tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post7679446736878565844..comments2024-03-29T05:14:33.223-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Election observationsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-72570151462481660262012-11-13T15:09:25.034-08:002012-11-13T15:09:25.034-08:00How do you get more mainstream Republican than Bus...How do you get more mainstream Republican than Bush, Dole, Bush, McCain, and Romney?Cail Corishevhttp://cailcorishev.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-5913866619536534392012-11-13T12:59:19.863-08:002012-11-13T12:59:19.863-08:00In re: point #11
You have to get rid of the Iowa...In re: point #11<br /><br />You have to get rid of the Iowa Caucuses. The combination of being "first-in-the-nation" and requiring a 3-hr process to "vote" predictably leads to both extremely low turnout and primacy of place to far right ideologues. <br /><br />RNC should just say that caucuses only count 1/5th as much as primaries in the nomination process. A move towards primaries will mean more mainstream nominees.D. Silvernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-83708734636777915152012-11-11T14:31:08.755-08:002012-11-11T14:31:08.755-08:00Corn said...
To Anon at 1:26pm 11/10:
Contrary to...Corn said... <br />To Anon at 1:26pm 11/10:<br />Contrary to what many think, the GOP shouldn't abandon a pro-life position. Many millions of people believe abortion is wrong and these votes shouldn't be tossed aside to become Democrat Lite. But every rule has it's exceptions. The GOP position should be "illegal except in cases of rape, incest, life of the mother." The pro-life absolutists who would tell a raped woman she must keep the baby should be told to scram though.<br />-------<br /><br />A one-minute googling shows that when one compares abotion rates by race with population percentages by race, one sees that African-American women undergo more abortions than white women - per woman - in almost all states.<br /><br />Abortion help keep the demographics in a range where a democrat win is not a foregone conclusion, at least in the short term.<br /><br />A better take on abortion would be to fund them in full for poor women, and get some brownie points among independents. <br /><br />Shut up about rape, period. If non-democrat candidates want to bring up abortion as a topic, it is best to leave that to PAC´s, that can show pictures of partial-birth abortions (google if you are not at work)to get the ick factor to work against democrats.<br /><br />The message is simple: Show some bloody pictures of partial-birth abortions, alongside with a portrait of the democrat politician that has voted for it, with the caption: He/she voted for it! No need to be subtle.<br /> Swordnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-63546839538259544152012-11-11T08:04:39.156-08:002012-11-11T08:04:39.156-08:00Re: You're being ridiculous. People who cared ...Re: You're being ridiculous. People who cared about Benghazi and Fast and Furious and Supreme Court justices and the rest of it voted for Romney. (Except for a tiny minority of them who are really stupid) Meanwhile the people who voted for Obama cared nothing for these issues, at best. You're imagining an electorate which doesn't exist.<br /><br />1) Guess what? Most people didn't give a rat's ass about Willie Horton until the Republicans turned it into an ad.<br /><br />2) Guess what? I didn't mention Benghazi (in part because I agree).<br /><br />3) My point was that Obama's extremist positions on immigration and affirmative action (completely ignored by the media) would in fact have hurt him with the white electorate had Romney put them in play. Romney didn't.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-20899720882276166852012-11-11T01:17:00.774-08:002012-11-11T01:17:00.774-08:00"Obamacare will kill poor black people who ar...<em>"Obamacare will kill poor black people who aren't connected to the 'community health organizer' graft schemes it has embedded in its 1000s of pages. "</em><br /><br />Since any poor black people who refuse to be "organized" will be suspected to be traitors to the cause, it seems like the people in charge would be fine with that.Cail Corishevnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-22500215516405410052012-11-11T00:59:47.655-08:002012-11-11T00:59:47.655-08:00"There will absolutely be a deal on amnesty o...<em>"There will absolutely be a deal on amnesty or the mainstream media will relentlessly point out that there wasn't and that will do no good for Republicans."</em><br /><br />The media is not looking to do any favors for the GOP or increase its popularity or power. Why would you let your enemy tell you what's "good" for you?<br /><br />Republicans could save a lot of money on polling and strategizing, by simply opening a newspaper, seeing what the media think they should do, and doing the opposite.Cail Corishevnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-10870066748429271192012-11-11T00:27:39.429-08:002012-11-11T00:27:39.429-08:00Anonymous Anonymous said...
