All politicians are individuals, but also tools of an ideology. Though it was Hillary’s “turn”, a majority of Democrat caucus and primary voters realized Obama was the greater weapon. With BHO, the left gets a guy who can make far left positions come across as reasonable to a majority of Americans. Don’t underestimate how important that is. He has the communication skills to make radical look reasonable - at least to a majority (which is increasingly made up of non producers). Obama is a skilled orator and takes the edge off scary positions that the population might have otherwise fiercely rejected. This is not a compliment of Obama, it’s a recognition of what we are up against.
This country is in a lot of trouble and the right is going to have to find a way to unite as some kind of credible opposition - and put our best candidates and ideas forward. We don’t have time for a bunch of Alex Jones crazy conspiracy talk. Here’s a good example. Alex Jones was on with Piers Morgan the other night and came off as a mentally unstable crazy person. He did the 2nd amendment no favors and made gun rights folk look bad. Ben Shapiro went on the same show a few nights later and calmly, rationally made Piers Morgan look like a dope. We need far less Alex Jones types, and far more Ben Shapiro’s representing the opposition to the left.
>>With BHO, the left gets a guy who can make far left positions come across as reasonable to a majority of Americans.<<
Yeah... that must be why the House turned hard right in 2010. Because “Obamacare” appeared reasonable to a majority of Americans... jeez