Amazing. "The One" hasn't even been president for seven
months and already the Left is talking about a primary challenge
in 2012.
According to Rasmussen Reports:
Leading liberals are already thinking the unthinkable:
Challenging
President Obama for the Democratic nomination in 2012.
According to a report on the
left-leaning Huffington Post website, MSNBC host Keith
Olbermann and Eugene Robinson, an African-American national
columnist for The
Washington Post, discussed just such a possibility Thursday
night. Robinson said Obama needs to be careful how he handles
the health care reform issue and the continuing wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq.
Olbermann said the president has "compromised on everything so
far and as self-defeating as it may be, the progressive caucus
and progressives would abandon him if necessary, if this was to
be the policy of this administration into 2012. If it's
necessary to find somebody to run against him, I think they'd
do it, no matter how destructive that may seem."
Politics might just get more interesting, if that's possible!
About the Author
Doug Bandow is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and the Senior Fellow in International Religious Persecution at the Institute on Religion and Public Policy. A former Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan, he is author of Beyond Good Intentions: A Biblical View of Politics (Crossway).