In 52 days, we’ll learn the limits of ‘stupid is as stupid does’.

The voter groups that helped Obama get re-elected are hurt worst by his policy.

Blacks, Hispanics, single women, and the youth voter have seen their annual incomes drop, and their unemployment climb, during the last 5-plus years of Obama’s rule.

Those voter groups were (percentage-wise) Obama’s biggest supporters.

That ‘middle class’ Obama and his cohort claim to champion? Crushed.

And the top income earners (whom Obama loves to hate) saw their incomes rise.

This isn’t a ‘1-time glitch’, but a steady pattern caused by Democrat policy.

Blacks went 90% for Obama and Democrats in 2012, and have been hurt the worst by their policies. Hispanics voted 71%, single women 67%, and youth 60% for Democrats.

They’ve paid the price over the last several years as well. If those support percentages maintain in November, you can’t feel sorry for them…they’re getting what they ask for.

Just how stupid will they choose to be?

Everyone is focusing on the abuse Ray Rice dealt out to his fiancée.

Then the collective turns to other wide-spread (?) abuse on women by NFL players.

But while sage heads can nod in agreement over the NFL mindset that nurtures such abuse, the real focus should be on what is probably the cause…steroid abuse.

Pro football is a violent, physical sport, but somebody with a little common sense should check into whether the NFL athletes who abused women in disproportionate numbers…

…also abused steroids in disproportionate numbers.

(Anybody familiar with the term…’roid rage’? When that erupts, gender doesn’t matter.)

Just askin’.

As midterm elections draw near, GOP hand-wringers agonize over what appears to be the prevailing Republican candidate wisdom of remaining quiet on a GOP agenda.

They speculate it’s because Republicans don’t want to give opponents ammo; since Democrats are imploding (IRS-VA scandals, Iraq, Obamacare), just stay quiet.

But there is another reason…

…when you alienate big-money private interest, you loose the dogs-of-war…big time.

Case in point: the Obamacare insurance company bailouts, using taxpayer money.

You would think it’s a slam-dunk for Republicans – the Democrat healthcare plan calls for a gov’t bailout of insurance companies losing money…what taxpayers support that?

But campaign on an anti-bailout message, and the insurers start pouring huge money into Democrat campaigns, to run ads blowing an unwary GOPer out of the water.

The only way to neutralize that type of cash-funded backlash is if Republican PACs will match dollar-for-dollar ad spending with a rapid-response effort as well.

There’s a reason ‘money is the mother’s milk of politics’…ads cost millions of dollars.

The dustbin of failed politicians is full of political aspirants who conducted strong and  principled campaigns, but were woefully short on cash…and lost in the ad wars.

Those urging candidates to run on principle should put their money on the table. (Or, even better, give the candidate some distance…by running the ads themselves.)

Otherwise, your candidate wins a principled battle (anti-insurer bailouts, for example)…

…but loses a war (the advertising war)…and, ultimately, loses the election.

Better to have a GOP candidate who promises effective, consumer-centric reforms in a generalized campaign against the Obamacare law, and let PACs pinpoint attacks…

…lost plans, unavailable doctors, higher costs, insurance company bailouts, etc.

BlueCollar yearns for hard-nosed, strongly principled campaigns run by Republicans, but only if the resulting anti-GOP backlash ads can be effectively neutralized as well.

It’s a sad reality: those having better ideas often lose to those having deeper pockets.

Hey…if the ‘best ideas’ were vote guarantees…Democrats would never get elected.

On September 10, our blog on push-polling an anti-business agenda noted that the best solution for America, businesses, and investors, would be to lower corporate tax rates.

On September 11, our blog on the Justice Department providing cover for Democrats and the IRS laid out the case that Eric Holder’s office is orchestrating the effort.

Investors Business Daily makes the same case today, on tax policy and DOJ culpability.

We promise to continue efforts to stay ahead of the curve on contemporary issues.

It bears repeating (and thank you, Fox News, “The Kelly File”):

[July 12, 2007, as (then-President George W. Bush) argued against those who sought an immediate troop withdrawal:

“To begin withdrawing before our commanders tell us we are ready would be dangerous for Iraq, for the region and for the United States,” Bush cautioned.

He then ticked off…predictions about what would happen if the U.S. left too early.

“It would mean surrendering the future of Iraq to Al Qaeda.

“It would mean that we’d be risking mass killings on a horrific scale.

“It would mean we allow the terrorists to establish a safe haven in Iraq to replace the one they lost in Afghanistan.  

“It would mean we’d be increasing the probability that American troops would have to return at some later date to confront an enemy that is even more dangerous.”]

How precise is that? The ‘dumb cowboy’ sure knew how to choose the right advisors.

Fast forward to the choices of today’s brilliant ‘smartest-guy-in-the-room’.

He surrendered Iraq to al-Qaeda; he enabled the mass killings; he gave terrorists safe haven…and American troops have to return, confronting a more dangerous enemy.

