RedStateVT Returns

RedStateVT returns from a short research trip to the Euro-zone. Our findings will inform our commentary on this part of the world and its effects on America.


Friends, Romans
Democratic fundraisers, activists, supporters, and even politicians alike have somehow collectively lapsed into the sentiment that the president is going to be reelected and that we have a good shot to take the House back while holding the Senate.

I ask: What are you smoking? What are you drinking? What are you snorting or just what in the hell are you thinking? (James Carville, CNN.com, 5/8/2012)


A couple of thoughts on Democrat partisan Carville's comments. Recall first that he coined the phrase: It's the economy, stupid. This drove the Clinton defeat of Bush I. Carville is smart enough to know that the same dynamic could easily lead to Obama's defeat. Hence, his war cry to rally the troops.


Carville goes on to describe Romney as a weak candidate which you will hear a lot from Liberals. Of course, reasonable people everywhere know that the weakest candidate ever was a junior senator from Illinois with little experience at anything who rarely voted on legislation. Curiously, the second weakest candidate ever was that same candidate (now the President) with an abysmal job performance. Hence, the Democrat deflection. Given that Romney had a successful business career, is credited with saving the Salt Lake City Olympics, and balanced the budget as governor of a Liberal state, it is hard to see the "weak candidate" label getting much traction.


Carville and the Dems are scared of Romney and rightly so.


Same Old
President Obama declared for the first time on Wednesday that he supports same-sex marriage, putting the moral power of his presidency behind a social issue that continues to divide the country.


“At a certain point,” Mr. Obama said in an interview in the Cabinet Room at the White House with ABC’s Robin Roberts, “I’ve just concluded that for me personally, it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married.” (NYT, 5/9/2012)


We will admit that we were surprised that Obama made this announcement now. The best comment that we have heard so far is from Doug Powers on Michelle Malkin's website who advised us to view Obama's new position not as a "flip-flop", but as an "evolution."


Others have noted that Obama continues to carve away voting blocks, now adding traditional church-goers to the list that already includes white males and Jews. We can only guess that his advisers felt that it was vital to lock up the gay vote which was.....what, drifting over to Romney?


Tribal
The senate race in Massachusetts between incumbent Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren is turning out to be a real hoot. On one side you have Scott Brown who is the kind of bi-partisan Republican like Dick Lugar that Liberals claim to love. Until they run against them and then use every dirty trick in their playbook. On the other side you have Warren who has hilariously declared herself the progenitor of the Occupy movement (although it is later reported that she is a multi-millionaire) and also apparently as a Native American (only to find out she is not - and her ancestors may have even participated in forcible relocation of Native Americans from ancestral lands!)


Notwithstanding, Warren is considered a strong and credible candidate....by Liberals anyway.