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Could The Left Toss Obama Under The Bus?

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  July 26th, 2011 at 09:30 AM  | 

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Tanned, Rested and Ready?

“I think it would be a good idea if President Obama faced some primary opposition.”

– Sen. Bernie Sanders (HT: New York Times)

Sometimes I’m masochistic enough to wonder what Leftists think. There is some logic to that. The Left, like the poor, will always be with us. The obvious way to ascertain what Leftists think is to talk to an unabashed leftist who speaks his or her heart without mendacious calculation. Thom Hartman was good enough to do so and Thinkprogress shares some of the deepest thoughts of Senator Bernie Sanders.

So my suggestion is, I think one of the reasons the president has been able to move so far to the right is that there is no primary opposition to him…

As it currently stands, Sanders feels like Obama has betrayed the Progressive Left. This is not a logical response. Sanders feels the intense frustration that a lot of Progressives feel about how things have changed since 2009, when they owned 2/3 of the Federal Government lock, stock and barrel.

However, Sanders and others of his ilk, stormed into power in 2006 and 2008 in waves. They expected to close Gitmo, end wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, tax The Iniquitous Rich, nationalize American medicine, naturalize by fiat 10 million illegal aliens, and regulate carbon dioxide under laws similar to those we used to ban lead paint. The Progressives wanted all that and probably 10,000 other ideas that would scare the average tax-paying American into become a tax-paying Canadian, Mexican or Australian instead.

Could Obama do this? No he couldn’t. Now Bernie Sanders is mad and wants to use Barack Obama as a blame toilet. If someone would just explain all of Bernie Sanders’ brilliant ideas to the stupid ‘Murican Peebles, they would all be enacted into law by now. In Sanders’ warped and ineluctable mind, this should have taken days; not weeks.

Of course Sanders has a problem here. He isn’t a Democrat himself, and would look like a carrion bird if he suddenly became one just to grandstand on the same debate stage as a sitting Democratic President. Before Sanders can get his way, and mount this quixotic primary challenge to force Barack Obama a little further to the port side of Che Guevara’s poltergeist, he needs to find someone to bell the big, fat cat.

This is where I think Bernie, and many other like-minded Progressives are stuck. Ralph Nader has been consigned to the 9th circle of Progressive Perdition for taking several thousand votes in Florida that would have presumably gone to Al Gore back in 2000. Fresh off of losing a Senatorial Election in 2010, Russ Feingold has been bruited about as a challenger to Mein Obama. According to Feingold’s top staffer (why do guys in the private sector need top staffers?) this particular dog ain’t gonna hunt.

“Senator Feingold is not running for president in 2012. Any suggestion he is thinking of running, planning to run, or interested in running is untrue,” said Mary Irvine, Feingold’s chief of staff. “Senator Feingold is a strong supporter of President Barack Obama and wants to see him reelected in 2012.”

Thus, it looks like Barack Obama will not face condign rebellion amongst his disordered liberal ranks. However, the possibility keeps on getting floated around by deeply frustrated Progressives. Of course we ALL know who Barack Obama really doesn’t want to see again in the primaries. Is she tanned, rested and ready?

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  • mriggio

    Operation Chaos rides again!

  • http://www.skiloveland.com skicougar

    Seems to me, the reports are that the GOP has held together/stood firm and the Dems are having fits in the DEBT CRISIS.

    I don’t seem to remember it being reported that way all the way back to Friday.

    • Repair_Man_Jack

      It’s almost as if the media would like us all to see the world as the world is not!

  • charlesmartel

    As orgasmically fun as this would be, I can’t imagine it happening. The only scenario where I can see anyone but Obama being the Democratic nominee is if he declines to run. At this point, I’d much rather be running against him than her.

  • Tbone

    Bet on it.

    • Repair_Man_Jack

      I wouldn’t put cash against you.

  • inovrmihd

    This is ot, but it turns out eric is even more correct than he knows. not only will the boehner plan result in a downgrade, but S&p is on recoird that the Rid plan is better, so the dems can say if only we had listened to them, we would have our AAA rating

    http://www.businessinsider.com/sp-favors-the-reid-plan-2011-7

    • 6eorge Jetson

      rating CDOs as AAA, damn the investors.

      Let’s see…

      http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/170839-dems-ask-wall-st-for-assistance

  • mustango

    I can get Sanders’ frustration. They won everything that mattered in 2008, and could have used the opportunity to implement dozens of little things that would have taken forever to undo.

    But simply winning wasn’t enough for The One. No, he wasn’t going to be happy with anything other than total submission from the GOP, and that meant them buying into his agenda so they’d have nothing to run against him and his party on, ever again.

    From Sanders’ point of view, that showed lack of courage of conviction from Obama. For surely, Sanders must be thinking, if Obama had just kept focus on implementing his agenda and not worried about the impotent minority, things would have worked out just fine and even the massive backlash of 2010 need not have happened.

    Of course Obama’s game plan would have been glorious in Sanders’ eyes had it worked, and it might even have done, had the Tea Party not arisen and sundered any thoughts of meek submission by the minority party.

    That, I think, was Obama’s biggest failing in Sanders’ book, not reading the field and realizing that the time had come to simply ram through as much as possible and take whatever hit would come as a result. To Sanders, we needed more scenes of Pelosi and the giant gavel, defying the angry crowds on their way to pass the wildly unpopular legislation, not less.

