Notthing about Barack Obama was different. He was a liberal since he was old enough to know what he believed in. America saw it for themselves through Jeremiah Wright. Americans ignored Obama’s connections to Bill Ayers and Reverend discrace whatever his name was. Americans ignored Obama’s inexperience. They went to the the polls and voted for this man with enthusiasm. Americans should be ashamed of themselves. This president is their problem now and the consequences that go with it. Americans wanted change. THEY ARE GOING TO GET MORE CHANGE THAN THEY BARGAINED FOR. AND IT ISN”T GOING TO BE GOOD.

Ted Kennedy is a liberal.

Part of our problem is the current crop of media addicts, alleged Republicans, alleged conservatives, Beltway types. These pathetic creatures take all the air up making it more difficult for a new leader to emerge. One in particular is quite troublesome, but I won’t name him because he runs a lot of ads on this site. It made me sick to see him speaking at CPAC. When George Bush/Karl Rove were in charge, how could conservative leaders emerge when to do so would be to go against the GOP’s acknowledged leaders at that point in time? We have a smaller version of that now with this group of celebrity, global warming so-called conservatives poisoning the population about Republicans. Andrew Breitbart recently visited the Beltway and described the current GOP crew as a toxic brew. I thought that was a good description. Move out the dead wood.

When will Obama go negative in the Rasmussen Obama approval index?

I call April 1!

True story.

I live in New York and a very liberal area at that. So when I blurt our that I am a conservative, people look at me as if I were a pedophile that was released due to a legal technicality. Shortly before the November election, almost all of me and my wife’s friends openly and gleefully admitted to supporting Obama. We declined more than our share of invitations to (I kid you not) Obama dinner parties. Occasionally, we’d be confronted about our refusal to hop aboard the Hopey-Changey Express and we’d respond by simply saying that we were diametrically opposed to everything Obama stood for. His lack of administrative experience, his lack of military experience (or more accurately his disdain for the US Military) and his socialist aspirations gave us cause for pause. More times than not, we were met with rebuttals such as “He would never do anything as extreme as this-or-that. He’s just appealing to the Left-wing fringes for their necessary support.” My wife and I have a reputation of being reasonably intelligent so our decision to vote for McCain-Palin (albeit not with much enthusiasm) was dumbfounding to our peers. It made no sense that we’d rather vote for a candidate that frustrated the hell out of us over someone the rest of our social circles was mesmerized by.

Well, the day of reckoning has arrived and even my over-zealous Obamaniacs are second-guessing themselves. Many of them are well paid professionals who thought their emotional investment in Obama was going to be enough to make them exempt of the cosmic screwing they are about to receive. Many fall above the dreaded $250k income bracket. Almost all of them have mortgages. Some of whom are MDs and suddenly they are growing fearful of Obama’s nationalized health care proposal. This weekend, our good friend who volunteered for the Obama campaign doubled us over when she said, “I never thought Obama would actually do the things he said he would do. I never thought he’d go to such extremes. I thought he was just saying that to get the support of the hard Left-wingers.”

And if that weren’t enough, another friend who voted for Obama told us this little gem: “I’m getting a sinking feeling about Obama. He’s eerily reminding me of that dreamboat knight in shining armor all of us women dated at one point in our lives: a smooth talking playboy with a Ferrari and the Park Ave. penthouse apartment who promises you the world. Only you find out later that it’s his brother’s car and he’s unemployed and only cat sitting at the penthouse while its owners are vacationing in Tuscany.”

with an affirmative action Harvard degree. He is wearing thin real fast.

Obama wants all these distractions. It is crazy-making. It is a shell-game-where is the bead, under which shell? All while he continues to have his sub-commanders socialize the country.
Follow the Plan,man. No need to be coy, boy. We gotta elect some Cons, mon.
There are 33 Senate seats available. How many do we need.
There is all the House. How many can we pick off and how many do we need?
Don’t fall for email messages,to dopes. Don’t fall for goofy press conferences that have diatribes about bonuses. Don’t pay any attention to the Bamster on Leno. (what an embarassment).
Remember when Donks want to win,they go to the center. Also they get squishy donks to replace squishy GOPERs. This was the Rahm plan. so don’t think that the Conservative message won’t work. sure it does. It is used against us all the time.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20090316/pl_usnw/the_american_legion_strongly_opposed_to_president_s_plan_to_charge_wounded_heroes_for_treatment

If this is true, Obama will have finally jumped the shark …. I don’t see how even the media can help him weasel his way out of this one:

The ONE part of the government that deserves free government run healthcare is the military ….. if this story is 100% accurate, we need to spread it far and wide.

