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Prediction: Romney Crushes Obama In Presidential Election Blowout
http://www.forbes.com ^
| 5/22/2012
| Bill Frezza
Posted on 05/24/2012 12:11:48 PM PDT by BO Stinkss
Put this column in a drawer and take it out on the date below. Let me know how many of these predictions I got right.
November 7, 2012 It may not be morning in America, but be thankful that its not the dawn of the living dead. With civil war breaking out in Greece, Spain in chaos as it seeks to exit the euro, California preparing to file bankruptcy following the failure of Governor Jerry Browns budget referendum, and Portland, Oakland, and Seattle busy clearing the rubble from the devastation of their Occupy fires, the American electorate has finally said Enough!
The great experiment in progressive democracy is over. Convincing a majority of American voters that they can live at someone elses expense proved a bridge too far, as those same voters watched the social democracies of Europe unravel. When presented with a choice between two presidential candidates with diametrically opposed visions of the proper role of government, Americans chose to step back from the abyss.
To no ones surprise, the campaign was ugly. As each successive poll revealed incumbent President Barack Obama slipping further behind, the Obama camps attacks grew ever shriller. Class, gender, race, religion, ethnicity, sexualitynot variant of identity politics was left untapped in what turned out to be a futile attempt to divide the electorate into warring camps and shift the debate to anything besides the deteriorating economy and the cataclysmic national debt.
The Supreme Courts evisceration of Obamacarethe presidents signature accomplishmentset the tone for a long, hot summer. The Occupy movements escalating campaign of violence, which culminated in major street battles at both national conventions, did little to help Obamas cause. Persistently high unemployment, coupled with an inflationary uptick as the Federal Reserve made a desperate attempt to launch yet another round of quantitative...
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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blowout; election2012; onetermobama; sourcetitlenoturl
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To: Patton@Bastogne
Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin win the election in a Ronald Reagan Landslide That IS a cool dream, isn't it? Too bad it doesn't even come close to comporting with reality, but neither do dreams of winning the lottery.
But hey... it's great to dream...
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posted on
05/24/2012 1:48:24 PM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(Buying Drain-O requires photo I.D... yet voting doesn't???)
To: All
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posted on
05/24/2012 1:56:22 PM PDT
by
onyx
(FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY!!!)
To: hedgetrimmer
I think the most accurate description is Corporatism. This is also Obama’s philosophy.
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posted on
05/24/2012 2:04:37 PM PDT
by
D-fendr
(Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
To: Patton@Bastogne
I’d like to see your math; I don’t agree that Romney will be short 500 delegates. Last I looked he seemed likely to not be short any.
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posted on
05/24/2012 2:08:37 PM PDT
by
D-fendr
(Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
To: Patton@Bastogne
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posted on
05/24/2012 2:23:13 PM PDT
by
altura
To: LS
Rush has been saying for a long time that there are more conservatives than liberals.
Sometimes it’s hard to believe because of the media but I think he’s right.
Even if people still think they are liberal or moderate, most of them don’t believe in abortion or gun control or unions taking over our schools or gay marriage or any of the other popular liberal issues.
Most people still believe in capitalism.
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posted on
05/24/2012 2:31:17 PM PDT
by
altura
To: comebacknewt
don’t discount the great FREEPER VOTE....we’ll get bamey back into office no matter what Holder does...:(
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posted on
05/24/2012 2:31:56 PM PDT
by
cherry
To: Patton@Bastogne; The Cajun; 03A3; Sergio; yantis; BO Stinkss; ExCTCitizen; D-fendr; altura
I don't recall that George Wahington cheated on his wife, was divorced twice, or that he bouned checks. Remember it was also said of George Washington that he would not tell a lie. Is your prediction also that Gingrich talks out of two sides of his mouth?
That said the strategy you have is a bit dated (5/4/2012).
To wit:
"Newt Gingrich took the stage at the Georgia Republican Party state convention on Saturday wearing a Mitt Romney sticker, focusing his attacks on President Barack Obama and attempting to energize the crowd around his former Republican rival."
"To every conservative, everywhere in America: When your choice on the one hand is Barack Obama, and your choice on the other hand is Mitt Romney, no serious conservative could possibly believe that electing Barack Obama is acceptable ... for America."
"Gingrich to Georgia GOP: Let's rally around Romney" The Florida Times Union May 19, 2012
Cain, Santorum, Bachmann, Gingrich, et. al., have already endorsed Romney.
Here's a better strategy:
How's this for a novel idea: Run with your proposed cabinet
FReegards!
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posted on
05/24/2012 2:34:04 PM PDT
by
Agamemnon
(Darwinism is the glue that holds liberalism together)
To: D-fendr
This is from the CSMonitor site about Putin's Russia, but the same 'managed democracy' has been studied and instituted by a long list of American politicians in part with the Bohemian Grove club-- republican and democrat, Reagan and Kissinger, going in to the G8.
