Another Visit with “Ulsterman” and “White House Insider”

A few months ago, I wrote a series of articles (you’ll find the links below) about a blogger who calls himself “Ulsterman,” and a recurring feature of his blog, interviews with a mysterious long-time Democratic operative, known only as “White House Insider.”  WHI pops up every few weeks on Ulsterman’s blog, sharing his latest insights as an anti-Obama Democrat who claims to be working closely with other old school Dems to prevent Obama from being re-elected.

As with anything in the blogosphere, there is no proof that WHI is a real person with the credentials and experiences he claims, and indeed he could be simply a literary device created by Ulsterman.  For that matter, we don’t know that Ulsterman is a real person either.  In fact, I may not be a real person myself.  Even my own wife, if she really exists, won’t tell me if I’m real!

At any rate, Ulsterman just published the first segment of his most recent interview with the Insider, and it was quite an eye-opener for me.  So I thought I should share it with you folks, in case you don’t read Ulsterman yourself, because you only read blogs that are written by real people, not figments of someone else’s imagination, like me.

OK, so here’s the latest from Ulsterman and WHI (link at end):  Insider claims the Obama Team is helping to create the rise and fall of these Republican challengers to Mitt Romney.  He calls it a “Pump and Dump,” and here Ulsterman (UM) gets schooled:

UM: What is…what is a “pump and dump”?

Insider: It’s old school politics.  A political tactic.  Been around since Jesus was a kid.  It’s – now you remember the “McCain the Campaign” thing, right?  How he was done then shot up in the polls outta nowhere.  Money started pouring in.  I know you gotta remember that.  A political pump and dump is a version of that…it’s the version.  The McCain thing was a bit of a variation but the principle is exactly the same.

UM: And what is the principle?  The purpose?

Insider: Chaos.  Uncertainty.  Infighting.  Repress the vote.  You notice the stories about low voter turnout?  You see that happening?  That’s gotta be makin’ the Obama people very-very happy.  Godd–mn Republicans are losing this thing.  Idiots gonna lose this if they don’t get their sh-t together right quick now.

UM: What low turnout?

Insider: You ain’t seen those stories?

UM: No.

Insider: Well of course not.  See there – that’s the kind of  thing I’m talkin’ about here.  You’re too busy copying the other damn fools in helping with the pump and dump.  God—mit!

UM: Explain the numbers – the low turnout.  What are you talking about there?

Insider: The primary votes – the turnout.  They started strong…been trailing off badly more recently.  People are getting…the motivation has been turned off.  That’s one of the benefits of the pump and dump.  Now you combine that with the bullsh-t stories on the economy and you lower the agitation in the country.  And when folks ain’t pissed…the tie goes to the incumbent.  That’s the end result.  That’s what the Obama team is playin’ for now.  The tie goes to the incumbent.

Well, I’ll certainly go along with that last statement.  There are several truisms about the advantages of incumbency.  We don’t usually change presidents during a war.  We tend to vote for the “devil we know,” when we’re undecided.  The tie goes to the incumbent.  I can’t argue with that.  In this case, I wish like hell it wasn’t the case, but WHI is right on this one, IMO.  It’s got me very worried.  I’ve even started biting my nails!

Having said that…

The position that WHI is taking is different than what we have been doing here at NQ.  I am presenting it only as food for thought, not as a proclamation that we have been wrong to expose and ridicule some of the Republican field of candidates.  It may be that we are helping Obama’s campaign, as WHI suggests, when we trash Republican candidates we don’t like.  One of them may end up as the Republican nominee, or his running mate.

He’s making the point that those who oppose Obama’s re-election should make Obama the focus of our criticisms, not the Republican candidates.

I disagree on this issue, although I see his point.  This is No Quarter USA, not a dedicated Republican blog.  We call ‘em as we see ‘em, not kowtowing to either party.

