesterday that if he voted for it again, I would vote for any monkey that ran against him. So he voted aye again.
The ad is good, but isn’t it closing the door after the cow got out? Too many R’s voted Y for it to have any credence.
InTheBellyoftheBeast on October 3, 2008 at 10:42 PM
I can’t think of ANYTHING I’d need Dodd for but if I did, I sure wouldn’t tell anyone.
platypus on October 3, 2008 at 10:59 PM
Watching O’Reilly tonight with Laura Ingraham talking about the dreaded on-air discussion between O’Reilly and Barney Frank, Laura said that she’d send Barney a fruit basket.
I think that under the PC rules that we’re not allowed to use the term fruit in the same sentence as Barney.
Where do I go to report this?
Special Forces Grunt on October 3, 2008 at 10:59 PM
Waitress Sandwich? I hear they’re the rage in Boston.
ManlyRash on October 3, 2008 at 11:00 PM
Here, of course.
ManlyRash on October 3, 2008 at 11:01 PM
There are a number of places but this is a family blog (sort of) so we cannot say.
platypus on October 3, 2008 at 11:02 PM
According to another Hot Air post, Barney’s partner was a Fannie muckety-muck. Insert a mention of that conflict of interest in the ad, and viewers will watch every single second of it–over and over again.
I’d like to see that ad in the red counties in Ohio. Ah, but McCain wants to talk about tax breaks for our wealthiest citizens, which really sells with the middle class. Oh, and bipartisanship.
Sounds like a ticket back to the Senate, and no change for us.
C’mon, McCain; break out the Mad Max gear and go for broke.
BuckeyeSam on October 3, 2008 at 11:04 PM
:-)
Can’t conservatives have their fantasies?
csdeven on October 3, 2008 at 11:07 PM
If THAT is what floats your boat, go for it, Admiral.
Mine involves Megyn Kelly, a full body stocking and platform stiletto heels.
ManlyRash on October 3, 2008 at 11:10 PM
YOU KNOW YOU’RE GETTING OLD WHEN: You and your teeth no longer sleep together.
Dr. Charles G. Waugh on October 3, 2008 at 11:15 PM
Well I already have that!
csdeven on October 3, 2008 at 11:33 PM
Oh Barney has teeth… he’s just used to pulling his lips over them. Uh…. if you know what I mean. ;-)
jcmorris on October 3, 2008 at 11:33 PM
I think the song you’re looking for is The Art of Happiness, by Ralphe Armstrong, performed by the Jean-Luc Ponty band on Cosmic Messenger.
It is driving and infectious, but just might convey the reckless, threatening, street grifter attitude that is part and parcel of the Chicago political game. (”Your hands are soaking in it right now”).
For the commercial, I would take it from the edge with Armstrong’s fun base line and Ponty bouncing the bow on his 5 string while you run through the list of the shifty eyed players and their criminal charges and convictions. At 1:10 pick up Peter Maunu’s searing, taunting lead for a run through Obama’s greatest hits - Rezko, Altgeld Gardens, Emil Jones, disappearing files and records, infanticide votes…and as Maunu falls back, fade to Obama taking the last hit off his fag and tossing it into the filthy Chicago gutter and walking off.
Works for me. You’ll need two minutes.
Jaibones on October 3, 2008 at 11:37 PM
This needs to be played in every commercial break imaginable. Too bad it’s long and people have short attention spans.
Grafted on October 3, 2008 at 11:37 PM
Great ad. I really didn’t expect anything like it.
aengus on October 3, 2008 at 11:57 PM
Better late than never I guess. Will this actually be seen anywhere, outside the “rightwing” blogosphere?
Why is McCain still not saying this?!
modifiedcontent on October 4, 2008 at 12:13 AM
*sigh* McCain seems determined to lose this election through sheer incompetence.
The ad is brilliant. Hopefully conservatives will run it to put the blame for some of this mess where it belongs.
sdun1 on October 4, 2008 at 12:33 AM
Allahpundit, we’ll never see the GOP Repub’s punish the dem’s for what they’ve done. For some reason they’ve fallen into some trap that they can’t get out of. The trap that refuses to punish the democrat criminals. Who gave the repub’s the right to not enforce laws and punish crimes?
