The Guardians Of Hypocrisy

Rush Limbaugh says often that you can tell what liberals are up to by what they accuse you of. If they accuse you of being in the pocket of special interests, they're trying to deflect criticism of the use of Union donations. If they accuse you of taking advantage of campaign finance laws, they're really hoping all those baskets of cash from the Chinese aren't noticed. If they accuse you of low moral character in a public official, they're really trying to prop up a President who got a "Lewinsky" in the Oval Office.

More recently, they've been howling about the negative campaign ads that they see from the Republican party and the influence of money from Political Action Committees (PACS) who don't have to report where that money comes from. These claims are the kind that will make you shoot soda from your nose when you hear them if you know the real truth. The truth is this: totaling up the money spent by Democrats, left leaning PACS and the Unions, we come to 1.1 billion dollars. The amount from Republicans and right leaning PACS comes to 600 million dollars. That's just over half what's been spent from the left. The hypocrisy is so thick you could cut it with a knife. A dull knife. A dull, rusty, 200 year old knife.

As far as negative campaign ads go, both sides have their fair share but from what I've seen, the left has far and away the most negative and incendiary ads to date. Alan Grayson (D) Florida, used an excerpted portion of a speech, given by his opponent Dan Webster (R) at a church, to give the impression that Webster thinks women should, "...submit to me", calling him Taliban Dan. You've no doubt heard the backlash of the "Aqua Buddha" ad from the Kentucky Senate race that wound up bringing Rand Paul up in the polls by nearly 7 points. And while not technically an ad, Joy Behar's comments on The View about Sharon Angle being a "bitch who was going to hell", it's still well within the framework of hypocrisy for the purposes of our discussion on the subject. Angle sent Behar flowers and a thank you card the next day. It seems donations flooded into Angle's campaign coffers after Behar's nasty remarks and the polls tilted in Angle's favor too. Kind of a reverse double whammy. Not a peep from the left about those ugly comments.

Another trend in the media and in the upper echelon of Democrat leadership is that the impending losses by the left are due to fear and scare tactics by right wing radio and Fox News. It can't be because the American people are tired of promises and committees and action plans by the current administration, it's because Americans are ill informed and not thinking clearly. Nearly everyone on the left, from the President on down, has tried to make the case that Americans simply don't know a good thing when they see it. When Obama was elected, the media applauded Americans for their intelligence and enlightened sensibilities. A scant 2 years later, Americans are stupid and running on racism and hatred.

To use one of Obama's favorite metaphors, American's are removing him from the driver's seat and telling him to let THEM drive. In Obama's world, he's in the driver's seat and everyone else is in the back. He has the country in a rear facing child seat so they can't see what's going on up ahead and only the Democrat leadership is allowed in the front.

To take this analogy to it's proper place would be to say that Obama should have stopped miles ago and asked for directions because he's gotten us hopelessly lost and we're dangerously low on gas.