Democrats suffered huge losses in last year’s elections, largely because of the economy’s sorry state. But now they think they have come across an economic issue that if they pull out all the stops, they will be successful in their effort to get it to work in their favor. And just what might issue be? Why, it's Mediscare, of course. The battle over who can best reel in the federal deficit hasn’t yet flipped in favor of the Democrats. The GOP isn’t suddenly at grave risk of losing its House majority in 2012. But after two years of getting pummeled over rabid spending and the size of government, Democrats now appear to have found what they think is a potent political weapon that will allow them to even out the fight. The plan is to use their typical scare tactics and the labeling of any and all proposals by the opposition as extreme, a plan that does absolutely nothing to actually fix the problem but then that is not their intent. The intent is to use a tactic because it just might, because of the rampant stupidity of the general voting public, increase their odds of winning at the ballot box. Now I'm not exactly sure what it's going to take, but at some point our imbecilic/senile voting population is going to have to come to the realization that if Medicare does not get fixed, and soon, it will be gone for everybody, including them. They are going to have a decision to make, do we fix it or do we lose it entirely. So I guess what it all boils down is that either these folks can just continue to delude themselves into thinking that Democrats are really looking out for their interests and therefore allow themselves to continue to be used by scumbag Democrats, or not. They can allow themselves to be convinced that, yes, it's ok to be a little selfish now and to screw over those who come behind them, because their going to be dead by then anyway, or not. What these folks ought to do is to poke their boney old fingers right in the eyes of these scheming Democrats and show a little more concern for future generations. But is that going to happen? I seriously doubt it! Sadly it used to be that the folks that make up our seniors, were the ones we could look to set the example, but apparently that is no longer the case. Maybe when you realize just how close to the grave you are, your fellow man becomes just a little less important to you. They have apparently allowed themselves to become corrupted by an immoral political party, convinced that it is in fact the government's and therefore the taxpayers job to ensure their golden years are as golden as possible. They've allowed themselves to be convinced, I guess, that their sense of entitlement trumps the survivability of not only the Medicare program but the country as well.
So now that we have House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan having had the courage to call for Medicare cutbacks in the budget, which the Republican-controlled House then approved, what do we see the Democrats proposing. Nothing except inflammatory and incendiary rhetoric that succeeds in doing nothing more than scaring our seniors and does nothing to ensure the survivability of a broken system. The program is destined to crash and burn, an event that will take place much sooner rather than later, but that is of very little concern to Democrats. Votes are what are important, nothing but votes. Those that actually possess some level of understanding and recognize what needs to take place here if we are to enable ourselves to crawl out this fiscal cesspool, all agree that entitlements such as Medicare must be reduced if we are to make any meaningful dent in our rapidly ballooning budget deficit. But Democrats, along with their many accomplices in the state controlled media, simply don't see it that way and have thus far been able, through the use of some very unsavory tactics, to exploit the fear of our seniors that their benefits are going to be slashed. “Medicare’s going to be a very important part of that overall message and a fundamental referendum for the 2012 election,” Alixandria Lapp, executive director of the pro-Democratic House Majority PAC, told Politico. So the whole Democrat battle plan is to be based solely upon lies, stacked upon lies stacked upon more lies. In other words, same shit, different day. What seems to offer encouragement to the present batch of insidious Democrat Party tacticians, is that while the popular entitlement program wasn’t the sole issue behind Kathy Hochul's supposed upset victory in a New York special election Tuesday night, strategists in both parties say it was an important force. And for the first time since November, the idea that the nightmare scenario in which the Democrats might have a shot at winning back the House is no longer a laughing matter. The three-way race between Hochul, Republican Assemblywoman Jane Corwin and self-funding independent Jack Davis offers at best mixed omens for the 2012 campaign. Hochul drew a stronger-than-expected 47 percent of the vote, and Corwin won an anemic 42 percent. But the 9 percent Davis took as a third-party candidate prevented any candidate from getting a telling majority. A former Democrat running as a Tea Party standard bearer, Davis likely skewed the results against the GOP nominee.
