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The Obama Watch
If Obama Loses
Preparing for the inevitable.
It is now less than a year before Americans will go to the polls and decide if they want to keep Barack Obama in the White House for another four years. Despite the absence of a primary challenger, with a national debt nearing $15 trillion, an unemployment rate consistently in the 9 percent range and at least three-quarters of Americans who believe the country is going in the wrong direction to show for his efforts to stimulate the economy, no incumbent President has been so vulnerable since Herbert Hoover.
If these conditions persist or get worse, there is a very good chance that the American electorate will give President Obama an eviction notice from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on November 6, 2012. In which case, he will not be allowed to stay in his home past noon on January 20, 2013. Should this come to pass we can expect President Obama’s allies in the liberal media to assail the verdict and cast aspersions upon the American electorate.
To begin with, if President Obama should lose the presidency by the narrowest of margins, we can expect accusations of fraud and voter suppression. Liberal media outlets such as the New York Times, Newsweek, Daily Kos,and MSNBC will be quick to question the legitimacy of a Republican victory as they did when George W. Bush was elected in 2000 and re-elected in 2004. It is easier for the liberal media to believe that Republicans would plan and commit electoral fraud than to accept the idea that the American electorate would freely choose to vote for a Republican to highest office in the land.
Of course, such a narrative would be difficult to advance if Obama’s loss is on the scale of Jimmy Carter in 1980. So if the liberal media cannot credibly accuse Republicans of chicanery, they will more than gladly accuse them and the people who voted for them of racism. Specifically, they will lay the blame at the feet of Tea Party activists who have long been accused of hating having a black man in the White House. Such accusations have no foundation in fact and are incredibly stupid when you consider the level of Tea Party support for Herman Cain. These accusations would look even more stupid if Republicans were to nominate Cain and if the American people subsequently elected him our 45th President.
But let’s not underestimate the capacity of the liberal media when it comes to chutzpah.
If Obama were to lose to Cain, the liberal media would trot out the likes of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Harry Belafonte, Jr. to reinforce the notion that Cain is not one of their own and is nothing more than a black man who makes white people comfortable with their prejudices. In other words, if Republicans nominate Cain they are doing so because they are racist and if Republicans don’t nominate Cain it is also because of racism. Yet the notion that the American electorate is suddenly racist four years removed from electing Barack Obama is morally bankrupt. Not that it will impede the liberal media from trading in such insolvent ideas. Of course, it would never occur to the liberal media that the American people have repudiated Obama not because he is black but because he failed to keep us in the black.
With an electorate that is demanding a balanced budget, the repeal of Obamacare, and a more limited role for the federal government, if Obama should lose we can expect the liberal media to echo Michelle Obama during the 2008 campaign when she complained that America was “just downright mean.” Should voters be less than kind to her husband in a year’s time, the liberal media will use every spare moment to remind us of how mean we are when they’re not reminding us that we’re a bunch of frauds and racists.
Yet where is the compassion in saddling future generations with unsustainable debt? Where is the generosity in increasing the cost of health care? Isn’t inciting envy and resentment towards those who achieved financial success an act of meanness? And where is President Obama’s civility towards his political adversaries when he accuses them of desiring dirtier air, dirtier water, and fewer people with health insurance?
Such a cavalier disposition demonstrates that President Obama and those who support him are treating the Office of President of the United States as if it were an entitlement. On the contrary, it is an office that must be earned and the American electorate is under no obligation to keep the occupant inside the Oval Office should he seek a second term. When Barack Obama was elected President three years ago, he presented himself not only as someone best suited to take on the challenges facing America but as someone who could calm oceans. Needless to say, Obama was elected with the highest of expectations. Should Obama fail to be re-elected next year he will have only himself to blame for failing to address our challenges and for being unable to walk on water. Well, no second coming, no second term.
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Ken (Old Texican)| 11.8.11 @ 6:26AM
Aaron, you might want to check out this link.
Obama is certainly setting the table.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion.....-has-come/
Lucky| 11.8.11 @ 6:42AM
When Obama loses, the American economy will take off like a rocket ship.
Seek| 11.8.11 @ 11:51AM
How can you be sure he'll lose? We were absolutely sure, if I remember, that Bill Clinton was destined to be a one-termer. Things didn't quite work that way.
I work on a very simple assumption: Anyone who can get himself elected president in this country can get himself re-elected.
Todd Powers| 11.9.11 @ 12:04AM
Clinton, raised in rural Arkansas, had an understanding of real America that Obama ( Hawaiian born, indonesian educated, Harvard law, Columbia, University of Chicago, Bill Ayers, Rev. Wright) never will be able to have. After too much HillaryCare attempt at overreach, Clinton, with Dick Morris caaling the shots, triangulated in the supposed center between his own party and Gingrich's Congress.
Unlike Dole, McConnell is not running for President. This is among the many differences between 2012 and 1996.
Skippy| 11.9.11 @ 4:27PM
We must all be cautious.
Unseating a POTUS is no small feat.
The odds are against us.
That said, " we're doomed of course, but we shall proceed with style".
