The first Instalanche I ever received was for a throwaway blog post I wrote about “professor” being a racist code word:

Someone needs to make a list. I’ll go ahead and start it.

Articulate=racist.

Left wing=racist.

Socialist=racist.

Palling around with terrorists=racist.

And now, because they said so, condemning an approach to terrorism as a criminal act rather than an act of war=racist.

I should have kept that list going. Maybe I’ll start a side project, similar to warmlist, the website that tracks all the things caused by global warming.

Here are a few more code words or dog whistles or whatever they are called this week: “entitlement society,” “Constitution,” “poor work ethic,” and “Founding Fathers.” It’s true because Juan Williams said so:

The language of GOP racial politics is heavy on euphemisms that allow the speaker to deny any responsibility for the racial content of his message. The code words in this game are “entitlement society” — as used by Mitt Romney — and “poor work ethic” and “food stamp president” — as used by Newt Gingrich. References to a lack of respect for the “Founding Fathers” and the “Constitution” also make certain ears perk up by demonizing anyone supposedly threatening core “old-fashioned American values.”

The code also extends to attacks on legal immigrants, always carefully lumped in with illegal immigrants, as people seeking “amnesty” and taking jobs from Americans.

There’s a part of me that wants to vent and break the All American Wife’s editorial prohibition on dropping F-bombs in my writing, but there’s another part, a larger part, that accepts what is going on and is resigned to the reality that whatever is said or done for the next 10 months, regardless if the person is black, white, Cuban, Mexican or Asian, if it is in any way against the left, it will be maligned as racist.

Everything.

When you can’t mention the Founding Fathers without it being a racist dog whistle, you know what I am saying is true.  You need to accept that as fact.  This isn’t going to be a campaign about the positives and negatives of a particular candidate’s economic philosophy, or their particular belief in the role of government.  It is going to be a campaign designed to divide the nation by class and race.

And they have a head start.  (That’s probably racist.)

To paraphrase the governor of the great state of Texas, if this doesn’t give you goosebumps, you don’t have a heart:

Either that, or you just aren’t a fan.

I am a fan, despite the author being a GIGANTIC liberal. The series couldn’t have been done better so far, and season two will be EPIC if they do it was well. It starts April 1st.

I’ll be at Bob’s if you need me.

I am not a fan of Joe Scarborough. I just want to get that out of the way.

That being said, he knocked it out of the park in this clip:

SCARBOROUGH: Let me tell you who they is. Let me tell you who they is. Let’s say the national media like you. How many times did you bring up John Kerry’s 13.1 percent tax rate in 2004?

HEILEMANN: I don’t, all I’m trying to tell you is that…

SCARBOROUGH: Is that none or one?

HEILEMANN: I’m going to tell you, you going to let me answer?

SCARBOROUGH: Is that two? Answer the question: How many times did you bring it up?

HEILEMANN: How many times did I bring it up?

SCARBOROUGH: Yeah.

HEILEMANN: Possibly none.

SCARBOROUGH: Okay.

John Kerry has more money than Mitt Romney. He paid a lower rate. He even tried to use a neighboring state as a tax shelter for his yacht.

But the media didn’t think all this was important in 2004.

Amazing was a little hope and change can do to what the media finds important.

Not that Republican primary voters look to him for voting advice, but recently socialist George Soros said the following:

Q: You were an early supporter of President Barack Obama. What report card do you give him now?

Soros: I think I’m not the only one who’s been slightly disappointed, uh, and uh, I continue to support him actually, uh, in view of the alternative.

Q: The Republicans, or any particular Republican?

Soros: Well, look. I think you’ll have an extremely conservative, be it Gingrich or Santorum, in which case, I think it would make a big difference, which of the two comes in. If it’s between Obama and Romney, there isn’t all that much difference, except for the crowd that they bring with them.

That’s a ringing endorsement for Santorum and Gingrich.

