Below the Mendoz...um, make that CARTER line, bad news for Obama

McCain got a nice little bounce from Palinmania, but Obama had led all summer.

 

. . . which shows that even then, the majority of the country had some measure of grip on reality.

 

Abe Lincoln just keyed your car.

 

Congress' approval rating is somewhere around 10 percent. Meaning that even though Obama's rating sucks, by comparison he's The Most Popular Guy Ever In The World.

I don't get how Romney is a threat to beat him. He can't get his own party to rally around him. He's a big phony who is trying to run away from his signature accomplishment, universal health care, that was used as the template of health reform. Geez, if the Republicans were excited at all the flip-flopping video available on John Kerry, Democrats are going to be orgasmic at all the video of Romney flopping around like a fish out of the bowl.

 

Hey, did you know Reagan raised taxes many times, and gave amnesty to illegal immigrants? He'd be huddling with Jon Huntsman for warmth at the bottom of the primary these days.

 

I don't see any Ronald Reagans in the current GOP field. But the Republican nominee may not have to be one to win next year. Obama isn't in Jimmy Carter territory (Obama's relative foreign policy successes ensures him of that much). But stronger incumbents have lost - see George H.W. Bush.

 

The Republicans don't have a Bill Clinton.

 

Sure, Obama COULD lose. And one day, you might actually provide a post with actual insight or useful analysis. Not really worth betting on, though, Amalgam.

 

Romney is a threat because he looks and sounds like a competent leader, which stands in stark contrast to Obama's perceived lack of competence and leadership (again, it may not necessarily be all Obama's fault, but that's the perception).

Romney's phoniness and flip-flops is definitely Kerry-esque, and voters could reject that in the end the same way they did with Kerry. But it is far from a certainty.

 

You beat me to it. It's Lincoln, by 31 lengths.

Those holding their breath for either Reagan or Kennedy to go up on Mt. Rushmore are in for a long, long wait.

 

Perceived by you. Not by everyone.

 

For the billionaires and morons. Everybody else, not so much.

The greatest accomplishment of the Reagan Administration: He didn't kill us all in a nuclear war, although he came damn damn close.

It was a hell of a thing to realize at the age of 22 that I was not only smarter than the President of the United States, but WAY smarter.