I think the debate went well.  The questions were good and on point for a set of conservative candidates.  None of the candidates committed any major mistakes and all looked respectful and completely involved.  The topics were certainly not new, and all were VERY vocal at placing the blame for the current state of America at the feet of PresO.

At then end of the event the RTC took a poll of those present to determine a) who won the debate and b) who would get the vote of those present if the election were held that day.  Michelle Bachmann was overwhelmingly the winner of the debate, and she and Mitt shared the most likely votes in an election.

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Why? Because while you were working your tail off to EARN a living, far too many in Massachusetts had been learning a simple truth: It’s far easier to VOTE yourself an income than it is to go out and EARN one.

10 worst for business = dark blue || 10 best in white

So in the second term of Duh-val Patrick,  and in view of über-liberal Massholes having defiantly bucked the national conservative tsunami, you are up against a hard reality. You’re looking at 4 more years of a governor preoccupied with welcoming and shielding illegal immigrants, and totally indifferent to keeping your company and your paying jobs in his state.

What do you do?
 
 
You pick up and get the hell out of Dodge!

Hell, I’m just guessing;  but do you suppose that Ned and Abby Johnson ~ might ~ have driven through the parking lots out in Marlborough last October and noticed the number of Patrick, McGovern, Tsongas, Coakley, and Bump bumper stickers?

Do you think that might have been a tad discouraging, – realizing they were providing high-paying white collar jobs with good benefits to employees who have been programmed from childhood to vote against the interests of business?  They were literally feeding moonbats.

Do you think the unending chorus envy from Bacon Hill and Capitol Hill, – all chanting “Tax the Rich – Tax the Rich!” had an effect on the decision?

How about the re-election of all 10 socialist idiots including Frank, McGovernment, Tierney [with a convicted wife], and that babbling Pelosi sock-puppet Tsongas?

How about the reelection of our nation’s most unethical attorney general – the blind-to-crime Coakley, and the election of Tax-Cheat Bump as State Auditor? And Kerry’s yacht still moored in Rhode Island?

Murray

I give the Johnsons credit for holding out hope, for decades of perseverance and endurance. But there is no hope. As our State Senate under the fanatical leadership of Therese Murray is preparing to subpoena the Johnsons to hearings – to explain under oath “Why are you taking our tax dollars out of the state?”

Note that these Socialist Taxocrats are far more concerned with the loss of tax dollars than they are about the loss of JOBS! Abusing both their elected positions and their subpoena power they will try to grab a few headlines, a little TV time, and make a few points with their union supporters.

Murray never held a real job, never started a company, and never helped anybody build wealth or a retirement. By pillorying and abusing the Johnsons, she and her pals are just speeding the day when the rest of those 7,000 jobs in the Boston Headquarters complex go bye-bye.

Based on the map above, I’d say New Hampshire is looking might good.

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

We Have A New President!

I’ve been watching our president with deep interest from the days of the 2004 DNC in Boston. Back then he electrified the Convention, although only a Illinois State Senator at the time.  Many started talking “President”.  Wow, who knew? 

Upon being elected to the US Senate in 2004, Obama really went into high gear – positioning himself for a run at the White House and doing the only thing he appears able to do well, – give speeches that vilify American traditions, question our values, and blame George W. Bush.  Back then I wondered who was funding his travels, – but I guess we’ve sort of figured that out.  Anyway, while we can deplore the methods, and question the gullibility of American voters in 2008, – it’s hard to knock success. Obama won. Period.

In 2008 and through all of 2009 we saw OldBama – a supremely confident – even cocky young man, convinced in the righteousness of his views, and secure in his skill at mass marketing.  There were hardly stages or venues big enough to hold either his audiences or his ego. Remember the speech he gave in Berlin?  Or his DNC acceptance speech which was moved from the Pepsi Center to Bronco Stadium?

And as the momentum built behind him in the MSM, – as his picture was on all the magazine covers, – as his every move was followed on the news, – he assumed god-like proportions to some.  Chris Matthews’ famous “chill running up my leg” took on a life of its own.  Poor – mostly inner-city Blacks were seen on TV euphorically proclaiming that he “was sent from God”. Commentators including this author mockingly called him The MEssiah.  And we were both amazed and alarmed when – he won!

Upon taking office he was giving televised speeches on a daily basis, from the rose garden to the UN to Cairo to Moscow to China.  He had to tell everybody that he represented a new America, – a more humble and more apologetic America.  An America where his plan for reforming health care was about to transform everything.  While Pelosi and Reid steamrolled the Stimulus, Cap & Trade, and ObamaCare through Congress, Obama’s voice and teleprompter seemed unstoppable. His overbearing smugness was so palpable that we all mocked him for it.

