Here’s a demonstration of a stupefying lack of contact with the realities of our nation and especially the realities of those who sacrifice for us and the families of those men and women, who also sacrifice.
See this two-minute video. Pass it on.
I don’t have anything to add to it.
h/t Power Line, with more credits for the video there.
From Fox News comes this bit:
“Despite all the challenges that we face in this new century, what they offered over those three days was, more often than not, an agenda that was better suited for the last century,” Obama said of Romney and the Republican convention….
From The Wall Street Journal comes this [emphasis in the original]:
With just two months before Election Day, Mr. Obama is trying to cast his Republican rival, Mitt Romney, as a politician with archaic policy ideas that would set the country on a regressive path.
Sure. Our founding ideals of limited government that doesn’t interfere with our endeavors, self-reliance, personal responsibility, “showing the best that is in [each of us]” are confusing because they’re more than a hundred years old.
Last Tuesday night at the Republican National Convention, Saratoga Springs, UT, Mayor and Congressional Candidate Mia Love spoke rousingly and favorably (see related, below) of the Republican ticket for President. Oh, and she’s black. And a woman.
Later that night and early last Wednesday, she was brutally assaulted in her virtual world. Because she’s black, and a woman, and apparently a runaway from the Progressive plantation house.
Here’s a screen shot of her hacked Wikipedia page, captured by Tabitha Hale:
Here’s another example, from The Daily Dot:
An American citizen, Progressives say, is a “sell-out to the Right Wing Hate Machine,” a “dirty, worthless whore,” and a “House Nigger” when s/he doesn’t toe the Party Line.
The open bigotry isn’t all of it, though. There’s also the soft bigotry of the Left, who’ve said…nothing…about this assault. Which is why it’s legitimate to lump the “mainstream” Progressives into the same cesspool as these actors.
Moreover, Progressives also have actively ignored the diversity of the evil conservatives and of the Republican Party’s convention. MSNBC, for instance, covered Nikki Haley’s (R, SC) speech that Tuesday night and…no one else’s. This with a speech card that included Mayor Love, ex-Congressman Artur Davis (R, AL), Senate candidate Ted Cruz (R, TX), and Governor Brian Sandoval (R, NV). And on Wednesday night? Well, they had an article on Vice President-nominee Paul Ryan’s speech, but they completely ignored Governor Susana Martinez’ (R, NM) and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s speeches immediately preceding his.
Anything to distract attention and to change the subject from the topics at hand. Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama is so reluctant to talk about his performance with the economy these last three-plus years, to talk about his performance with job creation, to talk about foreign policy, or to propose concrete solutions to these problems that he’s back to dragging this red herring.
He’s had his campaign manager, Jim Messina, resurrect Reid-esque nonsense by sending a letter to Matt Rhoades, of the Romney campaign, asking pretty please for just five years’ worth of Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney’s tax returns, against a legal requirement of two years’ worth of such records. And if Governor Romney will only do that much, Messina promises that Obama will make no more demands or comments on the matter. Real decent of him to make such an offer. And real evasive.
One party trusts Americans to make our own decisions, to see to our own prosperity, to honor our own obligations. This party wants to see a smaller government that is less intrusive into our business’ and our private affairs, wants to reform, and so to preserve the principles underlying, Social Security and Medicare—including privatizing significant portions of them, trusting us to make our own decisions wisely—wants to foster an economic environment that restores our equality of opportunity so that, in the Theodore Roosevelt’s words, each American can “show the best that there is in him.”
The other party says we Americans are not able to make the right decisions; we need government to see to our prosperity for us, to assume responsibility in our place. This is the party of affirmative action, insisting that some of us must be carefully sheltered and nurtured (and based on the color of our skin and not on the content of our character) because the best that there is in us just isn’t good enough. This is the party of wealth redistribution because some Americans are inherently incapable of working toward our own, in John Adams’ terms, “safety and happiness;” we cannot make wise decisions on our own accord. This is the party that says government must take our wealth and redistribute it in particular ways to particular groups of us because the party does not believe we can—or will—honor our own duty to take care of those around us who are less fortunate.