The Undecideds

By Alan Caruba

We are now into the seemingly endless countdown until the November 6 elections and the agony of waiting is already wearing upon a vast portion of those people who know for whom the will vote. They have already made up their minds, leaving the outcome to a slim margin of those identified as either “undecideds” or “independents.”

These are the people who tend to forget your birthday and send a “belated” card to make amends, but it is always too late. They are likely the ones who file their income tax late despite months in which to prepare it. These are people who ignore parking tickets. They are not studiously studying the candidate’s positions on issues. They haven’t been paying any attention to them.

This election, like all elections, is deemed the most important one in the history of the nation, but despite electing some genuinely bad previous choices for President, there is an ominous quality to this election because the nation is dead broke and, curiously, arguing over whether to let Social Security and Medicare become insolvent in a few years or whether to keep the latest destruction of our health system, Obamacare. It is a piece of legislation that literally takes $700 billion from Medicare and includes some twenty hidden taxes.

So, yes, it really does matter who gets elected or reelected.

How America has managed to split so dramatically along partisan lines of division is something that I will leave to future historians to determine. We have spent the second part of the last century and first decade of this one swinging wildly back and forth between conservatives and liberals. The conservatives like Ronald Reagan were usually elected to clean up the mess left behind by liberals like Jimmy Carter.

Muddying the problem for conservative voters are men like Richard Nixon and George W. Bush who were nominally Republicans and conservatives, but who just as often left a legacy of a liberal expansion of government. In Nixon’s case, it is the horror of the Environmental Protection Agency and, in Bush43’s case, the failure of No Child Left Behind, the expansion of the federal government into the education sector; one that has been rendering generations of Americans ignorant of history, civics, math and science.

What makes this election so grotesque is the mind-boggling record of failure of the current incumbent, Barack Obama. He has literally imposed more debt on the nation than all the previous presidents combined! His “solutions” have been a string of costly failures. And his campaign is a series of lies and blunders that are setting new records for mendacity and deceit.

The wisest thing Lyndon Johnson did was to announce that he would not run for reelection in1968 after a poor showing in the New Hampshire primary. He had blundered so badly in escalating the war in Vietnam that he stepped aside. He was arguably the most liberal President, remembered for his “War on Poverty”, until the advent of Barack Obama, a Marxist who is likely to be remembered for his war on America.

The Republican Nixon replaced Johnson, promising that he had a “plan” to end the war, but it did not end until his second term. Then he was forced to end his second term by resigning over an insane effort to influence his reelection, Watergate. Why do I cite such matters of history—because Americans in general seem to have no memory of history even when it has been fairly recent.

So the nation now finds that its future is in the hands of a slim margin of voters who, we’re told by pollsters, are undecided. How can one be undecided about a President who has not solved unemployment for the past forty-two months?

# Who has waged war on Wall Street and Main Street.

# Who has waged war on the energy sector of the economy, coal, oil, and natural gas.

# Who has ignored the advice of his own commission on ways to turn around and save the economy.

# Who has engaged in the worst examples of crony capitalism, all of which resulted in the loss or waste of billions.

# Who now allows his surrogate super pacs to engage in the most scurrilous slanders of his opponents, claiming that they are literally murderers!

# Who lies about their efforts to save Social Security and Medicare, saying they intend to end these programs.

In the 1980s, Americans understood how poor Jimmy Carter’s term in office had been and turned to a sunny, optimistic, and unapologetic patriot, Ronald Reagan. One has to wonder if the current generations of voters—old and young—understand just what a disaster Barack Obama has been?

That is why we must endure more weeks and months until we learn the answer. For most voters, the decision has already been made. Some care deeply about the future. Others care more deeply about their welfare checks and food stamps in an economy driven into the ditch by politicians they have blindly supported.

America teeters on financial collapse and there are people who will vote for a man who is telling them that whatever success they have had in their lives is due entirely to a government that is too large, too intrusive, and a growing threat to their hopes and dreams.

It should be a no-brainer. It isn’t.

At times like this, I am reminded of John Adams, a Founding Father, who said, "Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."

It is an apt description of those who will vote to reelect Obama.

Tags: 2012-Elections, Democrats, Independents, Republicans, Undecided-Voters, conservative, liberal

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Comment by Jeff Dover on August 16, 2012 at 11:12am: Alan -- undecideds are the "no-brainers". They are also the creation of pollsters. As one who will not take a poll, I would have to be considered by them as "undecided", especially as in former days when I did take polls, and purposely gave false answers.

Most who vote in November will have brains.

Comment by Kate Bowe on August 15, 2012 at 12:25pm: Anyone that would vote Obama back into office, I ask you

Are You Really Better Off Now Than You Were 4 Years Ago?

It is clear as it can be that those supporting this man do not have an idea what they are doing.

Comment by doug lefevre on August 15, 2012 at 1:19am: Me and my wife and her two sons were standing in the village in lobby. Saturday at about 10:00 AM weighing to be seated when next to us was an 80-year-old woman with a walker and will is obviously her 50 to 60-year-old son and daughter. And she was saying to them that she had heard that Romney has selected his VP. Some guy had been nominated as Romney's VP. Some Irish guy out of Minnesota or Chicago or maybe Wisconsin.