True there was growing opposition.  Those damned TEA Parties,  that idiot Glenn Beck,  the smartalec Hannity and that insufferable Rush Limbaugh.  And those bloggers, Drudge, Breitbart, Malkin, Bob Parks, and America’s arch-villain – FoxNews.  But OldBama continued to fly Air Force One all over the country and bitch-slap his opposition – calling them mean-spirited, ill-informed, and stubborn.  And the MSM helped him by ignoring the anger boiling over at the Town Hall meetings and the TEA Party events.

So when suddenly the polls indicated that “Teddy’s seat” might be in dire trouble, a supremely arrogant and smugly sneering OldBama flew into Boston at the last minute to work HIS magic, to do what Bill Clinton had just failed in doing, and pull Martha’s chestnuts from the fire. No matter that he’d never met her [or Scott Brown] – HE was after all OldBama the Magnificent, – and if HE wanted her elected, – the people had to comply.  He showed us his cleverness and his grasp of the people by campaigning against Scott’s pickup truck.  Badda Bing – Badda Boom, Martha was now a shoe-in!  Right?

But by 10:20 PM  Tuesday, January 19th the sun had begun to set on George Soros’ Socialist Empire.  The Chosen One – the Teleprompter-powered Puppet was in a new state – the state of denial.  Pelosi and Reid quickly grasped the truth, because their ranks were thinning by the minute.  By Wednesday night ObamaCare and probably Cap & Tax were laying like dead fish in the back of a disconnected refrigerator. So were the next three years of OldBama’s term in office.

To me watching his State of the Union Address, – he seemed both very angry, and stuck on a rock in mid-stream.  He was both shattered, blustery, and spewing.  He’d never struck me as presidential, but this was a performance unworthy of even a junior politician.  Only the teleprompters allowed him to complete his assignment.  Michelle was scowling so harshly from the balcony that I ~ almost ~ pitied his ride home with her.  Well, almost.

In his follow-on trip to Florida and yesterday to New Hampshire, – we’ve seen a whole new Obama – “NewBama”.  NewBama is still grasping to understand what happened to his spaceship.  So he cancelled ours.  He’s been told the country has 10+% unemployment so he’s going to focus on “jobs”.  He’s going to use repaid TARP money – which by law must go to pay off the deficit – to get small banks to start making [risky] loans.  I see this as a mini-version of Fanny and Freddie. He’s suddenly going to give tax breaks to small business and small private ventures. Wow!

He going to allow oil drilling in our own reserves, and offshore.  And he suddenly wants to start new nuclear power generating facilities?  Easy for him to say, he knows all his left-wing lawyer buddies will tie these moves up in court for twenty years.

But NewBama showed us his true self in Florida and NH when he took questions, and quickly reverted to his snarling attacks on Republicans, George W. Bush, insurance companies, banks, and FoxNews. He is a man stuck in denial, and still living in 2009. He became so totally comfortable going on the road selling his vision of “transforming America” that he cannot sell “jobs” with any visible feeling. Yesterday he was reading a script, – not delivering his own speech, – and it showed. Afterwards he once again reverted to his fall-back health care mode.

NewBama is a man wallowing in self-pity, denial, and bitterness.

He’s been shown magnificently inept at understanding and dealing with issues such as Iran, Afghanistan, terrorism, the law, China, Haiti, education, and above all – the American People. Day by day it becomes clearer – the man does not understand the American People. He’s isolated himself from mainstream America since his teen years, and has managed to lead a charmed life. He is the stranger-president of a nation he appears to hate, and leader of a people he neither appreciates nor understands.

But still he wants to transform us. I’m thinking that 2010 will not go well for NewBama!  The wheels are about to come off NewBama’s wagon. Without stagecraft and teleprompters, you can see NewBama is actually a lot like OldBama – an angry, twisted, empty sock puppet for Soros Socialism.  Unscripted he doesn’t do well – he puts his foot in it almost every time.

Rats always desert a sinking ship and I’m betting that NewBama’s minions will start departing the White House. After all, if they’re not all going to be Socialist Czars, then there is always that exciting world of writing books, working for MSNBC as a commentator, maybe even movie deals. Maybe we’ll finally learn the truth about him, and see long-hidden documents.

OldBama disliked or despised America and Americans.  He believed we needed “fundamental transformation – into a socialist society. But he did bask in his man-god image. That has been taken from him – abruptly – by a mere mortal – [ouch] by a common citizen-soldier.  Now Obama knows the anger and distrust we feel towards him is real, measurable, and personal.  So we need to watch this angry pResident even more carefully.  And keep his room ready over at Walter Reed.

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