SHOCK POLL: 50% of Blue Collar Democrats Want Someone Other Than Obama As The 2012 Nominee…..

….”26% of (ALL) Democrats would prefer the party to nominate another Democrat for president next year, up from 18% in October.”

CNN strains to assure readers that the poll results are irrelevant because even though the percentage of Democrats who want someone else to be nominated has increased from 18% to 25% in ONE MONTH….

“….the changes are strictly hypothetical, since there is no indication that Obama will face a serious challenger in any primary next year.”

Okay, CNN, okay. (*snicker*)

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Tea Leaves and Grape Vines

In the post below, I summarized what Jim Geraghty’s political mentor, Obi-Wan, told him to watch in order to tease out the Democratic strategy for the remaining two months. Following the advice of Geraghty’s svengali, let’s listen carefully to the murmurs from the White House.

• George Stephanopoulos. This is interesting: Stephanopoulos speaks every morning with James Carville, Rahm Emanuel, and Paul Begala. They’ve been doing this since the 1992 campaign. Outside the Oval Office, this is the most politically powerful phone call of the day. Today, Stephanopoulos tweets that Republicans, according to Carville’s Republican wife, Mary Matalin, have a 90% chance of taking the House and the Senate. Is this an inflated expectations game, so that failure to the take the Senate is considered a Republican failure?
• Politico. Tonight Politico is all about speculation that Rahm Emanuel will run for mayor of Chicago, a dream job of his which is now open since his ally Daley is not seeking reelection. If rumors are to be believed, many in the White House would like to get rid of the more moderate Emanuel, because he pushed for a compromise on health care and leaked his unhappiness with his boss’s strategy.
• Obama is a Muslim. Roger Simon claims that those answering poll questions lie to poll takers. It could be. However, it could be that many people perceive that Obama is out of the mainstream. I don’t think he’s a Muslim, but he does have three Arabic names, two Muslims fathers, and he defended the building of the Ground Zero Mosque. I think the White House has been terrified from the beginning of Obama being called a Muslim, that this belief is more damaging than his association with Jeremy Wright. My belief is that the Ground Zero Mosque controversy is a catastrophe to Obama and the White House is desperate to undo this damage. The Obama-is-a-Muslim belief is symptomatic of the fact that he is out of step with most Americans on healthcare, the economy, illegal immigration, Israel, racial quotas, the national debt, card check, etc.

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“October Surprises, maybe every day and all day”

NRO’s Jim Geraghty shares an e-mail from his mysterious political mentor, Obi-Wan. Geraghty writes that Obi-Wan is an “individual who had been involved in the highest levels of GOP politics for longer than I have been alive,” and he makes some fascinating and frightening observations and predictions:

• The White House transmits its coming political strategies through George Stephanopoulos and Politico; the whole strategy of smearing the Tea Party as racists came out this way.
• The mainstream media will be fed the line of a big Democratic surge; they’ve tried this twice before without traction [I remember these stories from earlier in the summer; those polls didn't seem right then]
• Watch for a dramatic October surprise, like the bombing of Iran or the capturing of Osama bin Laden.

I’ve never thought of the Obama Team resorting to something that dramatic, but I do recall Texas Darlin recently telling me that she thinks Obama will do anything to hold onto power. I now think she’s right. We are dealing with a student of Saul Alinksy after all.

The media has been so in the tank for Obama that they have rarely had to resort to bare knuckle politics. Only when Hillary was winning the nomination did they pull out the racists charges against she and President Clinton, first by labeling Hillary a racist for her praising President Johnson for passing the Civil Rights Acts and against President Clinton as he was powerfully making the case against Obama.

Obama and his advisors may seem hapless now, but we are watching a ruthless Chicago politician — the “thug from Chicago,” as President Clinton referred to him, and anything is possible from this clique. The next two months will be very interesting.

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Liberal Sexism, Part 1,765,893

From Merriam-Webster:

A Twit is “a silly or annoying person: a fool”

Gail Collins today in the Times, writing on Sarah Palin:

Her staff says this means nothing whatsoever, but let us acknowledge that Palin is on a roll. She’s got her own TV show, not counting Fox News. And she twitters! Or somebody does it for her. Hard to tell which. Her twit on the president’s Iraq speech was: “may make u want to dig out ur old Orwell books so rewritten history can be deciphered.”

Did you catch that? She called her a twit. Hilarious. F’ing hilarious.

The verb is tweet, and that was no accident. Because, you know, a woman from NASCAR America must be a twit, according to the narrative of Whole Foods Nation. Collins gets away with classism/sexism, but has no problem calling Obama’s opponents racists.

