Pessimistic about 2012? Please.
What is the matter with people nowadays? Normally quite intelligent conservatives seem to be going feely-feely on us all of a sudden. Here we are, still nearly two years out from November 2012, and already there is talk of despair. Despair over what, pray tell?
The man-child president, who steadfastly prefers hoops, links, and brewski to governing, has failed to mature even a smidgen and is up to his skinny neck in failed liberal dream schemes, lawsuits with more than half the states, and a Mideast pressure cooker set to blow wide open at every stateside gas pump. Carter déjà vu? Not even close. This is turning out to be the presidency which will launch conservative statesmanship into a hundred-year reign.
And the estimable George Will has just written an editorial on why Republicans ought to be pessimistic about 2012 prospects. Methinks Mr. Will is losing his bearings and needs a vacation out in the heartland, away from the la-la land of the D.C. swamp. Out here, where Tea Parties are still going strong and adding ranks every day, folks are focusing on the electoral upside of this presidency instead of indulging in self-defeating despair.
But Mr. Will does have a powerful pen. So it’s quite disturbing to read his summation of what he assumes will be the Republican crop of 2012 presidential contenders. I say “assumes” because no one knows at this point who is running for sure.
Yet Mr. Will has declared that the already-presumed field ought to make all Republicans pessimistic, due to some George-Will-defined “weirdness” factor. Oh please.
Newt Gingrich is supposedly “weird” because he has had the gall to point out the anti-American, postcolonial ideological stands of Barack Obama. This is not weird. This is a historian (Newt was a historian before he was speaker of the House) trying to make sense of a man who lied through his teeth to get elected and remains, to this very day, a complete enigma.
Obama prattled on about being a post-racial, conciliatory uniter and then installed a thoroughly racist attorney general, intent on garnering justice for his “people” only. Obama railed against the individual mandate in the failed Hillarycare and then signed that monstrous individual mandate into Obamacare without batting an eyelash. Obama flagellated the Bush-era deficits and has since run higher deficits in one month than all of Bush’s last full year.
This list could go on forever and every observant citizen knows it by now. Liar is this president’s middle name. The only thing weird here is that anyone of any note in this country is still listening to the man. The fact that the whole D.C. crowd still declare that they like him — along with a whopping 48% of the public — is more than weird. It’s an anomaly fit for the Guinness Book of Weirdness.
To question Barack Obama’s ideology and its foundational roots is a virtue, one that we Americans once held in very high esteem. It’s called intellectual curiosity. And for Mr. Will’s benefit, it should be noted that only the dimmest bulbs in the basement would fail to remain curious about Barack Obama. This man has been covered for by more “journalists” than any guy since Stalin.
I quit reading Will a long time ago. Those cocktail parties must be really good and addictive. I can smell the stench of elitism all the way across the country.
They base everything on the conventional wisdom of the past, the past where the Old Media held sway. They just do not get that the game has changed for the better and for good. They talk to each other in their narrow circle of people, all having the same underlying understandings. It’s all rot. Stinking fish.
Will should move away from the East Coast for awhile.
Marc, you got that right. Will should move post haste, as far away as possible from the fetid swamps of DC,maybe as far as Israel.
Pray tell, how is it possible that so MANY Israelis(its Jewish population)see through the master orator, master manipulator and agitator-in-chief, yet he and his fellow, quasi conservatives are convinced that ‘the One’ can’t be beaten?
Aside from machinations which surely will be deployed-least of which through the efforts of thuggish Black Panthers-the majority of the voting public will race to the polls to repudiate the poser-in-chief.
Georgie boy has lost his mojo.Simple as that.
Adina – George Will’s problem is that he is (or was) a conservative in a thoroughly anti-conservative establishment. Eventually, even the best of conservatives succumb to the pressure and begin to see things through the eyes of the leftists with whom they work.
Mr. Will’s problem is that he is, and has been for some time, a token conservative. He has been beholden to such progressive mainstays as the Washington Post and Newsweek for so long that he is suffering from Stockholm Syndrome. Even though he ‘knows’ he is a conservative because that is what he is paid to be, he has assimilated a progressive personnality. He is a neo-progressive.
Maybe he Georgie (girly Wllly) read this article (by a propaganda spewing, state-run, marxist, socialist, progressive, whatever, nonetheless leftist outlet):
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/153079-gop-says-5000-non-citizens-voting-in-colorado-a-wake-up-call-for-states
and, in combination with the fact that Barry (the fraud) Soetoro aka BHO aka Soetobarack, aka Chicagoland mob, aka whateverthehellhisrealnameis) is to raise $1 bill for his re-election, plus a soviet-style state apparatus of a $14.5 trillion in size, plus the fact that no radical regime has given up power ever through elections, might point to some tiny little pessimism for 2012.
O-BOMB-A will not be able to fool anyone in 2012 with his RECORD.
Who is basing “everything on the conventional wisdom of the past…”?
The author of this article plus you, of course.
The America of free and fair elections has long been dead, not just in the Tamany Hall cities, but in fly-over country too, ever since LBJ stole his first election by stealing the ballot urns.
While the Dems lie convincingly and beset us with fears for armies of ‘children, women, poor, dispossed, oppressed’, the Repubs just mumble CYA ‘on this hand and that hand’ crap — and they never, but NEVER, answer a false charge or an outright lie on TV. They just go on mumbling.
The “conventional wisdom” of the future is NOW. The Dems play Bolshevik hardball. They can get their useful idiots into the streets on a moment’s notice from Yemen to Wisconsin. Here’s what 2012 looks like:
The back room gang at the White House and the knee-capping thugs in Chicago, LA, Philly, NYC, Atlanta, etc., will buy the mouth-breathing undereducated electorate with the billions they’ve got from the “bail out” and “stimulus” cash that their ward heelers now use for walk-around money — and the country club repubs let them do it! Not even a squawk, just mumbles.
You think the Repub girly-men can possibly field a winner? Their only chance is a brace of two fast-talkin’ dames, and the mumble-wits of the RNC can’t muster the balls to run them.
Are you pro or anti Obama?
What a question!
I’m simply disgusted with the pussycat Republicans. It’s time for a man like Allen West to step up with a ball bat and bring the country back.
Bachmann and Palin have more balls than Beaner and Co.
Kyle-Anne,
I think you could be correct, if the candidate who emerges can construct a simple message that contrasts what works with the failed policies of this President. If we get an incoherent lunge at political correctness, like we got out of John McCain, Obama will get a 2nd term.
The Republicans could have picked up at least 10 more seats in Congress if they had not done some really stupid things, like having a fiscally spastic head of the RNC who utterly failed to fund a 72 hour GOTV or failing to counter the movement behind Sharrron Angle, whose campaign proved to be so politically brittle she couldn’t beat a candidate who couldn’t pull 50 % in preelection polling.
