It seems Michael Wash over at National Review has been reading Blogmocracy. For the past 2 1/2 years I have been complaining that the GOP doesn’t go after Obama the Man. Despite low policy approvals, Americans still love Obama the person. The RNC has ordered its surrogates to not go after Obama personally. This is a mistake since that’s the only way to take away his aura of divinity.

I took some grief on the recent NR cruise by telling the group that I thought Mitt Romney would lose to Barack Obama rather handily. That for some mysterious reason Obama continues to have relatively strong personal-approval numbers and a substantial, reliable base, which Romney doesn’t. As a typical standard-issue Republican, Romney wouldn’t have the heart or the courage to take the fight to the president, but instead would debate around the edges, and lose.

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t’s not Obama’s policies that are the problem, it’s Obama and everything he represents and stands for. Engage the president on the deepest, most potent level, or join John McCain and Bob Dole on the ash heap of history. 

Really, this party is too dumb to live.

If Republicans lose in 2012 because they refuse to fight, it’s time for a new Rightwing Party.