Crushed by the Elephant

About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:

'A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.'
'A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.'
'From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.'

'The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years'

'During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:

1. from bondage to spiritual faith;
2. from spiritual faith to great courage;
3. from courage to liberty;
4. from liberty to abundance;
5. from abundance to complacency;
6. from complacency to apathy;
7. from apathy to dependence;
8. from dependence back into bondage'

Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul , Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:

Number of States won by: Democrats: 19 Republicans: 29
Square miles of land won by: Democrats: 580,000 Republicans: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by: Democrats: 127 million Republicans: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Democrats: 13.2 Republicans: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: 'In aggregate, the map of the territory Republican won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country. Democrat territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare...' Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the 'complacency and apathy' phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the 'governmental dependency' phase.

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal's and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.

If you are in favor of this, then by all means, delete this message. If you are not, then pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.

WE LIVE IN THE LAND OF THE FREE,
ONLY BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE

You cannot put New wine into old bottles!

Why is McCain being Deceitful about the fact that William Ayers' educational foundation was funded by Republicans, not Democrats, Republicans, who are now endorsing him?

The Annenbergs who are Republicans, Bankrolled William Ayers with $50 million dollars. However, Walter and Leonore Annenberg weren???t just giving money to the educational foundation started by William Ayers, they were also giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Republican National Committee and various other Republican groups, as well as to a whole host of Republican candidates, including the following:

George W. Bush $4000 - Mitt Romney $5000
Strom Thurmond $1000 - Fred Thompson $500
Rick Santorum $3000

There are questions that are not being asked or answered such as --why would billionaire Republican philanthropists give millions of dollars to a program that was started by William Ayers, if he is such a scary figure and unrepentant? Why would George W., Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson and all those other Republicans accept money from the people who were funding this William Ayers-associated group? And, why won???t McCain discuss these connections between the Republican Party and Ayers?"

Recently, McCain campaign put out a press release bragging about the fact that Leonore Annenberg has endorsed him for president. The very Leonore Annenberg who bankrolled William Ayers with millions of dollars is now backing McCain!

Lastly, Republican Arnold Weber who served on the board of the CAC with Barack, who worked with William Ayers in the 90???s, has also donated at least $1000 to the McCain campaign. So you see, McCain is accepting money from associates of William Ayers, and so far has not given the money back. Why won't McCain come clean about these facts? Why is he being deceitful about this?

http://www.republicansforobama.org/?q=node/3027

He is an American hero who faught bravely for his country, always saluted the flag, and is a true American. Joe Biden eats at restaurants that closed 20 years ago and says as such he is in touch with the American people. Obama, cocaine user and friend of unrepented terrorists, wants to take money from the hard working American and give it to those who crazily invested in an overheated housing market. Shame on him!

Here's an enlightened voter; Evax @ 10/13/2008 4:36:09 PM

Comment: List of Palin's crimes = TRAP AN INNOCENT HUMAN SOUL IN A LIFELONG JAIL BY INTENTIONALLY BRINGING A DOWN' SYNDROME TO THE WORLD. STIR KKK EMOTIONS ON THE STUMPS"
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How can you possibly talk about the KKK when your words are despicable. Just as bad as alter's DISABLED INFANT. What could possibly possess you to think something like this let alone post it in a public forum where it will live on forever? and then you talk about losing the campaign? What is wrong with you?

Sorry Jonathan but you have it wrong, McCain was never the conservatives nominee, there were much better conservative candidates, such as Romney, or Fred Thompson which was my choice. McCain was broke, out of it, and heading back to Arizona until the democrats filled the all of you can vote primaries in New Hampshire and all the others. They all knew he was the weakest candidate, and that's why he is there. The only problem Obama has is why is McCain so close in the polls, and he isn't blowing McCain out of the water. It's because just like every other poll in a presidential election, people lie, or they just don't know who they will vote for, and they just blurt out a name. It was that way with Mondale, Dukakis, Gore, and Kerry, who were all ahead in every poll, and got blown out in the only poll that counts.
So don't count the republicans out just yet. I don't think that we are dead yet, but the sentiment of that angry man in Wisconsin is when are WE going to fight back, when are WE going to use the tactics that the democrats have such a talent for. It's not just defeat the other guy, when it comes to the democrats, it decimate them, get them out of the way, destroy your opponent so that he will never come back. The republicans are just too polite, they don't mix it up enough, just like the angry man from Wisconsin said, "go after them, go get em". That is the sentiment of most rank and file republicans right now. We are tired of a kinder gentler, compassionate conservatism. We want a lot of partisanship, not a little.
The independents like a good row too, they're independent for a reason, and it is because neither party will go to the lengths to raise their devotion to one or the other. I'm sure there are plenty of disgruntled ex-republicans that are independents now because they don't think the party is doing enough fighting back. Please excuse my grammar, and/or sentence structure I'm not a writer, but I hope I can get a point or two across. The elephant was basically walking away from McCain rather than crushing him until he picked Sarah Palin. That got everyone's attention in a hurry, and the elephant did an about face.

