By Zach Foster
Yesterday the President announced his intention to run for reelection in 2012, in case there was ever any doubt. There have been mixed reactions in the combined rat race and battle royale slap fight that is American politics. Republicans and anyone else who has more than a slight dislike for the President, his administration, and his actions are already groaning about the very idea of enduring (what they perceive to be) four more years of Stalinist oppression.
The fact of the matter looms over the heads of those who are aware of it and possibly dread it: Barack Obama will be reelected.
Why? Well, the reasons are simple.
Obama is an incumbent President, and incumbents usually are elected to serve additional terms. After all, they’re already in office and their political party already has power—the hard part is over—and now they simply need to defend their power and incumbency against the challenger. Though incumbent Presidents have lost reelection campaigns periodically throughout American history, this tends to be the exception compared to the number of Presidential reelections.
Obama has not completely cut off his support. Yes, he has broken campaign promises, though he isn’t the first and won’t be the last politician to do so. He promised in his first campaign to oppose tax cuts, but early this year made a quid pro quo with Congressional Republicans to extend the Bush era tax cuts. He made a large stink out of ending the Iraq War and withdrawing at least one U.S. Afghanistan
The most significant reason that Obama will be reelected is simply that the Republicans have no one to challenge him with. While House Republicans like to console themselves with the fact that they repealed the health care reform act within the House itself, they ignore the fact they are in the minority in the Senate and will never get the law legally repealed in this session of Congress. Yes, it is true that there are Republican members of Congress (mostly from the House) and governors who are honorable civil servants, but not one of these Republicans has proven to be a popular leader within the Party, nor have any of them inspired Republicans with the Reagan/Palin charisma that the GOP fell in love with. The only likely poster boy for the GOP at the moment is Donald Trump, the self-nominated candidate and self-appointed Messiah.
Continued in Part 2: "Really, Trump is the best the GOP has to offer?!"
Are you seriously kidding? There have been 5 incumbents NOT re-elected...
ReplyDeletePlus you have failed to mention Herman Cain, who is in 3rd place.
Give it a little longer before you start predicting the GOP failure to win back the WH.
I think you're right. Even if the GOP takes back Florida, North Carolina and Virgina and perhaps Colorado they will still lose. And who do they have to run? A bunch of losers for the most part just like last time and just like when they ran Bob Dole. Why should GOPers get excited about voting for Mitt Romney (of Romneycare fame), for example? He's a New Englander who supporters socialist medicine. The GOP is mostly a rural and Southern party opposes socialist medicine. The Republicans will probably end up split sectionally and end up with a moderate candidate who excites no one and has little consistency at all. And he'll lose.
ReplyDeleteAs a Southern nationalist I'm hoping for another Obama term. He alienates the most people. People don't know what he is: is he Black or White, Christian or Muslim, native or foreign, etc.? No one here identifies with him. Four years of his rule has been good for the people as far as returning a little skepticism about government to their mentality. Hopefully 4 more years will do even more. This system can't last too much longer with the dollar being destroyed by Ben and company, the Feds trying to occupy the whole planet and regulate our every activity. Hopefully as it starts to fall apart these many years of being alienated from the DC regime will push people back towards their natural tendencies and we can return to some more local, less intrusive, less power and more humble - something more organic, in other words.
Here's to 4 more years of Obama - and a step closer towards self-determination and an end to imperialism.
Thanks a million for your input, folks! The link 2 part 2 is now embedded at the end of the above article.
ReplyDeletePresident Obama will be reelected because he not only have substance and great ideas, but it's now common knowledge to anyone with political knowledge becoming a kindergartener that the GOP are bigoted hate mongers who have purposely held this country's economic recovery back for political points to gain control in 2012. It worked for them in 2010 because the democratic base didn't show up because of a few of those promises like GITMO still being open and no Public Option. But the very inept 112th congress and the election of near totalitarian type governors that were elected during the midterms such as Scott Walker, Rick Scott, John Kasich, and Rick Snyder the progressive/liberal base have seen the price of apathy and know that if the GOP/Tea Party actually get control of the executive branch America is FUCKED! Plain and simple. This is the nut in a shell, the GOP hate President Obama more than they love America. They governed with their hate and bigotry and have totally disregarded the issues of the American people. Not to mention their all out attack on the middle/working class, poor, women, elderly, and children.
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