Posted on 06/14/2011 5:47:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
Don't kid yourself: beating a seated President is NEVER a cakewalk. Knocking off Barack Hussein Obama won't be a snap either. He may raise as much as a billion dollars, the mainstream media will pull out all the stops to get him re-elected, and he has the power of the presidency to try to impact events. We also can't discount the possibility that the economy may improve, that Obama may do something right besides killing Bin Laden between now and the election, or the GOP may once again show everyone why it’s called “the stupid party" by choosing a terrible candidate.
That being said, Obama is a bush league President with some major league challenges.
To begin with, it might send a thrill up your leg to be able to say that you voted for the first black President, but once you've already done it, it's not nearly as exciting the second time around. Moreover, Obama's not going to be able to successfully run on "change," "hope," "unity," and being everything to everybody in 2012. Americans have already been there, done that, bought the t-shirt, and it's already too ratty to wear even when they're mowing the lawn.
This time around, Obama will have a rather significant record to run on and unfortunately for him, it's extremely unpopular with everyone but liberals. We have an economy in the toilet, a soaring jobless rate, a failed stimulus, massive debt, rocketing gas prices, funneling billions to his corporate cronies in bailouts, cash for clunkers, suing Arizona for trying to enforce immigration law, bungling the Gulf oil spill, starting another war in Libya, and the destruction of the American health care system via Obamacare. Running on that agenda would be like Neville Chamberlain running on his expert handling of Nazi Germany.
So, what will Obama and his allies run on in 2012 (Hat tip to Brooks Bayne for the idea)?
1) Yes, I am the President who got Osama Bin Laden! Why do you ask? Oh, you didn't? Well, let's talk about it anyway! Putting an extra hole in Bin Laden's skull and dumping him in Davy Jones’ locker is the one positive, popular accomplishment that Obama has to boast about. So, expect him to mention it. A lot. Like, as much as Rudy Giuliani used to talk about 9/11. When the only thing you have to run on is saying "Okey-Dokey" to the military when it tells you it wants to grease Osama Bin Laden, then you'll do just about anything short of putting out commemorative plates celebrating your decision.
2) I'm not George W. Bush! I swear! Running as the "Not-George W. Bush" candidate was an effective tactic in 2008. After all, W. was the sitting Republican President and he was extraordinarily unpopular. However, that tactic flopped for the Democrats in 2010. It’s even less likely to work for Obama in 2012 since Bush is more popular now and there's an actual agenda that Americans can judge President Hopey McUh-Uh-Uh on. Still, expect to hear plenty of mentions of George W. Bush between now and November of 2012, if only because the Left will hate to waste 8 years of over-the-top demonization.
3) There are lies, damned lies, and statistics -- then there's the Obama campaign! Democrats habitually lie because they just assume that the mainstream press will cover for them. Nine times out of ten, they're right. So, expect Obama to talk about how hard he's fought to get the debt under control, how many jobs he's "saved or created," and how successful the bailouts have been -- among many, many other fabrications. If the press won't call him on his fibs, a man like Obama will figure, "Drudge, Limbaugh, Fox, and Breitbart can't correct ALL of my lies. If the public buys even a few of them, then it is all worth it!"
4) Republicans want to slather your babies in mayo and eat them! When you've got a record that's as bad as Obama's, you get REAL INTERESTED in the other guy’s record, the things you can make up about his record, and the things you're sure he'll do if he's elected -- like leave old people to die in the street and bring back segregation. The mainstream media will, of course, be working overtime to introduce the GOP candidate to the American people. While we don't know EXACTLY what will be said, we do know that the GOP nominee will be portrayed as stupid or crazy, as well as heartless, evil, and racist by default -- since he will be, after all, disagreeing with a black man. In other words, the GOP candidate will be getting the full Sarah Palin treatment.