Hat Tip: Freedom’s Lighthouse

Update: You know, after watching this video a few times, so I could transcribe it, Soros’ voice starting sounding familiar. Just a bit ago, it downed on me. He sounds like Gru from Despicable Me:

It could just be me, I suppose. I’d have to hear Soros say, “dart gun” for me to be sure.

Yesterday on Fox New Sunday, Rep. Paul Ryan laid out Obama with a verbal one-two punch:

‘The irony of this is the president’s policies do the exact opposite. We basically have this. The president can’t run on his record. It’s a miserable record. He is not going to change his tune and moderate like say Bill Clinton did in 1996 because he’s really stuck with his ideology so he has no choice but to divide. So he is going to run a very decisive campaign for political gain and he has this concept of fairness and equality where he uses the kind of rhetoric we use, but the policies he’s producing will result in crony capitalism will result in more power in the government to supervise our lives, to give us a stagnant economy where the rich and the powerful are the ones who are picking it. So what I’m trying to say is he is giving us a future of debt, doubt, and decline. ‘

This will absolutely be a campaign based on another political idea, similar to the ’08 campaign where he ran on these ethereal concepts like “Hope” and “Change.” This time, it will be fairness.

But, as Ryan says, this administration isn’t about fairness when it comes to the marketplace, it’s about taking the property of the people and distributing it to the businesses which helped Obama the most. How is it fair to take corporate income taxes from the oil companies and turn around and give it to companies developing “green technology?”

But that’s too deep for this campaign. Obama isn’t worried about the voter thinking about that. He and his team will be working, as Rep. Ryan said, to divide. And the divide will focus on two places: race and class.

The marching orders have already been sent out. You could see that clearly in the message Al Sharpton had one his show the other night where he kept asking “Is it fair? Is it fair?”

He couldn’t get off that message. It was transparent.

Rep. Ryan is right. Obama’s campaign is going to be about dividing the electorate. This is going to do a lot of damage to the country.

Hat Tip: Fox Nation

Update:

After I posted this, I found this from Marco Rubio. In it, he says:

President Obama has a year left in the White House. So what are his plans now to make things better? What does he plan to do now, that he didn’t do before? Well we got our answer Tuesday night. He plans to divide us against each other. To pit Americans against other Americans in the hopes of generating enough votes to get re-elected.

He tells Americans worried about their jobs that the way to help them is to raise their bosses’ taxes.

He tells those who are hurting that the only way they can be better off, is for others to be worse off.

He tells all of us that the only way for some of us to climb up the economic ladder is for others to be pulled down.

This divisive rhetoric, this effort to gain political support by convincing some that they will be better off if we punish others, this stuff has never worked anywhere it’s been tried.

The policies may never have worked, but the rhetoric has. That’s what keeps me up at night, the idea that enough Americans may actually believe what Obama’s spewing.

According to CPAC Blogger of the Year Javier Manarres at The Shark Tank, one of the superstars of the Tea Party, Lt. Col. Allen West has been targeted for elimination. The twist is, he’s been targeted by the GOP in Florida and the effort is led by a Mitt Romney spokesman:

After last night’s [Jan. 26] Republican Presidential debate, the candidates’ respective spinmeisters made their cases to the media as to why their guy won the debate. One of Governor Mitt Romney’s spokesmen was Florida Representative Will Weatherford, and during the course of his remarks in the “Spin Room”, he shed a very dim light on the ongoing redistricting process in the Florida Legislature….

West’s congressional district inexplicably sheds the most out support as compared to all other incumbent Republican and Democrat Congressman. A few weeks back we quoted an unnamed legislator saying that, “Allen West was screwed”, a statement which was originally made about made five months before the purposed maps were made public, leading insiders to believe that the fix was in against Allen West. But in light of Weatherford’s comment, it is increasingly clear that this is a fait accompli.

