If President Obama’s popularity continues to slide, as I think it will — given that his policies don’t work and often harm the people he claimed to be helping — then it’ll be interesting to see how people respond. In 2009, it was difficult to find a Democrat anywhere who DIDN’T trumpet to the skies about a vote for Obama. Soon it may be difficult to find anyone who will ADMIT to having voted for Obama.

Interesting times…

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2014/10/10/alison_lundergan_grimes_sounds_like_mark_mcgwire

>>I’ll tell you what I think nails Alison Lundergan Grimes. I don’t know how many people are gonna see it. It’s Internet video, and it just depends on how widely it gets distributed, but there’s this big fundraiser for her with a bunch of liberal New York fat cats, people like Harvey Weinstein and James Dolan of Cablevision or what have you, a bunch of ’em.

And somebody at Alison Lundergan Grimes’ campaign told these big donors (paraphrasing), “Don’t sweat it, she has say good things about the coal industry in order to get elected. But when she gets to the Senate, she’s gonna F-bomb ’em.” That’s what one of her aides said. It’s all over this video that she’s gonna screw the coal industry.

Now, that’s the kind of thing I think ought to disqualify her. And I don’t mean disqualify, but that’s the kind of thing you let the voters of Kentucky find out and she’s finished.

But why make a big deal? Okay, she won’t admit she voted for Obama. Okay, so she doesn’t have any courage. Okay, well, big deal. Speaks for itself.

I think that’s secondary compared to this other thing. I mean, here’s a woman who is lying to her constituents or her would-be constituents. She’s lying in her campaign.

She knows Kentucky’s a coal state. They depend on it. But she’s a big liberal Democrat and coal’s the enemy. Coal is climate change. Coal is pollution. Coal is global warming. Coal is capitalism. Coal is horrible.

She is gonna owe a lot of donors a lot of payback. A lot of her donors are global warming fruitcakes, and they’re gonna want payback. And the payback is gonna be her help in socking it to the coal industry. And these big donors are being assured that she will.

It’s like Obama telling Dmitry Medvedev (imitating Obama), “Look, tell Putin that I’ll have a lot more flexibility in getting rid of America’s nukes after the election. You tell Vlad not to pay attention to what I’m saying in the campaign.” He said that on an open mic.

The American low-information voter never heard about it. If the American low-information voter had heard about it, by definition, wouldn’t have known what he was talking about. “Tell Vlad I’ll have more flexibility after the election.”

You know, without George Clooney in the frame, they wouldn’t have had any idea what that was about. But this, when you tell donors, and it’s on tape, that the candidate’s gonna screw the coal industry if she wins, that, to me, is dynamite. <<

(This is in today's [10/10] archive on Limbaugh's website.)

(hint: the Republic is doomed)

A tad off-topic here, but about having a right to do or not to do this or that . . .

Twice in the past couple of weeks, when I have expressed my disagreement or displeasure with something or other, I have been gently reminded that it was that person’s *right* to express what s/he expressed.

Dagnabbit, I was nowhere disputing the person’s right to express what s/he expressed; I was disputing the *soundness* of the *content* of what s/he expressed.

Yeeeesh.

I guess “it’s that person’s right” is what someone says as a sort of social filler, rather than get into a dispute over the actual *soundness* of the *content*. Whatever. I ain’t got good enough social skills anyway . . .

There. Got it off my chest. For now.

Of course she has every right to refuse to say. I absolutely support the privacy of the ballot.

But voters in her state or the media have a right to ask.

I didn’t put the video up there to say she had to answer. I just think it’s interesting how all the Democrats are running away from Obama, and how their ploy might even work, although it’s abundantly clear that she (and most of them) supported Obama and would still support his policies once elected.

I also wanted to put the Clairol video up there.

If the voters of Kentucky are fooled by her, they are stupid and/or gullible. But of course she doesn’t have to answer the question.

By the way, she was an Obama delegate to the Democratic Convention in 2012.

Thanks. I substituted a different video.