Joe| 11.11.11 @ 10:05AM
Depends on who the winner is. Most dont have a plan to reign in spending. Most have a plan to broaden the tax base and therefore find more ways to prop up the behemouth. No matter how you slice it, while their plans that pretend to balance the budget in 10 years (long after they are out of office) the rate of inflation and increasing population will necessitate a continual rise in taxes to continue to support the giant welfare state. Additionally, if we only focus on taxing the rich it will push more and more down into the lower tax brackets and therefore eventually decimate the holdings into .5% holding the wealth of the country. Most of which will be tied very tightly to the government. Flat taxes are the way it will be done.
Alan Brooks| 11.8.11 @ 10:16AM
"If Obama Loses"
Then it is 4 or 8 years of another Bush-type interregnum. As Bush 41 was a steppingstone to Clinton, so Bush 43 was a steppingstone to Obama.
Drunken Sailor| 11.8.11 @ 10:31AM
"As Carter was a steppingstone to Regan, so Obama will a steppingstone to another Republican"
Fixed it for ya
Alan Brooks| 11.8.11 @ 11:17AM
" 'As Carter was a steppingstone to Regan, so Obama will a steppingstone to another Republican' Fixed it for ya"
Long as you admit the era of small govt. ended
9/11/'01
Drunken Sailor| 11.8.11 @ 12:02PM
I admit it. Now do you admit Obama but big goverment on growth hormone? Time to change things. D.C. needs the worlds biggest application of hemmorhoid cream to shrink all those swollen anal tissues that reside there.
Shamus| 11.8.11 @ 12:19PM
The era of small government ended in 1913.
Alan Brooks| 11.8.11 @ 2:38PM
"The era of small government ended in 1913."
Right, which means Drunken Sailor is too optimistic about the prospects for Preparation H being applied to the posterior of government.
Drunken Sailor| 11.8.11 @ 3:44PM
There is always surgery. Even by your own accounts it's past time the malignant growth is pared down and tossed in the dumpster.
Redstateboy| 11.8.11 @ 3:55PM
Brooks... if Hussein the Muslim King had the average rate of unemployment that Dubbya the Great enjoyed during his 8 years.. then your Messiah would be a shoe-in.
Alan Brooks| 11.8.11 @ 5:35PM
because the last decade was investments built on air. Yet not Bush's fault, he was merely a figurehead.
@ Drunken Sailor
"Even by your own accounts it's past time the malignant growth is pared down and tossed in the dumpster."
Then the patient may be terminal.
Pecos Pete| 11.8.11 @ 6:39AM
The question is: When King O loses, where does he move to?
The Bruce| 11.8.11 @ 7:08AM
I'm still waiting for some concocted "emergency" to crop up just prior to the election, and therefore the "justification" to "temporarily suspend" national elections.
Southern_Comment| 11.8.11 @ 7:20AM
You can already see the stage being set for that - funny how Holder is being asked to resign - he's lied (and has a history of doing so to Congress) - he's in with the NBP and instead of answering to Congress or continuing to play that game he's been playing of lie lie lie - what's he do? He starts in on 2nd amendment laws. Yep, seems small - but it's the ground work.
Alice Moore| 11.8.11 @ 7:47AM
The Bruce, this would be hard to do or justify. Presidential elections weren't suspended in 1860, 1865, 1916, or 1944.
Jim| 11.8.11 @ 7:55AM
Justification. The violent protest of the OWS losers will be all the annoited one needs to declare the need to suspend elections. I ask what will stop him, Congress? Supreme Court? He passes them by now like they are parked on curb. This guy and gal are not going away on their own. They and their puppet masters have planned too hard for this to let it slip away because of the results of an election.
NedB| 11.8.11 @ 8:33AM
And within 12 hours of Obama suspending the elections, the Marines in the White House inform the Secret Service that Obama and his cronies are going to be removed from office and if they stand in the way, they will also be removed.
The military takes their oath very seriously regarding the constitution and will not allow Obama and his thugs to pull that one off.
Purple Lips| 11.8.11 @ 8:53AM
Where have you been? Most officers of flag rank are enthralled to thier masters. You want to strike fear in a 3 star's heart? Tell him NOW is on the line.
Patriot4Freedom| 11.9.11 @ 6:31AM
NedB . . . I'll give you a second on that !
When Nixon was on the verge of resigning, and the Dems were all afraid he would refuse to leave or accept a criminal charge/impeachment, the Air Force made plans to refuse to implement any attack/mobilization order from the POTUS until it could be confirmed as necessary by the brass. I heard that from a senior AF officer in the missile command structure.
Buck Ofama| 11.8.11 @ 11:54AM
>The violent protest of the OWS losers will be all the annoited one needs to declare the need to suspend elections.
Bullshit. No one takes those flea bag fools seriously.
Teaghan| 11.8.11 @ 8:23AM
I'm with you The Bruce. With Homeland Security doing their National Broadcasting system tomorrow when all TV and radios are cut off makes me worried that they either know we are going to suffer another attack or they are setting the stage for this "wag the dog" emergency before next years elections.
