Obama By Default
The Republicans are a sick joke, and their narrow ideological stupidity has left rational voters no choice in the coming presidential election but Barack Obama. With Ron Paul out of it and warmongering hedge fund hustler Mitt Romney the likely Republican nominee, the GOP has defined itself indelibly as the party of moneyed greed and unfettered imperialism.
It is with chilling certainty that one can predict that a single Romney appointee to the Supreme Court would seal the coup of the 1 percent that already is well on its way toward purchasing the nation’s political soul. Romney is the quintessential Citizens United super PAC candidate, a man who has turned avarice into virtue and comes to us now as a once-moderate politician transformed into the ultimate prophet of imperial hubris, blaming everyone from the Chinese to laid-off American workers for our problems. Everyone, that is, except the Wall Street-dominated GOP, which midwifed the Great Recession under George W. Bush and now seeks to blame Obama for the enormous deficit spawned by the party’s wanton behavior.
So insanely gullible are Republican voters that they buy Mitt’s line that bailing out the auto industry to save the heart of America’s legendary industrial base was an example of big-government waste. Yet to them the almost unimaginable sum spent on the Wall Street bailout represents prudent small-government fiscal responsibility.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/...ault_20120405/
Ignoring your opinion on his charisma, I think you bring up valid points about his popularity and voting record. He has gotten his name out there recently with the budget proposal and his strength is the economy (biggest issue of this election), which is why I thought it possible.
I could be wrong though.
"his strength is the economy"
his "outline for a decade of federal budgeting" is pure garbage.
The Weekly Standard was pushing pretty hard for McCain to pick Palin.
Ryan and Condi Rice said no to vp. So did the female govenor with the new book out. I think it will be Rubio. Florida being in the Eastern time zone is a huge swing state Romney needs to stay relevant. IMO.
With unemployment at almost 8% in Ohio, if Romney cannot swing that state his way...
As Marco Rubio says 'not me,' speculation over Romney VP grows
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics...tory?track=rss
Romney’s Hispanic problem is serious
Two new polls of Latino voters confirm what I have been writing for several months: Republican front-runner Mitt Romney is so unpopular among Hispanic voters that he would have a hard time winning the November elections.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/1...#storylink=cpy
So Willard Gecko is in big trouble with Hispanics, blacks, and most women. No wonder the Repug leaders think the election is already over.
Susana Martinez would plug two of those holes.
Neocons don't get that the majority of latinos are mexican/central american. and they don't see Rubio as a fellow latino at all.
Gingrich, Santorum and Paul are insane....Rubio has said no, Scott may not survive a recall election, Christie needs more seasoning and Palin is jumping up and down saying, "pick me, pick me!"
I haven't looked at it very closely, but aren't there some con utional concerns regarding Rubio running for POTUS?Gingrich, Santorum and Paul are insane....Rubio has said no, Scott may not survive a recall election, Christie needs more seasoning and Palin is jumping up and down saying, "pick me, pick me!"
I've just read that, obliquely, in a couple of places. Dont really know, tbh.
You could be right, but I'm inclined to believe that whatever is really important will as usual be buried under a mile of hysterical bull .
Could be wrong about that...
"his strength is the economy"
his strength is doing the bidding of the 1%, VRWC, UCA, cutting all of their taxes, not touching any of their subsidies, tax breaks, while cutting Medicare, Medicaid, and damn near everything that is intended to help the poor, sick, young.
Poll: Obama Has Big Leads On Key Policy Areas, Likability, Women
President Obama leading Mitt Romney in almost every major policy area:
– Beats Romney 10 points, 49 to 39 percent, on “protecting the middle class.”
– Edges Romney by three points on “creating jobs” and “handling taxes.” Up two points on “supporting small business.”
– Crushes Romney by 17 points, 53 to 36 percent, on “handling international affairs,” and seven points on “handling terrorism.”
– Beats Romney eight points on “dealing with social issues such as abortion and gay marriage.”
On personal traits, Obama’s edge is even bigger: “He has a better than 2-to-1 advantage as the more friendly and likable of the two, and nearly that margin as ‘more inspiring.’”
Perhaps most importantly, with the backdrop of a heated debate about women’s issue, the poll confirms trends from other polls showing Romney has a “women problem.” The Post reports:
A wide gender gap underlies the current state of the race. Romney is up eight percentage points among male voters but trails by 19 among women.
http://thinkprogress.org/special/201...l-obama-women/
Unlike Every Other Recent Nominee, Primary Hurt Romney
While every other presidential nominee since 1996 emerged from the primary campaign with their public standing improved, presumed GOP nominee Mitt Romney has uniquely hurt his as he heads into the general. As BuzzFeed’s Zeke Miller notes, parsing CNN polling data:
http://thinkprogress.org/special/201...rt-by-primary/
How Santorum Boxed in Romney
By E.J. Dionne, Jr.
