There is blood in the water, and it is way too early to talk about settling on a single candidate. Christie, Ryan, Palin all may still get in, I wouldn't be surprised to see others yet. Obama is drowning. Just let him flail. Let the country just get completely sick of the socialist crap.
Reagan didn't get in until the last week of November (and THAT was a big field of candidates as well, for the same reason--an incompetent incumbent).
True...the field is not yet set. And it is a very, very long way until next November. Hell, in terms of politics, it's a very, very long way until next January! Much can...and will happen to change the national landscape.
However, that said, one just has to wonder exactly where the "tipping" point it?? The back rooms, the "smoke filled" (didn't say what kind of smoke, now did I???) hallways, the inner sanctums of seiu, acorn, and community organizers throughout this great socialist land of ours just have to be "abuzz" with the thoughts of "how low can the stain sink" and "how fast is the stain sinking"? and "when will the stain be too low to recover" and " if he goes that low...who do we have to run against him???
Makes one kind of want to start a "pool" that picks the date of the entry of the "great (you pick the sex and color this time) hope" of the dem/lib/prog/pop party into the fray.
Gonna be one hell of an election season when it begins in earnest, ain't it??