August 31, 2006
Leftist Loser Loathes Laws and Lets Loose
When candidates on the left lose an election, they can't believe it because they are certain that candidates on the right are stupid and crooked and that there is no way that a majority of voters couldn't see that. Therefore, the elections in which the Left loses must not be legitimate.
Witness Al Gore, who to this day maintains that he won Florida and, thereby, the election against President Bush. John Kerry today claims that Ohio's electoral votes were stolen causing him to lose the Presidency. Jimmy Carter is just a loser. So, it shouldn't surprise anyone when a leftist in another country loses the Presidential election and lives in denial.
However, now, it has gone to an extreme with the Left in Mexico. The losing leftist candidate, undaunted by the election results and courts, is creating his own parallel government and is calling for anarchy on the part of citizens.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador...has vowed to create a parallel leftist government and is urging Mexicans not to recognize the apparent victory of the ruling party's Felipe Calderon. Some predict his parallel initiative — which Lopez Obrador's supporters call the "legitimate government" — could turn those protest camps into the core of a violent revolt, especially if the government tries to shut it down.
Of course, after violent revolt, the first item of business is to collect taxes. Hey, they're from the Left. It figures.
"Everything we do, from property taxes to permits to natural resources, will go through the 'legitimate government,'" said Severina Martinez, a school teacher from Oaxaca camped out in a tent.... Some supporters took out a newspaper ad Tuesday, calling on Lopez Obrador to set up his own treasury department and said all Mexicans "should channel federal revenues to the new treasury department."
Next, the loser is a little pertubed about private ownership and a free press. Stop the presses and kill the journalists!
Lopez Obrador's plan is to have his government help the poor, oppose privatizations and make the news media — which he has accused of ignoring him — more "truthful and objective."
What about a plan "for the children?" Doesn't he want to help the children?
How will the Left in Mexico take over? Will it be peaceful? Again, they're from the Left.
People close to Lopez Obrador say he is assuming the role of his hero, 18th century President Benito Juarez, who led a roving, "unofficial" presidency...before driving out the invaders and executing the French-installed Emperor Maximilian. Rosario Ibarra, a human rights activist who frequently shares the stage with Lopez Obrador at his rallies: "We just hope there won't be any need to shoot anyone." (emphasis added)
Hope? Well, why hope? Just don't go around assassinating national leaders.
I have an idea. If Obrador wants to set up a government that rules over Mexican criminals, maybe he would want to govern the illegal Mexicans here and take them back to Mexico.
If the Left worked as hard to honestly win an election as they do to protest those who do, maybe they would actually have a chance.
Now, I'm waiting for Jimmy Carter to proclaim this rogue government as the rightful one. As far as Gore and Kerry are concerned, they are probably mumbling, "We should have thought of this." Losers....
Posted by Woody M. at August 31, 2006 06:40 PM | TrackBackAl Gore taught the world how to lose poorly. His legacy will be seen and felt in every country where there is an angry leftist element, immediately after they lose an election they really believed they could win. Mexico is no different.
Posted by LASunsett at August 31, 2006 07:47 PM
Oh, these liberals. They just can't stand losing. Gore, Kerry Part Tres.
Posted by DADvocate at August 31, 2006 07:47 PM
I should hope the Mexican government is monitoring Obrador and his following very carefully. Violent revolution has long been a way of life in this hemisphere's Latin countries, and Mexico is still pretty backwards, if the way they manage their economy, their blatant govt corruption and the sheer numbers of poor (not to be confused with our poor, who live like Bill gates compared to Mexico's poor) people. The last thing we need is a Marxist country right across a border from us.
Woody -- your second paragraph conjures a vision of Algore being dragged from his home in a strait jacket, screaming, "You can't do this! I'M THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!!!!"
Posted by Seth at September 1, 2006 04:45 AM