Votes ain’t code.
And I believe my simple summary stands.
This is NOT a “perception” thing.
It’s a reality thing.
You’re either helping to kick the clown out of office, or you’re doing something else.
Obama may be a clown; but it is simply ridiculous to lay the decline of the country at his feet. There are simply far too many involved for it to be laid at a single person's feet. -- Take the budget, it's Congress's responsibility [and legal obligation] to pass a budget, not the President's.
At the end of the day, most of the ills in our country can be traced to one thing: lack of moral character. As a country we are severely morally depraved. Elsewise, how could the wholesale slaughter of innocent babies, infanticide, be condoned? And yet it is, abortion has taken the lives of dozens of millions of citizens... yet we-as-a-nation allow it. Indeed, many justify not violently opposing it because it's the law. IOW, they justify themselves by the law yet fail to recognize that that "law" does not actually exist: it is a fabrication made of whole cloth handed out from the Supreme Court. The same sort of justification is applied to many Drug Laws, relying ultimately on precedent of Prohibition cases (or, perhaps, the "commerce clause") -- yet those should be invalid as the 21st amendment was a complete repeal of the 18th amendment.
In short: we have the president we deserve: a man of no great character.
And you are advising voting for another man of no great character, one whose words carry less weight than air, to displace the current?
What sense is there in that?