The Demo Left-Wing Conspiracy and the California Recall"
Posted by Fernando Oaxaca
Monday, October 06, 2003
Dozens of the e-mail messages that I received after my article on the Democrat's Left-Wing Conspiracy appeared on ChronWatch, consisted mostly of nasty accusations of partisan hatred and vile attacks on my character, ethnicity, age, lack of education, and mental health. Many were laced with juicy obscenities and insult.
I knew then that a political nerve had obviously been pinched or even squashed. Perhaps damaging truth had elicited incredible outrage from these loyal but not so polite Democrats or sympathizers. These folks deny or want to conceal the way that Bush-hating and the anti-War fanatics' rants have fused into the mantra of natural left-wing/liberal groups. I have postulated a Left-Wing Conspiracy that includes, at least, the DNC, the Congressional ultra-partisans, the Democrat presidential wannabes, media, Hollywood, and a myriad of liberal ''minority'' and cause-oriented organizations and individual mouthpieces like the tiresome and boringly irrelevant Jesse Jackson.
Now comes the California miracle: 1,600,000 voters of all partisan stripes petitioned the government for an election to dump incumbent Governor Gray Davis. Without rehashing the many reasons the California electorate knew a terrible mistake had been made in electing him in November 2002, the people spoke. ''We want another go at him!''
Kevin Shelley, California's secretary of state and a surprisingly law-abiding Democrat, certified the petition campaign as legitimate. It was at this time that the Left-Wing Conspiracy mantis pricked up its antenna and saw crisis. Governor Davis, though not 100% reliable as a classic lefty, headed up California. The state was a hotbed of Left-Wing money, people and significant pockets of public sympathy for anti-Bush and anti-war positions. As word flashed through the Left-Wing network of the potential ousting of their California leader, Gray Davis, the Conspiracy machine decided to act. The Anti-Recall animal was hatched.
The trigger for action was Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante. Per the California Constitution, he dutifully set and announced a statewide Recall Special Election, to be held October 7, 2003. He must have struggled to hide his internal glee, knowing that he would declare his personal intent to run for Davis's replacement if the recall succeeded. He is the only Democrat of consequence to do so. (Little did he know that Davis and the Conspiracy would trash him and abandon his cause as soon as he flattened in the polls!)
Soon thereafter, the always ready Hollywood izquierdistas were surely awakened and put on alert--folks like Ed Asner, Martin Sheen, Barbra Streisand, Rob Reiner, Danny Glover, etc. They probably saw the virtual red bulb in their closet flashing: ''To arms! Call your publicist to get you on 'Good Morning America.' We've got to stop this recall business!''
And the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times and other Gray Davis endorsers of last year, went into high gear in giving us ''recall coverage.'' The Conspiracy's focus on destroying George Bush¹s Presidency and pushing their ten White House dreamers had to switch some energy to the Golden State.
The first strategic move of the conspirators was to try killing in court the Davis recall. They got the usually shameless ACLU defenders of peace and freedom to file a lawsuit (what else!) The ACLU alleged, among other indefensible premises, that California Latinos and blacks were intellectually incapable of finding new polling places and using the punch-card voting machines that supposedly allowed the Florida recount imbroglio of November 2000. A courageous federal district judge quickly ruled against this silly and untenable argument of the Left-Wing Conspiracy/ACLU junta.
They appealed to the Federal Ninth Circuit Court in San Francisco. The court appointed an ultra-liberal three-judge panel which swiftly reversed the sensible but lone Federal District Judge. The Recall vote would now be in March 2004. This was good news for them. March 2004 would draw more Democrats to the polls since it would be presidential primary time. The people's recall surge would have waned, and the Davis agony of a recall vote would be softened by a five-month reprieve and the simultaneous need to pick California's sacrificial choice to face George Bush in November 2004.
It was not to be. The other Ninth Circuit Court elders were appealed to by the recall interests and honest Democrat Secretary of State Shelley. En banc, they overturned their three-judge panel, ruled the Recall Election as legit, and declared it returned to October 7. Now the Left-Wing Conspiracy and Davis really had a problem.
In their worst nightmare, the Republicans collectively, in early September polling, were outgunning rogue candidate Bustamante 43%-30% and worse, the pro-recall support was at least 50% of registered voters. And there were traitors! More than a quarter of recall support was Democrat; 54% of Latinos were willing to say bye-bye to Davis and not miss a cumbia beat! The big planners, especially market profiteer and DNC Kahuna, Terry McAuliffe, saw an immediate need to bring in their big guns to save, not Davis per se, but their 2004 strategic logistics and resupply center, California.
As the Conspiracy system alert went out, the first big guns began to arrive. The biggest was among the first--the man from Hope, William Jefferson Clinton. His role, as designed by the Left-Wing Conspiracy honchos, was to advise, first by phone, then in person, their provincial centurion, Governor Gray Davis. Step two of the tactical plan required that they be seen together, chummy, laughing, looking brotherly, preferably at black and Latino dominated venues. This tactic would become the model for the next wave of enhancers of Davis prestige and power, designed to gather new no-recall votes.