The Republicans had better get there collective head out of their backside and develope a disciplined message. The public still has well warranted distrust of the GOP because when it was in power it gave us No Child Left Behind and the absurd Medicare Part D. Could a party put forth anything more stupid to show it is just socialist lite? What a bunch of absurd fools! We deserved getting trounced for such rank stupidity and irresponsibility. John McCain!!! That’s the best these fools could put forth?! Yeah, hey let’s have a few more open primaries so we can have Mitt Romney this time around! Yeah, he isn’t a socialist!! It’s so monstrously incomprehensible it takes your breath away.
Calvin Coolidge and Reagan were winners. We have a party busy fighting a rear guard action against the TEA forces, the fastest growing political movement I have witnessed in my life time, that’s how addled the thinking of the Republicans is. The entrenched party establishment thinks cutting $ 33 billion is good enough, out of a budget of over three trillion dollars while our country borrows 5 billion dollars a day! No wonder people think Democrats and Republicans are the same thing. They are!
I will support true conservatives as I did with more than 35 candidates last year, but I don’t share your optimism. The Republican capacity for self destruction is a repeating, demonstrable fact. It will be difficult beating this President and the media with the incoherency the party keeps putting out to the public. Once it decides that it doesn’t want to be the party of Bob Michel anymore, then the Republicans will have a fighting chance.
My bet is that the Bob Michels will win again in the end, in the Republican party they almost always do. It is one of the main reasons our country is in such deep trouble now. We have culturally forgotten what it is like to be governed by a genuine Jeffersonian constitutionalist.
Bravo!
I, too, am not at all confident. As you say, the Repubs have a long history of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. And Romney? Pahleese. We do NOT need another RINO. We do NOT need another McCain. But I have this terrible fear that that’s exactly what we’re going to get.
I don’t care if it’s a wasted vote, I will not vote the lesser of two evils, because you’re still voting for evil, if you do.
Many people have tried to convince me that I am wasting my vote because I have done write in candidates in presidential elections for years. If I don’t trust a candidate I don’t vote for him or her. There have been entirely too many untrustworthy political candidates on every level. As for Geo. Will, I gave up reading his column many years ago. He used to be or maybe still is a regular on a TV talk panel, I gave that up more or less at the same time. He is a lot like O’Reilly on Fox, going along to get along, checked pants country club republican without principles. Very weak minded and very much in love with themselves.
But Miss Shiver, to call it an anomaly is merely to say you can’t explain it logically. It doesn’t have any bearing on the weight of the phenomenon in political interplay. Perhaps Americans voted for Obama mainly because they liked him. If that’s so, then his likability will continue to be a factor in his favor in 2012.
Bear in mind this as well: The coasts have more influence over the thinking of Americans in the heartland states than the reverse. While it will forever remain true that “you can’t change a deuce into an Ace by staring at it,” it’s also true that you can’t know you’re holding a deuce if you aren’t able to see it. The mass media, which are controlled by the left-leaning of the coastal megalopoli, have done their damnedest to paint Barack Hussein Obama as an Ace, regardless of his objective deucedness — and they will continue to do so.
Finally for this tirade, the GOP’s list of potential competitors for the Oval Office is generally uninspiring. The best of them, Sarah Heath Palin, has been assailed in so many ways by the media that a lot of conservatives have already conceded on her: “too many negatives.” Now, that might be a premature and inaccurate judgment, but it will have influence come primary time. After Governor Palin, the strongest personalities and best convictions belong to Michelle Bachmann, Allen West, and Marco Rubio, none of whom has the seniority or the national profile required for a successful run at the presidency.
There are several important factors in conservatives’ favor, most especially the poor performance of the president and the incredible stupidity and ham-handedness of his allies in Congress. But that’s not sufficient reason to think we’ll own the next election simply by showing up. Not for this analyst, at least.
unless there is a seismic shift in CA politics, it has ONLY a negative influence on the rest of the country. It is spiraling down the drain so fast, it’s hard to imagine a scenario to reverse it. OR? a non-contender. WA? It’s at least keeping its business posture going, notwithstanding the Patty Murrays on the political scene.
As a resident of some 50 years in California’s SF Bay Area I could write a book about the loneliness of a conservative. The republican party here is hope and clueless. It recently put the death knell on the party by naming someone their leader who is equally clueless. I am not sure the spelling of the name but it sounds like Vacharo. I don’t know the man but I hear him sometimes on a local radio program where the host positively fawns over him, sigh…so utterly hopeless.
I see it and you see it, but when 50% of Americans still think highly of Obama, it is time to be worried. Really worried. The need for a basic literacy requirement for the right to vote is blatantly apparent but will never be. To many ill informed, un informed and those who are more than willing to support wealth redistribution are the real issue.
Agree…the general voting public is getting stupider and stupider with each passing year. The country is becoming demographically closer to a third world country and in no time, we’ll have our own democratically elected Chavez to deal with.
So right, CaptJim, we seem to be a nation bent on suicide.
jl
Exactly. The drover’s dog could win against Obama now. His supposed support is the result of people going along with the media narrative in costless surveys, and the lingering sense of not wanting to appear racist. But I’d put real support pretty much at the level of the true believer base at this point.
What is the difference between Jimmy Carter and Barak Obama?
Carter was the worst President of the 20th Century!
I have to respectfully disagree. Grotesquely awful as he was, both as a person and a President, in terms of actual, long-term damage, he was a piker by comparison. Wilson and FDR basically set the agenda for the entire century, the effects of which are our most serious problems today.
The worst long-term effect thing Carter did was to cave to the Iranians, but he was hardly unique in that. Even Reagan refrained from doing anything about them, preferring to focus (perhaps rightly) on other things.
P.S. I was alive well before Carter came to office, so I have an adult’s perspective on the issue. (Not to imply that you don’t. Just pointing out I don’t get all my info here from books.)
Jeff,
Solid analysis. I would add one name to your list, Teddy Roosevelt. He was a big time progressive, one of the first ones. The John McCain of his day.
“Bully!”
Good one Deegee! I am afraid some of the people who responded didn’t even realize it was a joke though……
The problem with winning in 2012 will be to find a candidate that has the courage to repeatedly, persistently and ruthlessly point out Mr. Obama’s faults. If they like McCain are more interested in maintaining an air of respectability by being nice to him and pleasing the media then we will lose. If they are more concerned about being labeled a racist then they are about being right we have no chance. In 2010 if McCain had the courage to saturate the air waves with Obama’s relationship with Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayer’s the election may have been different. In 2012 we have far more information on Obama, including 4 years of failed policy to plaster him with. If only we could have a candidate with the courage and fortitude to use it.