Now, jumping ahead a little bit in the interview segment, WHI tells UM a few specifics:

UM: Back to the pump and dump…are you saying the Santorum surge – let’s call it that…the surge was manipulated?

Insider: Yeah. That’s what I’m sayin’.

UM: Just like that?  None of his support is genuine?

Insider: No…not sayin’ that.  He’s got support.  Real support.  They all do.  But to go from nothin’ to something…it was the same thing with McCain, right?  I see their hands all over it…they done the same with all the others.  Gingrich.  Cain.  The only one they didn’t touch like that…didn’t try and help was Perry.  Perry scared ‘em.  Perry was a threat.  That is, until he took himself out of it.  They didn’t need to do anything to Perry…that situation resolved itself.

UM: So the Santorum surge – just to be clear…it’s a manipulation?  At least in part?

Insider: Exactly.  And not to take anything away from Rick Santorum – as a candidate he’s done all right.  He’s hung in there.  He’s tried to line himself up for a VP spot.  That’s now turned into…you can see it in his eyes now – he’s got that look that a candidate gets…starts thinkin’ maybe he can actually pull this off.  Might just get himself the nomination.

UM: Ok – you say it’s being done.  Explain how.  How are the Obama people manipulating Santorum’s support.  And why?  Why are they doing that?

Insider: It’s what was done with Gingrich.  Gingrich was elevated quickly, right?  Then the attacks came. The media repeated over and over again how the attacks came from Romney.  The negative advertising and all that.  Sure…some of that was right.  But what the media don’t say…and what idiots like you apparently don’t notice – is all the negative MEDIA stories that are then bounced around 24/7 to push Gingrich back down.  So if you got a bunch of voters…conservative voters…they are not so keen on Romney…they’d vote for him against Obama if they had to, but they would rather have a different choice, right?  Well that…that lack of enthusiasm…that’s gold for the opposition.  That’s power.  You can manipulate that.

Well, we’ve certainly been seeing a LOT of that manipulation, haven’t we?  The mainstream media has been having a field day bouncing the Republican field off the walls!  And I think we all know whose side the MEDIA takes!

Now listen as he explains how political operatives set up situations they can manipulate and exploit, without most people having a clue.  Possible?  You betcha!  Likely?  I’d take that bet!

Insider: There was a debate not so far back – Republican debate.  And the moderator kept hammerin’ away on the contraception issue.  And there was no contraception issue at that time, right?  Contraception?  Really?  Where the hell did that come from?  And why did that moderator keep at it like he did?  Repeatedly.  It came off like a joke.  People were sayin’ how stupid it was.  How silly the media looked.  You remember that?

UM: I do.  Stephanopoulos, right?  He was the moderator who kept bringing up the issue?

Insider: That’s right, George was pushing it.  F-cking George.  He is so transparent.  I saw it immediately.  Telegraphed it.  I knew the second I saw his face as he asked the question – I KNEW they were setting something up.  Not then – something for later.  And now we see that plan unfolding.  This false contraception boogie man issue.

Now that debate was over two months ago.  And the issue of contraception, which seemed totally out of left field when it was raised during that debate – totally out of place…what is going on now?  What is the media pounding on now?

UM: Contraception.

Insider: That’s right – contraception.   It started out with a conflict between the Obama administration and the Catholic Church – but sure as sh-t the Obama team and the media have turned it into an issue over contraception and are painting the Republicans as these out of touch Bible thumpin’ radicals who want to take away women’s birth control.  That is how this thing is being framed  NOW – and it’s exactly how Stephanopoulos framed the question THEN over two months ago.  This issue was being set up the whole time.  And did you notice who was involved in the debate question first?  What candidate?

UM: Santorum.  Damn…it was Santorum.

