Things are looking murky in 2012 for the Republicans after a triumphant 2010 when they won the House, picked up Senate seats and decimated the Democrats at the local level. Obama’s approval ratings are back up and the media is pushing the Obama Boom theme, that this is the best the economy can get. The Republicans have wasted in month in finally getting around to doing budget cuts. They still haven’t proposed any tax and regulatory reform to make American economically competitive again. The irony is Obama is set to win re-election in 2012 because of their surrender in the lame duck session. It’s even at the point that Obama is calling himself the gipper, a reference to Ronald Reagan. No Republican has come out and called Obama out on this! Things are not looking for the Republicans in 2012.
Another handicap the Republicans face is their pathetic 2012 Presidential field. None of the 4 main candidates Romney, Palin, Huckabee or Gingrich are offering new ideas or proposals. Instead they speak in catchy phrases, the same stale talking points and all are politically damaged. Polls show Obama would handily defeat any of these four if the election was help today. This is due to the decimation the Republicans had in 2006 and 2008. Obama right now is sitting pretty for 2012, anemic economy and all.
WASHINGTON — Marry the movie star, or the librarian?
This year is a little different, though. Reagan is in the air, everywhere. Republicans can’t help remembering the time they nominated their boldest, sexiest choice — and he turned out to be
That was the question conservatives were puzzling over at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference this weekend in DC. In the past, Republicans have flirted with sexy but extreme candidates like Pat Buchanan, Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee, but, being conservatives, tend to commit to safer, consensus candidates — even when those pols were so safe and mainstream (like Bob Dole and John McCain) that no one in the party (or, alas outside of it) succeeded in getting excited about them.
Everywhere you looked, there were Reagan posters, Reagan speaking from TV monitors, Reagan birthday parties. There was so much Reagan it was almost like it was the 1980s — “1984” in fact, with Big Gipper watching us everywhere we turned, threatening to disapprove. It got kind of creepy after a while.
And the party has lots of national leaders of tomorrow — baby-faced Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, the lovably cantankerous New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, the quietly appealing Rep. Kristi Noem of South Dakota, Louisiana’s boy wonder Gov. Bobby Jindal.
The source of the party’s unease is that it knows it doesn’t have a now leader. The unspoken hope of GOPalooza 2011 was that someone would emerge as our Obama.
No one did.
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The Republican Party’s best hope is the Senate in 2012. With 23 out of 33 Senate seats in play, Republicans should easily win that chamber. In 2016, we will have probably the best presidential candidate field ever. However it maybe too late as by 2016, America will have gone through nearly 16 of a sub-par economy of low job growth and stagnant pay. Americans may well get used to diminished lifestyle and lose hope for a better tomorrow. Obama’s reckless 3rd World Liberation based foreign policy will put America in its weakest global position. 2012 is critical, but the 4 major GOP candidates are not up to the task of presenting a winning alternative to Obama’s politics of diminished returns.
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