Other than the many Communists and fellow travelers who were recruited as a result of the supposed “failure” of the American dream–so vividly illustrated by the Great Depression–and the various dictators and forms of Fascism, National Socialism, and Communism that were held up by elements in our Press and Academia in the 1930s and thereafter as better alternatives that really worked, the Left’s message was not bought to any great extent by the mass of U.S. citizenry of the WWII era.

So, the Left has not only “reframed” and repackaged its message, but it has also spent six plus decades–via our educational system and Academia, the MSM, Hollywood, books, plays, music, art, TV shows, “popular culture,” and even government and law–in propagandizing, conditioning and transforming the American people–the audience who would be listening to any arguments the Left and their opponents might make today as to whether our ship of State should continue on its present course to Utopia and the fabled “Fountain of Youth,” or the “Seven Cites of Gold,” or whether we should turn back and fight our way through heavy weather to find the United States and its Constitution that we departed from long ago.

And while I believe that the kinds of austerity and sacrifice I have been writing about above could have been sold to and accepted by that earlier, much more realistic, hardened, supposedly “unsophisticated” and less well “educated” WWII era citizenry, I doubt that the much transformed audience of today–softer, more pampered, and unused to real sacrifice, supposedly more widely “educated” but, ironically, (and deliberately made so) less knowledgeable about and grounded in true American history and the Constitution, less literate and numerate, less able to dissect an argument, less knowledgeable about economics and the capitalist system, less rooted in American tradition and history, and much less proud of them–would or will buy the painful and arduous struggle that will be necessary if they are to have any hope of real, solid recovery, and future freedom and prosperity.

Rant off.

The likelihood that anyone who tells the truth about our perilous situation, and who advocates the array of drastic reductions in spending, in the size and scope of government, drastically scaling back or eliminating various government departments, agencies, and programs and, above all, entitlements, that will be required to pull us back from the brink will scare off so many voters as to destroy his/her chances of being elected by what it appears is a citizenry largely addicted to and dependent on government benefits–a recent report estimated that 1/3 of all income in the U.S. came, in one way or the other, from the government–means that any candidate hoping to pull us back from the brink will have to either have to pull off the almost impossible task of, from the get go, successfully selling major sacrifice and austerity or, more likely, have to do exactly what Obama did–lie his ass off about what he intends to do once in office in order to get into office, so that he can then unleash his real, draconian policies.

If sugar coating the truth is the option, then such a candidate would have to project a kind of general reassuring, optimistic, Reaganesque belief that it is “sunrise in America,” outline a few, more moderate, key ideas/proposals but, be pretty short on most of the specifics; present an acorn but don’t describe what the fully grown tree would look like. Moreover, such a candidate will, of necessity, also have to be a master at using the Internet and the “undermedia” to get his message across, in the face of massive and universal opposition from the Left and its “lackeys and running dogs” in the MSM.

Is there anyone with the required vision, savvy, and backbone who can truly sell and run on a platform of major sacrifice and austerity? So far, I don’t see such a master salesman, most likely candidates–if they are talking cuts at all–are talking small (and totally inadequate and ineffective) cuts around the edges, not the meat axe approach that will be necessary, and while Gov. Christie is doing good work, he strikes me as more of an “art of the possible” man, and less of the “take no prisoners,” “Battle Hymn of the Republic” kind of President I believe we desperately need right now, for what will have to be not just a small campaign but, in order to work, a long, drawn-out Crusade.

Have things gotten so bad that we have descended into almost an “Eloi” vs. “Morlock” situation?

Looking over the situation, are we really talking about finding a more benign demagogue to oppose our current malevolent demagogue?

How do we enact the drastic reforms necessary, pull up just short of the precipice, while keeping the country together and still retaining our democratic Republic and our Constitution?

That is the problem and it takes a leader, someone who is willing to take the heat and tell the truth however unpleasant the truth may be. IMO it has to be someone outside the same old DC in crowd. Palin, Cain, West, Watts, Rubio, Daniels, Bachmann and Christie come to mind. But of those I have mentioned; only Palin, Cain, Christie, and West have the personal forcefulness to carry the message. (I see Bachmann as damaged goods, even more so than Palin.)

Proof positive that the left side of the spectrum are not the compassionate ones they pretend to be. The reality is that they are the first ones to turn cannibal when the going gets tough. Note: I am open to the idea that abortion in the first trimester should be legal, after that I say no, and definitely a big no in the final trimester.

What comes first, a rational government or a rational public that elects the government? I contend it is the latter. And with 53% voting just two years ago for a marxist leaning leader who spent twenty years in a racist church, we can safely say the public is irrational.

While we pretend to be waiting on a courageous conservative to show up to save us, what we’re really waiting for is the people to come to their senses. And that won’t happen until the inflation we all know is coming from the actions of this administration finally gets here in full bloom.

Obama’s polling woes!

Don’t worry about Prosser or Kaisch. They are front line troops, point men. The real bellwether is someone like Obama who is not a point man, who is indeed the exact opposite as has been noted.

America’s gut is turning sour on Obama and welfare. The opposition, of course, ramps it up. The politics of personal destruction are engaged to hither unknown levels. And that will be their undoing. A good test is going to be Weiner. If his style of arrogance and hypocrisy is successful, then New York deserves what it gets.