We might be mutes...

... but the Left is, indeed, DEAF. That will be their downfall.

No matter how loudly the conservative right chooses to get, they will continue to be ignored and dismissed as "right-wing crackpots". No blame will ever be attributed to their failed policies (example: Iran, North Korea, massive spending, higher taxes, etc) and no past policy of conservative design can possibly be referred to as a "success"... no matter WHO it is showing the evidence.

Baddboy is correct, and it is depressing, but I am far less pessimistic than he is (at least in his last post). The Left will (in fact, they have already begun to) alienate enough of the general population with their radical changes and agendas to spread the discontentment of the conservative right to all quarters of American society... especially when the "bill" for all this change comes due in the next two years.

Baddboy's comparison with the modern liberal media bias and the McCarthy Era is apt, even if it is seen by the Left as one-sided. Any voicing or support for traditional conservative values or policies will be seen by those who control the Left as "reactionary" and "right wing"... but the more those values and policies are discussed by the radio giants, the more center-right news outlets, and the few conservative media sources (more and more the cable TV programs and channels) will convince the "moderate" majority in America that Obama and the Left are WRONG. Of this, I am convinced.

So many people at my place of employment point to their paychecks as evidence of the "change" Obama promised. Yes, I see the extra $19.73 I get to keep in my check each week (we are paid weekly here) because of the reduced deduction schedule he introduced early in his first 100 days... but what THEY don't see is that this isn't a tax CUT, it is a tax CREDIT... and we will ALL be liable for the difference in our tax bill NEXT YEAR. Where is the savings in that? Is that the basis for Obama's fiscal policies? Why pay NOW what you can pay TOMORROW? Isn't that what got America into the financial problems we see all around us today?

Mark my words... Obama and the Left's support will dry up and blow away as soon as the COST of their programs and policies are made evident to the majority of Americans. Perhaps Oprah and Gates and Soros don't sweat the increase in tax burden such measures MUST eventually bring... but John Q. Public will resent them very much indeed, and far sooner than Obama, Reid and Pelosi might think.