Heartiste’s usually wise, insightful, and excellent blog has a pile of silly advice: What A Future American Right Party Can Do To Win A future American right party cannot win. You win by winning over the median voter, or, equivalently, the modal swinging voter. The median voter or modal swinging voter in this election was someone who is single, fatherless, partly on welfare, if female a slut, if male frequently a minor criminal belonging to protected minority.  A party that appeals …
Category: party politics
How to fire big bird
Romney has promised to defund the Public Broadcasting System. Reagan promised to defund the left, and did not seriously try it. If Reagan did not, what chance Romney? But if Romney is serious about it, which I doubt, here is how to do it: The Public Broadcasting System is, in large part, half a billion dollars paying media people to be left wing, which includes paying them to be nasty to Republicans in general and Romney in particular. If you …
The Romney/Obama middle east policy
The major problem with Obama’s policy is that it is a progressive policy. By being nice to our enemies, and hateful to our friends, our enemies will supposedly come to love us. This policy has been tried from time to time over the last several thousand years, particularly by Christians towards Muslims over the last thousand years, with entirely predictable results. Though doubtless sincerely believed, it has in practice a suspicious resemblance to the elite selling out their subjects to …
No prophet mocking
The reaction to Clint Eastwood’s speech
Every television station, every radio station, every newspaper … Every mainstream blog that mentions the topic is being spammed with suspiciously repetitious comments. An abrupt and coordinated attack, endlessly repeating a single message, is like an army, its behavior showing it is thrown into action by a single command, issued by a single commander. And what is that single message?
Correction: Tea Party Express not wholly left entryist
Earlier I accused the Tea Party Express as being left entryist, on the basis that its emailings tend to analyze the political spectrum as Democrats, right wing Democrats, moderate republicans, and conservative republicans, language that treats the left as normality and truth, and everyone else as deviations from normality and truth. However, emailings have recently changed that terminology, and the Tea Party Express blog always analyzed the political spectrum as liberal Democrats, Democrats, Republicans in Name Only, and true conservatives, …
Tea Party Express is far left entryist
In its mailings, the Tea Party Express conceptualizes the political landscape of the US as “conservative republicansâ€, “moderate republicansâ€, “right wing democratsâ€, and just plain “democratsâ€.  There is, it seems, only one liberal democrat, and no liberal or left wing republicans. Thus betraying the writer’s real viewpoint – that the far left is normal and mainstream, and all the rest are weirdoes, despite the fact that today’s “conservative republicans†are for the most part far to the left of the …
Mitt Romneycare, enemy of capitalism
Mitt Romneycare tells us: In the general election I’ll be pointing out that the president took the reins at General Motors and Chrysler – closed factories, closed dealerships laid off thousands and thousands of workers – he did it to try to save the business. Now that is an unusual strategy for winning elections.
Paul leading in Iowa
As the last non leftist still standing, Paul is now leading in Iowa, the first actual vote of the Republican nomination. Paul twenty three percent, Mitt Romney twenty percent, Gingrich fourteen percent, ten percent or less for all the rest.
All Republican nominees extreme left by 1996 standards.
There is Governor Romneycare, who created the original of which Obamacare is a copy. There is Governor Perry, a man who fully supports the underclassing and the suppression of Christianity by state power combined with state sponsorship of alternatives to Christianity such as Islam. There Newt Gingrinch, who talks like a right winger, but is an entryist.