Differing States of Affairs

By William L. Garvin 

The vast majority of Americans tuned out and turned away from the State of the Union speech by President Obama.  What they missed was a carefully scripted paean to the brilliance of his administration in governing our country.  If there were to be a soundtrack for accompaniment, it would have been “On the Sunny Side of the Street,” “Accentuate the Positive (Eliminate the Negative),” and “What a Wonderful World” as the finale.  Thankfully, there would be no James Taylor!  Why did so few watch?  Why were his ratings a 15-year low?  Maybe they didn’t want to see a poorly rated rerun of perpetual tax and spend democrat policies, hate the rich class warfare, and pie in the sky Monte Hall giveaways.  Maybe his oratorical luster has faded.  Maybe his failure to carry through on his previous promises has “come home to roost.”  Maybe his glitch ridden policies, lack of transparency, proliferation of scandals, incomprehensible foreign policy and deceitful domestic policy (i.e., Obamacare, Keystone pipeline, open borders) has jaded many of his customary supporters. 

That’s why Seth Meyers of NBC noted, “Obama gave the SOTU address and I just have to say that I don’t know what union he was describing.  But I want to live there.  I want to move.  It sounds outstanding.  There’s a middle class.  They have small businesses.  It sounds great.”  NBC has carried enough water for the Obama administration to fill the Great Lakes.  When even they start mocking “the One,” storm clouds are forming on the horizon of “fundamental transformation.”

He should have seen the warning signs of his impending fall from grace when his party’s candidates declared him persona non grata on their campaign trails last year.  He should have known that when “every single one of my policies” was on the ballot yet his party still suffered nationwide annihilations in the 2014 elections.  He should have known that in 2008 he inherited 257 House Democrats and 57 Democrat Senators.  His ranks have now eroded to only 188 in the House and only 44 in the Senate.  Furthermore, state Democrat governorships have dwindled from 28 to 18 while Republican governor ranks have increased to 31during his “leadership.”  He should have known that non-Gruberized, non-low information voters know that the national debt increase averaged $251 billion during the Bush years.  Senator Obama called that “unpatriotic” and a “failure of leadership.”  However, his average annual national debt increase has been an astounding $1,078 billion!  Now he’s offering up another $4 trillion budget which will add another $475 billion to the national debt.  .  Remember the company that horribly botched the Obamacare website rollout?  Some say that incompetence bordered on criminal negligence.  Well, that same company has been hired by the IRS to handle the Obamacare tax issues!!!  It’s the same old, same old wasteful and irresponsible spending

There’s another reason no one watched his SOTU—they were at the movies watching AMERICAN SNIPER, the story of Chris Kyle.  That movie not only continues to set box office records week after week after week, but it also exposes the hypocrisy of the radical left.  Since their disgusting treatment of veterans coming home from Viet Nam, like the president, they said they had “evolved” and learned to “separate the warrior from the war.”  Poppycock!  Leftists like Moore, Rogen, and Dean called Kyle a coward, linked him to the Nazi’s, and said anyone seeing the movie had anger issues, respectively.  An NBC “journalist” called him a “racist” who went on “killing sprees.”  Others labeled him a “homicidal psychopath.”  The shallow veneer is ripped away and their core ugliness is once again revealed.

The irony permeating this repugnant ingratitude is that Chris Kyle did four tours of duty in harm’s way defending their right to make such idiotic and irresponsible statements.  Remember, there’s a blogger in Saudi Arabia who is getting 1,000 lashes for making a statement insulting to Islam.  Remember Charlie Hebdo.  Try exercising freedom of speech in Iran, or Cuba (our new best friend forever), or in Russia, or in the burgeoning caliphate of ISIS.  Try it in Yemen, or in Nigeria, or in North Korea.  Speak out in Pakistan, or in China…or in Hollywood (as Clint Eastwood does) and see what it gets you.

