Posted by
Tim Adams on Monday, September 08, 2008 12:00:00 AM
This is my very first blog so forgive a total lack of knowledge about how to do this. But I am sitting here listening to Jason Lewis filling in for Rush and considering what has happened to the conservative movement in the last week and a half. Before the 29th I really believed that BArack Hussein Obama was going to be our next president. I just did not see how John McCain was going to pull it off. When in reallity this turn around that we are witnessing today (McCain's 10 point lead in the USA poll) began earlier this summer when Obama decided that he was already President and left on his world tour. I think that this really turned people off in a big way. Ever since then and the release of the celebrity commercial by the McCain campaign Obama has been on his heels and McCain has been on the attack.
This election is obviously far from over but one thing is beginning to become apparent once again. The Democrats don't seem to be able to ever select a candidate that can win. They always go back to their default setting which is ultra left wing, and nominate someone who can't win because they are too far to the left. If one goes back in history and looks at every election since 1968, the Democrats have consistantly done this.
In 1968 the Democrats nominated Vice President Hubert Humphrey who was in an impossible situation in that he was the Vice President to an extremely unpopular President.But what the nation witnessed at the 68 convention was the radicalization of the Democratic party and it has never really looked back. Nixon ran a very smart campaign but he still nearly lost. 1972 was really the year that the leftist took over the party when they nominated McGovern who went on to lose in a monumental landslide to Nixon. In 1976 the Democrats almost seemed to get it in that they nominated what appeared to be a moderate southern govenor in Jimmy Carter. Once elected though he revealed himself for what he really was, a liberal. In 1980 of course they renominated Carter who by then didn't stand a chance against the first real viable conservative candidate, Ronaldo Maximus. In 84 and 88 they continued with nominating big time liberals who didn't stand a chance of being elected once their views were exposed to the light of day.
Then in 1992 Bill Clinton was able to fool everyone, with the willing help of the media, and get himself elected as moderate. But since Clinton has left office, the Democrats have gone back to nominating lefties with little success. This year they had their chance, but they just can't manage to do it because what is revealed is that the Democrats are leftist and long ago they quit being in touch with "real" people. When McCain nominated Palin the message was sent to people like me and most of the people that I know, that finally someone gets it. And that is why it will be very hard for Obama to overcome this. People are tired of fakes, and say what you want about John McCain, but he is not a fake.