ABO: Anybody But Obama

Just when you start thinking you can back Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum comes along and rocks the boat.  After his Florida win, I was almost positive that Mitt Romney was about to take the nomination at last.  He took Nevada easily.  So, I suspected Santorum would give him a tough go of it in Missouri, Colorado and another I forget at the moment.  That gave Rick Santorum a sweep of three states.  Not many people expected that.  I sure as hell didn't expect it.  Santorum is the social conservative in the Republican nomination process.  I'm not sure how that will play out in a national election when jobs and the economy are of the utmost importance to people right now.  Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum are in a dead heat statistically nationwide right now.  So, it is still anybody's race.  My fear is that President Obama will get Rick Santorum.  I may be wrong.  But, Obama would easily beat Rick Santorum.  Mitt Romney is the only one who can give Obama a run for his money according to polls right now.

But, it doesn't really matter if it is Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich or the Barber of Seville.    I will vote for ANYBODY BUT OBAMA.  I suspect I am far from being alone in that sentiment.  Sure, unemployment is improving.  But, for some reason, the news media refuses to delve into why it is improving.  You know, like people that have given up looking for a job, people who can't file unemployment claims because their funds have been exhausted.  Things like that.  If this were George W. Bush, you damn well better believe the news media would dissect these improving numbers apart.  But, Obama gets a pass.  It is the news media and Hollywood's infatuation that turns off a lot of people toward Obama.  He is the Messiah, The Anointed One.  He is also an abject failure as a president.  If you bleeding heart liberals would open your eyes, you would see Obama is a miserable failure also.  But, you are all Obama Zombies.  So, I suppose you can be excused.  But, the rest of us can make up our own minds.  Conservatives, moderates, and independents will determine this election.  If conservatives get out the vote, Obama can be beaten.  Even Rick Santorum can beat Obama in my opinion.  Obama has wrecked this economy despite the continual blame on "W."  People aren't buying that excuse any longer. 

People are ready for a change.  This time true Hope and Change.  We do  not want the empty slogans of the Obama Cult this time.  It is time to break from the the Obama Great Socialist experiment.  It has failed.  Obamacare is falling apart thanks to lawsuits, Republican opposition, and the recent gift to Republicans, contraceptives on demand from churches.  Like so many people, I am tired of President Obama.  Anybody but Obama?  You damn right.  Even Hillary (gasp) Clinton if she was running for the Republican nomination at this point. 

Hillary Clinton Running for President in 2012?

There is something I have to say now.  It is something I never, ever thought I would say.  I wish Hillary Clinton was President.  Yes, as much as I have dissed her over the years, as much as I have called her a European style Socialist, I would vastly prefer Hillary Clinton as president far more than I ever would Barack Obama.  President Obama has proven time after time he is in over his head.  His disastrous Middle East policy, his policy of isolating our friends and placating our enemies, his fruitless and wildly unsuccessful economic policy has made me wax longingly at a Hillary Clinton Administration.  But, then I always wake up.  Hillary, while she would be more successful than Obama ever thought about, is in the same mode of believing big government is the cure-all for all of the ills of society.  The only difference, that I can see, between her and Obama is that Hillary would be slightly more competent as president.  The reason I bring this up, many people who voted for Obama over Hillary are suffering from buyer's remorse today.  No one, not even the Democrats, are buying into Obama's latest jobs plan.  At what point do you stop and realize that simply throwing money at a problem will not solve it?  None of the Democrats will ever admit to that.  Certainly not Obama and certainly not Hillary Clinton.

Of course, there is a lot of speculation that Hillary Clinton will resign as Secretary of State and run for President in 2012.   That would be the biggest shocker in U.S. politics since Truman beat Dewey. President Obama is a deeply unpopular president.  It has nothing to do with race despite his supporters trying to make it all about race.  It is about a man who seemingly always gets in his own way in his attempt to run this country.  Hillary Clinton, if she did choose to run, would absolutely divide the Democratic Party.  A divided Democratic Party would almost surely mean a Republican win in November of 2012.  While I believe Hillary Clinton has never given up her designs on the Oval Office (despite her protestations to the contrary), she abhors the idea of helping Republicans win the presidential nomination.  Still, the specter of a Hillary Clinton run for the 2012 Democratic nomination should not be swept aside.  Even feminists, who have long supported Obama, are wistfully hoping Hillary will run.  This should give some idea of just how unhappy the Democratic Socialists are today.

I do believe President Obama is in deep trouble for the 2012 Presidential election.  I do believe he is capable of pulling the proverbial rabbit out of the hat between now and November 2012.  I learned a long time ago to never underestimate liberals when it comes to something they really want (such as Obamacare for example).  Liberals will pull out every underhanded trick, legal or illegal, to get what they want.  The ends justifies the means with these people.  President Obama desperately wants to be reelected. He's going to do everything possible to see this happen.  But, a Hillary Clinton run for the Democratic Party's nomination would most assuredly end his chances of reelection.  For that reason alone, I see a run by Hillary Clinton for President in 2012, as just wishful thinking by disgruntled liberals.