Despite Obama's Failures, He Will Be Tough To Beat

[Geee]

Investors Business Daily:

Election 2012: The Obama presidency may epitomize incompetence, but his campaign will be the slickest, most vicious ever. With so much at stake for America, Republicans better be ready for war.

Gathering in their schools, church halls and neighbors' homes to discuss who should be the Republican standard bearer this year, Iowans had no shortage of timely topics, from jobs to nuclear terror. But this year there's really only one issue: defeating President Obama. And Republicans shouldn't kid themselves that it's going to be easy.

It may seem absurd to imagine Barack Obama could be depicted as a champion of tax cuts, a friend of small business and the scourge of global terrorists. But by this summer, the billion-dollar Obama war chest will saturate the airwaves with such highly polished messages.

The New York Times last week quoted White House deputy press aide Joshua Earnest as saying Obama will, in effect, cease to be a working president as far as Congress is concerned and become a full-time campaigner.

Earnest reportedly said the Obama machine is cultivating "the image of a gridlocked, dysfunctional Congress and a president who is leaving no stone unturned to try to find solutions to the difficult financial challenges and economic challenges facing the country."

Republicans may be tempted to consider such a Trumanesque strategy laughable for a president who promised four years ago he had the skills to conquer gridlock and whose tenure, unlike Harry Truman's, has seen chronically high unemployment.

But the polls showed a hefty, if temporary, bump in popularity for Obama after House Republicans were outmaneuvered on a payroll tax-cut extension last month. More important for the GOP to ponder is Congress' all-time low rating, now nearing single digits.

Added to this will be unrelenting attacks on whomever the GOP nominee is — from the candidate's personal shortcomings and family finances, to policy inconsistencies, to the Democrats' signature "Republicans will kill your grandma" demagoguery. And don't expect the dominant media to set the record straight.

[Valin]

Investors Business Daily:

 

Election 2012: The Obama presidency may epitomize incompetence, but his campaign will be the slickest, most vicious ever. With so much at stake for America, Republicans better be ready for war.

 

And I would add dirty...get ready for the OWSer/SEIU to show up at ever rally.

 

People should think about becoming an election judge. Because you know they will cheat, He did it last time (ask Clinton supporters), it is in his DNA.