It’s been clear to me that the republican party clearly has an image problem. I think this is mostly due to their fear of being tagged as racists. What they fail to realize is that they will anyway. Playing nice is one thing. But taking a lesson from Trump, he’s done an excellent job of raising a legitimate concern without implying anything regarding race. He has set the example by letting the media know that Obama can be attacked on practical terms. The conservative right has always taken umbrage to his politics, not necessarily the person and most certainly not his race. The left, however has the knee-jerk response that any criticism of chairman O can only be the result of racism. Thus, they ignore any and all criticism on that basis alone. But their reaction and assessment is flawed, as any thinking person would know. Therefore, the republican party, in order to defeat this empty suit of a president, needs to adopt the Trump method, perhaps and with a keen eye to being factual and having all the necessary evidence to back it up. When the truth is obvious, it needs to be spoken; Loudly and often.
Agree with you about The Donald, am delighted by his willingness to ask questions openly and repeatedly. So far El Presidente is ignoring him…round 1 to Mr. Trump.
The Dems are being instructed to use and use and use the word “EXTREME” when discussing Republican policies. The Republicans should ceaselessly use the word “FECKLESS” to describe the Dems, while having “adult conversations” with their constituents.
Newt would be the one. Too bad he didn’t keep HIS snake in the snake house.
…. Mr. Will probably lost quite a few readers ….
Mr Will lost me — and until recently I bought his every published word. Mr Will is so deep in the black hole that is the East-Coast “establishment” and into its First Class/Five Star (it’s Wednesday so that must be Houston, outside) traveling bubble — that he wouldn’t know We, The (Sovereign American) People, if two million of us met him on the Mall.
Again.
…. And if George Will can’t see that, he needs to get out of Washington more often. ….
Too late, methinks.
48% for Obama today is definitely weird, as you say, but it’s real. He could win in 2012.
It was weird that Obama got elected in the first place. It’s weird that folks don’t care that all his records are sealed. It is weird people can’t see through his lies. It’s weird that most, in fact just about every last one of my best and oldest friends think he’s terrific. It is a weird, weird, weird, weird, weird, weird world, and all too real, real, real, real, real, real.
Agreed. Many of our fellow “citizens” are no longer worthy of the name, because they pay so little attention to what’s going on. That ignorance is killing us. That, and the greed of the Drone Class.
And the relentlessness of the Leftist Termites. One example: in 1944, pushing back against the Reds’ takeover of some of the Hollywood unions, a bi-partisan bunch of patriotic A-listers, directors and actors, formed the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals. Which was exactly that. You can find them on Wikipedia, and their stirring “Statement of Principles,” which sounds like it could have been written last week.
BUT the Leftist Termites, who gnaw every bit of American pride and patriotism they see, everywhere, attacked this article and nearly all the results on the google [don't get me started on them!] search. Simply labeling the Alliance “conservative,” “far-right,” and “right-wing,” as if they were the John Birch Society.
So, if you didn’t recognize their bite marks, you could be fooled/misled by this into thinking they were some sinister extremist group, instead of the true-BLUE Americans in Hollywood. Clark Gable. Cecil B. Demille. King Vidor. Leo McCarey (director of “Duck Soup”). Gary Cooper. Irene Dunne. And many others.
Yeah, “bunch of extremists.” So say the Termites. Who are Reds, dammit, not Blue.
49 state sweep for….wait for it…SARAH!
Well said.
The reason I tend to agree with you is that Obama has a positive talent for doing the wrong thing, and that has exceeded even a fawning sycophantic presses ability to cover up or explain away.
Obama can speak his mind and he doesn’t indulge in political fads. That’s a huge advantage over most conservative politicians, who think it’s noble to not name names and are willing to repeat any media meme just to get on TV.
The democrats won the presidency by convincing the public that Bush crashed the economy. And they are successfully repeating this viewpoint ad nauseam. Yet I have not seen a single of the so called candidates counter this argument with the simple fact that the Democrats had the majority in both the house and the senate during the last 6 years under Bush. Instead the conservatives stupidly join the moron bandwagon and claim that Obama is singlehandedly responsible for the current unemployment situation and thus completely undermine their own position.
Obama does not make such tactical blunders. And that is why 48% say they like him. People respect a person who say the tactically smart things. Especially if they are able to do it in a non offensive way, which he can. Even though his political beliefs doesn’t portray a man of great intelligence, he does seem to have a big advantage intelligence wise on the tactical front. No conservative presidential candidate has yet surfaced to put me at ease over this concern.
Give us someone who will stand and fight!
It’s maddening, with all these huge targets painted on the Lefties’ backsides, that we can’t get someone who’s willing to hit the bullseye! [For any leftist idiots reading this, the foregoing is what's known as a metaphor.]
Obama is very intelligent. That’s why he put the White House bust of Winston Churchill in a closet so he could confer with it like Nixon used to do with a portrait of Ray Walston as “My Favorite Martian”. Or maybe it was Abraham Licoln.
I don’t know why I always get Ray Walston’s “My Favorite Martian” character confused with Lincoln.
Could be a blood clot.
Thanks, Kyle-Anne. I always enjoy reading your articles and this one is spot on. I think that there is no better litmus test to prove your contention than the birth certificate story. Some conservatives are again wringing their hands fearing that people like Donald Trump bringing it up is going to bring Armageddon down on us and ensure an Obama victory in ’12.
I don’t see it as such and instead think that Team Obama is terrified about this because it is a double edged sword that is starting to cut in the other direction.
First, the birth certificate issue is so visceral — everyone can relate to it (every adult has experienced some sort of pain in the neck because of having to produce such document somewhere). Team Obama are very frightened about this and that is why water carriers go to Palinesque lengths to demonize anyone who brings it up. This has worked up to a point and after the ’08 election they thought they had a lid on it. The problem is that over time more people learn about it in greater detail (e.g., the question isn’t whether he was born in Hawaii, but is he a “natural born citizen”; he never released a real birth certificate, but some sort of possibly forged document; he was once adopted by an Indonesian; he doesn’t resemble Obama Sr. at all, etc.). It has an expiration date on it with regard to Obama using it to his advantage and I believe that it expired about two years ago.
It had greater weight when it was asked that a black man put up a documentation prior to running for president than now when he has actually been president for a while (so circumstances were an important factor for favorable use by Obama). This peaked in the election of ’08 when people were castigated for things like saying Obama’s middle name out loud. Even when McCain referred to Obama as “that One” (during a debate) it was enough to generate bumper stickers with the implication that McCain’s remark was racist (and, perhaps, more importantly that the driver of the car was not a racist at all). Now things are different for several reasons and I can’t see that lightening striking in the same place twice.