Clinton, his charisma unavoidably eclipsing the lifeless Davis, preached no-on-recall to a Sunday black church congregation in South Los Angeles. The non-matching duo then visited Latino markets in East Los Angeles and other such hangouts, looking tolerant and non-discriminatory as they sold no-on-recall to Chicanos while munching on burritos.
A few days later the dynamic Al Gore showed up with the more difficult challenge of looking more lively than the panicked Davis--the man of the frozen smile on a pasty white face. One of the funniest video clips of Gore's recall campaign visit is black Congresswoman Diane Watson, tall but rhythmic and expressive, rocking to cool music at a campaign rally. Her right arm is up and holding Davis's upraised left arm. On her left, similarly, is Al Gore, grimacingly holding up Diane's left arm. They are dancing! At least Diane is dancing. But, amazingly, these three Democrat biggies, a live black lady between two struggling off-the-beat white clods, are doing a hilariously uncoordinated hip-hop hora for the evening news! Priceless!
After Clinton and Gore, what's left to send for the East Coast based Conspiracy? The Seven Dwarfs+3, that's who! And so they dutifully came; clearly out of his turf, confused General Clark, poor old Joe Lieberman, brassy Howard Dean, mousy Dennis Kucinich, pompous John Edwards. Today, we saw blowhard milkman's son Richard Gephardt (dad's job denied by his brother). Al Sharpton was here too, but on whose behalf it was not exactly clear. Their loyalty (or obedience to the Conspiracy) has been impressive. They were seen with, stood next to, and talked about Gray Davis. What they achieved is not evident.
Now, just two days before the election, the polls are worse for Davis and the left-wingers. Despite a three-day humongous attack on Arnold Schwarzenegger using sexual misbehavior and Nazi sympathy stories, some real and some invented, not much happened. Most of the ''puke politics'' (Democrat Bill Lockyer's term) originated in Los Angeles Times pages but spread nationally (Arnold's faked liking of Hitler came from ABC). After all these salvoes, Davis, in an NBC/Knight-Ridder poll, is still 13 points behind on recall and Arnold leads the replacement pack by 8 points.
Moveon.org, an online left-wing website used by the Conspiracy for its national anti-Bush and anti-war thrust, was also instructed to come into the California flap to help save Davis and the California 2004 beachhead. The Moveon.org's PAC is buying tasteless ads on California TV ($500,000 worth) about Arnold's alleged remarks demeaning women (featuring something about toilets).
Los Angeles' alternative paper, LA Weekly, carries a story on Saturday declaring that Bob Mulholland, Davis/DNC/Conspiracy operative may have been behind the feeding to the Los Angeles Times of some unfounded stories about Arnold's fondling of miscellaneous women over the decades. Mulholland's ties to the Conspiracy are probably through the DNC. He seems a good soldier--always ferocious in his attacks, apparently loyal, if not to Davis, to the Conspiracy.
And a coterie of movie greats, headlined by Streisand (who else) has taken out full page No-Recall ads in entertainment papers. Even the tax-cutting Latino Governor of New Mexico, Bill Richardson, a usually bright man, and former Latino Clinton cabinet superstar, Henry Cisneros, both got their marching orders and came out to throw their cup of water on Gray Davis's roaring forest fire of Recall mania. And, of course, Jesse Jackson was here today, again, kissing Davis's podium and, typically, trolling for opportunity. An uncomfortable Senator Diane Feinstein stood nearby, eyeing Jesse and Davis painfully.
So watch this space. We haven't seen all the weapons of the Conspiracy; but look alive, there are probably some hidden tricks yet to be unveiled in California. In any case, with three days to go, this Recall battle has been great practice for the Left-Wing Conspiracy. Mr. McAuliffe, his capo di tutti capos, Bill Clinton, and the left wing media, the Hollywood battalions, the Seven Dwarfs+3, the ''civil-rights'' armies, the lefty magazine corps, all the players have had a practice round.
If they save Davis they will use their coordinated California approach to character destruction as one model for getting Mr. Bush in 2004. If they lose to new Governor Schwarzenegger, their California job is tougher. But the plot to get Bush on Iraq, on oil, on Israel, on Korea, on Africa, on CIA leaks, on the economy, on drought and pestilence--all these things--will still go on.
This Left-Wing Conspiracy is massive, it has tons of money, and it has some very unprincipled leadership, mostly domestic but with foreign ties and support. As we watch the passing parade of events here and abroad over the next 14 months until next November, we would be wise to track the Conspiracy and its network. Perhaps it is illusory. But the indicators are legion; there are too many coincidences and strangely inter-related things happening. Somebody is in charge of all these and it is not our side. |
