Posted on 07/05/2011 2:27:53 PM PDT by Signalman
ANALYSIS/OPINION
The 2012 presidential marathon is on, and one mainstream pollster (Rasmussen) says a Republican apparition is opening up a lead on President Obama. (Any Republican 46 percent, Barack Obama 42 percent.) A growing number of Democrats figure that whoever can keep his head in the rattle and bang of unexpected events just doesn’t understand the situation.
Republicans tempted to indulge in excessive giddiness should remember this is akin to fantasy football. A poll is a snapshot, and snapshots can deceive. Tomorrow is another day, to quote the estimable Mrs. Scarlett O’Hara Butler, and the chickens of ‘12 are not nearly ready to count. But snapshots of Mr. Obama’s landscape, taken on the eve of the Fourth of July weekend, aren’t something he wants to post in the family scrapbook, either.
If the president is not yet in full panic mode, he’s right to be running scared. Class warfare is the Democratic default mode, and Mr. Obama is looking for the panic button earlier than incumbents usually do. He warns darkly of many bad things — “significant and unpredictable consequences” — unless Republicans agree to raise the debt limit and stand by to raise taxes.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
What if Mitt gets the final repub. node, can we — ie freeper nation — sleep easier if Bachmann is his running mate?
“...(Rasmussen) says a Republican apparition is opening up a lead on President Obama. (Any Republican 46 percent, Barack Obama 42 percent.)”
The Republicans - any of those who’ve declared - should be able to beat Obama. Despite his money advantage & coddling by the press, people know who he is now. They know his policies have failed & he’s bankrupting the country. The Repulicans need to spend every minute of every day pointing out the things the press won’t.
No!
Gallup: In No Month of Obama Presidency Has Majority Believed Economy Improving
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2744290/posts)
Jake Tapper Concedes Media’s Bias on Obama Medal of Honor Gaffe, Double Standard on Bachmann
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2744296/posts
Mitt is the establishment choice.
No. Not unless Mitt has a terminal disease and isn't expected to live more than 6 months after the election.
If that is the case i will sit this election out (as will most of us) and we will wait to take our freedom back via a more time tested means than voting.
The choice is very simple.. Either the statists bow out from the fight or they beg for it.
No what? Truly, what if we end up w/ mitt against the Kenyan? Does it matter who the vp is or you’ll just not gonna participate?
My God, your dislike for Mitt is bigger than your future w/ the marxist usurper???
You might be a Mitten, posting here under the radar—but I’m not!
(I was in MA when he was guv, I know better.)
Bwhahahahaha! You're not going to 'take your freedom back' by sitting out the election. You're not even going to get them back by voting either. There's maybe one candidate in the Republican nomination contest that is interested in giving back people's freedom, but the pro-war crowd in the Republican party want nothing to do with him.
The choice is very simple.. Either the statists bow out from the fight or they beg for it.
The facts are very simple.. Leviathan will steamroll you and not even notice. Go blow up federal building, I'm sure when you light that match the revolution will surely follow... right?
[My God, your dislike for Mitt is bigger than your future w/ the marxist usurper???]
I won’t vote for him either. We’d be better off with a collapse and a clean slate. There are a lot of us, that’s why Mitt can’t win. He’d be George Bush II, without the foreign policy toughness.
I don't believe that for a minute, even though it is not clear who you might feel that you are representing with the 'most of us'. I do believe that most republicans will vote for the republican ticket, just as they always do, although some will justify doing so by saying that they are voting for the VP nod.
Mitt Romney would not get my vote if he named me as the VP candidate.
Mitt will fold like a cheap seat if the puppet masters order him to. Just like McCain and Pappa Bush.
He wants a seat at the global table and a bed in the underground bunkers just like Congress and thats why nobody will speak up about Obomber being an anti America traitor
You like treading awfully close the lightning, don’t you?
You needn’t commit Mitticide. He’s not going to get the nomination anyway.
ITA with your post.
Baraq only got 53% of the vote with his energized base, weak McLame opponent, and a dispirited Republican corps.
At that point Baraq was a ghost candidate, and was the answer to everybody’s prayers.
Now he’s the “food stamp president”
I guess I am committing “mitticide”! To be honest I’m not a Mitt fan, but I dislike OUR disunity which will kill US in the end. I want obummer marxist OUT in a bad awful way, that’s my problem I guess and I just can’t understand this level of hate and vitriol against even a rino. It must stem from something altogether different I’m missing here???
lol, federal building...
Dick... (Or is it richard?)
The revolution is what happens before the action...
“
But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. While the king, and all in authority under him, were believed to govern in justice and mercy, according to the laws and constitution derived to them from the God of nature and transmitted to them by their ancestors, they thought themselves bound to pray for the king and queen and all the royal family, and all in authority under them, as ministers ordained of God for their good; but when they saw those powers renouncing all the principles of authority, and bent upon the destruction of all the securities of their lives, liberties, and properties, they thought it their duty to pray for the continental congress and all the thirteen State congresses, &c.
There might be, and there were others who thought less about religion and conscience, but had certain habitual sentiments of allegiance and loyalty derived from their education; but believing allegiance and protection to be reciprocal, when protection was withdrawn, they thought allegiance was dissolved.
Another alteration was common to all. The people of America had been educated in an habitual affection for England, as their mother country; and while they thought her a kind and tender parent, (erroneously enough, however, for she never was such a mother,) no affection could be more sincere. But when they found her a cruel beldam, willing like Lady Macbeth, to “dash their brains out,” it is no wonder if their filial affections ceased, and were changed into indignation and horror.
This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution. “ — John Adams
You’ve already lost the argument dick. The revolution is already happening. The action to follow is inevitable... Just what form it takes is left to be seen.
If Mitt’s the candidate GUARANTEED third party candidacy will happen.
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