Posted on 06/09/2013 9:31:08 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Limbaugh Theorem is Rush’s explanation of why, according to the polls, most Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction but don’t hold President Obama accountable for it. Even in the midst of scandals, his job approval rating remains relatively high.
The theorem explains that people don’t associate Obama with the bad state of affairs because he’s always campaigning, fundraising, deflecting blame, feigning indignation, and talking about events in the Capitol as if he’s an outsider and not the man in charge. As a result, nothing sticks to him.
During his recent speech about terrorism at the National Defense University in Washington, Obama amazingly set himself in opposition to his own administration. He talked about a “perpetual war” that will prove to be “self-defeating, and alter our country in troubling ways,” as if he doesn’t have any control over the situation. He spoke about Guantanamo Bay, where “we are force-feeding detainees who are being held on a hunger strike.” But the “we” he mentioned doesn’t include himself. If he wanted to stop the force-feeding, he could do it with a simple phone call.
Clearly, Obama has portrayed himself as an uninvolved bystander, and low-information voters....
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I have not studied Rush's theory, but mine is simple. They fear the R word more than they love truth.
As usual, Rush has nailed it.
I think the better explanation is that he’s still in campaign mode, and has never announced himself as President or leader. It’s just speeches and public appearances. People are still waiting for the President to arrive.
I agree with you. I think it is more about a “Us and Them” thinking. It is more simple than what Rush is putting out. People always feel they have to be part of a group to feel important. If the group breaks up they fear being alone.
No, it’s because the PRESS never blames Obama for anything, and about 1/3 of the population just goes by vague “feelings” largely controlled by the press. When Bush was president, the press did its best to CREATE the appearance of scandal; with Obama, the press MINIMIZES the appearance of scandal.
“Do what he sayyyyyyyyy!!!! Do what he SAYYYYYYYY!!!!!”
“SHUTUP!!!”
“Isn’t anyone going to help that poor man?”
“That’s just it Ethel, that’s excatly what will get him killed!”
The fact that many view him as Santa does not help either.
This creep issues these firm declarations about how sequestration cuts “require airport services be shutdown” like he’s totally in charge — meanwhile, IRS employees are found viewing their homemade star trek videos in $3000 per night hotel rooms.
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ZERO Credibility.
it’s totally ignored by the MSM.
He just wants more taxes — so govt can “centrally plan” all income, all expenditures!
Hard to believe but these recent days have been more even frustrating than the days & weeks just following 2012 election ...
And a lot of Americans are ignorant or wouldn’t care if they did know. We passed the point of no return when Obama got elected. If his past associations with Marxists, racists, and out and out anti-American scoundrels couldn’t stop him in 2008, I don’t know what will stop future Obamas. Which will be all the future Dem candidates.
And pity and forgiveness. They feel sorry for Hussein and want to forgive his failures, because they believe he is trying.
Yes, he’s in campaign mode, the question is why.
Magicians and stage hypnotists know that you can get away with a lot if you can distract the target. The more you want to get away with, the bigger the distraction must be.
Think ‘severe cognitive dissonance’. If you can make this effect strong enough, folks will ignore the unpleasant side. So, as long as Obama stays in campaign mode, pushing strongly and only on positive and vague things, the idea that this positive candidate had anything to do with the current scandals will be hard to accept for a lot of folks.
The IRS scandal was apparently thought necessary to win in 2012. It certainly distracted a lot of Republican organizations and donors, using a handful (88?) of IRS agents. It didn’t even require anybody from the Obama campaign or DNC, so it was done cheaply. On the other side, we keep hearing the Republicans say they are keeping their powder dry and not wasting political capital. The powder got wet, and the political capital rotted away.
Winning in 2012 meant keeping the Senate and blocking change to Obamacare. Now the task is to set up for 2014 and 2016. If he wins both houses again, he’s off to the races again.
Not only are the scandals going to be ignored (as far as any real action) in 2013, so will they be ignored in 2014, they will have no effect on the separate elections in the various districts. The Dems can all run positive campaigns, and deplore the scandals of 2013 (if they even mention them). Obama and his scandals are actually running interference for the Dems in the 2014 election. The individual Dems (where it matters) will distance themselves from Obama. The scandals this year don’t matter as Harry Reid’s Senate will do nothing. If the Dems win the house in 2014, the scandals might not even make it into the history books, except as another event in the long Republican history of ‘McCarthyism’.
A Dem win in 2014 will set up a Dem win in 2016, as there will be little to stop Obama&Co from rewarding friends and punishing enemies to make sure the opposition is weak in 2014.
The Republicans are all in the mode of “let’s not anger anybody, so we get re-elected in 2014”. This leads to a perpetual “let’s not anger anybody” approach, and to eventual extinction. Well, except for the Pauls, father and son, and a few others. And none of them seems to have the necessary skills to outwit the psychology the Dems are using.
One thing that points out the Republican & neo-con naivete is the idea that it would be stupid for Obama to use the IRS in the way he did.
1. If he lost the election it would never have come up
2. He might have lost the election without it, so it was a gamble, and we can argue the risks, but it was quite calculated, not stupid.
3. He won. And with Reid running the Senate, he won’t be impeached.
4. The Republicans have seen this before. When confronted with the evidence against him, Clinton said “Well, we’ll just have to win then”. And he did. Winners don’t always write the history, but they have a real good chance of being able to ignore it.
The Republicans are playing a long, middle game with a don’t lose but don’t win strategy. The Dems are in an end-game mode, willing to risk a lot to get a lot. They got ObamaCare. They got $1T/year in new debt. Like Patton and Sun Tzu, they know that you keep pushing on when the enemy is in retreat.
Perfect.....
That old “blame Bush” card has been DECLINED.
....While the new media does the job the old media should have done a long time ago.
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