Seems you can only get so much mileage out of a dead bin Laden – from Life News:
President Barack Obama has lost 20 percent of his approval rating in the course of five weeks in a national poll conducted by the Washington Post. The survey shows that Obama’s bounce he received after Osama bin Ladin’s death has dissipated.
Five weeks after receiving a net positive 18 percent approval rating in the Washington Post poll following the killing of the terrorist mastermind, Obama’s approval rating returned to its pre-bin Ladin status. Obama’s approval rating from the last poll was 56-38 positive versus negative. Now, 47 percent of the American public approves of his job performance while 49 percent disapprove — almost identical to the 47-50 percentage point split Obama saw in mid-April…
Obama’s fate is tied up in two things – how the economy goes and whether or not the GOP nominates a candidate who will go relentlessly after his record and the overall failure of liberalism.
If the economy improves remarkably over the next 12 months, then Obama will have a much easier time of it. Still no guarantee he’d be re-elected, but it would make his narrative work well: “I inherited a lousy economy and thanks to my policies, we’re back on track”. While overall contempt for Obama is growing, it is hard to argue with success…even if that success is mostly an illusion (until we radically change policies, any “improvement” we see in official numbers will be merely masking ultimate collapse).
But even if the economy is in poor shape Obama could still win re-election if we nominate a candidate who won’t fight. If we get someone who wants to be courtly and respectful, then we’ll lose. This is not the time for reaching across the aisle…this is time for revolution. We’re on our side, they are on theirs and one or the other must prevail. We’ll either be a dying, liberal-socialist America or we’ll be a growing, conservative-libertarian America. It is one or the other – they can’t mix; oil and water get along better. But only a real fighter can lay out the case to the American people in a comprehensible way, thus opening up a clear choice – right or left, and for good.
Obama is clearly weakening. The bloom is long off the rose. But victory is by no means assured to us. Only a hard, grueling fight will secure victory for us…and there is that chance that even if we pour out our hearts, we’ll still lose…but even that is ok. If we lose after giving it our all, they we will have done our duty. If the American people really opt – after we’ve given them a fair chance to decide between two radically different courses – for a continuation of the Obama regime, then so be it…the people do ultimately rule in this nation, even if they opt for ruin. But I don’t want us sitting there in 2013 regretting that we didn’t give it our all…leave nothing out, hold nothing back; this is a fight to the finish and for the whole ball of wax.
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