Obama is Screwed
Noted prognosticator Bill Kristol, a man who has never, ever been wrong, says that no one in the current Republican field can beat Obama.
I think it’s time to start betting on the Republicans.
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Obama et.al might well be screwed if/when a dark horse emerges at the GOP convention.
no no, that would leave Kristol still being right, so that’ll never happen
Stopped clock syndrome.
Dark horse? Hm…lessee here. Bobby Jindal? Haley Barbour? Nah. My pick is Bob McDonnell!!!! We’ve never had a “President Bob”.
Fred Thompson?
Zombie Nixon?
Still rooting for Jimmy McMillan, who is an actual declared candidate for the Republican nomination and has awesome hair.
“We’ve never had a President Bob”. (Ha-ha-ha.. chuckling… [fade out]).
The GOP engineered the United States into a war in 2003– and got away with it.
Why anyone is disbelieving that the Outfit is incapable of engineering a dark horse candidate in 2012 is beyond me.
You hear that, people? They’re such geniuses that they actually managed to get the United States to go to war.
The United States! Think about the sheer engineering that must have taken: a mere 13 months after 9/11, these people managed to convince the United States to go to war, using nothing but the post-9/11 media, the Presidency of the United States, and control of Congress.
Clearly, there’s nothing they can’t do, if they can pull of a feat like that.
And they do it with such panache, do they not? The hits just keep coming.
Rose petals and chocolates for all!
Does the whole Gettysburg shtick mean that Kristol’s coming out as a Lost Causer, or is he just too lazy/stupid to make historical analogies that don’t romanticize treason in defense of slavery?
Those choices are far more both/and rather than either/or.
I suppose this means no plausible candidate for the Republican nomination is taking Billy Kristol’s phone calls?
Some believe that honest people were misled by faulty intelligence, and so the 2003 Iraq War came.
Others know better.
And still others both know that the sales job for the Iraq War was dishonest, and still don’t find it terribly impressive to be able to convince the United States to support going to war against Iraq a year after 9/11.
Don’t provoke him. The next stage is a litany of all the popular legislation Bush rammed through Congress in the teeth of determined bi-partisan support for it.
If they engineer an electoral victory against a President presiding over the worst economy in decades that’s not going to be really surprising either.
I incline to the stopped-watch theory, that Kristol is right by accident, but you have to wonder what he sees in it for him. Is he smart enough for a long game? Doubtful. So is it just that none of them will take his calls? Can it really be true that these candidates are that close to capable of intelligent calculation? I mean, they don’t seem to be. Really, the whole thing is a puzzlement.
I’d start getting worried if Andrew Sullivan said that.
Did you read Kristol’s column? Despite the gloss at The Raw Story, I don’t think he’s saying that no one can beat Obama next year.
Kristol wants to be Sarah Plain’s Prince, no? As in Machiavelli.
Thats what this is all about, now that the Pizza got burned. Palin riding to the rescue on a White Horse. Stopping Mitt.
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Am I the only one who thinks Bloody Bill lost his erection when the Snow Queen decided not to run?
Based on this, Obama is doomed!!!
Bill “Have You Ever Been Right?” Kristol is
America’s Nostradumnass!
He’s right. Watch the Senate, that’s where the big problem is. Obama has to hope for a wave to keep it,as crappy as it is. He might get one though, as we aren’t even IN the primaries and the Republicans are going insane.
The Senate’s gone-baby-gone. Look at the UK. People turned to a party in the depths of a recession that promised up front and publically to do things not only calculated to make things worse for the people voting for them, but had actually done those same things once before, and within the memory of the median voter.
They got to within a Nick-Clegg’s-ego-length of the finish line on it, too.
They got a plurality, the truth is that majority voted against them.
Old proverb: A broken clock is right twice day (once a day on European or military time). Lets give Kristol the same odds as a broken clock.
I prefer the bit about blind squirrels and nuts. Especially considering how many nuts are in this race.
I find his comparison of conservative reaction to the election of 1980 to the mindset of Southern boys on the eve of Gettysburg both disturbing and stupid. But mostly stupid.
This is just double-secret Straussian code speak. He’s really saying tha Cain is our next Overlord.
Its an attempt at the reverse jinx.
I’m waiting on the not-quite-but-nearly-so inevitable Bobby Jindal boomlet.
What I like is the way he takes a really rather powerful literary analogy and fucks it up by turning it around to recount a moment of triumph, rather than one of looming disaster. Hence, what is indicated is not a romantic adolescent desire to redeem defeat, but rather a nostalgic resistance to accommodating oneself to the present. But hey, where would conservatism be without that?
Just because Billy Kristol is wrong about all kinds of things doesn’t mean that he doesn’t know how to game the system. He knows that this may be the only way to get even a little bit of money from betting on Obama. Keep your money off the POTUS race and start betting on Joe Paterno’s forced retirement instead.
Oh ieeze. Wha’d he have to go and do that for?
Damn the man.
Isn’t there someone on our side who can fling out a counter-curse?