Some Observations on the 2012 Electiions

Let’s face it…I am a Frickin Genius.  I look at my post from last Spring, and I look positively psychic.  I hear the calls for Obama to step down, bring Hillary back, we made a mistake, blah blah blah.  Never has it been so apparent that we need to rely on our friends and family, because Dear Leader certainly isn’t making things any better while he’s on the golf course.  And I appreciated that he called the rest of us lazy.  Ms Antoinette would approve.

So, what exactly grounds for impeachment, anyways?  Funneling money to your top contributors doesn’t do it, gunrunning down to Mexico and getting Americans killed doesn’t do it.  Spending $10,000,000 this year on vacations seems dicey.  How about taking over private car companies?  I see the loss to the taxpayer is estimated to be $23,000,000,000.   Executive Orders bypassing the Congress and Senate?  That will be rich once a Republican president starts going roughshod over the Democrats.  Oh, there will be much gnashing of teeth and rending of hair.  Whatever.

I like Herman Cain.  He got dealt the Chicago Shuffle.  I don’t believe the accusations for a minute.  What I figure happened here is Cain, being black, was Obama’s worst nightmare.  It would cut a lot of the acid from the evening news.  Plus, he has a track record (imagine that).  So Democrats think “Damn, there goes the unified black vote, and independents aren’t going to choke on that hope and change from the last time out.  We gotta smear him.  Sure, it was in the nineties, and no, there’s no proof , but we gotta do something”.  Send out the usual people – you know, the ones that no matter what President Unicorn does, and how bad it looks (57 states, walking into a glass door) they come up with some twisted logic to explain it all away.  I thought sniffing glue was illegal.

And what’s up with Obama STILL trying to blame Bush for everything.  It’s like a six year old in the Oval Office.  Dude, you knew what the job was when you took it.  Grow a set or step down.  Jesus, that would make Joe hop off the trike, and God help me, it couldn’t be any worse.

So, 2012 will bring the worst Presidential pandering ever seen.  Forget an overall plan – it will definitely be just to get votes.  Or, he may step down and a credible candidate step up.  I just don’t see his arrogance allowing that as an option.

The Republicans?

My earlier blog seems eerily prescient.  And how I wish I was wrong.  No to Bachmann – too much of a lightening rod.  Perry seems to have shot himself in the foot, looked at it, and then reloaded.  Cain needs to put the talks of harrassment behind him if he is going to stay.  Gingrich has always been smart, and probably would destroy anyone in a debate.  He’s very smart.  But he has negatives.  I like Ron Paul, but with him there is no middle ground, and that probably makes it difficult to get more mainstream voters.  Santorum?  Who?  Not this election unless he, well he’d have to change an awful lot.  Finally, Mitt.  He’s the one that the liberal media love.  They want him to be the nominee so badly that they will say anything they can to make it seem inevitable that he will be the nominee.  And once there, the knives will come out.  Mitt Romney looks like a chisel-jawed political model.  And that’s the problem.  I don’t trust him.  He speaks well in debates, but I don’t like the packaging.  And if he is the nominee, it will be portrayed at “rich white guy vs black incumbent president” and the issues will never be brought up in the conversation.  If you don’t vote for Barack, why, You’re a Racist.

Where the Dem’s miscalculation might be is not understanding how tricked the independent voter feels.  Not once have I heard an Independent or even a Democrat say anything positive about Obama first three years.  One person said that he would rather have someone flipping coins in the White House; at least he’d be half right.  That is a sad commentary on a man way in over his head.

So, the next year will be interesting and probably everyone will double their meds.

Last Thoughts:  I loved Chris Christie’s quote about Obama this week:  “What the hell are we paying him for?”