teapartysamurai
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A recent poll by Gallup shows that the efforts of Obama and the Occupiers may be backfiring against the beggar-thy-neighbor Alinskyite left.
To be clear, while the poll shows that "Americans' views of their own position as 'haves' or 'have nots' have been remarkably stable," the percentage of Americans who believe that the nation is divided along those lines has plunged since the last similar poll, done just prior to President Obama's election in 2008.
But Barack Obama has given the nation a tremendous object lesson by posing the federal government as the solution to all problems -- and then proving that it isn't. When the president said that spending a trillion dollars of our children's future earnings would keep unemployment below 8 percent only to see us spend the last two and a half years with only three months below 9 percent unemployment -- and none below 8.5 percent -- the public begins to see the economic emperor as wearing no clothes.
Even if the voters don't think about it explicitly, if the Obama administration's claims about government fixing the economy are so obviously false, then just perhaps the other charges made about evil capitalists being the source of all evil may also be false. At least, they're worth skepticism.
And thus the public has become skeptical.
The Occupy Wall Street movement has likewise had the opposite effect of what its anarcho-socialist hygiene-challenged spoiled middle-class kids intended. When you see "protesters" defecating on a police car or an American flag, instigating violence, and generally being incoherent, the ordinary American is likely to see those people as a greater threat than a bunch of villainized bankers could ever be. Again, when the messenger is so utterly without credibility, the internalized message among the public is likely to be the opposite of what the preachers of radicalism offer.
The American Spectator : The Real Sleeping Giant
Thus, Obama and the liberals thought the OWS would be the answer to the Tea Party, and he would get the country to sympathize with his brand of marxist class envy.
But, it's backfiring. All people are seeing is a bunch of dirty, filthy spoiled brats, sitting around and demanding other people pay for their demands.
That might have worked in Europe, but not in the US, where Americans pride themselves on (as Rush Limbaugh puts it) "rugged individualism."
We don't want the government to pay for all our needs. We want to do it ourselves.
And we don't want a lot of people demanding WE pay for their spoiled demands.
This is another example of where I think the establishment is wrong. The establishment (of both parties) think Obama can win.
I think Obama is extremely vulnerable, more vulnerable than Jimmy Carter, to defeat.
Oh don't get me wrong, the Republicans can still pull defeat from the jaws of victory.
They've done it before with John McCain and Bob Dole. Like the liberals, the Republican establishment has a fixed way of thinking and they won't be confused by facts or reality.
They are still convinced they need a "moderate" (aka watered down liberal) to win elections, and they won't let inconvenient truths like Reagan or Bush convince them otherwise.
Doesn't matter how many times they LOSE with this forumla (Gerald Ford, Bob Dole, John McCain), they STILL are determined they can win with a moderate.
I liken it to the communists who refuse to accept reality that communism doesn't work. They tell themselves it can work if the "right people" run it.
Same thing with the Republican leadership. They believe the "right moderate" will win an election.
So, we can still lose this election, thanks to the Republican establishment. But it won't be because Obama defeats us, we will have defeated ourselves.