@ Tony Slater

Tony, most Americans, when voting for president, hold their noses and vote for the “lesser of two evils”, never understanding that the “lesser of two evils” is still evil. That’s largely how Obama got into office in the first place. I wised up to that foolishness nearly 15 years ago, so I now vote Libertarian—though if the Greens do (mirabile dictu) manage to get on the Georgia ballot next year, I may vote for them.

The republicans don’t need a plausible candidate.  They know they’ll be much
better off running a born loser against Obama who does just what they want, 
anyway, and furthermore will be there to take the blame when the economy
descends into feudalism.
If only the people would wake up & dump the democratic party…..!

MILLIONAIRE WANABEES

TD:: How else can one explain their madding dash to leap over their cliffs and assure a second term for Obama, with the preposterous candidates and slates they are proposing?

How? Easy ... only 48% of voting Americans - disappointed that Obama did not, after all, walk on water - decided to punish his administration by voting for these Replicant dunces in the midterms. Obama did not come through with a Miracle Exit from the worst recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s - for which he was not even responsible. (Lead-head handed over to Obama the recession on Inauguration Day.)

So, Americans decided to punish Obama for his “deception”.

How stupid can you get? In American electoral politics, pretty damn stupid. So, no one should be surprised or startled.

THE THIRD WAY

A third-party movement espousing a Progressive Agenda for America will separate the chaff from the wheat. It will put the Dem blue-dogs where they belong, on the Rabid Right.

And the Left can get on with rebuilding an America that takes into account all its people, and not just an well-heeled elite sect that turns on the Money Spigots at the first sign of an electoral campaign.

MY POINT

Income Unfairness, due to Reckless Ronnie’s lowering of tax rates on upper income levels as well as capita-gains, brought on the Money Frenzy that began a decade later in the dot.com boom (‘n bust). It then engulfed us in first decade of the new millennium. We became a nation of Millionaire Wanabees.

NOTA BENE: Consumer Protection Agency

The conservatives are mounting a campaign to roll-back the few valid advances of progressives over the past ten years.

Think this is not happening? Just look (here) to understand who might be behind the denigration campaign mounted against Elizabeth Warren and her efforts to build a Consumer Protection Agency.

The SubPrime Mess was the consequence of Consumer Fraud, whilst a Replicant Administration discretely forgot to enforce the Truth In Lending Act (of 1968), and thus allowed the frenzied consumer credit bubble that burst when Federal oversight agencies blithely neglected to investigate the creditworthiness of the mortgagors.

Scratch the surface and you’ll find conservatives boosted by Credit Industry lobbyists who are directing the ongoing campaign of defamation against the Consumer Protection Agency.

If that agency is scuttled or gutted of funding, the American public will have no protection from the minions of Credit Financing, which is a keystone mover of our credit-based economy.

Meaning precisely those very same people that brought us SubPrime Financing.

Whatever your party, whatever your principles, you gotta take your hat off to our current President. Politically, he’s a master. I don’t know how-in-hell he did it, but he’s obviously infiltrated or otherwise seized control of the GOPers and their Tea Party subsidiary. How else can one explain their madding dash to leap over their cliffs and assure a second term for Obama, with the preposterous candidates and slates they are proposing?

You beat me to it. I didn’t want anyone to forget about the third member of the “Bush Monarchy”, Jebbie.
Who better than the guy who helped steal the 2000 election?
He would make it absolutely for sure that there would be no Wall Street repercussions for their recent criminal behavior.
Republicans always manage to cut off their noses to spite their faces.
It will be fun to watch them do that again!

I really believe Mr Robinson might have a great future in comedy writing.

>>”...Obama’s formidable political skills…”<<  Yeah, I suppose if the method by which such skills are determined is how well the wealthy are rewarded and how thoroughly betrayed the vast majority of Americans were by this forked-tongued war criminal, and how determined the lackeys of the Left are to ignore and excuse Obama, then perhaps “formidable” is the correct word.

Not that the fascists who call themselves Republicans and Democrats need to do much more than let Obama be the betrayer-in-chief that is Obama.  Give the man enough rope, and he will hang us all, and Robinson anxiously keeps weaving more rope.

And while Robinson falls all over himself speculating on wort-case scenarios, trotting out the same, old, tired threats of some other equally morally reprehensible politician perhaps taking office in Obama’s stead, he and the rest of his incredulous fellow scrivners of the chattering class are incapable of even the slightest bit of imagination that would allow the suggestion that someone other than the fools and knaves he lists as possible contenders be broadened to include those who might offer something other than welfare for corporate criminals, bailouts to banksters, and perpetual war.  It is a profound lack of imagination that Robinson’s list does not include folks who actually stand for justice and the common man, such as a Kucinich or a Nader or a Feingold.  Even the principled Ron Paul becomes the target of Robinson’s childish grammar-school ridicule, which tells us more about Robinson than it does about Paul.  Robinson would rather voice his support for the charlatan and war criminal who now occupies the White House, and he and his fellow scribes, having sold out their principles long ago, have never been anything more than boosters for whoever is in power.

