Leftist voters living in another world

Rasmussen, one of the most reliable and non-biased polling firms, has been running a series of standard polls that presents a picture of the Democrat base and leftists as having a fundamentally different worldview than folks in the middle and on the right.  They see America as being the principle culprit of their woes, they believe that America is unfair and discriminatory, and that our foreign policy is better guided by our allies and neighbors. Their core consituency is that “Elvis 12%” that believes opposition to health care is racism.

What is most telling is that these are voters who are more likely to be disdainful of the Democratic Party and especially Obama. They have changed their favorability of Obama so much that Hillary Clinton is now more popular. They are part of the 31% who believe the country is on the right track, and they want to keep it going their way. They are part of the cause of the House slipping completely out of the Presidents control and having to spend much of his political capitol maneuvering with Nancy Pelosi and the carpet chewers on their radical agenda. These were the core voters dedicated to seeing George Bush and the country lose a war. These are the voters who have turned since August from believing America is fair and decent simply because their radical leftist agendas were not satisfactorily implemented.

All this adds up to a powerful combination of motives and emotions that the Democrats and the country as a whole cannot ignore. They see any opposition to their methods and policies as not being on the basis of rational ideas but about racism or bigotry. Despite the fact that the Democrat lead over the GOP is now the lowest in five years because of the radical big government agenda, they show only signs of blaming Democrats for failure.

Increasingly, on government spying and faith-based initiatives, and heaping praise on the death penalty and hand guns, they find Obama has betrayed their cause. He has supported offshore drilling, restarted Bush-era military tribunals for some Guantanamo detainees and will, probably, intensify the war in Afghanistan.

To quote Liberals Against Obama, “he is a sellout”.

All this might explain why a Senior White House Advisor can get away with quoting Mao Ze-Dong and the state run media barely tweets. Sure, Anita Dunn can come out later and say that her statement:

“The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse-tung and Mother Theresa — not often coupled with each other, but the two people I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point which is ‘you’re going to make choices; you’re going to challenge; you’re going to say why not; you’re going to figure out how to do things that have never been done before.”

was meant to be ironic. But if you’re going to defend this woman, then for a moment, pause and imagine a conservative saying one of his favorite philosophers was Adolf Hitler. Mao was a racist whose regime decimated the culture and people of Tibet because they were different. He killed 36-70 million people. He started a war. But hey, he’s got some good ideas!  The carpet chewing, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow watching Left is now pulling serious strings on Obama and the leftist media to keep them in line and keep the process moving. No time for criticism. No time for shrinking violets. It will soon be time to lay it on the line and tell the people, “We’re just going to force it on you.”

And they have the inspiration to do it.

Obama needs a Republican victory in 2010. Independent and Libertarian minded voters might wish for another alternative, but they’re not going to get one. You can’t say you won’t vote Republican. I can’t even make that promise. We have an administration doing such damage and so badly adrift, we have to bring some balance back. Democrats will probably be so disgusted they’ll stay home. What about the rest of us?