Romney’s is a benevolent patrician’s view of society: The poor are incorrigible, but let’s add a couple more groats to their food stamps and housing vouchers, and they’ll stay quiet. Aside from the fact that that kind of thinking has led the western world to near terminal insolvency, for a candidate whose platitudinous balderdash of a stump speech purports to believe in the most Americanly American America that any American has ever Americanized over, it’s as dismal a vision of permanent trans-generational poverty as any Marxist community organizer with a cozy sinecure on the Acorn board would come up with.

After half-a-century of evidence, what sort of “conservative” offers the poor the Even Greater Society?

Mitt Romney will be raked through the coals for his comments about not caring for the poor, but the deeper issue is that “safety nets” have helped create this mess. It’s not just the safety net for the poor, but it’s the safety nets for everyone. The nation is running a textbook example of moral hazard. If there’s no incentive not to fail what’s the incentive to succeed? Over the last 30 years consumption is up 50% among the very poor in the United States. Oh, to be poor in the United States of America in 2012! I believe in America!

The goal of any conservative should be to do things to encourage economic growth. Ultimately that helps the poor more than a safety net. If Mitt Romney’s idea of leadership it be a caretaker for a nation staggering towards insolvency then what’s the point in defeating the President? Obama’s policies will simply help us get to a dystopian Mad Max version of the state much faster. Let’s give Obama the second term that Jimmy Carter was never able to have.

It appears that Romney is trying to plot the same course to the White House that Obama used in 2008. The Romney strategy is to say nothing for the next ten months and hope the other guy is so unpopular that he wins by default. If Romney is unable to convey any kind of real message now why does anyone think he’ll be a good President? What is Romney’s big idea? What does he intend to do when he’s elected? I’ve been following this closely for months and I can’t tell you a single specific thing that Romney intends to do to solve our fiscal crisis.

What do I know about Romney? He likes to fire people, he believes in America, and he’s not worried about the very poor. Awesome!

Much will be written about head to head polls between Romney and Obama, but I’m here to tell you that they don’t matter. Ronald Reagan trailed Jimmy Carter by over 30 points six months before the election. President Obama trailed John McCain two months before the election. President Obama will be judged on his record and on the economy. Say what you want about Mitt Romney, but trying to brand him as an extremist will not work.

Mitt Romney is boring. He’s not quite as robotic and uncharismatic as John Kerry, Al Gore, or Bob Dole, but it’s not a stretch to compare him to those gentlemen. Romney is the steady hand. He’s the guy you call when everything else has failed. In other words, he’s the guy who will beat Obama if the economy doesn’t improve before November.

President Obama’s problem is that people have tuned out. Obama has no plan to make the economy better. He’s out of ideas. After all the adulation and all the grand speeches, what is Obama’s core conviction? Sure, the liberals still love him, but they loved Clinton. Democrats are a loyal bunch. It’s a collection of voter blocs. Give us your subsidies, affirmative action, unions, trial lawyers, hand-out recipients and those who’ve been brainwashed into believing that abortion is the ultimate civil liberty. The Democrats love to pat themselves on the back for their diversity, but no one is immune from the pandering hand outs. That is why the Democrats are fundamentally opposed to reducing the size of goverment.

If you reduce the size of goverment the Democrats would suddenly have issues with their voting base. Can any argue otherwise? How many people on food stamps vote for Democrats? Wouldn’t it bad for Democrats if any of the people dependent on the goverment could take care of themselves? So President Obama is out of ideas. If he allows pipelines, invests in real energy, or really reduces the size of the goverment he would be hurting his political party.

In the grand scheme of things far too many people are dependent on the goverment. It will be nearly impossible to roll back the tide. However, there aren’t enough dependents to keep Obama from losing. If gas prices go up over the summer Obama could lose in a landslide. The Republicans could have a super majority in the Senate. That would be the true test of our goverment. Would the Republicans have the guts to starve the beast? It will be very unpopular. Look how the union thugs in Wisconsin have behaved. Liberals and conservatives have very different ideas about the role of goverment. The reckoning is here.