I heard a reporter today say she went to that park in NYC with the OWS and spent the night in a tent with 5 others. She reported that they are now bringing in plywood to start building structures for the winter. We will then have a shanty town in the middle of Manhattan. What the hell is that mayor thinking, allowing this to go on?
Kingofthenet| 11.8.11 @ 11:46AM
Robert Clayton Dean: What the hell is happening?
Brill: I blew up the building.
Robert Clayton Dean: Why?
Brill: Because you made a phone call.
OK people Don't go 'Post American' on us.
Redstateboy| 11.8.11 @ 3:56PM
if it does.. it'll be called: "Iran"
Doctor Right| 11.8.11 @ 8:39AM
And at what point does he announce his heart-felt conversion to Islam?
DTOM| 11.8.11 @ 9:41AM
Yea, but if he tries to walk that one back won't the Muslim Brotherhood get their stones and throw them at him? He might want to think twice about going Muslim in public-they take a very, very dim view of Indian-giver converts...
Doctor Right| 11.8.11 @ 10:03AM
...NOT if the "conversion" was a tactical one designed ONLY to foll the Infidels.
The Koran actually supports and promotes this.
For instance, contrary to early Christian history, Muslims who must choose between either recanting Islam or being put to death are not only permitted to lie by pretending to have apostatised, but many jurists have decreed that, according to Quran 4:29, Muslims are obligated to lie in such instances.
"Taqiyya" [deception] is of fundamental importance in Islam. Practically every Islamic sect agrees to it and practices it. We can go so far as to say that the practice of taqiyya is mainstream in Islam, and that those few sects not practicing it diverge from the mainstream. Taqiyya is very prevalent in Islamic politics, especially in the modern era.
Regarding Quran verse 3:28:
"If you [Muslims] are under their [infidels'] authority, fearing for yourselves, behave loyally to them, with your tongue, while harbouring inner animosity for them... Allah has forbidden believers from being friendly or on intimate terms with the infidels in place of believers – except when infidels are above them [in authority]. In such a scenario, let them act friendly towards them."
The Islamic scholar Ibn Kathir (1301-1373) wrote of Quran 3:28:
"Whoever at any time or place fears their [infidels'] evil, may protect himself through outward show."
Scary, huh? Makes you wonder about people you work with, shop with, hang out with, etc.
DRed| 11.8.11 @ 11:07AM
You think there are a lot of secret muslims hiding in America because they fear being put to death by the Christians?
Doctor Right| 11.8.11 @ 1:53PM
No.
But I do think that if somehow, some way, they gained control of the levers of power in this country, some of them would be acting QUITE differently than they do today.
DRed| 11.8.11 @ 2:24PM
Sure. Who cares? There's no chance that fundamentalist muslims (or any other kind of muslims, for that matter) will gain control of the levers of power in this country.
Doctor Right| 11.8.11 @ 3:52PM
Markus Fromagius (Roman Wine Merchant):
"...If they gained control of the levers of power in this country, some of them would be acting QUITE differently than they do today."
Pontius Pissed-Offius (Roman Gov't Official):
"Sure. Who cares? There's no chance that Goths, Visigoths (or any other kind of Barbarians, for that matter) will gain control of the levers of power in this country."
albert constantine jr| 11.8.11 @ 6:47PM
Wasn't fromagius actually a cheese merchant?
RCV| 11.8.11 @ 6:51PM
Maybe you've just miscited it, but 3:28 reads, "Those who believe should not take unbelievers as their friends in preference to those who believe -- and whosover does so should have no expectations of God -- unless to safeguard yourselves against them." This is from the Princeton University Press translation by Ahmed Ali.
Buck Ofama| 11.8.11 @ 11:56AM
when he bowed, grovelled and apologized to those goat-fvcking assh0les.
Intelligent Design| 11.8.11 @ 11:41AM
When he gets thrown out of the White House in 2012, Obama will most likely become a Professor of American Un-Exeptionalism at Columbia or Harvard. What else is he qualified to do?
Doctor Right| 11.8.11 @ 1:54PM
He can do ANYTHING!!!
Run a bank, manage a multi-national auto company, take care of us when we're sick...
He can do it.
Kim Il Obama...Our Leader!
JimH| 11.8.11 @ 12:50PM
I’m thinking that in a magnanimous gesture of unity President Cain appoints BO as ambassador to Kenya.
irish19| 11.8.11 @ 1:06PM
Oh, that's good!! LOL!!!
Doctor Right| 11.8.11 @ 1:56PM
Nope.
The U.K.
Or somewhere REAL crappy...like South Sudan.
Al| 11.8.11 @ 1:46PM
I am sure he will start a presidential campaign
in his country..Kenya
mertsj| 11.8.11 @ 10:29PM
Back to Kenya where he came from and where his family is.
davelnaf| 11.8.11 @ 8:03AM
What Barry does after the election will make a lot of people's hair stand on end. His narcissistic hurt will turn into narcissistic rage and he will look for ways to vent it. To dems it will be an absolute horror show. To everyone else it will come as no surprise.
Teaghan| 11.8.11 @ 8:25AM
Wanna bet he is offered the top position at the UN? He can then RULE THE WORLD and impose even more power over the US.
