Posted by
Cosmox on Tuesday, November 04, 2008 3:20:47 PM
I am repeating here many of the ideas posted over at Hillbuzz. They are important and well-said and I want to give them credit for it.
It's no secret that the "Vast LEFT Wing Conspiracy" comprised of the MSM, the DNC, and the Obama Campaign led by David Axelrod have been working together to fashion and ascend Barack Obama as our next president.
In four words: "I don't get it." I find his speeches treachly, his manner over-rehearsed, and his policies atrocious. But enough complaining about the sundry of grave shortcomings of Obama. Let's talk about how this Troika of Thuggery is going to try it's level best to supress your vote.
Here we go...
(1) There will be calls for McCain to just give up and quit, because the race is over.
This one is a favorite of the Democrat operatives who lurk on pro-McCain sites. Some of these people are volunteers, but many are paid staffers whose job it is to snipe, snark, slash, and shout through blogs and social networking sites. Whenever and wherever ther's an opportunity to comment, these Democrat operatives are there to plant their poison.
Here's what Hillbuzz, a pro-Hillary, blog found:
"We get them here, despite all the spraying and fumigating we do... We’ve identified two paid Obama staffers who have been assigned to HillBuzz. We picked them up around the same time people from Ace and LGF started picking up some of our stuff — so our guess is they were assigned to us by whoever was monitoring those sites. They’re different trolls than the ones assigned to us during the primaries (we only had one back then, so evidently we’ve gotten more on the radar now). One of them starts posting “her” concern troll remarks here at 8am. The other one starts “his” remarks around 5pm or so. It appears there are two shifts for the trolls — and from what we can see, they share the same computer and IP address. And it’s an address right here in Chicago. Imagine that. We wonder if we’ve ever run into these people at Houlihan’s on Michigan Avenue after one of their shifts, as that’s where a lot of Obama staffers like to go for a drink, and where we often hang out to see what we can overhear while pretending to read a book over a little dinner. Since we’re going to be in Ohio the rest of the time before the election, we’re okay with letting you in on that little bit, as we won’t be able to eavesdrop on you anymore. But the information these Obama staffers inadvertantly provided was really helpful on a lot of things. A great way to see how the race was going was to listen for how “audacious” these people felt that day. That’s their internal lingo: “Are you feelin’ it? Are you feelin’ audacious today?”. “Nope, not feelin’ the audacity today, ’cause we know those PA polls are bogus and BO’s not gonna take the state”. Word to the wise: these staffers were never as “audacious” as the media and skewed polls have insisted they should be."
Hillbuzz notes that the Democrat Primaries best illustrated the Obama Machine and his allies in action. The coerographed calls for Hillary Clinton to drop out of the race before New Hampshire, before Super Tuesday, before Ohio and Texas, before Pennsylvania, before West Virgina, before Kentucky, before Indiana, and before South Dakota were completely ridiculous. Yet, uninformed voters always listened, and lost enthusiasm and drive because ‘the TV said Hillary needs to just quit." We know this kept some people from going out to vote. They thought, “Why bother? The TV told me she’s gonna lose!” Well, the TV lies.
Hillbuzz correctly asserts that Hillary Clinton should have won Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana, by larger margins that she did. Ohio should have been a 13-point win, Pennsylvania should have been a 12-point win, and Indiana should have been a 9-point win.
But those primary voters stayed home home, saying, “Oh, why bother, the TV says it's over and that's that!” Thus, Hillary lost those extra points.
The ONLY way McCain loses this race is if the media, operating as a full-fledged wing of the Obama campaign, breeds enough doubt amongst you to keep enough people home for Obama to eek out wins.
Don't fall in that same trap on Tuesday! Get up off your couches, turn off that toxic TV, and GO VOTE. Get everyone you know to vote — tell them if they don’t, then Obama will turn America into a Socialist nation, and we’re going to start with their house and bank account when we begin redistributing wealth.
(2) Wild claims of Obama winning states that shock and surprise you.
The Obama-supporting media will report huge wins for Obama. This has already begun with the reports of the overwhelming Obama victory in that tiny town in New Hampshire.
Hillbuzz illustrates this again during Super Tuesday. Voters "...we knew ran through the streets crying and pants-wetting, gnashing their teeth and yanking their hair as the sky fell around them — BECAUSE OBAMA IS WINNING CALIFORNIA! MASSACHUSETTS! ARKANSAS! TENNESSEE! NEW JERSEY! NEW YORK! WAAAAAAAAH! DOOOOOOOMED!..."
As we know, these are all liberal bastions. There is no surprise these states went the way they did. But the MSM would have you believe the results were both surprising and expected. Pretty smooth, huh?
Hillbuzz makes an excellent suggestion: "If you do just ONE THING today, we ask you a personal favor: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE go to as many Republican blogs as you can and WARN THEM that the Obamedia will tell you all weekend that Obama is winning Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Florida, Iowa, Virginia, West Virginia, and other states we do not believe Obama will win (except for Iowa, which we still think goes to Obama, but our best sources claim McCain now leads in internals by 1 point).
"They are already starting to say truly crazy things like “Obama will win Louisiana and Arkansas!”, and that’s just nuts. That is your equivalent of the Obamaedia swearing up and down that the Kennedys and Oprah would win Massachusetts and California for Obama. WE knew that was pure cockamamie nonsense, but Eeyores wet their pants on cue over this. So, the Obamedia’s marching orders are to freak all of you out with SHOCKING DEVELOPMENTS! in Lousiana, Arkansas, Georgia, etc. just to shake your faith and confidence.