Common folk love to ruminate on things like this (hence the success of tabloids like The National Enquirer). The first association such make about Clinton is Monica Lewinsky and he was lucky that all this happened when it did. Pretty soon people may think of Obama as a “undocumented” Manchurian Candidate of sorts and this is happening faster than anticipated. It is quickly going from racist-bait to conspiracy theory and the worse the economy and foreign policy bungles become the faster and greater this will develop.
Now, I realize that there are those out there who believe that this is a
trap. They maintain that asking questions about all of this allows the
Left to paint us conservatives as racist loons and the trap will
ultimately be sprung when Obama whips out a genuine long-form
birth certificate and exposes everyone as such.
I don’t see this as a nuclear option, however. If this did happen (and I
really don’t think it will happen as I do think this fraud has something
to hide), the right move then would be to turn the tables on him and
ask, “just what sort of person are you to play this long, drawn-out game
with the ultimate objective of enriching yourself with politically
correct bonus points (hey, look at what a victim of racism I am) and
painting many of your fellow Americans (if you are indeed an American
yourself) as a bunch of racist kooks. This reveals a very serious
character flaw and in my view one (piled on many more) that would
convince any sane person that this guy is too dangerous to have in the
Oval Office.
So, I maintain that they are damned if they do and damned if they don’t.
They are playing with fire and now they are getting burned.
Remember that Pres. Chester A. Arthur, a white man, was ALSO asked to produce his birth certificate, WAY back in the 1800s, because it was thought he was born in Canada.
Thank you for playing, Whoopi Goldberg, you ignorant fool. (She declared on The View that “no white man” had ever been told to produce his birth certificate.)
“The leftist media hacks, who virtually elected the most incompetent, starry-eyed adolescent president in history, have no business defining the qualities necessary in the next president. And allowing them to do so — especially with such a wide and varied presidential field now gearing up for 2012 — is not only stupid. It is insane.”
Excellent article! Why should we let a main stream media, which was in the tank for Obama in 2008, determine who will be the president in 2012? The Main Stream Media has so much invested in Obama that they simply can’t allow him to fail, or else THEY will look like fools. But Obama’s actions as president have already shown how foolish the Main Stream Media’s fawning over him was and how disastrous it was for the entire country. All the Republican candidate in 2012, whoever he or she may be, needs to do is keep reminding the American Public how lousy Obama has been. And, as Ronald Reagan did back in 1980, all that candidate has to ask the American public is, “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” Even George Will must know the answer to that one.
The current mindset recalls that of 1991, when President Bush, still polling strong in the aftermath of the first Gulf War, left Democrats despondent with few willing to go up against a strong Republican incumbent. And then Clinton, only known from an earlier speech at a DNC convention and as a governor from a small southern state, announced his candidacy in late 1991. So yes, it could happen again, this time from the Republican side.
There is much though to frighten off many potential candidates. The liberal-leaning media will be all too willing to do the DNC’s “opposition research” free of charge, while TV’s late night comics will be ready to mock them in a way they don’t the current President. (He’s still basically off limits for Leno who, when he wants to mock the Administration targets … Biden.) And then there’s the prospect of facing a guy with a billion dollar political war chest.
But there’s also the fact that there’s not (yet) a compelling candidate who will pass muster not just with the myriad Republican factions under the big tent, but also with the Independents who will decide this election. One can only hope that compelling candidate will emerge. Otherwise, I fear that if unemployment falls below even 8%, the election is Obama’s to lose. If that happens, just hope the Republicans take the Senate.
“Liar is this president’s middle name.”
Dead on target. Our Strap-on POTUS is an offense as an American, as chief executive, an enemy.
While something near 40% will vote to reprise Lord of the Flies’ four years in absentia, a plurality will require fealty, and a work ethic of any successor.
No one who fails to impress with candor, integrity and courage need apply.
Obama is being burned in effigy in Afghanistan by dad’s anti-colonial buddies.
That would be happening here if Obama was a Republican.
The people that will be voting for Obama in 2012 are dead, union, or on welfare.. there is one heck of a lot of them.
You forgot illegal immigrants.
In the last 100, or more years only one incumbent Democrat President lost his bid for reelection. That President was Jimmy Carter.
I hear the drone of constant right-wing comparisons of Barack Obama to Jimmy Carter virtually every one of which attempts to say that Obama’s reelection is doomed because his performance record is much, much worse that Carter’s.
The United States of America that elected Barack Obama is nothing like the nation that elected Jimmy Carter. Morals were different then. Social standards were different then. Average intelligence was different then. Redistribution, entitlement thinking didn’t have the political momentum then that it does now. Political correctness back then had not yet gripped the nation with fear that invaded every aspect of life from innocent five year old kinder garden children’s normal social behavior to the far extremes of insanity when it comes to the morbid scripting of worldwide domination by Islam.
In Jimmy Carter’s time there wasn’t 55+ million morons that either ignored reality in pursuit of their own greed, lusts and self gratification. And in less than two years Jimmy Carter didn’t manage to gather another 20+ million or so Spanish speaking supporters.
Ignoring reality got General Custer and his army slaughtered. George Will’s message is right, but for all of the wrong details and reasons.
The GOP is going to have to field a super strong force if it even hopes to defeat Barack Obama. As nice, smart and swift that Newt Gingrich and Mike Huckabee are they do not have what it will take. The same media elites who refused to vet Barack Obama have already chopped them; Mitt Romney, Sara Palin and the rest of the “front runners” up for fish bait.
But, that isn’t the worst part.
The Republicans have kept themselves wandering through the sands in the deserts out of power for many decades because of one, tiny, little bitty basic common character trait flaw.
You simply cannot put any two of them into the same room and have them agree on anything.
Before it is over they will fight to the death each in order to prove the other one wrong about how much fly dung is in the pepper. Alas, the absolute last thing they would do is join forces, then go after whoever put the dung in the pepper and stomp a mud hole in his or her rear end.
So it is: Life in the 2011 big city (tent) as the nation braces itself for November 2012.
If you are convinced that the pathetic, sad record of Barack Obama means that the GOP already has the 2012 election sewed up, I would advise you to avoid going near the Alamo next November.
Spectacular post. Bravo!
Well said. Could not agree more. Based on Republicans behavior over the past decade plus we have no reason to be confident even if we were running against a write-in.
I only have one question; Who is George Will?
I thought he was the man, who sits next to Kathleen Parker the Main Stream Media’s self described “conservative pundit” but my kids said no that is Customer #9.
Which I frankly thought was a perfume. So now I am totally confused.
Is George Will a “john” a “self described conservative pundit” or a fragrence. Enquiring minds want to know.
Well said, Kyle-Anne.
