Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Strong Wind To Starboard


Some still don’t take the Tea Party seriously, even after they’ve gathered over and over, all around the country, in huge numbers, and protested big government’s unconstitutional expansion. Mostly they’re smug liberals who consider themselves to be intellectuals. They think they know what’s best for the rest of us and they’re running the country - right into the ground. Bernie Marcus, one of the guys who founded Home Depot, thinks they’re tenured academics and “They don’t have a clue of what they’re talking about.”

“They come out of Harvard,” he said. “They come out of Yale. They’re all on tenure. Tenure means they get paid whether they work or not. Tenure means they’re on insurance for the rest of their lives. Tenure means they don’t ever have to worry about anything because they were there for a number of years, but America is not that way . . . If the president got out of the White House and started moving among the peasants, which is everybody else in the world except for Washington. Washington has their own insurance plan. They got their own pensions. They don’t abide by the rules everyone else abides by . . . When I talk to people who are creating jobs today - these are not villains. These are not monsters.”

“And you think they’re being portrayed that way [by the White House]?” asked the host.

“Oh, there’s no question about it. Yeah, we’re monsters and we are disgusting human beings . . . for creating 300,000 jobs
. . .”

Marcus is pissed. So is the Tea Party. The elitists still don’t get it. They will after November 2nd though.

These tenured liberals have lived all their lives in academic echo chambers and think they know how to run the world - its health care and its economy. They’re still predicting an economic recovery to follow the $800 billion stimulus that spent $2 million for each job it created. But ordinary Americans understand that no recovery is going to happen that way. They know Obama, Pelosi and Reid only made things worse by putting us $800 billion further into debt. They know our health care system was much better before that triumvirate “fixed” it by making it more complicated, more expensive, and less effective. They know we won’t have a recovery until they take back their government - and they will.

Senator John Kerry, for whom I used to work when I was a young and foolish liberal, made some nasty remarks about Tea Party victories in last week’s primaries. “The news from Delaware is crystal clear: It’s Sarah Palin’s party now. We [must] defeat the Tea Party extremists.”

Extremists? The Tea Party is extremist? Not smug elitists like himself who tripled our deficit and turned recession to depression? Tenured elitists think Republicans are being hijacked by the Tea Party and they’re right. The Tea Party wants to pull the Constitution out of mothballs, dust it off, and apply it the way the founding fathers intended. That’s extremist to Ivy League elitists like Kerry, who think they’re much smarter than Jefferson and Madison. They don’t want government to be hampered by the Constitution. They know better how to create jobs better than people like Bernie Marcus too, even though he’s actually done it and they haven’t.

They’re right that the Tea Party has been concentrating on Republicans - to clean liberals like Castle, Murkowski and Crist out, because there’s no point having two liberal parties. That makes other RINOs (Republicans in Name Only) like Maine Senator Olympia Snowe nervous. If Mike Castle can lose a primary in a liberal state like Delaware, Snowe can lose one in liberal Maine too - and she’s up in 2012. Some expect her to come out of the closet as a Democrat soon. Will Susan Collins be far behind? She’s up in 2014.

Now that the primaries are over, the Tea Party will focus on defeating liberal Democrats in November. How many will drop? Hard to tell. I happened to be passing through Portland, Maine last Monday when Lady Gaga showed up to pressure our two Lady RINO senators into breaking ranks and repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” The pierced and tattooed turned out to cheer their liberal Democrat heroes who warmed up the crowd with speeches - like 1st District Congresswoman and Pelosi Pet, Chellie Pingree. The contrast between that crowd and a Tea Party crowd in nearby Westbrook where Pingree’s opponent, conservative Republican Dean Scontras, spoke the day before could not be more profound. Pingree’s web site pledges to “Stop the Tea Party,” but which constituency will prevail in Maine and America on November 2nd? Maine’s 1st district is the bluest part of a very blue state in the azure northeast - a sanctuary state with generous welfare benefits for illegal immigrants and a homosexual haven. Pingree is ahead in opinion polls 48% to Scontras’s 37%, but 15% are undecided. Scontras is a tireless campaigner and Pingree is worried. She looked pretty haggard when I saw her Monday. She knows that 15% is likely to break for Scontras and sink her.

If Scontras beats her November 2nd, our two Lady RINOs will probably start tacking to starboard as John McCain has in Arizona. In spite of Lady Gaga’s pressure, they didn’t break ranks when “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” came up in the US Senate on Tuesday. They have their fingers in the wind - which will become a gale in about five weeks.

With Carol Shea Porter (D-NH) on one side of me and Chellie Pingree (D-ME) on the other, it’s been difficult, but both may well go down in only forty days. I can’t wait.

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Too early. Should have fired this one out 2 weeks before the election.

Laurie4rep.com said...

We can only pray that Maine citizens wake up to what progressives are doing to that GREAT STATE!! Everyone should support Maine Heritage Policy Center. They do incredible "liberty" work. Laurie from Bartlett

Anonymous said...

