If you are a conservative you know Obama is in the White House and the objective ought to be to throw his but out and elect a conservative Republican candidate that will work on the Republican agenda. To elect one that will work to lower taxes, to make government smaller and to advocate spending less money on smaller government programs. The number one objective is to beat Obama for the Presidency however, lets not forget that. Instead we are worried about gay marriage, abortion (again) and the spending limit. None of those issues will help the economy directly, but hey Its about LOOKING GOOD not being good, right ?
If you are a liberal, your primary objective is to keep Obama in the White House, to continue to push his liberal agenda and to keep control of at least one of the houses of Congress, preferably the Senate, as it is now. Your secondary objective is to make Republican's look like they are trying to weaken America and make them look selfish and self centered so the average American sees Republicans and thinks "Elitist". The idea is to make the Democrat seem like he has the interest of the average American in mind and to paint the Republican as a very short sighted, pro big-business schmuck and the representative of the rich.
The thing that has me the most concerned is the Republicans don't seem to understand this. They don't seem to understand it and they are acting like it won't take anything special to beat Obama.
I mean maybe they do, but they sure are not acting like their number one issue is to remove Obama after one term. It seems to me that all they have done so far is to pander to the Tea Party crazies and fight amongst themselves and take nothing stands on nothing issues that do not matter in the first place. I don't know about you, but in my household, whether you are for or against Gay Marriage doesn't do a thing to help me pay the light bill. Being for or against some mythical standards (like birth control) does exactly NOTHING to help the average American. It does however make the politician look like they are taking a stand , when they really are not.
I can't take these idiots seriously. So far it seems like this race is The President (Obama) versus the bunch of no-names morons who are pitching new reality shows to the American Public. Most of them we haven't ever heard of and the ones we have are loony !! Give me a break ! They all look like red shirted security guards in a bad Star Trek episode.
One of these geniuses are going to beat a sitting President on the issues? I don't want to get into a point by point comparison of candidates (but you can if you look here http://2012.presidential-candidates.org/ ) but my point is this:
A) There is a ton of candidates , most of whom are unknown and
B) None of them really have the money or experience or organization it takes to unseat a sitting President.
The way I figure it the Republicans have decided to sacrifice this election , let Obama win again, then spend both terms opposing everything he does so when 2016 comes around they Democrats will be out of ideas and gas that they can not mount an effective campaign for the presidency for another 12 years. It looks like Muhammad Ali is writing their strategy and he came up with another version of the rope a dope. They are going to lay on the ropes and let the Democrats take all the blame for the next 6 years and then come back in 2016 and say "See, America, I told you how bad it would be. Now we are here to clean up, but don't expect too much, because it took them a long time to make it this bad.". You could almost call it the reverse Bush Strategy.
This seems true to me because they have no coordinated response to Obama, have left an old gasbag like Mitch McConnell to do all the talking and that guy looks like he's lying every time he opens his mouth.
Also the candidates they have put forward so far are pretty disappointing. For the first time in forever I am thinking about skipping election day because who gives a crap when it won't matter because there will not be one decent candidate in the whole lot of them? Who are we supposed to vote for in this group of lightweights anyway ? It makes me understand it when my wife tells me I am boring to talk to about politics because of this. I get it when I see the eyes start to roll back into someones head when I start a conversation about Politics.
If you have to be a Washington Insider or a lobbyist to know the candidates, then something is very wrong with not only how we pick candidates but is also wrong with how perverted we have allowed the process to become.
Here is the list (along with the links I got from Wikipedia and others)
Google it or look it up here for yourself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2012
www.livefreeordiealliance.org/2012
www.politics1.com/p2012.htm
Democrat -
Barack Obama, incumbent President of the United States from Illinois
Randall Terry, pro-life activist from New York
Republican -
Michele Bachmann, U.S. Representative from Minnesota
Herman Cain, former Federal Reserve banker and businessman from Georgia
Newt Gingrich, former U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives from Georgia
Jon Huntsman, Jr., former U.S. Ambassador to China and former Governor of Utah
Gary Johnson, former Governor of New Mexico
Fred Karger, political consultant and gay rights activist from California
Andy Martin, perennial candidate from Illinois
Thaddeus McCotter, U.S. Representative from Michigan
Jimmy McMillan, perennial candidate from New York
Roy Moore, former Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court of Alabama
Ron Paul, U.S. Representative from Texas
Rick Perry, Governor of Texas
Buddy Roemer, former Governor of Louisiana
Mitt Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts
Rick Santorum, former Senator from Pennsylvania
Jonathon Sharkey, perennial candidate from Florida
No kidding. Mitt friggin Romney is the best they could do ? I am supposed to actually vote for Rick Santorum ? You cannot be seriouis. That guy is a certified lunatic. Michelle Bachman ?, that's the person who wants to take away a VA pension and along with it their health care, if they get Soc Sec disability payments.
I look at that list and then think , people were actually pissed off that John McCain picked Sarah Palin ?
Its no wonder Obama won.
Shoot, before I would vote for any of these idiots, I would have voted for Palin.
I just can't believe any of these jackasses can stand up and compare themselves to Ronald Reagan .
Here is what it looks like to be well respected, well known and honored . Even if you don't agree with his politics, you can't seriously think the same way about the current crop of wanna be can you ?
Just wait. It is too early in the game to count out all of them yet. We still have more to hear what's to come out of them. I still would vote for one of them before I wouldn't vote at all. I don't want to see Obama have another term in office.
ReplyDeleteA respiratory therapist I work with thinks Newt G. would be good for our economy. But whether he could get elected is another thing. Some may view he isn't worthy of the presidency as he has been married 3 times. I personally don't care about that. The real thing I care about is that he will put a stop to all of the big spending and get this country back on track and do something to create more jobs...and put a stop to Obamacare!