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The 2012 Presidential Race: On Your Mark, Get Set, Go!
Pajamas Media ^ | Sept. 26 | Jennifer Rubin

Posted on 09/27/2009 7:29:19 AM PDT by AJKauf

It is far from clear who will actually jump into the 2012 race, but we are getting a sense of the opening lines of the campaign. There are four of them already in circulation.

First: “It turns out experience matters.” Obama ran with inexperience as a badge of honor and “change” as his message. The result is a mound of debt, a confused and erratic foreign policy, and a campaign-obsessed and governance-challenged president. Maybe it is time, the contenders will argue, for someone who has done something, built something, or run something before getting to the White House. Competency matters and executive leadership skills which go beyond speechifying make all the difference between failure and success.

Second: “The American people were had.” Conservatives early on sniffed out Obama as an ultra-liberal with a big government agenda, but it took an entire campaign and the better part of a year in office for most Americans to figure it out....

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
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To: AJKauf

I hope that when 2012 rolls around and genuine Conservatives take the presidency, that the birth certificate issue will be resolved and all who were part of the conspiracy to defraud the American public are brought to justice.


21 posted on 09/27/2009 10:23:31 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Obama, you stop lying; we'll stop callin' you a LIAR.)
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If they roll out the same old hacks that couldn’t get elected before, Huckabee, Romney, McCain, etc., then we will be doomed to another 4 years of communism. We need fresh CONSERVATIVE blood with principles and integrity.


22 posted on 09/27/2009 10:26:39 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Obama, you stop lying; we'll stop callin' you a LIAR.)
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