DTOM| 11.8.11 @ 9:41AM
Til we toss them.
Doctor Right| 11.8.11 @ 1:57PM
Naah, they've seen that the Emperor has NO clothes.
He's a useful idiot to them...nothing more.
Occam's Tool| 11.8.11 @ 5:23PM
Dr R, his (Body Odor) uselessness and general brainlessness would make him a perfect UN Sec Gen.
RCV| 11.8.11 @ 6:47PM
What "Barry" will do after the election is be sworn in for a second term. More confident than ever that this will be the result. The right is far too fractured and intent on destroying each of their favorites in turn, and Romney will be an unexciting alternative for the public who won't bring out the evangelicals.
mertsj| 11.8.11 @ 10:35PM
Spoken like a true member of the Liberal Mob who is incapable of logical thought.
Skippy| 11.9.11 @ 5:29PM
Beware.
He may be a member, but he may also be right.
We must take nothing for granted.
Michael Tomlinson| 11.8.11 @ 8:09AM
The key will be our nominee – someone with experience or our lone inexperienced, gaffe prone and inconsistent, but affable Herman Cain (though he may be innocent in this latest scandal his handling was on par with Anthony Weiner). If it's the latter I wouldn't bet against Obama despite the amount of melanin in his skin.
It's interesting to see how the author and so many have bought into race based "white guilt" Democrat inspired politics and the idea that nominating an African-American somehow "expiates" us of alleged racism. As a lifelong Republican and non-racist I've never cared what the racist Democrats have said about the Party that that insured civil rights in the '60's. Nor have I worried about the race, gender or ethnicity of my Republican candidates. To make race a major factor in selecting our nominee in 2012 would make us no better than the moronic Democrats who gave us Obama.
We lost both the NV and DE Senate races, because of the unproven and out of the ordinary candidates were nominated. Next year will be no different if Cain is the nominee. Winning the GOP nomination for one who plays as an outsider (Cain is an insider former DC lobbyist), ready to take on the establishment with an eagerness to use the victim card isn’t impossible with Tea Party support, but winning a general election is totally different. That's when the candidate we're saddled with blows it and we're left with the Democrat winning.
As for those who point to Marco Rubio and Rand Paul as Tea Party “victories” that’s misleading. Rubio is a Florida establishment Republican and Rand Paul is the scion of the politically savvy Ron Paul. It is likely with or without the Tea Party support these two candidates would have won, because they’re smart and tough politicians. As for the House Tea Party winners Obama in the White House insured we were going to win big against his Democrats in an off year election, but we’ll have to see how many Tea Party members are reelected as “Tea Party” candidates before knowing how deep or beneficial that backing really was.
Matthew Quigley| 11.8.11 @ 9:53AM
Mike, you make some excellent points. Here's something to consider: Cain wins the nomination, but selects a more veteran office-holder as his running mate. Specifically, someone he actually gets along with and could serve as a VERY senior personal advisor (and mentor). That might help him to avoid foot-in-mouth situations a little more easily.
Drunken Sailor| 11.8.11 @ 10:34AM
That is exactly what I took away from the Cain/Gingrich debate. I would not be surprised if they are talking deals that if one gets the ticket the other will get the VP ticket.
ChuckYooFarley| 11.8.11 @ 11:05AM
Aren't both Cain and Gingrich from Georgia? Doesn't the Constitution prohibit a President and a VP being from the same state?
Drunken Sailor| 11.8.11 @ 12:07PM
No, I believe the stipulation has something to do with the electoral college vote for that state being limited in that case. The state electoral college could only cast a vote for either the president or VP from that state but not both. They would have to sacrifice one vote.
Bush/Cheney were both Texas residents but avoided that issue when Cheney changed his residency back to Wyoming.
http://www.snopes.com/history/.....sident.asp
ChuckYooFarley| 11.8.11 @ 11:02AM
Isn't this exactly what 0bama did? He got elected, so its definitely a viable strategy.
big bob| 11.8.11 @ 11:32AM
Actually, I disagree. The "nay-sayers" continue to point to NV as the reason we should be putting up "experienced candidates". Oh really. 1) No one APPOINTED Sharon Angle in NV. She ran fair and square. Had the RNC supported her wholeheartedly, she might have made more inroads; had they not spent so much on the RINO candidate in CA, she might have had a better chance; if the corrupt Senate leader had not been her opponent, with all his "connections" into voting "procedures", she might have won. The real point is that NO ONE was going to beat Harry Reid, period. Sharon Angle had more cojones than most establishment "experienced" pols currently in either chamber of Congress.
2) The story was similar but not exactly the same in DE. But again, we don't appoint our candidates!! not like the libs/Dems. Christine O'Donnell ran fair and square, AGAIN. And the points above pertaining to the RNC apply here as well. Did anyone think we were going to win 100%??? For real? Get a clue!!
