Thread: How The Republicans Will Re-Elect Obama

How The Republicans Will Re-Elect Obama

January 27, 2012 by Chip Wood

PHOTOS.COM
The Republican Presidential candidates should be fighting Barack Obama instead of each other.

Now, the gloves are off. But Republican challengers for the White House aren’t throwing their hardest punches at Barack Obama. No, they’re flailing away at each other.

Monday’s debate in Tampa, Fla., was particularly nasty, with Mitt Romney making his strongest attack to date against Newt Gingrich. And no wonder. Until recently, the former Massachusetts Governor’s dream of finally capturing the Republican nomination looked like a sure thing. But that was before the gods of the recount took away his victory in Iowa.

And Gingrich found a new enemy to attack in two debates in South Carolina: the liberal media. The crowd ate it up, and a huge number of undecided voters made a last-minute decision to vote for the former House speaker.

So after three State contests, we have three winners: Rick Santorum won the Iowa caucuses by 34 votes; Mitt Romney was an easy (and expected) winner in New Hampshire; and Newt Gingrich came from behind to win a decisive victory in the Palmetto State.

Now it’s on to Florida, where there are more delegates up for grabs than in three previous States combined. Florida is a winner-take-all State where only registered Republicans can vote in the primary.

The Sunshine State is huge: twice the size of any other State east of the Mississippi. To reach all Florida voters, a candidate has to saturate the airways in five different media centers. For a while, it looked like Romney’s large war chest and massive preparation gave him an unbeatable advantage. But that was before Gingrich’s impressive victory in South Carolina, which encouraged a ton of new supporters to flock to him — many with their checkbooks open. Now, pollsters say the race is virtually tied.

Who is writing the script for this year’s Presidential contest? It’s become a cross between the Three Stooges and Monty Python. It’s an ugly “least ugly” contest.

Is there any candidate who can electrify his supporters and unite the conservative base while appealing to independents? I don’t see one. The closest is Ron Paul, who has a wildly passionate group of base supporters. But, as much as I admire the guy and his principled stand on some vital issues (principles that haven’t changed an iota during his long career in office, unlike all of his opponents), I don’t see him garnering enough support to win the nomination.

Nor will his support switch to either of the likely nominees. Gingrich was stupid enough to denounce Paul’s views as “outside the mainstream of virtually every decent American.” That’s sure not going to win him the support of many Paul followers.

More and more, I think we need to start thinking the unthinkable: Come November, Barack Obama will be re-elected to a second term.

There, I’ve said it. I know this idea will give many of you apoplexy. Believe me, I resisted coming to this conclusion for as long as I could.

What will Obama’s re-election mean for our country? In some ways, I think an Obama victory could help in the struggle for freedom. Bear with me while I explain why.

It’s a sad fact of nature that many of us will work much harder to defeat something we passionately oppose than to support something we like. I can’t think of anything that would unite and inspire the conservative opposition more than Obama’s re-election. The membership rolls of the various Tea Party groups would explode.

With an aroused and determined opposition, Obama’s entire legislative program would come to a grinding halt. We would not just slow our country’s slide into socialism; with enough good guys (and gals) elected to Congress, we could actually begin to reverse it.

Remember, the Administration can’t spend a penny on anything if Congress doesn’t appropriate it. The Constitution clearly specifies that every spending bill must originate in the House of Representatives. If enough Tea Party favorites retain their seats and enough new ones join them, the House can refuse to give the Democrats any of the money they want.

If enough conservative Republicans also win Senate seats to gain a majority there, at the very worst we’ll have four years of gridlock. At the best, we could actually see some important bills passed — possibly with enough of a majority to overcome a Presidential veto.

Audit the Fed, anyone? Defund foreign aid? Put the brakes on irresponsible loans, outrageous subsidies and absurd earmarks? How about slashing some budgets by 10 or 20 percent or taking away every penny from some of the worst violators of the Constitution? It could happen.

Faced with the pathetic choices for the Republican nomination, I can tell you what I’m going to do. I’m going to give my money to the best candidates for the House and Senate I can find, because that’s where the future of liberty will be decided. And I hope you’ll do the same.