Who played the financial markets to crash down for Obama's favor? THE TIMING WAS VERY CRITICAL. Right when Mccain was in the lead. How many "international " investors were involved? who is bent to make Barack Husein Obama the POTUS? fIRST THEY PLAYED THE energy crisis. WE beat them. Then they withdrew their holdings and support for our fianancial system. "AMERICA had it coming". WE entertained all these back stabbers who were more than ready to pull the money away from wall street market. All so legally. Govt had to step in to stop the short sale of uSA. YOu liberals who play with antiamerican terrorist coutries, we will let you know you also hold the other end of this stick.

Obama is in "control" of HIS CAMPAIGN? His campaign is all about getting a President in the White House sympathetic to ACORN and other 60's radical Communist wannabes!
The goal of these groups in association of community organizers ,is to take over a major political party like the weathermen (ACORN,today) took over the Students for a Democratic Society in 1969. They DNC is the target and Obama is a PRODUCT!
And a flawed one! Like Newsweek!

Sarah Palin is a traitor to America and to her party.

Palins un-American activities
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/10/07/palins_unamerican/index.html

Alaskan Independence Party chairwoman Lynette Clark talks about why she does not identify herself as an American, and about her kindred spirit Sarah Palin.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/10/alaska_secession/index.html

The pastor who clashed with Palin
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/15/bess/index.html

Troopergate Report Concludes Palin Abused Power. Full 263 Page report here???
http://download2.legis.state.ak.us/DOWNLOAD.pdf

Palins Attack On Obamas Patriotism Legitimizes Questions About her Association With Group Founded By America-Hating Secessionist
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/palins_attack_on_obamas_patrio.php

Palin And The Alaska Independence Party
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/the_alaska_independence_party.php

Yikes. More of that ''rotting corpse''again. [which we have heard no fewer than seven times in the last two months,all used by liberal and leftwinged hacks to describe the GOP].

Not on a bet. The reason why the GOP survives is due to Alters last paragraph noting that the candidate must stand ''with his party'',as the anti-Maverick. As Obama has a 96% trackrecord of doing so,all he can do with a Democrat majority is to create a kick in the American brainpan by a jackass,rather than they being ''crushed by an elephant''. Thus will the GOP minority be counted upon to battle Democrat excess when it arises.
Consider that FDR-like,we were promised a ''new era in government'',''a draining of the swamp'' and ''new accountability'' with the accession of the Democrat majority in Congress.
We got nothing. Earmarks continue to be kept secret. Political corruption has reached the highest pinnacles of committee chairmanships with investigations being launched against Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd by a federal grand jury in California getting to the bottom of the COUNTRYWIDE contributions to the mortgage disaster,another one underway with the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Charlie Rangel,a House coverup of a sordid sex affair and blackmail mess aimed at of all people,Florida Democrat Tim Mahoney,who ran his ''Faith and Family''campaign on the back of the man he replaced..... GOP Rep. Mark Foley.
Lobbyists by the thousands are crawling all over K St. Reid and Pelosi have proven themselves to be among the worst congressional leaders in the last century,totally unable to keep party discipline,unable to even govern. Alter blindly ignores the patent fact that the ''greedheads''eminate from his own party,in total and complete thrall to the FANNIE,FREDDIE,INDYMAC,LEHMAN,MBNA,and big firm moneymen,who ably helped to create this disaster.[Neither Alter nor NEWSWEAK at large have spent a single ounce of ink registering the news-worthy facts that relate to Barney Franks,Artur Davis',Maxine Waters,Chris Dodds,Barack Obamas,William Clays,Jesse Jackson Jrs,Jan Scharkowskies,or Sheila Jackson Lees direct involvement with FANNIE and FREDDIE].
Thus does Alter perform an ultimately useless act in his one-sided quest to get his man in. He ignores the great fall of the Democrat party of FDRs,day,invoking him as a panecea,a band-aid on a brain tumor,now affecting his party. Make no mistake. The liberalism of Roosevelt can in no way be compared to the post-Vietnam creature it has become. Alter looks to the ''New-New Deal''. What he [and all of us ] will get,is a thing that will lead to a further erosion of American faith,power,economic strength[as even Howard Fineman now worries over],and geo-political capability.

Good article. McCain is weak, but not just in failing to control the party and the choice of his running mate. He is weak because he does not really know who HE is. Every time he asks, Who is the real Obama? I see right into the core of his heart, an organ once brave and now so covetous of the Presidency that instead of being the maverick he claims to be (not true, by any stretch) and standing his ground, he stands in a hole his essential weakness has dug for him. He has gone from hero to zero in my book. And, what is more, I do fea for his mental health as evidenced by classic PTSD symptoms and flashbacks as evidenced by his 'my fellow prisoners' statement last week rather than 'my fellow americans.' Poor boy. As for Pail, or Beyond thePalin as she is known - weak weak weak and laughable, except that she is dangerous, too.

a patriot

good article. good analysis. but it does not go far enough. mccain's real weakness is his covetousness of the presidency at any cost. he asks, Who is Obama? but the truth is, the man does not know who HE is. He shifts left foot and right foot like he's standing outside the men's room - and he is, the room for real men who know who they are, are proud of it, and will not be budged by opinions, political manipulators, handlers, or even the party bosses. mccain has gone from hereo to zero - and that is what his weakness in the face of the booses of the elephant party are.