We educated him on who Ryan was. Yet I realize that not everybody out of 800 million people of the United States are paying attention to what's going on with the election or the politics as a whole. We as the tea party fall into a trap that everybody else is awake. I have to have realize that I was also asleep four years ago. I was about my work, my family, my recreation. It is arrogant for me to believe that the rest of America has also awaken to what the hell is going on.

Hello to a great number of American politics is a sideshow.

This is where the tea party needs to get their BUTTS in gear and teach the people about what is going on.

It is time for us to realize the rest of the United States is not living in our little microcosm of tea party blog sites.

That is a rally's did a great service to our cause

Comment by Ronald Sorrells on August 14, 2012 at 10:45pm: Obama has struckout for 4 years by pitting one group against another !

Time for him to go.

Semper Fi,

\Ron

Comment by Phil on August 14, 2012 at 10:38pm: How can any TRUE AMERICAN be undecided?

I tried to warn people before he got elected the first time.

I have been sick ever since.

If you hate your country vote for Barack. Spread the poverty.

Comment by Ronald Sorrells on August 14, 2012 at 9:46pm: None off us are stupid or naiive. We have all been deceived by the "political propaganda process" (PPP).

The president, congress & court all deceive is.

When we "reorganize".....we simply must let all know that "Deceitfulness will get you exiled from " The Honest".

We simply have no one to trust. Political parties have caused this and if they do not stop we will have to ban political parties.

Lies are destructive to Our Constitution and threatens the freedom and security for our people.

SemperFi,

Ron

Comment by David Williams on August 14, 2012 at 9:38pm: Alan, are you sure you are a Constitutional and/or a Faith Based Conservative? Your posts often leave me with this question. Many of your statements are divisive sounding. You started this post as such in the first two paragraphs. We want to bring others in, not separate our self from.

You state, "..., it really does matter who gets elected or reelected." I agree with that statement. Obama must be removed from the Oval Office. But not at the expense of one's Constitutional and/or Faith Based conscionable objections. (By the way, regardless of one's political association, an undecided voter is an undecided voter. There is no need to separate undecided voters from independent voters.)

One of the reasons why there are undecided voters is because the Republican Party has been backing an individual for President that is arguably as bad as Obama when it comes to policies. Here's a reminder of who Romney is: Romney, Obama the same http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWDJEc92d38. And there is much more, such as Romney buying up all hard drives when he left the Governor's Office. Why? What is he hiding?

The fact that Ryan has been asked to be Romney's VP and Ryan has accepted does not change the fact that Romney is being shoved down the throat of the American People. Romney is a not a Constitutional and/or a Faith Based Conservative. According to Romney's record as the Governor of Massachusetts, Romney will most likely continue to govern as a liberal.

To suggest that we must take Romney at his word that he will govern as a conservative then that same logic must then be applied to statements made by Obama unless you are Bigot. The reason the same rule of law must be applied to both is because they both consistently make claims that they will or are working in the best interest of America and its People while their record of political policies scream, "I AM A BIG GOVERNMENT LIBERAL!" "It is" one's record we must judge people by; not their words. This is a lesson everyone should have learned over the past 4 years.

John Adams did indeed say, "Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." It is why we are not a democracy. Thanks to John Adams and the many others, we are a Constitutional Republic, "and to the Republic for which it stands..." Remember?

If the Republican Party want to assure themselves a Presidential win in November they need to give us a Constitutional and Faith Based Conservative for a nominee. And for those that are thinking, wrongly I must add, that Romney is our nominee, Romney is not the Republican Nominee, Romney is still just a PRESUMPTIVE nominee. This fact will not change until the Republican National Convention at which time a nominee will be determined when an individual obtains the required number of Delegate votes.

There is going to be a whole lot of egg on the face of many if Romney fails to be the nominee. Are you going to have egg on your face? Keep in mind that if the convention becomes an Open Convention, Romney WILL NOT be the nominee.

It is only suggestions but I suggest TPN and other Tea Party groups spend more time on topics such as "Eligibility Before Competence", "Is Romney Eligible To Be President, Where's The Proof?" (by calling out Romney to produce eligibility, you then can force Obama to produce eligibility or put the HEAT on Congress and Senate to act on impeachment proceedings), "Who Has A Record Of Competence, Eligible And Willing To Be President?", "Which Potential Presidential Candidate Has A Record Of Constitutional And Faith Based Conservatism?", etc.

Good night and God bless...

Comment by David D. Riker American on August 14, 2012 at 9:16pm: If people are niave and stupid enough to reelect The Obomination then they richly deserve what is to come. I can tell you this, it will not be pleasent or nice. The United States will be fractured beyond all repair.

The Americans that are not lapping at the public trough, who believe and support the Constitution will not stand for any more of the fascist wanna be dictators crap. Him and all of his bootlickers and butt kissers will pay the price for what they have done. I just pray that I live long enough to see it happen.

Comment by Linny Redd on August 14, 2012 at 8:25pm: CALL UPON the ALMIGHTY GOD who helped our Ancestors found this Great Nation --call upon Him

while you can!!!