The Way Of The "Race Card"
Imo, the Repubs were destined to lose the 2008 election, not o much because of Iraq/Afghanistan, but because of these factors:
1. Lehman Bros full collapse in 2007 which was the beginning of the domino effect that brought the 2008 Wall Street Crash, property devaluation, $4/gal gas, and, because of the 2008 Crash, banks were being downgraded - which caused a run that shut some of them down; the most notable being WaMu.

All this having occurred under the watch of the GOP, which had lost the control of Congress in the 2006 Elections, pretty much all but put the nails in their coffin for the 2008 Prez Election.

(NOTE: What weren't the "issues" during this entire fiasco? The first being "class warfare". The other being white-on-black, or -latino, racism; gay-hate crimes/ laws/ marriage; open bashing and attacks on jews and christians; and political protection for muslims. ALL of it falling under the umbrella of the "race/hate card".)

Yet, it wasn't enough that the RNC nailed themselves shut. The DNC started burying them ever deeper by taking full advantage of the RNC-collapse by making sure that the 2008 Election would be a historical moment by offering a woman or a black man to be nominated as POTUS for the first time in American history.

"Race/hate card"...

Lets step back in time a bit.
1984: Walter Mondale selected Geraldine Ferraro to be his VP running mate. It would've been a historical moment in that there would've been the "first" woman VPOTUS.

Do you remember Reagan's famous quote during his debate w/ Mondale?
( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoPu1UIBkBc )

Reagan had "inherited" an even worse economy from that OTHER slimeball, Carter, in 1979. Did Reagan point fingers or dwell? No. They went to work. But, getting back on point, did the DNC, the N.O.W. or the ACLU start crying "discrimination" over Ferraro's loss? No. It never consumed the airwaves, or the media/press - even though they were TOTALLY DOMINATED by the far left at the time. Mondale/Ferraro lost miserably against Reagan. No big deal. We moved on.

1988: Jessie jackson attempted a run for POTUS. He never came close either. What makes this run more interesting than Ferraro's run was that Jackson never got the black vote on board. His loss didn't even activate the usual ultra liberal suspects like the DNC, the NAACP, the ACLU, Hollywood, or the media either. Bush41 won big. It was a 3rd consecutive term for the GOP. What did those noneventual elections have in common? Strong economy/dollar; low unemployment rates (up until the middle of Bush41's term), and the respect of our Office, and even the fear of our military, around the world. There was no room for the left to play the "race/hate card". The GOP didn't get consumed by "pc". The enemy-lines were drawn clearly: Terrorist-sponsoring nations ( Libya, Iran etc) and the "Axis Of Evil" (communist nations).

Race/hate cards, or tactics, can never succeed in a free nation w/ a stable economy and undivise government. An environment for activism has to be created (as Obama is doing ) , and/or exploited (as did Hitler, and as the Muslim Brotherhood is doing today).

But, it takes more than a strong economy to deter "activism". It also takes what we HAD fro those "3 terms": a GOP/RNC w/ titanium spine that, like Reagan showed Mondale, does not get boxed into the defensive, but holds itself steadfast in their resolve.

It is these things that we are lacking that will permit the left to "bury" us once again.

Weakness is synonymous with "guilt". And, in the USA, it's all the liberal activists need to play an affective "race/hate card".

Well, that's my view.

Thankyou, PE.

"The further you move to the right, you end up on the left" - Marco Rubio

This is from the very well known video that you have so graciously provided, Al.

Is Rubio wrong? The extreme side of liberalism is socialism/communism; the extreme right gives us National Socialism (Nazism).

Both meet at progressivism -- which is just a chickensh*t way of labeling "world governance". The "trump card" in this game is the one card that both the liberals, and the RPers, CHOOSE to ignore - and that's the Islamic-theocracy trump card.

The RPers always refer to "Politico" or other far left sites (go figure) to try to take down Americans that truly intend to find solutions to our problems.

Under the RPer standards, even Reagan would be considered a "rino" and a traitor.

Interesting...
DoJ crime boss, Eric Holder, protects and sweeps up the mess for the Black Panthers -- while his rainbow-garnished boss has become a PINK Panther!

lol!

Obama had decided to address America's Alzheimer problem. He is determined to do something expedient because . . . . . . . the people are just not forgetting things FAST enough!

Luis522

:D

Good call on hill, Clay. I agree w/ the rest as well.

"Economic" cnt'd
Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon said in a hastily scheduled conference call after the close of trading that the company had sustained some $2 billion in trading losses in its synthetic credit portfolio in the past six weeks. The portfolio proved to be "riskier, more volatile and less effective as an economic hedge" than the bank initially believed, according to a regulatory filing.

Dimon said the trade, which came from its Chief Investment Office, was “flawed, complex, and poorly reviewed,” according to Dow Jones Newswires. He went on to say that the mistake was “egregious.”

The Corporate/Private Equity group that the CIO office resides in is now expected to lose the biggest U.S. bank by assets $800 million in the second quarter, up from a previous estimate of $200 million. Dimon warned that the situation can get worse as a result of market volatility. [*1]

JP had recv'd $25b in TARP funds [*2]. On Jun 17, 2009, the NYT had reported that they, as well as 9 other banks, were "allowed" [*3] to get out of the TARP and paid back the govt.

