For all practical purposes, Obama has limitless campaign funding, not to mention his constant campaigning using the public coffers for travel and expenses.
No candidate, even with all we can muster, can compete with trillions in borrowing power and the continuous free ads from the press syncophants.
He has never left campaign mode, from day one. Every speech, every presence, every appearance has been a campaign speech.
The same or similar buzzwords, phrases, and psychological triggers continue to be used, and the same people are lapping it up.
Add in the willful misstatements of the press about Obama and those of us who oppose his policies and 2012 is no shoo-in.
Rather, it is and will be an uphill battle.
The press has been trying to bury the TEA party movement since day one, and will sieze on any opportunity to attack. The only innoculation against that is at the grass roots, for people to realize we have opposed the failed and failing policy of this administration since before Obama was sworn in, and that we offer clear alternatives.
The budget deal has not helped, in that the press is trying to blame the TEA party movement for the market reactions to the deal.
We've been predicting this insomuch as opposing raising debt limits without significant cuts obviously is like increasing credit card limits without changing spending habits--and no one has any faith in the alleged cuts, only new taxes.
With the success of this regime removing an unknown number of people from the tax rolls indirectly through layoffs, pay cuts, and other depredations caused by continuing and increased overregulation and the general destruction of our economy, the number of dependents who will call for more handouts (especially those off for a year or more) will increase, not diminish.
Continuing to present the Republican Party as the party of 'rich white men' (something the country-clubbers do little to refute) and the intensification of the class warfare meme will do little to help defeat incumbent Democrats and strong challengers, up to and including the White House.
We need to strike back at the 'rich white man' meme, most of us aren't so well heeled.
We need to strike further at the developing meme of 'they're so greedy they won't hire people' as well.
Few in their right mind, unless they have an oilfield service company, are hanging out signs for help wanted, especially with the onus of Obamacare looming (something conspicuously unmentioned in the cooked books environment of tallying economic and policy effects on the workforce). After years of assault on small (and large) business, the administration is misdirecting popular anger against the potential employer, rather than bear the frustration of the same people it has helped keep out of work through policy.
The outcomes have been predictable, and predicted for some time. There are no surprises, here, only the inexorable march of cause and effect, and the attempts of the administration and the MSM to lie about cause and effect.
The meme of 'class warfare' is becoming more a reality than a metaphor, with increasing flash mob and mob attacks, and there will likely be more of that as the media continue to incite violence by hammering that meme.
The media need to be held to account for their inflammatory rhetoric as well--people are being injured and will eventually be killed if this keeps up, either as victims or as the victims defend themselves from attack.
The hopeychangey administration of 'transparency' and 'unification' has been anything but--instead fomenting tension and fanning the flames of resentment along racial and economic lines, inciting demands that those who worked hard for what they have give it to others, often those others living far more opulent lifestyles than those they demand subsidy from.
Many who are approaching financial security have done so by living within their means, even if that meant smaller less lavishly appointed homes, used cars, and more utilitarian wardrobes, instead investing their money in their future and living modestly in the present.
For many, that means an absence of exotic vacations, if they took any vacation at all instead of spending 14 hour days building a business for their future and that of their posterity.
Now, the MSM would have those who would not lift anything heavier than their tongue believe they are entitled to a share of that posterity because they have little and those who have worked like slaves to provide for themselves allegedly have 'much'.
Yet, in the confiscatory nature of the redistribution of wealth, they would not only rob those who have labored for their sustenance, but they would rob others who would labor for theirs as well by consuming the resources which create jobs and opportunities for others who would work for their own future as well, all in the name of being "fair".
Typically, the Liberal definition of "fair" is anything but.
This needs to be emphasized, that the Orwellian nature of the "safety", "Fairness", "equality", "transparency", and "security" offered by the Obama regime is anything but what it is so deceivingly called.
If, and I predict that if our current course is maintained there will be, significant violent events come to pass, directed at those who have labored long and hard for their posessions, I pray those who are the targets of these events decisively defend all they have--including the lives and welfare of their families and neighborhoods--every bit as energetically as those who would take them attack.
Such incidents will be used against us all, without doubt, but it is better to suffer the lies of the press than lie beneath the soil, and when it occurs, we can only hope that the decisive defeat of mob tactics will give pause to any who might have considered such in the future.