Posted on 05/21/2011 4:06:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
Bad week for the Republicans; good week for the president. Mike Huckabee and Donald Trump said no to running against Barack Obama, and Newt Gingrich may already be on the ropes after criticizing Medicare reform -- a key issue for conservatives. Meanwhile, the president kept a low profile while basking in the demise of Osama bin Laden.
The Republican field is still wide open, but whoever decides to run should know this: You are not only challenging an incumbent president who will likely raise close to one billion dollars, but you are also going up against the elite media. If you thought the established press promoted Obama the first time around, wait until you see what lies ahead.
Even though the president has had a rocky time, especially where the economy is concerned, he remains the most liberal chief executive since Jimmy Carter. He shares many values with the majority of media people, and they are very protective of him. One example: Recently, on NBC's "Meet the Press," the moderator, David Gregory, questioned whether Gingrich's description of Obama as the "food stamp president" was a racist statement.
Gingrich told Gregory his question was "bizarre."
It was also typical.
When Trump advised the president to "get off the basketball court" and down to business, he was branded racist by a variety of mainstream pundits.
During my Super Bowl Sunday interview with Obama, I asked him if he was a football fan. Some loon on HBO immediately branded that question racist.
So we can expect anyone who challenges the president to be hit with the same nonsense. Every word GOP candidates utter will be analyzed for racial purity. The media will also closely scrutinize their social activities and associations, all with an eye on diminishing and ultimately destroying the challenger.
The upcoming election is personal for the press. If the president loses and his liberal philosophy is repudiated by the voters, the media outlets that have promoted him will lose, as well. The upcoming election is not about a man, but a philosophy. The liberal media want liberal policies. That trumps any kind of fair reporting.
So the Grand Old Party is up against it, and whoever emerges with the nomination better have a strong stomach. I don't expect Obama to sling mud; it isn't his style. But his Internet supporters and newsroom boosters will be ready, willing and able to do the dirty work.
Huckabee and Trump are smart guys. They know what's ahead. And it won't be pretty.
So 2012 is going to be just a sick as 2008?
Can’t wait..../sarc
This is another reason Palin will be a powerful foil to Obaman
Repeat after me ... loudly in the face of the nearest communist:
“YOU MEAN-SPIRITED SEXIST!”. :)
He is racist
BfS
The African presidope’s support of hostile entities against Israel is a bad week for him.
He meddles in places and tells those in power to get out of the way. Should there be a rebellion here, he would not get out of the way but perpetrate the biggest slaughter ever on our continent and create concentration camps, probably calling them re-education facilities, for surviving dissenters.
All of us here would be considered enemies of the state.
I can’t stand O’Reilly..what is he saying? Give up now and avoid the rush? Republicans had a bad week????? How about listing the current occupier in chief’s ‘accomplishments’ for the week. I think Republicans did just fine. Toomey’s speech on the deficit, the fact that we didn’t implode as Geithner tried to scare us into believeing...the Netanyahu smackdown...I think we hit a few high notes in there. Sit down Bill, your ego is shwing (when is it not?)
Ditch these RINOs—the sooner the better.
BTW—O’s racist. Backs are racist. Mexicans are racist.
DEAL WITH IT.
Didn’t say the same thing about Democrats in 91??
Good week for Obama? He sure kept a low profile. He’ll never pull himself off the ground after Bibi’s knockdown!
Why are the thoughts of Ted Baxter even written down and printed then posted?
WHAT? WHY 'O WHY did I delete those quotes of Obama's?
'If They Bring a Knife to the Fight, We Bring a Gun'
"They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
GOP are hostage takers
And more recently, the alligators in the moats.
What does O'Reilly think that was all about?
I would have said: “Mr Gregory, the majority of those on food stamps are white, not black. I think it is YOU who is a racist.”
BO’RE needs to stop smoking wacky tobacky.
Did he say that the President kept a low profile following the killing of OBL???????????
Is this really satire?
Saw BOR’s by-line. Will not read as he is a cheerleader for the establishment elites. I can sum up the article from the headline - unless the GOP nominates a strong establishment moderate Obama wins in 2012. Am I right?
O'Reilly might have written this Thursday, but I doubt it. He's definitely ignoring the Netanyahu smackdown of Obama. Obama's week ended with his looking like the lightweight that he is.
But O'Reilly is working toward another Obama interview.
So you are judging a book by it’s cover? Instead of jumping to conclusions before reading the article, why don’t you read it and then opine in. It’s really quite brief, or pithy. And you are wrong. He is not a cheerleader of the establishment elites. Just the opposite
He probably even wrote it before Thursday
Not a bad week for the Republicans the weak ones get weeded out and the democrats and MSM have to plan an ambush for who is going to replace Obama,going to be a fun race.
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