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The last presidential election was the GOP`s to lose and they put up the least repulsive candidate that they had. What`s that tell you about their prospects for 2016?
It just goes to show how successful propaganda can be.
Obama turned around the economy, hasn't started a single war, and finally got us on the path to universal healthcare.
Jimmy Carter was a good president too, but the GOP propaganda machine got him, and then put into power a kook who skyrocketed the deficit, handed over America to the robber barons with his trickle down voodoo economics, and believed in astrology!
Jimmy Carter is a perfect example of the way Democrats meekly go along when the Republicans create a false meme like Carter's "failed" presidency. Failed by whose standards? We may not have had a great economy in the '70s, but I'll tell you something else we didn't have — a war. (audience applause) Carter was branded a wimp, but the real wimps are the Democrats who never had his back for the achievement of never firing a shot while in office. (audience cheering and applause)
And the courage of being the last President to ask Americans to sacrifice. And yet, when Obama talks fondly about a President from his youth, he cites Reagan as an inspiration. But Obama's supposed to be an environmentalist. He should be inspired by the President who put solar panels on the White House roof! (audience cheering and applause) Not the President who came after him and tore them down because he thought the sun was interfering with Nancy's astrology!
The last presidential election was the GOP`s to lose and they put up the least repulsive candidate that they had. What`s that tell you about their prospects for 2016?
There is a healthy and good process going on in the Republican party for control of the future, the last election cycle is proof and finally drove that message home.
Every single republican knew Obama and the left were licking their chops for them to nominate "Mittens" Romney and they did not fail to disappoint. There were a wide variety of alternatives such as Huntsman and other more moderate Republicans that were in tune to what is actually happening with the party, but no, the old sticks in the mud not only got behind MR, but only did so after forcing him to slog through a nasty, long and bitter primary battle. A primary battle where almost every kook Republican from Rick Perry to Newt Gingrich an a whole cast of other characters that stood a snowball in hell chance of winning threw their hat into the ring.
Even then Obama was not out of the woods and in the end it was the Clintons in particular the man who loves the sound of his voice Bill Clinton had to put Obama over the finish line.
Sane and rational members of the Republican party know they must shift more back to the party of Goldwater than of Bush or even Regan. Demographics and other issues are changing the American electorate where party alignment is less important to more "independent" voters than issues that affect them on the ground. Issues like gay marriage are *done*, so stick a fork in them and pass the A-1 sauce. The ACA ranks up there as well and everyone knows there won't be any sort of repeal no matter whom or who wins in 2016. The thing will be like Social Security, tweaked and revised but never gotten rid of, period.
Republicans stand a very good chance of taking the WH in 2016 if they nominate someone practical and a bit more to the center who knows how to keep his mouth shut on certain issues. Instead focus on the very real issues facing a large majority of Americans and America.
That 41% would be Democrats who will not question anything Obama does because he is Democrat, if a Republican was in office he would not be allowed to do what Obama has done as far as starting and continuing wars or what he has done for corporations, Obama is the best friend the Republicans ever had.
For Blacks although Obama has made life worst for them since he has been in office can do no wrong, don't even try to tell a Black person that Obama did something wrong they just don't want to hear it, so again Obama is the Republicans best friend.
I originally thought it was a step forward electing a Black president now I see it was the worst thing that could have happened.
I see a dark cloud forming over the White House in 2016 when women will vote for Hillary Clinton just because she is a woman, she is to women what Obama was to Black people.
And if Hillary gets in the Republicans should be thankful again because she is a warmonger who is in bed with the elite corporations.
Don't know why so many are assuming that Clinton woman's gender will somehow help her in 2016. It certainly didn't stop an unknown black man and fresh new senator from knocking her out of the ring in 2008.
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