posted August 19, 2014 11:49 AM            

But, these Socialist demoscat comrades don't really mean any of that. It's always the same crap from these Socialists.

When they're running for election...or reelection, they talk like Ronald Reagan. After they're elected...or reelected, they vote like Edward Kennedy.

Fact is, these Socialists could never get elected or reelected of voters knew their real agenda. Raise taxes, forget about waste, fraud and abuse...usually by their own Socialist comrades and expand the size, scope, cost and meddling of the federal government.

Democrats swimming in a sea turning red
Going with the tide to stay afloat politically
Wesley Pruden
The Washington Times
Monday, August 11, 2014

Nobody reckons that election returns from Hawaii, the land of the lotus-eaters stuck thousands of miles off the California coast in the vast reaches of the Pacific, have much to say about national political trends. You might as well ask the cat. Nevertheless, disappointment and disgust with the established order has reached across the waves.

Andrew Romanoff, the Democratic speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives, is running for Congress in a true-blue district Mr. Obama carried not once, but twice. This year Mr. Romanoff is not the usual free-spending Democrat who walks two inches off the ground to keep his head in the clouds. He’s boasting that he was the sober-sided champion of a balanced state budget. “It’s really pretty simple,” he says. “You don’t buy things you can’t pay for.”

In one television commercial, he displays a chart with jagged red lines representing the nation’s soaring national debt. It looks a lot like one of the graphs drawn by Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the Republican vice presidential candidate in 2012, to sell his root-canal budget. His campaign says the resemblance is only a coincidence. (Sure it is.)

Rep. Ron Barber, a Democrat who represents a district in southern Arizona, has discovered the bleeding border the Republicans have been shouting about. Democrats rarely say much about getting tough on illegal immigration, but Mr. Barber’s ads feature a photograph of a real, live Border Patrol car. If a picture is worth a thousand words, the right photograph might be worth a thousand votes.

Patrick Henry Hays, who was known as plain Pat Hays when he was the mayor of North Little Rock and bought a surplus submarine and a tug boat to dock on the Arkansas River, ready to defend the capital if the Yankees return, is talking economics this time, tourists be darned. He uses Mr. Ryan’s graphics in his television ads, too.

“I approve this message, because it’s simple,” he says. “You cut waste, you pay your bills, and you do everything in your power to create jobs. That’s what we need in Congress.”

But to get there, you have to learn to swim in a sea that looks to be turning deep red in a lot of unusual places. Anything to stay afloat.

Neil Abercrombie, running for his second term as Hawaii governor with endorsements by President Obama and establishment Democrats, was not just defeated in the Saturday party primary, but gobsmacked. Routed. Vanquished. Humiliated. He lost to a state senator by 35 points. Who knew there were that many points out there?

Brian Schatz, the incumbent U.S. senator who was appointed by the governor to succeed the iconic Daniel Inouye in 2012, was locked in another race so close that the election can’t be decided until voters in a remote village isolated by Tropical Storm Iselle get to the polls that were kept open to enable them to cast a vote.

Voters are getting uppity everywhere, first in Virginia, where they cashiered the Republican majority leader, then in Mississippi where Democrats had to help an aging Republican establishment duffer squeak through a runoff. Now this remarkable result in Hawaii.

Mr. Abercrombie is unpopular — hugely, obviously — because he is regarded as confrontational, arrogant and eager to raise taxes, just what voters expect from many establishment candidates in both parties. The governor is acting like a true Democrat in what is shaping up, maybe, to be a very Republican year.

If you’re a Democratic candidate, you’ve got to act like a Republican to survive in the autumn of ‘14. Democrats are running for cover nearly everywhere. Any bit of camouflage is highly prized. “It’s a different kind of electorate,” Ben Tulchin, a San Francisco pollster, tells a survey for The Politico, the political daily. “If you’re running as a Democrat in a nonpresidential year, you want to strike a more moderate tone.” There will be time enough later to eat your words, quietly and in the kitchen if possible, and resume a career as a big spender.