Its time for a New Republican Party. Separate from the GOP. DD
Darvin Dowdy on October 4, 2008 at 12:45 AM
It’s important not to fire the heavy guns too early. About another week or so and the beat-down can begin. I read somewhere that Dick Morris opined that Obama has peaked too early.
JackOkie on October 4, 2008 at 12:48 AM
Please spread around the following video. I just made it to show Biden’s lie about Obama, however the end strikes at the bailout, Acorn, Rules for Radicals and more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–k43vWxAxA
MarcusBrody on October 4, 2008 at 1:01 AM
I would love to contribute to this ad so it can saturate the airwaves over the next few weeks. It’s concise and to the point, with video proving that the words came out of their mouths denying anything was wrong, while holding out their hands to pocket the money we the people are now having to fork out.
waterfall on October 4, 2008 at 1:26 AM
No, there’s no limit on length but it’s obviously more expensive to run. With a finite media budget you’ll be sacrificing quite a bit of frequency to get the long form message in there.
eaglephin on October 4, 2008 at 1:43 AM
Maybe I’m just tired,, but,, I am beginning to come to the realization McCain is not going to win.
I go back and forth,,, Gov Palin is not going to win this campaign when she is in effect, running against McCain as well as Obama. My concern is also,, that she will she be tainted by a McCain presidency. McCain is out there today or last night,, saying he wants Al Gore and Lieberman in his cabinet.
I try and try. I want to have faith and speak positive,, and I admit it is late and I am tired.
I get weary of being smarter than the Republicans (Gov Palin excluded).
Al Gore??? This is what we have to look forward to??? And the fact he would say it now 4 weeks before election day???
Does he actually think that would fire people up or is he just clueless??
I am sick of the Bushes. I am sick of the McCains in our lives. All the McCains and all the Gramnesties and all the other Republicans that just do not really get it.
This stupid bill that was passed. Over 700 billion dollars and Fannie and Freddie are still there. And I am suppose to feel rescued.
McCain is not a straight talker. He has already proven he has no intention of naming any Democrat names for one of the biggest government scams in our history. Not only will he not name any names (because there are no Republicans to name!!) he voted for a bill filled with earmarks and pork.
He has broken both of the biggest promises of his campaign 4 weeks before election day. And he broke them both within weeks of making the claims.
“I will name names and I will eliminate pork and earmarks!”
Not only that,, he seems to be failing at understanding the real threat an Obama Presidency would be to the security of America. Sarah Palin seems to understand it better.
The war hero,, John McCain,, in the same kind of stubbornness he criticizes Bush for when he resisted increasing troop sizes in the war in Iraq,,, the same stubbornness he criticizes Obama about for not agreeing the surge worked,,, John McCain stubbornly refuses to argue the many realities, failures and dangers of Obama and the Democrats.
To all of our peril.
JellyToast on October 4, 2008 at 2:01 AM
I just finished watching the FarScape Episode when John Crichton dies and then come here and read this. So depressing.
But well said.
FloatingRock on October 4, 2008 at 2:59 AM
The Republican Party, and millions of the people who vote for it, share many of the same assumptions as liberals.
Creating a new party, unless it was based on fundamental consevative principles (which a lot of HA types would not like), would be fruitless and any such party would devolve into GOP liberalism faster than you can say Bush-McCain.
aengus on October 4, 2008 at 3:03 AM
It’s depressing for me too.
There is a good chance in the intensity of the next four weeks we will see a political train wreck in the McCain campaign.
If John McCain is going to continue to be John and say things like he did about putting Al Gore in his cabinet,, or in some position in his administration,,, and then do something like quit in a state without talking to his VP,,, If John just keeps being who he is,, Sarah cannot possibly go on and continue to be Sarah without eventually coming head to head at some point with John.
Sarah is going to go out there,, and sooner or later,, very possibly make a statement about Obama or the government, and though may rally conservatives,, it may cause conflict with the “non-partisan” McCain.
Some reporter somewhere is going to question John about How can Sarah say “A” while you claim to want to reach across the isle and put party aside?