5) 2012 is the most racist period in American history since the Civil War! If Al Sharpton were President, he'd call his opponents "racist" outright. This is why Barack Obama is Al Sharpton 2.0. He'll be personally reluctant to do the deed. Instead, he'll let his supporters do it for him, give them a wink to show he approves, and try to maintain his completely phony "post-racial President" image. Meanwhile the Left, with Obama’s blessing, will be dealing out more race cards than Hallmark sells on Mother's Day -- while he keeps his hands clean.
We must elect a brilliant, really-really smart, intelligent, Progressive genius to the Presidency, one whose intelligence is off the charts because his mommy and the New York Times told him so.
(All those Republican/Conservative candidates are
nuckle-dragging, knee-jerk dopes who should go back to their trailers and shacks in the woods.)
/sarcasm/
Sounds just like the 2008 campaign..................
1) Saying “Obama got Bin Laden” is like saying Truman won WWII;
2) Except for extending and expanding the Bush Doctrine in Iraq, the Bush Doctrine in AFG, the Patriot Act, and getting us involved in two other wars, he isn’t;
3) The truth ALWAYS comes out... just ask Weiner, Clinton, Ahnold, and all the other $h!tbag politicians who got caught;
4) Just like vampires. Any RINO candidate will get softball treatment, because when the RINO president and his Socialism Lite policies drive the bus over the cliff, the press will be able to say “SEE! Conservativism killed America!”;
5) Only losers play the race card.
Excellent come back. You have to be sure that the Republican nominee gets that line! It would be devastating to use it right in the middle of a debate. Reaganesque!
All Mr. Obama and his democrat sycophants in congress have to do is claim that the republicans want to 'take that away from them' and he is a shoo-in for a second term, or even a third, fourth, fifth, etc. if he and his cronies can manage to have that pesky 22nd Amendment rescinded, gutted or ignored.
"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." — Alexis de Tocqueville (Democracy in America)
So you’re saying we will actually be better off if Obama wins a second term, assuming you are correct about Romney, and especially if the repubs retain the house and the dems lose the senate?
>> he has the power of the presidency to try to impact events
There is, however, a Higher Power than Obama; He works in mysterious ways, and I’m praying fervently that He deliver us from another Obama term.
More Obama call centers in Gaza? More secret donations from foreign ME countries? More voter fraud? More transparency? More union thugs goons helping?
And if these five talking points don’t get the job done Hussein always has ‘Win The Future’ to fall back on. I loved it when Sarah Palin shortened it to ‘WTF?’ in a speech a day or two after the Obama team launched their brilliant rallying cry for 2012.
RE #2, forgot to add: Obama actually IS unlike Bush: he cannot or will not control the rise in gas prices, he has doubled the deficit, he’s weak on defense, weak on energy policy, weak on the economy, anti-small business, military-loathing and anti- American.
Otherwise, he’s a globalist, pro-amnesty, pro-big government, pro-bailout politician who is exactly like George Bush.
They’ll keep it simple:
“Don’t let that uppity white girl beat Obama.”
Five Planks of the Obama Campaign
1. Corporations are Eeeeeeeeevil!
2. My goal is to create a $28K a year union job in
the “helping” fields for every American.
3. We can power our future with unicorn farts and the
perpetual motion machine.
4. Unless you are white and have testicles, life is unfair.
You need me to make it fair for you.
5. You’ll learn to love Sharia Law. Trust me on that!
I think the Republican Party would be better served by instituting state caucuses to select delegates rather than having primaries. Oh, you can still have a primary in each state, just don't assign delegates to the GOP convention that way (or at least not vary many). Some states already do it this way (both a state caucus & a primary). You can prevent a lot of the "party-switching" games this way.
1) You’re racist!
2) I need another four years to finish destroying everything.
3) Trillion+ dollar deficits equals fiscal responsibility.
4) I’m sure there’s an ally I haven’t completely pissed off yet.
5) Uh... uh... gotta go — tee time!
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