In fact, the general dissing Mike gives to the Tea Party makes me sense that his is a life-long GOP establishment type. The Tea Party IS the reason the GOP runs the House, and they can't process that. Boehner did a great job in coopting many of them, but not all of them. Yes, we will get a real good view of just how deep the Tea Party goes in this country. Because the estblishment GOP faces extinction the way they are ignoring and denying Tea Party members access to policy making positions and leadership roles. It is not very hopeful for the GOP on their own. Yes indeed, we are going to see!!
Patriot4Freedom| 11.9.11 @ 6:44AM
Your claims re Angle and O'Donnell apply just the same to more mainstream candidates. I am a strong TeaParty supporter, but claims like the "establishment GOP faces extinction " are just plain silly. Those of us who opposed Angle and O'Donnell did it because we knew what the result would be in their general elections. We are respectful enough to just not say "I told you so" every other day!
idalily| 11.9.11 @ 4:49PM
The fact that both women were dumber than rocks had something to do with it, too. My sense of sadness in all this is: I look at the conservative candidates for all offices and I can't help feeling a sense of frustration as I ask myself, "Is this the best we can do?" I am sad because the answer is, "Yes, since most people with brains are smart enough not to run against the MSM smear machine."
mertsj| 11.8.11 @ 10:40PM
We lost the NV and DE races because the party wouldn't support the nominee. If Al Franken and Jesse Ventura can be elected anyone can...if they have enough support behind them. Look at Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.
rodeoamy| 11.8.11 @ 8:17AM
Expect fraud. Lots of it.
Doctor Right| 11.8.11 @ 8:32AM
Good article, but frankly I could not care less about the narrative that the left-wing media will use to spin Obama's inevitable loss.
In fact, I stopped caring about those fools and watching their shows over ten years ago. I refuse to give them any power to attempt to shape my opinion.
And based on the public's reaction to the Herman Cain story, it looks like a lot of people are waking up to this reality.
The best way to neuter the left-wing press is to ignore them.
Buck Ofama| 11.8.11 @ 11:58AM
>I could not care less about the narrative
Thank you for proper usage, instead of saying "I *could* care less..." Most people don't understand the difference.
Drunken Sailor| 11.8.11 @ 12:08PM
That always bugged me too. And when you point it out you get confused stares. Go figure.
Doctor Right| 11.8.11 @ 1:59PM
Yeah. You feel like saying "Well, if you COULD care less, then why don't you??"
If you COULD care less, does that mean that you actually care?
Ummm...Resist, we much!!
mertsj| 11.8.11 @ 10:41PM
Only from members of the Liberal Mob who are incapable of logical thought.
Patriot4Freedom| 11.9.11 @ 6:46AM
Are there members of the Liberal Mob who are CAPABLE of logical thought ? ? ?
Buck Ofama| 11.10.11 @ 1:59AM
Yes. It took me two years to get my stepdaughter to understand the logic.
Doctor Right| 11.8.11 @ 1:58PM
Irregardless, and for all intensive purposes, this has always bugged me, two.
Occam's Tool| 11.8.11 @ 5:25PM
Dr Right: for the best discussion of the useless word "irregardless," please see the film "The Hebrew Hammer." You should see it anyway, as it is quite amusing.
Southern_Comment| 11.9.11 @ 6:44AM
Your right! :)
Patriot4Freedom| 11.9.11 @ 6:48AM
Yore rite two !
Skippy| 11.9.11 @ 6:10PM
Sew hour yew!
Buck Ofama| 11.10.11 @ 2:01AM
Do NOT use "irregardless"!
Do NOT say "It's raining... if your windows are down."
What if the windows are up?
Do NOT say "Obama is qualified to be president."
MacWell| 11.8.11 @ 8:34AM
Obama WILL lose. What comes next is anyone's guess, but I agree, he'll stop at nothing in his vendetta to bring America to it's knees. The one thing that he, and the rest of the liberals forget is that we the people still own America and we're not going to allow this would be king to destroy her.
Tiddly| 11.8.11 @ 12:45PM
As long as we're correcting grammar and spelling, the word is its, not it's.
It's stands for "it is."
Why so many people stick an apostrophe in there is as inexplicable to me as people who say "I could care less" when they mean the opposite.
Doctor Right| 11.8.11 @ 2:00PM
...Oh, I was gonna' say it...it's so wide open...but I can't do it.
Louis Jenkins| 11.8.11 @ 9:00AM
Obama needs to be kicked out of office by the American people. I plan on wearing my best high topped boots, the ones with the big vibram soles, on election day next year. What comes afterwards remains to be seen.
Moe Blotz| 11.8.11 @ 9:31AM
Where is Booger when you would like to hear from him?
irish19| 11.8.11 @ 1:09PM
Second that.
Doctor Right| 11.8.11 @ 2:01PM
Look, there's only room for one narcissistic self-appointed funny-man on this forum...
Skippy| 11.9.11 @ 6:11PM
That's not what they told me at the employment agency.
albert constantine jr| 11.8.11 @ 6:51PM
His Beautiful Letters Blog has not been updated since around February or March of this year. Imagine the fun he could be having with "Fast and Furious" of Gloria Allred's Law Firm letters.
hardcard| 11.8.11 @ 9:44AM
after commander O loses he is going to partner up with jimmah carter and go on the road in a musical version of the Constitution. get out your banjo jimmah !!
