Common Sense after a Close Election

Common Sense After a Close Election
In pursuit of the truth - cinops be gone - Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013

Preface: Tom McClintock is a fiscal conservative Congressman. He lost the Republican primary to Schwarzenegger. Otherwise he could have been elected Governor years ago. Here are some classic significant excerpts of his insightful talk given Nov. 17, 2013 at Calif. Federation of Rep. Women.

A. We need to recognize that a large proportion of our population is not familiar with the self-evident truths of the American Founding and has no compass with which to follow back to the prosperity, happiness and fulfillment that is the hallmark of a free society… Great parties are built upon great principles, and they are judged by their devotion to those principles.

B. For the first time in our history, young people face a bleaker future than their parents enjoyed. We need to appeal to them. The very groups of voters most damaged by Obama’s policies are those who voted for Obama - we need to appeal to them. Not in the closing days of a campaign poisoned with partisanship - but right now.

1) First, the same election that returned Obama to the White House also returned the second largest House Republican majority since World War II - bigger than anything Newt Gingrich ever had.

2) Second, according to polls before, during and after this election, the American people agree with us fundamentally on issues involving the economy, Obamacare, government spending, bailouts, …

3) Third, the American people are about to get graduate level course in Obamanomics, and at the end of that course, they are going to be a lot sadder and a lot wiser.

4) Have we forgotten that just two years ago, Republicans [with Tea Party] campaigned on clear principles of individual liberty & constitutionally limited government… a net gain of 63 U.S. House seats, six U.S. Senate seats, 19 state legislatures, six governors &nearly 700 state legislative seats? [This group of Americans that passed according to Time Magazine 90 restrictions on abortions.]

5) It is true that Latino voters are a growing part of the American electorate - making up 10% of the vote in 2012, of which 71% voted for Barack Obama, according to the CBS exit poll….

6) Citing research from the Pew Institute … the wave of illegal immigration has now crested and may actually be reversing… noted that every immigration wave has followed this pattern. Those who stay become more and more assimilated and more and more Republican as the years go by…

7) It is true that 5 % said that the most important issue in their vote for President was their pro-choice/pro-abortion position. 5% of the entire electorate is nothing to sneeze at. But 4% of the voters said in casting their vote for President was their pro-life/anti-abortion position… a statistical tie.

8) The voters who appeared at the polls agree with us on Obamacare. According to the CBS exit poll, by a plurality of 49 to 41 %, they want to repeal some or all of Obamacare… By a margin of 51 to 43 %, they believe that government is “doing too much things better left to businesses and individuals.”… By a resounding margin of 63 to 33%, they disagreed with the statement that “taxes should be raised to help cut the deficit.” … 52% voters agreed “things in this country today are seriously off on the wrong track.”…

9) The single biggest political movement in 2009 and 2010 was the much maligned, politically incorrect Tea Party … The Tea Party energized fully one third of the American electorate; 60% were Republicans, 20% independents and 20% Democrats. [The Tea Party will be active in 1214.]

George H. Kubeck, We must vomit out of our minds the mindset of leftist political correctness.