Obamacare will kill p...Anonymous Anonymous said...<br /><br />Obamacare will kill poor black people who aren't connected to the 'community health organizer' graft schemes it has embedded in its 1000s of pages.<br /><br />Not that anyone voting for him knows any details of Obamacare, of course."<br /><br />Nor, indeed, did most of the Congressmen who voted for Obamacare.Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-37128360332249141682012-11-10T21:26:18.161-08:002012-11-10T21:26:18.161-08:00Obamacare will kill poor black people who aren'...Obamacare will kill poor black people who aren't connected to the 'community health organizer' graft schemes it has embedded in its 1000s of pages. <br /><br />Not that anyone voting for him knows any details of Obamacare, of course.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-61619135978490716502012-11-10T21:12:49.070-08:002012-11-10T21:12:49.070-08:00A few years ago blind polling showed that most Bri...<i>A few years ago blind polling showed that most British people approved of the policies of the BNP. They approved until they knew that these were BNP policies. Once they knew the BNP angle, support fell away.</i><br /><br />More than likely that has to do with the fact that the BNP is portrayed as toxic in the media. So once they realized those policies were BNP, they had to dissociate from them regardless of how they initially felt.<br /><br />An analog to this is an experience I once had with a coworker. He told me Pat Buchanan was an extremist. Later I asked him if he felt anchor babies of illegals warranted US citizenship and all the bennies that entails. He said no. I told him that he agreed with Pat Buchanan on that issue. He seemed put off.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-29375933969208759012012-11-10T21:00:13.520-08:002012-11-10T21:00:13.520-08:00I remember when Buchanan won the NH primary in 199...<i>I remember when Buchanan won the NH primary in 1992. Yes, won it. Came in first. Blue ribbon, gold medal. As soon as it was over, the take from the token Republicans in the media like George Will was that Pat had run a nice race and brought some conservative ideas to the table, but now it was time to put the silly season behind us and pay attention to the real candidates.</i> <br /><br /><br />George Will can express whatever opinion he likes, it's a free country. (For a little while longer) His opinions don't force anybody to vote for one candidate rather than another. I was urging people to vote for Hunter in 2008. Even on the right wing blogs where his platform was what people wanted, nobody seemed interested in him.<br /><br />My sense is that people want the polices they like, but they also want those policies to come from approved "establishment" candidates and not from some guy they never heard about.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78975375530020805342012-11-10T20:56:53.545-08:002012-11-10T20:56:53.545-08:00"2. He saved the auto industry."
- He h..."2. He saved the auto industry."<br /><br />- He helped his union friends. Saving the auto industry is nonsense. Free markets correct themselves. If it is a sick business, it goes under, and a healthy replacement (without union employees) takes its place..."<br /><br />The US has three auto companies, two of which would have gone under without the bailouts, causing nearly a million American jobs. <br /><br />We once had dozens of American auto makers, DeSoto, Studebaker, AMC, etc., and as they died, no healthy replacements jumped up to take their places. <br /><br />That moron Romney originally said the same thing you are, with the added caveat that he would have secured private financing, of course, somehow forgetting that the American banks that had that level of capital needed to be bailed out at the same time.Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-18731146472403765542012-11-10T20:50:29.607-08:002012-11-10T20:50:29.607-08:00I voted for Gary Johnson although I wanted Romney ...<i>I voted for Gary Johnson although I wanted Romney to win </i> <br /><br />Libertarians .. they exist so that the question "Is it possible to be dumber than a box of hammers?" can be answered in the affirmative.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-18786055233191239822012-11-10T20:11:26.197-08:002012-11-10T20:11:26.197-08:00Maybe the GOP should reorder the process to protec...<i>Maybe the GOP should reorder the process to protect viable candidates, or restrict the field to senators, VPs, and governors. The GOP likes order, they'd tolerate it.</i><br /><br />I.e., the GOP should restrict the field to allow only Republican Establishment princes, earls, and dukes to run. Did the real Steve Sailer write that? <br /><br />That would bar Ron Paul, Tom Tancredo, Joe Arpaio, or Pat Buchanan from being GOP candidates.<br /><br />That rule would also have prevented Dwight Eisenhower or Abe Lincoln from running for Prez. on the Republican ticket.David Davenporthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03315090179595817174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-60214738599722495392012-11-10T20:10:23.212-08:002012-11-10T20:10:23.212-08:00There will absolutely be a deal on amnesty or the ...There will absolutely be a deal on amnesty or the mainstream media will relentlessly point out that there wasn't and that will do no good for Republicans.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-11228186136700435362012-11-10T19:07:16.720-08:002012-11-10T19:07:16.720-08:00If rank-and-file Republicans (and Democrats, for t...<i>If rank-and-file Republicans (and Democrats, for that matter) wouldn't vote for Buchanan-ite policies, then why do they poll so well?</i> - Cail<br /><br />A few years ago blind polling showed that most British people approved of the policies of the BNP. They approved until they knew that these were BNP policies. Once they knew the BNP angle, support fell away.<br /><br />Thus showing that the emotionalistic, demonising tactics of the MSM <i>et al</i> are still the most powerful tools available.<br /><br />Link: <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-384167/Most-Britons-actually-support-BNP-policies.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-68276376506504206432012-11-10T18:20:05.016-08:002012-11-10T18:20:05.016-08:00>7. He reformed Wall Street regulations.