No matter how smoothly you talk, you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.  The American people are sending a message with their feet, their remote controls, and their pocketbooks.  They are telling you what they like and what they don’t like with their time and with their votes.  It’s a curious world when you go to the movies to see something that is real and when you watch President Obama’s SOTU address, you see something that is imaginary.  It’s time to get real.

New Year, Same Old Stories

By William L. Garvin

“The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” 

President Barack Obama

The nascent year of 2015 is already plagued with the continuing horror of Islamic terrorists wreaking havoc and destruction.  They recently murdered ten members of CHARLIE HEBDO, a satirical magazine in Paris, and two police officers.   A synchronized Muslim attack on a Jewish kosher market resulted in more innocents being executed and seems to have galvanized an international spirit of resistance.  However, there are underlying ripples of concern.  Overtly, millions have marched in solidarity with France and nearly forty leaders of nations walked point.  This was the largest demonstration in French history!  Unfortunately and conspicuously absent was the United States of America, the reputed leader of the free world.  Though he was already in Paris, Eric Holder failed to make an appearance and the President and Vice President remained safely ensconced in D.C. and Delaware undoubtedly performing other functions of great import.  Responding to criticism about the lack of a senior official, Secretary of State John Kerry huffed “I really think that this is sort of quibbling a little bit,”  and of course, they stand “four square” behind the French in their fight against terrorism and in defense of free speech.  The optics declare they are standing very, very far behind and the distinctions between “quibbling” and “quisling” become very blurred!

In the midst of all this, Boko Haram, the Islamic terrorists in Nigeria slaughter another 2,000 villagers.  Their barbaric activities have become so commonplace that they barely merit a terse scrawl at the bottom of the newscasts.  Correspondingly, the American media continues in its complicit if not cowardly conspiracy to minimize the obvious worldwide threats of radical Islam.  Instead they speak in the “lone wolf” and the “not representative of Islam” and the “this is just a small group of extremists” motifs.  How many dots need you need before there is no need for connection because the entire picture is black and bleak?  The Associated Press tries to link the demonstrations in Germany with their Nazi past and Chris Cuomo on CNN thinks the black terrorists in France are African-Americans!  Repeatedly they warn of the backlash from “right wing extremists” replete with their inherent Islamophobia.   They are much more concerned with the possibility of a hypothetical overreaction than they are with the atrocities being committed right in front of their eyes.  They seem ignorant to the fact that Jews are much more likely to be the target of a hate crime than Muslims and synagogues are more likely to be vandalized than are mosques in America.  In a paroxysm of sophistry, CNN’s Sally Kohn tweets “Since 9/11, right-wing extremists (incl. anti-abortion, anti-gov) have killed more Americans than Islamic extremists--).  This is as horrifically in error as is MSNBC’s Chris Hayes phony photograph of the phony Colorado Springs bombing of an NAACP office and his phony equivalency to the Charlie Hebdo massacre.  Then again, that’s what you can expect from MSNBS.

As for the defense of free speech, remember this is the administration that imprisoned a filmmaker who made a YouTube video critical of Islam.  This administration not only keeps him incarcerated but also blamed him for the murders in Benghazi.  President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made commercials apologizing for the movie trailer and assuring the Muslim world that they were appalled by the “disgusting and reprehensible” depiction.  This is the administration that will sic the IRS on organizations that espouse conservative speech.  This is the administration that spies on reporters, hacks their emails and demonizes conservative news channels.

Subsequently cowed and subservient, the mainstream media now cravenly forsakes its duty to the American people.  Where were they when Sharyl Atkisson was stonewalled and subsequently fired for her investigation of Benghazi?  Where were they when the fatwa was issued against Seattle cartoonist Molly Norris?  Why did the FBI say it could not protect her?  Why did she have to go off the grid?  Why didn’t the American Society of News Editors or the Society of Professional Journalists condemn this travesty?  (Read Mark Hemingway’s great story.)  Why aren’t newspapers, magazines, and newscasts showing Charlie Hebdo’s cartoons in an act of defiance?  The New York Times says it’s because of “sensitivity” but in reality…it’s because they are cowards.

