Anatomy of election theft: The MSM

By and large there are three major voting groups in any national election--Conservatives, Liberals and Morons. The Morons are those people who claim, in spite of vast, marked differences between the candidates, to be undecided about which would do best. They are undecided because they are stupid. (except for those who are actually Liberals, lying about being undecided so they can be counted among those "undecided" voters being suddenly convinced the Liberal candidate is better). Conservatives vote for the Republican presidential candidate and Liberals vote for the Democrat candidate. Since those groups are relatively the same size (as far as we can tell base on counts done only by groups that favor Democrats) election then are decided by morons in the middle.

Gallup has an interesting graph they published back in 2004, showing what people consider the most important issue.

By comparing that to which candidate we know won, we can see the trend that when people are concerned about the economy, the Mindless Middle vote for the Democrat, in spite of abundant evidence that Democrats can royally screw up the economy. It's only when there is an imminent security threat and little economic concerns that the Mindless Middle shift over to the right and vote Republican. In the case of Jimmy Carter there was the foreign threat (Iran) as well as a growing economic problem that worsened during the Carter administration, and Carter was too stupid to know how to cover it up the way Bill Clinton did with his economic inadequacies.

So as the graph starts, we were in the beginnings of the Vietnam war with a Democrat President. Nixon was elected in '68, got us out if Vietnam, but we saw economic problems during his administration. However it wasn't until after Nixon had resigned and his VP, Gerald Ford ran on the GOP ticket that the Mindless Middle shifted to the left. But, it was a close election, and the economy was a big factor. Four years of Carter gave us not only a worsened economy, but some serious foreign relations problems. Foreigners hated Carter with a passion.

In 1980 Reagan was elected and managed to eventually turn the economy around and get it thriving, as well as remove many of the worst foreign threats we had. You can see by the graph, by '86 both economic as well as military worries were drifting away. Even during the first Gulf War there was little worry about war, because GB I handled it very well (leaving Saddam in power withstanding). But you can see an up-rise in economic worries at about that point.

Why? Because it was totally fabricated by the media. Around the fall of  '91 the MSM started a campaign to increase fears about the economy. Remember our economy is at best about 80% psychological. The more people feel good about it the better it will do. The more they fear, the worse it get. Real factors like gas shortages, occasional business closure are generally small blips, easily forgotten and recovered from. However the slump of '92 was invented solely to give Bill Clinton an edge in the election. Bush had actually turned most things around well before the election, but the MSM refused to report on it until after the election, when, with absolutely astounding gall, they claimed that Bill Clinton had miraculously salvaged the economy, merely by being elected, before he'd actually taken office.

The '96 election was an anomaly because the MSM used another tactic, one they'd use several times before in the past century. They convinced people on the right that only one GOP candidate had a chance--the one they'd seen actually had the least chance--Bob Dole. From that point, it didn't matter what they did, they had it in the bag.

But in '92 it was a complete toss up. Bush was seen as the party-boy son of a "failed" president (the image the MSM perpetuated) but Gore was seen (legitimately so) as the mindless lackey of a president that had become a national laughing stock. In spite of any MSM efforts to boost Gore's image, he simply had too little personality.

Two things pushed Bush into the lead.

One, was Bush's "moment" during a debate. Gore had been egged on by his advisors to appear more "alpha male" so during a townhall debate, while Bush was speaking, Gore leaped to his feet and rushed forward in what he hoped would appear to be an assertive/alpha-male gesture. Instead it simply came across as rude and inept. Bush's response, though, was perfect. Acting purely by instinct, the moment he saw Gore's movement out of the corner of his eye, he turned with a facial expression every "average" guy recognized, and most "average" women did too. It was the look of "you'd better back off before I hand you your teeth, bub" It was a simple facial expression,  but one that clicked with average people, and stuck. The other event was the bombing of the USS Cole by Islamic terrorists. That set the stage for people to start thinking about international security more than economics. Bush was elected, narrowly.

Then came 9/11/2001.

No amount of shenanigans by the MSM were going to shake America's confidence in the President that led us through that, so Bush won in 2004.

Now we have a continued threat from the same group that perpetrated 9/11 and a genuine war hero running to lead the nation (as opposed to a fake one like John Kerry). What does the MSM do? Spend two week exaggerating the severity of some bank failings in order to once again manufacture an economic crisis.

Interestingly enough, McCain is still only slightly behind in the polls. A small enough gap that any sort of "October Surprise" however small, could tip the scales. Usually people expect them at debates, because the MSM has a hard time censoring debates. Scandals don't amount to much because by the time a GOP candidate's gotten this far his personal life has been prodded over by literally thousands upon thousands of zealous, Liberal members of the MSM. And scandals by the Democrat nominee are routinely ignored.

If McCain can't pull a one-liner off at the debate, then the election will be left to mindless morons falling for lies about the economy. A sad commentary about a decision that will ultimately effect the entire world, for decades to come.

Posted by Danny Carlton at October 13, 2008 8:00 AM