Here’s an interesting column by George Will that reminds us of the challenge presented to serious people who might choose to be candidates for office – their first step is to get by the fringe lunatics that represent the nominating electorate.
Thus Michelle Bachman is doing well at the moment because the center of the nation is not paying attention yet.
Who Will Bat Against ‘Alibi’ Obama?
By George F. Will, Washington Post - July 6
Basically, Will is saying that the only Republican at the moment with a chance to beat Obama is Mitt Romney and therefore Will is rooting for Rick Perry to get into the race.
About the awful Bachman, he says she has appeal to the nutbags of the Republican nominating electorate but no centrist or independent would ever vote for the bimbo. We have just lived through a few years of a hopelessly ill-prepared President who worships at the church of progressivism. Why would anyone with common sense now vote for a hopelessly ill-prepared and uninformed bimbo who worships at some other church?
I would add that this President has been consistently ill-served by the most incompetent staff of any President in memory – a fact that reflects directly on the competence of the person selecting the staff. Bachman’s staff is worse.
Meanwhile, if you watched the President’s press conference yesterday morning, he wowed everybody with his common sense, reasonableness, statesmanship and centrism. “Everybody” that is, except those that actually follow what’s going on.
Republicans look like petulant children. They have taken a righteous public outrage with government and started us down a path to sanity. They negotiated real concessions – substantial deficit and debt reductions – from the most left leaning set of Democrats since FDR. Then, they refused to accept success and walked away. They have completely lost the political argument and possibly the 2012 election with it. It remains questionable whether any deficit progress can now be achieved. Outrageous.
And all of this in the face of a President who does not hyperbolize, he lies. Even if you didn’t watch the new conference, you have seen a clip of this statement by the President on every news outlet:
"You have 80 percent of the American people who support a balanced approach … that includes revenues and includes cuts. … The clear majority of Republican voters think that any deficit reduction package should have a balanced approach and should include some revenues."
This is a lie. You saw the clips repeatedly but you’ve never seen the lame-stream press correct him.
It’s cherry picked from only one poll; it ignores the many contradictory polls; and even the President reassembled the basic statement more than once into, “80% of Americans want cuts and tax increases and that includes Republicans”. It’s a lie; his is the repeated polling data both sides are trying to deal with:
· 72% of registered voters demand that government balance the budget. Not 80% and here’s the other “but”.
· 63% of registered voters reject any change to entitlement benefits.
· 62% of registered voters reject any increase in taxes.
As in 2010, centrists and independents will decide these races. How can Republicans allow themselves to become dumber, more dangerous and more obnoxious than the Nancy Pelosi 111th House? Republicans need to dump the foolishness or we will soon face a second term of Obama with a Democratic Senate and possibly even a Democratic House. Let’s get the libertarians, Bible thumpers and bimbos back in their box.
Fact Check: Obama Stretches Poll Findings on Debt
By Calvin Woodward, Associated Press – 7/16/11
On Deficit, Americans Prefer Spending Cuts; Open to Tax Hikes
By Jeffrey M. Jones Gallup - July 13, 2011
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