Rick Santorum’s departure from the presidential race could not come soon enough for Mitt Romney. In proving himself more tenacious than anyone predicted, Santorum dramatized one of Romney’s major problems, created another, and forced the now inevitable Republican nominee into a strategic dilemma.
Republicans may condemn class warfare, but their primaries turned into a class struggle. Romney performed best among voters with high incomes, and was consistently weaker with the white working class, even in the late primaries where he put Santorum away. And Romney cannot win without rolling up very large margins among less well-off whites.
At the same time, Santorum’s strength among evangelical Christians pressured Romney to toughen his positions even as the Republican Party as a whole, at both the state and national levels, has pushed policies on contraception and abortion that have alienated many women, particularly the college educated.
This is Romney’s other problem: Among college-educated white men, Romney had a healthy 57 percent to 39 percent lead over President Obama in the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll. But among college-educated white women, Obama led Romney by 60 percent to 40 percent. This netted to a rather astounding 38-point gender gap, compared with a net 27-point gap among all white voters. (Thanks to Peyton Craighill of The Washington Post’s polling staff for extracting these numbers, which are based on registered voters.) Overall, the poll taken before Santorum left the race showed Obama leading Romney by 51 percent to 44 percent.
Thus the box the primaries built for Romney: He must simultaneously court evangelical Christians and working-class voters who have eluded him so far, but also reassure socially moderate women higher up the class ladder who, for now, are providing Obama with decisive margins. It’s not easy to do both.
Even if the most conservative Republicans who supported Santorum and Newt Gingrich largely fall into line out of antipathy to Obama, Romney still has to worry about whether they’ll be enthusiastic enough to turn out in the large numbers he’ll need. Yet if he concentrates on winning back upscale women, who now favor Obama by even larger margins than they gave him in 2008, Romney will only aggravate his enthusiasm problem on the right.
Romney’s predicament is Obama’s opportunity. The president is moving aggressively to take advantage of the class opening afforded him by the candidate of “a couple of Cadillacs,” “I like being able to fire people” and “corporations are people, my friend.” In a series of speeches in Florida the day Santorum withdrew, Obama hit repeatedly on the twin themes of fairness and opportunity. He called for a nation in which “everybody gets a fair shot, and everybody does a fair share, and everybody plays by the same set of rules,” while eviscerating Rep. Paul Ryan’s fiscal plan, which Romney supports, as a budget “that showers the wealthiest Americans with even more tax cuts.”
Most conservatives seem oblivious to the party’s working-class problem, but not all. Henry Olsen, a vice president at the American Enterprise Ins ute, says Republicans need to understand that the GOP’s success in the 2010 House races was built in less affluent districts at a moment when Obama’s approval rating among white working-class men was so low “that it was only a few points higher than Richard Nixon’s was at the time of his resignation.”
Olsen sees Obama’s echoes of Bill Clinton’s pledges to help those who “work hard and play by the rules” as shrewd politics aimed at rehabilitating his standing with such Americans. And in Romney, Obama faces a candidate whose “troubles in the primary electorate demonstrated his trouble in connecting with the white working class.” Romney, Olsen says, “has difficulties with his background, difficulties with his manner, some difficulties Obama shares.”
Romney isn’t losing downscale whites. The Post/ABC poll showed him leading Obama by 19 points among white voters without a college education. The problem: That’s roughly the lead John McCain had in this group in 2008, and we know who won that election. Obama, Olsen said, can lose the white working class “by a substantial margin” and still win because of his strength among African-Americans, Latinos and well-educated women.
Yes, it’s still early. Renewed economic jitters in Europe could spoil a fragile American recovery. But for now, Romney finds himself in a political maze with no obvious path out. He’s there partly because of his own mistakes, but he was also led to this point because of the unlikely strength of Rick Santorum’s challenge.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/print...mney_20120411/
Charles Manson Denied Parole, Effectively Ending His Bid for Republican Presidential Nomination
KINGS COUNTY, CA (The Borowitz Report) – Serial killer Charles Manson was denied parole yesterday, effectively ending his bid for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
With Mr. Manson no longer a contender, the path appears to be clear for former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney to become the party’s nominee.
Perhaps in recognition of this development, Mr. Romney unveiled a new campaign slogan today: “Sorry, But You Have No Other Choices Now.”
As for the rest of the GOP field, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum suspended his campaign this week, saying that he wanted “to spend more time with the voices in my head.”
And former House Speaker Newt Gingrich wrote a $500 check on an account that had no money in it, in the first sign that he might be qualified to be President.
Elsewhere, a Fox News spokesman blasted a mole who had previously worked for the network: “At Fox News we have zero tolerance for someone who tells the truth.”
http://www.borowitzreport.com/
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