Obama Shifts Campaign Strategy: He'll Run Against the Tea Party

Tea Party Tribune ^ | 2012-08-28 07:53:11 | mrcurmudgeon

[tselatysr]

By Mr. Curmudgeon:

If you think government is so big it sucks all the oxygen out of the room ... you're an extremist. If you think green energy projects (like the failed Solyndra) are a waste of taxpayer money ... you're an extremist. If you think government mandates diminish individual freedom ... you're an extremist. If you think hard work and not roads, bridges and government employees - teachers - built your business ... you're an extremist. If you think it criminal for the American government to sell weapons to Mexican drug cartels ... you're an extremist. And finally, if you think voters should boot President Obama out of the White House and send him back to mean-streets Chicago this November ... you're ... well, you know the rest.

Recently, Obama took time away from granting interviews to serious news organizations like People magazine and Entertainment Tonight and spoke with the pipsqueaks at the Associated Press.

"I can't speak to Gov. [Mitt] Romney's motivations," said the president speaking to Gov. Romney's motivations, "What I can say is that he has signed up for positions, extreme positions that are very consistent with positions that a number of House Republicans have taken. And whether he actually believes in those or not, I have no doubt that he would carry forward some of the things that he's talked about," said Obama.

What a difference four years makes. The "extreme" label was once applied exclusively to those attending mass Tea Party rallies. Then those rally attendees elected a hefty Tea Party contingent to Congress in 2010, destroying Obama's governing Democratic majority. Even Republican politicians fear upsetting the sensibilities of the "extreme," least they end their careers in the fashion of Indiana's long-time Senator, Richard Lugar.

The latest polls show the president has lost the cherished independent voter, that the elderly see GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan's Medicare reform as preferable to Obama's killing the entitlement program to fund ObamaCare, and the Tea Party continues its successful program to transform the GOP into a true small-government opposition party by defeating establishment Republicans in the primaries.

Obama can't run on his record. Insisting his economic programs have "worked" is met with stunned silence or laughter. His attacks on Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan aren't scaring voters as intended. Having run out of options, the president is attempting to link the GOP's top ticket to the Taxed-Enough-Already movement. Obama is officially running for re-election by running against the Tea Party.

Nearly one year ago, Obama encountered noisy Occupy Wall Street hecklers while delivering an address in Manchester, New Hampshire. "I appreciate you guys making your point," said Obama, "Let me go ahead and make mine." Obama reminded the movements' deranged followers, "You are the reason I ran for office."

Obama has put a profound question before the American people: "You have a choice this November. You can choose a Third World, authoritarian, banana republic vision for America offered by me and my friends at Occupy Wall Street or you can choose the Tea Party, which stands for fiscal responsibility and constitutional restraints on the power of government that fosters greater individual liberty and prosperity."

Offered such a stark choice, America's community organizer is certain to discover he is surrounded by a nation of "extremists."

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[MasterGunner01]

So Bambi thinks the way to win is declare war on the American people? Good move, Bambi.

[so_real]

Actually I don't think he has. Otherwise he'd leave well enough alone.

Really? You are saying the GOPe is leaving well enough alone?

[jersey117]

Kind of late in the game for switching strategeries. What a loser.

[Charles Martel]

He's been watching the GOPe at work.

Agreed, this is Obama's version of "moving toward the center".

[ilgipper]

Kind of late in the game for switching strategeries. What a loser.

To your point, only people who are losing switch strategies this late. Obama is losing.

This tact won't work either, because he's tried similar tactics before, and it simply doesn't work.

[tsowellfan]

Really? You are saying the GOPe is leaving well enough alone?

No. What I said is written. I do not need to type it again. Obviously you need to read it again because I really cannot see how you can even come to that conclusion.

[marktwain]

This had come down to a contest between the MSM and the new media.

The MSM could not pull Carter from the fire, but then, we had Ronald Reagan to rally the troops.

The MSM was able to put Obama in against a lame McCain with an assist by RINOs who wanted to destroy Palin more than they wanted to win the presidency, and an incredible economic calamity.

The MSM has lost credibility, Obama has lost some cover, and the new media has gained strength.

Reality, the Constitution, the truth, and the new media are with Romney, whether he likes it or not. Paul Ryan knows that the MSM is his enemy, much better than Governor Palin did four years ago. I do not think that their is a campaign inside the Romney campaign to destroy Paul Ryan.

Romney appears to want to win.... I was not so sure about McCain.

[marktwain]

their should be there..

[publius911]

Obama Shifts Campaign Strategy: He'll Run Against the Tea Party

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He'll probably beat them, too.
Too bad the Tea Party is not running for anything.
Easy enough to beat anyone who isn't running.

[publius911]

Don’t think for a moment that the GOP will rise to our defense either.

They'll be too busy running to try to save their own asses. The next four years will be hell for whomever continues business as usual.
Doesn't matter what party!

[Daffynition]

When is he going to have time to campaign? When he is on Reddit?

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/z1c9z/i_am_barack_obama_preside%20n%20t_of_the_united_states/

[Eye of Unk]

So when does he start tatting bar codes on Tea Party members?

Or forced RFID chipping?

[Jet Jaguar]

Best response!

[hawaiianninja]

So he’s becoming a republican?

LOL. Apparently so. Not surprising since someone (I conveniently forget who) recently wrote an article claiming the 0 was a "conservative revolutionist."

[timestax]

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