Beacon Street Journal

I know, I know…

Republicans as the incumbent party are being punished for the current financial turmoil, but nonetheless, there are some peculiarities to this presidential election:

1. How is it that an electorate, in a fit of pique perhaps, is poised to reward a Democratic-controlled Congress with lopsided majorities, when the same voting public gives that same Congress approval ratings that are lower than President Bush’s?
2. How is it that despite the low approval ratings the public ascribes to the media as an institution, that the same public seems incapable of discounting or penetrating the media’s Maginot line of pro-Obama propaganda?
3. How is it that a public who is angry over the current economic malaise is ready to elect as its President, someone, who despite all the media mythologizing, they actually know very little about? Ignorance may not turn out to be bliss in light of the well documented and radical views to which Barack Obama subscribes.
4. Why isn’t the public appalled and diffident of the savage treatment to which Joe the Plumber was subjected by media and Obama supporters alike for having the unmitigated gall to ask the New Messiah a simple question that illustrated the Robin Hood basis for his tax policies?
5. Why isn’t the same public, that is so contemptuous of Congress, outraged at the deplorable treatment of Sarah Palin? As a non-Ivy League educated commoner, she is the antithesis of the elitist pretensions of the typical Washington insider, apparently loathed by most Americans.
6. How is it that a man, despite his many flaws, who has served his country heroically, with honor and distinction, is trailing a man who proudly proclaims himself a “citizen of the world”, but whose affinity for the nation he seeks to lead is highly dubious?
7. Is the American public really ready to inaugurate an era of Scandinavian Socialism because some of the more uninformed voters believe the financial catastrophe was caused by “Wall Street Greed” and not by affirmative action lending policies backed up by the threat of civil rights litigation, enshrined by the Democratic Party?

Note to the aforementioned: five years ago, a presidential candidate who proclaimed the virtues of “spreading the wealth around” by robbing from Peter to pay an undeserving Paul would have not made it through the primaries.