I agree, and I think that attitude is party-wide. I also suspect Romney and the GOPe don't want to win, either.
2013 on (and maybe the end of 2012) is going to be an economic nightmare that no one can avert. It might not be as bad under Romney, but circumstances are beyond any politician's control. Whoever is in office will get the blame. If O is reelected and the USSA survives, no democrat will be elected again for 50 years. Same with Romney and the GOP
I wouldn't take the presidency if you handed it to me (I would take the office of king. No president has ever "fixed" a crisis, but I would unleash the private sector, the people who can fix, and have fixed, it).
There will be a correction coming. I do think if Federal and State spending and payrolls are reduced it will be fine. However if there is no change in all Gov spending, it will be a 1930’s style of economy. If the EU and the Euro fail, that will actually help the US and of course China will have some internal strife to include a civil war and GDP contractions that will help the US as well. The TEA party has to win and make sure Gov’t spend at all levels is cut.
One other factor that is not discussed at all: Record numbers of Boomers will be hitting there statistical end of life dates in the next 5-7 years. What happens when the Boomers are dropping dead like flies..... Cricket Cricket....
Another Cricket Cricket item is the long term effect of abortion on the ecomonics of this Country. Can’t kill off, 42M people and not have an impact.
As for Othugga, he and many others know he is a complete Fraud, soup to nuts, Milli-Vinilla type of Fraud. His swang song will make Jimmy Carters post Office years look tame. He knows he is toast for many reasons. Othugga will continue his hate America program at the UN with glee and renewed support, minus the Clintons and the Joe Biden types. The US will have to leave the UN or move the UN to Moscow, Paris or Pyongyang, were it belongs. The One will be beating the US like a rented Mule and he will just like John Swift boat Kerry, be tossing his creditials in protest while consorting with known enemies of the US.