This is Huge, cont.

The consequences of Wisconsin's recall election last Tuesday multiply.  Maybe I should say blossom?  Charles Krauthammer highlights yet another.  If the payment of union dues is not automatic, which it no longer is, then neither is union membership.

"Are you now or have you ever been...?"

Stanley Kurtz proves again that Barack Obama was once a member of the socialist New Party, a membership that during the 2008 campaign he denied and the liberal press stubbornly, but predictably refused to investigate.  I suspect that no matter how incontrovertible Krurtz's evidence is this time, it will once again elicit little more than a national yawn.

Look, Obama and the Democrat Party of which he's now a member, despite their uncountable and shameless hypocrisies, are socialists.  By any other name, they're still socialists.  You need look no further than the policies they champion for all the evidence you'll ever need, if, that is, you have eyes and ears to see and hear

Our problem is that a substantial plurality of the country either doesn't understand what that fact portends, doesn't care, or, worse, shares the same goal.

This is Huge, cont.

The Skinny Blond Bomber Ann Coulter thinks the results of Wisconsin's recall election a very big deal as well, contrasting them favorably with then California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's foolish decision in 2005 to call for a special off-year election in order to enact reductions in perks to public sector employees.  He lost, big time, and that decision alone, she argues, ruined forever the Terminators chances for a successful term of office.

In to Win

I think National Review's Victor Davis Hanson has put his finger, precisely, on Romney's growing appeal among conservatives who were once wary of him (still are actually):  He will fight back, and hard.

But the real significance of firing back is not just to balance impressions with the general public or to warn Team Obama of the boomerang effect each time they offer up a new diversion. Instead, it is to remind the Republican base that Romney intends to go all out, and would rather win a bloody fight than lose in noble aloofness.

This is Huge, cont.

The fact that Wisconsin's Scott Walker now enters the record books as--you've heard this line, I'm sure-- "the first governor in US history to survive a recall election" got me to thinking.

Just so you know, I'm no fan of recall elections.  We elect people to serve a constitutionally prescribed term of office and absent impeachable offenses, i.e., high crimes and misdemeanors, they ought to be allowed to serve out that full term...even if and when I disagree with them passionately.  Happily, most of us feel the same as recall elections are pretty rare in our history. 

However, so rare are they that when they do occur, it's telling.  Something must be very wrong indeed.  As a result, and as the record shows, they always end with the replacement of the incumbent. 

Until now...and this is telling too.

Walker not only won yesterday, he won by a larger margin than he did in 2010.  Given the historical record, this just doesn't make sense.  In Wisconsin, what exactly was the "something" that was very wrong?

It's this:  The Left is maniacal.  It will stop at nothing, and I do mean nothing, to achieve its ends.  Had it been victorious in Wisconsin, you can be sure that in short order similar recall election movements would have sprung up all around the country.

Perhaps, we must hope and pray, this is the beginning of a momentous backlash.  I'm telling you, this is huge.  

This is Huge

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker not only survives his recall election, but actually expands upon his 2010 margin of victory.

So why was he facing recall if he's even more popular now than then?  The Great Reckoning may  finally be upon us and the forces of not only liberty, but sanity may be winning. 

Be encouraged fellow Americans, be encouraged.

Death of a Salesman

Erstwhile presidential candidate and all-around sleaze John Edwards was acquitted last week of the only charge that survived an otherwise hung jury.  Unfortunately, his remarks on the courthouse steps after the verdict was announced left open the possibility of a comeback.  Of what kind was left unstated, but we can be sure it won't be in politics.  Edwards may not go to prison for his serial sins, but he has been sentenced to political death nevertheless.

Anyway, I found that these comments about the political life and death of John Edwards written by one "Thirsty McWormwood" for The American Spectator summed it all up quite nicely:

Working class people took one look at this ambulance-chasing pretty-boy, saw him for the shallow hack he was and paid him no mind. Edwards's real constituency was his fellow wealthy upper-class whites, the types who populate the New York Times editorial pages and opinion journals like Slate.com and the New Republic. His "Two Americas" line appealed to their liberal guilt and sense of noblesse oblige. There just aren't nearly enough of them to win an election. 

Thank God.