@revelette,
Have you considered you may be going a tad overboard? I know when I despair of all the Liberals actually making important decisions on a daily basis, I check myself and realize it’s not all that bad... most of them don't have consequential jobs. After all what sort of decisions can be made by a Borders floor manager, a DMV clerk, or a HS World Economic teacher that might seriously impact the world?
One person on a radio talk show makes a stupid joke about preferring Charlie Manson to Obama and you see it as a serial killer
being acceptable to republican voters over Obama.
Who are these people? is an excellent question.
Who do you think they are?
It seems you believe that a group who, in their entirety, could not have numbered more than 150 people is a major force in American politics and one you need to fear and be depressed about.
What the logical connection between
these people and the Perry hunting lodge rock story may be, must depend on the numerous broad assumptions you've made and your incomplete understanding of the story.
If President Obama was a successful leader who had secured the trust and optimism of the American people, you wouldn't have to even think about the GOP contenders, let alone concoct outlandish warnings about the danger they represent.
I've no thought that you might be a political strategist for the Democrats, but by your reflexive responses in this forum, it's easy to see what the Democrats strategy is going to be:
Paint the GOP candidates as dangerous nuts who have sold their souls to the even more dangerous bunch of nuts, The Tea Party.
In this light, 2012 is no longer a referendum on the failed policies of Obama and the Democrats, it's no longer the opportunity to choose between two entirely different schools of thought on how the government best serves the people, and it's no longer the chance to find a leader who will actually lead us back to prosperity.
No, it's yet another of the final battles between Good and Evil. The Democrats message seems to be steadily building to:
It doesn't matter if Obama has made the economic mess worse.
It doesn't matter if all of his solutions have proven to be failures.
It doesn't matter if he reneged on all of the lofty promises he made for a changed Washington.
It doesn't matter that despite his assurances, the US doesn't enjoy a more respected status in the world, it just appears weak and feckless.
It doesn't matter that you are worse off now than when he came to office. (A point with which he agrees BTW)
We are once again fighting for the soul of our nation, a soul that despite the presence of so many stout hearted Liberals is precariously dangling over the edge of the abyss. All it will take is one of these Tea Party nuts to get in power and we can count on:
Mass starvation in our inner cities and rural communities.
The return of Jim Crow
The forcing of gay and lesbians back into their closets of denial for fear of discrimination and even violence.
Widespread food contamination scandals and untested drug disasters
The ecological destruction of our coasts and wild lands
More numerous and deadly military adventures that will only serve to ensure that the whole world despises us.
These are the stakes people!
To be fair, the Republicans also have no problem in portraying our problems in the bleakest of terms when they want to stress the connection between the problems and Democrats, but they have the advantage of being the ones calling for change who can paint that change in the rosiest of colors.
Herman Cain's 9-9-9 plan may be a bunch of nonsense, but it’s not been proven to be the nonsense of Obama's Stimulus and Son of Stimulus. It's different and its new, and for people who may be desperate to see a change in our economic conditions, it may even be attractive.
What do the Democrats have to offer except more Obama?
They have salvation. They can save America and the world from The Tea Party and Michelle Bachman. You may not like the world you'll have to live in during Obama's second term, but at least it will be livable.
You won't have to worry about your daughter dying in some back alley because she was forced to go to an illegal abortionist. You won't have to make a decision between food for your kids and medical care for your mother. You won't have to watch as the government rounds up 12 million undocumented workers and deports them back into the middle of America induced drug wars.
Sure continued unemployment of more than 9% will suck, as will the inevitable destructive wave of inflation, but you won't have to listen to another Texas drawl in the White House or listen to a crazy lady from the Tea Party telling you what religion you have to believe.
The list goes on and on and will as the months until November 2012 dwindle.
I know Obama promised us he was going to be above these sorts of divisive tactics, but that was before he realized how big the stakes are and how evil Republicans are. Grow up and cut him some slack.
