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Jesse Ventura bombs again!

Thursday, November 5th, 2009 at 6:10 am  
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He may not know how to run a state, but boy, isn’t Governor Jesse Ventura right on the issues. Though it is a couple of days old from Larry king Live, I think what Governor Ventura said was tremendously important. He also exposes American politics at its core.

Larry king asked Governor Jesse Ventura : “ Whats your read on tonight? Is this a national implication from result here” in Virginia? Governor Ventura fired back : “I just think it is the pendulum swinging, around between the Democrats and the Republicans. The thing I find most interesting is the lemming mentality of America and how they can be sold the ‘fact’ that the economy is bad and it is President Obama’s fault. Excuse me, it is George Bush’s fault.”

Had the Democrats campaigned anywhere as close to the manner that an Independent can in this clip, they would have won handily! The economy was always the number one issue in all the races. ALL! If they could have pinned the blame on the Republicans, they would have won.

He added : “The other interesting thing for is what David Gergen talked about how this could cost Democrats to back off from health care and all this because of (the) fear of losing. What you notice is that Democrats and Republicans; its not about standing for what they believe in, its about what I have to do to win or lose!.. And these guys hold their finger up to the proverbial wind to see which way it is blowing so then they can decide where they are going to sit politically.”

So damn true! I also would add that to the Republicans and the Democrats, it is also about their ideology. This is particularly so for the Republicans. They do not care about American values as much as they care about their Conservative or Liberal values. It is a fact!

Later, he completely ignored Larry King’s question and attacked the point that James Carville made, regarding Democrats being uncomfortable about health care after the election results. Governor Ventura fired, “Larry, why is that the election results has such have such a bearing on how other Democrats would vote on health care? Why they don’t stand up for what they believe in, instead of holding their finger up to the proverbial winds? That the whole problem. Democrats are spineless. They do not know what they believe in!” Wham-bham thank you ma’am!

Again how right is Governor Ventura! Democrats are really a spineless bunch. They have no idea what to go for and what to go against. They control the House of Representatives and have 60 votes in the Senate. Yet, they still kow-tow to Republican demands. That is why they suck and would not win elections.

The best part of the interview was when Governor Ventura suggested that politicians come in NASCAR like uniforms so that we know who their sponsors are. I think that it is funny, but at the same time I think it is so true! Voters have a right to know who is paying the person that they are voting for!Else we have buy-outs like we have right now.

Next, he went after odd yearn elections. Now this is true. I would rather have all elections in even years. To make it simple, all local and state elections (gubernatorial, mayoral etc.) happen on a year would be followed by Federal elections two years later ( Senate, Congress, Presidential). Isn’t this much cheaper and easier for the voters to follow?

Though he ended up about withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, something I do not agree with, I sill stay that Jesse Ventura is the man. He should be a Senator some day. He is really that good.

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Liberals to lose, Republicans to Rise.

Monday, November 2nd, 2009 at 7:58 pm  
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Mark my words: The Republicans would sweep into power in the House and / or Senate by 2014. I guarantee that! You may hear many other “pundits” in the radio, television and the Internet that the Republican Party is going to be a dying brand. I am pitting my words directly against theirs. Here are my reasons.

1)Liberals cannot see the threat that is staring in their faces.

The story of the tortoise and the hare is one that people never seen to forget but, at the same time, never seem to learn from. Yes, the Democrats made huge strides last year. But the fact is that, the reason for their shift in momentum was due to the charisma that President Obama had in 2008 and the economic collapse. The chips was all in their favor; then.

The politically-dim Democrats, however, thought it was because of poisonous characters like Governor Sarah Palin that had been rejected by the populace. To them, the Republican party has fallen. Them, referring to most of the hosts of MSNBC, “strategists” like James Carville and Radio show hosts like Cenk Uyghur of the Young Turks. President Reagan’s big tent may have collapsed, but his winning formula is still around. The biggest reason that the Republican Tortoise is going to cross the line is because the Democratic hare is sleeping.

2)Movement and superior grassroots organization of the right wing.

Examples of right-wing movements are the talk radio shows, FOX News Channel, in the net, and print media that are obviously on the right wing but declare themselves as Independent and unbiased. The liberals have no answer but the wrong answers to check these right-wing movements.

The second is the grassroots organization. Examples of these are Tea Party movements and churches. I find it eerily powerful that Churches have the power to stop a law in California and are now being approached for help to stop health care reform. The Tea Party movement just highlights how bad the management of handling the Tea Party protests were by the Democrats. 75000 protested against President Obama on 9/12, while 80 000 protested less than a month later for gay rights. See the difference in media coverage? Again, that is down to grassroots organization, that the Democrats lack.

3)Right Wing money.

The far right fights for tax cuts for the corporations, the incorporation of flat taxes, privatizing Social Security and Medicare,etc. These are all things that are favorable to the big companies. The only group of companies that are on the usually left leaning are the tech companies.

Whilst the Democrat can count on the loony left wing unions, their base does not have the guaranteed cash flow that the right wing has. In this way, I think that the Republican National Committee would always have more money than the DNC. Money buys airtime, ads and also personal visitations. This also an area that President Obama did very well last year, but the Democrats were not as successful as they should be.

4)Lack of defense for President Obama.

Liberals also do not know how to protect one another. When Van Jones was all but forced to resign over the silliest of issues, no left wingers stood up to defend them. When ACORN is being attacked, they never stood up. Public Option was torn apart and shredded and the Democrats do nothing. With this weakness, the President is left exposed and it would be a matter of when not, if, to disregard his credibility.

Seriously, when would the Liberals learn? Since the Liberals never learn, why aren’t people supporting the Independents? To me that is the biggest mystery.

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