    Of course, back in the real world, primarying Obama would be a disaster for the Dems, as it would simply validate every criticism we’ve made of the man. I think in the end the Dems are going to have to brazen it out and pretend Obama’s actually been a great president, just because to do otherwise would be too self-effacing. But stranger things have happened.

    • Repair_Man_Jack

      Now they need someone to blame…

  • chbroussard

    I have limited myself to no more than two progressive acquaintances, and both of them are “disappointed” in Obama…one because he has a college degree and can’t find a job, and one because she has her own business but has few customers now because of the economy.

    I think that not only the socialist wing of the Democrat Party but basic run of the mill liberals are weary of this President. Not sure they’ll throw him under the bus because then they would be the ones labeled as racists, but it’s a real possibility they might just sit out the 2012 election.

    • Repair_Man_Jack

      If Mein Obama ever really feels threatened by a challenge from the left, bet on the race card being slamemd down on the table – hard!

  • fortcollins

    A primary challenge to the Dear Leader would be about as effective as the challenge by Ted Kennedy (D-Chappaquiddick) to Jimmy Carter in 1980. Don’t get me wrong – it would be enjoyable, but unsuccessful. The Democrat nomination process is a stacked deck favoring the incumbent.

    We just need to coalesce around a candidate to challenge the Dear Leader. (A certain incumbent Governor from the northeast, perhaps.)

    • Repair_Man_Jack

      Than he is far and away my favorite moderate Republican.

  • johnt

    bound and gagged. RMJ, I would advise you not under any circumstances to attempt to enter the carnage, the carrion house of the leftist mind. The mere attempt could be toxic. Best to stand apart and judge the ravings on a case by case basis and leave the pollution to postmortem forensics.
    It might also be proper to refrain from calling these things “Progressives”, and capitalized yet. It bestows a type of legitimacy ill suited to their atavistic politics, more attuned to a ancient Mesopotamian tyrant, and allows them to think themselves normal, if not superior.
    In the meantime, may they eat each other.

    • Finrod

      The Robotron 2084 reference is intentional.

  • Repair_Man_Jack

    Mesopotamian tyrants. During Mein Obama’s “I Won!” Phase, he and his cohorts seemed more like the Ba’ath Party than any similar American political organization.

  • keysconservative

    I would register Dem just to vote for her in my state’s primary. How sweet it would be to see Obama defend himself against Republicans and Democrats.

  • gwalt

    She was sorely lacking Foreign Policy chops (Like Obama had any himself).
    Ever since she took SecState (former First Lady, NY Senator) I have been convinced he is not running again. He may be “campaigning”, but actually it is just collecting money. He rolled in $47 million in one quarter. He will collect a few hundred million and bail with the money for higher good. And if you ask for your money back, well then you are a racist. The, he supports Hillary as another historic “first”.

    Why did she take a job working for someone she absolutely despises and hates with every bone in her body?

    He will move on to collect his money owed from Soros, Islamists, Petrobras, Trial lawyers, Unions among a few.

    Billions await him. He will be called Mr. President all his life, Secret Service detail for life, (and you don’t think he will ask for some life time services even beyond that?) and undying (read: insane) admiration from the 15% or so that support him.

    Let him collect. Unless there is a God. Which there is.

    • blogan2

      http://www.secretservice.gov/faq.shtml

      (In 1997, Congressional legislation became effective limiting Secret Service protection to former presidents for a period of not more than 10 years from the date the former president leaves office);

      • gwalt

        He will request things no other prez has before. And if he doesn’t get them, he will say that he is special and needs it because he is (half) black. And if he still doesn’t get them, you are a racist.

  • gawken

    Any attempt to primary Obama is doomed from the onset, because it would cleave the Dem party along racial lines, and without the same black turnout as 2008, he can’t win. If Obama is not the nominee, balcks woudl just stay home in droves.

    There is one possible scenario. By year’s end..economy is tanking even more, his polls are in the 30% range. The Senate is gone. Trying to avert a wipeout,,,senior Dems ask him not to run…(he’s hinted at this himself a few times..IOt would have to be carefully orchestrated..to seem that he’s not being tossed under the bus, in order to keep the black vote home.

    And there couldn’t be an open race..the Dems would pretty much have to decide en masseon the candidate. Like many, I thought Hillary, till I saw that pic of her in a muu-muu.

    It woudl have to be her..if so..if it’s even possible..then look for her to resign as SecState sometime this fall..

  • msctex

    16 months where nothing positive occurs, and things get slightly to noticeably worse.

    There are any number of reasons/excuses/scenarios for Obama not to be the nominee. One of them will prove true, because he is unelectable, and unless the Dems write off an entire cycle, they have no choice but to find someone else. It is convincing the Someone Else they have a chance which will prove most difficult.

    • Repair_Man_Jack

      Then their problems would really begin. Can you imagine Feingold, CLinton, Kerry and Gore all facing oneanother in a Dem Primary? Aw Heck, throw in Howard Dean as well. YEEEEEAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!

  • msctex

    . . .in the Progressive mind, so they will wait WAY too long before making any serious acknowledgements of Reality.

    That said, the Primary would be surreal, as you note. Only the craziest of the crazy would even bother trying. I don’t think HRC would even consider it; Kerry might be desperate enough. And there is always High Priest Sunshine, fresh from saving the world. . .