Another Day, Another Extremely Misleading Right Wing Mailer

These SuperPAC clowns aren’t even trying anymore.

Again, this is another cookie cutter ad that will be used to hit state reps and senators across Arkansas, this one from a group called the 60 Plus Association.  On the back you find the fine print that tells you they’re talking about the state insurance exchanges along with a multitude of lies about the program.  But still it’s pretty obvious they’re counting on Arkansans to be stupid and not know that a state rep is a different job from a Congressman.

The only value Republicans and their allies have is dishonesty.  That becomes more apparent every day.

Your Daily Hubbard, 9/13/12

On page 37, Jon Hubbard has something he really wants to get across to us liberals:

And oh yes, my liberal friends, one more thing-

America, love it or leave it!

Seriously, this moron wrote a book with a whole page set aside to say that in big bold letters like that.  (Actually, it’s a whole lot bigger than that.  My font selection just doesn’t go so high.  I think it’s about a 72-font…Oh shit, I’m trying to make sense of it now.)

Mitt Romney Has A Southern Whites Problem

If I was in the Romney camp, I’d be very worried about this:

Reuters) – Sheryl Harris, a voluble 52-year-old with a Virginia drawl, voted twice for George W. Bush. Raised Baptist, she is convinced — despite all evidence to the contrary — that President Barack Obama, a practicing Christian, is Muslim.

So in this year’s presidential election, will she support Mitt Romney? Not a chance.

“Romney’s going to help the upper class,” said Harris, who earns $28,000 a year as activities director of a Lynchburg senior center. “He doesn’t know everyday people, except maybe the person who cleans his house.”

She’ll vote for Obama, she said: “At least he wasn’t brought up filthy rich.”

White lower- and middle-income voters such as Harris are wild cards in this vituperative presidential campaign. With only a sliver of the electorate in play nationwide, they could be a deciding factor in two southern swing states, Virginia and North Carolina.

Reuters/Ipsos polling data compiled over the past several months shows that, across the Bible Belt, 38 percent of these voters said they would be less likely to vote for a candidate who is “very wealthy” than one who isn’t. This is well above the 20 percent who said they would be less likely to vote for an African-American.

In Lynchburg, many haven’t forgotten Romney’s casual offer to bet Texas Governor Rick Perry $10,000 or his mention of his wife’s “couple of Cadillacs.” Virginia airwaves are saturated with Democratic ads hammering Romney’s Cayman Islands investments and his refusal to release more than two years of tax returns.

Now look, this obviously doesn’t mean that Mitt Romney is going to get destroyed by Obama in the south.  Outside of Virginia and North Carolina, I doubt there’s much for Obama to carry in the region.  (Unless you count Florida as the south of course though culturally it’s very different for the most part.)  I’d bet most of these folks, rather than voting for Obama like this lady, just stay home.  That’s going to be bad news for Republicans down ballot if they do, especially if this turns into a good year for Democrats nationally like it’s starting to look like.

But there’s another point to be made here, and it’s the same point we’ve been making here since 2009.  Economic populism will work for Democrats in the south. We just have to start using it in a big way.  Yes, we have our, shall we say, cultural issues-translation: a lot of southerners are a bunch of homophobic, racist, religious zealots.  The article also mentions prejudice towards Romney’s Mormonism, something I think we progressives should work a bit harder to denounce as ALL prejudice is wrong and we can’t rightly condemn some forms while allowing exceptions, and I think we all really know the main reason why Obama won’t do well in southern states is because of race.  (Seriously, you’re really naive if you haven’t figured that out yet.  That or just disingenuous.)  Still, the south has always been and continues to be a bunch of poor folks bickering with each other over things that don’t really matter while a hand full of rich folks rob us all blind and then step all over us before we realize what they’ve done.  Economic populism not only provides a way for Democrats to compete here again, but also, from a social justice standpoint, provides a mean for ordinary Americans living in the south to come together, put down old prejudices, and create a better place for everyone by uniting against and tackling the real problem-the dominance of a narrow economic elite.

Your Daily Hubbard 9/12/12

Today’s Daily Hubbard comes from page 35:

For those who think socialism is the way to go, then by all means please move to Canada, or France, or any of the other European countries that are now so deep into socialism that they don’t realize what hit them.

Yes, because everyone knows Canada and France are such hell holes.  They just don’t realize it yet.

Your Daily Hubbard-9/11/12

Wow, just wow, we didn’t even make it a full paragraph from the last Daily Hubbard before we hit this gem:

Rescuing American cities and towns from criminal activity should take priority over claims of racial profiling, especially if it means that those involved in these criminal activities are taken off the streets as a result of these actions.  This cannot be done unless liberal groups like the ACLU, the NAACP, and other watchdog groups realize that the rights of criminals do not take priority of the rights of the American public, and that these measures are necessary to take back our cities.

Racial profiling is necessary to keep crime under control because black people ruined ‘Merica…

Your Daily Hubbard-9/10/12

On page 34, Attila the Geezer continues to show us just how scary his mind really is:

On the issue of working to bring the crime rate in America under control, once our troops have completed their job and returned home, we can deploy them into high crime areas, and along our southern borders, a duty for which our state militia or National Guard was originally intended.  This might appear to some to be police state tactics, but drastic times call for drastic measures. 

Your Daily Hubbard-9/9/12

Today’s Daily Hubbard actually makes me think while reading page 33…

Term limits must be implemented to guard against the stranglehold upon the American taxpayer by these career politicians…

You know, I’m an opponent of term limits.  But I would agree that Jon Hubbard IS the best argument for them.

Your Daily Hubbard-9/8/12

In today’s Daily Hubbard, found on page 30, Hubbard hands the liberal bashing over to…Khrushchev?

The baby boomer generation remembers the prediction made by Nikita Khrushchev, the Russian premier during the 1950s and 60s.  He predicted that the United States would destroy itself from within and that Russia would not need to fire a shot.  Perhaps he could see even then that this nation was weakening and primed to be destroyed from within by a progressive liberal movement that was already underway.

Yeah, didn’t a progressive liberal by the name of John F. Kennedy make Khrushchev blink in the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Your Daily Hubbard-9/7/12

Okay, make sure you’re sitting down for this one.  In today’s Daily Hubbard, Attila the Geezer explains to us why, I can’t believe I have to write this…He explains to us why….God I’m going to have to apologize on behalf of white people again because of this clown…He explains why…Oh screw it, just read it for yourself on page 26-27!

The integration or our public schools was a major challenge that was designed to close the gap between blacks and whites in the area of education.  After the initial shock of this decision, it was understood that by bringing blacks and whites together in a common school system, it would eventually be a good thing for everyone.  One of the stated purposes of school integration was to bring black students up to a level closer to white students.  But, to the great disappointment of everyone, the results of this theory worked exactly in reverse of its intended purpose, and instead of black students rising to the educational levels previously attained by white students, the white students dropped to the levels of the black students.  To make matters worse, the lack of discipline and ambition of black students soon became shared by their white classmates, and our educational system has been in a steady decline ever since.  This is not a racist statement, but a valid and realistic evaluation of what has happened to our public schools.  On totally unexpected result of public school integration was that along with the decline in educational achievement in this country came a dramatic rise in crime over the same period.

Blacks are stupid, undisciplined, lazy, and commit crimes and integration made white kids all those things too…Who thinks like this?  Seriously?  Who thinks like this?  David Duke?