Topic: Presidential Election Watch 2012: The Democrat Edition

[jpatrickham]

"Dennis Miller didn't vote for him and has never been in favor of his policies but has liked BO personally. Until now. Here is a link to a Breitbart clip from the O'Reilly show. (Miller is about the only bright spot of any O'Reilly show and thankfully he doesn't attempt to walk all over Miller in this clip.)"

"but has liked BO personally"

Just like the old Seifeld clip, when discussing Gay's, always ened a sentence; "have nothing against them personally!" Oh really? Everytime the name of Obama is mentioned, you have to add a disclaimer. Why? because if you don't, the Liberals will pounce on you as a racist. The trouble is. Seinfeld was funny, BO ain't!

[trapeze]

Uh, oh.

This is, how shall I put it? Unprecedented for THE ONE. Yeah, that about sums it up. This marks the first time in his life when his cheering section hasn't been cheering...when his slobbering sycophants haven't been telling him that his poop doesn't stink...

I checked the Constitution, and he is under no compulsion to run for re-election. He can scrap the campaign, bag the fundraising calls and never watch another Republican debate as long as he's willing to vacate the premises by Jan. 20, 2013.

That might be the sensible thing to do. It's hard for a president to win a second term when unemployment is painfully high. If the economy were in full rebound mode, Obama might win anyway. But it isn't, and it may fall into a second recession — in which case voters will decide his middle name is Hoover, not Hussein. Why not leave of his own volition instead of waiting to get the ax?

Where is this particular piece of advice coming from? Fox News? No. The Washington Times? Uh, uh. No, this is coming from the editorial pages of the Chicago Tribune.

This comes on the heels of James Careville's "It's time to panic" essay.

Yes, the tipping point with the media has definitely passed.

O'Bama is no longer the godlike being of the 2008 campaign who proclaimed that his coming would be heralded by the oceans ceasing to rise. No, that guy doesn't exist anymore. He never did, of course, but now that mythic figure has been purged from the MFM.

There will perhaps not be a flood of editorials encouraging him to quit but I predict an ever escalating flow of criticism that has been heretofore unknown in the personal experience of the young princeling. Worse, for him, history will, I believe, judge him more harshly than GWB. Humiliation that lasts a lifetime and beyond.


HotAir analysis can be found here.

[charlesoakwood]

GWB will be judged sandwiched between the failures of BJC and BHO with Albert Gore as the spread.
He will also be judged in front of the backdrop terrorist invasion.  History will be kind to him.

However, BHO packing his bags, I'll donate to the fundraiser for staff to help him and Mitchelle pack and make travel arrangements.

[trapeze]

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, How Was The Play?

A brutal summary by Commentary of the most recent week in the life of Mr. Fabulous.

It's brief but takes things right to the bottom line.

[LadyVirginia]

thanks for the links, trap.

all I can add is:


 

I could never understand how people could say they liked him personally even though they disagreed with his policies.  What's to like?

But I digress:

 

[jpatrickham]

http://2012dreamticket.com/index.php/results

[Libertas]

Mr. Gardasil and Mrs. Anti-Gardasil?  Who is apologizing to whom?

 

[Predator Don]

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, How Was The Play?

A brutal summary by Commentary of the most recent week in the life of Mr. Fabulous.

It's brief but takes things right to the bottom line.

As the election gets closer and the enevitable loss for obama, I believe there will be hoards jumping off the ship. It may become quite amusing.

[charlesoakwood]

Today, the speech, the long pauses looking up at nothing, is he spacing out or was it just a teleprompter malfunction?

[jpatrickham]

Mr. Gardasil and Mrs. Anti-Gardasil?  Who is apologizing to whom?

 

Kind of scary ain't it? 

[Libertas]

Today, the speech, the long pauses looking up at nothing, is he spacing out or was it just a teleprompter malfunction?

Whats the difference?

 

Could be stoned...and gassy from hash brownie breakfast...

[Libertas]

Mr. Gardasil and Mrs. Anti-Gardasil?  Who is apologizing to whom?

 

Kind of scary ain't it? 

No way she takes 2nd banana from Perry, no way.

Palin/Bachmann makes more sense...hell Perry/Paul makes more sense!  (Now that would be scary!)

