Blatant Reality

Alright fellow Republicans, we got beat, not as bad as they were predicting since it looks like the Democrats might not reach the magical number of 60 seats in the Senate. Nevertheless, there is no possible way for us to even look at this past election as anything other than an utter failure for the GOP brand name.

But fear not fellow Republicans, for I have a plan. This election has granted us a unique opportunity not yet seen by Republicans in this country. For a long time, we have been “the man” either in Congress by holding the majority from 1994-2006 or as President from 2000-2008. During this time, technology has increased exponentially with YouTube, Blogs, and Podcasts reshaping the way the media and politics are conducted.

At the same time, liberals have attacked our leadership, always stating that things would be better if they were in charge. Out of this came a candidate who it can be argues that Barack Obama best used these advances to win the election (though if he used them legally is a completely different story) Well I have news for those liberals: Now you are “the man” and it is our turn to use the recent technological advances against your united government to ensure a conservative president next election.

How will we Republicans do this? Well I have a few ideas that should give us a little help come 2012.

They have a video of me saying what?

First off, you know what the one good thing about Obama being elected is? It’s that we know exactly who we will be running against come 2012. Articles have already started to come out predicting who his opponents will be but for my plan, this really doesn’t matter. While the Republican candidates focus on jostling and positioning themselves to become the next nominee, the RNC needs to focus on what Obama says, every single word.

Honestly, how often did Obama and Biden say something that was politically damaging to them over the past election cycle? Why not get a head start and begin to transcribe, categorize, and save every single speech, statement, and haphazard remark they make between now and the next election? Though his remarks might seem mundane now, down the road (aka the 2012 election) you may be able to find a statement that can be used in a campaign ad against him.

Seriously people, how much money would it take to hire a GOP staffer to transcribe/organize all of Obama’s public addresses and videos into a library of sorts? With websites like YouTube, you will even be able to get those remarks that were made without huge audiences. Why wait until the next election to get all this research done when we can have a very extensive database/dossier which people can instantly look up what he said about certain topics. Personally, I think this would be priceless.

Countering The Ministry of Truth

The next item deals with “change,” one of our Dear Leader’s favorite mantras. As you may be well aware, Obama loves change and his newest website Change.gov reflects this. In fact, this website has already experienced multiple “changes” and revisions since it was first put up just days ago.

What the RNC needs to do with this is keep a running list of all the “changes.” Hell, don’t even wait for the election to publish it; get it out there now and keep it constantly updated. The blogs will do most of the watchdog work for you so all that will need to be done is verification of the item in question and an assessment of whether or not the “change” is worth mentioning.

The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry

One thing that our illustrious leader has done for us is give the people over 280 pdf pages worth of pure “hope” (aka future plans) for our nation. Put another way, this is over 280 pages of promises that he will be unable to keep. While most candidates give just vague generalities for where they want to take the country, Obama gave very detailed plans with target dates and all. What the GOP needs to do is keep a list of all his failed promises, maybe publishing it in a quarterly magazine as the years go on. Then again, it might be more effective if the GOP waits until the 2012 election season and pulls a Martin Luther-esque stunt like nailing the complete list of Obama’s failures to the doors of Congress. Whatever they do, a list is a must and the GOP needs to start now.

You cannot run from your past forever

Along with all of this, it really wouldn’t hurt to delve more into Barack Obama’s past. Think about it this way: You have four more years to conduct opposition research without your opponent being able to reciprocate. I don’t know if it was just me, but it seems that there was a lot of “juicy” stuff coming out in the last week of the campaign. However, this stuff seemed to just be thrown out there without being developed.

You have four years RNC, two and a half until the election cycle comes back around, so research his past. When you get some interesting tidbits from his past, link it to statements and actions he has made during his four years as president (Hint: This is where that video archive I discussed above would come in handy). For example, he has made a lot of socialist sounding statements in the past election cycle so your goal would be to link these statements to socialist sounding statements and actions he has taken while president. Form a crystal clear bond for the public to see that Obama is the exact same man he was when he was younger. Prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is the same man that would seek out Marxists and Socialists in college and domestic terrorists when he was older. All in all, I doubt this would be too hard to pull off.

Conclusion

So RNC, what are you waiting for? If you are worried about money to finance these operations, I doubt you will have to wait too long: soon people will be giving you all the change they can spare after they have experienced Obama’s “change.” So have faith fellow Republicans, we can still pull off a win in the 2012 election (along with gaining some seats in the 2010 election as well). If we play our cards right, start work now, and find a candidate that actually is a conservative to represent us, we might be able to end Barack Hussein Obama’s reign in 2012.

And the Dow comes crashing down again.

And the grand total is… a 1,340 point drop in the market since Obama has been elected President.

Take a look at what I said about the first drop the day after the election.

Do I really need to say more?

Hmmm…I wonder why the Dow almost dropped 500 points today? Actually, I have a pretty good feeling that Obama’s win yesterday had something to do with it.