JJC| 11.8.11 @ 9:47AM
Is it all about color? Sure it is but not because he's black but because he is red.
Matthew Quigley| 11.8.11 @ 10:01AM
Let's also not discount the likelihood of riots in the ghettoes when he's defeated. I honestly can see the aftermath of an Obama defeat as making the Rodney King riots look like a Sunday picnic!
Buck Ofama| 11.8.11 @ 11:59AM
Hey! Not "RoDney", but "RoTnee"!
Stormy| 11.8.11 @ 10:02AM
And, this is precisely why Obama's campaign operatives must take Herman Cain down. Herman Cain is the most dangerous man in the country to Barack Obama's re-election. When you understand this, you understand why the barrage of personal attacks on Cain. By making Cain appear to be an oversexed black man, Obama can separate himself as a wonderful black family man.
russel| 11.8.11 @ 10:17AM
Spanky has already admitted " he's the underdog " and the media knows it . Now every writer needs a subject and has deadlines , but what's wrong with supposing the MSM will gladly kiss him goodbye because he damn near sank their ship , Aaron ? . After all , they propped up and promoted such a __ they were made to look like laughingstocks . Nah , I say witness him moving slowly into the night and them whispering " good riddance " ..
ChuckYooFarley| 11.8.11 @ 11:13AM
When the MSM is embarrassed enough to turn on 0bama, they won't kiss him goodbye. It will be more like a violent rape.
rjh| 11.8.11 @ 10:26AM
"President Obama and those who support him are treating the Office of President of the United States as if it were an entitlement. "...what else would you expect from unaccomplished, affirmative action individuals who have never been held to account for their failings?
Jeff Perren | 11.8.11 @ 10:27AM
Changing the occupant of the White House can help, though not by much if the new occupant is Romney. But fundamental change won't come about from a change of personnel - or even ideas - in Washington, D.C.
To effect real, fundamental, lasting change the American culture will have to be rehabilitated. That means first and foremost changing what is taught in the public schools - on the way to privatizing education.
That will, in turn, relieve the continual re-infection of the Progressive virus by the media.
That, in the end, is the only way to change the political situation.
1ConservativeUSA| 11.8.11 @ 10:33AM
While Obama's failed ideology, policies and leadership are the primary factors considered when I vote against him, there are other reasons, as mentioned above.
I want, and our contry deserves, a president that treats all Americans like Americans. It is very clear that Obama does not like or represent you if you disagree with him, if you are in another political party, or if you don't support his (never fn ending) campaign.
I want, and our country deserves, a president who refuses to lower himself into the toilet bowl of class and race warfare. Clearly, Obama lives, breathes, eats, sleeps and defecates in this bowl.
So, you bastards in the main stream media, hear me now: Screw you, I am not a racist. I am a freedom loving, self reliant American who believes in EVERYONE'S God given rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
I may or may not vote for Herman Cain, but it will be based on his character, policy and leadership; not the color of his skin. I watch with contempt, the left media's attempt to thrust scandal on this man, after they withheld news stories as Bill Clinton actively raped women and took advantage of his office and position of power to sexually assualt others.
I use my own mind to determine who the honest brokers in politics and the media are. And it is they who will continue to earn my respect, attention and support.
1ConservativeUSA| 11.8.11 @ 10:35AM
When Obama loses, watch out for the most dangerous time in this country, between election night and inauguration day.
Still, be not afraid. We must remove this tyrant from power.
Seek| 11.8.11 @ 11:55AM
I will shed no tears if Obama loses. But that's an "if." Obama managed to win in 2008; he certainly can win in 2012. Only a naif thinks his defeat is a shoo-in. The election next year will be close and bitter. Conclusions would be premature.
Doctor Right| 11.8.11 @ 2:02PM
2008 was the Dem's year.
An orange juice can with a "D" on it could have beat McCain (one did, actually...)
Seek| 11.8.11 @ 6:32PM
I doubt it, especially with conservative manque Sarah Palin on the ticket.
Face it: Democrats in most elections deliver a strong showing. And they are getting stronger, what with the electorate becoming increasingly nonwhite. (Hint: There is actually something called "the white vote" -- go for it, GOP). We caught a lucky, if expected, break in the 2010 elections. Next year will be the real test.
ww40| 11.8.11 @ 11:32PM
I agree, this will likely be a very tough election. But it will definitely be one of the most important in our lifetimes. This incompetent in chief simply must be defeated. His goal, which he had admitted and bragged about, is to fundamentally change America. This we must not allow him to do. Defeating this man is the most important thing any of us can do(Mitch McConnell was right about that). And if and when he loses, I expect riots that will make 1968 seem mild by comparison. Hope I am wrong about that, but I doubt it. Especially if it is close.
truzak| 11.8.11 @ 10:43AM
"It is easier for the liberal media to believe that Republicans would plan and commit electoral fraud . . . " because it is exactly what Democrats do and have done for decades. It's called projection. And one only need look at the Al Franken farce in Minnesota for the latest, clearest, most egregious example of the conspiratorial fraud perpetrated by the Minnesota Secretary of State and Minnesota Supreme Court.
