The 2008 Election Map

Although they were out marketed by the Team Obama geniuses, money raisers and crooks, and totally bamboozled by the press and poling agencies, the voters didn't overwhelming elect Barack Obama--not even the much lauded and sought after youth vote. It wasn't even the record turn out that was predicted--all that early voting just was a cover to register more illegal voters. And most of the country had great weather on voting day (remember in 2004 Democrats blamed the rain in the midwest).

No, it was just like the Bush-Clinton election of 1992. It was the Republicans who stayed home and refused to vote or voted 3rd party because they didn't like the candidate they had. Republicans elected Bill Clinton; Republicans elected Barack Obama. That's who gave us the most far left President in our history. I'm sure they were out there somewhere, but I didn't meet a single supporter of the McCain/Palin ticket for whom McCain was his first choice. Only when Palin joined him was there any spark of enthusiasm. But Republicans have never had the party solidarity of the Democrats, who are the real mind-numbed robots, despite their self-image as sophisticated, astute, thinking voters. That's the number one thing I noticed when I changed party registration in 2000. It was almost culture shock. And although it was refreshing to not be chained to party-think, at election time it was a bit disconcerting.

When polled about the issues alone, voters rarely put Obama's plans on top. He and his fellow Democrats participated in the biggest economic meltdown since 1929 in the economy, yet only his coaches knew how to take advantage and blame it on Bush, or you the voter, or the greed of Wall Street. Have you looked at his list of bundlers or mega-donors? They are huge in Wall Street banks and hedge funds, whether Asian, Indian, middle eastern, or pork fed Americans. Why malign your own donors? Easy. 1) It takes the focus off Congress, who is the real culprit, and 2) To bring down and take over the smaller entities to reduce competition. The same reason the corporate giants support all the e-regulations and are dancing behind the green band wagon--it destroys the real competition--the smaller, innovative, quicker guys. It's not all that different than giving away your software at no cost to put the competition out of business, or offering two dollar off coupons to temporarily refocus the housewife's attention to your product at the market until they can't compete (and then raise the price when the competition is dead).

I don't blame Republicans for being angry that McCain wasn't their choice, but they sure shot themselves in the foot. Look at the map. Where are the major social problems in the country? Which cities and counties have been investing in and expanding the War on Poverty of the 1960s for forty years? Where are the expanding crime, the biggest job loss, the strongest unions, and the most fatherless households? The bluest of the blue states. That's the direction the whole country is moving.