Satire is effective when there is a barb, a biting edge, a bitter truth that is readily apparent and with which one can identify or at least understand.  Cartoonists frequently do this with a great deal of skill.  In a world of lies, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.  “Avec solidarite, en verite…’je suis Charlie.’”

A Season sans Reason

By William L. Garvin

Why is it that so many liberals who reject the reason for the season seem to gleefully embrace a season without reason?  Maybe it’s a lack of critical thinking skills.  Maybe it’s a large dose of ignorance.  Or maybe it’s just a foolish desire for anarchy.  If you can destroy structure and authority, then you will be “free” to pursue your own selfish pleasures with neither earthly nor heavenly consequences. 

It appears that liberal lemmings must have a cause du jour and if one does not actually exist, they will invent one.  As a subchapter in the specious saga of the fictitious “war on women,” the Rolling Stone article on collegiate fraternity gang rape is the perfect example.  Once proven to be baseless, a young liberal noted that “it didn’t matter if the facts were false; it still placed a spotlight on the problem.”  That’s the type of lockstep, sophomoric reasoning that $100,000 in student loans will buy you these days!  Then again, if NBC can doctor tapes to fit their agenda and presidents can deny what is clearly on tape, why bother with facts, logic, or rational discussion?

The same is true of the newly minted “movement” spawned by deaths in Ferguson and New York.  Lost to the majority of demonstrators and their supporters is the simple truth that if Michael Brown and Eric Garner had not broken the law to begin with, they would be alive today.  They have no one to blame for their deaths but themselves.  Personal accountability and individual responsibility are anathemas to those who live in the “I’m so special, I can do anything I want” world of extreme narcissism.  Therefore, they are “entitled,” by virtue of their self-proclaimed moral superiority to cast judgment as to the “truth” of any given situation.  Damn the facts; full emotions ahead!

As mainstream media continues to cover the violent and destructive “movement” to oppose racist police gunning down innocent black youth, why do they not point out that the premise is false?  In all of the arrests and confrontations by law enforcement in 2012, there were very few instances of force resulting in death.  While 123 of those killed by police were indeed black, another 326 of those killed were white.  The following year (2013) whites committed 4,396 murders.  Despite being only 13% of the population, blacks committed an astonishing 5,375 murders!  Look closely at those numbers and decide for yourself, who is waging war against whom?  Don’t let the media and the anarchists drag you down into their cesspool of unsubstantiated bile.

Pulling double duty as both a racial agitator and media shill is the omnipresent Al Sharpton, tax cheat extraordinaire.  The Democrat party and Comcast needs to assess how long they are going to support this prevaricating provocateur and his incendiary polemics.  Can you name a single situation where Sharpton has eased tension (absent a corporate payout)?  Can you name a single situation where he has brought parties together and offered reasonable solutions?  Yet somehow, he is President Obama’s go to guy on race relations.  Now there’s a definite lack of critical thinking skill!  This $4 million dollar tax cheat in his thousand dollar suits sits between the president and vice-president one day, and is instigating the blocking of streets, highways, airports, department stores, breaking of windows, trashing of Christmas trees, and general hooliganism.  As to the execution of the two NYPD police officers, Al may claim that he too is a victim, but in reality he is one of the most vocal, nefarious, and vindictive persecutors of law enforcement extant.

Has anyone from the Democrat party ever denounced Sharpton’s foolish polemics and deliberate instigation of a race war?  Will responsible Democrats ever put their country’s welfare above ginning up their base?  Not as of this date but hope springs eternal.  Then again, maybe the moderate Muslims will finally excommunicate the radicals in their midst from Islam.  Maybe Iran will only use their nuclear power for peaceful purposes.  Maybe Lois Lerner and all those who abused their power and authority in targeting conservatives will be held accountable.  Maybe the truth about Benghazi, Bergdahl, NSA spying, Obamacare, and the surge in “amnesty” for illegal aliens will finally be told.  Maybe the president will remember that elections have “consequences” and will spend more time governing rather than dictating.  Maybe the curious coalition of communists, socialists, anarchists, naive idealists, looters, arsonists, and drug addled joy riders will come back to reality.  Maybe the liberal lemmings will break out of their media-indoctrinated stupor and do something constructive for themselves and their country.  Until then, they can continue their adolescent antics and revel in their season without reason, but… beware the consequences!    