I’d like to add that, Obama is like that rare specie in the local zoo; Everybody wants to get a look at it. But, the intelligence level is on par.
Of course I’m pessimistic, a heard of RINO’s is not match for a Hildbeast. Oh,so you think the Clintons will let the man child upset their plans a second time? Not too likely.
“This man has been covered for by more “journalists” than any guy since Stalin.”
I believe what Ms. Shiver meant to say was:
Barack Obama has been provided cover by more journalists than any guy since Stalin.
Kyle-Anne, while generally in complete accord with you in virtually all you write, and love your style, I have some qualms about details in this article.
The failures of Obama as character and CEO are too obvious to require comment. Except,as you note, the weird continued acceptance without outraged protest at his remaining at the helm: to continue in haste the progress(-ives) to run the ship of state onto the rocks/ground. The failure of persons one assumed principled and aware adults to name Obama and his troops as intentional, brick by brick, destroyers of America they have shown themselves to be is genuinely dismaying.
I have reservations about some of the politicians you name, e.g. Newt Gingrich. Recently publicly aligned with the deranged N. Pelosi for “man-made climate change”. He cannot be unaware, given his highly paid advisors/counselors and go-fers that the subject is fraught with fraud and deliberate exclusion of scientists who questioned the “official” data. PLUS of course the behaviours of IPPC officials in that criminal cabal the UN. If Mr. Gingrich is unaware it suggests inadequate preparation as “leader of the free world”. If he is aware then what can be his game in aligning with N. Pelosi and her “gang” of criminal psychopaths in the “Democratic” Party of the USA.
Those who “certified” Obama, without, can it be supposed, full knowledge of his legal and personal inadequacies for President. Which, naturally, evokes the question to what ends ?
Can it be that Obama’s entire activity IS THE END/ THE GOAL designed by this group of statist totalitarians who call themselves “Democrats”? So why would Newt Gingrich, or any other “conservative” politician, ally with any of them?
Politics in lieu of principle? We have had this scenario in America for the past half century with that shining exception in 1980-88. Has it furthered our birthright of exceptionalism : freedom from controls by distant, uninterested, “elite”, “nobility”, crowned heads who view us – FREE AMERICANS – as no more than serfs to dispose of as they choose ?
If you do not support Obama, you are not weird. You are a racist. In the privacy of the voting booth the support that shows in the 40′s will be in the 30′s.
I agree wholeheartedly! Thanks for saying it out loud here in writing.
The reason so many republicans are running is that ANYONE can beat the marxist in chief. His whole administration has been a “cluster foxtrot” from the first day. Americans are WAAAAY worse of than they were 2 years ago (so far) and this guy really has as little chance of winning reelection as Jimmy Carter did.
Americans wanted to vote Obama out of office in 2010 but he was not on the ballot, so instead they voted out every liberal democrat they could find including the local dogcatcher.
Johnny Rebel
I doubt that fact is lost on Soros. He may well go to plan “B”. There is at least a 50/50 chance Hillary will be the nominee and Man Child will be the left’s new Trotsky. They readily eat their own if one looks weak.
And the music starts.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/04/hillary-clinton-obama-john-phillips.html
Excellent article! Obama is, in fact, the Prince of Fools. Although, as Ellis Washington pointed out (Jan. 27, 2010), we have more to worry about than Obama. The real problems are the fools who elected him as their prince.
2012 is going to be a very interesting election cycle. Obama can’t raise the kind of money he is bragging about without about $100 million coming from union “dues”, double that amount from foreign sources, and without suspending address checks and other screening mechanisms like he did in 2008. By agreeing to dither on Libya, Quadaffi should be willing to contribute protection money in the multi-millions.
What may look like a lack of outrage to George Will and others may be people opting to keep their powder dry. Why invite unnecessary attention from the “kool aid drinkers” willing to shout down and label anyone who does not believe in their messiah? If someone were to ask me if I liked the Prez, I’d probably say “yes”. I’m just playing the game that got Barry Dunham all the way to the White House, telling people what they want to hear (on this topic) and doing the opposite.
Will I work hard for R-party candidates and contribute legally to their campaigns? Of course. Do I think he is the worst President ever, an embarrassment at best and a sympathizer with our enemies at worst? Yes. Is this the time to make those views known? No. I want him to run, think he can win, and then be confused why the crowds are not showing up. He cannot control the narrative forever and cannot sequester his records forever. Until then, I’ll ignore him, smile politely when others sing his praises, and work like he|| to defeat him. In the long-run he will be judged by the content of his character.
“Barack Obama is the man who has yet to release a single transcript which might lend a shred of credence to all those brilliant-beyond-brilliant claims.”
You’ve got to give Obama (and Mr. Will) a break here. The reason his transcripts haven’t been released is educators are still trying to place his stratospheric achievement in some numerical context to the lowly 4.0 overachievers and Mensa hacks so that we might have some metric upon which to judge him fairly.
Maybe all his transcripts got lost somehow….
The sentiment responds to Sarah Palin not having announced her run yet. There are only unappealing prospective candidates there and one last minute big spoiler with lack of experience: Bachmann.
The only person who can draws thousands and gather big support and interest from conservatives and the whole nation is still undecided.
The person responsible for the GOP big wins in 2010 is still teasing us. Sarah Palin!
Kyle Anne hits the nail on the head once again and speaks the honest open truth of a horrible situation. The MSM can spin and lie in Zero’s favor all day long, but the one question that needs to be asked of EVERY VOTER is: Are you better off now than when Zero became president? I think most rational people, politics aside, can truthfully answer a resounding and loud NO!!!
I laugh when people talk about Zero’s reelection prospects. What is platform? Higher taxes, gas prices, racial disharmony, union thuggery, and the muzzling of the electorate by calling RACISM at evey opportunity. Me thinks the country has finally woken up from the kool aid hangover of 2008, and are ready for someone to actually LEAD the nation instead of picking basketball brackets and playing golf while the country burns.
talk about 2012 is irrelevant — to do so only serves obama
we need to adopt the nancy pelosi gambit and tell the country we will nominate our candidate after obama loses the election
you see, all the naming of obama’s candidate does is take the focus off obama— why would we want to do this? this is our greatest asset
when pressed for the 2012 “hopefuls” just employ the lefty tactic of vagaries, deflections and non specificities. do not even mention a possible condidate and let obama blunder his way through 2011
This is true and I’m sure it is part of the GOP strategy. If so, then kudos to them!
George Will is a card carrying member of the Ruling Class long before he is a conservative. Same for the otherwise inestimable Charles Krauthammer.
They may think their loyalties are to America but their words betray them. Their loyalties are to Washington DC, which is statist to its core. George and Charles may prefer a more benevolent form of statism than the boy king, but its still statism
At this point, they, and a whole class like them, are probably more dangerous than helpful.
