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May 21, 2008Astrologers and scary BushA reader sent me this story:
No kidding, did they really? I would venture to say that many, many Americans have a shared sense of foreboding about this upcoming election, and we’re not reading anyone’s chart; we’re just watching the ascent of truthiness, paranoia, divisive and inciteful rhetoric and oh, yeah, the overtly decided national press turn our political process into a banana goulash.
Oh, come on now, this is just netroot paranoia writ mainstream. They’ve been saying for 6 years that Bush would “declare martial law and suspend the elections.” I’d like to point out that the uber-Clinton haters said the same thing in 2000 (um, well…they did almost have to pry the Clintons off the wallpaper of the WH, but Bill & Hill managed to finally leave with the furniture). If you’re really afraid of martial law being declared, here’s a hint: don’t riot, don’t bomb things, don’t re-enact 1968 with 2008 communications and weaponry. Me, I think the Bushes will be only too glad to get out of Dodge when the term is up, retire to their ranch and let someone else deal with the madness of the Middle East, the increasingly restrictive bureaucracies that hope to monitor, regulate and inhibit both governance and individual liberty. I think they’ll be glad to be removed from the political extremists on both sides of the American spectrum. But remember…if Bush thinks the country is at risk, he might do anything! And he sees you when you’re sleeping; he knows when you’re awake…So better you’d be good, for goodness sake!
Okay, now that’s just a bold invitation for either a Hillary-as-Veep joke or an ageist John McCain crack.
I’d say in this atmosphere, that’s a valid concern for all of the candidates, who require some super-security because the country is quite nuts right now. Let’s state it plainly and without charts: This overlong election is messed up and it is going to remain messed up. There will be voter fraud. There will be freakish appeals to judges. There will be erroneous exit poles. There will be snide, know-it-all pundits blathering to fill dead air. There will be some sort of expectorating on MSNBC. There will be drama queens. There will be unhinged people doing physical damage to the property of various candidate supporters, because too many now believe that it’s justified and “fair game” in electoral politics. If the Republican wins, there will be lawsuits, charges of voter fraud, calls for recounts, moans about disenfranchisement, marches and demonstrations and a lot of people calling half the country “stupid”, “morons” “retards” and “extra-chromosome people” (one of Al Gore’s memorable lines). There will be posting of blanket apologies on blogs and weeping, shrieking “help us, America is over; leave Obama alone” videos uploaded to youtube. Also, there will be chanting, drum-banging, giant puppets, nude sagging breasts and some falling down in civil disobedience. If the Democrat wins, there will be exclamations about how the system works, how voter fraud has been defeated and some name-calling from right-to-left of the “commie-pinko” variety. There will be quiet agony, a “going off the grid” contingent, the stockpiling of food, gasoline and ammunition and finger-pointing and intra-party recriminations that will keep the GOP/Conservative movement at each other’s throats for the next ten years. There will be holy water sprtizes, chanting, praying in tongues and some falling down in the Holy Spirit but I don’t think anyone will go on youtube to cry or apologize to the world, and I certainly hope no one will be stupid enough to do something with a gun, thereby inspiring the new president to sign - as a first official act - a “flick of the wrist, law of the land” broad and sweeping Executive Order on gun control while launching an amendment-changing crusade. Oh, and whoever wins the election, the zealots in the Middle East - who saw the “strong horse” in Bush - will test the new president to see whether he or she is a “strong” or “weak” horse. And then the real fun will begin. You don’t need a weather vane to tell which way the wind is blowing. Or a star-seeker to read the times. You just have to spend a few hours on the internets! Meanwhile, watching Hillary maneuver has prompted Kim to fisk her remarks in Boca. As the press covers Mrs. Clinton’s speeches only slightly more than they cover President Bush’s (hardly at all) it’s likely no one has seen it; I hadn’t. Interesting. http://theanchoressonline.com/2008/05/21/astrologers-and-scary-bush/trackback/ 17 Responses to “Astrologers and scary Bush” |
May 21st, 2008 at 9:14 pm
[...] One thing that always bugged me during election years comes from the types who seriously believe that a Presidential election really hinges upon things like the last Packers game before the election or which hemline length is in fashion. With that in mind, I was pleased to see that the Anchoress posted on this very topic. [...]
