They keep talking about how weak the Republican presidential field is, but I’ve never really gotten that focus. In 2012, the big question is going to be whether Obama deserves to continue with the job he’s been doing, and I just don’t see how in the world he’s going to make that case.
Let’s just face it Obama sucks. At everything. When first running for president, he had no achievements to tout. Now he’s been president for a few years and he still has no achievements to point to — or at least any positive ones. He’s spent trillions on stimulus that has done nothing and made a hugely unpopular health care program. And he can’t even enthuse his left-wing base because he’s kept Gitmo open and started a brand new war. What in the world is he going to run on to justify giving another shot to someone who makes Jimmy Carter look competent? He’s still black, which was part of novelty of electing him in the first place, but electing a black president is done with so I think everyone is ready to move on to other things… like maybe electing the first competent black president.
The common wisdom still seems to be that this is Obama’s election to lose, but I think he’s already lost it. You can’t ask to continue in the most important job in world after years of being absolutely useless. And I don’t get the worry that the Republicans are going to nominate someone extremist. Calling someone “extremist” is a far cry from saying the person is actually less competent than Obama. We’ve never seen someone this idiotic and utterly useless as president. That actually leads to a great slogan for Republicans: “Vote for Republican nominee in 2012 because electing someone worse than Obama is statistically impossible.”
Still, people seem to think that Obama has a good chance of being reelected because the Republican field is weak (Intrade currently has a 59.7% chance of Obama being reelected), but I don’t think it matters that the Republican field is weak as long as they nominate someone since it’s a pretty easy case to make that someone — anyone — would be better than Obama. I mean, he’s like if you took all the people in America and scored them on being president, Obama is easily in the bottom 10th percentile. Randomly grab someone on the street, and you’ll more than likely have a better president. Obama is the aggressive kind of bad where someone actually has to put effort to suck that much. So, not to sound too optimistic, but it seems like kind of a lock for 2012 if Republicans just point out the obvious of how awful Obama has been. Am I missing something?
His re-election strategy is to trade Biden in for Oprah Winfrey thus running the first all-black ticket (with a female VP as a bonus).
Obama and the MFM’s secret weapon they’ll use to engage progressives and independents:
3..2..1..Look! Something shiney!
Melted butter is more competent than obabmuh. At least it made the decision to melt. Butter is more appealing than obahmuh also.
obamuh doesn’t eat pork. How can you elect someone who doesn’t eat bacon?
He waffles, after all, you are what you eat.
Leave it to the GOP and the RNC to pick the ONE guy in America that has a higher number on the Suckitude Scale than Obama! One guy out of 300 million citizens! That’s your GOP!!!!
Oh yea of little faith.
He has accomplishments.
1. Destruction of free markets – begun
2. New oil drilling, coal mining and nuclear restrictions are in place
3. Destruction of the Constitution & individual freedoms – begun
4. Wealth creation for Soros and crew (including Obama) – in place and operating
5. Destruction of the American Health System – 49% in place
6. Destruction of personal wealth – in place and continuing
7. Setting the stage for the Muslin takeover of America – coming
He has accomplishemnts.
And before I forget there are the minor things he does well…
Hates Americans who earn a living.
Reads from the Telly-prompter.
Makes up bullshit answers to serious questions.
Blames Republicans for all his problems.
Plays golf.
Plays basketball.
Is a father and husband. (Can’t give him the ‘provider’ tag, the taxpayer does that.)
Got to go…but you get my drift…
He stinks to high heaven but the liberal left loves it, the media loves it and …so…who are we to complain?
We remember Clinton and most of us thought the same thing at this point in his first term. We’re spooked.
Also, a sucky pub nominee likely leads to a 3rd party candidate that we love but gets Obama re-elected with like 41% or something.
Would you really compare Clinton to Obama? Maybe I don’t remember the 90s too well, but I don’t remember things being this huge a disaster and the president being anywhere this inept. Clinton actually showed the ability to adapt and learn, at least.
Here’s an idea for the RNC. Get a bunch of ads with a picture of any conservative figure. On the ad put, in huge bold letters, one of Obama’s more outrageous quotes. The reference will be in teeny-tiny print at the bottom of the page. The idea is that liberals, in a knee-jerk reaction will point out the quotes as stupid and extreme and then we can watch them play mental twister when they realize that they’re slamming Barry.
I think you’re underestimating the idiocy of the general populace. Hell, they elected Obama the first time with no evidence whatsoever that he’d be able to do the job. His reelection wouldn’t really be much of a shock.
I worry. After the biggest tax increase in history, Hillary in the White House, BJ’s in the Oval Office, Jocelyn Elders, Waco, spying on Americans, and so much more the Republicans ran Bob Dole and lost…. Yes, I am worried.
Semi-popular 3rd and 4th party candidates would split enough vote to do it.
Am I missing something?
I almost choked, right below that was an ad for “Mitt Romney for President”.
As for Clinton in the 90s. Yes, he was bad. All he did was lie. Blatantly and obviously. The GOP nominated one of the few people who couldn’t beat Clinton, and Ross Perot screwed the whole thing up. He was in, he was out. And the media played up, “Don’t waste your vote on a third party vote!” I still think Perot could have won if he hadn’t dropped out late in the campaign before jumping back in.
Clinton was even worse if you realize he presided over the Dems losing both houses of Congress for the first time in many decades. All he did was lie about everything.
The only way he looked better was that he seemed to prefer America to other countries.
