As I watch the machinery of the various candidates kick into overdrive as the NH primary approaches, it struck me that the respective political machines are all out there doing exactly the same thing.
They are doing everything possible to paint their own guy as the best option…no great surprise there…that is what they are paid to do.
But does it lead to unrealistic expectations?
After all, let’s look at what is on offer today….
- Romney is acting like the front runner. He and his team are presenting him as the only one who can defeat Obama…the only one who has the business knowledge to pull the economy forward again. Of course, he has baggage too. As CEO of Bain he oversaw both the creation of jobs and the destruction of jobs. His role was to make money for his investors…and that is what he did. His concern for the jobs of the companies he closed down was minimal. He also uses offshore accounts to protect his wealth and minimize his taxes. Plenty of baggage there!
- Santorum is playing identity politics. He wants you to believe that he is just like you…that he is so similar to you that he carries your own moral beliefs into battle with him. He is fighting for the moral recuperation of this country as well as its economic recovery. He too has baggage….he has been a big government supporter in the past. His traditional conservative moral values are being painted as extremist views. He seems unable to extricate himself from the label that he is a right wing religious zealot…is that who you are?
- Paul is taking the stand that his integrity and unfailing regard for the constitution should be enough for America to understand its past errors and find its way back to the true path with his leadership. He has been extremely successful in attracting the independent and moderate democrat voter to his refreshing message. He provides a real option for voters who see his conservative views as the right economic solutions. His foreign policy is another matter and will be what prevents him from getting the conservative support he needs to win a general election.
- Gingrich is selling himself as the only conservative with the political experience to make a difference in Washington. Personal baggage aside, he provides plenty of ammunition to the opposition that can derail his campaign. Politically astute and tough skinned, his conservative credentials are not as clear as they should be.
- Perry…the Marlboro man with Jesus as his sidekick. I don’t know what I think about Perry…and I suspect that many voters don’t either. I sense that his political machine is struggling to identify what they are trying to sell…and that will definitely present problems as the primary season advances.
- Huntsman? Who? A former Governor….a former Ambassador to China. So what?
Unless a miracle happens and some particularly capable conservative candidate chooses to enter the fray, we will have to select from this group of characters…a selection of someone who will go up against the Obama slime machine. We will be choosing the person who will be subjected to what will most probably be the dirtiest campaign for president ever witnessed in this, or any other nation where leaders are elected through a true democratic process.
On election day we will witness what will seem to be akin to the rapture as the dead rise from their graves and make their way past the brothers guarding the doors of the polling booths…and where they will cast their vote for Obama.
We will see the Disney parade complete with Mickey, Minnie and their cohorts dancing past the brothers and voting for Obama. Behind them we will find Hanna Barbera and Lonny Tunes all following the leader.
You see….Obama now has to rely on the dead and cartoon characters to win the next election.
It is not so much a question of who will be sparring with him with the White house as the winner’s prize…it is a question of whether the love affair has gone stale.
The Clash sang it best……
“Sometimes I feel I've got to
Run away I've got to
Get away
From the pain you drive into the heart of me
The love we share
Seems to go nowhere
And I've lost my light
For I toss and turn I can't sleep at night”
With the Obama administration creating policies of division there are many who now feel they have been abused by their lover…..his policies continue to create divisions…
- Black versus white
- rich versus poor
- workers versus bosses
- unions versus corporations
- bankers versus consumers
- taxes versus spending cuts
- middle class versus poor
- middle class versus wealthy
- Chevrolet versus Ford
- Solyndra versus Solar City
It is no wonder that his voters, his supporters, have no love for him anymore. It is no wonder they feel they have to run away.
“Once I ran to you (I ran)
Now I'll run from you
This tainted love you've given
I give you all a boy could give you
Take my tears and that's not nearly all
Oh...tainted love
Tainted love”
In 2008 Obama was swept to victory on the backs of promises of hope and change. His supporters fawned at his feet, openly weeping as their love for him filled their aching hearts.
His promises intimated that in this most uneven of all love affairs, he would reside in the White House dispensing gifts to his followers as they struggled to live their mundane lives. The Obama promise was that as he and his family enjoyed sumptuous living in the White House, they would remember those whose trust, hard work and devotion paved their way to the most coveted of all public offices. As they partied to the music of untold numbers of celebrities they would spare a thought for the homeless. As they enjoyed Halloween Tim Burton style with Johnny Depp in character as The Mad Hatter, their thoughts would be with the people who could not put food on their children’s plates.
Tainted love?
The poor fools who thought that this slobbering love affair was anything more than the abuse of their love are sadly disappointed. They are now taking their tears and running away!
“Now I know I've got to
Run away I've got to
Get away
You don't really want any more from me
To make things right
You need someone to hold you tight
And you think love is to pray
But I'm sorry I don't pray that way”
Run fast dear Obama voter. The disdain this man holds for you will chase you down and smother you if you dare stand up and declare that your love was misplaced.
Remember the hordes who believed that Obama was going to pay their mortgage, put gas in their care and make unicorns dance in the streets once more? Where are they now?
Obama doesn’t want any more from you. You gave him your soul when you first said yes to him. And once the devil has your soul, there is little you can do.
Obama wants you to pray for his future by worshiping at the trough of addiction that is his payment for your votes.
But you now know better…and some of you can say….”I’m sorry …I don’t pray that way!”
“Once I ran to you (I ran)
Now I'll run from you
This tainted love you've given
I give you all a boy could give you
Take my tears and that's not nearly all
Oh...tainted love
Tainted love”
He took your tears and your soul…..don’t sell them again!
“Don't touch me please
I cannot stand the way you tease
I love you though you hurt me so
Now I'm gonna pack my things and go
Tainted love, tainted love (x2)
Touch me baby, tainted love (x2)
Tainted love (x3)”
The Obama hordes are thinning. When they finally pack their things and go, the tainted love of this pretender will be on show for all to see.
The divorce will be messy. The brothers will claim it didn’t happen. The dead will continue their somber march to the polls while the cartoon characters dance in the streets.
But the people?
They will stay away…they will not subject themselves to the tainted love they endured for the last 4 years…and while the Usurper holds their souls, they will not vote for another….but they will not vote for him either.
I started this essay with thoughts of what the Republicans are offering. I looked at their message, and their baggage.
The tainted love of Obama’s followers will be a big boost to whoever wins the nomination….but they best beware…for many people stay in relationships even though the love is badly tainted.
The RNC has the right idea. Using Obama’s own words against him will highlight his deficiencies, his lack of capability, and his lies.
But will his true believers see his tainted love? With the likes Debbie Wasserman Shultz flying the DNC flag, it is possible that even the most damaged of lovers will stay in tainted relationships, believing the lies of the anointed.
We conservatives must show that the slobbering love affair between Obama and the media, Obama and the masses, is over. Those that are left can get a room…and leave the White House for the new Republican president.
…..devereaux
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