I had hope that Obama would be a president that transformed the debate in the United States. Instead, he made things worse. He loves to talk about himself except when he’s blaming others. I don’t dislike the President. He seems like a nice guy. Most Americans like the 44th president, but that doesn’t mean they think he should continue.

Will Mitt Romney be any better? I doubt it, but could he be any worse?

I’m sure Republicans will be up in arms because they never ever want to cut defense. The entire budget needs to be cut and defense is one of those areas. But let’s be real: this President is a pandering coward with no real intention of reforming our nation’s budget. The fact is that we could eliminate our entire defense department and still be on the road to bankruptcy. Cutting defense is the only move a Democrat will make because it won’t hurt them with their voting bloc.

What is Obama’s plan to fix our fiscal nightmare? Raise taxes, subsidize companies going bankrupt and eliminate defense. That’s the reality. President Obama’s poll numbers aren’t great right now, but they’re not as bad as they should be. He could still get reelected. Obama has done nothing to address our fiscal crisis. He’s just stepping on the accelerator.

For over a decade I’ve marveled at liberals’ paranoia about people without health care and about climate change. It’s shocking because the biggest problem facing mankind isn’t health care or the weather. If the United States goes bankrupt the world with fall into a type of chaos that hasn’t been seen since the 1930s. Enjoy it while it lasts, America. The freeloading is almost over and you’re living on borrowed time, both figuratively and literally.

A nation divided against itself cannot stand. Right now half the nation pays taxes while the other half collects some kind of government assistance. President Obama doesn’t have to worry about repercussions from ignoring the Constitution because, frankly, people are either too ignorant, too apathetic, or too drunk on big government to care. How else can you explain a “recess appointment” when the Senate isn’t in recess? Here is what President Obama has to say for himself:

But when Congress refuses to act, and as a result, hurts our economy and puts our people at risk, then I have an obligation as President to do what I can without them. I’ve got an obligation to act on behalf of the American people. And I’m not going to stand by while a minority in the Senate puts party ideology ahead of the people that we were elected to serve.

Apparently President Obama is still confused about the oath he took (twice) on his inauguration. Here’s a reminder:

“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

Obama’s job is to “preserve, protect and defend” the Constitution. This is the type of action that wouldn’t have floated during the Bush administration. Blocking appointments is nothing new. I’ve written before how the Democrats blocked almost every appointment they could when Bush was president. President Obama was was once part of that minority. The hypocrisy of this president is maddening.

In the end I don’t blame the President. The natural course of every apathetic nation is to be ruled by despots. President Obama is a symptom of a much larger problem. If Obama thought anyone cared he wouldn’t dare make such a tyrannical move, but today he can simply say he’s “looking out for the little guy” and his growing constituency will applaud. In the George Lucas school of dying Republics that’s exactly how liberty dies. To the sound of thunderous applause.

Now we have a group of anarchists camped out all over the country. They’re not huge in number. They’re not winning the hearts of minds of the average American, but they have the sympathy of the left and the White House. It’s not surprising. Obama is friends with people who used to be in the Weather Underground and have an appetite for a New Left revival. The President went to a church for 25 years with pastor who blamed the United States for 9/11. The mainstream press that combed each Tea Party for nut jobs has remained silent at the violence and depravity of the Occupiers all over the country.

Isn’t it news that a protester pushed a police officer in front of a moving bus? The whole world is watching? Really? Where is the outrage at the sexual crimes at Occupy Wall Street? The politicians that are allowing this lawless anarchy to continue are cowards. This isn’t a peaceful group. If they are going to behave like animals it shouldn’t be allowed to continue. It would be in Democrats’ best interest to kill off this movement now. If this drags into next year it’s going to be an albatross around the party’s neck; 99 percent of Americans are sick and tired of OWS.