If this was the case, then why did the FED pump the banks/markets w/ TWO "QEs"?! And now there's a THIRD QE in the works -- even though it has been reported that the first two had "hurt the economy" [*4] to begin with!

"Bernanke knew back in 1988 that quantitative easing doesn't work. Yet, in recent years, he has been one of the biggest proponents of the notion that if all else fails to revive economic growth and avert deflation, QE will work." [*5]

Layman's Conclusion: After TARP, QE 1 and 2, and almost $6T more in debt only got us DEEPER in Debt (@ least $16T), HIGHER inflation, due to the incompetence and collusion of the FED and Barack Obama's socialist-democrat policies and regs, now has us on the brink of an economic collapse of the type that has never been seen.

So, let BO and his public-relations-press-CORPSE cry out and accuse EVERYBODY on the right of "racism" (but who's doing the media cover-ups and the audio-doctoring?), and the "war on women" (remember the personal insults of family members by the likes of Letterman and Maher!). Let THEM close off the blacks and hispanics from the facts (their jobless numbers are higher since Obama entered the WH). Let them cook up tales of events that never occurred 50 YEARS AGO about his opponent.

THE PEOPLE AREN'T BUYING IT!!!

Our economy and currency is about to CRASH! We know who the TRUE enemies of our very Liberty and sovereignty really are. All I can say to them is, "START PACKING!". Your positions are about to be filled!

Luis522

*sources
1 http://www.foxbusiness.com/industries/2012/05/10/...

2 http://tarp-transactions.findthedata.org/q/5/2090...

3 http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/jpmorgan-r...

4 http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2011/07/qua...

5 http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/feds/2010/2010...

Quantitative Easing 101 – Rate Timeline 2008 To Present http://thebasispoint.com/2010/10/09/weeklybasis-1...

Is The Economic House Of Cards Finally Coming Down?

May 10, 2012
JPMorgan Reveals Significant Trading Loss; Shares Plummet
JPMorgan Chase (JPM: 40.74, +0.10, +0.25%) revealed late Thursday that one of its units took a significant trading loss as a result of soured bets, sending shares plummeting in post-market trading.

cnt'd in Reply...

Is The Economic House Of Cards Finally Coming Down?

May 10, 2012
JPMorgan Reveals Significant Trading Loss; Shares Plummet
JPMorgan Chase (JPM: 40.74, +0.10, +0.25%) revealed late Thursday that one of its units took a significant trading loss as a result of soured bets, sending shares plummeting in post-market trading.

Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon said in a hastily scheduled conference call after the close of trading that the company had sustained some $2 billion in trading losses in its synthetic credit portfolio in the past six weeks. The portfolio proved to be "riskier, more volatile and less effective as an economic hedge" than the bank initially believed, according to a regulatory filing.

Dimon said the trade, which came from its Chief Investment Office, was “flawed, complex, and poorly reviewed,” according to Dow Jones Newswires. He went on to say that the mistake was “egregious.”

The Corporate/Private Equity group that the CIO office resides in is now expected to lose the biggest U.S. bank by assets $800 million in the second quarter, up from a previous estimate of $200 million. Dimon warned that the situation can get worse as a result of market volatility. [*1]

JP had recv'd $25b in TARP funds [*2]. On Jun 17, 2009, the NYT had reported that they, as well as 9 other banks, were "allowed" [*3] to get out of the TARP and paid back the govt.

If this was the case, then why did the FED pump the banks/markets w/ TWO "QEs"?! And now there's a THIRD QE in the works -- even though it has been reported that the first two had "hurt the economy" [*4] to begin with!

"Bernanke knew back in 1988 that quantitative easing doesn't work. Yet, in recent years, he has been one of the biggest proponents of the notion that if all else fails to revive economic growth and avert deflation, QE will work." [*5]

Layman's Conclusion: After TARP, QE 1 and 2, and almost $6T more in debt only got us DEEPER in Debt (@ least $16T), HIGHER inflation, due to the incompetence and collusion of the FED and Barack Obama's socialist-democrat policies and regs, now has us on the brink of an economic collapse of the type that has never been seen.

So, let BO and his public-relations-press-CORPSE cry out and accuse EVERYBODY on the right of "racism" (but who's doing the media cover-ups and the audio-doctoring?), and the "war on women" (remember the personal insults of family members by the likes of Letterman and Maher!). Let THEM close off the blacks and hispanics from the facts (their jobless numbers are higher since Obama entered the WH). Let them cook up tales of events that never occurred 50 YEARS AGO about his opponent.

THE PEOPLE AREN'T BUYING IT!!!

Our economy and currency is about to CRASH! We know who the TRUE enemies of our very Liberty and sovereignty really are. All I can say to them is, "START PACKING!". Your positions are about to be filled!

Luis522

*sources
1 http://www.foxbusiness.com/industries/2012/05/10/...

2 http://tarp-transactions.findthedata.org/q/5/2090...

3 http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/jpmorgan-r...

4 http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2011/07/qua...

5 http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/feds/2010/2010...

Quantitative Easing 101 – Rate Timeline 2008 To Present http://thebasispoint.com/2010/10/09/weeklybasis-1...

I wouldn't doubt it a bit. It won't make any difference. A skunk will stink no matter what it's covered up with.