Pamela Geller, Big Government: Bye Bye, Bayh

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The
Democrat Strategy for 2010: Bye Bye, Bayh

And in this case, the retirements don’t indicate defeat. They indicate a new
Democrat strategy. The retirements are part of a plan: everyone under the bus
for the good of the party and the socialist state it is constructing. The
Democrat strategy for 2010 is to make the failure of Barack Obama and the
Pelosi/Reid Congress all about the incumbents, not the party itself. They are
going to make the failure of this Administration about the candidates, not the
party, when in fact it is party, party, party. Take the rancid Dodd, for
example. He will be replaced with an attractive statist who does not have the
ugly history of Dodd’s graft, corruption and racketeering, but who shares Dodd’s
collectivist bent.

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I expect the Democrats to pull their moderate ruse again by throwing up
bunches of blue dogs to con the people. Then they will continue to ramrod the
American people with their collectivist, statist agenda. They will run new faces
without records that are soiled by the horrendous anti-American, anti-business,
anti-national security, anti-individual, anti-small government, anti-tax cut
record of the Democrats — and they will sucker the American people, yet
again.

Protect the brand. It is a very smart strategy. And let’s be honest: the
Democrats are brilliant at strategizing, and at trafficking in smear and
deception. They can take down anyone, destroy anything, even (as we are now
seeing) deconstruct a country and a constitution. What they can’t do is govern.
Their skill is to destroy, to mooch, to loot. This is their anthem: altruism and
slavery for the common good.

In reality, the blame for the fix we’re in falls squarely on the shoulders of
the Democrat party. The Democrats are socialists, and the party platform has
moved so far to the left that it is now virtually anti-capitalism and
anti-individual. And that is what America has responded to viscerally to this
past year. Tea parties, town halls, election after election — America is
responding to President L-Dopa (which I call him because, like that drug that
awakens catatonics, he is now awakening American patriots from their
slumber).

Obama is merely the repulsive face of the party, but it is not just him, it’s
all of them. It’s the party. It’s the ideology, not particular candidates.

What is really tragic is the right’s inability to capture this moment, ripe
as it is. Instead of seizing the moment in the war of ideas and grasping the
mantle of America’s unabashed exceptionalism, defending constitutional
principles and remaining steadfast and true, the right keeps moving to…the left.

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