So true, thanks for saying it.
Never underestimate the power of incumbency mixed with the ability of the big media to selectively report the news their way during the 2012 camapign. That said, Obama’s current situation still remains analogous to both the campaign and the governing competence of David Dinkins, in his time as New York City mayor. Same style-over-substance campaign based on the election of the first African-Amercian officeholder resulting in an end to all racial tensions (other than the few crank right-wing bigots), same laid-back, afraid-to-challenge-his-own-party’s-special-interests governing style, and the same sort of flustercluck results, except on a local level. The differeemce is in NYC the Democrats hold a 5-to-1 registration advantage over Republicans, and even with that going for him (plus the city’s media outlets trying to either pretend the worst of the problems were over, the problems weren’t as bad as people thought or the problems were simply unsolvable) Dinkins still lost his rematch to Giuliaini.
The Dems don’t have anywhere near that natural advantage nationwide (unless you want to believe 30 or so states are as liberal or more liberal than New York) so it’s hard to see how Obama’s chances 19 months out from Election Day would be better than what Dinkins’ were 19 months out, in the spring of 1992 when Democrats supposedly were on a roll nationwide. There’s still time for things ot turn around for Obama, but re-election campaigns are always about the incumbent’s record –if it’s lacking, voters then look at the opponent and decide if he or she meets the threshhold to take over the job. And the lower Obama’s approval ratings sink, the lower the threshold will be for voters to make a change in November 2012.
You are right in your remark about Huckabee or Newt. Include Romney in that as well.
If one of these be the Republican choice for 2012, I who has never missed an election in 75 years won’t be voting for anyone.
If this is the best we can do, then it is no wonder we have someone like BHO being paid to take vacations.
I feel that if Sarah Palin had not been McCain’s running mate he would not have garnered 10 million votes.
I appreciate Kyle-Anne Shiver’s call for optimism and sense, but the problem is that there haven’t been enough of what she calls “observant citizens.” That’s one reason why Obama got elected in the first place. To observant citizens in 2008, it was obvious that Obama had a far-left voting record when he wasn’t voting “present,” and that he had extremely disturbing, friendly and close associations with America-haters such as Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers. But there were, and are, still too many mind-numbed persons influenced by our PC media for me to be very optimistic yet. I hope that I am proved wrong in 2012.
What I can’t figure out is how on earth can Barack have a 48% approval rating. To all those on welfare, food stamps, public housing, EIC, and unemployment benefits, how long do you think the largess will rain down from Washington D.C. when the country is $14 T Dollars in debt? You should be looking at the interest rates, the prices of gasoline, and commodities, especially gold. The alarm bells are going off and the pols are dittling, dithering, and dabbling. The largess is about to come to an end and then the violence will begin. We simply can’t afford to shoulder the responsbilities for your food and welfare when you you will not do it for yourself.
We need a principled conservative to undo the mess that welfare and the regulatory state has done to our society. That person must be a reformer and an arm twister to get the congress to free us from the tyranny that is the federal government.
“how long do you think the largess will rain down from Washington D.C.”
The key word is “think”
We’re in trouble
The formula for liberal success at the polls: tell specific groups (based on race/sex/ethnicity/religion etc) that they are being “oppressed” and “discriminated against”. Tell those groups that you will go after those oppressors (Republicans/corporations/”the rich”) and that even more largess will flow to the oppressed groups than is now being given to them.
Add in a very sympathetic MSM and you have a victory. Not a large one, of course, but still in the “W” column.
It’s easy if you have no moral compass or ethical values like Obama.
Mr. Will is an extremely intelligent man but let’s not forget that his man in 1980 was Howard Baker for the GOP nomination. He was also roundly chastised for his nativism by William Buckley and other National Review writers for a calumnist column he wrote in 1981 against Pope John Paul 11.Mr. Will does not represent anyone but George Will and maybe David Frum.
Hi Kyle-Anne, you make so many salient points that it would be difficult to disagree for anyone playing by the same rules. That is, using facts, truth, honor, integrity, and reason.
However, this administration and this President are not bound by those rules. They are not held to them by the mass media, in fact, they are aided and abetted in breaking every one of them by the lapdog media on a daily basis.
And a HUGE portion of this land of ours still obtains their information and therefore forms their opinions, based upon ….well, …intentional fraud.
The reason for pessimism is not the fact that this current crop of Leftists hasn’t nearly destroyed our standing in the world, our economy for us and all of our descendants, made a mockery of our Constitution, and made the world a hair’s breadth away from implosion…it’s that those charged with holding our leader’s accountable…have not only abandoned their posts, they have turned against the people they were meant to serve.
No Republican has the courage to stand up and take the raging fire that would engulf him or her…and also run for President. The chances of winning would be nil. The lapdog, propaganda machine would destroy them.
The options seem to be milquetoast or burned toast.
If we don’t fix our information stream, the leftists will continue to force us to play in a rigged game. Obama is a symptom. Rabid, unchecked leftism is the disease.
cfbleachers: You are a gentleman and quite thoughtful in your responses.What the GOP needs now is a combination of Gingrich’s verbosity ,Jindal’s mind and Palin’s courage.
Sarah Palin’s the only one with guts and smarts to cut though all that garbage, and win.
Trump looks willing to take the heat. Everyone thinks he’s a publicity hound. I think he may also be a patriot.
The only problem is that he isn’t conservative, by a long shot.
Even so, if Trump keeps on coming, it might work out because he will get some of the issues on the table that the rinos don’t have the guts to discuss. And I’m not talking about birtherism, i’m talking about incompetance, hidden agendas, tsunami spending and the universe of lies.
Once again K-A you hit the nail. Those of us here in fly-over land are not pessimistic. We are energized, frustrated and geared up for 2012. Also, I have a similar problem that has afflicted our president. I did not have a birth certificate, having been born in my grandmothers home with physician attending. Years later I had to obtain a “certificate of live birth” from the state of OK. This required a host of back up docs..census reports, interviews with people at the birth (not relatives). My contention has always been, if he has a cert. of live birth, where are the back up docs that he was required to have?
Anyway, keep up the good work, K-A
I think the despair derives from the massive amount of talk of nominating a feminist bimbo as the GOP presidential candidate. Which is frightening indeed.
I didn’t know Nancy Pelosi had switched parties.
A lot of people like Obama as a person. They like it when he picks brackets and hobnobs with celebrities. Oprah is popular for the same reason. That accounts for his 48% approval. (I, for one, never liked him, and can bearly stand to watch him). But when you ask different questions, another picture emerges. For example, in a recent poll, the majority of people agreed with the statement that Obama’s presidency is a failed presidency. Also, in the ongoing Realclearpolitics poll, people consistantly put the country as going in the wrong direction by a big margin. Whoever the republican nominee is, he or she will have to tie Obama to his failed policies the same way that Obama and the democrats were able to tie McCain to Bush and the finanacial crash.