The similarities to today's political environment are remarkable.
Russia-watchers will be scrutinizing these polls closely because they represent the pinnacle of "managed democracy," the somewhat paradoxical electoral system constructed over the past decade by Vladimir Putin(and our political 'elite'), which creates the detailed impression of functioning multi-party political competition while ensuring that outcomes fall within a range dictated by the Kremlin.(which is why both parties have been leading us down the same path, albeit the republicans only minorly slower than the democrats)
But opposition leaders, even those whose parties are represented on the ballot, offer a completely different picture. They describe
a carefully stage-managed system in which
candidate lists are winnowed by Kremlin apparatchiks (or,republican and democrat party 'elites') in which opposition politicians must scramble for tiny crumbs of media coverage(we surely see this), and local officials use a variety of heavy-handed tactics to contain their campaigns within tightly enclosed limits. Some warn that authorities may resort to large-scale vote-rigging on election day(and we see this), as has been credibly reported in the past, if voters turn against the ruling party in decisive numbers.
Now, with a grain of salt, see what the Carnegie Endowment has to say: Managed democracy controls society while providing the appearance of democracy. Its main characteristics are as follows:
1. A strong presidency and weak institutions (the destruction of the department of defense and military by Obama for example
2. State control of the media( the absolute abdication of the media in vetting candidates and the multitude of Obama crimes against the Republic, including the creation of a multitude of Czars and the Executive Orders that force conforming with international socialist organization goals such as the UN.
3. Control over elections allows elites to legitimize their decisions 4. Visible short-term effectiveness and long-term inefficiency
The result is an unstable stability based on the presidents personality. He is actually a hostage of the system (grain of salt.
The corporatist angle is correct, I think what has happened here is that we have a 'business-managed democracy'. With all the techniques learned from the Soviets. When you really boil it down, a corporation is just a collective after all.
To: Fresh Wind
Baby Doc Baraq Most excellent, I really like that. Do I have your permission to use that?
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posted on
05/24/2012 2:44:22 PM PDT
by
Licensed-To-Carry
(Hey Obama! All you have done is awaken a sleeping giant and filled us with a terrible resolve!!)
To: hedgetrimmer
I don’t think we have near the amount control the Soviets had or have.
Romney could have been beat - either with a stronger candidate or more unity in opposition.
I say Corporatism because that is the form of government closest to Obama’s view and efforts.
Thanks for your reply.
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posted on
05/24/2012 2:46:54 PM PDT
by
D-fendr
(Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
To: BO Stinkss
This article is flight into fancy.
First, I am willing to bet Obama's minions have threatened SCOTUS members with death if they overturn Obamacare.
Seriously, the downfall of the media? They are gaining power by the SECOND through their partnership with Big Government.
If anything, Romney will give the government and media MORE power.
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posted on
05/24/2012 2:59:44 PM PDT
by
backwoods-engineer
(I will vote against ANY presidential candidate who had non-citizen parents.)
To: Patton@Bastogne
"Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin will be the 2012 GOP Nominees in Tampa". Bull. The GOP Establishment LOATHES Palin.
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posted on
05/24/2012 3:01:36 PM PDT
by
backwoods-engineer
(I will vote against ANY presidential candidate who had non-citizen parents.)
To: 03A3
I think you missed the point - voters won’t have to “hold their noses” if Mitts isn’t the candidate after all???
To: CanuckYank
I think that was exactly my point. You have to be smoking crack to think he wont be.
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posted on
05/24/2012 4:02:03 PM PDT
by
03A3
To: Patton@Bastogne
Excessive paragraph breaks should be as grievous as posting in all caps. That was painful to skim.
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posted on
05/24/2012 4:38:09 PM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
To: Licensed-To-Carry
Of course you can use it. I stole it from someone else!
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posted on
05/24/2012 4:57:54 PM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
('People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
To: BO Stinkss
When presented with a choice between two presidential candidates with diametrically opposed visions of the proper role of government...I wish that were true.
To: BO Stinkss
When presented with a choice between two presidential candidates with diametrically opposed visions of the proper role of government...I wish that were true.
To: BO Stinkss
———Convincing a majority of American voters that they can live at someone elses expense proved a bridge too far, -——
That’s the one thing that worries me about the upcoming election.....
Have we as a country crossed the rubicon where more people think not voting for Obama means the “living off someone else “ will end and vote for him to continue the free ride???
We are close...
Otherwise Romney should wipe the map....
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posted on
05/24/2012 5:33:11 PM PDT
by
Popman
(America is squandering its wealth on riotous living, war, and welfare.)
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