Heard Rush on this very point on Friday morning as I was driving out to Pahrump – the Virginian neatly encapsulates it:
In Obama we have a candidate with a record that includes:
20% under/unemployment.
$4.00 – $5.00 gasoline.
Skyrocketing food prices.
Dropping home prices…
Skyrocketing deficits measured in trillions, not billions.
ObamaCare that most people hate.
Promises of higher taxes.
Medicare going bankrupt.
Social security going bankrupt…
I would add to that an emboldened Islamism, Russia and China treating us as if we didn’t matter in the world and alienated allies. We’ve also got in Obama, himself, a man who is becoming an increasingly negligible quantity in affairs…other than those still blinded by The One, people are increasingly contemptuous of Obama. I hear it just walking down the street and listening to people talk. For instance, lots of Presidents go and visit foreign lands…but there is anger out there that Obama was (badly) toasting the Queen while Americans were suffering unique and devastating loss in Joplin.
People are tuning him out – and I think that Democrat leaders (if not Obama, himself) realize this. Their talk of being delighted at the prospect of a Palin nomination is just so much bluster. They are worried that their man is exceptionally vulnerable – and they know they have to make the issue of 2012 anything but Obama…if Democrats run on Obama’s record, they’ll lose; and they know it. They need to run, instead, on a theory that whomever the GOP nominates is so bad that even four more years of Obama is better…a hard sell, indeed.
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