The no-holds-barred Democratic machine is
laboring overtime to come up with reasons voters should re-elect
President Barack Obama. He’s more likeable than Mitt Romney. The
presumptive GOP nominee is a right-wing extremist. The cool, hip Obama
has the women and youth vote locked up. In short, the White House
strategy is to talk about anything but the economy.
Democrats gleefully cite polls showing Americans
like Obama more than Romney. That harkens back to the 2004 race when
President George W. Bush was seen as the guy you have a beer with rather
than losing Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry.
But the economy was in good shape then, so it was
easy to vote for the affable frat boy Bush over the dour Kerry. With
unemployment above 8 percent for the longest time since the Depression
and the economic recovery limping along at the most anemic pace in
modern history, voters might reject the more popular guy in favor of the
sober, get-the-job-done executive who has economic home runs like
Staples and the Sports Authority on his resume.
To try to further paint Romney as less likeable,
the Democratic propaganda apparatus intends to use the long, divisive
GOP primary to label the former Massachusetts governor as a right-wing
extremist. That ploy might run into trouble with all that videotape of
Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum condemning Romney as “a Massachusetts
moderate.”
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