And let us not forget the contributions of Senator John Kerry, aka ‘Lurch‘!

Edwards was also running; was totally blindsided by this! Thanks Lurch!

So in 8 short years, John Edwards – liberal Democratic Senator from North Carolina – has gone from being the fluffy headed ‘Breck Boy‘ of the 2004 Democratic Presidential Campaign – to a federal defendant in a campaign money-laundering and bribery trial.

And now he’s got an extra kid to support….  That’ll be tough from jail.

ANYbody out there think that Lurch will come and be a character witness for him?

Now - JUST IMAGINE – what secrets the next 8 years will reveal about Lurch’s 2008 Presidential Pick! [Yes, I know, - I misspelled 'P ick'...].

/s/  Iron Mike
Old Soldier, – Still Good for Parts!

An agonizing dilemma faces Democrats as 2012 looms.

With just 14 short months until Election Day, their Messiah looks ever more lame, inept, unfocused, and irrelevant every day.

Democratic insiders and spinmeisters are agonizing over how to portray the tale of this past 2½ years in a way which can recapture the rapture of 2008.

Even they know there is no way the economy can recover in time to heal the wounds of the disaffected. So they essentially have just three (3) unsavory choices; well, maybe four:

With the stock market crippling along day-to-day on false hopes and faint good news, – with unemployment at historic highs [particularly for Black folks], – with business growth and job creation flat, – and with Americans increasingly angry over Obama’s failure to secure the Mexican border, – Obama campaign planner David Axelrod faces a bleak task.

Even the killing of Usama bin Laden backfired. Obama looked like a scared spectator in the Situation Room, and then both he and Biden blabbed the highly classified military secret of which unit killed him. 

Instead of looking like the ‘competent commander’ – he looked like an opportunist political hack – claiming credit of the work and bravery of better men.

His ‘victory lap’ to Fort Campbell and Fort Drum showed clearly that our troops – who once gave him the benefit o f the doubt – now thoroughly loathe him.

The bus tour on the Canadian-build Darth Vadar bus backfired, when it was revealed that Obama didn’t even ride the damned bus – but flew from stop to stop.

Another self-inflicted wound was announcing he had a ‘master plan to create jobs‘ – then going on vacation in Martha’s Vineyard for two weeks – as if jobs could wait.

To make things worse – even Hurricane Irene fizzled on him – making him once again look foolish and irrelevant sitting in FEMA headquarters while Irene dissipated inland.

Now his arrogance and narcissism was on full display as he announced an Address before a Joint Session – without the common courtesy of asking Speaker Boehner.  Rebuffed quickly by the Speaker – he looks like an upstart put in his place by an adult.

With at least a dozen stalwart Republicans [plus Mitt Romney and Ron Paul] – frothing at the bit to take him on next year – how can David Axelrod possibly find enough lipstick to put on this pig? How can they make Obama look like ‘presidential timber’ to their flock of jaded and more skeptical followers?

Can any but the most ardent ideological socialists among the American voting-age population not be worried that a second Obama term will destroy their retirement plans and nest eggs?

Can American Blacks – now suffering 16.7% unemployment [40% for Blacks under age 30] not be wondering if they were led down the garden path by a false messiah?  Are they beginning to see Obama in the same light as Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton – i.e. as a self-promoting charlatan – one unable to deliver jobs or respect?

The Democrat’s Three Unsavory Choices:

THE BLAME GAME: They can claim that Obama is still a truly enlightened 21^st Century economic and political genius; and that his failure to accomplish anything but record unemployment, a stagnant economy, and TEA Party anger – is all the fault of the left-over problems of George Bush, of those mean-spirited Republicans, of the TEA Party, and American racism.

The Backlash:  Blaming others is a well-established diagnostic tip-off to a narcissist, and Americans are becoming increasingly aware that Obama is probably a severe narcissist.

Blaming other – vilifying Republicans and TEA Party folks – branding them ‘racists’ – produces a VERY negative campaign theme sure to turn off the undecided.

Americans have never elected ‘victims’; – they want leaders.

It admits that Obama either wasn’t visionary enough for the job, – or not leader enough to persuade the Republican minority for two full years to underwrite his programs.

It begs the question – ‘Who would be strong enough to continue the Socialist Mission?‘

THE RESET BUTTON:  Democrats can suddenly admit that Obama is not God’s Gift to America’s 21^st Century economic and political problems. They can admit that a background of actual accomplishments and valid credentials DO MATTER, and admit that in November 2008 Obama was seriously short in both categories. They can admit that he was never really up to the job.

Admitting that, – they can then claim that these past years have been Obama’s ‘on-the-job learning laboratory’ – and that NOW he is finally ready to complete his job – if America will just give him four more years.

The Downside: They will have to admit that he wasn’t ready for prime time; that he came onto the world stage unrehearsed, untried, and relying on teleprompters and speechwriters. They would have to admit that he was flawed from the get-go, that his first term has been a series of self-inflicted disasters, and that he is ‘partly responsible’ for the downtrodden economy.