[charlesoakwood]

Long ago I thought it would be Perry / Palin.  Then it appeared her major intent was to insure a stronger candidate than Romney, running interference.  Nowadays she just seems disruptive.  Her motive is less clear.
Maybe after the election she's going to move to Arizona and run for JohnnyMac's seat.

[trapeze]

Headline at Drudge has libs vowing to mount a primary challenge to the doofus in chief...

President Obama’s smooth path to the Democratic nomination may have gotten rockier Monday, after a group of liberal leaders, including former presidential candidate Ralph Nader, announced plans to challenge the incumbent in primaries next year.

The group said the goal is to offer up a handful of candidates from various fields and areas where the president either has failed to stake out a “progressive” position or where he has “drifted toward the corporatist right.”

“Without debates by challengers inside the Democratic Party’s presidential primaries, the liberal/majoritarian agenda will be muted and ignored,” Mr. Nader said in a news release. “The one-man Democratic primaries will be dull, repetitive, and draining of both voter enthusiasm and real bright lines between the two parties that excite voters.”

LINK

[IronDioPriest]

There is a big part of me - the part that believes that if I can think of it, so can others; the part that sees the entire power-structure of the Left grabbing all it can now without regard to consequence - that part of me believes that perhaps an Obama second term was never the intention. That his role was to fall on the sword of ObamaCare at all cost. That the plan from the very beginning was to implement as much radical Leftism as possible as quickly as possible without regard to short-term political cost, and then when the population is sufficiently alarmed and agitated, usher in the 4-year-absent and unobtrusive Hillary Clinton as the more "moderate" alternative to the extreme Obama and whomever the GOP puts up as a nominee.

Idunno.

Let's face it. Anything short of a GOP route of both houses of congress and the Presidency, and ObamaCare is an entitlement to the bitter end. If they can protect the Presidency, even at the cost of jettisoning Obama, they will. And that begs the question as to their intentions all along.

[LadyVirginia]

I don't know IDP.  I'm not sure that the hard left is that clever.  They seem the sort to pin their hopes on the violence of the masses to get what they want.  And so far that isn't happening. The majority of American people aren't behaving as they expected.  The leftys
 models are the poor folks on the south side of Chicago and disenchanted wannabe college students -- they don't get the rest of the country.

I think they thought the sheen from Obama's greatness was the key to controlling the masses and if necessary to spur violence. The masses want to be left the hell alone. 


Just as we fear that we may have to vote for anyone but Obama the dems were in that mood in 2008.  Anyone but a repub and the dems lucked out and got a shiny suit that appeared wonderful. I think Hillary could have beat McCain.  She would have been as bad.

[Pandora]

She would have been as bad.

Damn straight! 

"Many of you are well enough off that ... the tax cuts may have helped you," Sen. Clinton said. "We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."

Not a breath's worth of difference between her and The Taupe Hope.

[IronDioPriest]

I wasn't suggesting there is a difference. Only that as a political strategy, it could be made to work. Obama fatigue, conservative demonization, careful message control and staying out of the public mind for 4 years.

Hillary is an Alinskyite, we all know this. But Alinskyites craft lies to their advantage.

[LadyVirginia]

I wasn't suggesting there is a difference. Only that as a political strategy, it could be made to work. Obama fatigue, conservative demonization, careful message control and staying out of the public mind for 4 years.

Hillary is an Alinskyite, we all know this. But Alinskyites craft lies to their advantage.

Well, I never underestimate the ability of people to want to be fooled....

[Pandora]

I wasn't suggesting there is a difference. Only that as a political strategy, it could be made to work. Obama fatigue, conservative demonization, careful message control and staying out of the public mind for 4 years.

Hillary is an Alinskyite, we all know this. But Alinskyites craft lies to their advantage.

Wasn't suggesting you were suggesting there is a difference, but I never see, hear or think of Her Thighness without recalling that quote. 

And then recalling "Father" Phleger's performance art for the benefit of the Black audience in Wright's church, mocking what he believed Hillary assumed as her due:  an easy slide into the Oval Office braked by the appearance of Duh Wun.  The Blacks would gotten all the socialism they could stomach with Hillary as with Obama -- and imposed with more skill ala Alinsky, I figger -- but they wanted their Dusky God.  Now, they're choking on him.