So, here we are with another election cycle starting out way to early. The GOP field is in the middle of announcing their bids officially. Announcing their intentions this early is nothing new. What is new however, newspaper articles and television reports assuring us that no matter what we the people have to say about it, the current POTUS is a lock for reelection. Several media sources including the New York Times, Newsweek, Time, and MSNBC have already informed us that the conservative movement is now officially dead, and further, the GOP need not bother with a nomination process, Barack Obama simply can not be defeated. If you choose to laugh for a bit prior to reading on, I completely understand.
The only thing necessary to dispel this pap of course is an adult memory. Remember back to the ancient date of November 2010. The voters, meaning we the people, delivered an overwhelming referendum to reject President Obama’s domestic agenda. Since then, many predicted that Obama would tack to the center, and coopt the conservative message. President Obama in fact has done the opposite. He has rejected outright the message delivered by an historic election where his party saw losses of 72 House Seats, 6 Senate Seats, 11 Governorships, 680 State Legislature Seats, and watched his messianic approval numbers plunge to being below the mendoza line. Gas is not only above $4.00 per gallon, but there are several recordings, youtube videos, etc. of Obama and members of his administration stating that this was what they wanted to inflict upon America in order to promote social justice and to save the planet from global warming, (something which by the way has been shown to be a farce by leaked emails sent by the main proponents of this nonsense.) Monthly, we all get treated to a story about how the economy is, “unexpectedly,” sluggish in terms of GDP growth, employment, construction starts, materials inventory, venture capital, what have you. I have read the adverb, unexpectedly, so many times in economic news reports over the past two years that I am seriously considering donating a couple of bucks to Newsweek so that they can purchase another descriptive phrase.
Based on economics alone, Barack Obama is a goner. then we have his record on foreign matters. Yes, we got Bin Laden, but then again, the lack of getting Bin Laden was not President Obama’s sore point. The middle east is in flames. The Muslim Brotherhood has taken over Egypt, and is making overtures in other nations as well. He has gone out of his way to insult and alienate our staunchest allies while cozying up to the world’s most thuggish dictators. How weird have the optics of his Presidency gotten in regards to foreign policy? Try contemplating this. A past winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Barack Obama, held a state dinner for a thuggish dictator, Hu Jintao, who had at the time imprisoned the current winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, the Dali Lama. We also have a wonderful still shot of the Dali Lama being forced to walk out of the service entrance to the White House, past the garbage.
Remember when George Bush was President and we were bludgeoned daily with tales of the disastrous national budget deficits, which at the time were $450 Billion. Candidate Obama promised to cut this in half, not just the deficits, but the total debt as well. President Obama has proposed nothing short of a deficit of $1.6 Trillion. While he proposed this, he claimed to be leading the charge on reigning in spending.
He has appointed some of the most incompetent people imaginable to key positions. This includes Van Jones, who’s latest endeavor is to anoint human rights to animals, trees, and even to inanimate objects like rocks and dirt. That people are not laughing at this is perplexing, until I realize that our media has not seen fit to report on any of this. The problem President Obama faces is in some context going to be the early success of his bid for the Presidency. The media could ignore the gaffes, and outright embarrassing facets of the man Obama. They will not be so able to do this in 2012. The President lives in a fish bowl, and people know what he has been up to, and they don’t like it. Then we can add in the socialized health care which nobody wanted. Seniors are beginning to figure out the Barack has indeed screwed with their Medicare and Social Security.
Taken all together, this does not point to a shoo in. All we need to do is to not pick the candidate the main stream media would pick for us. We, meaning we the people, need to vote for who we believe represents our values and ideals, and not worry at all about who we feel has a chance at being elected. Doing that, is how we got landed with John McCain, the GOP Candidate who was endorsed by the New York Times. One lesson which should be remembered by those of us in the conservative movement is that after endorsing McCain during the primary, the New York Times spent the next several months savaging him editorially.
Keep the faith, keep fighting. Nobama in 2012.
Crossposted at Musings of a Mad Conservative.
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