Two posts above hit the nail on the head as to why obozo will win in 2012: white race guilt and repubs being the stupid party.
Anyone going up against obozo in 2012 will be called racist, and the republican candidate will go out of his way to avoid that label. Witness how McCain had only nice words to say about Obama (“he’s a patriot”, “would make a good president”, etc) and avoided using his middle name, yet when he called Obama “that one” in a debate, my word, THAT was RACIST! The MSM will do their part to promote that narrative. In 2008, the Dem convention was seen as a new age, kumbaya-inducing multiculti star-studded paradise on earth, while the Rep convention was described as “having so many white people it looked like a Nuremburg rally.”
As the stupid party, the repubs will do everything to “reach across the aisle”. What that means, is rather than forcing the dems to the center, they will over-reach to the left to be “bipartisan” and not “mean-spirited”. Or, like under GW Bush, they will throw a few bones to conservatives like legislating against stem-cell research and preside over a large expansion of federal government.
One thing that helped Clinton was his “Mcveigh Moment”, when in the aftermath of the OKC bombing, conservatives and talk (“hate”) radio were vilified. The other side effect of the McVeigh Moment has been the inability to deal with Muslim terrorists, since the narrative has become “Christians (aka McVeigh) have committed terror too.” but that’s another issue. Wait until Obama has his McVeigh moment, when some white guy with a gun or bomb commits mayhem: he will impugn Rush, Savage, Hannity, Palin and the tea party as “creating a climate of hate” and conservatives will become the boogeymen. You already have seen how quickly tea partiers were blamed due to that apolitical Tuscon schizo with a gun.
But worst of all, our populace is much more dumbed-down and brainwashed than they were in 1979 or 2000. With a democrat of color promising loads of government goodies from the public treasury, while “putting america in its place” abroad, Obama is assured another term.