What the above mentioned scenario should lay bare are the perils of having any third party candidate in the next presidential election, because it is something that would most assuredly hand to Barry "Almighty" something that this country would, in all likelihood, not survive. That being a second Barry "Almighty" term in office. To Hochul supporters, there was no question what turned the tide of the campaign. At the Democrat’s election night celebration in, of all places, a UAW hall in Amherst, an elated crowd chanted, “Medicare,” over and over again as Hochul declared victory. “We had the issues on our side,” Hochul told her supporters, asking rhetorically: “Did we not have the right issues on our side?” Hochul’s almost single-minded focus on entitlements accomplished a few key goals: It put her on the right side of seniors. It forced Corwin to fight the election on Democratic-friendly ground. Most of all, it gave Hochul a way of pushing back on the GOP’s popular fiscal conservative message, without losing the independent voters who loathe excessive government spending. So rather than defending the federal budget, Hochul cast the debate over spending entirely in terms of one of the most beloved major programs on the books. By focusing on Medicare, Democrats say, Hochul and other candidates can make a larger argument about Republican priorities and what the GOP is willing to cut in Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan’s much-touted budget plan. Look people, we're not going to be able to have it both ways here. Ok, speaking of priorities, which are the better ones. To attempt to bring some solvency to the system in the long run, or allow it to slam full speed into the ground in order to achieve some level of short term political gain. I dare anyone to look me in the eye and tell me that the Democrat priorities are the right ones for this country. “Republicans like to pretend that they are doing something noble, something fair — in the interest of asking all Americans to sacrifice,” said Alixandria Lapp, executive director of the pro-Democratic House Majority PAC, which invested heavily in the race. “They’re not asking oil and gas companies to sacrifice. They’re not asking multimillionaires to sacrifice. Medicare’s going to be a very important part of that overall message and a fundamental referendum for the 2012 election.” Buffalo, that well-known armpit of New York State, Mayor Byron Brown, a Democrat, told POLITICO that Hochul’s win “shows the Democratic message resonates with independents. I do think it changes the debate a bit.” No, Mr. Brown, what it shows is that non-stop lies to old people too stupid to realize they're being lied to will work for unscrupulous Democrat politicians.
Republicans blasted out a flurry of statements from party leaders Tuesday night, all rejecting the idea that the debate over entitlements was the decisive factor in the New York race. Instead, the GOP pointed to Davis’s involvement and groused about Corwin’s unsteadiness on the campaign trail. But while top Republicans resisted calling the race an up-or-down vote on Medicare, some acknowledged that the GOP had spent the final weeks of the campaign with its back against a wall, having effectively lost control of the campaign narrative. “They were on defense the whole time on Medicare, not on offense on the deficit or Obamacare or anything else,” said former Virginia Rep. Tom Davis, who chaired the National Republican Congressional Committee. “You can’t just sit there and be a punching bag on this issue, and that’s what they were.” Former New York Rep. Tom Reynolds, himself a former NRCC chairman who held the 26th District seat until 2009, said Medicare “appears to have had an impact both with seniors and independent voters,” adding: “Anyone who says this is all Medicare either hasn’t watched the race closely or is just spinning.” “This race has a lot of complexities,” he said, “which include Medicare but also include a $3 million candidate running on the Tea Party line.” One Republican strategist who follows House races put the party’s position in grimmer terms, predicting: “Medicare will define 2012.” “From Day One, our members need to be attacking their challenger for supporting the president’s Medicare-cutting health care bill and his plan to ration benefits for future seniors,” the strategist wrote in an email. It's all about who can best articulate the benefits of their respective plan. One can safely argue the Democrats have no plan which is true, but if they can sufficiently scare people, apparently they won't need a plan. “Paul Ryan was wrong; leaders don’t change polls — scaring seniors changes polls, and we had better be prepared to do it as shamelessly as they did in this special if we want to retain the majority.” It is time to crawl down into the gutter and go elbow to elbow, toe to toe with these sewer dwelling Democrats. The chance that the GOP could lose 24 seats next year, and with them, control of the House, still seems remote. But unlike a few months ago, it no longer seems like an impossibility. There are limits, of course, to the predictive value of a single special election, especially one featuring a third-party wild card. Democrats learned that in 2010, after a pair of 2009 upstate New York Democratic victories and a 2010 win in western Pennsylvania failed to forecast the conservative midterm wave. But as I mention, it does show the dangers that a third party candidate represents in any race.
So the Republican Party now has it's work cut out for it, and the path that needs to be taken has now been made very clear. The mission is to regain control of the narrative, don't wait for an opportunity to present itself to put forward your proposals, and to instead, make the opportunities happen. We need to circumvent those in the state controlled media as they are now firmly in the pocket of the Democrat Party and to be blunt, no longer serve any useful purpose. The argument is important, so to make only half hearted attempts at persuading people of the urgency of our self-inflicted financial predicament does nothing to advance the conservative cause, a cause which should have at its foundation the rescuing of America. Democrats must not be allowed to prevail here, the consequences are just to severe. It's time for a little backbone to appear in many of our more spineless Republicans. Before we can impress upon the American people that the Republican priorities are what's best for the country, our Republican members of Congress or going to need to at least appear to believe that is the case. We need to increase our level of intensity, of our passion, in our believing that it is our ideas which will bring us back from the brink, while those of the Democrats will result in nothing more than our being pushed over the edge. Victory will be ours if we commit ourselves to doing all that is necessary to achieve it. This is no time for wimps, the stakes are way too high.
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