“The media want to maintain their intimate relation to state power. They want to get leaks, they want to get invited to the press conferences. They want to rub shoulders with the Secretary of State, all that kind of business. To do that, you’ve got to play the game, and playing the game means telling their lies, serving as their disinformation apparatus.”
(Noam Chomsky)

“The American press, with a very few exceptions, is a kept press. Kept by the big corporations the way a whore is kept by a rich man.”
(Theodore Dreiser)

@RubberPimple:
I DID miss his reference to Ron Paul. I apologize. Of course, Robinson wrote one sentence in which he ridicules Paul. Every WH stenographer (Republican or Democrat) does it, but they do it for a reason. They don’t want the public to take Ron Paul seriously. They attempt to marginalize him in the eyes of the public. Yes, Ron Paul has some crazy ideas, but not as crazy as supporting a ten year old war and claiming authority to assassinate American citizens.
The first step towards regaining our collective sanity is to pull out of Iraq, Afghanistan, and close bases all around the world. The next step is to tell the corporations they’re on their own, we’re not going to enhance their profits on the backs of soldiers and the murder of citizens in other lands.
If Obama is the Democratic candidate, and it’s a choice between a boilerplate Republican and Ron Paul during the caucuses, I’ll caucus with Paul. Then, if it’s between Obama and Paul, I’ll vote for Paul.

@ Paul_GA

I agree with that entirely.

The point of my comment was to point out that Ron Paul WAS, in fact, mentioned in the article, despite the fact that “madisolation” seemed to miss that entire paragraph.

In light of his “Iraq gaffe,” how can anyone take Romney seriously?
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3112

Straw polls don’t mean a thing, Rubberpimple, as I see it.

You mean weaker than Ojama?

It’s likely that 2012 will be a race to the bottom.
Worse than any election in our history..

The recovery cannot stall, because there is no recovery. It’s likely that another stimulus plan will be attempted, as we continue our slow circle around the drain.

Food shortages, and $7.50 a gallon gas will surely add to the mix, as well as continuing riots spreading to Europe, and maybe even here as well..

American’s are slow learners, to think that after, the larcenies of the Bush Crime family, people would consider another potential felon Jeb Bush as president, should come as no surprise.

I’m sure Rethuglicans are salvaiting over the very thought, still there isn’t much left to steal, at this point.

THE EDUCATION PRESIDENT

ER : The recovery could stall, unemployment could remain unacceptably high, and recent elections prove that the electorate is nothing if not volatile.

The recovery will not stall. America will not, however, get back to Pre-Great-Recession levels of unemployment. People, in most countries, do not understand that the PotUS is not responsible for the economy since there is little that they can do about it. They are held responsible nonetheless because there is no one else at whom to get angry; thus the lightening-rod affect that cost the Dems the mid-term elections.

Current predictions are that unemployment might behave like the last time they peaked at around 10%, see 60 year info-graphic here. It could drop as quickly as it rose and thus, if it repeats this pattern, it will be to about 6% - if one predicts based upon the info-graphic out to 2012. But do Americans expect it to be lower by then?

If they do, then Obama may have a problem. Because it will likely never get lower again. We are transitioning to an era of higher unemployment because we have not made the investments necessary in the recent pasts in enhancing workforce skills that we should have.

Our “education PotUS” really screwed us by starting his pocket-war over in the sandbox, instead of spending the money – one trillion dollars - on skills enhancements at all levels of education. 
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@ madisolation:  Did you even read the article?

“It says a lot about the Republican field that the winner of the Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll was Texas Rep. Ron Paul…”

I agree fully with Madisolation; if the election were today and the choice was the warmongering “peace-prizer” Obama or the RINO Ron Paul, I’d vote for Dr. Paul without hesitation, primarily for his antiwar views. But I suspect that in 2012, I’ll be voting Libertarian or possibly Green (if they’re on the Georgia ballot) because the Repubs and Demos are still too pro-war for my liking. In other words, the big parties, which are really just two competing wings of one big Statist-Warmonger party, are the problem, and neither is the solution.

Actually I believe Jeb Bush is the dark horse in this
race.

Like him or the family or not, it is a fact that he
brings a record as an executive to the table, plus
the
Bush organization would instantly be back clearing
the way like they did for GW.

Jeb should be the one keeping Obama up at nights
worrying.

Especially when you see how GW’s image has
“miraculously” recovered recently in the polls.

The Republicans, as a party vying for the WH, are anemic for one main reason. The economy is not resurgent enough for them. When it seems clear that the economy is vectoring on a sustained path to peak a year or so into a POTUS term, they’ll rise up to take the credit. Then they’ll find a way fuck it up. Right now they’re nothing but a bunch of malcontented spoilers.

‘Charisma and pizazz’

Is this your definition of a woman who speaks in violent imagery, and could very well have caused the violent confrontation in Arizona?

Not a mention that she is damaged goods.  It is this sort of ‘forgetting’ that keeps the least able of the politians alive.

Hopefully, the people are less forgiving.

Not a word about Ron Paul on the Republican side, huh? He won the CPAC vote, and he has an organized following. Before others start to scream: “Ron Paul is the worst thing that could happen to us!” I ask others to name a candidate on either the left or the right who is as anti-war as Ron Paul. I’m not a staunch Paul supporter, but if the election was held today, and it was between Obama and Paul, I’d vote for Ron Paul because of his anti-war views alone.

Some KKKristian/Zionist Amerikans, especially back-wood cracker hicks in the $outh, have called Mr. Obama a lousy “house-nigger”. Mr. Obama’s unabashed $upport for corp-rat bankster welfare, and his blind allegiance to ethno-racist wackos in the theo-crazy of Israel, suggests this might be true.

Butt fear $not! The willfully ignorant Amerikan consumer citizens (a.k.a.: the corn-$yrup people) will probably replace Mr. Obama with President Jeb! (Bush). And Jeb’s VP choice will most likely be (once again) the glorious, right-$wingin’ vaginahh from Alaskahh!

Hurrah! We’re all saved! Let the bombing begin! And let it begin with a lone-wolf Joe Stack suicide bomber in the lobby of Goldman $acks!