Screwing the Pooch
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/7/30/235221/945Screwing the Pooch
by BooMan
Mon Jul 30th, 2012 at 11:52:21 PM EST
This is some of the most strained, desperate spin I have ever encountered in American politics. Imagine trying to argue that Mitt Romney's foreign adventure has been a triumphant success! Still, what I hear from my liberal friends is skepticism that any of it will matter. My answer is that of course it will matter. I received a really lame email from Paul Begala asking me to donate money to the DCCC. He told me that 96% of the electorate has already made up their mind who they are going to vote for. That is complete bullshit. People's political opinions are nowhere near as set in stone as these analysts would like you to believe. I did a lot of canvassing in 2004 and I talked to a lot of voters in July and August of that year. I heard all kinds of crazy things. I can't tell you how many soft Democrats I met who planned to vote for Bush because they wanted him to have to clean up the mess he created in Iraq. "Why should a Democrat have to do that job?", they asked. People make their decisions about who to vote for in weird ways.
People do not throw out incumbents lightly. They must be convinced not only that the incumbent is doing a bad job, but that someone else will do a better job. That's the test Romney needs to pass, and his foreign adventure was supposed to help him make that case. It did anything but.
And he won't get another chance. Just as in 2008, a lot of Republicans took a long look at Sarah Palin and decided that they couldn't pull the Republican trigger, Romney lost Republican votes by demonstrating total incompetence during his trip abroad.
This trip hurt him in a vital way.
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Most of the Republican campaign against President Obama will undoubtedly be a massive Obama smear-a-thon but people are going to at least be somewhat curious about why they should dump President Obama for him. 
not a bunch of ankle-biters whom throw roadblock after roadblock (or monkeywrench) in front of our economic recovery. The GOP strategy since 2009 has basically been to prevent any Democratic POTUS from making any "too-radical" changes to the Bush status quo until they can get back into the WH. The jury, of course, is still out until November as to whether or not they will have succeeded. If they get a GOP Congress in place and win the WH in the election, they'll practically be able to repeal the Obama Presidency in its entirety.
Speaker Boehner said it...prevent Obama's re-election. All this talk about low taxes creating jobs is bullshit. Taxes are the lowest they've been in four decades......where are the jobs?
We heard the same unadulterated horse dung from Reagan and his "Trickle Down." I was right in the middle of it and unless it meant warm piss running down the middle class's back Voodoo Economics didn't work.
Check this chart to see what has happened to the middle class beginning during the Reagan years and continuing till now:
http://dailydish.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451c45669e20153924d1f47970b-550wi
Ronald Reagan and Bush's daddy cut taxes for the wealthiest among us, borrowed from foreign banks to cover the shortfall then ran the national debt up from less than $1 trillion to more than $4 trillion.
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