You wonder why the vast majority of people no longer trust their government? Put "because the people who work in government and dictate our lives are not trustworthy" as Reason 1.
Citizen Jerry| 11.8.11 @ 10:47AM
Elected with the greatest of expectations? People thought his poseur was God Almighty, and he did nothing to dissuade them. He said his presidency would be the most transparent of all. He was right, because a lot of us could see right through him.
The true God willing, this charlatan and his merry band of kleptocrats and evildoers will be kicked to the curb next November. What concerns me is not so much the Prince of Fools, but the nation of fools who elected them their prince.
And after his loss, I wouldn't be surprised if some of our inner cities stage their own versions of what happened in England this summer.
Legacy America | 11.8.11 @ 10:52AM
Many in the general populace as well as decision makers knew very well what an Obama administration would bring America. Investors Business Daily published a series of articles leading up to the presidential elections in 2008 titled "The Audacity of Socialism". Obama's roots, associates, mentors, allies, backers and agenda were revealed to America.
All that has taken place during this administration was anticipated, from applying socialistic tools and dithering on the economy, growing Federal government power and authority, weakening the private sector, undermining the Constitution and specific Amendments, putting socialistic tsars and directors in strategic leadership and judicial positions, forcing multiple forms of sexuality on the military in preparation for doing so in society in general, undermining the authority of Congress in favor of international bodies, weakening the Nation's image globally, and so much more.
We in America today are either in a deliberately designed testing time of America to see if We the People can reverse decades of socialistic efforts to transform this nation. Or we are in a deliberately designed program to push America even further down the road to international socialism. Many of us hope it is the former. Either way for those who care about America's unique roll in world history, our founding principles, our work is cut out for us.
Wayne| 11.8.11 @ 10:52AM
The Dems do not treat its losers very well. Too many of them are dependent on the public dole. We will hear some whining but mostly the Democratic party would be in a turmoil. Without our money to pass around, they are left with radicals who want to inflict communism on the rest of us. Obama will be preaching to the communists.
Anthony| 11.8.11 @ 10:53AM
If it looks like Obozo is going to lose, the OWS scum and their union thug allies will really ratchet things up big time.
Look for Obozo to pull some extra-ordinary, unconstitutional stunt to keep his Marxist agenda from being dismantled.
Folks, I've said it before, and I'll say it again, 2012 is going to be one VERY UGLY YEAR.
Buy ammo.
nohussein| 11.8.11 @ 11:08AM
Whatever it takes to get this disaster 86'd.
Kingofthenet| 11.8.11 @ 11:52AM
With who you Conservatives have left as Candidates? Don't hold your breath, your playing Checkers and the President is playing 3D Chess.
Citizen Jerry| 11.8.11 @ 1:19PM
Back under your bridge, troll!
mertsj| 11.8.11 @ 10:47PM
The president is an empty suit with the gift of gab and the people have figured it out--the ones who can reason and think logically, that it. Apparently you are not one of them.
idalily| 11.9.11 @ 4:53PM
A man who can't pronounce the word "corpsman" and who can't speak to children without a teleprompter hasn't got the brains for tiddlywinks, much less 3D chess.
nohussein| 11.8.11 @ 11:57AM
The one term hussein will go down in history as THE WORST 1600 resident of all time, Carter of course being bumped to the number two slot.
Scott M| 11.8.11 @ 12:07PM
You forgot the riots. Expect destruction and lots of it.
Simon Templar| 11.8.11 @ 1:00PM
Aaron,
If conservatives and republicans do not stop listening to the MSM, do not stop these circular firing squads, do not stop undermining their candidates, and don't START effectively defending their candidates and thier ideas and solutions, I have no doubt that Obama will be reelected.
Given this past week, they all will now be saddled with false allegation avalanches, innuendo, and free ranging smear campaigns that the GOP seems incapable of handling or refuting.
For those Romney voters and beltway sychophants, if you think that Romney is somehow immune..you are deluding yourself.
Al| 11.8.11 @ 2:12PM
My best Christmas present will be seeing Obama
being humilliated in the 2012 election by losing
by a giant margin....then, seeing him and his entire family (including his mother in law) leaving
the White House in January 2013 or sooner
RCV| 11.8.11 @ 5:04PM
Don't decorate that tree quite yet...
David Thomas | 11.8.11 @ 2:17PM
You fail to explain why Obama has a 50% chance of being reelected according to the intrade.com prediction market.
RCV| 11.8.11 @ 6:42PM
Because the GOP prospects of fielding a candidate that the public is likely to be excited about do not appear high.
mertsj| 11.8.11 @ 10:49PM
Because intrade.com is not out and about in the country to see the mood of the people and their attitude toward the affirmative action president.
Osamas Pajamas| 11.8.11 @ 4:28PM
Democrats routinely steal and cancel votes by hijacking ballots and by corrupting equipment and by encouraging illegal voters --- who vote more than once or who are not registered or otherwise unqualified to vote. Honest elections would destroy the Democrat party.
emo| 11.8.11 @ 5:37PM
Obama will win 52-47. Only IN and NC will flip making the EV 332-206.