May 21st, 2008 at 10:15 pm
If the Democrat wins . . . there will be quiet agony, a “going off the grid” contingent, the stockpiling of food, gasoline and ammunition
Why wait? I’m near ready for that cottage in the Montana wilderness right now.
Meanwhile, aren’t we glad that we pushed that Rev. Wright thing so hard and for so long? I mean, it was so relevant to Obama. So what if it legitimately opened the door to attacking McCain with things much, much worse, like this — McCain Backer Hagee Said Hitler Was Fulfilling God’s Will
May 21st, 2008 at 10:26 pm
I suppose McCain is OK but Obama scares me. I do not like him saying we can’t eat all we want or other countries will say it’s not OK. I have two kids, one of my jobs is to see that they are not hungry. Grrr. I’m pissed off at that guy.
May 21st, 2008 at 10:59 pm
I believe the astrologers might be pandering to their client base. My suspicion is that people who would frequent astrologers would more likely be Obama voters than Hillary voters. To “predict” otherwise would be to bite the hand that feeds them.
May 21st, 2008 at 11:49 pm
frequent astrologers would more likely be Obama voters
Exactly. New-agey types. It is to laugh. I’m sure they’re praying to the moon or something now for him.
Bender, I must respectfully ask, if Obama’s pastor (and somewhat of a father figure) of 20 years and his “spiritual mentor” isn’t relevant, how on earth are Hagee’s Armageddon beliefs relevant to John McCain, who’s never been a member of Hagee’s church and isn’t even the same Christian denomination? McCain’s not even an evangelical (much less an end-timer) - he could hardly be more unlike Hagee, except for the fact that they both identify with Christian denominations. It is akin to saying you, the Anchoress, or I share Hagee’s beliefs.
Besides, the Huffington Post is basically an online insane asylum. They’re trying to make it out like Hagee celebrates the death of Jews? LOL. They aren’t even close. Not that I subscribe to Hagee’s beliefs, but I don’t subscribe to outright deception, either.
May 21st, 2008 at 11:53 pm
If the Republican wins, there will be lawsuits…
I think when (not if!) McCain wins, it’ll send the BDS-afflicted completely over the edge. I can’t even imagine what it must be like to let such things affect one’s psyche so profoundly, but it must really suck.
May 22nd, 2008 at 5:35 am
Get the press; it doesn’t matter what they say about you, as long as they say it.
McGovern all over again.
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:35 am
[...] The Anchoress responds with predictions of her own: Let’s state it plainly and without charts: This overlong election is messed up and it is going to remain messed up. There will be voter fraud. There will be freakish appeals to judges. There will be erroneous exit poles. There will be snide, know-it-all pundits blathering to fill dead air. There will be some sort of expectorating on MSNBC. There will be drama queens. There will be unhinged people doing physical damage to the property of various candidate supporters, because too many now believe that it’s justified and “fair game” in electoral politics. [...]
May 22nd, 2008 at 10:16 am
Beth — Hagee is only relevant because some people who ought to know better made him relevant by making Wright “relevant.” All that total nonsense about Wright makes Hagee and every other loon fair game to use against McCain.
We should have NEVER gone down this negative road. Whatever happened to the idea of having a positive campaign based on SUBSTANCE and based on REAL ISSUES and a candidate’s POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND IDEOLOGY? (Thankfully, the last couple of days in these pages we have had some real analysis of Obama’s positions, which are fair game for criticism, and have avoided attacking the person, which is poisonous to the entire process.)
Instead of substance, we get the idoicy of flag pins and Wright. Instead we get the vicarious smear and the offense of the day. Is that really the best that the right has to offer? Have we all been so infected with Clintonism that we must resort exclusively to their tactics of the personal smear? Can we no longer run a POSITIVE campaign?
Once you open the door to idiots like Wright, you also necessarily let in idiots like Hagee. Once you open the door to negative attacks against the person of Obama, you open the door to negative attacks against the person of McCain (and don’t think that McCain has always been a perfect angel merely because of his heroism at the Hanoi Hilton).