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Something is Brewing in the Land

(image is Normal Rockwell’s “Freedom of Speech” found here)

On Saturday, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., we witnessed the birth of a new movement. And it has the potential to be revolutionary.

Glenn Beck has always been over-the-top for my tastes and his tearful moments make me squirm, but I have to admit that he’s a master communicator — particularly of others’ ideas.

Patrick Buchanan sensed that Obama was losing the middle after Scott Brown’s victory nearly a year ago with an op-ed titled “Has Obama Lost White America?”

I don’t think of it as “white America” but rather the great swath of moderates of all colors: those who pay more to the government than they receive in benefits; those who dislike the Ground Zero Mosque — not because they are bigots — but because they can read the political cues being sent by Imam Feisal Abdul Raul and his clique – and the fact that it does have a whiff of triumphalism about it; those who send their children to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan.

They know the liberal elites hate them, and Obama is a product of their post-American worldview. His statement prior to the Pennsylvania primary is almost a parody of their dislike for the Great Middle:

And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

And, true to his word, Obama has put the interests of illegal aliens over the safety of American citizens, he sided with Skip Gates over the Cambridge police, and he apologized for our country and insulted her people until he’s alienated nearly everyone. He is acting against the interests of most Americans, and against the symbols and history we value. A he’s awoken a sleeping giant.

Insensate blogger Digby, in an overt statement of anti-white racism, describes the Restoring Honor rally as such:

The Triumph of the Wingnut rally appears to be a big success. It’s a beautiful day, the all white audience is in lawn chairs clapping politely as they give out medals to people of color on the stage. The faithful seem a little bit bored, but you can’t blame them. They’re looking for inspiration and this isn’t the kind of thing that inspired these folks. I assume the red meat is yet to come.

[Snip]

I just keep thinking that I sure hope all these very pink skinned, middle aged folks are wearing sun screen.

This hatred for fellow citizens based on their skin color is a rampant disease running through the Left. It is a class-based elitism masquerading as a concern for minorities. But the truth is that is the cosmic power struggle of Whole Foods Nation against NASCAR America.

In the WSJ on Sunday, James Taranto writes “Why liberal elites find Americans revolting” and how the elites don’t understand the discomfort with the GZ mosque:

The Ground Zero mosque is an affront to the sensibilities of ordinary Americans. “The center’s association with 9/11 is intentional and its location is no geographic coincidence,” as the Associated Press has reported. That Americans would find this offensive is a matter of simple common sense. The liberal elites cannot comprehend common sense, and, incredibly, they think that’s a virtue. After all, common sense is so common.

The British philosopher Roger Scruton has coined a term to describe this attitude: oikophobia. Xenophobia is fear of the alien; oikophobia is fear of the familiar: “the disposition, in any conflict, to side with ‘them’ against ‘us’, and the felt need to denigrate the customs, culture and institutions that are identifiably ‘ours.’ ” What a perfect description of the pro-mosque left.

Glenn Beck has captured a mood and a moment in reaction against the elites’ war against the Great Middle, and against the snobbery towards Americans who view the GZ Mosque as a taunt.

Race-baiter Al Sharpton, at his pathetic counter rally, perfectly symbolized the disgust most Americans have with the stale politics of resentment and anti-Americanism. Further, the NAACP’s Ben Jealous claimed that Beck’s enormous crowd would not applaud Martin Luther King’s “Dream” speech, which is ludicrous on its face. The race-baiting goes on and on. Accusing your political opponents of racism without evidence is not like racism, it is racism. The “Left” has morphed into the biggest purveyors of racism in years.

Finally, Charles Blow, the Times’ enumerate blogger, says that Glenn Beck has committed a rhetorical assassination of Martin Luther King. Clearly, the Left has jumped the couch.

Despite the Left’s frenzied attempts to label all of their opponents as racists, Beck’s rally was a massive success which proclaimed old-fashioned values of God and country, an attitude which is in sharp contrast with the filth being thrown at them. This message was clear and concise, and it cut through the clutter into the homes and cafes where the Great Middle contemplate the direction of our country.

The hysterics of the Left indicate to me their level of fear: long gone are the chants of “Yes, we can!” Race-baiting has been turned to an earsplitting decibel. The Great Middle is increasingly moving towards the Republicans. Gallup gives the GOP their highest poll numbers in 68 years. NASCAR Nation is ascendent.

(Glenn Beck’s new Web site, The Blaze, is here)

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