Caption: Eminently beatable Barack Obama.
Only a year in office (albeit a very long year) and he's "eminently beatable." Very lousy showing for Democrats.
Posted on 11/07/2009 8:03:30 PM PST by SeekAndFind
A year on from its meltdown in the Obama landslide, the Republican Party has cause to celebrate. As predicted, it won two state governorships this week – and that was predicted because of the disillusionment with the image machine that is President Obama and his chums. Those victories, in states Mr Obama won last year, Virginia and New Jersey, have caused not just many Republicans, but also their acolytes in the press, to proclaim they are on the road back, and that the spectre of George W Bush no longer hangs over them.
Perhaps they are right: but things don’t look entirely wonderful for them.
Like our Tories, the Republicans are finding it hard to avoid a civil war over ideology. A more significant electoral result, in this respect, came in a congressional by-election in New York state. There were effectively two Republicans on the ballot – a moderate, pro-abortion one called Dede Scozzafava, and one supported by most local Republicans, but running under the banner of the Conservative Party, Doug Hoffman. Last Sunday Miss Scozzafava withdrew from the race and said she would back the Democratic candidate. Her name was already on the ballot, she registered 5 per cent of the vote, and the Democrat won.
Those who have said that this shows the American people don’t want a Reagan-style Republican Party are, however, just plain wrong. Miss Scozzafava did not withdraw because she was popular: she withdrew because she was about to be thrashed out of sight. However, the battle over just how far to the Right the Republicans should be is one that is going to run, and cause problems, right up to the day in the summer of 2012 when their candidate is formally nominated to take on Mr Obama.
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I sure would have like to have seen Fred Thompson or Duncan Hunter try.
Nut ohhhhh, nooooooo! The National GOP and the MSM gave us their candidate. The citizens were screwed in 2008. I hope Steel makes changes in the previously shown GOP policy.
John Bolton has my vote
This is what the article says of Sarah Palin :
“Sarah Palin, who arrived with such a bang, has left with a whimper, weighed down by lawsuits, the towel thrown in in Alaska, and her baroque extended family having become one of America’s favourite soap operas.”
We needed a Reagan, instead we got a McCain....sigh.
Clueless Brits.
Obama did NOT win in a landslide, Dede is NOT a moderate, she’s a liberal, and the civil war will be in the democrat party.
By 2012, Obama will be so universally despised that Donald Duck should be able to win if he runs for president with an (R) after his name.
The Brits need to realize that conservatism is the winning formula in America. What happens to “republicans” who are middle of the road? They get run over.
A footnote: Biden attracted a “crowd” of 200 while campaigning for the dem in the 23rd district in upstate New York. Earlier this year, when appearing in Auburn, New York, Sarah Palin attracted a crowd of 20,000.....in a town with a population of 27,000.
Mine too. We need a president who loves this country.
acolytes in the press? What planet is this jerk living on?
I’m a Bolton guy.
Jim DeMint.
Caption: Eminently beatable Barack Obama.
Only a year in office (albeit a very long year) and he's "eminently beatable." Very lousy showing for Democrats.
Sarah Palin/John Bolton or Sarah Palin/Fred Thompson in 2012.
PALIN/BACHMANN 2012
If the newly elected governor of Virginia is successful in office, then he should be on the list. He ran an excellent campaign. Now let us see how well he governs. he will not, at least, have crazies hanging around his neck as Palin did.
BTW. Palin is a heck of a lot better stump speaker than Obama.
DeMint/Bachmann
I like him, too. His stock shot skyward when he stood up for a small bastion of freedom in Central America against those in our own nation who would crush it. I like Michele Bachmann for VP. They would be damned near unbeatable.
I’d hella vote that.
I can’t see that far from my “dim little island”. I know about the scandalous left-wing legal campaign against Palin (political chicanery at its very very worse) but is it true they are turning her family into the new Osbournes?
Fox news? Free Republic? Hey, this forum is part of the “vast right-wing conspiracy)
I’d like to beat his sorry Kenyan ass ,
With a axe handle.
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