Consequently, I don’t want to hear any of you folks whining and crying about how unfair the Dems are for rummaging through other people’s closets to smear McCain with them, or who awful it is that the Dems are ignoring the issues and merely smearing McCain personally. This time, our side started it, and it is going to be the other side that will continue it ad nauseum.
Besides, how many times can a person NOT vote for Obama? The negative stuff might give you a reason to not vote for a person you weren’t going to vote for anyway, but can someone please give me a reason to vote FOR McCain? Every reason that I have heard so far is merely some variation of “he’s not Obama.” (And lately, the other reasons that the McCain campaign has given for voting for him are some variation of “he’s not Bush.”)
Is there some POSITIVE thing for McCain to say to get people to vote for him? If so, let’s hear it — AND ONLY IT. If not, well, apparently all we will hear is how bad Obama is personally and how bad he would be as president. It’s a scam. And it’s a scam we’ve been through before, and we’ve been burned by it before. Telling us how bad the other guy is does not assure us that “our guy” is not equally or nearly equally as bad as he.
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:12 am
Visions of the Anchoress…
There are a thousand reasons to love The Anchoress. This is one of them: “Let’s state it plainly and without charts: This overlong election is messed up and it is going to remain messed up. There will be voter fraud. There will be freakish appeals to …
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:29 am
[...] Meanwhile, this just in, not only has the MSM declared Obama the new mesiah, the stars have aligned for his foretold reign. Geesh, give me a moonbat break will ya… From the great and wise Anchoress (hey, just reading her tea leaves here): Astrologers and scary Bush. [...]
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:41 am
I don’t need the Disciples of Miss Cleo to understand that this election year is turning just as Topsy-turvy as 1968 was. I wasn’t alive at that time, though.
(BTW, Miss Cleo didn’t see bankruptcy coming…)
May 22nd, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Hagee is only relevant because some people who ought to know better made him relevant by making Wright “relevant.” All that total nonsense about Wright makes Hagee and every other loon fair game to use against McCain.
It’s a bit alarming when I read comments that evidence no ability to correctly define categories.
Barack Obama was an unknown quantity, and he deliberately tried to keep it that way. The most natural and necessary thing in the world is to try to find out who he is. Who he spends his time with, who he regards as a mentor, are more than relevant, they’re crucial.
To compare Hagee, with whom McCain has virtually no connection, with Wright, who’s been Obama’s spiritual mentor for 20 years, is just wrong. A more apt comparison would be between Hagee, who endorsed McCain, and Farrakhan, who endorsed Obama. And when we look at that, we find… the Republicans don’t make much of it, because they know it’s not important.
Wright is important, and Ayers is important, and the Gamaliel Foundation (Obama’s employer after college) is important, because they show Obama’s lifetime history of radical politics. Obama is not a Democrat, and he’s not a centrist, he’s a hard leftist, and all his associations demonstrate it. Read more about it here.
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:13 pm
philwynk — if that is the field upon which you want to engage in the battle, rather than fighting upon a field of substance, then you have legitimized the tactic of personally savaging the guys on your side. Using the left’s playbook of personal attacks is not the way to victory — either in a given election or overall.
You cannot build up your own guy merely by tearing down the other guy.
The only thing you gain by getting down into the cesspool to fight is s*** all over you.
No thanks.
May 22nd, 2008 at 3:54 pm
“Is there some POSITIVE thing for McCain to say to get people to vote for him?” Why yes,yes there is. How about …….”I love America”. Or “God bless America”. Actually, I’m pretty sure he’s already said those things, and meant it. I seriously can’t imagine Obama making either of those statements believably. Sorry for the negativity but that’s how I see it.
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Astrological Mumbo Jumbo…
As the Anchoress points out, a group of astrologers have made their predictions for now through Inauguration day. They are basically saying that, if this were a weather forecast, storms are brewing on the horizon. My thoughts? I don’t put…
May 23rd, 2008 at 11:46 pm
I know several astrologers and not one of them is conservative or even moderate in their political thinking. The doom and gloom they see is there own false beliefs being put in the ash heap of history. The mirror is a _itch, donncha know!