Insider: Ah – there’s your light bulb moment for the day!  Now you’re seein’ it!  Back then – at that time two months ago, it seemed like they were going after Romney right?  But what candidate – who it would seem is most vulnerable to the contraception issue…what candidate has seen a huge surge in support since that same debate where the seemingly silly and out of place topic of contraception was raised by a former Clinton operative mind you…what candidate is now posing perhaps the strongest challenge yet to Mitt Romney for the GOP nomination?

UM: Santorum.

Insider:  And what candidate is most vulnerable to this bullsh-t contraception issue – at least in how the Democrats and the media are now framing it?

UM: Santorum.

Insider: There you go.  Classic political pump and dump.

Does any of this ring true for you?  It certainly rings true for me, and I can’t deny I am feeling “schooled” right now by someone who I think knows a lot more about these things than I do!  Of course, I’m probably not a real person, so what do I know?

I could leave it right there and we’d all have plenty to think about, but I feel I must share another segment with you to complete this issue.  WHI has a rant he needs to vent on the subject of losing focus, taking your eye off the ball, so to speak.  All the in-fighting instead of putting the laser on the real target.

Insider: I’ve read the comments by people sayin’ they are conservative.  If Romney gets the nomination…or if Gingrich gets the nomination…or if Santorum gets the nomination…whoever gets the f-cking nomination – they are sayin’ they won’t vote for them because “they’re just like Obama.”  Really?  Is that right?  BULLSH-T.  There ain’t nobody “just like Obama” people.  Believe me.  You ain’t got a f-cking clue if that’s what you really think.  This country ain’t seen anybody reach the White House like Obama.  Or more importantly – the people around Obama.  The ones supporting and pushing Obama.  Giving him the agenda, the words, the whole f-cking plan.  So shut the hell up about not voting for the Republican because they are “just like Obama.”  That kind of talk is comin’ from somebody who either is dumb as f-ck or is working for the campaign.  The Obama campaign.  And they are crawling all over your stupid Facebook thing.  And leaving comments on your stories.  I warned you about that.  There’s gonna be more of it.  A lot more.  You hear somebody saying they won’t support the Republican because they are ”just like Obama” – you ignore that sh-t.  It  ain’t worth your time.

Any of these Republicans – ANY OF THEM, are a hell of an improvement over Barack Obama.  If it’s Santorum, or Romney, or Gingrich, or Paul…you fall in line and you support that candidate and you vote Obama the f-ck out.  That’s the goal.  That’s your motivation.  PERIOD.  Because if you don’t do that…if you give this administration four more years…I’ve already said enough on that, right?  It’s never going back…the country…this version of America is finished and I got no real idea as to how different it’s gonna be.  We won’t recognize it – I know that.  I was talking to a fella last week about the Senate…plans to take the Senate.  Republicans.  As a stop-gap, right?  You know what he told me?  Looked me straight in the eye and said – “It won’t matter.  He has pushed executive authority so far already…it won’t matter.  Give him a couple more Supreme Court nominees…it won’t matter.  If he gets the White House again…IT WON’T MATTER.”

Gave me chills to hear that.  This guy don’t talk like that.  He’s seen and done more than me with this stuff…and he sounded downright defeated.  And we’re not even in March yet.  So yeah - you Republicans better fall in line when that nominee is chosen.  No more of this political purity I want the perfect candidate nonsense. Grow the f-ck up and vote out Obama.

Oh-keeeeeeey!  I think he means it!

But the task is not just up to the Republicans.  If that’s all it took, they’d probably get the vote out and beat BO.  But they can’t do it alone.  They need the Indies, but the Indies split both left and right.  So they also need disaffected Dems – the opposition Dems.

WHI claims that there are many traditional Democrats who are highly motivated to keep Obama from winning another term, because Obama isn’t really one of them.  Not really a Democrat, certainly not a Republican, but something else entirely, something dangerous to our country.  This is not “birther” stuff, not Muslim stuff, and definitely not racial stuff.  It’s about the group of people who surround and control Obama, who have taken over the Democratic Party through thuggery and illicit financial means…  in other words, The Chicago Way.

