re: #59 palomino

I wish I was as optimistic as you guys. Historically presidents don’t often get reelected when the economy sucks. And there’s little hope of a major recovery between now and late 2012…this is, after all, the worst recession by far since the Great Depression. I think a lot of voters who are suffering economically will just say, “Well, Obama had his chance and things haven’t gotten much better, so I’ll give the other guy a chance, even if he’s a little extreme.” That’s not a particularly intelligent way of looking at it, but our electorate isn’t necessarily all that bright.

The thing is, Obama is no Jimmy Carter or GHWB, and no one on the R side is Ronald Reagan or Bill Clinton. Pointy Boots has the shit to take the R nom, but in the general, he will scare the fuck out of the I’s.

The thing is, the rest of the Rs are going to try to portray him as Too Conservative, which is hilarious because, except for Huntsman (to a small degree), they have all been galloping to the far right.

He’s got ‘em by the short rabbits (an actual subtitle I saw in a Hong Kong hop’n’chop movie).