November is a Long Ways Off
By Larry Johnson on April 10, 2012 at 10:00 PM in Current Affairs
Glad to see the Obama team is practicing its victory lap. They have the November election in the bag. I must say, delusion is a wonderful thing. If you rely only on the Washington Post/ABC poll you could be excused for buying into the bullshit that Obama has the election won. Per ABC:
With the general-election campaign beginning to take shape, President Obama holds clear advantages over Mitt Romney on personal attributes and a number of key issues, but remains vulnerable to discontent with the pace of the economic recovery, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Obama has double-digit leads over the likely Republican presidential nominee on who would do a better job of protecting the middle class, addressing women’s issues, handling international affairs and dealing with health care.
Only one minor problem–the polling sample is heavily and disproportionately skewed towards the Democrats. Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey has a great rundown on the bogus polling (click here).
But that’s just one marker. Byron York lays down another. It seems that the Obama team are convinced that Romney is just a big joke:
Barack Obama has led Mitt Romney in 21 of the last 25 head-to-head matchups counted by the RealClearPolitics average of polls. Now there are indications the long lead has gone to the president’s head.
“To say that the [Obama] campaign doesn’t fear Romney is an understatement — he’s viewed as almost a joke,” the Web publication BuzzFeed reported this week in an inside look at Obama’s Chicago headquarters. As evidence of how hilarious the campaign finds Romney, BuzzFeed reported, Obama staffers have named their building’s elevators after cars in reference to the planned car elevator in Romney’s California home.
When they’re not joking about car elevators, some Obama staffers are reportedly obsessing over a nearly 30-year-old story about Romney’s dog. . . .
Of course, with a president facing a still-suffering economy, a troubled war in Afghanistan, and a signature accomplishment — Obamacare — that might be declared unconstitutional, the experienced operatives at the Obama campaign have a lot of serious things to think about. For one thing, even though the president is well into his bid for re-election, he doesn’t have much of an agenda for a second term.
Higher taxes? More green energy? Something on immigration? Obama has so little to talk about in terms of serious policy proposals that he and his Democratic allies are devoting a lot of energy to a new drive for the Buffett Rule, the proposal that taxpayers who make more than $1 million a year pay their “fair share” — at least 30 percent — in federal income taxes. It’s not a terrible idea, and the world wouldn’t end if it were enacted. It’s just not very significant. A recent study by the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation estimated the Buffett Rule would raise about $47 billion in new revenues over the next decade. That’s less than $5 billion a year — not much when the annual federal budget deficit is $1 trillion. Basing an economic proposal on the Buffett Rule just isn’t serious, but at least it’s not car elevators and dog stories.
If we were just a week out from the election then there might be cause for concern. But that date is more than six months away. Think of Obama and his chums as crazed German tribesmen hunkered down in the forest ready to attack the army of ROMNEY. Think Russell Crowe in the first few minutes of the movie, GLADIATOR:
Unleash Hell! If Obama had a record worth an ounce of parakeet shit he would have little to fear. But he does not. When the SuperPacs begin to unload Obama will have no option but to squat on the ground and weep about the unfairness of politics and life. He’s gonna get served. Let’s just hope his “crack” team continues to believe the fantasy that Romney is a joke and this election is a cake walk.
Gee, what other President promised a cake walk? And how did that turn out?
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