Is Obama betting on the fact that the Ruthug candidate (whoever it will be) will be so repulsive

[jorno67]

that he will still get the Left's vote?

[HopeHoops]

1. The GOP field is ENTIRELY repulsive.

Unless they find a Buzz Lightyear or something, they're fucked.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

2. He must be a very hopeful kind of guy. nt

[polichick]

3. Maybe he doesn't care if he's reelected - but I do think he takes liberal votes for granted.

[yourout]

4. Yes....and it's a very dangerous game he is playing.

[Enrique]

5. he's betting it's Romney

and so he's trying to be as much like Romney as possible so Mitt doesn't have anything to run against.

[BillStein]

8. Or that Romney will lose

Because the fundies won't vote for a mormon?

[Zorra]

6. Maybe he doesn't care if a republican gets elected.

Maybe getting a republican elected was the plan all along. It sure seems that way.

A total set up: Democrats were so desperate to get rid of Bush/republicans they would vote for a skunk if it had a D after it's name.

Corporations marketed Obama, the susceptible fell for it, and *voila!* here we are.

We get a republican with a D after their name, or a republican with an R after their name.

A corporatist by any other name is still a corporatist.

[ladjf]

7. It looks like to me that both parties are doing everything possible

to lose the Presidency. nt

[PoliticAverse]

9. I think he's trying to solidify the center vote. n/t

[TDale313]

10. I agree, but

I think this is a huge miscalculation. I don't think he'll get brownie points from ANYONE for reaching across the aisle to "tackle entitlements".

[PoliticAverse]

11. We'll find out in under 2 years... n/t

[jorno67]

12. yeah, but is the center really that far right?

or is it just that the squeaky wheel gets the grease...

[Vogon_Glory]

13. A Republican Win Would Likely Crash The Economy

I have come to believe that a Republican win would likely crash the US economy, and I'm more of a Lloyd Bentsen-type Democrat than I am a proper progressive-DU'er. This year's been horrible so far and the thought of the Republicans obtaining the Senate and retaining the House plus PRESIDENT MICHELLE BACHMANN is an open invitation to send the US economy down through the tubes.

[jorno67]

14. It's scary to see "PRESIDENT MICHELLE BACHMANN" typed out like that

please give warning before you do that again!

[Vogon_Glory]

21. I Think It's Scary, Too

I think it's scary, too. So scary that despite the fact I'm angrier at President Obama than I was at Bill Clinton (for his policies, not his apparently impeccable and commendable private life), I'll be campaigning for the President next year--because the alternative is immeasurably worse.

Cheer up. A first fright gives us something to fight against.

:dem:

[GSLevel9]

17. I don't see it that way...

I think the corporate robber-barons would re-fire the engines of corporate profit when they know their cohorts are in the WH

[Vogon_Glory]

18. I Don't See the Robber Barons As That Foresightful

I don't see the corporate robber-barons as being that foresightful (Maybe it's because I went to school with some of the ones from Dallas and I don't think they're quite that smart). I think we got a nasty pre-view of what conserva--nomics would be like in practice while Buckaroo Bush was in the White House. Most people's incomes stayed pretty flat, and the way they were able to preserve their lifestyles was through borrowing at interest to buy things their parents could buy through the money they saved. Millions of Americans ran out of money and credit when the housing boom crashed, and I suspect that thanks to "conserva-nomics" "reforms" like the credit-card modification to the bankruptcy laws, many of them are likely to remain in debt a long time.

If Bachmann wins and the Republicans take control of both Houses of Congress, we're likely to see a much-shrunken, much-poorer lower middle class and a much larger percentage of proles--without the tools of social mobility that their ancestors had even before the Great Depression.

There maybe an economic uptick eventually, but Americans as a whole will be much poorer than their central and western European counterparts.

[Brickbat]

15. Well, his supporters certainly seem to think that's the best campaign slogan for the 2012 election.

"He makes you mad? Well, PRESIDENT BACHMANN!!1!!11"

[fascisthunter]

16. I could care less what political motivations he has

he's fucking screwing this country...

[Rex]

19. No he knows he has this election in the bag.

Otherwise why would he piss off so many of his constituents?

[Blasphemer]

20. If so, he is severely miscalculating.... nt

[Raine]

22. That's what he *thinks* but it's a stupid tactic. nt