He was more than willing to take money from China and give them our missile and bomb tech, but he at least he didn’t apologize or bow to them as he did it.
well he did lower the sea levels like he promised – or at least I didn’t notice it going up – plus he nailed that basketball bracket thing – so I think you’re kind of not giving him a fair break here.
What you’re missing is that John McCain wouldn’t have pointed out the obvious of how awful Obama has been. Chances are a similar candidate would behave similarly. The media got to pick the Repub candidate last time. Are we sure we’re smert enough to keep them from doing it again?
What doesn’t Obama suck at? Answer: sucking. This is the reason Barney Frank still looks forward to coming to work…
“Am I missing something?”
You seem to forget that this a political humor / satire site. Where’s teh funny ?
#14 wrote what I was going to write.
I don’t trust Romney or Huckabee to articulate conservative principles, let alone articulate any attractive vision. I don’t trust Huntsman to do anything right. I don’t trust the American people to vote for Trump. Heck, I won’t vote for Trump. I’ll sooner write in “Chesty Puller” or “A corpse” than vote for Donald Trump.
The American people, on the whole, don’t pay that much attention. As bad as things are, the Republican candidates are mostly lousy and let us remember that FDR got reelected in 1936 despite making the economy worse.
Now what, do we really want to get rid of Obama so fast?
He is pushing most of America back into the loving arms of conservatism. He’s such a pushover, imagine what Republicans will be able to pass when they win back the Senate. There’s no way the tea party will ever make it to the White House, so let’s keep all the power in the legislative branch for a little longer.
I think everyone is ready to move on to other things… like maybe electing the first competent black president.
Yeah, we could do that. Yes. We. Can.
And, it wouldn’t be hard to find someone with more competence than the President,
for example, Herman Cain, Congressman Allen West,
Thomas Sowell, Walter E. Williams, J.C. Watts, Condi Rice, Colin Powell,
Bill Cosby, Morgan Freeman, Dennis Haysbert, Isaiah Mustafa,
Dr.Dre, or that lady from the Lysol commercials.
I think everyone is ready to move on to other things… like maybe electing the first competent black president.
Yeah, we could do that. Yes. We. Can.
And, it wouldn’t be hard to find someone with more competence than the President,
for example, Herman Cain, Congressman Allen West,
Thomas Sowell, Walter E. Williams, J.C. Watts, Condi Rice, Colin Powell,
Bill Cosby, Morgan Freeman, Dennis Haysbert, Isaiah Mustafa,
Dr.Dre, or that lady from the Lysol commercials.
Obama has succeeded in making Carter look competent, Nixon look honest, and Clinton look humble.
I miss Bill Clinton! Compared to Obama he should be on Mt Rushmore! We should have a Bill Clinton national Holiday! There should be a Bill Clinton 50 cent piece! They should set up a new monument in DC like the Lincoln Memorial but it will be the Bill Clinton Memorial. Bill Clinton seated behind his desk with the feet of an intern…um…nevermind…
Well ussjc I don’t miss him at all…but I do miss the jokes about him……..Bill Clinton steps out onto the White House lawn in the dead of winter.
Right in front of him, on the White House lawn, he sees “The President Must Go” written in urine across the snow.
Well, old Bill is pretty ticked off. He storms into his security staff`s HQ, and yells “Somebody wrote a threat in the snow on the front damn lawn! And they wrote it in urine! Son-of-a-bitch had to be standing right on the porch when he did it! Where were you guys?!”
The security guys stay silent and stare ashamedly at the floor.
Bill hollers “Well dammit, don`t just sit there! Get out and FIND OUT WHO DID IT! I want an answer, and I want it TONIGHT!”
The entire staff immediately jumps up and races for the exits. Later that evening, his chief security officer approaches him and says “Well Mr. President, we have some bad news and we have some really bad news. Which do you want first?”
Clinton says “Oh hell, give me the bad news first.”
The officer says “Well, we took a sample of the urine and tested it. The results just came back, and it was Al Gore`s urine.”
Clinton says “Oh my god, I feel so… so… betrayed! My own Vice President! Damn….Well, what`s the really bad news?”
The officer replies “Well sir, it`s Hillary`s handwriting.”
Frank, you’re missing one thing. The only hopeful who’s had the gumption to point out that Obama sucks is Donald Trump. All the rest are too busy trying not to be called raaaaaaaaacist and “negative” and “hateful” and so on. Merely getting a Republican to say one bad thing about this guy is going to be hard. Even though it should be the most obvious thing in the world. Guy is cozying up to Al Jazeera fgs – had the owner over to the Oval Office and has “empowered us to have a great relationship with Al Jazeera”. Two short years ago something like that would have been utterly unthinkable. When I think of all the people who said “I believe, and history will bear me out on this, that Bush is the worst president of all time” I get sick.
but he at least he didn’t apologize or bow to them as he did it.//
Clinton much prefered for others to bow in front of him.
Hillary’s hand writing…BWAAAAAAA! That’s a good one!
I agree, I do not see how Obama can be re-elected. In reality, the people went to the polls in November 2010 wishing Obama was on the ballot so they could “FIRE HIM” immediately, luckily for him he was not on the ballot. So instead the people threw out every democrat they could right down to the local dogcatcher.
Believe me, we can’t wait for 2012 to go to the polls and “FIRE HIM”, I do not care who the republican nominee is, I will vote for Anyone But Obama. Palin, Bachmann, Pawlenty, Cain, ANYONE.
As you pointed out, the MSM mantre is “What would it take for a Republican to win,” as opposed to what it should be: “What would it take for a failed president to do what Jimmy Carter couldn’t…win another term?”