But I think you will bear with me if I don’t discuss these matters with you. Nothing would be more pleasant to me than to be able to tell you in detail everything that has taken place in the last 3 weeks, to tell you of the difficulties that have been plunged upon us by the situation in Europe, the endeavors we are making to meet them, but it would not be fair to the American people that I should start crosscurrents that are bound to rise from partial programs. So that I hope you will bear with me, and I have to bear with you.

This is not a game; this is not the time for the usual political gridlock. The problems Europe is having today could have a very real effect on our economy at a time when it’s already fragile. But this jobs bill can help guard against another downturn if the situation in Europe gets any worse. It will boost economic growth; it will put people back to work.

How strange that, 80 years to the day, the President of the United States discusses the troubles in Europe affecting the United States. President Obama doesn’t take Hoover’s course of keeping political discussions behind closed doors. Much of Obama’s opening statement is directed toward House Republicans for not voting on the bill. It’s odd since the Democratic controlled Senate hasn’t even started work on it.

President Hoover and President Obama share a common fate. Both are facing a grim prospects at reelection. Both were super popular when they were elected, but economic forces and failed government action led to malaise amongst the population.

A harmless dodo?

The next year should be fun to watch. The establishment in this country is living in denial. Obama supporters are seemingly unaware that unless there’s some kind economic miracle he’s headed for electoral disaster. It doesn’t matter who the GOP nominates. The election will be about the hapless President Obama. Check out this Politico piece by Roger Simon…

Cain is a genial, harmless dodo who thinks running a country is just like running a business. But it isn’t.

In business, your competitors rarely strive to develop nuclear weapons like Iran (a subject Cain knows almost nothing about). In business, rarely do your competitors have the capacity to clash in ways that could involve the armed forces of the United States, such as China with Taiwan or Israel with its neighbors (two areas of the world that Cain has demonstrated remarkable ignorance about). And in business, you don’t have to feed the hungry, house the homeless or heal the sick.

True, Cain is a man with a domestic plan. Unfortunately for him, it is an utterly hopeless one. Whatever the economic merits of his 9-9-9 plan, it is doomed to political failure because, among other things, it would have Americans give up something they like — their home mortgage interest deduction — for something they won’t like: a 9 percent national sales tax that would be levied on top of state and local taxes.

The only thing “remarkably ignorant” is Simon’s claim that Cain “a genial, harmless dodo.” Writers like Simon live in a delusion bubble. It’s a crowd of similar thinking cocktail drinkers who have spent the better part of the last six years telling us how great Obama is despite the fact he wasn’t qualified to be governor of any state or even manage a t-ball team, let alone the President of the United States. Polls have shown over the last month that GOP voters are satisfied with the current field. The only people who aren’t satisfied are people in the establishment.

Herman Cain’s biggest asset at this point is that he’s not a politician. It’s not like Cain fell off a turnip truck. He’s been a very successful businessman. In fact, Cain’s list of accomplishments is impressive. If he’s a dodo what is Roger Simon? It’s also odd that Simon attacks Cain’s economic plan as “utterly hopeless” when at least he has a plan. I guess I shouldn’t expect much from someone who thinks Obama “the greatest orator of modern times.” In 2007, the liberal press refused to do anything except carry Obama’s water. Barack Obama never said or did anything of any consequence. He simply existed.

Obama still exists, but now we are stuck with the train-wreck that is his administration. The chattering class may turn a blind eye on Solyndra and the ATF “fast and furious” debacle, but the American people are watching. If the choice comes down to Obama versus Cain it’s not even close. Obama speaks and says nothing and Cain speaks and says a lot. There’s no risk in electing a non-politician when the current head of state is inept.  People like Simon are going to be shell-shocked come November 2012.

Does anyone think the President Bush could have gotten away without having to comment about something like Hoffa’s slur? Faith in President Obama’s leadership is unraveling, but one has to wonder how much worse it would be if the press wasn’t in love with him.

