You are 100% correct. Obama has hoped to run against Mitt for 4 years now. He’s the McCain of 2012. They started the whole 1% campaign in preparation for their 2012 campaign, painting Romney as the defender of the 1%. Simple fact that sadly many freepers are ignorant enough to deny.
Romney can win, but so can most anyone in this environment. Too many on the right think Obama is some sort of challenge to beat. He is easy to beat with his record. Our side has won 90+ percent of elections in the past 3 years running against the Obama agenda. He is formidable, but very beatable. Many here fall for the propaganda of the left. Why are Nelson and so many Dems running for retirement? They are going to be in the minority for at least 2-4 more years, and the White House is unlikely to survive in anti-incumbent era where their footprints are all over the highest unemployment, lowest growth, and lowest consumer sentiment in modern history.
There is one good argument for letting Obama get reelected if all we’re going to get is Obama-lite as the alternative. Obama will be hamstrung by gridlock from the Republican congress, which we’re unlikely to lose. He will have a lame-duck presidency and then be barred from ever running again.
If Obama is defeated, and we get a liberal-leaning Republican like Mitt whose policies don’t turn the country around, Obama can come back like Nixon and defeat him in 4 years, bringing a much more liberal Congress in with his coattails.
A bad, failed Republican presidency does not help us in the long run. It just paves the way for a bigger comeback for Democrats. We need to pick the MOST CONSERVATIVE candidate who can win. Ceding our principles in our own party before we even start the election is a disaster. Do you believe those principles are good for the country or not? How does having an “R” attached to bad principles help us make our party more popular or successful?
It’s extremely short-term thinking to think we need to put up a liberal Republican just to win this election, while not seeing how that sets us up for bigger failures in the future and even an Obama comeback.