It’s obvious, when analysts talk about something, who their “crowd” is because sometimes they miss things that are so obvious it’s actually offensive to those of us that employ the age old “common sense” technique to understanding things. While common sense doesn’t always mean “correct,” it does often get you started in a direction that can produce enlightenment.
Take this idiocy highlighted in USA Today by Autoblog:
USA Today reports that the 28 states that voted for Barack Obama have requested nearly $2.13 billion in rebates. On the other hand, states that voted for John McCain (a.k.a. “Red States”), have only requested $757 million.
Political analysts are puzzled, as there is no clear-cut indicator to explain the findings.
Oh really? They’re puzzled?
Obviously they’re too busy hanging out with left wing Ozombies.
I don’t know a single solitary conservative who thinks C4C was a good idea. Most people, myself included, saw it as a stupid entitlement that took able and functioning vehicles off the road, took their used parts off the market, and created mountains of new debt for people who had paid off vehicles to begin with.
Knowing that, it’s not that hard to figure out why the blue states bought into this program hook line and sinker. It was portrayed as helping the American auto worker (ie: the UAW) and the environment, two causes I reckon most mid-westerners don’t give a damn about, and if they do, not to the degree their hybrid driving urban hipster cousins do.
It’s easy to chalk this up to some strange unexplainable phenomenon, but when it comes down to it, the answer is much simpler. Red staters didn’t buy into it, and blue staters were told by The Great Onetm that they should.
And they did.
And it shows.
Next question?
