An Open Letter
August 22nd, 2011 - 5:13 pm
Dear GOP Voters,
Looking at the latest Gallup numbers, you could nominate an expired package of processed luncheon meats, and it would sweep the floor with President Obama. In fact, I’d wager that Mr. Bad Bologna would win every state except for Denial — a 56-state sweep.
So when the straw polls or caucus or primary vote comes your way, vote your conscience, not just for whomever you think is most electable…It’ll make you feel better the next morning, I promise.
Besides, strategic voting like that is how John Kerry got the nod back in 2004. And he makes the spoiled bologna smell pretty good.
Yours,
-VodkaPundit.
I agree with this. Though I keep hearing that we’re overconfident, things could still turn around for Obama, we don’t have any strong candidates, on & on – I don’t think any of that matters, it’ll all shake out in the coming months. But what I see is that few people even like Obama any more, vast numbers actually hate him, and it’s so easy to see that he’s rigid and unable to do anything to help this economy due to his intransigent idealism coupled with his utter incompetence. He has nothing new to say, and I really believe that he doesn’t even care about Americans. He certainly doesn’t show that he does, in any way at all. He displays cool aloofness and disdain.
He’s going to become more obnoxious as the days go on, more things will come up that he will handle in ham-handed, and sometimes destructive ways. By the time the election arrives things will be even more messed up and voters will be tearing their hair out. The pressure on him will build and he won’t handle it well at all. He can’t be any other way – it was all a huge sham to begin with. He’s not smart or adroit enough to change, he’s peaked and now it’s downhill. He’s going to lose, and lose BIG. I for one will be overjoyed to see Mr. Bad Bologna take over, things could only get better. If Obie managed to win another term, America would be OVER and at that point I would stop hoping. And I think millions of Americans feel exactly the same.
Very true, Barbara. You don’t even need to look at policy or ideology; his psychology will do Obama in.
In addition, he has lost something crucial to his electoral success, something that is unrecoverable once gone: *M*A*G*I*C*
I’m having fun, I’m shoving the damn numbers unlike a lot of conservative/libertarian bloggers. Powerline is now plumping Romney while intoning against any “eccentric” candidates who would only be — how to it? — a plain rash on the backside of Republican victory. Screw ‘em.
Oh, and it’s nobody’s “turn.” That’s how we got Bob Dole & John McCain.
Yes, I’m looking at you Mittens.
Thank you. I’m still trying to figure out the thinking there: “Let’s see… number one legislative agenda item is getting rid of Obamacare, so obviously the best guy to do that would be the guy who unapologetically invented it in the first place and still insists it can work. Really! Well, I guess he knows something about it then. I’ll just vote for him.”
I mean, I regularly mock some of my friends for voting for Obama because all of this crap was predictable, but it’s kinda sad to see the other side trying to match stupid for stupid.
SORRY MR VP YOU ARE WRONG. I BETTING MR BAD BOLOGNA IS GOING TO SWEEP DENIAL. I AM GOING TO SEND HIM SOME CASH.
There is a segment of the electorate that is approaching critical mass. They are people, like my wife, who are normally apolitical. They do not like O. They fear him and his czars. And every dirty, nasty insinuation that some Democrat casts in the Tea Party direction inflames them to a degree I have never seen.
As a lad, my older brothers and sisters deflected criticism by saying, “Every knock’s a boost”. I don’t know if it has some history I am not aware of, but it would make a great secret campaign slogan.
Every time that idiot speaks on television, my wife sends $30 to somebody on our side.
“I am afraid all we have accomplished is to awaken a sleeping giant, and fill him with a terrible resolve.”-Admiral Yamamoto, Dec 7, 1941
Amen.
I very seriously doubt professional campaigners share our host’s confidence.
Anticipating the result of a political campaign is very nearly foolish as anticipating the end of a military campaign. As a reminder, I cite an ancient aphorism: “The enemy always has a vote.” That is, they always have an effect on the outcome.
The hard thing to overcome is everyone wants to be able to say they voted for the winner. It gives them some feeling of validation.
The hardest thing to overcome is the GOP Leadership’s beaten-dog attitude that allows them to repeatedly snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
I actually think Salami has a better cahnce than bad Bologna, just a personl opinion.
I’d vote for mayonnaise before Obama. And I hate mayonnaise.
Not to sound sexist, but I think neither Palin nor Bachmann are electable. Palin because of the absolute hatchet job the press did on her, and Bachmann because of the absolute hatchet job the press is starting to do on her.
I’ll vote for either one of them in the General, though. They’d be outrageously better than anyone the Dems could possibly field, and Obama couldn’t even hold their soiled panties. I’m not fond of Bachmann’s rigid religiosity, but I’d hold my nose and hope for the best. I don’t think either Palin or Bachmann would try to push a SoCon agenda. They get the larger problems too clearly to get side-tracked by that.
Okay then, vote for someone you think can win. Mind you, you’ll have to think like an idiot “independent” to do this. I have a friend who voted for Obama in 2008 because “a Black president will help us.” She happens to live in Texas, so I asked her what she thinks of Rick Perry. She said “Who’s Rick Perry?” Later she found out who he is and said “He’s cute! I think I’ll vote for him.” So there’s your voting guide for 2012.
Look, Nukem, you sound sexist. Women are hatchetable in more ways than men are and you’re falling for it. Vote your damn conscience.
Huh? That’s a stupid response. Just because women are “more hatchetable”, that doesn’t mean I should automatically believe some magic fairy dust will be sprinkled over them and make them more electable, as some sort of compensation. That’s the same type of unicorn thinking that got Obama elected. And enough with the slams about Independents. Since you apparently can’t get out of lockstep agreement with braindead Republicans and actually think for yourself, you probably shouldn’t be judging those of us who apply some critical thinking to a subject.
I’m a big fan of Sarah. I’m a big supporter of the Tea Party. And I’m totally committed to taking power away from the entrenched elites in DC. If voting for Sarah or Michelle in the primaries means we don’t see that happening in November, then you bet I’ll vote my conscience.
Cripes….
it has to be said:
“I for one welcome our lunch meat overlords.”
Although I hear that Bologna was born in another country. Were is the receipt Mr. Bologna, show us the receipt!
LOL
One suspects the Republican Establishment realizes they have as much to lose as Obama.
If they don’t have as much to lose, then what’s a Tea Party for?