8. He...>7. He reformed Wall Street regulations.<br /><br />8. He instituted equal pay for women.<<br /><br />Haven't seen anything about those. The others, basically yes. At least he didn't get in the way of some of them (e.g., Iraq War end).<br /><br />You could also make a solid list of his failures. The chief one: he is appalling on constitutional rights; his insistence on the provisions in the NDAA permitting indefinite detention of American citizens without charging or trying them is the mark of a genuine dictator, and so are his "kill lists": Obama routinely issues summary execution orders for people, including American citizens, Constitution be damned. Another fault is his willingness to use executive orders to bypass Congress. This fault is certainly not unique to him, but he seems to have no scruples about it. (That other fella would have retained all these powers without batting an eye.)<br /><br />The Left, of course, merely shrugs sadly when these things are pointed out, but a few of them are putting up a fight. Chris Hedges and others have <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedges_v._Obama" rel="nofollow">sued</a> Obama over the NDAA.Davidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-62940692561049199742012-11-10T18:13:58.493-08:002012-11-10T18:13:58.493-08:00"Perhaps the GOP should make a deal with Hisp..."Perhaps the GOP should make a deal with Hispanics to do the same in the Southwest."<br /><br />That already part of the Voting Rights Act. The problem is rotten boroughs: Districts are drawn based upon residents, not upon citizens, registered voters, or actual voters. So specially contrived Hispanic districts tend to have lots of illegal aliens, children of illegal aliens, felons, apathetics, etc. and not many voters. <br /><br />Look at SoCal. For example, Congressman Xavier Becerra got re-elected in a contect with 106,000 votes cast. Lucille Roybal-Allard was re-elected in a race with 99,000 votes cast. <br /><br />Henry Waxman of Beverly Hills was narrowly re-elected in a race with 248,000 votes cast. Republican Dana Rohrbacher of the beach was re-elected in a battle with 262,000 votes cast.<br /><br />Hispanic voters are wildly over-represented relative to white and black voters, but other than Judge Posner in one decision along time ago, nobody cares.Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-35854664324587560012012-11-10T18:11:11.448-08:002012-11-10T18:11:11.448-08:00"5. He got rid of Gaddafi."
- Actually ...<br /> "5. He got rid of Gaddafi."<br /><br />- Actually he fumbled the hell out of Libya. Even not including the Benghazi debacle; It was the Libyan people themselves who handled Gaddafi.<br /><br /> "6. He ended the Iraq War."<br /><br />- After continuing it for a long time, and escalating drone attacks. There's still troops in the region. At best, he did what he did to keep half his party from dumping him at election time.<br /><br /> "7. He reformed Wall Street regulations."<br /><br />- Probably for the worse; he and his buddies like Barney Frank screwed the economy up and created the Housing bubble/derivative crash in the first place.<br /><br /> "8. He instituted equal pay for women."<br /><br />-You assume (wrongly) that they were being shortchanged in the first place. In any case, screwing with the invisible hand ALWAYS has negative consequences. So chalk this up to another (eventual) screwup. <br /><br /> "9. He turned the rest of the world from hating the American President to liking him for a change."<br /><br />-He started with an approval rating through the stratosphere for all of the virtue of simply being an intelligent black liberal empty suit promising vacuous notions like hope and change. With all the headwind and good will, not to mention a compliant MSM, etc. he proceeded through screw up after screw up, and blatant tribalism to reach one of the lowest approval scores of modern times.<br /> <br /> "10. He lowered the loan burden on college students."<br /><br />See #1. Again. This lets the bubble grow to even more dizzying heights by allowing colleges to get away with charging even more. The eventual consequence, of course, will be even worse because of it. Another screw up.<br /><br /> "Etc, etc, etc...."<br /><br />- I agree, 10 screw ups of this magnitude are more than enough from one president. That he is getting a chance to do it all over again, however, is a screw up of at least as great of a magnitude by the population at large.Maxwellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-86019737204117261862012-11-10T18:10:57.517-08:002012-11-10T18:10:57.517-08:00" Anonymous said...