I agree in principle but get so tired of the hate. I wish we could discuss ideas without resorting to name calling, but Rush Limbaugh an his 'kind' have made liberal a dirty word, too bad it has to be this way. I think a lot of people are turned off simply because of his kind of talk.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous Said;
"I agree in principle but get so tired of the hate. I wish we could discuss ideas without resorting to name calling"

God, I remember being this stupid way back when in the 90's when Rodney King said "Why can't we all get along". This was after he resisted arrest and the cops swarmed him like they were supposed to do under policy at that time and the net result of the not guilty verdict was for the people of the area to burn down their own neighborhoods. I just sat back here in Maine, watched and said; "That was bright". I never forgot that line though and repeat it often to remind me of someone who acts like a flippen fool and then when it blows up says "Why can't we all get along". I bet you voted for the Libs didn't you?

Hey Skippy, Where are you when Al Gore calls all conservatives Retards by referring to them as "Extra Chromosome"? Space limits me but you know I could rattle off 100 more of these examples by many different people of your political persuasion.

Your posterior is hanging so far out in the breeze that it's starting to look like your face and your flutter valve is doing the talking.

Grow a spine and stand up for what you believe and stop with the "Your all Haters" speech. It's getting very old and The Liberals have cried Wolf once to often.

If that makes me a Hate Monger then I wear the badge proudly.

Paul, Lovell, ME

Rick said...

I also agree to much of what Tom rants about but his message does seem to be somewhat diluted due to the unclassy tone that he takes.


The problem is that the hate mongering and intolerence that is constantly thrown out by Limbough, Beck and their ilk seems to be permeating almost all political "discussion" nowadays.

Look at Paul. He cannot have a rational discussion without throwing out childish insults.

Yes, Paul, BOTH sides of the political spectrum are often rude. But this boorish behavior accomplishes nothing, it usually only makes things worse. What is your goal in being rude and name calling? If all these angry people can channel their anger into something constructive than perhaps real change can begin and we can start to dismantle much of our obese, pampered government.

As I saw on a bumpersticker today -

"Stop bitching and start a revolution!"

Rick said...

I also agree to much of what Tom rants about but his message does seem to be somewhat diluted due to the unclassy tone that he takes.


The problem is that the hate mongering and intolerence that is constantly thrown out by Limbough, Beck and their ilk seems to be permeating almost all political "discussion" nowadays.

Look at Paul. He cannot have a rational discussion without throwing out childish insults.

Yes, Paul, BOTH sides of the political spectrum are often rude. But this boorish behavior accomplishes nothing, it usually only makes things worse. What is your goal in being rude and name calling? If all these angry people can channel their anger into something constructive than perhaps real change can begin and we can start to dismantle much of our obese, pampered government.

As I saw on a bumpersticker today -

"Stop bitching and start a revolution!"

Anonymous said...

Hey Paul,
I was standing up for what I believe. Your comments simply help to prove my point. If you cannot get into a discussion without resorting to rudeness and insults I can't waste my time.

Alexander said...

Thanks Tom, it was a good one.

Two years ago I was looking for a place for my family and my internet business somewhere away from the NY. I passed ME exactly for the reasons you described, ended up in Bartlett NH.

Funny how some anonymous got tired of hate now rather than three or five years ago.

Anonymous said...

Tom: I honestly believe that beneath the bluster, lurks a sane and reasonable person. However, this article truly lacks anything of actual substance. It's all just mudslinging and more of the all-too-common 'my side vs. your side' type of inflammatory rhetoric. It's almost as if you're a sports fan watching a game between two football teams and talking trash to supporters of the other team. Makes me wonder whether you really care about the direction the country is heading in? Or are you just praying that your team wins so you can gloat about how you're better than them and how you knew you were right all along? The sad thing about politics is that we can point fingers all day long and cast blame until we turn blue and in the end it really won't matter because we won't ever know who was right and who was wrong. Each side can easily put enough spin on any issue to show that they're right and believe it, so there's never an actual winner because there's no one fair enough to judge. And to top it all off, there's no consequence for hurling false accusations and insults because negativity is encouraged. That's why we need journalists to write intelligent articles with fact-based premises and a certain amount of real substance. You're demeaning the profession by sinking into this 'us vs. them' mentality when you should be setting the example for responsible journalism. 70% of this country is moderate, it just so happens, unfortunately, that this majority is also the least vocal. Do you really truly believe that Obama has ruined this country? Really? In two years? And that all democrats are elitist, ivy league snobs with tattoos and piercings who haven't worked any honest day in their lives? Do you really believe Obama is out to get small businesses or is trying to make our country less safe? Do you truly believe that lower taxes is what's going to save us from certain destruction? It's so easy to generalize especially when it's negative and appeals to our baser instincts. Please, Tom, take a step back....how about an honest assessment with some perspective. We're really not as bad off as you say and we're all actually on the same team.

Anonymous said...

Funny how some people think they know what I am thinking and how long I have been thinking it. I am the only one who when I got rid of the hate, perhaps I never had it and by the way we are neighbors I live just down rt 16/302 in Conway.

sami said...

The only thing this rant proves is that Tom has no clue about using sailing terminology. His title uses a metaphor that makes absolutely no sense.