Two things to keep in mind about O’s amazing buoyancy to date: He’s an attractive guy with a great voice who seems to be a good family man; and, there’s really no one bearing the standard on the other side yet. When the latter happens, unless the Republican is a total loon (and yes, the media will do their best to make them all look like total loons), many people will focus on the binary choice and (regretfully, in some cases; the dream of O will still hold some appeal) realize that they have to either support the Republican or stay home. (I suspect that many O supporters from ’08 won’t vote at all because they won’t be able to stomach either choice.) My prediction: If the Reps put up a strong candidate, O loses in a landslide; if the Rep candidate is weak, O loses by 2-3%.
Which is exactly why, no matter who is chosen to oppose Obambi, conservatives MUST get out and vote, even if their favorite is not the candidate. Staying home to pout will give us another four years of what we have now, and this would be disastrous for the country.
Obama must go. That is Job #1. With time, sweat, and determination, everything else can be remediated from that point.
As for those here who admit to a high probability of their staying away from the polls, I can only say that such statements fill me with a deep sadness, because of the entire catalog of ills that besets our battered and beleaguered country, they are indicative of what is perhaps the most worrisome of all.
How can we not remember that even the most humble Americans among us today live like the royalty of their time compared to even the most privileged among our founders? And how much more is this true for those early people who had but little of this world’s goods or privileges! Yet large numbers of them gave selflessly of their own time and treasure, such as it may have been. Even greater numbers endured hunger, cold, disease, disability, and in many cases death itself, to create a political framework for human achievement and happiness like nothing else on the face of the earth. How can it mean nothing to us that people all over the world still risk death to come here? IMHO, it is not only beyond selfishness, it is simply an inhuman act for any of us not to exercise the right our predecessors paid so dearly to secure for us. If their sacrifice means nothing to us, in itself an ominous symptom of our descent into darkness, we need do it for our own self-interest, or we could well see the day when we regret not having done so.
November 2012 is still a long way off, and no one can predict what will happen between now and then that might sway people’s opinion. But I believe Barack Obama has alienated too many people to win reelection easily (if at all). But black Americans will still vote for him in droves, and there are a great many people who refuse to consider the obvious facts about his incompetence and dishonesty. The Republicans have to step up their game, endlessly repeat the truth about Obama, and give us a candidate we can trust. Otherwise, we may be saddled with Obama for another four years, and that will make this first disastrous term look like a stroll in the park.
Be it noted RebeccaH that the official census has the black population at 12.8% of the US population, so we have 87.8% of the population to convince that conservatism is the way to go
Also, not all blacks are Democrats or Obama supporters. Case in point: Herman Cain, Alan West. A recent editorial in the WSJ (I wish I had kept it; sorry I cannot credit the writer) pointed out how the Democratic vision of equality has utterly failed northern blacks, and they know it. The exodus of blacks from northern states where unions (including teachers unions) hold sway to right to work states is large and growing. The movie “Waiting for Superman” also showed how liberal protection of teacher unions at the expense of what is good for students has effectively stymied equal access to education and upward advancement for blacks. If I were black, I would be mad as hell. In fact, Herman Cain says blacks come up to him all the time and whisper in his ear that they agree with his stance. The black voting monolith may in fact be less monolithic than people think.
This “likeability” thingy is not at all weird to me. It’s the last and only positive Obama can hang onto. It’s all the folks who are still afraid of being called a racist.
You conflate your personal feelings with electoral chances. The folks on the right who are dismayed are such because they look at the polling, they look at how the economy is most likely going to continue improving slowly, and they see a situation where the likelihood of anyone beating Obama is very slim.
Just like any other national election… it comes down to the actual swing voters. There’s only one candidate I see gaining any support among swing voters, and Jon Huntsman just isn’t likely to make it through the primary. I’m one of those swing voters myself. Unless Obama actually starts acting like a centrist (rather than just talk like one sometimes), I MIGHT vote for him, but probably not… UNLESS the GOP nominates some wingnut like Bachman or Palin. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to vote for the republican.
If you people want a competitive race, nominate someone with an actual moderate streak. If not, barring a game changer, you’re just plain going to lose.
Solomon
Since when is Obama moderate or to be honest since when was the last time did the Democratic Party have a moderate candidate. Oh yeah, Clinton and after that? Clinton was lucky because he had a Republican Congress to bail him out and he knew how to what it means to be an Executive . Obama , aside from his race and teleprompter and various sycophants covering for him. What moderate stance did he took from his days as a State Senator, IL Senator and even as President?
Tell why do you see Bachmann and Palin as wingnuts considering that Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, Harry Reid, Jesse Jackson Jr, Charles Rangel, Diane Feinstein among others showed more extreme nuttiness than those two women combined or did the media did the thinking and decision making for you?
If you were looking for a moderate, why did you voted a far left politician as president whose personal history is a mystery and whose political history consist of a good speaking voice and tends to vote present or not to be there at all. At least with those two women, all their histories including all the skeletons are exposed for all the people to see.
There will be no competitive race when one side is protected by the media and the other side being attack and assaulted by the media.
Solomon,
What Bachman and Palin believe in is alot closer to what Jefferson believed in, limited government and free markets.
I guess we all now know what you don’t believe in. Moderate my a$%.
a moderate on the lefty scale is a communist
With the reference to ‘Wingnut’, you seem to be about two turns too
loose to make a difference in any election.
jl
Kleinsmith sounds like a classic Concern Troll. “I’m a moderate, honest! but I’m concerned that you people will nominate someone who actually espouses your principles. Such a wingnut [sic] I could never vote for.”
Yeah, roiight.
Damn the torpedoes, folks — full steam ahead. Or, to quote Churchill and other stouthearts, better to die on our feet than on our knees.
There is a diffinte attitude in DC that has nothing to do with Americans and georgie & chuckie are its mouth. Its also obvious that Boehner is also infected. The entrenched, the rinos, the weak need to go.
BUT a thought has just come to me…is there a successful BLACK leader anywhere. Any mayor? govornor? president or king or just your avarage dictator? How about a RNC head even?
Just of the top of my head……
Nelson Mandela
Allen West
Condoleezza Rice
The list is so long I won’t even dignify your question with a response.
Barack Obama is barely human in the sense that he exists solely to gratify his own pleasure and has no higher purpose.
What..you don’t think Obama has a chance at a 2nd term.?Don’t be so sure.
1] He’s a slick politician.