President Bush received a never ending stream of negative press. What was going “wrong” in Afghanistan and Iraq was always headline news. It’s as if the wars ended the day Obama was sworn in. This has been the bloodiest year in Afghanistan since the war began, yet it’s not even news. The economy is in tatters and the President still blames Bush after spending over a trillion dollars. After receiving non-stop adulation from the mainstream media for four years how does Obama spin his way out of this? The American people have tuned it out. These are very strange days.

When Barack Obama ran for president in 2008 the media overlooked his relationship with a former member of the  Weather Underground and dismissed his twenty-year relationship to a psychotic pastor. The title of Obama’s book The Audacity of Hope was inspired by a sermon by Jeremiah Wright. Nevertheless, the press issued a pass and the world moved on. It was an amazing thing to behold. Barack Obama was one of the most unqualified people ever to be elected. There was literally nothing known about the man and yet the press failed to do its job because they were so enamored by his candidacy.

In 2008, the Obama campaign ran under the flag of hope and change. His administration was supposed to find common ground and bring the nation together. Three years later the nation is more divided than it has been in a generation. There is always someone else to blame for the nation’s problems. Obama blames the economy on his predecessor. He blames gridlock and partisanship on the GOP even though Democrats have enjoyed huge majorities for two years.

When Obama enjoyed large majorities he didn’t concentrate on the economy. The President decided that it was time to push a massive new entitlement through Congress. The hubris by Obama and the left has been amazing and virtually unprecedented, excepting Oedipus Rex. The nation is upset because the government is out of touch. When Medicare and Social Security were made into law they were popular from the onset. ObamaCare is still massively unpopular. Instead of dealing with this reality all I hear from the left is “death panels.” They still have no concept about rationed care. Two years of constant debate and the left still hasn’t learned anything.

After the tragedy in Arizona in January the left was quick to blame Sarah Palin for the attack even though no one knew the attacker’s motivation. When it turned out the guy was a sociopath that had no political leanings there was no apology and the myth lives on..

If the left is so passionate about extremism it’s time for them to call off the dogs. At an Obama campaign rally Labor Day event AFL-CIO leader Jimmy Hoffa said the following:

“We got to keep an eye on the battle that we face: The war on workers. And you see it everywhere, it is the Tea Party. And you know, there is only one way to beat and win that war. The one thing about working people is we like a good fight. And you know what? They’ve got a war, they got a war with us and there’s only going to be one winner. It’s going to be the workers of Michigan, and America. We’re going to win that war,” Jimmy Hoffa Jr. said to a heavily union crowd.

“President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let’s take these son of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong,” Hoffa added.

Not to be outdone Vice President Joseph Biden called Republicans “barbarians.” It’s really unbelievable stuff. Just a few weeks ago Biden was overheard calling Congressional Republicans terrorists. Will the White House apologize for this stuff? If there’s enough outrage I’m sure the White House will give a speech about it. That’s what this administration does well: talk. In January, Obama called for “civility” in public discourse and for people to talk “in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.”

Even if Obama is reelected the legacy of this administration is sealed. What could this President ever offer the American people at this point? He’s an ineffectual leader who only makes pretty speeches. The gig is up. No one cares anymore.

You can identify them by their fruit, that is, by the way they act. Can you pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Matthew 7:16

We’ve had three years of words that do not match actions. His administrations has fanned division instead of healing, Instead of solving problems he blames everyone else. The true test of the man came after his major accomplishment. When the United States killed Osama Bin Laden the President was quick to point out how he helped make it happen. Beware of a person who is quick to say “me” when things go well and quick to say “you” when things aren’t going well. That’s the legacy of President Obama.

It seems Obama is incapable of any kind of leadership. His only talent is making speeches devoid of any real significance. It’s as if he needs to remind people he’s the President. How could anyone forget? Obama has had his entire term to solve our economic problems. Wasn’t that what the stimulus was for? Why did Obama pass ObamaCare? That certainly didn’t help with economic uncertainty.

The whole administration is a mess. The administration of “change” is the most status quo administration in history. President Obama is so clueless he doesn’t realize that the entire country has caught on…  Why would we reelect this guy?