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Barack Obama seems to channel Napoleon Bonaparte these days, emulating the “little Corsican’s” celebrated observation that a commander should never interfere with an adversary who’s screwing up.
That shouldn’t suggest Republican prospects are doomed this fall. Hardly: Obama has rebounded in the polls but still faces hurdles for reelection, the most formidable still the sluggish — if improving — economy.
It’s also ridiculous to suggest the intramural squabbling between Mitt Romney and his three more conservative combatants will hand the election to Obama. Four years ago, Hillary Clinton didn’t drop out until June 7, and that extended family feud obviously didn’t cost then-Sen. Obama the White House.
Yet while Obama deploys all the levers of presidential power and raises tanker-trucks full of campaign cash, the Republicans are flirting with nominating an eminently weaker opponent.
There’s little doubt rank-and-file Republicans harbor serious misgivings about Romney, an imperfect candidate bedeviled by painful attempts to certify he’s a real conservative and a robotic bedside manner that undermines his authenticity.
“I’ve had a dozen meetings with Mitt Romney, half of them one-on-one, and I still don’t know anything about him,” one of the GOP's top operatives told the Daily News.
“He’s not ideal, but he’s our best hope for beating Obama, whose reelection would be a catastrophe,” the mandarin said last week.
Another catastrophe, in the view of many like this player, would be to jettison Romney for Rick Santorum.
“There’s no way we beat Obama with him,” an operative working congressional elections this year said. “Everyone who doesn’t like Obama will rally around Romney against him. With Santorum, there are too many things you can’t stomach.”
Santorum’s relative extremism on social issues — like on contraception, which dooms him with millions of female voters — renders him unappetizing to many independents, who hold the balance of power this November.
President Obama is not a shoo-in despite Republican flubs - NY Daily News
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Romney has pandered so much to suspicious party hard-liners he'll have considerable difficulty tacking to the middle for the general election. But he'll have an easier go of it than Santorum, whose philosophy of life and politics make it impossible for him to reach the crucial center.
That's what gives Republican leaders real blues in the night.
And well it should...........Santorum personifies rigidity, and Romney is the poster child for "OK I agree with you now that you mention it"
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#1 - Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:08 PM ESTthose words in the title of this article "shoo-in" are two dangerous words. all around the vine we see people claiming this, that there is no way obama can lose. when enough people get the idea that this is absolutely true they can become complacent and neglect to vote. there is the danger, the neglect of those who don't feel they have to vote because their vote won't be needed. after all, the word is out, he can't lose.
wake up, before we see another DEWEY WINS headline in our papers only to wake up to the other guy being the new president.
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#2 - Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:28 PM ESTwake up, before we see another DEWEY WINS headline in our papers only to wake up to the other guy being the new president.
beej .....That's where you and me with others like us come in to prevent that from happening.
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that's exactly why i say, don't get complacent. you want obama to stay in the whitehouse, get out and vote.
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I'm a liberal. I won't vote for any of the current crop of GOP loons.
But Obama has done nothing to assure me that he'll take the country in the direction I'd like to see it go. My vote, if I vote at all, will be a canceling vote in what will likely be a red state (Missouri). The Obama administration better work to get me off my ass this time around.
I likely won't get enthusiastic about a candidate until Elizabeth Warren runs for president. And I hope she does.
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#3 - Sun Feb 19, 2012 6:41 PM ESTBut Obama has done nothing to assure me that he'll take the country in the direction I'd like to see it go
Outlaw.......There are a number of things I would like for him to have prioritized that were not, but I understood the abyss our country was mired in and the crawling out period wouldn't come overnight.
Has he been in error?.....Hell yeah....There will be times when he may be again, but the question is: were they egregious enough where the country suffered?
BTW FR being sent.
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#6 - Sun Feb 19, 2012 7:33 PM ESTeven if you consider obama not to your liking, given the present republican possibilities, a old saying ought to come to mind.
better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.
personally i believe that obama, though not delivering all he hoped for, has done a hell-a-va job considering the obstructions placed before him at every turn. the republicans from the word go, hell still while president elect, they vowed to make him a one term president. they weren't shy about it either.
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True 'nuff. I understand, but I hate this constant "lesser of two evils" politics. If the Dems want my vote, they've got to something to earn it
Not to say President Obama hasn't done anything. He has. But some things that were within his power, he punted.
Thanks for the FR, easyjjgrand3. Accepted.
Thanks for the FR, easyjjgrand3. Accepted.
Outlaw.....Thanks for the acceptance.
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