Welcome back dear Schadenfreude; I've missed you!

As I said before, last Sunday I attended an event called a “Freedom Concert” in Phoenix, well actually Glendale but I doubt anyone cares that much which.

One of the speakers employed mainly, I contend, to distract the audience between acts, as the roadies extracted one set of loud and discordant hardware and substituted another, was Jon Voight.

One of a rare breed indeed is Mr. Voight who unlike most of his ilk sees life as it really is. Most Hollywood liberals of the limousine variety are just that; shallow and unthinking whose only talent is to mouth the words that someone else wrote while assuring the gullible that it’s real.

You’re thinking Obama right? Perhaps that’s what will happen to him after 2012 but they’ll have to do something about the ears.

Jon Voight said it well. The vast majority of the American people do not want to see a Socialist system in this country. Too many of us either lived under a regime like that at one point in our lives or we have parents or grandparents who did. And none of those memories are happy ones.

So much for emotion and feeling; both beloved of liberals everywhere but facts are facts.

And here’s a few to be going on with:-

According to the New York Times last Sunday, 69% of the total adult population is becoming nervous about Obamacare. And that’s from the New York Times also known as the Obama News Agency.

Now I’m a math person but I know that an awful lot of people are not and so I’ll be gentle, trust me.

Elections are won and lost not by the extreme right or extreme left and not even by the mediocre right or left. Look at the national elections in this country going back to …… Pick your date.

They are won and lost according to the number of “independents” who swing one way or another. As an example, I was never going to vote for Obama and nor did I. Even in this conservative state of Arizona there are those who would never have voted for anyone else. Especially down in Tempe and other enclaves of youth-inspired and academia-centric liberalism.

I had an aunt and uncle way back in England and many years ago they braved a cold and very wet November evening in order to execute their franchise. When they closed their front door, shook off their umbrellas and hung their dripping mackintoshes up to dry, my uncle asked who she’d voted for. “Well”, she said, “It is supposed to be secret but I voted for ’X’.”

“Damn it”, he replied. “I voted for ‘Y’ so all we did was to waste our time and our vote”.

But is a vote ever wasted? In their case, perhaps. Just as every confirmed Republican vote is negated by every confirmed Democratic vote. But the middle ground always calls the shots. And here is the scary part for the Democrats but is a sign of hope for me; by a margin of 2 to 1 the Independents oppose Obamacare. That’s right; 65% of these vacillating folks disapprove and many of these are the ones who are showing up to the Town Hall Meetings.

The Democratic hierarchy is worried stiff and is resorting to tactics such as that employed at a session in Texas in the district of Sheila Jackson Lee. There, a woman who identified herself as a physician before she endorsed the healthcare proposal, wasn’t. In fact she was a full-time worker for Obama’s ongoing campaign and fund-raising efforts.

Add to the lack of support by Independents the fact that only 42% of Democrats approve of the House Bill and that Rasmussen reports that Obama’s general approval rating is down to 47% and, well, you get the picture.

Finally, it’s worth mentioning that “Miss Botox” aka, Nancy Pelosi is viewed so negatively that she would probably kill to have an approval number as good as those of Bush and Cheney when they left office.

Oh, it feels good to be a conservative again!