Posted on 05/06/2012 5:32:05 PM PDT by Hojczyk
The Obama re-elect launches the campaign with back to back rallies in Ohio and Virginia. Comparing these events to the spectacular rallies of 2008, what shows is that despair has gripped the young and bright.
The rallies showed a mechanical determination, a slow-motion defeatism. The nation has changed considerably since 2008 -- grittier, quieter, more cautious, less confident -- and it is well to acknowledge the genuine face of doubt.
POTUS starts the conversation about his re-election with dollops of denial. Mitt Romney is on theme, jobs and growth and jobs and Federal finances.
Mr. Obama is defending the status quo ante. Candidate Obama aims to aim his remarks at Romney, not at the voters. The beginnings of the campaign are the whole of the story.
Obama will not explain. Blame-shifting, chest-thumping, trash-talking, class-warring, stem-winding. Six months to go and already Candidate Obama sounds tentative. Why spend time talking about the other guy; why talk about the other guy?
The conventional wisdom is that Mr. Obama speaks of mild-mannered Romney and the oafish GOP, because he is not able to speak of his own work. I am reconsidering. Perhaps Candidate Obama does not speak of his work, because he has never spoken of such when in campaign mode.
Mr. Obama has always won campaigns on the basis of being Mr. Obama and not on the basis of what Mr. Obama has done. We can see the scheme in place already:
Not much about his record (Bin Laden and GM), not much about his plans (he will make the rich "pay their fare share), not much about his policies ( what he will stop, not what he will do: such as stop Medicare from changing, stop the GOP from legislating, stop the rich from spending ill-gotten gains from tax dodging).
The Obama 2012 is about nothing much more than "Elect me, Obama, because I am me, and they are not me, and my me is better than any not me ever could be." Can this work? "Fired up, Ready to go!"
John Batchelor is such a useless, butt kissing RINO. He's obviously never bothered to check Romney's jobs record when he was Governor of Massachusetts.
Mitt Romney’s Dismal Record
"As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]
Regarding Batchelor, he's the only host I've heard to get the top three economists from the Hoover Institute on at the same time - all pro-Hayek, pro Milton Friedman and anti- Keynes - and has Victor Davis Hansen on regularly. A true RINO. /s/
Don't doubt the effects that Romney created on the state of Massachusetts while he was Governor:
Mitt Romney’s Dismal Record
"As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]
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