Posted on 05/15/2012 3:15:17 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
Obama appears to have started his freefall. It started today.
(Excerpt) Read more at intrade.com ...
In 2008 I called Obama a one-term wonder who would preside over a sour economy his entire term. Its the economy, stupid. People say he can’t lose to Romney. He isn’t running against Romney. He is running against an economic depression and doesn’t stand a chance of re-election.
Exactly. He's toast.
It didn't matter what Republican won the primary.
Reading your comment suddenly gave me the dreaded “oh noes”. I got a flashback of jimmy carter saying “I’m ok with romney as president”. If democrats and the 5th column and the george soros types decided early on that they had no chance of keeping obama another 4 years, then they would do whatever they could to make the obama replacement as unobjectionable to them as possible.
The republican establishment would also figure it out if obama couldn’t win and their strategy would then change. You and I would think this is our chance to really sock it to them(the democrats) and make america great again. But if I was a republican party loyalist first and an american citizen second, I would only care about getting an “R” in the whitehouse and would go with a completely different strategy. My strategy would become one of hedging and caution. I would want a candidate that would NOT fire up the democrats and drive them to the polls in opposition to the Obama challenger. I would want a candidate who would be boring. I would want a candidate that would make jimmy carter and the rest of the democrat voters say “eh, he’s not THAT bad...he’s better than Bush.”
Is that Hillary Clinton?
Why would the numbers drop so much today and not over the weekend after the gay-marriage flip flop?
Do people make money buying and selling on Intrade predictions like this?
Thanks to the narcissistic incompetence of the Obama camp, people are starting to see this truth in large numbers.
Could Obama use the “I’m ok with Romney as president” state from Carter to hurt Romney? As in the worst President to date endorses my opponent?
Yep, and it was overdue. I’m as bought in as I want to be.
She missed her chances.
I've been saying the same thing for months on end, now. The Repubics could have run a rubber chicken, and they'd still beat Obama.
No matter what people say outwardly, most of them are going to vote their wallets in this election.
yes, and lose money
Ping
Thanks for the ping.
I don’t think 3 points in one day on Intrade is all that big of a deal.
BTW, does that mean you are running a de facto Intrade ping list?
Obviously I agree.
There is a huge nation outside of Free Republic that does not vote on morals or principal but on self-interest. That self-interest is going to do what they have to do to reclaim a job, or see that the fired husband can get a job, or see they are no longer cowed by annual pink slips, or see that their 28 year old twin sons are in an apartment working instead of living at home.
It is beyond me how we can be in an economic depression, the worst US economic conditions since 1936, and most of Free Republic things these are conditions an incumbent politician can survive. I’m baffled by their thinking.
People want anybody who will promise them a job opportunity. Yes, this will be against all the people who want anybody that will give them free stuff, but we’ve been fighting against them for decades. This year, the people who want a job or want to be secure in a job, are the ones calling the shots.
After 4 years under Romney, maybe not so much.
We are on the same page. Now we just have to push that idiot Romney to sign the Obamacare repeal, to get drilling for oil, and to decommission the TSA and strangle the EPA.
We are going to be in the fight of our lives just to push our conservative demands through Romney and the liberal GOP leadership.
One word: fear.
Obama has violated so many of our nation's established traditions and protocols, and has assumed (and executed) so much unauthorized authority over every aspect of our government, that many people have simply been pummeled into believing that he's capable of anything - including casting aside the US Constitution, and declaring himself Dictator For Life.
;’) Not a chance, but nice try! ;’)
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