Obama the Great Disabler

Orange County Register ^ | August 11, 2012 | Mark Steyn

[centurion316]

The other day, I passed a Republican Party county office here in my home state, its window attractively emblazoned with placards declaring "Believe in America. Romney 2012" and "New Hampshire Believes. Romney 2012." There's not a lot of evidence for the latter proposition, but I'm certainly willing to believe that Romney believes that New Hampshire believes. An hour or two later, I chanced to be passing a television set just as the station went to break. The words "WE BELIEVE" appeared on the screen, followed by youthful hands raised to a clear blue sky at the dawn of a new day, shafts of sunlight gleaming through ears of corn, a puppy gamboling across a meadow, a kitten playfully pawing, happy green t-shirted volunteers of many races unloading a recycling carton ... and I thought, despite myself, "Well, say what you like, but the reassuring vapidity of the Romney campaign is at least getting more professional." At the end, in the spot where the off-screen voice is supposed to say "I'm Mitt Romney, and I approve this message," it instead said: "Introducing Purina One Beyond: a new food for your cat or dog."

Well, what do I know? By contrast, the Obama campaign's theme is "Forward" – which, in the context of a second term for Mister You-Didn't-Build-That, I'd carelessly assumed was a poignant allusion to "The Charge of the Light Brigade":

[centurion316]

Obama, Alexrod, and Jarrett cannot escape their roots: Marxism, corrupt politics, and a deep hatred of America. Many have had doubts that Romney could effectively counter their progressive, socialist message. I think that he put that to rest with his choice of Ryan as his running mate.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

. . . another four years of the present statist ascendancy will seal America's fate . . . Half the country is entirely unaware of the existential threat Obama-sized government represents . . . This election represents the last exit ramp before the death spiral . . . I am bothered that Romney's insipid message does not rise to the challenge this nation faces.

If Romney prefers listening to the DNC's aged 1960s Marxist-Alinsky radicals (psycho spoiled brats) and their bratty ideological issue posing as "consultants" advising him to be nicey-nice and don't listen to Steyn, et al maybe he will listen to Lincoln:

"A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half [statist] and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of [statism] will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become [accepted] in all the states, [Red and Blue], North as well as South.

[haroldeveryman]

“This election represents the last exit ramp before the death spiral.”

I hope that this is appreciated by those of us who had been thinking of staying home on election day should Romney become the Republican nominee.

[yldstrk]

You wouldn’t believe the number of 70K jobs that appeared suddenly for attorneys writing findings for disability hearings. They were hiring like crazy

[EricT.]

“This election represents the last exit ramp before the death spiral.”

I hope that this is appreciated by those of us who had been thinking of staying home on election day should Romney become the Republican nominee.

As much as I loathe Milquetoast Mitt, I gotta agree with this assessment. If Obama wins, I may see about moving to Italy. It's just as much an economic and political basket case, but at least the food and scenery is magnificent.