THEN they’d have to somehow make him look as if he just graduated from Charm School – ans was now finally ready to lead us out of despair. They’d have to sell their faithful that even a flawed Obama is better than any Republican – or even Romney or Paul.

I think Axelrod knows Obama well enough by now to know he could NEVER pull off that act, – even if American Democrats were still just as gullible in 2012 as they were in 2008. I think he knows a LOT of Democrats are now unemployed, aware, and angry at being fooled.

THE ONWARD TO SOCIALISM PLOY:  Axelrod, Jarrett, and the Cartel can admit what we’ve known all along – that from the beginning Obama has been an agent of Socialism – dedicated to subverting our Constitution, crippling and destroying our system of Free Market Capitalism, and bringing America down a few notches to the level of a third world nation with minimal economic and military muscle.

This is the bold approach.  It gambles that by 2012 there are enough registered voters [mostly minorities] who have been schooled and rehearsed in ‘entitlement politics’ – i.e. schooled to believe that government exists to ‘take from the rich and provide for the people‘ to overwhelm election officials and voting booths in November 2012. It counts heavily on socialist groups like ACORN, Neighbor-to-Neighbor, MoveON, and union thuggery from outfits like the Teamsters, the teachers, and the SEIU.

This approach also uses the fear and intimidation tactics of street thuggery and cries of ‘racism’.

The Shortfall: With Obama’s approval ratings now at just 40% – and falling fast, there is a strong likelihood that even thuggery will not dissuade voters from recapturing their government next November.

Most of the Republican candidates today are more inspiring that was John McCain, so older Republicans and independents will see a significant difference between the failed Obama and the Republican standard bearer. This time they’ll come out to vote.

Because a lot of old-time Real Democrats still want nothing to do with socialism, selling Obama as ‘Socialism’s Last Best Chance’ will be a turn-off.

THE AXELROD DESPERATION PLAY:   A new quarterback – Hillary!

If by December Axelrod’s secret polling tells him what we suspect it will – that Obama is totally unelectable – he’s got to make a move to save the Great March to Socialism. He’ll draft Hillary, maybe with Lurch [John F*ing Kerry] as her VP – and hope that America’s Democratic women are willing to vote for a known socialist – just to ‘make history by electing America’s first woman president’.

The gamble here is hoping people will forget Whitewater, the Rose Law Firm, TravelGate, the stained black dress, the impeachment, and of course – that Kerry picked Edwards in 2004.

2012 will be a turning point year for America. If either Obama or Hillary is elected, our socialist future is sealed and our Constitution will be retired.

Or, maybe Americans will realize the experiment has been a colossal failure – one which cost many hard-working citizens any chance of the comfortable quiet retirement they’ve worked decades for, and saddled our grandchildren with ungodly amounts of public debt.

Get involved, and get your kids and grandkids involved.

   /s/ Iron Mike
   Old Soldier, – Still Good for Parts!

This elitist moonbat, and one-world socialist, is vying to become our next SecState, will probably run again for Prez in 2016. 

Marco sweeps the pompous arrogant fool aside with simple basic America logic.

File this one away under sad, sick, and incredible irony. I take no joy in posting it.
 

FOR THE RECORD:

I really hate John Ketchup Kerry – who I consider to be a lifelong phony, a gigolo, a liar-under-oath, a tax dodger, and a traitor to our country. He’s also the epitome of the ‘Socialist Ruling Class’.
 
I am really saddened when soldiers [or sailors] held up to us as heroes are proven over time to be either unworthy – or to have been awarded undeserved medals. I know so many men [and carried their bodies to waiting helicopters] whose valor was never known, or never decorated that when these cases arise – I am at once angered and saddened.

So we were to believe that Swift Boat Commander Wade Sanders was a Vietnam hero – awarded the Silver Star. He would serve for 29 years, reach the rank of Captain [just under Admiral] before retiring and becoming an attorney in California. He ran for Congress once. Later he served as Deputy Secretary of the Navy in the Clinton Administration.
 
It was Wade who introduced Kerry to the DNC in Boston that hot August in 2004.

It was Wade who led the counter-attack against the Swift Vets for Truth – the group who managed to produce the documents proving Kerry’s lackluster naval service, and that none of his three (3?) Purple Hearts drew any blood.

And it was Wade who was arrested by the FBI in 2007. They found 600 images of child pornography on his three computers.  In Dec 2008 he ‘accepted sole responsibility’, claimed his purpose was ‘research‘, and pleaded guilty.  In 2009 the prosecutor explained to the judge that the images dated from 2003, and there was zero indication of any ‘research’.  Wade got 37 months.

