Posted on 12/04/2011 5:57:28 PM PST by presidio9
This is the week it became clear that nobody knows anything. Pretty much all the conventional wisdom about the 2012 presidential race has turned out to be wrong. Newt rules, Cain’s over, Romney’s rocked. Nobody knows what’s going to happen.
We’ll start with the president:
Gallup. Obama down. Forty-three percent approval. Lower than Jimmy Carter at this point. The Democratic spin: This is good, with the economy so bad, you’d think his numbers would be lower! Actually you’d think an incumbent nobody likes would be exactly where Jimmy Carter was before he lost in a landslide. More to the point, the president’s numbers went downward, not upward. Why? Because the congressional super-committee failed to cut $1.2 trillion out of $44 trillion in projected deficits.
Once again the president thought he was playing a shrewd game: The collapse of the super-committee would serve his political purposes. Once again he misjudged.
What has occurred is an exact repeat of the summer’s debt ceiling fiasco. Then the president summoned a crisis, thinking people would blame it on the Republicans. Instead they blamed Washington, which is to say him, because he owns Washington. Immediately his numbers fell. As they did again this week.
The only way to win America right now is to govern selflessly and seriously. His top advisers, those knowing, winking bumpkins, cannot see this. America is
-SNIP-
On Newt Gingrich: If you’ve seen this week’s poll numbers from Iowa, Florida and South Carolina you know it doesn’t look like an increase in his support but an eruption. -SNIP-
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Oh well, Peggy and I may disagree on a lot of things, but our first priority is the same: Making sure that Barak Obama is a one-term president.
Newt the “angry badger” will implode and slide in the polls.
It’s just time and gravity.
Still, her best shot was at Obama at the onset:
"His ignorant shrewdness, his small-time cleverness — it just won’t do. Nobody wants it. It’s why people want to fire him."
Scathing, and hits Obama where it hurts the worst...his pride.
The Pompous POTUS brought down another notch. He'll be a complete laughing stock by August of next year.
Perhaps you missed this SNIP: “Obama is a devoted husband and incompetent.”
Yet I’m hearing he’s a twinkletoes.
I think you’re right.
Soon the attention he’s getting will wane just a bit or he will at least preceive it does. Then he will start saying things to get more attention. Nothing he says that everyone agrees with will get attention. It will be something everyone disagrees with. We’ve already seen it with the immigration issue. We saw it again with the “apprentice janitor” statements. We’ll see it soon with something else.
I think Newt’s okay with not being president as long as he gets a lot of attention and thinks he’s saying something really, really smart that the rest of us are just too limited to understand.
The “convententional wisdom” that she had no chance I believe was incorrect. She could have redefined herself on her own terms had she really tried. She either would have risen to the occasion at the debates or not - but at least it would have been on the battlefield and succeeded or failed by her own doing.
I am more inclined to agree with you on that point tonight than I would have been three months ago, but what's done is done.
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