2] He has the liberal main stream media on his side. (or still has)
3] It’s sometimes hard to beat an incumbent.
4] He can raise a lot of money. (no lack of dummies to contribute)
5] He’s a good liar…& many still believe his lies.
6] So far there aren’t any good candidates to run against Obama. (Hello..GOP leadership.?)
7] Like in Massachesetts..the sheeple will blindly vote for any democrat no matter how much of a scumbag they are (example: Barney Fwank )
8] There are millions of illegals ready to cast their illegal votes for Obama.
9] Voter fraud…to the ninety-ninth degree…!!
Evan Thomas, editor of Newsweek — and grandson of Norman Thomas, the 6-time Socialist candidate for President! (explains a few things, doesn’t it?) — said that the press’s admiration for John Kerry would add several points to their polling.
And they weren’t in love with Kerry like they are with The Boyfriend.
Going … going … gone. Outta the park. George Will can be an insufferable snob at times (as can Charles Krauthammer). But Obama win in 2012? Not a chance.
If OBOMBer is too hard to beat ( and I’m not convinced of that) the real races will be in the Senate. If he can’t get a majority -he can be stale mated for much of his programs. I realize he pulls a lot of executive privledges During the election he must be called out on his refusal to honor what the other branches of Gov’t rule. EX Judiciary – the Oil spill moritorium, health scam stoppages, and his disregard for laws passed by Congress (DOMA) All politicians have big egos and I’m sure none of them want to be disregarded. Hopefully the No idea of how to wage a war prez will screw up Libya and the media won’t be able to ignore it.
i agree— gain the senate, weed out rinos, and continue the push at the local level
also, keep a permanent security detail on the originalist supreme court members
When the pompous Don Trump can get a majority of citizens nodding in agreement what chance does the secretive Kenyan have in winning a majority in any (fair) election.
Indeed. He does this by simply saying things that most people think and want to said. Unapologetically.
“POMPous”
You must be referring to his hair? Everything else he’s said so far is dead-bang on!
George Will and the rest of the MSM CAN see that, but they have to continue their current modus operandi because they don’t have a good alternative. They have to convince us that, individually, we’re weird for voting for a republican, or believing in small government, or wanting fiscal responsibility. If they can make us feel alone then we won’t act and they’ll win. However, if we stand up together and shout (or laugh) them down, they’ll realize that ten thousand ants are stronger than a single grasshopper.
Right now shame and alienation are the only tricks left in their bags, and their attempting to use them to the fullest extent. It’s up to us to turn to them proudly and strongly and let them know that we don’t fear them any longer. We are more numerous than them. And they do not control what we think.
Be independent, Americans. It’s what we do best.
Let’s see how Libya and the rest of the Middle East plays out. Obambi has already proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is not fit to be Commander-in-Chief.
In order to stay ‘objective’ in his profession George Will has for decades willingly rubbed shoulders with the leftist punditry and it has finally gotten to him. There was always a hint in his columns that he believed liberals might eventually be convinced of the error of their ways. This is not merely wishful thinking; it is delusional. Will does indeed need to take a nice, long vacation.
I’d vote for Bullwinkle the Moose if nominated, over Øbama anytime.
What worries me is people I know, who get all their news & info from CNN, ABC, etc., and think they are informed. The are not political junkies like us, they look at Google News, hit a couple links, and that’s it. They think Google and CNN and Wikipedia are fair and unbiased. There are lots of them.
I talk to them, ask them questions like “What do you think of this Libya thing” or Obamacare, or whatever, and point out one or two things they usually don’t know, stop when they get defensive. Don’t know if it changes anybody’s mind, but it can’t hurt.
OBAMA LAUNCHES REELECTION CAMPAIGN ON INAUSPICIOUS DAY
On this 4th day of the 4th month of April, being the 44th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination, Barack Obama, the 44th president of the US (born on the 4th day of August and elected president on November 4th) has launched his campaign for reelection. He couldn’t have picked a more inauspicious day.
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It would be both refreshing and I believe a winning strategy for the Republicans or even a third party to put forward a candidate that armed with the facts surrounding this presidency to date calls things the way the rest of us see them.
Discuss openly and without the doublespeak of politics and political correctness, the obscenity of the past two years and what appears to be an even worst 2011 and 2012.
Question in a shout above the din of the liberals and liberal media the fact that such an inexperienced and incompetent man can rise in such a short period from obscurity to POTUS. Point out in clear, precise and un-equivocating words the reality of this bungling and chaos breeding puppet prince who craves the spotlight over the interests of this country.
Whoever is unafraid of asking the hard questions, in favor of tipping this country back towards our National interests, and seeks not to be emperor of the New World Order will take this nation back.
G. Hugh Bodell
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The fact that over 40% of the population still supports Obama should be reason for pessimism itself. Maybe not specifically for 2012, but for the fact that so many Americans are either politically and economically ignorant or support socialist policies (or, possibly, both).
I am jealous because he gets to play more golf than me so my view may be jaundice. I can not understand how wo many people still support him and the long list of activities committed that would have gotten any other president impeachment. And what gets press? The Republicans what to cut 1-2% (depending on how you calculate it) from the enormous federal budget deficit. Are the media insane? We know Harry and Chuck are and we don’t even listen when they speak. It is a conspiracy and his deceit is being hidden by the gun, ammunition and freeze dried food industries that are making out like bandits.
Mr. Will is concerned about that 48% who’ve yet to figure out who this guy is and the threat he represents or worse; maybe they know what he’s about and approve. His media flunkies continue to carry his water, hide faults that are blatantly obvious……when exposed……and protect whatever is left of their reputations. And the Right continues without a leader with the charisma to take on Obama, a leader, any leader, who will be portrayed as the evil opposite of “the greatest President in the history of America.” The media will not jeopardize their narcissistic opinion of themselves by being truthful about their project in affirmative action in politics.
48%………unbelievable. What will it take short of a national implosion? The budget, Obamacare, foreign policy, the economy, energy policy, gas prices, rampant inflation, unemployment……..??? He’s demonstrated that he’s completely incompetent to deal with all of these issues in any way that will prove beneficial to the country, yet he’s at 48% and the Obama Presidential campaign propaganda machine is just warming up for the big event in 2012, his reelection. If you’re not worried or at least concerned about this you’re not paying attention.
In 2008, Obama won with 52.9% of the vote and 365 electoral votes vs McCain’s 45.7% and 173 electoral votes. Obama won the electoral votes in Fla. (27), Ind. (11), Iowa (7), Mich. (17), Minn. (10), N.C. (15), Ohio (20), Pa. (21), Va. (13), and Wisc. (10). The total is 151 electoral votes. Obama will be hard pressed to win many, if any of these votes in 2012. Obama is TOAST!!