That’s a joke, right? The DNC MSM couldn’t even vet their candidate properly! How on earth will they be responsible enough to keep them honest?

(Shaking head)

Regards,
Peter H.

It’s almost like liberals expect that no one will notice. Luckily we have the media to keep them honest.

The best stats come from exit polling –which, back then, was even worse than 3rd rate– but the polling where aggregate stats are pulled, it appeared that Perot pulled about equally from Bush-Quayle as the little big-eared Texan did with Clinton voters. And I think part of the Electoral College overleaf concluded that Bush would have had to take 12.5% of Perot’s 19% –in at least 2/3rds of the states where SlickWilly was ahead less than 5 pts– in order to win in 92. Kind of tough odds.

But the one thing I walked away with was that the “Read my lips” led to a conservative revolt on Bush wasn’t much more than a myth… and I’ve heard it ascribed to Brent Bozell, most notably. Who, no one could contend, didn’t have a vested interest in making the myth appear real.

Regards,
Peter H.

Some, even on this blog, waxed that McCain losing would be a good thing for America, a wake up call to the GOP, a likely rallying cry for the new conservative movement rising up like a phoenix from the ashes. For them, it was “teach ‘em a lesson” time –like politics is some schoolyard game with no real consequence.

Maybe the average Obama voter didn’t know what (sorry about this) “pig came with the poke”. But the more sophisticated and supposedly better informed value-voting conservatives who sat home on Election Day sure knew.

I still think the reason that conservatives wanted Obama to win was because, for them, political commentary is all about gettin’ to pitch a bitch… whether it’s over coffee and donuts, a meatloaf blue plate at Mary Lou’s American Diner or pounding down some brewski with the boys at the bowling alley after work.

Well, maybe they’d have found a way to pitch a fit even if it was McCain and Palin… but Obama’s win gives a waaaaay better selection of topics and there wouldn’t have been a “teach the GOP” a lesson time if McCain/Palin had won. Well, they did stay home and now we have to suffer Obama, Reid & Pelosi unchecked and likely 1-2 nominees to SCOTUS and hundreds to the lower federal courts.

What was that line that Rev Wright the bigot liked to use: the chickens have come home to roost? Yeah, that’s the ticket.

On your concluding point: “Kind of sounds like how George H.W. Bush treated his campaign rhetoric on not raising taxes and staying the Reaganite course. And look where that got him.”

I was on the floor of the convention when Bush 41 said that. I remember how it enegerized many conservatives on the floor; heck, I cheered because it sounded like Bush 41 was getting some spine.

I also remember Clinton’s camp running ads in ’92 featuring that line to attack Bush’s credibility and trustworthiness, not to defend some new Democrat principle of holding the line on taxes. Did conservatives toss the election to Clinton because of “Read my lips” and staying home? Not exactly.

There’s an interesting debate about that myth connecting “Read my lips” to conservatives exacting some retribution via muscle flexing.

http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/article.php?id=AIA2008030601

FYI.

That, in no way, means that those of us who opposed it all along are obliged to shut up. Also, if people voted with the idea that Oblameless would not be as radical as he had campaigned and are now waking up, they also don’t have to shut up.

We are allowed to disagree with the direction Dear Leader is taking the country. We are allowed to criticize. And, yes, we are allowed to want *him* to fail.

And maybe his supporters should spend more time explaining why his policies are going to work (this time) instead of attacking those of us who, with history on our side, say they are going to fail.