they risk Obama bringing down their entire ticket
Obama and senior advisers:
Obama: "so lets toss heads I get re-elected....Tails I don't"
Senior advisor: "your chances of being reelected are about the same as for the coin landing on its edge"
Posted on 11/02/2011 11:41:29 PM PDT by neverdem
“It showed 42 percent saying the president deserves reelection...”
Knock 10 points off that number, and set it at 32 percent. There’s a bunch of Americans who will never admit they hate obuma’s guts because they don’t want people to think they’re racist. But in the voting booth, they will never pull the lever for the Chicago thug.
Lol I hope you are wrong! The marxists are down and I don’t see them getting back by time of the GE. The younger ‘rats have zero faith in Zero and we would have to be suffering from the utmost foolery not to surf to victory on a landslide.
The Dccc is pretty gutsy. To state that Barry the Imposter has REDUCED DEBT is beyond gutsy, IMO.
One option which Prez BHO has noted is ‘one & done’ and IMHO this could be the easiest way for the Democrat Party to survive by their proven method of promoting failure upwards. After all Obama is highly regarded by the Internationalist.
they risk Obama bringing down their entire ticket
Obama and senior advisers:
Obama: "so lets toss heads I get re-elected....Tails I don't"
Senior advisor: "your chances of being reelected are about the same as for the coin landing on its edge"
Well the media has tried and your presupposition is that they havent started trying yet. It has been full court press with them for years now and has gotten them where they are today.
I wasn’t aware that it was the job of the Republican leadership to impose a candidate. Nor am I aware that there is some shadowy party leadership that could do so. That’s certainly not what the RNC is about.
Long before the primaries actually decide the nominee, there is a PR battle (a primary of the polls) to determine starting positions out of the gate as the actual primaries and caucuses begin. This is akin to qualifying at the Indy 500; there are no guarantees, but it sure helps to start in the first two rows. This is the stage we’re in now.
And long before the primary of the polls, there is a primary of the donors, to see who can generate the financial support to build strong, broad, and deep organizations and compete in paid media. This is where Romney has built most of his advantage. There is no fluke about it. He is a highly capable guy, he’s been around the presidential track before, which is usually a huge advantage, and he’s been preparing this run for four years. Experience and preparation are important, as some of our self-destructing newbies are demonstrating.
Cain, Perry, and Bachman have excited a lot of people and any of them could still win, though the odds are lengthening daily. Each of them will be a much more polished, less accident prone contender in four years, should they choose to try again. Seasoning is invaluable. But the real story this year is the absence of Huckabee, Daniels, Barbour, Palin, etc. There are several people in the party who could have matched Romney’s strengths while running well to his right. But they’re on the sidelines.
The problem with newbies is that, lacking practice and sometimes short on preparation, they tend to make a lot of slips, and when the MSM is a wholly owned subsidiary of the other side, slips quickly become fatal. At this point, the newbies are putting themselves deep into come from behind territory, and that’s a tough assignment unless Romney starts making mistakes. Cain still has a chance to claim the pole position, but he has to step up his game fast.
I could be completely wrong about this, but I just don't see her running for president again. She's even said she's not interested, but folks around here refuse to believe her.
I've watched her since '08, and made that call before she came out and said it.
Count on voters being wooed over yet again by lofty promises of what Obama says he will do, rather than looking at his record of consistent failure—all of which will be explained away as the fault of the “do-nothing Republican Congress.”
First, the GOP only controls the House. The rats control the Senate.
I don't care to be overconfident, but the GOP got 60% of the white vote in 2010 for the first time ever. Which rat demographic groups have any reason to compensate for those numbers? Add in all of Obama's failures.
But the media doesn't have the clout it used to have. Very few people believe them anymore.
While it's true that 110% support by the media helped Obama win in 2008, it's also true that every other conceivable circumstance was on his side:
1. Widespread revulsion of all things Bush.
2. Among conservatives, widespread revulsion of McCain.
3. The Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac bomb (the timing of which was exquisite, suggesting it may have been planned).
4. The national case of White Guilt...and the impulse for "The First Black President".
In this context, I submit that the MSM's support was no more than the fifth most important factor in Obama's victory.
And, presumably, none of the four factors above will be in play during 2012.
Nowadays, the media are still offering 110% support for Obama. Yet, he has only a 42% approval rating -- and his "strongly approve/strongly disapprove" is deeply underwater (approx. 20/45).
The left still counts on the support of the MSM. But they over-estimate its power -- which is greatly diminished from what they have counted upon in the past.
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