Posted on 01/05/2012 3:19:25 PM PST by neverdem
No matter how ineptly Barack Obama continues to govern, his chances of winning reelection remain strong. As the results from Iowa suggest, the GOP is too addled and divided to field a formidable and philosophically coherent opponent against him.
Say this at least for the Democrats: They have the sense to run nominees who actually support the platform of their party. This rudimentary task is too tricky for Republicans to perform. They haven't been able to locate in over a generation a presidential nominee who supports theirs. George Bush Sr., Bob Dole, George Bush Jr., John McCain, and now Mitt Romney in all likelihood: this is a dismal roll call of nominees with little to no interest in the ostensible platform of the GOP.
Out of this "Big Tent" came not a larger party, as its proponents promised, but a more bewildered and demoralized one. Romney's likely coronation is a symbol of this confusion, and not even Obama's outrages will be sufficient to...
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When not talking about the new and menacing force of Super PAC money in politics, journalists sounded equally hysterical about a candidate with little money at all -- Rick Santorum. He is a "bigot," some huffed, while proudly displaying their own anti-Catholic bigotry. Blowing down hard on their secularist trumpets, they mused darkly about his view of gay marriage, sexuality, and abortion. "Rick Santorum is coming for your birth control," says the online publication Salon.
The very late results appeared to inconvenience journalists terribly, and so the normal sham etiquette on their cable shows broke down a bit, as tired guests openly rubbed their eyes and allowed themselves more inane comments than usual. But they probably woke up happy. After all, the results forecast the race that they always wanted -- Obama versus a demoralized GOP.
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Passionate about Replacing him!!!
Big misread by the author!
Mr. Neumayr is confusing primaries with general elections. Republicans are very motivated to vote him out once we choose a candidate. Since when is a primary supposed to be a walk in the park?
The 2008 Dem primary dragged on into the summer. I don’t remember anyone referring to them as demoralized. If anything, the results of Iowa should put a few broadsides into the Romney coronation theory. He did worse this time than he did 4 years ago, with tons more money and organization than the others in the field. Yet, he “won” by 1/10 of 1 percent.
Dem's are losing registered voters to independents and college kids can't find work. Bambi's major blocks are the ones discouraged. That said, put fear in your peps hearts, all the better to get them to the polls.
Forgot to say, he’s also confusing an Iowa caucus-straw poll with all the actual delegate-determining primaries just around the corner.
It doesn't matter for 0bama will win against Romney anyway.
0bama is the better liberal.
This is exactly the meme of the DNC, that GOPers are “ambivalent.” It was what Juan Williams got from the Iowa results, that Republicans are “deeply divided.” This has been and will be their mantra. Why feed into it? Instead, view the process as dynamic and deeply American. We don’t believe in merely appointing a leader, but thoroughly vetting the candidates. That is what is happening. Why has all the political commentary become nervous-Nelly-ism? Just let the process play out; let the people decide.
Wasn’t there tremendous strife in the Dem 2008 primaries — Ubama, Hitlery, Edwards et al — before their candidate emerged? Was that “ambivalence” or various camps supporting their preference?
Sheesh!
People’s main objective is to vote bummer out.
Neumayr certainly scores high points as a purist, but that kind of zeal can get in the way of seeing things clearly.
Obama is well on his way of being reelected and he hasn’t had to lift a finger.
The incompetent cowards the make up our GOP have already failed.... frankly, it looks intentional to me.
It wouldn’t surprise me to see Fox News and the Republican elite guarantee Obama’s reelection before the general even begins.... they are working on that 24/7.
The very second that Romney wins the nomination, Obama wins the election.
Newt Gingrich is the one man that could beat Obama, but we, as a fractured group, may very well hand the nomination to Romney and in doing so, seal our fate-—4 more fricking years of that corrupt country wrecking white hating Black Muslim bastard son of a communist whore.
P*R*E*A*C*H!
If you can't appreciate the pure beauty of the violin after hearing this, something's wrong with your ears.
Or you can get raw with these strings.
How about this gamechanger from America's Got Talent (which they SHOULD have won).
Either way, the violin is sweet yet LETHAL.
Do it!
you need to look at the internals, and the voter reg changes as well as what put bambi over the top. A lot of the demo that installed the wanker, have left or are beyond discourageded. Mitt can be rolled, a commie not so much.
Been saying it over and over,
If anyone thinks Obama will be easy to beat is fooling themselves.
In a debate he is simply the best. The best at being obscure as he only speaks in metaphors. The best because the dominant media will go to the mat in praising their messiah while turning on the RINO GOP, tearing him to shreds.
I predict a landslide if the GOP coronate Romney and a squeak by victory over Santorum.
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