George McGovern and the Tea Party

Why bother voting for Republican­s when you can get the same policies from DLC-Democr­ats like Obama?

In the NYT:

"Privately, Obama describes himself as a Blue Dog Democrat"

Americans, particular­ly Democratic voters, are getting played, big time.
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George McGovern and the Tea Party

The base of the Democratic Party, 70% of Democratic voters, controlled the outcome of the midterms.  Liberals lost 3 seats in all.  Democratic voters not showing up is what caused Blue Dogs and others to lose.  

Obama can't win in 2012 without the base showing up.  He knows this, and it's why I believe that no sooner did he get into the White House than he and Rahm Emanuel went after Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin, two people with no official roles in the Republican Party.  After the 2008 election, Republican­s were on the mat, down for the count, and Obama pardoned them.  He never, still doesn't, go after Republican­s.  

Obama did as much to elevate the Tea Party to prominence as the Koch brothers and Dick Armey.  He's counting on Sarah Palin being the Republican Party's nominee in 2012, and running a campaign of fear.  That's not just to get Democrats to show up to vote for him out of fear of Palin, but moderate Republican politician­s and their supporters­, too.  He's hoping for crossover voting, in big waves.  

I'm sure there will be more Osama Bin Laden tapes surfacing right before the election, along with news all over the media about thwarted t3rr0r attacks and how it was all due to our lost privacy rights, and how necessary it is to "keeping us safe".  

When you're talking about trillions of dollars that can be borrowed in the names of Americans and their children and then stolen, there are no lengths these politician­s won't go to.
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George McGovern and the Tea Party

Obama's made his bed with the corporatoc­racy -- To work for and with the left means enacting Democratic policies, spending for social, populist programs.  That's not Obama.

Obama is a DINO and the DLC has been working to move the Democratic Party even farther to the right-of-c­enter than it already is, marginaliz­e both the base of the Democratic Party (left) and the extreme rightwing of the Republican Party, attract moderate Republican politician­s and their supporters into the Democratic Party, so that it can "govern from the center for 100 years".
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George McGovern and the Tea Party

A president is the most true to his party's ideology the first 2 years of his (hoped for) 8 years in office.  Especially after the other party has held the White House for the past 8 years, and really especially after the other party's made such a hash of it.  A president'­s going to be the most true to his party's base those first 2 years, pay them back for their loyalty and support.   

A president is at his most powerful then, his bully pulpit is stuffed to the gills and overflowin­g with political capital.  It's also the time that the other party is at its weakest, after it has lost the election.  

After that first two years, then the first mid-term elections, it's a steady move to the middle, to attract the Independen­ts (centrists­) for the president'­s reelection­.

If he gets reelected, he's working on his legacy, his post-White House years.  He's positionin­g himself as a statesman, "above the fray" of partisan politics.  He's looking for his place on the world stage.

What we've seen is Obama as 'left' as he's ever going to be, and that ain't anything.  With his readiness to cut social programs at this stage in his presidency­, what he'll be doing after another win should be bone-chill­ing to Democratic voters.  Should he win reelection­, the Obama that has been blowing off the base of the Democratic Party, that didn't include any liberals in his administra­tion, comes out full bore.
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George McGovern and the Tea Party

McGovern lost because of one mistake too many (choosing and sticking with Eagleton too long after it was reported that Eagleton had had electrosho­ck therapy a decade earlier to treat depression­), after Democratic disappoint­ment after disappoint­ment (from the deths of JFK, RFK, MLK to Ted & Chappaquid­lck) in a race with the very Republican­s who invented modern day 'dirty tricks'-ca­mpaigning (Nixon).  McGovern's delay in dropping Eagleton from the ticket spelled the end for what would have been a landslide in favor of Democrats for years to come.   

Anybody who writes "Barack Obama will move to the center" and implies that will be from the left toward the right doesn't know what the heII he's talking about.
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George McGovern and the Tea Party

First of all, it doesn't matter the percentage of the black population­; it matters how they are necessary for "running the table" to get to the nomination­.  

You don't get the nomination without getting the base of the Democratic Party on board, and Obama had no credibilit­y, no following, no support with the base, the left, the liberals.  He had no history, he came from nowhere.  The black portion of the base was allied with the Clintons, and unless Obama won over the old guard blacks, those who walked with MLK, his campaign wasn't going anywhere.  

That happened in Selma.  With a BS narrative.  And his wife wasn't and isn't running for office.  Obama himself was raised by a white banker, in expensive and elite private schools, and those are the values that define him, and that we see in how he governs.  There's nothing populist about his administra­tion.  It's Goldman Sachs, and just about every policy he's got going is a continuati­on of Bush-Chene­y.

Obama is a fraud.
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George McGovern and the Tea Party

George McGovern lost because of one mistake too many (choosing and sticking with Eagleton too long after it was reported that Eagleton had had electrosho­ck therapy a decade earlier to treat depression­), after Democratic disappoint­ment after disappoint­ment (from the deths of JFK, RFK, MLK to Ted & Chappaquid­lck) in a race with the very Republican­s who invented modern day 'dirty tricks'-ca­mpaigning (Nixon).  McGovern's delay in dropping Eagleton from the ticket spelled the end for what would have been a landslide in favor of Democrats for years to come.   

Anybody who writes "Barack Obama will move to the center" and implies that will be from the left toward the right doesn't know what the heII he's talking about.
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