Funny how I’ve been making the same point for some time now and it only goes to show how ignorant the American voter truly is to the truth. Voters don’t give a hoot about the President’s lies or his past actions and with the help of the media they won’t hear them. The independent voter that decides elections thinks with their wallet and emotion. If the economy is not seriously worse, which is pretty unlikely because the media will prevent the truth from really getting out about the debt crisis, then these independent voters will act like it is high school all over again and vote for the cool popular guy over the hot witch or dumb old white guy or whatever lame candidate the Republicans throw up there.

Any Republican candidate would look at 2012 as a crap shoot, solely based on the economy in late 2012, which is impossible to predict. If the economy tanks hard enough then the people will clamor for Christie, Daniels, Cain, or heaven forbid Romney.

For 2012, we need to have a solid message, with real solutions, that the Team can rally around to win the Senate and increase our position in the House. I said this way back in 2008 and it still holds today. We need a clear and concise message centered on small government, with greatly reduced spending. It needs to be based on actual plans with concrete actions (which programs need cutting). The Republicans need to sharpen their pencils and come up with a solid plan (name names on what to cut) that clearly shows how they are going to fix the mess.

They will likely fail at this because they had a golden opportunity in 2010 and if it wasn’t for the Tea Party they would have completely miss the boat. They were happy to allow the Tea Party to call the shots, since they didn’t have a plan of their own. I love the Tea Party and they have doing wonders for this country, but some of their candidates were less than desirable.

If the Republicans can get their collective crap together, then maybe there is some shot at the WH. This isn’t going to happen without a strong central leader that the independents (white educated females) can get behind, which is not Palin. If the Republicans can get their crap in a single sock soon then 2012 will be just another lost opportunity.