dforest wrote:
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I see any of the candidates on our side as changing a whole lot.
The negativism around here is ridiculous.
Obama sucks, people know it even though they may not be out there screaming it on the streets.
As Levin said, “an orange juice can is better than Obama”.
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THANK YOU! I don’t get all the idiotic negativity around here by FReepers who think Obama can’t be beaten in November. The truth is, his presidency has been a catastrophic FAILURE by any objective measure and his job approval numbers are WEAK going into an election year! There is absolutely NOTHING positive about his record that he can run on and I don’t care how many hundreds of millions of dollars he has in his “war chest”. Obama is as good as BURNT TOAST in November, though that COULD change if the hand-wringing Negative Nellies on our side don’t stop with all the damn self-defeatist talk!
Rick Santorum is leading for two reasons:
1. The public crusifixion of Newt Gingrich by Mitt Romney, the Media and establishment republicans. Much of which is inaccurate and some plain false. His own moral failings are public knowledge. (I am glad mine aren’t). But to think the others are innocent of moral failings is to discount much of the gospel. Newt is redeemed and forgiven by God, we would do well to do the same.
2. Ron Paul is unacceptable because of a naviee view of radical Islam and their purposes. Mitt Romney is the worse kind of politician, seeking office solely for the purpose of self interest...and does anything and everything to get elected.
Rick is what most people believe they have left. So they build him up in their own minds in order to get excited about his candidacy. He is an average Jr. Senator, that needs more seasoning, and in a sense a very average communicator. He will lose to Obama.
I AM NOT TRYING TO BE NEGATIVE JUST REALISTIC. THOSE WHO WISH TO MAKE RICK SANTORUM MORE THAN HE IS WILL NOT HELP HIM WIN. LOOKING AT HIM REALISTICALLY HELPS US IN MANY WAYS. VETTING IS THE NORMAL COURSE OF ALL GOOD POLITICAL ANYAYSIS.
-—Obama is as good as BURNT TOAST in November, though that COULD change if the hand-wringing Negative Nellies on our side don’t stop with all the damn self-defeatist talk!-—
Right on, right on!