The Rise of Little Men and the Fall of New York as the Center of America's Politics

Dicebat Bernardus Carnotensis nos esse quasi nanos, gigantium humeris insidentes, ut possimus plura eis et remotiora videre, non utique proprii visus acumine, aut eminentia corporis, sed quia in altum subvenimur et extollimur magnitudine gigantea

[Bernard of Chartres used to say that we are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.]
-- John of Salisbury, 1159

POTUS Election 2012 Blue = Obama(i)/ Red = Romney

Once upon a time, New York (Up)State was Republican (as was Long Island) and New York City was Old School Liberal.  Then after the rise of Senator Clinton (D-NY) and the cheater Mayor Bloomberg (D then R, then I), the NYGOP faded from memory. 

And the fact that New York Politics used to be provenance of Great Men and Women died in November 2000. 

Here was my beginning in Politics ( Parts 1  2  3); Old School lessons and men and women who had a sense of their History as New Yorkers and keepers of the City and State.  When Spitzer went after my Old Mentors, he went after the Last True New York Politicians (But since I went to High School, I would say give  Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi (D-Forest Hills) a shot at high office -- I'm a GOP in Los Angeles, what can my words do?).

Spitzer and Weiner were not like the politicians of old.  Both Roosevelt's understood the media of their day. They also understood how not to be hypocrites no matter if they raised their own funds or inherited them.

Mayor Koch, Mayor Giuliani; 
Governor Pataki; Governor Hugh Carey; 
The teams of Senators Moynihan and D'Amato and Senator Javits and Senator Kennedy.  
These were the Tyrian Lannister's of their day.

And the modern New York City and State Politicians (I am looking at you Wiener and Spitzer!) are like Peter Dinklidge in this clip:

And what we on the Right should ask:

2010 Senate Blue = Schumer (i)/ Red = Townsend

Where has the NYGOP been since 2000? They haven't won squat.

2010 Governor's Race: Blue = Cuomo/Red= Paladino

Here's an idea....the National Commitees (and PACs) stop giving funds to the NYGOP until they have a plan of winning the WHOLE State of New York again.  What cities and counties do they need to win?

2012 Senate Election Blue = Gillabrand(i)/ Red = Long

No answer? 

Until then, RPLAC and the CAGOP have candidates here in Los Angeles  fighting; send money and troops.

My question: Why should the Right spend any money in New York State when they have proven they cannot win?

How President Obama Lost the Game of Thrones

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Yes, I'm addicted to the show Game of Thrones. No, I haven't read the books yet. (I am reading The Grid by Phillip Kerr then the Alan Dean Foster books of the Alien Series). 

The best Presidents and Leaders of Congress understand "how the game is played,"  Unfortunately, President Obama is not one of them. 

I'm sure he's a nice guy, but the Game of Thrones is not about the Battle, but about the Governance. And if he couldn't get a "Gun Rights," bill passed, its not the GOP's fault -- the Democrats have to look into thine own eyes here.  

By the way, the world does not run by polls but by Leadership.  Polls were useless in the Presidential Elections of 2004 and 2012, so I tend to tune them out. 

The vote on the Amendment (not a Bill) was 54-46. 

The baseline for the vote, starts, not with the NRA, but with a few lines in the Bill of Rights:

Amendment II
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

The Bold is where the debate is.  We have a well-regulated militia known as the US Military (Thanks to all who serve!). But when it comes to Residential and commercial owners of guns, in the end, I'm a city kid. 

My views are pretty simple when it comes to persons owning (legal) guns:

1) No domestic violence or felonies in your background;
2) No violent type of Mental health (schizophrenia and my bi-polar fit into this category); and
3) There are places where the light of civilization does not shine.  People should be safe in their homes before police arrive.  In the cities, they move quicker.


Here are the reasons President Obama failed: (A hint, look at one post on the sidebar-->) 

1) President Obama is still unskilled at coalition building.  To win, sometimes you must let the opposition "save face," To President Obama, that was not good enough. Hence, the loss of the Amendment;

2) Policy is about give and take behind closed doors.  Was President Obama going to offer something on the Budget or Sequestration side to help pass this bill? NO. He doesn't know how to negotiate.

3) That act with Progress Kentucky and Senator McConnell: Do you think he would back President Obama on anything after it was discovered?

3A) The disrespect of not sending anyone to the funeral of the Late PM Thatcher.  Respect for the dead in Politics must go both ways.  President Obama made sure President Chavez (no friend of the Jews) was mourned while Thatcher was ignored. 

It's a question weather President Obama is King Joffrey Baratheon or Lord Stannis Baratheon; In my case, I'd trust a Tyrion Lannister or Bronn to work in the People's House (closed to tours).

My question: After Five years, why can't President Obama and his Partisans remember how they acted during the last Administration and own up to the hard feelings still felt by the Right?