The GOP will lose 25-30 House seats but gain 1-2 Senate seats (the Senate is very very stacked against the Dems this time).
RCV| 11.8.11 @ 6:43PM
Pretty good prognostication at this stage of the game. If Romney is the nominee, not clear that NC would flip, but Nevada might.
Dsf| 11.8.11 @ 7:41PM
I don't think BO will suspend elections. More likely if he wins a second term he will work to de-ratify the 22nd amendment.
Rich Rostrom| 11.8.11 @ 8:01PM
I live on the far north side of Chicago in a respectable but somewhat gritty neighborhood (about 50% black and Hispanic). In 2008, I knew when Obama's election was called, because there was a distant but audible volley of celebratory gunfire all around.
I worry about how those guns might be used when Obama's defeat is announced in 2012.
Jim| 11.8.11 @ 8:39PM
If there is massive voter fraud and the vote count is contested in precints across the country what mechanism is there to get the election results certified by inauguration? If the courts cannot make a determination any faster than franken's fiasco in Minnesota, are we left with the king? Can he continue to govern, i.e executive orders until such time as the results are tabulated? It is a real scary thought and this narcissistic socialist has the tools at his disposal to make it happen.
Mike| 11.8.11 @ 10:18PM
If the GOP is so confident Obama will lose, why is the second string on the field?
None of the starters want to deal with the economy when they know they have no solutions?
mertsj| 11.8.11 @ 10:27PM
I think you meant "when Obama loses"
Michael Tomlinson| 11.8.11 @ 10:57PM
If we want to win the head of the ticket should be the knowledgable one not the likable one.
For all the misleading criticism of Reagan being "out of touch" he was a successful Governor of one of the largest and most dynamic states in America, he'd worked in the Goldwater campaign and he'd already run for the nomination once before. Reagan was also incredibly knowledgable on issues and solidly grounded in conservative principles and methods of dealing with political issues.
Herman Cain in his "debate" with Newt proved over and over again he just doesn't get it or have it.
Mike| 11.9.11 @ 12:17AM
So who is it, Michael?
Romney? Half of the GOP hates him because he is too moderate (flip-floppy) and the other half hates him because he is a Mormon.
Newt? Bomb throwing whore monger (Oh, too soon?)
Bachmann: The incarnation of a political joke.
Randy Cain? Oh, that's right. They are only allegations.
Perry? Ever heard the joke about the two A&M students who rode a camel to the Texas v Texas A&M game?
Paul? Looney Tunes.
Santorum? See the online dictionary.
Huntsman: The one guy who could beat Obama but the demented right has captured the GOP so he's not in the running.
Anyone but Obama| 11.10.11 @ 2:01PM
So you're a Huntsman supporter. Aha
POST American| 11.9.11 @ 1:18AM
----We're about ready to bet 2012 will be
the last even ceremonially POST American
presidential election.
And yet MORE laughs might be in store
as, with RED China being brought in for
the kick-off of receivership and EUGENICS
'realist' management ----we one day learn
Obama himself, beyond his hidden bloodline,
was the first, unveiled, high profile --CLONE.
----------HUAC meets NUREMBERG 2012----------
------------------the FINAL punchline------------------
Louis Hatchett| 11.9.11 @ 9:16AM
When everything is "racist" then after a while nothing is, because the word loses its potency because no distinctions are made. After a while, when someone screams "racism" people just shrug their shoulders and say "so what?" People who use this word without much forethought are shortsighted to say the least.
David| 11.9.11 @ 8:14PM
I'm busy and haven't read the previous comments, so don't know if this has been said:
If Obama loses, there will be rioting in all of the sick cities who always riot: L.A., Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philly, Oakland, and others cities (except maybe Houston) where there is a very large black population.
We can also expect a large number of whites and Hispanics who are part of the 47% who pay zero fed income taxes. Expect the unions to inflame their passions in the weeks leading up to the election.
To all tax paying citizens: It's time to stock up and load up.
Buck Ofama| 11.10.11 @ 2:02AM
>If Obama loses, there will be rioting in all of the sick cities who always riot: L.A., Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philly, Oakland...
Who cares?
dreams | 11.10.11 @ 2:44AM
tafser alahlm
bramj
best regard
Tenn Slim| 11.10.11 @ 7:12AM
that President Obama and those who support him are treating the Office of President of the United States as if it were an entitlement."
bt
This is the problem. Once the Left Camel has its upper body parts into the OVAL office tent, the Czars in place, Exec order regs installed, etc. the house cleaning after a GOP win will be monumental.
Consider the MSM after Jan 20 2013, daily criticisms, AKA G.W. Bush's WMD bashes, nothing will ever be "Correctly done, PC stated, nor UN suspect of chicanery", the task will be laden with albatrosses.
THAT IS, if we have an election.
THAT IS, if we DONT have a transistion period of impositon rule of tyranny, from Nov to Jan.
Understand clearly, the LEFT will NOT go quietly into the night.
Semper Fi
Rick| 12.6.11 @ 9:48PM
Your a bigger and a rasist!