It is important that the Republicans and conservatives impress the meme that Obama is a “lame duck”, early and often in their public debates, as in Washington, this perception soon becomes self fulfilling.
That is, it starts to strongly undermine his present power, the more and more people start thinking about “post-Obama” America. And any stumble he makes is magnified.
It also means that candidates start to both disassociate themselves with him, and to speak out more against his policies.
‘Lame duck’ is good and is being repeated. I liked ‘a moribund presidency’ that I saw in the Washington Post yesterday. It REALLY cheered me up.