Baring False Witnesses

By William L. Garvin

“There are six things that the Lord strongly dislikes, seven that are an abomination to Him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.”  Proverbs 6:16-19

There is a quote attributed to Winston Churchill:  “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”  In today’s age of instant communication, that lie would make it ALL the way around the world!  One should look at how and why those lies are perpetuated, who is financing the canards, and who profits by their dissemination.  It is important to lay bare those who are bearing false witness.

Lying and cheating are rampant in our society.  “If you ain’t cheating, you ain’t competing,” as young folks say.  Lying seems to be a prerequisite for political office in this country despite the ninth commandment:  “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.”  There’s the infamous “I did not have sex with that woman.”  False.  “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.”    False.  “Hands up, don’t shoot” is false, a lie perpetuated by members of the congressional Black Caucus, by athletes on sporting fields, and “protestors” throughout the land.  A similar path is coursed by those same parties with the false narrative “I can’t breathe.”  There’s the ROLLING STONE story on gang rape at the University of Virginia.  False.  The Lena Dunham Republican rape story.  False.  The Duke lacrosse team rape story.  False.  The Tawana Brawley rape story.  False.  The Benghazi murders were caused by a videotape.  False.  “There’s not a smidgeon of corruption (in the IRS).”   False.  “Your health insurance premiums will go down by an average of $2,500 per family.”  False.  Because there are no timely consequences for any of these lies, unethical, immoral, and illegal behavior is not only condoned but encouraged.

It makes no difference that the Obama administration lied about the Benghazi videotape story or the false premises on which the Affordable Care Act was enacted.  It makes no difference when an American president can lie on live television to the American people about his sexual peccadilloes and remain fabulously wealthy and popular.  It makes no difference that three separate autopsies prove Michael Brown’s hands were never up.  It makes no difference when you say eleven times you can’t breathe, which is proof positive that you CAN breathe.  It makes no difference that the autopsy of Eric Garner showed no damage to either his windpipe or his neck bones, that he did NOT die of asphyxiation on the street but of cardiac arrest while in the ambulance.  For all the race hustlers in the grievance industry, it makes no difference that the crackdown on selling “loosies” in New York was ordered by the highest ranking black officer in the NYPD, Chief of Department Phillip Banks.  As the NEW YORK POST catalogued, Banks ordered the crackdown, black business owners lodged the complaint, a black officer ordered the arrest, and a black, female sergeant supervised the arrest.   None of that makes any difference and will be ignored because it doesn’t fit the liberal media narrative.  Just as Michael Brown’s strong arm robbery is deemed irrelevant, so are Eric Garner’s thirty-one previous arrests (eight for selling loosies in addition to assault and grand larceny).

So who profits by fanning these flames of racial unrest by bearing false witness?  Certainly Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, the NAACP and every politician who practices racial politics by playing to a core constituency of grievants.  Certainly the popular media with its liberal propaganda (such as “white privilege”) will profit in ratings for live coverage of assaults, looting, and arson.  Looters certainly profit.  Young idealists profit in a search for meaning and significance by identifying with “causes” whether real or imaginary.  Certainly the political forces abroad and at home that would love to see the “Great Satan” humbled are once again dancing in the streets.

And finally, there’s the Obama administration that has already seen the national debt exceed $18 TRILLION while simultaneously presiding over 92 million unemployed and record numbers of food stamp dependents.  Millions have illegally crossed our porous borders.  Iran marches unimpeded towards a nuclear arsenal while Putin continues to pugnaciously rattle his jingoistic saber.  The US has over 4,000 “boots on the ground” in Iraq for a war with no apparent strategic coherence.  China has replaced the USA as the premier economy and the Democrat party is divided and diminished.  False witnesses, breathing lies, sowing discord among brothers may be just the profitable distraction the doctor ordered…even if it’s an abomination!

