whether to laugh or cry after reading (and fully agreeing with) this. I wouldn’t take issue with so many walking off a cliff if I wasn’t forcibly tethered to them.

Normally, the middle of the electorate only cares about money. (middle being those 20% not committed to one side or the other)

Accordingly when the economy sucks, the incumbent doesn’t stand a chance and when its booming the incumbent is unbeatable.

It seems to me that the only possible difference this time around is that the media is going to unprecedented lengths to convince people that the economy does not suck. I just wonder if they can keep it up for another 17 months.

is a really bad strategy on the part of the left and the MSM. If the guy is unbeatable then the enthusiasm that he needs to bring the same voters out to the polls is diminished even more.

How many people bet on the Jets in Super Bowl III? Baltimore was favored by 22 points. The first time voters that came out in 2008 will listen to this strategy argument and just say to themselves, well I guess he doesn’t need my vote, why bother. That is a sure losing formula in the states the (R)’s need to turn.

And with all the hand wringing going on ab Republican candidates, I think it will be okay. We will elect someone competent. We’re not going to run an idiot out there. The democrats have to run on personal attacks, mediscare, ‘hope/change’, ‘win the future with hover cars’ bull-crap and I think credibility is lost. Obama doesnt have the sex appeal he had before, period. People can say all they want that ‘he still has it’ but the fact is he ran on hope last time and he has to run on reality this time which doesnt look as good quite frankly.

They are going to lie ab medicare but i think shining light on it just shows that a) they have no plan and b) its not as bad as ppl think. This is different than obamacare which was built on smoke and mirrors and looks worse and worse as you get into the details.

Chins up people, we’ve got a chance.

Too many unknowable s to declare Obama the winner. This is really a poor attitude…… exactly the attitude the Dims want us to have. I am not going down a defeatist path. As a farmer would I choose not to plant a crop when all signs point to a drought ? Hardly. We will do the very best we are capable of and hope for a break or two along the way. Flame away.

In 2008 we allowed the Lame Stream Media to select our candidate for us. This season I am not just skeptical of anyone they/pundits tout but am suspicious and leery of them as well.

Conversely, anyone the LSM/pundits tell me is unelectable, ‘has to many negatives’, or the best one ‘isn’t a serious candidate’ becomes much more attractive to me. My dream ticket at this very moment of anyone I could choose is Palin/Cain. My pick of who is out there now is Cain/????

I am sorry to say that is what is going to happen. The dip that is coming is unavoidable. Obama, Democrats, and the MSM will blame the delay in raising the Debt ceiling (I have little faith in Reps holding their ground), or that Reps did not pass a budget that Obama wanted. Or the Reps cutting spending on (pick one)…

The economy is going to get worse and regardless what the truth is, it will get blamed on the Reps and Obama will win.

I hate the thought of it, but it seems obvious at this point.

Come on now, in the recent past there were only a small handful of conservative elected officials and half of those were Democrats.

There was no, literally no, right of center media at all, whatsoever.

And voter affiliation was over 50% Democrat, and less than 1/3 Republican.

So don’t go saying how bad things look and how there is no way we can beat Obama, He is very beatable.

Will it be a cakewalk? Hell no, it never is. But all it will take is a decent candidate and some people in the party who are willing to bring to fight to Obama.

why I have only seen two mentions anywhere that it was flat out dirty politics that cost the NY election. For crying out loud folks, there was a false Tea Party, Demon-crat candidate that pulled 9% of the vote. Had this sleaze-ball not been there, it would have been a 3% Rebublican victory.

Instead, ignoring this fact, all of a sudden many are wring their hands and crying, “All is lost!” What a crock! There are more of us than there are of them, as the 2010 elections abundantly proved.

No army has ever won when the troops hunkered down and told each other they would all be killed. How about rolling up our sleeves,
getting busy with anything and everything it takes to make it work, and never accepting the possibility of defeat.

We must think like the Marine general, who, when told his division was completely surrounded by the communist armies said something like, “Good, we’ve got them right where we want them, now they can’t get away.” Or better, Churchill who said, “Never, never surrender.”
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Give me liberty or give me death.

C Baker
Christian, Patriot, Veteran

because it is the ec., stupid.