If it starts to look like Obama is likely to lose, the left will turn on him fast. He lied to them, and they're not happy. It'll be the president's problem or the messaging or the packaging, not the philosophy. They will turn on him to preserve their worldview.
Perhaps we can help them along with these...
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I don't know if you could call it a Preference Cascade - for that you would need enough intelligence to have your own preferences instead of one imposed upon you by the group. As Libertas indicated, these are not people who think for themselves and therefore cannot develop an opinion other than that of the group. Liberals follow fads, and thankfully I think Obama, and to a lesser degree, politics in general are falling out of favor.
We drove through the People's Republic of Boulder, Colorado last night and saw only a few Obama stickers - and they were old. I didn't see one 2012. Even saw one car plastered with Bumper stickers - and not an Obama sticker among them. Even the number of cars with any bumper-stickers at all had plummeted in my experience.
Obama? Oh Man he is so 2008. I am so over that. Politics? Is all fighting and bad for my Karma. My life is too important to waste on such things.
The cool kids have tried politics and have seen that it is not something they succeed at, so they are wiping their participation from their memories in the same way we pretend that we never owned a polyester shirt or bell bottom pants in the 70s. Maybe its too optimistic, but I really think they are abandoning the area as bad for their egos. The friends who ousted me from their blog are still my "friends" on facebook, and while I post nothing but the very best examples of liberal fascism there, they are posting nothing but pictures of their kids playing baseball, their amazing organic gardens, and celebrating their superiors choices in restaurants, and their fabulous vacations to somewhere better than where you went. Perhaps they just don't use Facebook for that, but when thy had that blog 90% of it was political content, even though it was supposed to be for "facebook" type sharing ( this was before facebook)
Anyone else seeing a drop off in Liberals being willing to express a political opinion? Maybe conservatives speaking up and confronting them has finally made them realize politics isn't "cool" and the they should stop trying to bring enlightenment to the low sloping neanderthals in fly over country and just punish us by leaving us to wallow in our ignorance. Oh please, oh please, oh please...
And I think everyone can guess why Memphis is so heavily Democrat.
rdbrewer in the AoS post summed up what he believes the media will ultimately do when this wave washes over them:QuoteIf it starts to look like Obama is likely to lose, the left will turn on him fast. He lied to them, and they're not happy. It'll be the president's problem or the messaging or the packaging, not the philosophy. They will turn on him to preserve their worldview.
Not 1984 big, but so decisively as to preempt any Dem claims of voter irregularities and to forestall any Dem voter irregularities themselves. ("If it's not close, they can't cheat." -- Hugh Hewett)
And when analysts look back at the 'turning point' of the 2012 election, they'll point to this week as the inflection point of the campaign, and in particular to three key points:
1) It's now apparent that the Emperor's campaign has no clothes. In spite of the best "wind beneath his wings" efforts of the mainstream media (haircuts? dressage?), every Obama campaign attack on Romney so far has blown up in their faces, either undercut by other Dems (gotta love Bill's statements last night -- remember, revenge is a dish best served cold and with plausible deniability) -- or by bringing to light background information about Obama that the MSM has carefully overlooked for six years.
2) Romney and his campaign staff are clearly moving themselves "inside the loop" in their campaign against Obama. They're raising more money, they're responding to the news cycle better, and they're aggressive about getting in his face. As others have noted, Obama has never faced a tough campaign before and for the first time he has a highly public, highly visible record to defend. I've been waiting 30 years for a bare-knuckled Republican Presidential candidate; who would have thought it would be Mitt Romney? Not me, but I couldn't be happier.
3) It really is hard to overstate just how bad the economic news today was for Obama. It's not just the slight tick upward in the artificially low unemployment rate; it's not just the horrendous May jobs numbers (69,000 actual vs. 150,000+ expected). It's the April jobs numbers being revised down from 114,000 to 77,000, with a chance that the May jobs numbers will be revised downward a month from now. Basically, the 'soft recovery' is sliding down a steep slope, and I'll give even odds that we see at least one month this year with negative job growth.
Obama Economic Plan: Go Buy A Thingamajig (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmiDvAoCF68#)
Anyone with a brain in the audience who hears this economic brilliance will be heading for the exits very, very soon.
Obama Economic Plan: Go Buy A Thingamajig (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmiDvAoCF68#)
Anyone with a brain in the audience who hears this economic brilliance will be heading for the exits very, very soon.
I have enough jigs in my tacklebox.
Obama Economic Plan: Go Buy A Thingamajig (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmiDvAoCF68#)
Anyone with a brain in the audience who hears this economic brilliance will be heading for the exits very, very soon.
I have enough jigs in my tacklebox.
::ohno::
That's raaaaacist!
::hysterical::
Can't listen to him or look at him; he makes me sick. So, I didn't watch the vid. He really said "thingamajig"? Might just as well have said "whatzit". He's a moron. Really.
Drudge has headlined that for Maureen Dowd the magic is over.
Drudge has headlined that for Maureen Dowd the magic is over.
When you've lost Maureen Dowd, you've.... lost Maureen Dowd.
*crickets*
Drudge has headlined that for Maureen Dowd the magic is over.
When you've lost Maureen Dowd, you've.... lost Maureen Dowd.
*crickets*
I'll know for sure it's over when Cwissy Matthews no longer has the tingles.
But impetus of Dowd's column can be viewed in much the same light. She too might be laying down a marker in the event that Obama loses. If Obama loses, she can point to this column in five months and say she saw it coming. Recall that Dowd largely made her bones as a columnist by jumping off of Clinton's ship ahead of many of his liberal defenders when he hit the shoals of scandal.
It's best not to extrapolate too much from a few examples, but it's fair to say that Washington insiders are reading the tea leaves and increasingly preparing for a Romney victory -- especially following Friday's bad economic news. The danger for Obama is that in political campaigns perception can quickly become reality. If influential liberals such as Dowd suddenly have no problem saying Obama appears to be in over his head, pretty soon everyone will be pointing out the obvious. Thus far, Obama's meteoric rise has been largely dependent on a press that went straight from beat sweeteners to beatification. If the press turns on the president, the Obama campaign may not know what to do.
So we are in an era of desperation. A certain class of people who staked their lives on being cool ever since high school — whenever that was, the sixties, the seventies, the eighties, who knows — are beginning to be confronted with the truth – that their ultra-conventional received wisdom, that which they thought was cool, is a bunch of hooey. (I was one of them, so I know.)
Of course, most can’t countenance this. They continue to believe that government spending is cool, that it is a good thing (how square is that?), but out of the corner of their ears they are beginning to hear a different song....
What makes modern liberalism the mess that it is today is that it is mainly composed of people who desperately wanted to be cool in high school – wanted to be Abbie Hoffman or Eldridge Cleaver – but never were. Their longing – this need to be Abbie – has clouded their thinking and their ability to perceive reality, placing us all in a mess along with them.
Meanwhile, Bob Dylan became a conservative.