Posted on 08/23/2012 8:07:52 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
“Anything can happen.”
Obama’s protectors will see to it.
I think it will be close. Obama will have a late surge when he opens the cupboard doors and starts promising to give away everything to anyone.
I still view Obama as the favorite.
The power of incumbency and a cheerleading media are significant advantages. The change in our nation’s demographics is a significant concern as well.
Romney can still win this, but it will likely be close. He needs to avoid mis-steps, and any further distractions like Akin, but he can pull it off.
Sure would love to see a HUGE bump coming out of the convention.
Ping!
This author makes a lot of the same points you’ve been making!
Obama will have a late surge when he opens the cupboard doors and starts promising to give away everything to anyone.””
The recent announcements of similar give aways were very interesting.
NOTHING will even hit the EPA approval stages until mid-2013 & I can easily pridict that not a single shovel of dirt will be churned up before 2015.
My husband has been predicting a “landslide” for quite a while now. I don’t know, with Dems you can’t really be sure how bad the corruption at the voting booth will be; but, I’m hoping he will be correct.
Reagan looked like a stronger leader, spoke like a stronger leader, and conducted himself like a stronger leader.
Barry has more charm and projects better than Carter. Romney is no Reagan.
But that is the deal here. When they go side by side on that stage, it will not be about strategy, it will be if Romney can project himself as a stronger leader.
It would appear that Romney has a lot going for him and Barry has a lot going against him.
But Romney cannot expect to win if he cannot project himself as a stronger leader than Barry when put on that stage in the first debate.
A dependent voter is a Zero voter, and Commandante Zero has been diligently expanding their numbers for the last four years. In the face of economic misery, there are a lot of people who would rather continue to collect that government check than hope for an economic turn around and getting a job to support themselves and their families.
Zero will continue to promise never ending goodies, even though the country is broker than broke. Romney wants people to go back to work. At one time, Americans did want to get back to work, but I'm not so sure that's the case now. If it were, Zero would be down in the polls by 10 points; instead it's razor close, especially in places like Ohio, where you'd expect Romney to be ahead.
We've become a decadent, spoiled and dependent people, and this election will show us just how deep the rot has gone.
I receive 40% Veterans Affairs service-connected disability. Do you think I’m going to pull the lever for Mr. Obama?
Having the WH and the House does not get rid of Obamacare. We have to have the Senate also. Akin may have cost us that.
Speaker Newt Gingrich is 5X the debater that Mr. Barack Obama will ever be, even if he lives to be 200 and spends 10 hours a day in a top-notch debate class. Governor Mitt Romney beat him soundly for the nomination. Yes, then Governor Reagan had the advantage of being a life-long actor, narrator, radio and TV personality and speechmaker, and it showed. But I don’t think that Mr. Obama, sans his teleprompter (or will they allow him one?) will be quite as persuasive as he was four years ago, when he was a blank slate that everyone projected their dreams upon.
SSssshhhhh! We’re supposed to be 150% behind Akin and against those evil GOP-e RINOs who made him blurt out that inanity...
Indeed!
Yes; it will!
My point is that Zero has prolonged and worsened a bad economy so as to create dependents on government handouts, who in turn will vote for him so that those handouts will continue.
Injured soldiers deserve the help and respect of a grateful nation. Those on the dole don't.
Oh?
Slick Willy was ACCUSED of rape!
You see where THAT went!
Akin merely misspoke.
I have relatives on the East Coast who consider disabled veterans and military retirees to be freeloaders and welfare bums, the same or worse than the single mom in Section 8 with 6 babies by 5 different guys or the “poor” homeless guy who always seems to have money for smokes, fortified wine, drugs and an occasional hooker.
President Bill Clinton had 97% of the press corps and Hollywood spinning for him and hiding the facts. Do you think that Rep. Akin will receive that kind of help? If so, let me have your address, I have a bridge I wish to show you.
It is a criminal act for our elected officials to give away taxpayer money and buy votes like this. Until we the people rise up and have them convicted and thrown in jail, it will keep getting worse until the system breaks.
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