This is like in Little League when the opposing team would chant, “Hey batta hey batta hey batta hey batta hey batta sa-weeeeeeeeeng batta” when you were at the plate, to make you swing too soon or too late. Just to psych you out. And that nonsense actually worked on Team Hillary, because we lost a lot of volunteers who Eeyored off the face of the Earth just before Super Tuesday, so convinced of unprecedented blow-out doom.
So, don't be surprised when you see the Obamedia doing all of this to McCain. Know they are crying wolf again. Don’t let them demoralize you!
(3) Repeated insistence that blacks and young people will decide this election, and they are all going to vote in record numbers for Obama.
First of all, black voters have always voted Democrat in massive numbers. Paradoxially, blacks have never voted for Republicans in any substantial way. Blacks vote as a race-block, and they always vote for the Democrat. Maybe Obama will get blacks who have never voted before to vote for him, or blacks who don’t bother to vote on Election Day to show up and vote, but it's doubtful that it will be very many people.
Hillbuzz opines that black voters were highly motivated to vote in 2004 because they felt George W. Bush stole the 2000 election. They saw that as a civil rights issue which increased black turnout to one of the highest levels we have ever seen. Remember, Jesse Jackson almost won Election 2000 for Gore, but was stopped by the Gore campaign (in the form of Donna Brazile). Watch the HBO movie "Recount."
Jackson felt the Florida Recount was a civil rights/voter disenfranchisement issue at its heart, and wanted to press that to the public. He revved the black community up and flew down to Tallahassee, but Gore and Brazile made him get back on a plane to Chicago. That was a critically stupid move…and you know how the recount ended.
Hillbuzz goes on to say "...in 2004, THAT’S what the black community thought about, and THAT’S what made people vote to kick Bush out of the White House, for stealing it from Gore in 2000. We just don’t know what people are left to vote in the black community who didn’t vote in 2004, when they were revved up to vote against Bush — a president the black community hates. What we think the Obamedia ignores is the fact the black community is totally ambivalent to McCain and is focused totally on Obama, and the race-pride they feel voting for a black candidate. If this race-pride could be quantified, we feel it would be a positive force pushing Obama forward almost exactly equal in impact to the force pushing Kerry forward the black community generated by hating Bush. There’s no McCain hate working against the Republicans this year, and there was no Kerry love in 2004.
"So, mathematically this works out as:
Obama-love + McCain-hate = Bush-hate + Kerry-love = impact of black voters
"We, thus, believe Obama will not have much more support from blacks than Kerry did, since Democrats win almost all black voters anyway. This year will be no different."
Democrats believe young voters are the Holy Grail of elections. All Democrats, during every election, claims “young people love me and will come out in record numbers to vote for me!”
Hillbuzz reports, "...let us just tell you that early voting ended today in Chicago. In our building, there is a suite full of about 6 frat boys who sometimes stop us in the laundry room to talk politics. They are all hot DePaul hockey players, so we are glad to chat them up any time they want. All of them said they were going to vote for Obama, and all of them forgot to early vote. All of them have class and work on Tuesday. We honestly believe all 6 of these guys are going to forget to vote on Election Day — and the polling station for our neighborhood is literally one street away. We think this will happen not just with the hot hockey players in our building, but in many other buildings in Chicago, and in cities across the US.
"As you move out of urban areas, it becomes more of a challenge to get to polling places, as they get further and further apart. That means college students, and Obama’s youth army, need to move further and further out of their daily norm to actually vote. With class, work, and Nintendo Wii, that becomes a big burden, especially since they’re going to whoop it up all Halloween weekend having an absolute drunken blast, and will have a lot to catch up on come Tuesday, since Monday they will be still hungover and not functional.
"We’re astonished no one has ever thought of this before to explain why young people don’t turn up to vote in the numbers the media predicts: it’s because of Halloween. Not JUST because of Halloween, but Halloween has a lot to do with it, especially this year, when Halloween falls in perfect synch to form three days of wild, costumed debauchery. Monday is hangover day, which means nothing got done Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and now Monday, so Tuesday pressure builds to catchup on class or work or whatever.
"Ironically, the Obamedia’s constant drumbeat that Obama’s so far ahead will, ironically, keep a lot of these people from actually voting — since they think he will win in a landslide without them, and one vote doesn’t matter. “Oh, we meant to vote, but we got, like, busy. And stuff.”
"We hear this every 4 years. Why should this year be any different?"
These are all very good points - Hillbuzz got it right.
The bottom line here is that ALL of the media: newspapers, magazines, tv, radio, et al. are in the tank for Obama. They have said as much an dare you and me to do anything about it.
You may ask, "Well, what can I do about it, anyway?"
Here's what:
1) GO VOTE for John McCain and Sarah Palin to be our next President and Vice President.
2) IGNORE ALL MEDIA TODAY! Instead, pick up the phone and call your family and friends to ask if they have voted. Offer to give people a lift to their polling place. Be nice, be upbeat, be persuasive.
3) After voting, ignoring, phoning and driving; maybe take a few moments to happily tell people online and in the blogosphere what you've done.
I have done and am doing all these things. It's fun, it's uplifting, and it's the right thing to do.
Again, special thanks go to Hillbuzz for their insight and first-hand reports.