Facts vs. Ferguson Fabrications

By William L. Garvin

“We must reject the idea that every time a law is broken, society is guilty rather than the law breaker.  It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.”  President Ronald Reagan

Nothing says “peace and justice” more than plunder, pillage, and arson.  Nothing combats unemployment more than burning downing the enterprises that might hire you.  Nothing encourages redevelopment more than looting and destroying locally owned and run businesses.  But, if you want to reinforce the stereotypes of “ghetto gangsta’s” and “urban thugs,” Ferguson is a resounding success!

As for those limousine liberals of Caucasian persuasion, the Anonymous anarchists, and the mindless sheeple who are harkening back to a pale imitation of Tom Wolfe’s RADICAL CHIC, here are some cold, hard DOJ and FBI facts to chill your boiling, emotional cauldrons.  Of course “Black Lives Matter,” but so do white lives and lives of every color.  Unfortunately, black lives don’t matter to lots of blacks.  While blacks comprise approximately 12.6% of the USA population, the latest FBI crime statistics show they comprise 53.1% of the murderers.  They also comprise 50.4% of the homicide victims.  For the vast majority of homicides, (approximately 90%), the murderers and victims are of the same race.  However, when it comes to interracial crime, the numbers are extremely lopsided.  Of the 1.7 million interracial crimes, only 2-3% of crimes committed by whites have black victims.  When it comes to ALL the crimes committed by blacks, 56% of their victims are white.  According to DOJ stats, in looking at over 100,000 rapes and sexual assaults where the victim was white, 44.5% of the assailants were white and 33.6% of the assailants were black.  Looking at 36,600 victims who were black, 100% of the assailants were black and 0.0% of the assailants were white.  Can you hear me N.O.W.?  The biggest threat to black men and black women are black men, not white cops!  Again, according to the DOJ statistics, blacks are 50 times more likely than whites to commit individual acts of interracial violence and 250 times more likely to engage in “multiple offender” or group interracial violence.

Despite the macro-statistical rejection of the fabricated war on young black men by violent white racists and police, Al Sharpton continues to peddle his Tawana Brawley Snake Oil sophistry.  In order to foolishly follow Sharpton’s lead, you must be anti-science and anti-evidence.  In order to parade around with your “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” placards, you must deny there was any of Michael Brown’s DNA and blood on Officer Darren Wilson’s gun or in his patrol vehicle.  You must deny the tapes of the police transmissions identifying Brown as wearing the same clothes as the robber.  You must deny the trail of blood leading away from the vehicle and then back towards the patrol vehicle.  You must deny every word that Wilson and every supportive black witness said.   You must deny the videotape showing Brown stealing cigars and manhandling the storeowner.  You must deny that Brown’s stepfather and mother’s profane and violent actions had no influence on the so called “gentle giant’s” upbringing.  You must deny Brown’s Facebook picture of himself brandishing a gun with a mouthful of cash.  Somehow you have to believe that Wilson would try to pull a 300 pound man-child through the window of his patrol car, would shoot him in the back as he ran away, shoot him with his arms up, and then stand over him to “finish him off” even though there’s no evidence or logical reason to believe any of this.  But many do.

Much praise should be given to the black citizens of Ferguson who stood up and protected local businesses whether they were owned by blacks or whites  Similarly, much opprobrium should be hurled upon those who lied, looted, burned, destroyed, and still refuse to face facts.  Similarly, shame on all those who are not equally outraged by the six blacks in Charlottesville, Virginia, (four men, two women) members of the “99 Goon Syndikat” gang who carjacked, robbed, and murdered white police captain Kevin Quick.  Eric Holder has already intervened and declared that the four gangbangers eligible for the death penalty will not face it.  So much for justice; may Captain Quick rest in peace.