According to Weatherford, those preliminary maps will not change- at the most, any additional changes would be minimal, and those changes would not make any appreciable difference from the preliminary maps. In addition, Weatherford stated that a deal was struck between him, Senate President Mike Haridopolos, and Senator Don Gaetz to finalize these maps and push them through as soon as possible.

Glenn Jacobson at Legal Insurrection is convinced the fix is in also.

West is a fighter, but if this actually happens, it simply opens up the door to run for Senate.

Senator Allen West. That has a nice ring to it.

UPDATE:

Javier just posted the following:

Aside from the fact that we entirely stand by the assertions in the post, we believe that Florida Representative Will Weatherford is being dealt a raw deal.

Adding later:

While the conservative movement’s distrust of Romney is both valid and understandable, it is straining credulity to begin to believe that Mitt Romney or his presidential campaign are in any way attempting to “screw over” Congressman Allen West in the redistricting process here in Florida, and this certainly applies to Representative Weatherford as well.

…

In summary, do I believe that the ‘higher’ authorities in Florida’s Legislature struck a backroom deal that would benefit their future political aspirations and give the stiff-arm to Congressman Allen West? My answer is a resounding ‘Yes.’

So, what I’m getting from this, and let me know i the comments if you see it differently, is that yes, the Florida establishment GOP is probably working out something that isn’t to Rep. West’s favor, but blaming Rep. Weatherford for it because he spoke for Mitt Romney isn’t fair.

БогородицаThe All American Wife requested Johnny Horton this week, and since she was cool enough to do half the All American Radio this week, here’s Johnny Horton.

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When President Obama took office, there were like five people on food stamps.

Ok, it was more like 32 million, but that number has skyrocketed under his watch. But, he says, it’s not MY fault. It was that darn President Bush:

Obama pushed back against what he called Republicans’ “rhetorical flourishes,” including Newt Gingrich’s oft-repeated contention that Obama is the “food stamp president.”

“First of all, I don’t put people on food stamps,” Obama said. “People become eligible for food stamps. Second of all, the initial expansion of food-stamp eligibility happened under my Republican predecessor, not under me. No. 3, when you have a disastrous economic crash that results in 8 million people losing their jobs, more people are going to need more support from government.”

Mr. President, you can have your own opinion, but you cannot have your own FACTS:

This year, more than 46 million (15% of all Americans) will get food stamps. That’s 45% higher than when Obama took office, and twice as high as the average for the previous 40 years. This surge was driven in part by the recession, but also because Obama boosted the benefit amount as part of his stimulus plan.

I suppose Bush made him boost the benefit amount.

But then, more facts:

Another major change in food stamp rules — in the direction of more generosity — occurred with the 2008 Farm Bill. We all know that Bush was president in 2008. But what Obama hopes you do not know is that Bush never signed it. Here’s wikipedia’s narrative:

On May 15, the House and Senate passed the bill, but President Bush issued a veto on May 21. The House voted to overturn the president’s veto shortly thereafter, and with the margins by which the bill was passed, a Senate override also occurred; so the Congress overrode the president’s veto, passing the bill into law (Public Law 110-234, the Food and Energy Security Act of 2007). However, the veto override was moot, as a 34-page section of the bill was omitted in the version sent to the White House. In effect, the President vetoed a bill Congress never considered. The bill had to be re-passed by Congress.

The House passed the Farm Bill again on May 22, and the Senate shortly thereafter. President Bush again vetoed the measure, but this veto was overridden in both Houses on June 18, so the Farm Bill in its entirety became law.

In summary, Bush vetoed that law twice.

Meanwhile, Obama was a U.S. Senator in 2008. Senator Obama had THREE chances to vote against it, but he never did (he abstained all three times).

So he boosted the program when he was president and voted present after President Bush vetoed it…twice.

But it’s all Bush’s fault.

This whole pile of fail has inspired me to create a comic based on the old Pokemon “It’s Super Effective” meme.

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