Sarah Palin told the nation last night that she and John McCain were coming to Washington to get things right,, to do the straight talk,, she told America she was not like the Washington insiders and couldn’t understand the way “they” spoke,, and she stepped out and once again re-energized McCain’s campaign by pledging to America “Never again!”
And how did McCain pay her back?? By stating Al Gore would be an an important part of his administration. And this after Sarah Palin told the nation she did not accept that all of man’s activities were responsible for global warming.
Sarah Palin is the only real maverick here. John McCain is a compromising half Democrat who’s greatest virtue is his willingness to undercut Republicans and side with Democrats.
At some point, while Sarah is out rallying the base and energizing the campaign by speaking conservative principles and naming the names John won’t,,, John McCain may convince himself that his greatest public act of bipartisanship, equal only to the suspension of his campaign, will be to undercut and correct his own VP publicly on her very real conservative principles!
JellyToast on October 4, 2008 at 4:15 AM
You will forgive me if I think it a waste of time to try and alter the narrative of this crisis by pointing to the Democrats as the perpetrators.
For the historical record, this ad is great. But as far as having a practical political impact, nada.
The entire resources of not only the Dems but the media as well (with precious few exceptions) have been flogging “the GOP is at fault” meme for weeks. And we expect one little ad to alter what now passes for reality?
I like the ad. I think it is very well done (although making people read most of it in a country where about a third of voters are functionally illiterate might be questioned). But a game changer? Not likely.
rick moran on October 4, 2008 at 6:41 AM
Do NOT leave Bush out of the next ad as we now all know that Bush was all too happy to sign onto this ridiculous FAILout bill that liberals created, and the stock market rejected.
My Salvage America Plan still beats the snot out of the lousy liberal Bankrupt America plan.
DannoJyd on October 4, 2008 at 6:45 AM
This ad should have been out before the first bailout vote.
It should have been out when McCain suspended his campaign to give him back up.
It should have been running nationwide the last week around the clock.
Now it is possibly too late.
The bill passed, everyone has moved on - it will be put on the news back burner until after the election.
McCain has seriously dropped in the polls.
With all the negative things that are going on in the world and how it could get much worse, I wonder if McCain is having second thoughts about it all. His campaign seems to have lost direction and the fire in the belly.
albill on October 4, 2008 at 7:13 AM
“By stating Al Gore would be an an important part of his administration.”
Can you link to this statement?
I understand your points, but I have to point out that the slip in polls have been a direct result of the recent economic uncertainties. Up to that point McCain was even with Oslime-a. I think it’s pretty clear that McCain was waiting until the bailout bill passed. Lets give it a week and see what happens. After that if McCain doesn’t make any movement toward confronting Oslime-a, then it may be time to accept the yoke of the socialist regime of our beloved leader, Barack Hussein Obama.
csdeven on October 4, 2008 at 8:13 AM
It’s on Rush’s site. Front page, Friday’s show.
JellyToast on October 4, 2008 at 9:02 AM
I spent a little time thinking about this yesterday. A short term solution is to create a 529 and go after the Yes voters next election. This could be done fairly inexpensively if ads are only run online.
A long term option is to create a new party that is active at all levels of government. Start by going after local (city, county, town, school board, etc) seats. After a couple of years get the best people to run for the state legislature and for the US House. After a few more years get the best to run for the US Senate. And if we can get any governors, make sure they get the foreign relations experience to run for President.
This long term plan could see results in a couple years but would probably take at least 16 years to produce a Presidential candidate - unless we can recruit some current conservative Republicans to join us.
huckleberryfriend on October 4, 2008 at 9:08 AM
Oh Barney has teeth… he’s just used to pulling his lips over them. Uh…. if you know what I mean. ;-)
jcmorris on October 3, 2008
Sorry to get in late on the “slam Barney” fest, but here’s my take…
He has a special talent. Slip a dollar in his pocket and his teeth fold back.
See ya.
SKYFOX on October 4, 2008 at 9:46 AM
I agree they should leave Bush out of the clip. Much better would be Peolsi passing around the crapsandwich bill she just signed!
roosterman on October 4, 2008 at 9:57 AM
Ouch.
