I was voter #25 in my township this morning.
For the record I voted a straight Republican ticket. I did
that mainly because I so deeply despise the Democrat brand locally, regionally
and nationally.
A perfect example is the race for governor here.
In fairness, the much maligned incumbent Republican Governor Tom Corbett
is a truly awful politician. He’s
wooden, doesn’t do a good job selling himself, his policies, or his
accomplishments and doesn’t seem to like glad-handing and baby kissing.
But he’s actually done a very good job, considering what he
inherited from Fast Eddie Rendell. He’s
taken a lot of heat for cutting spending on education to give tax breaks to corporations,
when, in fact, he didn’t. Rendell used a billion bucks in one-time stimulus
money to artificially inflate education hiring and spending; when that money
ran out Corbett faced a billion-dollar “deficit” on paper in education funding. He had no choice but to scale back some of the temporary
jobs and spending that one-time pop of money had created.
Even then, Corbett was able to make up $500 million of that
budget hole without raising income taxes. In any other world, he’d be a hero,
but Democrats here tore him to pieces for “hurting” schools. Because he cut corporate taxes, which created
jobs here, and refused to support additional taxes on the Marcellus Shale
drillers, which created even more jobs here and drove down utility prices for
consumers, Dems claimed he sold out school kids for corporate interests.
In an unprecedented low, even for them, they've even blamed his "budget cuts" for the lack of toilet paper in Philadelphia public schools. His opponent, Democrat Tom Wolfe, ran with that and did a TV spot interviewing teachers who made the same claim. Of course, it wasn't true; the reason schools didn't have toilet paper in their bathrooms was because, as soon as it was replaced, students stole it or used it for vandalism, like flushing rolls down toilets.
No matter that it wasn't true, like the other Democrat attacks on Corbett, the damage was done.
Corbett will probably lose today, which is sad because he’s
a decent, honorable man. Terrible politician
and campaigner, that’s true, but a good, responsible governor who did the right
things, and for which he was tarred unjustly.
Which brings me back to my utter disdain for the Democrat
brand.
Granted, the Republican brand right now sucks, to quote Rand
Paul, who is brave enough to state the obvious. I may not agree with him on
everything, but on this he is dead on. I have no idea what the Republican brand
stands for, and I follow these things. The only thing it has going for it is
that the Democrat brand is so awful.
I know politics is a contact sport and can be brutal. But
the Democrats are hitting new lows in pandering to the worst fears of their
constituencies.
They are blaming Republicans for Ferguson, Ebola, the rise
of ISIS, no progress on immigration, the threatened end of life-saving mammograms
at Planned Parenthood, attacks on legal abortion, attempts to limit access to
birth control, and of course the Republican plan to impeach Obama and roll back
civil rights laws to “put y’all back in chains,“ if they win control of the
Senate.
When the Democrats send out mailers featuring black children
holding up signs saying “don’t shoot” with the message to vote for Democrats to
avoid another Ferguson, that’s way over the top. When leading Democrats say that
Republican cuts to health programs fueled the spread of Ebola, and that prior
Republican administrations helped create ISIS, it’s reprehensible.
It just goes on and on – there is apparently no depth so
deep they won’t plumb it, no lie so outrageous they won’t use it, and no baseless
accusation they won’t promote to further their cause.
They have no shame whatsoever for milking tragedies for
political gain. They don’t hesitate to
play the race card whenever possible – whether that’s about Abu Jamal, Trayvon Martin,
or more recently Michael Brown – long before the facts are in, and long after
the facts have come out. They are quick to use the mass murders of children in
Connecticut, or of innocent movie-goers in Colorado, to push their anti-gun agenda. There are no limits. No moral or ethical boundaries.
They recognize the truth but prefer to lie, whether that’s
about IRS targeting, Secret Service lapses, the Bergdahl fiasco, ObamaCare, NSA snooping, or Benghazi.
At the street level, they enlist the aid of union goons and
paid provocateurs to shout down anyone who questions the Democrat orthodoxy,
and disrupt appearances by anyone who dares run against them. When strong arm tactics seem to fail, they
resort to using the force of government to harass and intimidate opponents into
submission.
There’s literally nothing they will not do, no matter how
base, how dishonest, or how disgusting.
And their Democrat supporters seem to cheer them on.
Which begs the question: Do their supporters actually approve of the Democrats’ tactics?
If so, that’s a very scary proposition; that means that a
large percentage of the population has no moral compass whatsoever. They have decided there's no right or wrong, and they have no remorse for the pain they cause. They might as well be sociopaths.
That’s the Democrat brand.
And that why I despise it so.
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