No matter how it`s spun, Palin`s backing was simply too confined to her fan base. Voters beyond that group weren`t going to throw their support behind her.
And, yes, the “media” will dutifully serve their masters in the DNC by going hard into opposition research against Cain. As with they did vs. Palin, what they can`t find, they`ll invent. They`re going to want to throw Cain off-message as much and as often as possible.
One narrative the “media” will trot out is Cain`s history with cancer.. they`ll frame it around whether it`s “wise” to elect someone who could “die in office in this unstable and challenging time.”
As for Romney, the “media” attack dogs have a special plan for him. Once he secures the nomination, watch for widespread attacks on his Mormon religion. Those attacks won`t subside until The onslaught produces a comfortable double-digit lead for 0bama.
I`ve always maintained that..no matter his poll numbers... while an almost perfect campaign could result in a win for the GOP nominee, 0bama is going to be extremely difficult to defeat. The forces in the “media,” the mobs he`s currently field-testing, the likely $1B he`s going to have at his disposal, and .. through it all.. a lingering desire of Americans to find reasons to like him are all powerful advantages.
And let`s also not forget the “0bama-killed-bin-Laden” propaganda movie (one that would make Leni Riefenstahl proud) slated for premiere in mid-October next year.
You all seem to be caught up in personalities. You all don't seem to understand the rate the U.S.A is declining when we should be rising. The country and so the world is in deep trouble.
“Once he secures the nomination, watch for widespread attacks on his Mormon religion.”
I personally couldn’t care if the Republican nominee declares he’s a PASTAFARIAN, and declares that he worships the Great Spaghetti Monster next year.
America cannot survive another 4 years of this race to totalitarianism. Remember something, Hillary Clinton was TOO CONSERVATIVE for the Chomskiite disciples we now have in charge of our government.
Bingo. It'll work, too. I personally don't mind Mormons. I don't find their theology to be any more fantastic than the Catholic's doctrine of Transubstantiation -- but it is strange enough to make a lot of people uncomfortable.
They'll hammer it. There will be a lot of special reports on the early days of the LDS church, on polygamy, the Mountain Meadow Massacre, etc.
It's the primary reason, I believe, why the MSM is pushing the Republicans so hard to nominate Mitt. They know they can take him out.
If you haven't had a job for two or three years;
and you remember having jobs or the asking under Bush;
and then you're told you don't pay enough in taxes;
by someone who jet-sets to tony Martha's Vineyard and luxury resorts all over the world;
with his lard-ass wife who says YOU'RE too fat...
All the demonization of the opponents in the world won't help.
His only hope is to station Black Panthers at ALL polling stations.
That will lead to civil war and a sudden, ugly end to the left in this country.
Cheers!
This election will not be a cakewalk for the GOP, but Obama will not be extremely difficult to defeat. The US economy is still going to be very soft on election day and that will be the biggest issue in the election. I don’t think attacks on Perry, Cain, or any other GOP candidate are really effective given the huge number of personal attacks that have occurred in elections over the last 20 years. It takes an awfully serious and substantiated accusation to get the attention of the voters after all the attacks they’ve seen in recent years. When people go in to cast their votes in November 2012 they are going to care about the economy and not about relatively minor issues raised in MSM attacks on the GOP candidate.
Cain could give Obama a thrashing but he’s a risky candidate because we really don’t know how well the GOP’s conservative base in the battleground states will support an African-American candidate, especially after seeing the disastrous policies of the first black president. The results of a Cain-Obama election are very tough to predict: Cain could win in a huge landslide if conservative white voters turn out to vote for him and he wins just 30% of the black vote nationwide. But Cain could also lose if white voters are simply unenthusiastic about Cain and there is a low GOP turnout.
Perry could crush Obama if he just moves to the right on immigration and health care and develops a solid alternative health care policy to replace the dreadful Obamacare law. Perry needs to work on his speaking and develop just a dozen long paragraphs on the key issues that he can repeat in answers to questions (with some variation from day to day). Perry needs to push the simple powerful message that Obamacare has seized control of the health care costs of business owners and business is reacting to Obamacare by minimizing hiring and headcount. Business owners are minimizing the number of people they employ in an effort to minimize the risk of uncontrolled health care costs dictated by Washington. Trust me on this, business owners are terrified by the way Washington has seized control of their health care costs and created a huge uncertain future financial risk for all business owners and corporate managers. Their natural reaction to this new financial risk is absolutely killing job growth in America. Perry and other GOP candidates need to make this point forcefully and continually about how Obamacare is killing job growth in American and how this problem will get even worse as full implementation of Obamcare in 2014 moves closer.
Perry can crush and destroy Obama next year if improves his communication skills and gets his message across to voters, especially about how he can get our economy and job growth rolling again (...repeal and replace Obamacare is a great start). Perry has very strong, appealing personal style and charm, as does Romney, but Romney is way too liberal for Republicans and will never win the nomination. Both Cain and Perry can crush Obama next year, but Cain is the riskier candidate and Perry is almost a sure winner if he moves to the right on immigration and improves his message on how he will successfully repeal and replace Obamacare and get our economy rolling again.