Guy, don't bring Rush Limbaugh into this, at least with me. I have no interest in that stuff.
Obama's record as president of this country is fucking terrible. Do you understand this?
If it wasn't, his re-election would be a breeze. And no ad spend is gonna undo the obvious.
I am for Mitt Romney (like I was 4 years ago) because his record at Bain Capital is superlative and he respects dollars and cents like a motherfucker. We need this now, more than we did 4 years ago.
Romney is Obama with slightly tweaked social stances. If you truly believe that Romney is going to do anything different than Obama, you're fooling yourself.
The Republican's only shot is with Romney and for Romney to abuse the President on the economy, but I don't think it's going to be enough and there are a few huge problems they'll have to overcome.
First, Santorum could win. Game over, Obama will decimate Santorum so badly he'll be eating his own santorum.
Second, Romney can go after Obama on jobs numbers, but they're trending upward. That takes a lot of wind out of the sails of that argument. Obama also can blunt Romney's economic charges by reminding the country that the recession he was handed by the last Republican President was worse than anything we've experienced since 1929, blah blah blah.
Romney can try to paint Obama as a do-nothing president, but, by doing so, he'll play into Obama's hand. If Romney tries to tell America that Obama hasn't done shit, Obama can first point to a number of accomplishments -- ending the Iraq war, the better jobs numbers, killing Bin Laden, passing healthcare reform, ending DADT -- and then he paint the Republicans as nothing but do-nothing obstructionists who block every single thing he tries to accomplish. Obama was very smart to try and push through these jobs and economic bills over the last six months. Republicans have blocked every single one of them, except the payroll tax cut, and they've proposed no alternatives. Most of America sees the Republican leadership opposing Obama's plans not because they truly disagree with them, but because they think it is politically expedient to do so.
Romney can attack Obama over swollen deficits, but I don't think that argument holds much water. First, the deficit doesn't play well historically. It's an issue that is amorphous to many people. Second, Obama can remind America that the CBO projects the national debt to start dropping in the next ten years as long as Republicans don't extend the Bush tax cuts and as long as neither party fucks with the budget cuts that resulted from the failed super committee.
IMO, Republicans have fucked themselves into a corner. According to polls, most of America blamed them for the deficit deal falling through and most of America sees them as nothing more than obstructionists who have no ideas of their own. That's not a good position to be starting from when you're going up against a President who has largely been popular through his first term and whose popularity numbers are only headed in the right direction. Though Obama was certainly a little naive about how politics worked when he arrived in Washington, I think he's quickly learned and he's made a bunch of moves over the last six months that have boosted his chances of re-election tremendously.
Ron Paul, too, would be more than acceptable.
This post isn't the place to debate RP, but there is no way RP is winning the nomination at this point and, if he did, he'd been rocked in the general election. He has too many skeletons and too many ideas that just don't jibe with what people want.
Gingrich is the only Republican name still in the race that gives me pause. His prodigious talents are probably better suited for something other than POTUS (like the man currently sitting in the White House).
Gingrich couldn't unify the Republican base enough to seriously contend with Obama. Plus, some of his recent comments (moon base? Are you fucking kidding me?) have really hurt his chances. Also, skeletons. He has them. Lots of them.
All I want and what I feel this country needs right is a sound economy. Obama, who I felt good about at the onset, is unacceptable because we know his record is radioactive horseshit and it will be a very simple case to prove once it becomes the GOP candidate's main job to do so.
He is, in my opinion, a beautiful short on iTrade.
I think that you're forgetting that an election isn't about the reality (though even the reality of what Obama has or hasn't accomplished isn't agreed on), but it's about how you spin it. Obama has a great spin to put on pretty much anything the Republicans try and come after him for.
If the Republicans can't get their shit together and stop ripping each other apart or, if they are stupid enough to carry this primary to the election, Obama will be invincible. There's no way Romney, Santorum, or even a zombie Ronald Reagan could beat Obama in eight weeks.
