Pandering to His Base

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Weekly Standard:

 

 

Pandering to His Base

Obama goes left, left, and left again.

Jul 30, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 43 • By FRED BARNES

 

The usual strategy for presidential candidates is to appeal to the political center in hopes of broadening their support. President Obama isn’t doing that. He is tilting sharply to the left on issue after issue: immigration, religious liberty, welfare, gay marriage, the environment, race, the role of government. Why?

The simplest answer is that his bid for reelection is in trouble, and he’s going where he has the best chance of finding friendly faces. In fundraising, you rely on folks who’ve donated before. Obama is going after voters who’ve voted for him before.

But why focus his campaign on them? Didn’t Obama long ago lock up the various liberal elements and interest groups who make up the Democratic party’s base? Yes, but their mere support is not enough. He needs them to swarm to the polls and vote in the same massive numbers they did in 2008. At the moment, that seems unlikely.

A poll in mid-July by Resurgent Republic found that Read More http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/pandering-his-base_648830.html

[logicnreason]

In the case of the stain, he'll do, say, think, feel, taste, and hear whatever his handlers tell him to in order to gain just one more vote.

 

Next the stain will be catering to the undertakers of American and their clientelle...both present and past!

 

Gotta get them votes, dontchaknow!

 

And....next the stain will be begging votes from Canadians, the French, and most of the countries of the free world!

Hey! It's possible. The ACLU says anyone who can (and this includes absentee voting) should vote. You don't have to prove legal residency in the US, and you don't have to prove a legal address.

 

So??? Why not?

[raygun]

Have your fun. We're done.

 

Hey! that rymnes.

 

So what.

[righteousmomma]

My uncle sent us this and the comment is his:

 

Launch of African Americans for Obama…

 

Can you imagine Romney putting out a call for all the white brothers and sisters to vote for him because he's white and so are they?

 

[Pepper]

In the case of the stain, he'll do, say, think, feel, taste, and hear whatever his handlers tell him to in order to gain just one more vote.

 

Next the stain will be catering to the undertakers of American and their clientelle...both present and past!

 

Gotta get them votes, dontchaknow!

 

And....next the stain will be begging votes from Canadians, the French, and most of the countries of the free world!

Hey! It's possible. The ACLU says anyone who can (and this includes absentee voting) should vote. You don't have to prove legal residency in the US, and you don't have to prove a legal address.

 

So??? Why not?

 

@logicnreason

thanks for the stain.

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