Posted on 09/14/2010 3:32:33 AM PDT by Scanian
There may be a time when John Boehner becomes a hate figure. Say, after he loses a government-shutdown fight with the president and makes enough radioactive comments that he starts to glow -- Newt Gingrich's path to notoriety in the 1990s.
Until then, the leader of a Republican House minority that's routinely been trampled by Democrats with their 70-vote margin is not going to make a deep impression, no matter how much President Barack Obama inveighs against his callous disregard for all that is right and good.
It must have been a sad, desultory meeting of White House strategists when they settled on an anti-Boehner campaign: "Well, we could run on our economic record, except, well . . . There's always ObamaCare, except, well . . . The change we brought to Washington? I know, I know . . . Hey, how about that perpetually tanned Republican? Let's run against that guy!"
The Democratic firm Public Policy Polling recently found that 42 percent of voters in Boehner's home state of Ohio have no opinion of him. According to a Fox News poll earlier this year, 55 percent of people nationally had never heard of him. The White House figures people will hate Boehner with an unbridled passion -- if only they could remember his name.
This is the very definition of sliding-off-a-cliff, grasping-at-saplings desperation. Obama traveled to Cleveland last week to give a speech responding to an economic address by Boehner there a couple of weeks prior. Boehner's speech had mostly been ignored by the press at the time, since it hadn't occurred to anyone that he was the pivot upon which the future of the nation would turn.
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Funny. The Radical Leftists are in a box. Their only answer to anyone telling the truth about Obama and his radical band of Communists is to kill the messenger. They can not mention the facts because it will ‘out’ their leader.
It DOES sound silly to demonize Boehner but I’ve noticed that Hussein’s “strongly approve” numbers have gone up significantly since he started to attack the Minority Leader.
Blasting “evil Republicans” firms up the base, if nothing else.
I chalk it up to Obama having a man crush on Boehner
Most Republicans are soft targets in the leftist terrorist war against America.
If the RATs are running away from their record, it is up to each of us, in every district, to hold their feet to the fire. THEY are responsible for our obscene debt. THEY are responsible for oppresive, unconstitutional DeathCare. THEY are responsible for loss of jobs. After all, THEY are the majority.
Stick it to them.
They really are clutching at straws.
That will draw out MORE votes against the godless rats.
BTW, since Obama is political poison, will Michele be sent out to rustle up votes? Personally speaking, I'd like to see the whole tribe out there mustering up votes to seal a victory.
The moment Boehner or any decent person becomes a threat to the entrenched power of the left, they take out their slime machine, loaded with lies, and try to destroy him.
I will NEVER vote democrat ever for any reason whatever.
The cult of skin color make ad hominem attackes on Boener for his tan... But I’m sur ethey’ll be back taking cheap shots at Sarah Palin soon.
If you can’t blame it on Bush, blame it on Boehner.
This is such a dumb political strategy that I actually like it.
Go for it, WH. Go for it Obama. Make Boehner a public laughing stock.............or yourself, you idiot.
It's more than silly. It's political suicide.
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