In the interest of full disclosure, I personally relate to WHI, even though I’ve always been an Indie.  I would say that I’ve felt closer to the Democratic Party most of my life, starting with JFK and most recently with Hillary Clinton, so I’m definitely not a Republican.  I agree with WHI that Obama and his organization are something else entirely from the traditional Democratic Party.   I agree with WHI that the current Democratic coalition must be defeated if the Democratic Party is to be saved as a legitimate and rational political party.  I agree we all need to work together — Republicans, Indies, estranged Dems — to defeat Obama in order to prevent further damage to our country.

If there was an overt split in the Democratic Party, Traditionals vs Obamists, I’d probably register with the Traditionals.  But since there is no overt split, no challenger to Obama in this election, there is only one way to oust Obama, and that is to vote for the Republican nominee, whoever it might be.

Ah, but do we have the intestinal fortitude to actually cast the vote for someone who makes us sick to our stomachs?

I think it’s like the issue of getting old.  Beats the alternative!

Source link: The Ulsterman Report: White House Insider “Pump and Dump”

Related links:  These are some other Ulsterman/Insider stories I previously published here at No Quarter USA

Hoax or Deep Throat?

On September 1, 2011, I wrote in my first piece about these interviews:

It’s very tempting to think this White House Insider is very real, another Deep Throat.  As you’ll recall, Deep Throat was the code name of the person supplying the information that led to Richard Nixon resigning as President. For over 30 years, Deep Throat’s identity remained a secret that Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward kept to himself, even from his own family. Deep Throat had secured that promise of secrecy, allowing Woodward to reveal it after DT died. During those three decades, there was much speculation about whether DT was actually one person or a composite of different people. As it turned out, it was a real person, Mark Felt, who was the #2 man at the FBI at the time of the Watergate affair.

The Obama Re-election Strategy

INSIDER:  “Even if it means the threat of race riots.  They are willing to go that far – go down that road if need be.  If the Obama team can’t guilt enough of White America into voting for them in 2012 – they are just fine with trying to scare the sh*t out of them to do it.  And you need to know that there are a lot of Democrats who are hearing about this and are not on board.  We’ve always used the race issue to our advantage – but what the Obama team has planned is something…it’s something else altogether.  Off the charts stuff.

“Remember when I said that Obama ain’t no Democrat?  That’s as true now as it’s ever been.  And he’s on some kind of collision course now with everybody scrambling to get out of the way, and then some of us trying to do what we can to stop it before it’s too late.”

The Real Barack Obama

INSIDER:  “A large leather chair will be facing the television – it’s well worn.  Not part of the White House furnishings but something the president must have brought in from back home.  That’s where you’ll most often find the President of the United States – the most powerful man in the free f***ing world.  He often sits with one leg draped over one of the chair’s arms and the other leg stuck straight onto the floor.  Shorts, sweats, a t-shirt, and like I said, no shoes or just those sandal things that so many of the younger people like to wear these days.  And that leg that’s draped over an arm of the chair will be bopping up and down, like…like someone with  a lot of nervous energy.  Like a kid does.”

Defeating Obama – A 3-Step Plan

INSIDER:  “What I will say is that those are two of the three tactics we are engaging in against Barack Obama’s re-election – continuing to push Eric Holder out of the DOJ, securing a primary challenger, and the other thing…it relates to a staffing issue.  The loss of a critical member of the Obama staff.  A resignation that will further the growing perception that the Obama White House is a place of internal disarray– which it absolutely is. And this event will also be a signal to those in the Democratic Party that Barack Obama’s re-election is not in their best future interests.  It is time we cut our losses and begin the rebuilding process sooner rather than later. And I’m not just talking about the Democratic Party – I’m talking about the country.  All of us.  All of us need to correct this mistake, and that’s what the election of Barack Obama was.  At its core, that’s what it really was – a huge mistake.

…But we’re makin’ it right.”