Slippery Slope

Democrats who want to push a socialist agenda are heading down a slippery slope. Instead of intelligent policy debate on important issues such as B.O.Care, whenever someone disagrees with the president, Democrat S.O.P. is to now cry racism. The election of B.O. was a brilliant move by the Democrats, I'll admit. If it was just another white, male Democrat trying to push a socialist agenda they would be forced to actually justify their position and debate the people that disagree. Now, with B.O., they can just cry racism, and do not have to justify anything.

But this move does not come without a price. Calling people racist because they do not believe in a left-wing, often times socialist agenda is a slippery slope the Dems should not have started down, and it is unfortunate that they did. The Dems have done a great job of making B.O.'s presidency all about race, even after B.O. himself did not campaign on race -- and I do not even think B.O. wants it to be made about race, though I am thinking he probably does not mind, if his policies are passed because of it. But charging racism whenever someone disagrees (remember during the last election cycle when B.O., Hillary, Harry Reid, and every other liberal Democrat said criticism was patriotic? Now, I guess criticism is racist) is only going to alienate people, and it WILL cause a backlash. Obama is already seeing this backlash as his approval rating took a dive and according to Rasmussen, is now at 49%, down from 62% when he took office. Another strong indicator of B.O.'s fall is his approval index, which takes the numbers of those that strongly approve and compares them to the numbers of those that strongly disapprove. When he took office it was at +23, now it's at -9. That's a huge swing. If B.O. and other Dems continue "debating" their horrible policies with charges of racism instead of real debate, these numbers will continue to drop. Of course the falling numbers could be due to the pettiness of Dems, or it could just be the proposal of such horrible policies by B.O. and his crew. Only time will tell.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/obama_approval_index_month_by_month