Dismantling Republican Election Hopes

By Douglas V. Gibbs

The Left never stops.  Liberalism is a ferocious beast that devours all it can, while working to silence, and ultimately eliminate, its opposition.  One thing the progressives have learned, that the republicans, and TEA Party folk, still battle with, is that perception is everything.  And in the Democrat Party, they have learned that all they have to do is put an idea out there, no matter how outlandish it may be, and then let it gain legs in the battle of perception.

Never mind that the accusations are all false.  Over a hundred years ago the liberal left began their attack on the GOP, accusing them of being fat cat plutocrats that are only for the rich, and in the pockets of massive corporations.  Meanwhile, the democrats have continuously put into place policies that kill the little guy, and benefit the largest corporations.  However, the perception against the republicans took hold, and to this day we hear the untruth that republicans are for the rich, and democrats are for the poor and average citizen.

Lyndon B. Johnson began the "all republicans are racist" mantra, and it seems the more conservative the group, the more likely the "racist" label will be attached.  Never mind that democrat policies have worsened conditions for minorities, sending unemployment rates in those groups sky-high, or that Senator Byrd, a longtime loved democrat, was a member of the KKK, or that the KKK was created in the first place by the Democrat Party to serve as a militant arm of the party to stop blacks and republicans from gaining office in the South.

Now, the leftists are doubling down.  They are playing the game of perception in ways that would be hysterically funny if it wasn't for the fact that their idiotic attacks work on a large number of people.

Let's take a look at the latest attempts to demonize the GOP, just in time for another election year.

Congressional Republican Paul Ryan was labeled as racist for saying that there was a "tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value of work."  The Congressional Black Caucus called that "thinly veiled racism" and expect an apology - not that having a Congressional "Black" Caucus that would never allow any non-blacks from being a member of the group is racist.

Ryan was simply stating fact, and in reality showing that liberal policies have indeed put the black community into such a predicament.  But the reality, and truth, is not what the liberal left democrats are looking for.  The simple accusation of being a racist will be enough, and now, uninformed people that refuse to learn the full context, will hear about this and mutter, "There we go, just another racist republican."

The Huffington Post was excited to report how the republicans have turned away a racist TEA Party candidate.  The candidate is named Drew Turiano, who has filed to run for Congress in Montana.  The county unit of the Republican Party has rejected him. . . on the grounds of being racist because of his views on illegal immigration (and using a name used by Eisenhower, "Operation Wetback."

Perhaps using the term "Operation Wetback" on his site was not the wisest thing to do, but it does not make him a racist no more than opposing an invasion by droves of illegals does.  My wife is Mexican, and in fact was originally born in Mexico, and is more against illegal immigration than most people.  Is she racist against her own nationality?  By the way, she rejects the term "Mexican-American," tossing the hyphen and just calling herself "American."  She naturalized in 2007.  Of course, the issue is more than about Mexicans.  Many of those crossing the Mexican border are of Middle Eastern descent, making this a National Security issue, as well.

The Huffington Post went on to attack Turiano for daring to support states' rights to nullify or reject any federal law or judicial mandate, citing Roe v. Wade and Obamacare as prime examples.

How dare he want the States to act upon their constitutional authority!  And since when is wanting to save the lives of unborn babies a bad thing?  Just because the leftists call the slaughter of these defenseless persons by the millions a "woman's right" does not make it so.

Oh, and the leftists, and GOP, were bothered by him thinking President Barack Obama should be impeached.  Is that racist, too?

“Would traditional and Christian America be so complacent if this dastardly transformation was being accomplished by an invading army like that of Stalin?” Turiano asked, according to his website.

Turiano should not be a candidate shunned by the Republican Party, but embraced.  His positions are right on.  However, for some reason, the republicans think the democrats are trying to help them win an election when they tell them to abandon immigration and abortion as issues, and to not criticize Obama.

As if the democrats really want to help the republicans win elections.

John McCain has become a favorite of the leftists.  In their little collectivist minds, they think that since McCain was the GOP presidential nominee a couple elections ago, what he says should matter to republicans.  They were confused when the Arizona Republican Party censured McCain, saying he was not conservative.  Now, the leftists are jumping all over McCain's criticisms of the conservatives in the GOP, especially when he said he was "embarrassed" by the conservative's position regarding Ukraine.  McCain claimed the assistance package to Ukraine was being rejected by some republicans because of the IMF connection to the proposal, but Boehner said that was not true.  Of course, like most left of center people, McCain misses the big picture, and only sees the little one.  If a bill has bad language in it, you don't pass it because it is good on the surface.  You reject it, and then resubmit it without the bad language.

The WEEK says that if Fox News continues to be too conservative, it could cost the GOP the election - holding on to that old myth about winning elections can only happen for the republicans if they win over moderates by watering down the message.  Election results, however, say otherwise.  Moderates Romney and McCain lost because republican voters did not show up out of frustration for the less-than-conservative choice.  George W. Bush, though not conservative in my opinion, convinced people he was conservative, and won twice.  Remember, in 1976 Ronald Reagan did not win the nomination because he was considered as being dangerously too conservative, and then in 1980 was predicted to lose for being too extreme, and too conservative.  Instead, conservatism won, and by a landslide.  As for this Fox News thing, the channel is not conservative, but it does have conservative hosts, and it is not as liberal as the crazy networks, MSNBC and CNN (who are losing badly in the ratings, I might add).  This is just another way of the leftists putting out their attacks against conservatism.

Remember, though, the left attacks what they fear most.

All these are are silly little lies that play huge on perception.  We can counter it with the truth, and we must get that truth to the people who don't know what they don't know.  Pointing these lies out is one way.  Infiltrating the education system, political establishment, and media, is another.  I plan to do all of the above.

The Constitution is still the best solution.

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