Posted on 11/18/2011 8:07:56 AM PST by SeekAndFind
For some time now, many conservatives have thought that President Obama is the Second Coming of Jimmy Carter. They think that chronic 9% unemployment, creeping inflation, and a foreign policy of self-abasement and weakness will doom Obama to a single term, and that he'll slink off with his tail between his legs in disgrace, just like Carter did after 1980.
Maybe they should be thinking about the election of 1996 instead.
Does anyone remember the disaster that was Bill Clinton's first term? The first attempt to put gays in the military, the first attack on the World Trade Center by Muslim fanatics, and the "Assault Weapons" Ban? The proposal to raise taxes, increase spending, and downsize the military? Hillary arrogantly proclaiming that she was no little Tammy Wynette standing by her man and baking cookies? That she would revamp the entire health care system, by herself, in secret, without congressional input? Does anyone remember the Waco debacle, which led directly to the Oklahoma City bombing, and Clinton's allegation that it was the fault of talk radio? Does anyone remember the landslide Republican victory in the House in 1994, breaking forty straight years of Democratic control -- a massive rebuke of the Clinton administration?
And yet...Clinton got re-elected in 1996. He didn't just squeak by, either -- he won a crushing 379-159 victory in the Electoral College and beat the Republican ticket by eight and a half percent in the popular vote.
Conservatives were in shock. How could this happen? Answer: after the 1994 conservative revolution in the midterm elections, the Republican 1996 presidential campaign turned into the Revenge of the Flaming Moderates. The Republican primaries featured banal, milquetoast candidates like Lamar Alexander (whose campaign strategy was to don a flannel shirt and stand in front of a sign ...
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The only way the nation survives another 4 years of...this is if the G.O.P. keeps the House and takes the Senate 58/42.
60 would be ideal in the Senate but America just isn’t that smart.
I’ve been saying that there is a strong possibility of barky being re-elected for some time. Why:
1. His base will turn out.
2. The average voter is nowhere near as conservative as the average FReeper.
3. The idea of a free lunch continues to sell.
4. The economy will probably recover somewhat by the election.
5. For those who are negatively affected by the economy, they aren’t going to vote for those who they think will cut what benefits they do receive.
6. The gop’s world classs skill in snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
I don’t think barky will win by a landslide, but I think he has a better than even chance of re-election. The question is, will he be any worse in the long run than the candidate the gop nominates?
Possibly worse.
“Might as well kill off the republican brand to rebuild it for 2016.”
Why rebuild it?
Clinton was able to outmanuever a disastrously arrogant Newt Gingrich. Let us not forget how stupidly Newt barreled his way through, without any serious strategy. Dick Morris was able to turn Newt into Clinton’s foil as early as Jaunary 1996, when he started running ads against him and then Dole.
I do see Obama’s Occupy movement as waiting in the wings to take advantage of that destabilization.
Well said, add my prayers as well!
Regards,
GtG
Obama will certainly be very hard to defeat. Nevertheless, every Republican candidate, with the possible exception of Ron Paul, would be a better President than Obama—maybe not a better candidate, but certainly a better President. In addition, all Tea Partiers, most Republicans, and probably most independents really love America, which is something that cannot be said of Obama, the MSM, or many Democrats (certainly not the OWS Democrats).
Therefore, we have a lot going for us. Granted, every Republican candidate has significant flaws; but if we can remember what we have going for us, remember what is at stake, keep our eyes on the prize, and devote a reasonable amount of time, money, and energy toward winning that prize, we can defeat Obama.
Yes, as much as I have problems with Newt and Perry should Cain not rise to the top (or even Bachman), I’d grudgingly vote affirmatively. I will not under ANY circumstance cast a vote for Romney....in 1996, Dole was the “previously” picked last of the greatest generation. His campaign was lost from the start, yet obediently obligatory for the Republicn masses...we’ve learned a damned sight more after McLame and it ain’t gonna happen again with Romney..
There are far more differences between now and 1996 than there are similiarities, but we still need to work as though we're far behind.
2012 is not like 1996. Imagine 1980, had Ronald Reagan surrendered to the pundits and GOP elites who said that he was “too old” and “too extreme,” and announced he wasn’t running. That’s what 2012 will be like.
LLS
Reasons for 1996 -
1. “it was his turn” the already rejected-for-president fossil Bob Dole.
2. Ross Perot, the “handgrenade with a bad haircut” and IMHO, Democrat.
2012 election?? The Stoopid Party will do it’s best to lose it. That’s why we need a non-establishment candidate, any one of them.
“Because they do not deserve the name... they have tarnished the name but we can make it what it once was... a light for Liberty and Freedom for all... and prosperity for those that are willing to try for it.”
The brand is irrevocably compromised. Sort of like trying to rehabilitate the the brand name “thalidomide.” I’d prefer that the gop simply go the way of the whigs and have something better replace it.
Shocking as it would be to me, the way the gop is doing lately I might yet get my wish.
Obama’s reelection strategy is open for all to see
1) He can’t and won’t and never has run on his record. Every election he has been in is vote against the other guy. He is using the do nothing congress trick this time. We should agree with him and announce the Democrats should be voted out of congress.
2) He wants to use the OWS as his Tea Party. He saw the power the Tea party got and he wants to use it for his reelection. Look for a return next Sept.
3) I don’t know what it will be but some sort of manufactured crisis that he can exploit. The same way he used the financial crisis for his first term. More economic or OWS and riots I don’t know
Either through reformation or a new party for Conservatives... if it happens... I will be there.
LLS
Still think you should qualify to vote. I know it would never fly, but seems like just plain common sense.
How about this? If you're not a citizen, if you have no ID, if you don't pay federal income taxes, if you're on welfare, and if you're not a vet, (or related to one - spouse or children), you don't vote. I wonder what The Founders would say today about who can vote. . .
Obama is the ‘devil they know’, and that’s why he’ll win.
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