In my wildest dreams, I couldn’t have imagined Obama being this much of a disaster after less than 100 days. Where’s Jimmy Carter?

Obama’s approval numbers would be 10 points less if we had a strong Republican leader(s) that could capitalize on Obama’s dismal performance since he was inaugurated. He’s really starting to lose the “center” of this country’s electorate. Americans thought he was going to be a more moderate centrist, instead their seeing what a truly radical liberal looks like.

You really couldn’t script a better scenario for Republicans than what has occurred since Obama was elected, yet we haven’t been able to capitalize on it effectively. Instead, our side is in a battle with Michael Steele vs. Rush Limbaugh.

No matter how badly Obama bungles his Presidency (and he will), it won’t matter if we don’t have an effective, united, and organized opposition.

You can’t beat something with nothing.

…if it is indeed a real effect (I’d need to see those numbers backed up from other polls before I would buy it - I’ve had problems with Pew in the past).

As is the decline in support for the GOP. And I’m not sure it is simply a leadership issue, though it could be a side-effect of Snowe’s, Collins’ & Specter’s betrayal.

But if those numbers hold up, especially as the GOP is likely to dig in against the Obama/Democrat agenda from here on in, it’ll be a real warning sign - that this country is finished.

It’s not enough for Barry’s numbers to tank - it’s meaningless unless Nan’s & Dingy Harry’s & all the Congressional Dems’ number crater too.

Just wait until most people who voted for him realize he’s actually a fully-loaded Marxist on an ‘I’m the chosen one’ ego trip fueled by others on a similar power grab.

At that point, the libs will have their pitchforks and torches at the ready, because we’re the ones with all the guns.

Great post. As you can see, I live in NY too, although not in NYC. I run into a lot of self-described conservatives and Repulicans. They voted for Sen. Obama because “McCain was too liberal” or “Palin was not ready to be President.” They made argumenrts that Sen. Obama was a “centrist” or “would run the country from the middle.” When asked about Sen Obama’s voting record or even his liberal statements of policy, they shrugged and said he didn’t mean it.

Well now all of these “conservatives” and Republicans are sick to their stomach about Sen Obama. They can’t beleive that he is actually a liberal! When I speak to them, I remind them that I told them about his voting record and public statements. They chose to believe what they wanted to believe about Sen. Obama rather than what the plain facts were. I now tell them that elections have consequences and now we are all going to pay the price.

If governors aren’t acceptable national leaders (which I agree with) then I’d have to guess that our best hopes are on Eric Cantor. I sure would have a lot more respect for Governor Romney if he’d spend his time now (opposed to next election season) strongly in the public’s eye representing principled conservatives. He might gain my vote in 2012 if he’d do it.

“We have a President who is grossly incompetent, and we need someone in the GOP to lead the way to exploit this emerging weakness. Rush does it nicely, but he is not the leader of the GOP. Someone must step up into that role. Who?”

I thought Ken Blackwell did a pretty good job of spanking Steele and defining what a conservative is. Anyone else thing that?

“The Dems are showing weakness right now, but the GOP appears to be rudderless…and the polls are reflecting this. Michael Steele is obviously not the answer. Sarah Palin is not the answer (for now)…she has a state to run, as does Bobby Jindal. We have a President who is grossly incompetent, and we need someone in the GOP to lead the way to exploit this emerging weakness. Rush does it nicely, but he is not the leader of the GOP. Someone must step up into that role. Who?”

Meghan McCain *rolling eyes & puking*

Your right Rush is not the leader of the GOP, but for some reason he is the only one really expressing the republican parties values.

The GOP is in a rut, but I believe that they are starting to come out of it. Now, the party is being forced to think up new ideas. They did give alternative to both the stimulus and the budget, just passed. Somehow the GOP has to articulate ideas so that they are clearly understood by “average” americans.

If, the GOP stands together and both expresses and displays conservative values to the american people, then a leader will emerge.

I think another reason, if not the main reason, for why the GOP numbers have fallen even lower is because the majority of the American people blame the GOP for this economic collapse.

I saw this in a poll a couple of days ago and it fits in with some of what I heard when discussing with people for whom they would be voting. It seemed that no matter how much I told them about Barney Frank and the other Democrats that should be to blame for much of this mess, they did not believe it or did not want to hear it.

When I saw the poll about this, I was furious. No one is really discussing this much but the GOP really needs to come up with a good way to get the message out as to the Democrats role in all of this. I know people do not necessary like “finger pointing” but we really need to find a way to change this perception.

Though it may not mean much now, for the first time in several years, Republicans now lead Democrats on the generic ballot for 2010.

An NPR poll has them tied.