BallisticBob on October 4, 2008 at 10:10 AM
Yup. Gonna get worse…much, much worse. I can almost hear McCain’s concession speech:
“And so, my friends, in a spirit of bipartisan unity and cooperation, I would like to take this occasion to graciously concede defeat and offer President-elect Obama my congratulations for running a clean, ethical, honest and vigorous campaign. I want assure Mr.obama that, in my capacity as a senator, I will continue to reach across the aisle to my good friends the Democrats and cooperate with them as much as possible to assure that all Americans have the future they richly deserve.
ManlyRash on October 4, 2008 at 10:21 AM
I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if McCain was never serious about this election from the get-go. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Dems hijacking of the Republican Primaries was all part of this strategy from the start. Just like the incredibly convenient timing of this Democrat scandal subprime mortgage collapse. It just remarkable how perfectly this is all shaping up for the most far-left communist scumbag candidate in the history of this nation. George Soros is certainly getting his money’s worth this time around. He apparently learned well from his last attempts.
FiveWays on October 4, 2008 at 10:49 AM
You guys, the media and pollsters are lying to us just as surely as they are lying to everybody else - they just have to hit us a different way. They have to convince us there’s no hope. That’s what demoralization is.
A military friend of mine explained that in the military and law enforcement there are different states of awareness. White is normal. Yellow is when something seems fishy, like a crime is about to occur. Red is when you are being attacked and only you or your attacker will come out alive. Black is peace; there’s no more fighting.
He was telling this in a Bible study so I asked him what is the most dangerous state. He surprised us all by saying “Black”. When you’re black, you’re dead. When there are real enemies threatening everything good and true, peace(acceptance) means death. The only good way out of the heat of attack is to defeat the threat so you can move back to the yellow or white zones.Black is surrender.
Black would be like Jesus saying in the Garden of Gethsemane, “Well, I know there’s nothing I can do anyway so I just need to accept that man is hopeless. I can’t die for mankind. It’ll never work. So Dad, I tried my best. It was just too hard.”
None of us wants to be in the red state because you’re mad, but when you get mad enough, you fight with adrenaline-type strength for everything you hold dear.
What do we love about America?
- The sanctity and equality before the law of innocent human life.
- The right to own personal property.
- The right to personal self-defense.
- The right to believe according to conscience.
- The right to speak my mind.
- Government that defends individual rights but beyond that butts out (limited, small government)
- Government that answers to the people.
- Government that enforces law equally.
Think hard about each one of those things individually. Without those things we become Iran (Islam) or North Korea (communism). And they are ALL under attack by the unholy union of Columbia University communists and corrupt Chicago machine. If we roll over and die we will leave to our children nothing but oppression.
We can’t afford to be depressed. If we don’t see red, we’ll BE red (communist red). Better dead than red. I go back and forth between red and black, but if I ever fully give in to black, I can never look my children in the face. I may not be able to pull them out of a house on fire, but I’ll be damned rather than watch them burn without even trying to get them out.
Folks, we truly ARE Georgians, every one of us. We’re Ukraine. The Orange Revolution was an act of courage, an uprising of people who weren’t willing to be red. They had everything against them - and nothing but hope and perseverance to rise up and fight. Yuschenko isn’t perfect. They could have given up, thinking he’s no better than anybody else. But they didn’t, because they weren’t rising for Yuschenko. They were rising for their children and everything they held dear.
McCain can’t save this country. The ignorant masses can’t. Nor can the useless idiots in the media. The only ones who can save this country are you and me who know the danger we’re facing. We need to stop the pity-party and “I’m better than McCain” and use our brains to think - think of the smartest way to get the truth out there to those who only trust the MSM, and then act with courage as if our children’s lives depend on it, because they do.
justincase on October 4, 2008 at 11:24 AM
…and then act with courage as if our children’s lives depend on it, because they do.
justincase on October 4, 2008 at 11:24 AM
True.
SKYFOX on October 4, 2008 at 11:50 AM
That is good. Why on earth has it taken them this long to get it out there?? The crisis has already been spun by the Dems such that it negatively impacted McCain, instead of being the issue that finally put him definitively over the top.
Gaunilon on October 4, 2008 at 3:21 PM
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