How did we end up with such a sorry group of candidates running for our Nation’s highest office this year? I don’t know. Where were candidates like Paul Ryan, Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, Mitch Daniels, Haley Barbour and a bunch of others I could name? I said last year that my dream ticket was Chris Christie and Marco Rubio. Maybe I’ll get to see it — in 2016.

In the meantime, here’s a suggestion for my stalwart Republican friends out there: If you don’t want to lose an election, don’t nominate losers.

Until next time, keep some powder dry.

–Chip Wood

How The Republicans Will Re-Elect Obama : Personal Liberty Digest™

OPINION-
Yep, I agree, the R's don't have a chance in Hell any longer. Lets say there are some 100,000,000 R's in the country, and 40,000,000 of them are involved in some type of political awareness as a min requirement. Then lets say that some 5,000,000 of those Voters actually have a brain and some common sense in their back pocket and are NOT flat broke.

Out of those 5 MILLION POTENTIAL CANDIDATES the R's could NOT find 6 intelligent people with NO baggage, who were smart enough to Beat BO!

So the question is how hard did the R's ACTUALLY LOOK FOR VALID CANDIDATES FOR THIS ELECTION? OR is this part of the overall PLAN?

Interesting....

Let us consider the possibility the GOP hierarchy does not want to win the white house until 2016 rather they are more concerned with the congress and senate this time around,honestly I don't believe either party cares about the country what they do concern themselves with is control of the money=power. Look for Jeb Bush to enter at some point.

oldguy wrote

I don't believe either party cares about the country what they do concern themselves with is control of the money=power.

I have to agree OG

Originally Posted by dregerk

OPINION-
Yep, I agree, the R's don't have a chance in Hell any longer. Lets say there are some 100,000,000 R's in the country, and 40,000,000 of them are involved in some type of political awareness as a min requirement. Then lets say that some 5,000,000 of those Voters actually have a brain and some common sense in their back pocket and are NOT flat broke.

Out of those 5 MILLION POTENTIAL CANDIDATES the R's could NOT find 6 intelligent people with NO baggage, who were smart enough to Beat BO!

So the question is how hard did the R's ACTUALLY LOOK FOR VALID CANDIDATES FOR THIS ELECTION? OR is this part of the overall PLAN?

Interesting....

What is your definition of baggage? Name me one presidential candidate over the last two or three decades that hasn't had what you would consider baggage.

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It’s a sad fact of nature that many of us will work much harder to defeat something we passionately oppose than to support something we like. I can’t think of anything that would unite and inspire the conservative opposition more than Obama’s re-election. The membership rolls of the various Tea Party groups would explode.

Absolute BS. If the conservative opposition is not already united and inspired, it never will be. As to the inability of any of the current GOP contenders to beat Obama, I would agree, if the GOP nominee has to rely on GOP elites and the RNC. They are a bunch of spineless political hacks who are more concerned with party politics, money and power than fixing the damage done by Obama, Reid and Pelosi.

However, that is not the path to victory for the GOP nominee. That path lies through the tea party folks, their supporters, and independent voters. Moreover, a really smart candidate would do well to devote time and effort in black and Hispanic neighborhoods showing support for charter schools, school choice and increased opportunities that can be derived from policies that foster and nourish economic growth rather than stunt it as the current policies do. I would emphasize that the unemployment rate for people under 30, especially minorities, is not acceptable, but the way to fix it is to make the economic pie bigger, not reduce it and then slice it into even more (and smaller) pieces.

It is totally insane to believe ANY good could come from another 4 years of Obama. The GOP has already demonstrated they are not going to stand up to his policies. The way most GOP members get their exercise today is by CAVING, which is a modified form of PILATES that emphasizes bending over. When you get a vaccination, the concept is that you are given a SMALL dose of something that your body then builds up resistance to. No one advocates all of us going out and actually contracting full blown cases of smallpox just so the survivors will be immune in the future. Well, 4 more years of Obama woud not be a vaccination; it would be contracting the full disease, and I am not sure there would be any survivors.