…using McCain supporters, but Zogby was forced to say no by the Left.

It was a very funny conclusion, not to mention quite useful – to us.

Are you more knowledgeable than the average citizen? The average score for all 2,508 Americans taking the following test was 49%; college educators scored 55%. Can you do better? Questions were drawn from past ISI surveys, as well as other nationally recognized exams.

Take the quiz here.

90% – got 3 wrong…in a hurry.

average conservative voter scores better that the left. We have always had to defend our positions with real facts and historical understanding.

The left has it easy. Who is against clean air and water or giving to the poor. Who is for war and killing, let’s have some chardonney and brie on whole wheat crackers and talk about the issues like free healthcare for THE CHILDREN!!

It was a pure cult of personality.

Palin has personality and that’s why the left is terrified of her. Never in my life have I seen a VEEP candidate so viciously attacked.

Whose fault is it that no one knows that this Congress with 8% approval ratings is a Democrat Congress?

Boehner should be run out of town on a rail along side of Cole and Ensign!

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson

**LET US GIVE THANKS FOR OUR BLESSINGS (and abandon the rancor at least until Friday?)

THANKSGIVING EXPOSED PART TWO–GIVING THANKS

It’s easy for conservative Americans to feel deep in the dumps this November considering what happened on the fourth day of this month. We still have a great deal for which to be thankful this Thanksgiving.

All is far from lost, even if McCain/Palin did. One thing we should keep in mind is that John McCain was no conservative, except for his pro-life position. Obama’s victory therefore did not represent a victory over conservative principles but rather over a wishy-washy Republican moderate, and we can take heart and be thankful for that.

Also, aside from the grievous national harm which will result from a pro-abortion president in the White House, Obama cannot, at least initially, govern as the extreme liberal that he is in a nation which is still moderate-conservative according to exit polls.

Post Election Day, 2010, if he solidifies his congressional majorities, America may start to witness the changes he promised, changes which will shake us to our national core but, temporarily, we are relatively safe. Should he attempt to “do-a-Clinton” over the next two years, Republicans will have another great shot at taking back the congress in 2010 just as we took it in 1994. We should give a muted thanks for that possibility.

Newt, where are you when we need you?

It’s important, too, to understand that Obama paid dearly and literally for every vote he received. Reneging on his pledge to accept public financing proved to be his most brilliant move, brilliant but scurrilous and demonstrating his lack of honesty and good character.

He ended up spending almost as much money on media alone ($340 million) than McCain raised ($360 million): http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/expend.php?cycle=2008&cid=n00009638, http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/index.php?cycle=2008.

We can be thankful that Obama didn’t win the election as much as he bought the election.

Furthermore, he remains the stealth president-elect who will take office as an unknown quantity thanks to a media which felt collective tingles up their corporate legs and thereby allowed him to wage an extended primary battle followed by two months in the general campaign sans vetting and sans probing questions.

Of course, he had his legions of the faithful, including virtually every black in the country who would have voted for him if he espoused that they all be drawn and quartered on Inauguration Day, and his other faithful contingent who were taken in by this charlatan with a messianic complex.

Add to that blind group the disenchanted naysayers who opposed the war, who hated Bush and Cheney, who are suffering in our blighted economy, and those who simply voted against the status quo and, Voila! the nation was punished with Obama.

There’s a silver lining even in that cloud, namely that America did not knowingly choose as president an arch-liberal over a moderate since they knew not what they did nor for whom they were voting and that, to me, is a pyrrhic victory for which we should all give thanks.

For those who feel all or most of the above is a stretch, a Pollyannish, fantasy analysis of Election 2008 or an exercise in spinning a dash of sugar into a bunch of sour grapes, try these on for size as further reasons to be thankful:

                             OTHER THINGS TO BE THANKFUL FOR

Thanks to George Bush’s and General Petraeus’ “surge” in Iraq, we are finally winning that sector of the war against terrorism and winning the hard-fought battle for the hearts and minds of Iraqis;

We have not had to endure another 9/11 for over seven years;

Love him or despise him, on January 20th, 2008, Obama will receive the torch to lead, and change for better or worse, this nation after a (somewhat) spirited campaign on both sides and he will do so in accordance with our Constitution and without a violent upheaval that would be the norm in many countries;

We are still the most powerful nation on the face of the Earth despite Europe’s undisguised wishful thinking that our day is past;

Hillary lost;

If you have a roof over your head, food in your stomach, clothes on your back, and since you obviously can look down at the grass rather than up toward it, be thankful for that;

Finally, we should give an appreciative thanks to God for allowing us to live in the greatest nation on the planet.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING DAY TO ALL! MAY GOD CONTINUE TO BLESS US!

(http://genelalor.com/)

They’re about as well informed as a lot of the voters I spoke to in Massachusetts and this supports my contention that lots of Democrat voters would have cast their ballots for Adolf Nikita Stalinsky if his name had been on the ballot rather than Obama’s.

Sigh. For all the millions of words spent here in the blogosphere and everywhere else, there’s always a big group of people who decide who to vote for based purely on things like:

“Well, they had it for eight years and now it’s time for the other side to try.” In other words, about the same amount of thinking they use to decide between McDonalds and Burger King.

I’ve found from living in Massachusetts that the Democrats like the population to be fairly blinkered and confused most of the time, really basically incompetent to vote if you scratch the surface. The only thing they really want them to understand is that the Democrats are the Governmental Santa Claus that gives them money and funds healthcare, welfare and education.

And it works particularly well when you have a institutions like Harvard that are dedicated to producing an elite political class that is grounded in the philosophy of John Rawls, because you then get the people who are two standard deviations above the mean actively working to create and promote the policies that are ratified and voted for by the vast middle in the fat part of the curve. It’s a perfect feed-forward mechanism, just look at the Massachusetts legislature for proof:

The current composition of the House is 141 Democrats and 19 Republicans.

The current composition of the Senate is 35 Democrats and 5 Republicans.