Understanding Independents, Why we VOTE the way we do & a Great Jay Ambrose Piece “Time to Hide, Liberals”
By Marc Chamot
The old saying that after a little time, American voters forget about incidents and issues related to both party’s politicians and they keep on voting for the same candidates, time after time. Well, that was true, until Independents came along.
There is no doubt that the liberal left, just had their Sarah Palin moment, and they are in a state of disarray, shock and panic, when Republican Scott Brown won Ted Kennedy’s senate seat of Massachusetts.
The political worlds have just discovered what Independents are all about. When President Obama won the U.S. presidency, he and his supporters thought that he won it through his liberal base, and that he and his congressional liberal leftists had been given a mandate to trample all over this country with their agendas.
The wannabes political pundits and some columnists said oh, Obama won because of the Hispanic votes, he won the election with the women’s votes, the gay votes and so forth. It was also common knowledge that President Obama got the largest share of the Independent votes.
The effects of Independents in elections were never truly known, until recently. The last three anti-Obama elections that landed Republicans in office were done, by large with the help of Independent voters.
As I have said on my blogs, three years ago. Lookout for the Independents, they will sway all future American elections. You’ve really got to give credit to Lou Dobbs, if it weren’t for Lou Dobbs, the causes and interests for the Independent Party would have never grown as big as it is today.
I have no problems with the Democratic Party as a whole; my problem is with their inept leadership all over around, from California to D.C. This party has been hijacked by the far-left, and the Republican Party has been hijacked by the far-right.
Who are Independent voters? WE DEPLORE PARTISANSHIPS; we are the angry, dissatisfied, and disenfranchised former Democratic and Republican registered voters. Many don’t contribute moneys to political campaigns, they don’t have any party allegiances’, and they JUST VOTE for the person that meets their interest.
Some Independents are hard to reach, unlike registered Democrats or Republicans; some Independents don’t go to political rallies and fundraisings. Independents are politically smarter, and usually free of party biases, they are more issue oriented.
When I started the Marc Chamot Report and Opinions, it became more of the accurate way for the average angry populists think and believe, whether some of my readers like it or not, and without any party prejudices.
Many Independents either lean Democrat or Republican, but I lean Republican because of my religious and conservative beliefs. The most common thing about many of the Independents, we all want to see the nation going in the right direction. We don’t really care who governs, unless they are doing their jobs well.
Many of us have believe in the same issues as Democrats and Republicans, I’m Independent because I only agree with 45 percent of the Democrats’ views, whereas 55 with the Republicans on political issues. So, I cannot be a happy party member, but I’d rather sit on the sidelines and be the party’s spoilers.
But the truth is; if President Obama does eventually listen and change from his left leaning policies, if he does decide to take this country forward, and if they agree with mine, I will definitely support him.
I enjoy reading Jay Ambrose, he kind of took the words right out of my mouth, about what I feel has been going on with the far-left, and he’s got a pretty good take about the recent demises of liberal left Democrat’s elections. It’s a pretty awesome article, and it’s a must read for all:
Time to hide, liberalsGo back some decades, and it looked as if liberals were going to be the death of America. They wanted to take it really easy on criminals. They favored welfare programs that destroyed families. They backed foreign aid that buttressed tyrannies. Their way of dealing with enemies was unilateral disarmament. Still other proposals could have spent, taxed and regulated us into oblivion.
The voters didn't like all of this, the L-word became a curse, and so liberals went into something akin to a witness protection program. They changed their name to "progressives" and if they did not quite hide out, they became less obtrusive with some of their views. Yes, they griped, fumed, engaged in numerous sneak attacks and thumbed their noses at the opposition, but they did turn the lights dimmer than before on their grand vision of free-enterprise destruction and runaway statism.
Ah, but then after their surprising 1990s ascension came the self-destruction of earmark-happy, spendthrift congressional Republicans who seemed to assume power was theirs forever, even if many of their principles were proving strangely evaporative.
So first off, the Democrats took back Congress. Then Barack Obama used unexcelled rhetorical skills, a recession, an unpopular war in Iraq and George W. Bush's deep decline in public estimation to capture the White House. Conservative values had supposedly been rejected, and behold, it was the liberal hour, a time for the enlightened few to strike back, to fix things - glory, glory hallelujah!
The arrogance was suffocating. Resurrected liberals were practically smirking as they instructed us to sweet-talk our way out of terrorist threats, advised we should quickly duplicate Europe's semi-socialist mistakes and condescendingly dished up all manner of other liberty-smothering ideological inanities that would transform America into a poor imitation of what it once was if anyone actually acted on them.
Washington Democrats said they would do their best.
Let's all get Keynesian, the liberals said, and pretty soon Obama and friends were giving us a stimulus package costing as much as the war Obama opposed. But then, oh, dear, it turned out not to work, job losses actually accelerated and meanwhile, along with other spending enthusiasms, it was threatening to eviscerate our future with mounting debt.
Our liberal-inspired Democrats weren't through. Obama and his congressional buddies had a trillion-dollar, ineffectual, welfare-worsening health care plan they aimed to pass through secrecy and dishonest deals, and then they wanted to eat away at our industrial base with a global warming program achieving nothing. There were hopes of making illegal aliens legal ... but wait, what was that rustling in the bushes?
Why, it was dissent. It was tea party rallies. It was independents telling pollsters they were losing faith in Obama and the Democrats. It was commentators refusing to scatter to the woods when the outraged, don't-dare-criticize-us liberals rose up and roared, claiming media bias even though the bias was mostly on their side.
They just couldn't stand it, these liberals, and they kept harrumphing about vicious ignorance when they were the ones whose moral superiority had been exposed as fraudulent and whose intellectual flabbiness had been put on display for the world to see.
Ordinary Americans have caught onto all of this, and so, I am sorry, liberals, but the word of the day for you is "lose." Your side has lost elections in New Jersey and Virginia, and now your side has lost the Senate seat previously held by the very liberal Ted Kennedy in very liberal Massachusetts to Scott Brown, a Republican.
The message to the Democrats is simple. Either give up your liberal ways and veer toward the center or face political catastrophe in November's general election. The message to liberals generally is also simple: Get back into your witness protection program.