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Monday, November 1. 2010

Another Ohio pic

From the prior weekend. Big fields, especially compared with our small fields in New England. This is south of Gambier, near Homer.

Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 13:34 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

A re-post: Why I vote for the party, not the person, in national elections

Most of the time, anyway. I did vote for Lieberman running as an Independent, rightly or wrongly, because the Repub did not have a chance and I did not care for the Dem.

For national elections, I vote Party most all the time. Why? Because when they get to Washington they cease to be individuals, and become captive of their party caucuses. That's the way it works.

Whether smart or dumb, free-thinking or robots, they have to play the game if they want to get anywhere. The leaders call the plays.

Thus, in the end, you are voting for a vote in Congress, not for a person. In primaries, I vote for my preferred candidate, but in national elections I vote Repub only because their caucus is more Conservative than any alternatives.

Voting for "who you like better" is childishly naive and foolish in the extreme. You aren't voting for who you want as a social acquaintance.

If you vote for a Dem, no matter how much you may personally prefer the guy or gal as a social companion, all you are really doing is to put another vote in the Left's pocket. Parties vote as herds, in Congress. That's why they have people called "Whips."

A vote for a Dem is a vote for the current Obama agenda. If you like the Dem approach to life, by all means vote for whomever they are running.

Otherwise, don't.

Posted by The Barrister in Our Essays, Politics at 10:36 | Comments (23) | Trackbacks (0)

Jay Cost can't believe the poll numbers

He thinks the numbers predict a historic Dem smash-up. Says Jay:" I had to rub my eyes and look a second time. I could barely believe it."

I think it's all about turn-out.

From Fernandez' Aftermath at Pajamas:

...the sheer ferocity of the campaign suggests that all sides see it as a Rubicon, which once crossed means that more is to follow. Perhaps nobody sees 2010 as an end, only as the beginning of a very fundamental struggle.

The proximate cause of the conflict, even though he is ultimately not its basic antecedent, is the president. The Washington Post calls Barack Obama the divider-in-chief. He didn�t create the fence; he simply made it impossible to straddle it. The president has made it necessary to choose political sides. In a way, Barack Obama has done more than any recent president to cast the issues starkly.

It has been made clear as day to voters that a vote for a national Dem is a vote for a Leftist agenda.

Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 09:01 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

Monday morning links

Lots of Conservatives are excited about the elections tomorrow. It's this year's political World Series. With the numbers running for election, etc., a 45-seat Repub House pick-up would be fairly normal for a first midterm, so anything over that would be a big deal. I have no idea what to expect. All I know is that a wave-type Repub House victory will be like closing the barn door after the cows got out, and that it will be - and will be intended to be - a refudiation (thanks to Mrs. Palin for that handy neologism) of the Dem's national agenda.

Krauthammer:

Over the next two years, Republicans will not be able to pass anything of importance to them - such as repealing Obamacare - because of the presidential veto. And the Democrats will be too politically weakened to advance, let alone complete, Obama's broad transformational agenda.

OCR Editorial: What Tuesday might mean

Politico: Grim Dems await huge House losses

WSJ: A Vote Against Dems, Not for the GOP

Only partly true, I think.

Democrats blaming the victims

They called us names

We don't like that.

Parker: Obama's missing sense of humor

Especially about himself.

Via Driscoll:

�Only one question remains � what area of the private sector � aside from the slip-and-fall attorneys � isn�t hated and vilified by the Obama Democrats?�

Realted from Gerson: Obama the snob

His politics, somebody told me, are those of "the typical upper class Liberal, Ivy-educated, suburban white woman." Well, I see more Alinsky than Escalade in the dude, but I might be wrong.

Barone's Obama's Economists Missed What Voters Plainly Saw

The line from the Obama camp is that voters are confused, ignorant, misled or even racist; they can't be rejecting the president's party on the merits. But voters, in rejecting the Obama Democrats' vast expansion of government, may be more sophisticated than their supposed betters. Leave the private sector alone, they seem to be saying, so it can recover from the financial crisis recession and once again create the bounteous and unscripted growth that has been the norm in American history.

WSJ: CBS Phone Recording Sets Off Firestorm in Alaska

This sort of thing has a history at CBS...

Dick Morris reviews Daniel Hannan's new book

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 04:51 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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