Who’s the ‘idiot’ now?

Here’s an idea…

…when you want to selectively leak a story to get it out ahead of your opponents…

…don’t tell your opponents.

AG Holder’s communication aide called the wrong number last Friday. He thought he was calling a House-ranking Democrat congressman… but he called Republican Issa!

Before he realized his mistake, he told Republican committee chair Issa’s aides he was going to leak politically damaging IRS scandal documents to Democrat Cummings and his aides, so they in turn could bring the stories out and let the DOJ comment publicly.

The misguided aide explained that “the Justice Dept.’s Office of Legislative Affairs had not permitted him to release the documents to the public” and he ‘wanted to get ahead of the story’ before the Republicans (led by Issa) could get them out to news agencies.

(All this, to coordinate damage-control with Democrats…judging by the anxious and strident behavior Congressman Cummings has exhibited, he may be implicated.)

First and foremost, this proves conclusively that the Justice Dept is shielding the IRS. And since it was AG Holder’s aide, it’s fair to say Holder’s orchestrating that effort.

Obama should demand Holder’s immediate resignation. Congressman Issa should demand the IRS documents, and Congressman Cummings should be brought before the committee to explain his involvement, then be removed from the committee.

Obama’s ‘not a smidgeon of corruption’ IRS scandal may yet blow up in his face.

The federal government counts only those seeking work as part of the ‘unemployment’ rate. Chronic unemployed, who stop looking for work, are no longer counted.

Why call it an ‘unemployment’ rate, if millions of unemployed aren’t counted?

Overstating “the health of the American labor market” is a huge disservice to all. The only reason it’s done by the political Party in power is to gain favor…and votes. If a private corporation overstated its business health, to garner shareholder approval or encourage investing, it would be fraud…corporate officers would face felony charges.

In your personal life, if the husband failed to admit they lost their job and let the family continue to make financial decisions as if both were employed, there’d be hell to pay. Extend that to a nation where millions of unemployed are hidden in plain sight.

Only by an honest assessment of the economy can sound policy be made, and an accurate evaluation of our political leadership be determined. Politicians in power seeking to avoid such evaluation benefit from existing ‘unemployment’ reporting.

Stop letting political parties play fast-&-loose with the well-being of our labor market.

Demand they end the confusion; either re-name the statistic a ‘job-seeker’ rate…

…or end the charade, and count ALL the unemployed.

Some of the best weapons used against our enemies are secrecy and uncertainty.

And, with advanced technologies that include ‘out-of-nowhere’ drone strikes, keeping quiet about strategy and implementation forces your enemy to keep their head down.

Regrettably, with narcissist ‘I-Killed-Usama’ Obama, those options are off the table.

Say what you want about ‘cowboy’ George W, he knew when to keep quiet. Post-9/11, successful (domestic & foreign) covert operations were carried out, without comment.

He understood the ‘speak softly, carry a big stick’ concept Teddy Roosevelt repeated.

Unfortunately for America, Obama uses the Teddy Ruxpin approach to foreign policy, which means, with the slightest prompting, he’ll run off at the mouth about everything.

Even more troubling, his Democrat henchmen aid and abet in that approach.

Telling your enemies about successful operations is not the way to win our security.

When the Teddy Ruxpin doll ran on endlessly, yanking it’s batteries out shut it down.

Sadly, that can’t be done with ‘Here’s-what-I-did’ Obama…or his Democrat cohort.

And America may yet pay the price for that.

War vets know you won’t hear the bullet that kills you – with today’s advanced tech weaponry, terrorists won’t hear the drone that kills them…or know whose drone it is.

Message to Obama…less talk, more drone strikes.

Has the Wall Street Journal gone over to the Dark Side?

In a poll (that otherwise seems bad news for Democrats), there’s this push-poll gem…

Page 32 (of 35), the premise states major corporations are trying to lower their tax rate by ‘inversion’ (merging with a foreign company), thus shouldering a lower tax burden.

The question asked if (a) Congress should act to penalize and discourage this behavior, or (b) Congress shouldn’t act since corporations have a duty to lower costs, and grow.

(59% of respondents said Congress should penalize corporations, to stop inversion.)

What the poll didn’t ask (to the Wall Street Journal’s lasting shame) was if Congress should act by LOWERING corporate taxes, to encourage more investment in America.

Lower rates makes them more globally competitive, and more profitable. History proves lowering corporate rates increases tax revenue across the spectrum (ask JFK).

You would think the Wall Street Journal would understand that concept.

This is a perfect example of ‘push-polling’: frame the question and possible answers in such a way to show a majority of Americans are up in arms against greedy capitalists…

…and NEVER offer the most effective solution…

…when it supports Republican principles.

What ye reap, so shall you sow…

Any surprise that the perception-vs-reality of Obama pronouncements are cynical?