It’s not very smart to predict what will happen: what tens or even hundreds of millions of people will think, believe and do.

I also don’t think it’s very smart of pigeon-hole these candidates just yet.

I think presidential politics have become quite a circus; Obama’s election in 2008 proved that to me. It’s seems to be more about imagery and hype than anything else.

I’d thiink that, given Obama’s job performance, he’d be easy to beat. But I thought, back in 2008, that given his background, no major political party would even consider him as a candidate, and I was wrong. He won, and more and more I see his victory as a successful “con” . . . although his competition–another chubby, old, white-haired, lukewarm, establishment republican–was weak at best.

I remember seeing pictures of Obama and McCain on some magazine cover (waiting in line at the grocery store), and while I didn’t want Obama to win, McCain didn’t exactly light my fire, either.

I do think people want “change.” I think neither the left nor the right wants a “business as usual” president.

In 2008, Obama promised “change” and got away with it. But now it’s 2012, and it’d be relatively easy for whomever opposes Obama to show that he broke his “change” vow. He hasn’t “changed” anything. In fact, he’s provided a triple-dose of the same old thing.

In that, he’s extremely vulnerable. He’s not knew, refreshing and hopeful anymore; he’s the same old thing. He’s going to have to campaign by smearing his opponent and lying about his record; that’s what all the old, establishment politicians do.

So, he doesn’t have the fundamental advantages he had in 2008. He’ll be running against a younger, more physcally attractive candidate who’s not a long-term establishment politician, and who talks about dramatic changes in our established political scenario.

As well, Obama has to answer for his administration’s failures. He might trot out manipulated statistics, but the proverbial proof is in the proverbial pudding: we are not better off now than we were four years ago. Anybody can see that.

I think a skilled communicator can slaughter Obama. He’s incompetent. He’s a failure. He’s a con artist. He’s a liar. He’s neither who nor what he says he is. He is, in short, a despot: a door-to-door salesman with high–”audacious”–aspirations.

Any candidate who can first demonstrate that Obama is simply neither morally nor professionally fit to be president–and it shouldn’t be hard to do–can then appeal to people’s basic sense of right and wrong. This is the United States of America. We’re a right and moral people. Is it right or wrong to elect an immoral, despotic man to our presidency?

Time will tell.

But I think that if we as a people can elect no better than Obama as our president, then we, as a people, have much bigger problems than any Obama will cause.