Law enforcement puts more time, more effort, more money into policing itself as a profession than any other that can be named.  Nine times out of ten, when we find out there was a bad cop, it was another cop who figured it out.  Internal Affairs and Professional Standards processes are not perfect but they stand head and shoulders above any other process that can be named.  It is appropriate that they do their very best to weed out the bad apples and they do.  Black America should do the same.

       

Democrats, Aristocrats, Plutocrats, and Deceptocrats?

By William L. Garvin

“Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!”

Sir Walter Scott

Pity the impoverished progressive media.  After selling its soul to the Devil, he is here to exact his due.  Bowing to the knee of their liberal education, those in the populist media (ABC, NBC, CBS, most newspapers, MSBC, CNN, etc.) are complicit in the creation of an unearned aura of presidential competence and the destruction of any and all political or populist challengers to their concocted mythology.  Having established their perimeters, they must now sit impotently inside as potential Pulitzers, books, and movie rights fade into oblivion.

If a second-rate burglary and phone tapping such as Watergate could bring down a president, make national icons out of obscure reporters named Woodward and Bernstein, and result in books and movies such as ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN, what could be done with “Fast and Furious,”  Benghazi, NSA spying, wiretapping and spying on reporter emails, IRS targeting of political opponents, deliberately lying to the American people regarding Obamacare costs and enrollments, and unconstitutional immigration fiats bring to the profession of journalism and the edification of the American people?  It appears as nothing when you look at the current lot of supposed journalists populating media airwaves.  The fields of investigative journalism are fertile but the workers are few!  Those that do perform are quickly exiled from the prevalent propaganda practitioners…just ask Sharyl Attkisson!

You’ve probably heard the liberal strumpets trumpet that Congress is incredibly unpopular but you won’t hear about the latest Gallup poll showing the Democrat Party has only a 36 percent favorability rating while the Republican Party has now achieved a 42 percent rating.  You probably won’t hear that Independents only rate Democrats at 25% as compared to their 42% rating a year ago.  You probably won’t hear that only 37% of people support Obamacare.  You probably won’t hear that the economy and its current failings is the biggest concern of American voters (50% “most important” and 70% rating it as “only good or fair”) and that “global warming” barely registers on their scale of concern.  This is especially true now that 50% of the United States is covered in record snow and cold!

This was all a matter of fact even before “Grubergate” and “Obamagration.”  Do you even know of MIT professor Jonathan Gruber?  If not, that’s not surprising since Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama and major media also don’t seem to remember him even though he visited the White House 19 times, even though he and his company received over $6 million in government payments over the last few years, even though he was praised by all of them for his technical assistance.    Each of them lauded his vast contributions (easily verified on YouTube) to RomneyCare and ObamaCare but now they have a collective case of selective amnesia.  Is it because he proclaimed “a lack of transparency is a huge political advantage” or said “call it the stupidity of the American voter” or called it “clever” to exploit “the lack of understanding of the American voter”?  Remember this—the American voter has ALWAYS been opposed to ObamaCare.  The American people were never allowed to vote.  Harry Reid and his Deceptocrat Senate colleagues passed this through parliamentary chicanery and reconciliation.  Nancy Pelosi and her Deceptocrat House colleagues passed this through the House in the middle of the night without ever reading the large print let alone the fine print.  The common sense American citizen, the great unwashed, the outside the beltway voter, the hard working middle class understood from the beginning that you can’t add 30 million to the roles, keep the supply of doctors and hospitals status quo, and expect the price of health insurance to go down and the availability of health care to go up. 

You probably won’t hear about the NBC poll that shows 37% of legal immigrants oppose Obamagration while only slightly more (43%) support it.  American voters have said they don’t want a socialist transformation of America that allows 6 million lawbreakers to cut in line in front of those who have legally applied for entry.  Yet the president continues to show his contempt of congress and the constitution and the congress continues to show its contempt of its citizens.  Democrats now control the fewest number of seats in congress for nearly 80 years.  If Democrats continue to choose Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz as their leaders, expect those numbers to continue to decline but don’t expect to hear it on your evening news.