Now SecNAV Ray Mabus has stripped Sanders of his Silver Star. The explanation bodes chilling for Kerry:

“…had the subsequently determined facts and evidence surrounding both the incident for which the award was made and the processing of the award itself been known to the Secretary of the Navy in 1992,  those facts would have prevented the award of the Silver Star”

I read that as (a). the incident did not happen as reported and (b). Sanders’ actual role was less what got on the paperwork, and (c). ~ somebody ~ hustled the award paperwork up the ladder without full review.

Kerry shouldn’t have to worry ~ too ~ much.  As our Senior Socialist Senator and Distinguished American Gigolo, Kerry still isn’t sitting where he belongs – alongside Sanders in federal prison.

But time will tell.

   /s/ Iron Mike
   Old Soldier, – Still Good for Parts!

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: With all the cases of teachers being caught with child pornography, why aren’t school boards demanding that all school computers be subjected to unannounced audits EVERY year?

We had a couple of mean little tornadoes cut across southern Massachusetts this afternoon. So far four people are dead.

Our prayers are with them and their families, and with the many families who lost homes and businesses.

Now our citizens will see if their elected Democrats are up to the task.

Deval Patrick was on TV an hour ago – and despite the grimness of the events,  my first reaction was a loud hoot. Let me explain.

Standing behind Deval [I call him Duh-val] was a lady we at RRB have gotten to know all too well. Executive Secretary of Public Safety – Mary Beth Heffernan.

We’ve gotten an up-close and personal look at Mary Beth in connection with Governor Patrick’s foot-dragging on the Secure Communities Program. Being pro-illegal immigrant – he’s been looking for an excuse to continue ignoring the program – one highly favored by police officers.

Mary Beth has a particular skill set which Duh-val somehow finds desirable. She does a great job at looking befuddled, confused, and hung over in public. She is so good at it you’d think she and State Senator Susan Fargo are sisters.

So there standing behind the Gov was Mary Beth. Believe me folks, she doesn’t have a clue. Springfield – you are screwed!

As if 8.5% unemployment wasn’t bad enough, tonight there are reports of looting.  Guess some folks were just out looking for their FEMA cards.

But it gets worse; Lurch is on his way.

When Senator Kerry saw Duh-val giving a press conference on TV tonight he said:  “Damn – they’ve still got electricity – I’ve got to get there for another live shot!” Kerry immediately left his yacht [moored in Rhode Island] and headed up the road.

His mission is to be seen against a backdrop of storm damage in time for the Thursday morning news.

You can almost hear his sound bites: ‘We need to raise taxes to help these poor people‘ – - ‘I want to make sure that only UNION labor is used in the rebuilding effort‘ – - ‘We don’t want any non-union people running chain saws‘ – - ‘Home Depot and Lowe’s better not be doing any price gouging‘.  ‘Let’s borrow some more money from our Chinese friends!‘

So between Democrats Deval Patrick, John Kerry, John Olver, Mayor Domenic Sarno, and of course the bewildered Mary Beth, – you just KNOW that Springfield is in good hands. Everything should be fixed….by late October 2012.

Let the photo-ops begin!

   /s/ Iron Mike
   Old Soldier, – Still Good for Parts!

This may be a first for Lurch, – he didn’t mention his “time in Vietnam” even once.  He’s just very happy he doesn’t have to run this year.   He’s waiting for Obama to call and offer him SecState. 

Remember this hypocrite was hiding his $7 Million New Zealand built luxury yacht in Rhode Island this summer to avoid Massachusetts sales and property tax. 

   /s/  Iron Mike
   Old Soldier, – Still Good for Parts!

On Saturday came his off-script remarks in Milwaukee where the MEssiah had to admit people are “talking ’bout him like a dawg”.   Dog owners and dog lovers across the nation were outraged.

Today down in Gainesville Florida a slightly wacky preacher wants to burn Korans on 9/11 – supposedly to make a statement, but probably to recruit parishioners.  He has a very small flock of followers. 

So does our [possibly Muslim] President call the Preacher and ask / order him not to burn the Korans?  Hate to be the Muslim PotUS and get told to #uck off by a pastor leading two dozen Christians. 

Whoa!  Don’t people burn bibles and American flags every day in this country?  Didn’t the 9^th Circus just rule that it’s OK to lie about being a war hero?  [That’s the John Kerry / Richard Blumenthal Decision for you 1^st year law students.]

This morning’s ration of bad news comes from the august offices of Scott Rasmussen.  Obama’s “popularity” index has sunk to the lowest point in 19 months.  That’s a minus 24%.  ’Nuff said!

Some days a Muslim Socialist Wannabe Kenyan Dictator just can’t catch a break!

   /s/  Iron Mike
   Old Soldier, – Still Good for Parts!

Do you ~ think ~ that just maybe OBummer wants this problem to get a LOT worse – so he can justify government takeovers of the oil industry?  Too far fetched?  Remember Cash for Clunkers?

   /s/  Iron Mike
   Old Soldier, Still Good for Parts!