“We could nominate Elmer Fudd and still beat Obama.”
I’ve seen the Stupid Party lose to JFK, LBJ, Bozo Carter, Slick Willy Clinton (twice), and the Bamturd once. I try never to underestimate their ability to put together a deadly-accurate circular firing squad.
I mean, if they were smart, people wouldn’t have been calling them “the Stupid Party” for decades.
I was only around for Carter and Clinton, so I can only speak to them.
The GOP lost to Carter as they would have lost to a monkey running on the Dem ticket.
Do you remember a little thing called “Watergate”? People didn’t hate Nixon so much as the GOP was being punished for Watergate. There was no way any Republican was going to win in the cycle following Watergate. It had nothing to do with the GOP being stupid or running a poor campaign.
Now again, why did Bill Clinton win? It was because that idiot Daddy Bush had to violate his ironclad, irreversible, set-in-stone pledge “Read my lips. No new taxes.”
The GOP base punished him for breaking his tax pledge.
So in neither case did the GOP run bad campaigns or run bad candidates. In both cases, the GOP was poison for that cycle, due to errors by the incumbent GOP presidents.
Looking at it more deeply, I would say BOTH parties lost power in every cycle since Nixon, because the incumbent president always made some mistake they were punished for.
In 2008, Baby Bush alienated the GOP base by doubling the national debt in 8 years and growing government by leaps and bounds. GOP voters punished him by not turning out in adequate nubmers.
In 2000, Clinton alienated the Democratic base who were sick of his perverted antics with the entire Lewinski affair. They may have hated Ken Starr, but make no mistake, the Democrat voters punished the Democrat party for Clinton’s horndog antics.
Before that, Clinton rode in in 1992 on the back of Daddy Bush’s broken tax pledge.
If the “stupid party” was so stupid, then why is it that Daddy Bush got elected in 1988. That happened because the nation was rewarding Ronald Reagan for doing a stellar job of cleaning up Carter’s economic mess, and taking down the Soviet Union.
And how did Reagan win in 1980? He won because Carter was a buffoon who made a string of mistakes like losing Iran to the Mullahs, the worst of which was the “malaise” of Stagflation during which most people experienced the worst economy in 25 years. The voters punished Carter for incompetence.
So if you really study it carefully, you can see that every change of party came from an idiotic mistake made by an incumbent president.
Nixon’s Watergate coverup begat Carter.
Carters stagflation begat Reagan.
Bush’s broken tax promise begat Clinton.
Clinton’s Lewinski scandal begat Baby Bush.
Baby Bush’s ruinous spending and government growth begat Obama.
Now Obama has presided over the first economic depression since 1940 and worsened it while catapulting the national debt to new levels.
He is going to be punished with a change of party in the White House.
This logic is simple and obvious. And even the worst mistakes by the stupid party won’t save Obama from being punished by a weary electorate that is terrified about the economy.
This is why it is all the more frustrating we may have to live with that idiot RINO Romney. We have a guaranteed lock for president. We should have nominated someone like Jim Demint. I hope Santorum wins and turns out to be conservative. Romney will be a certain disaster ala Juan McLame.