A "Bush League President"?

Conservatives take heart! After viewing the mainstream Sunday morning talk shows it’s no wonder why conservatives get so pessimistic about the possible outcome of the 2010 election. However, after watching this weekend’s round of shows it became obvious that the Obama campaign is desperate and even the liberal-bias networks are beginning to feel the pressure. Meet the Press devoted most of their show to the 1st Anniversary of the Osama Bin Laden capture. Now we hear that everyone was opposed to it (Biden, Gates, Clinton, etc.) and our president made the courageous decision to go with the Navy Seals instead of a missile attack on the house, or doing nothing. You have got to be kidding! First of all, most of the people writing stories about that decision have no direct information from any of the participants, and Time magazine’s version of the account is not exactly what I would call objective given their track record.

We know that doing nothing was not an option; since our intelligence was 90% sure he was there. This would eventually leak out and would be suicide for Obama. Second, a missile attack on a town that housed the Pakistan military elite, and might cause peripheral damage, kill civilians, and be considered an attack on Pakistan, is not a particularly the low risk option. It would appear that what was done was a decision that you, me, or our military would have preferred. But now the Obama campaign says that Romney would not have done it! Just another indication of the desperation. Poor vs. rich, black vs. white, employer vs. employee, union vs. business, war against women, anything but focusing on the economy and Obama’s track record of spending us into the brink of insolvency.

Peggy Noonan had an excellent article this weekend in the Wall Street Journal entitled “A Bush League President”, in which she describes this president’s rather boring rhetoric, pandering to his special interests and emphasis on the small things with no vision for the future. She said “he lacks joy; he’s cool but lacks vigor. A lot of what he says could have been said by a president 12-20 years ago”. Noonan believes that Republicans should cheer up. She believes that this administration has no answers and when you add the GSA scandal, Solyandra, and a host of mistakes in the Justice and Energy Departments, day-to-day governance is essentially non-existent. It’s getting re-elected that only matters.

At this time in the election process Ronald Reagan was trailing the incumbent Jimmy Carter by 14 points and he won in a landslide. Romney and Obama are essentially even, and regardless of the power of an incumbent president and all that free exposure, it appears that the Republicans have the momentum, and Obama is desperately seeking a campaign theme, because he can’t run on his record. Take heart, a lot of surprises are ahead.