O! The irony, it burns brightly! In today's NYT, there's a front-page article by Jeff Zeleny, who's watching Bill Clinton's campaign movements...

Democrats’ Grip on the South Continues to Slip

JONESBORO, Ark. — The Southern white Democrat, long on the endangered list, is at risk of being pushed one step closer to extinction.

From Virginia to Florida and South Carolina to Texas, nearly two dozen Democratic seats are susceptible to a potential Republican surge in Congressional races on Election Day, leaving the party facing a situation where its only safe presence in the South is in urban and predominantly black districts.

[emboldenings mine -ed.]

That's a clear indicator that LOOTER - MOOCHER politics is alive and well. The new Social Democrat's tactic of buying votes with Other People's Money is a well-established feature of their party; it's only still working well in a culture of mostly good people, the South, in areas where there's no pride in self, in the Democrat's carefully cultivated 'Cultures of Poverty'. They now reap their grim gardens for votes.

The NYT article features photos of Bill Clinton, who, amongst other less-than-impressive credentials, made a political career of pandering to the good-ole-boy Democrats in Arkansas, carefully concealing his liberal stances. He was dispatched back to Arkansas by Obama to try to keep a district that's been Democrat for decades.

The most eye-opening WTF? O! THE IRONY! line from Bill Clinton's speaking engagement in Jonesboro, to fellow Democrats...

Former President Bill Clinton, who spent his career navigating between his party’s liberal sensibilities and the far more centrist instincts of Democrats in his home region, visited the district last week, passing through Batesville and Paragould before arriving for a rally in Jonesboro. He warned voters, “You are being played,” and urged people to cast ballots with their economic self interest in mind.

All but the most dense of Democrats can see exactly what's happening here: the consummate LOOTER playing to his MOOCHER base. "You are being played", indeed; Democrats who vote for this sort of pandering are easily plyed, susceptible to handouts and gimmee! tactics.

More Clinton...

“If it’s a referendum on Democrats against some imagined perfection, we’ll get whacked,” Mr. Clinton said in a brief interview. “If it’s a real, informed choice, we’ll do fine.”

By 'real, informed choice' he means that if Democrats can convince people to put their own self-interest ahead of interest in the Republic's survival, they will continue to win. But good people realize that we didn't get here by giving away the contents of the Treasury to the lowest level of politician who then disburses it to ply the lowest level of voter. Now, this minute, we're printing monies we don't even own, borrowing from the Chinese, Japanese and Saudis to fund impossible-to-sustain entitlements promised to Democrat voters for their continued allegiance to the National Party.

Here's a chance to ding that Social Democrat arrangement, right here during our current voting cycle culminating November 2. I've already early-voted, voting against the Democrat candidates across the slate, including TN-6, 'Al Gore's Seat', since occupied by Bart Gordon, who has wisely abdicated and will now slink off to a cushy government job (or so he thinks). I held nose tightly and voted for Bill Haslam for Governor, who is a poor choice by Republicans in this state; Haslam having crawled between the sheets with New York City Mayor Bloomberg and doing the nassty gun control maneuvers. We'll have to keep a careful eye on that RINO Bill Haslam. It's not beyond him to seek a state Income Tax; if he'll bend over for Bloomberg he'll do whatever it takes when the going gets tough, and it will when Tennessee runs out of Obama's Stimulus money next year.

Listen to this bastard, Chad Causey (D), running for Congress in Arkansas...

“I wouldn’t have voted for the cap-and-trade bill, and I couldn’t have supported the health care bill,” Mr. Causey said. “The Constitution doesn’t say anything about Democrats and Republicans. It talks about representing constituents, regardless of who’s in control in Washington, and carry their voice. That’s what I’m going to do.”

Chad Causey, like other Democrats across the nation, is running helter-skelter from the specter of National Party and Nancy Pelosi and TARP and ObamaCare, and Bill Clinton standing right there thumbs-up and grinning.

It's too late for these lying Democrats to run from their national party, from their finally unmasked identity. They must all lose, and lose big time, so's the Democrat party can reform, move away from it's far-left leanings; Democrats must stop living the Looter - Moocher Social Democrat mentality, and move back to where that once-proud party once commanded respect.

Democrats have to start punching their own hippies and neo-Marxists.

That's a long way off; but in order to keep this Republic intact, somebody's got to push back.

The South is a great place to start.

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Bart Gordon sold out his constituents for a job at NASA? Such is the scuttlebutt.

There must be a good reason for a man who was badgered enough by the people he claimed to represent to vote AGAINST this atrocity to change his vote from NO to YES on ObamaCare, no? Bart Gordon was hounded and badgered enough to walk away from his easy and lucrative and previously unassailable House seat; now he's set to cash in for his health care vote to meet the of the needs of the ever-crooked Obama Administration.

From Dan Riehl, who's helping keep better track of Bart Gordon's skulduggery than Bart and Obama would like...

Just a note on Instapundit's link to Moe Lane, pointing out Gordon's Coburn problem, assuming he has any designs on going to NASA. What makes it an ever bigger problem for Gordon is how the rules have changed.

Five years ago he would have experienced grief, but ultimately Hill comity would likely win out and he'd slip by with some bruising. Coburn's tough, but he's reasonable and people can disagree.

With politics playing out in real time under an Internet-powered microscope, a huge number of Americans angry over HCR combined with Coburn's especially angry base, there just isn't room for what was once the status quo.

Because if Bart Gordon thinks he can sell out, take a cushy job as a NASA Administrator and wing his constituents a flappy bird, well, that'll be a prelaunch no-go.

More likely he'll hook up with Al Gore (whose seat he's occupied ever since Big Al left it oh so many years ago) and become, oh, a "Global Warming Expert". Doesn't take much; Big Al did it with a prayer and a Divinity degree, and a few dollars investment in cheap book paper. To be forever mistaken for the Unabomber; such is Al Gore's legacy.

No, Bart, there's no easy legacy job at NASA in your future. You turned your back on your friends. We'll have to watch you very closely. Maybe you'll get to play with a nice model rocket out back.

Shame on you, BartFish Gordon.

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