Elephants in the Room

By William L. Garvin
 

In a forceful repudiation of presidential policies to “fundamentally transform America,” American voters stampeded herds of conservative elephants into the halls of congress and state legislatures throughout the land.  Curiously, President Obama seemed oblivious to his political rejection in the clear message from the one-third who voted and divined solace and personal support from the two-thirds who didn’t vote!  When he was reelected by only thirty percent of the eligible voters in 2012, no such divination was evident.  It’s a good thing the Denier-in-Chief is still found to be so “likeable” by the liberal media or he might be regarded as petty, petulant, pompous and predictable.

This election also exposed several liberal mastodons that should immediately be relegated to the elephant burial grounds.  The Democrat party loves to characterize the Republicans, the Tea Party, and conservatives in general as “angry, old, white men.”  That is lib-speak for “racist” and “sexist.”  Yet throughout the country, the race card and the war on women were played and waged not by Republicans but by Democrats.  Democrats delighted in demonizing opponents with images of Trayvon Martin, Ferguson, and lynchings.  Charlie Rangel hinted they still believed in slavery!  Nonetheless, voters elected Tim Scott (Republican) to the Senate, the first black American senator from the South since Reconstruction.  They elected Mia Love (Republican), the first black female American from her party to the House.  In a somewhat embarrassing display of political partisanship, the NAACP not only failed to congratulate these victors but gave Senator Scott an “F” in their ratings.  Hats should be doffed to every black American who runs for office as a conservative.  It takes a great deal of courage knowing the racial invective and opprobrium that will be heaped upon them by the intolerant left.  Ask Allen West, Ben Carson, J.C. Watts, Ward Connerly, Clarence Thomas, Herman Cain, or Condoleezza Rice.

The same is true for the so-called conservative “war on women” which in reality is only waged by the left on conservative women.  Nikki Haley in South Carolina, Mary Fallin in Oklahoma, and Susana Martinez in New Mexico, all Republicans, were emphatically returned to their governorships.  Republican Joni Ernst became the first female senator from Iowa; Republican Shelley Moore Capito became the first female senator from West Virginia; Republican Elise Stefanik from New York at 30 became the youngest member in the House; and 18-year old Republican Saira Blair became the youngest state legislator in the country thanks to her 63-30% election in West Virginia.  Showing their intolerance, twitter world was filled with vitriol such as “dysfunctional,” “weird mutant,” and “psychopathic.”

Also of note were the overwhelming rejections of Wendy Davis and Sandra Fluke.  Davis, aka “Abortion Barbie,” had her pink tennis shoes handed to her on a platter in her run for governor of Texas.  In a gaffe-filled campaign that made Joe Biden look like a statesman, she foolishly mocked her opponent’s confinement to a wheelchair and declared he would outlaw interracial marriages despite his own marriage of over thirty years to a Latina!  True to form, even after her defeat, her supporters kept shouting their extremist views by saying every woman who voted Republican should “fall off the face of the earth” and “kill all the babies”!  In comparison, Fluke’s twenty point loss for the Senate in deep blue California was tame by comparison.  The only irony here is how someone so concerned about getting taxpayers to pay for contraception can come up with a $100,000 loan to her ill-fated campaign.

A final elephant in the room is the lack of effectiveness of the vaunted Democrat get-out-the-vote machine.  Now that President Obama’s policies have been so ineffective and his charm has worn thin, he was not seen as a sparkling asset but as a toxic liability.  Even in safe states where he and his wife campaigned, Democrats still lost because of their support for his policies.  To drum up the base, Democrat candidates turned to Hillary Clinton and the “Big Dog” Bill Clinton.  Hillary’s efforts were as disastrous as her book tour and thirty-two of her candidates lost!  Bill was equally impotent as far as the campaigning went.  The invincibility of the Clinton machine and the inevitability of Hillary’s presidency were sudddenly brought into question.  That’s why the “suicide watch” at MSNBC and other liberal media should remain vigilant!  Now it’s the Democrats who look old, angry, and tired.  They need to fire their writers, get some new material and freshen up their rap ‘cuz this ain’t your grandpa’s GOP!