Tuesday, October 09, 2012
The presidential race: Underrated vs. overrated
Some
are having a near nervous breakdown over Romney’s rising polls numbers and
Obama’s sinking prospects for re-election. Psychologically, I guess that’s what
you get when you habitually underestimate one candidate and totally
overestimate the other. …
Not
that I like the fact that Romney is surging. These days, I’m no big fan of the
‘conservative movement’ that Romney’s shamelessly pandered to over the past nine
long years. Yes, nine years. I mark the start of Romney’s overt bid to be
president to 2003, when he dispatched his Keystone Cops to California to help Arnie’s
campaign for governor, though some understandably argue Mitt’s been covertly running
for president his entire adult life. But one doesn’t have to respect his
principals, or lack thereof, to respect his will to power and campaign prowess.
He won the GOP nomination, for heaven’s sake, feigning this way and that,
out-right-winging the outright right-wingers, while leaving clear indications
his positions were nothing more than erasable Etch-a-sketch doodles, and now
he’s facing the most vulnerable presidential incumbent since Jimmy C, with
unemployment still hovering around 8 percent, and people are surprised that
this quasi-RINO, who won a gubernatorial race in the bluest of blue states by head
faking to the left and later nabbed the GOP nomination by head faking to the
right, is actually now doing well? … And don’t get me going about how Obama is
overrated. Though I voted for the guy in '08 largely as an anti-GWB gesture, I’ll only say: His knowledge about economics was pretty apparent
from the start.
