On the road to the 2012 Election

Let's make no mistakes here, the up comming election in Nov 2012, (just -202 days away) will be one of the most importand elections we will see in our life time. This will be the election when Americans start to tke our country back and set it back on course as a Constitutional limited govenment and Republic.

While I and most Americans view most of the Republican party as RINO's (Republican In Name Only), All Republicans now in office and those that will be running for office in 2012, need to make the election about Barack Obama and his faliure as a President.

Barack Obama had no record to speak of during the 2008 election except as a U.S. Sentator from IL, he voted "Present" in most votes. Now, as President, he has a record to look at. Listed below are are the key points any and all canadates from the republican party need to be speaking about:

1. His worldwide apology tour- Apologizing for America being great.
2. The most non-tramsparent administration.
3. Closing GITMO, wanted to bring them here to America with no stadagy. - Even a Dem controlled congress had to defund that effort.
4. Spending more than any president in history, combined
5. Stimulus Bill - Not a jobs bill but a democratic payback bill. The Stimulus Bill would keep unemployment below 8% ..now at 9.8%
6. GM take over - GM had to eventually declare bankruptcy, and gave most of GM to the union that ran it into the ground.
7. Cash for clunkers - cost 3 times more than original estimate
8. Devaluing the dollar all over the world because of massive debt & spending policies
9. Refuses to except American exceptionalism
10. Refuses to stand by our friends and instead, stands by our enemies.
11. Passed ObamaCare with out the consent of the governed
12. Takes more vacations than Carter has pills. All while the rest of America is suffering because of his policies. (Let them eat cake?)
13. No budget for 2 years.

The points above are in no way a complete list. The Republicans can use these and others to paint Obama for what he is, the worst president in history. I'm betting Jimmy Carter is glad Obama came along.

Yes, President Obama inherited the resession from President Bush, but instead of doing the things that America needed him to do to pull us out, President Obama's policies have deepend it.

Chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, compares GOP-backed voting bills to Jim Crow laws

Debbie Wasserman Schultz provoked controversy recently when she compared Republican efforts to heighten scrutiny of voters at the polls to Jim Crow laws -- the primary tool that supported segregation and white supremacy in the South between the 1880s and the 1960s.
Here is a little history lession on what exactly Jim Crow laws were:

The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities, with a supposedly "separate but equal" status for black Americans. In reality, this led to treatment and accommodations that were usually inferior to those provided for white Americans, systematizing a number of economic, educational and social disadvantages.

Some examples of Jim Crow laws are the segregation of public schools, public places and public transportation, and the segregation of restrooms, restaurants and drinking fountains for whites and blacks. The U.S. military was also segregated. These Jim Crow Laws were separate from the 1800–1866 Black Codes, which also restricted the civil rights and civil liberties of African Americans.

In light of Debbie Wasserman Schultz claims that the GOP wants to take us back to these "Jim Crow" laws, lets look at some history of the Democratic party.

The Democratic party was formed in 1792, when supporters of Thomas Jefferson began using the name "Republicans", or "Jeffesonian Republicans" to emphasize it's anti-aristocratic policies. The Republican party adopted it's present name during the presidency of Andrew Jackson in the 1830's. In the 1840's and 50's, the party was in conflict over extending slavery in all the western territories. Southern Democrats insisted on protecting slavery in all the territories while many Northern Democrats resisted. The party split over the slavery issue in 1860 at it's presidential convention in Charleston, South Carolina.

Northern Democrats nominated Stephen Douglas as their candidate, and Southern Democrats adopted a pro-slavery platform and nominated John C. Breckinridge in an election campaign that woulld be won by Abraham Lincoln and the newly formed Republican party. After the civil war, most white southerners opposed radical reconstruction and the Republican party's support of black civil and political rights.

The Democratic party indentified itself as the "white man's party" and demonized the Republican party as being "Negro dominated", even though whites were in control of the party. Determined to re-capture the South, Southern Democrats redeemed state after state, sometimes peacefully while other times by fraud and violence. By 1877 when reconstruction was officially over, the Democratic party controlled every southern state. The south remained a one party region until the civil rights movement began in the 1960's. Northern Democrats, most of whom had prejudicial attitudes towards blacks, offered no challenge to the discriminatory policies of the southern democrats.

One of the consequences of the Democratic party victoroes in the south was that many southern Congressmen and Senators were almost automatically re-elected every election. Due to the imprtance of seniority in the U.S. Congress, southerners were able to control most of the committees in both houses of Congress and kill any civil rights legislatiion brought to the floor. When the house passed a federal anti-lynching bill several times in the 1930's, Southern Democrat Senators filibustered it to death.

So if Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the Democratic party wants to talk about "Jim Crow" laws, I say the Republicans need to have this conversation with them on a national forum.