Yea and this drop is after an almost weeklong recovery the Dow had seen since October 27th. So before you start telling me not to blame Obama for the drop in the market let me pose a question to you: If the market had been recovering for the past week and everyone knew that Obama was going to be elected, why the sudden drop after the predicted outcome came true?

Before I give you my hypothesis, lets look at the month long gragh of the Dow:

If you look at the trend of the market, it is consistently going down until the 27th of October. During this whole period, Obama had a fairly large lead in the polls but something changed around the 27th. The polls started to tighten, be it ever so slightly and news articles came out stating the McCain could have a shot at winning. In conjunction with this, swing state like Missouri, Indiana, and North Carolina, that up until a couple days before the election were polling for Obama, showed McCain with a slight lead on election day.

During this whole period where McCain seemed to possibly be making a coming, the stock market seemed to be making a comeback as well.

So is this all a coincidence and I have missed some spurious factor that has caused the stock market to first go up with the hopes of McCain pulling it off and then crash when Obama wins? Possibly, but I like to stick with Ockham’s Razor: “All other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best.” At the very least, if the rise in the stock market isn’t at all linked to McCain’s supposed comeback, the mini crash we experienced today can surely be linked with Obama’s win.

Oh yea, did I mention this is the biggest post election drop in history and that I predicted this would happen last Saturday?

Go Vote for McCain/Palin today. If you need a reason why look no further than this Hot Air article.

Several days ago, I had a post that pointed out an ad campaign basically predicting a horrible future if Republicans were elected this November 4th. The thing about this ad that really got me was that instead of just being a simple “Vote Democrat or Else” ad, its message was “Vote for Obama who will be our savior from this almost certain horrible future.”

Anyways, I was curious to see who did this website since it seemed to be fairly sophisticated and I was surprised to find that the website is linked to a Filip Hammarstrom from Sweden. One can easily find this sort of information out using the free services like Domain Tools “WhoIs Search”.

A simple Google search of his name pops up one of Sweden’s largest production companies, Palladium, which has a Filip Hamarstrom is listed as a “Director & Editor” in the Contact page. This priduction company has done multiple videos for various different companies and organizations including the UN.

Now, could it be chance that the Filip who has registered the site has the same name of the Filip who works at Palladium? Sure, weirder things have happened. But with the professional quality of the videos at The Year 2048, one would think a production company, or at least someone familiar with these sorts of things, was involved. Plus, if you look at the address given from the WhoIs Search and compare it to the address of Palladium, you find that it is just a 15 minute drive.

Why is this all important? Well it just shows that foreign nationals are trying very hard to influence our election. I wasn’t able to find anything that directly associated these ads with the Obama campaign but if anyone else can find a connection, be sure to link to it in the comment section.

Seems like Obama doesn’t want to take a position on the bombing of an al Qaeda agent in Syria. Going off his previous statements of supporting taking out targets in Pakistan, it should seem like he would support this recent action. Of course, with a week before the election, we aren’t going to see him take a potentially controversial stand.
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The Weekly Standard has more on this here.

I stumbled upon this ad surprisingly on IMAO and was very shocked by what it is implying. First watch the ad and make sure you finish it:

Yea, pretty horrible right? I thought it was just one of those simple Democrat leaning ads at the beginning but was shocked to see it end with the message “Vote Obama ‘08.” Honestly, this ad implies that a vote for Republicans will mean a vote for a ruined future, 40 years down the road.

Here is the YouTube page for The Year 2048 and here is their actual website where they have many more videos.

I wasn’t able to find anything about them or if they are affiliated with anyone in a cursory search. The cinematography is pretty good so I would suggest that someone dig a little bit deeper into this.

At least this is what a new poll by IBD/TIPP suggests. Instead, it found that the 18-24 age group is solidly in McCain’s corner. Gosh, and here I was hoping that my peers wouldn’t turn out on election day.

Last night I attended a debate between former DNC Chairman Don Fowler and current RNC Committeeman Glenn McCall. This event was advertised as a “post presidential debate debate” and mainly consisted of a moderator asking each representative to pick apart the presidential candidate’s statements from the third and final debate.

Overall, I thought the debate was well done. Both Fowler and McCall actually answered the questions and the moderator actually asked good follow up questions along with making sure each participant answered the original question.

The following is the debate in whole in chronological order, which I broke it into eight parts with each part dealing with a certain topic/question. It might be good to watch the first video just so you know the set up and the introductions, otherwise you can jump around from video to video. Just to let you know who is who, Don Fowler is located on the right and Glenn McCall is located on the left of the moderator.

First topic, after the introductions were made, was their thoughts on the Bailout.

Next, the moderator asked about ‘Joe the Plumber’ who’s name each candidate invoked during the debate.

Following that, each participant spoke about the idea of allowing the President line item veto power.

Next they discussed energy policy and in particular offshore oil drilling and nuclear. (Both Fowler and McCall are pro-nuclear).

They each discussed the idea of negative campaigning in this election and how it compared to past elections.

Next they discussed fair trade policy.

Education was tackled next with Glenn McCall giving some interesting insight into the problem.

The last topic discussed was Health Care, with each participant articulating what exactly the healthcare industry will look like under their respected candidates.