Obama has done a lot
..." Anonymous said...<br /> Obama has done a lot<br /> Indeed he has:<br /> 1. He saved America from a second Great Depression and the world from a financial meltdown."<br /><br />- Nonsense. He kicked the can a bit further down the road, at best. When the bill comes due, as it eventually will, it will be all the more worse for his actions.<br /> <br />"2. He saved the auto industry."<br /><br />- He helped his union friends. Saving the auto industry is nonsense. Free markets correct themselves. If it is a sick business, it goes under, and a healthy replacement (without union employees) takes its place. It was his union friends that screwed up the auto industry in the first place by ruining their ability to compete against Japan. All he's done is kick the can down the road (again). <br /><br /> "3. He passed health care reform that numerous presidents from Republican Teddy Roosevelt to Republican Richard Nixon to Democrat Bill Clinton tried and failed to do."<br /><br />- You sound like the libnuts at my workplace, "Obama is a hero for Obamacare, blah blah blah". For the average, healthy person, they are worse off under this. But admittedly, the lazy, illegals, etc will be better off. Most people are against it, and Obama pushed it through under what are probably illegal methods. He wants more of the economy and more of the power to be in gov't hands. That's the real reason.<br /><br /> "4. He killed Bin Laden, who Bush and his neocons had allowed to escape from Tora Bora."<br /><br />-Clinton had the best chance before Obama to kill him but didn't. I'm quite sure if Bush had the information Obama had, he wouldn't have hesitated to approve it. And probably wouldn't have looked like a JV wet behind the ears school boy in the official picture doing it. Obama has pledged to get rid of Guantanamo, by favoring Muslims, Black Panthers, etc done many things that put this country at more risk than what Osama was currently causing. Look at his handling of Benghazi. Obama pledged that if the winds of fortune change direction, he would stick with the Muslims. With that, with his 20 yr support of a preacher who damns America, etc Do you really think a person like that cares in the slightest about punishing a Muslim to exact revenge for American suffering? He did it to have at least something that could resonate with middle America, and he and his sycophantic MSM have boasted it to every person on the planet a hundred times since it happened.<br />Maxwellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-73531538485450052312012-11-10T17:52:49.662-08:002012-11-10T17:52:49.662-08:00The GOP won the House with fewer votes because of ...The GOP won the House with fewer votes because of the Voting Rights Act, which in Southern states creates overwhelmingly Black C.D.'s.<br /><br />Both Black Dems and The Southern GOP like it that way. <br /><br />Perhaps the GOP should make a deal with Hispanics to do the same in the Southwest.anony-mousenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-59035544120037163872012-11-10T17:39:57.284-08:002012-11-10T17:39:57.284-08:00No demographic group of native born Americans has ...No demographic group of native born Americans has a birthrate above replacement.<br /><br />Our population has increased by 50 million in just 20 years.<br /><br />We need a no growth policy for the sake of our environment. When people move to the US their per capita energy consumption skyrockets. <br /><br />We need to enforce immigration laws immediately.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-83685556925810446952012-11-10T17:35:44.818-08:002012-11-10T17:35:44.818-08:009. He turned the rest of the world from hating the...<i>9. He turned the rest of the world from hating the American President to liking him for a change.</i><br /><br />They only like Obama because he's black. They still hate him for being American.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-79274502873571319742012-11-10T17:33:44.967-08:002012-11-10T17:33:44.967-08:00The sort of nitwits who think the GOP is controled...<i>The sort of nitwits who think the GOP is controled by "Christian mullahs" are never going to vote GOP in any case. The natural home of ignorant bigots has always been the Democratic party.</i><br /><br />What about libertarians?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-49089542666933174042012-11-10T17:19:46.970-08:002012-11-10T17:19:46.970-08:00After Libya, it's amazing that there are still...After Libya, it's amazing that there are still people who think they can predict what Obama will do militarily in places like Iran.Cail Corishevnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-61475454517886074302012-11-10T17:02:50.698-08:002012-11-10T17:02:50.698-08:00bluegrass said...I don't really see much hope ...<i>bluegrass said...I don't really see much hope for the Republicans. Their only option is to run an explicitly populist party line with 3rd way economics, (protectionism, distributionism, union-friendly, tax friendly)</i><br /><br />Can we be union friendly but not government-worker union friendly? The latter will be the death of us.<br /><br /><i>Finally, yes, absolutely muzzle the loons on abortion and birth control</i><br /><br />How does the party keep loons from expressing their views?Harry Baldwinnoreply@blogger.com