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DonCoquixote

(13,993 posts)
Thu Aug 23, 2012, 05:05 AM Aug 2012

Yet another reason why we cannot lose this election [View all]

Now, to all those who are angry at Obama, I really do hear you. At best, he has tried to re-do Clinton era centrism, when many people like myself voted exactly against that. But truth be told, there are reasons that we simply cannot let Romney/Ryan in.

I will not go over the obvious ones; the supreme court, the gutting of medicare and SS, the likelihood of war with Iran. Those have been discussed to death, and someone who was not moved by those arguments will not be moved now. Granted, the picking of Ryan should have laid to rest any idea that Romney would be a moderate, as he has shown he will buckle to pressure from the Tea Party.

However, let me offer you a whole new angle. Yes, we all know that Obama was about as Socialist as Bill Clinton, yes we know he did not try to go hard left, but we also know those in control of the narrative will not let that truth show. Even some of the folks on Huffpo, the Lynn Rothchilds, the Jon Huntsmans, speak of him as if he demonized big business, and that supposed demonization is why he failed. If Obama fails, the MSM will scream to the rooftops that he is TOO FAR LEFT. That of course will mean that the Democratic party will not embrace the Liz Warrens; the farthest left we may get is a Hillary Clinton that will NOT go left at all, but trot out Bill to show Wall Street and the Oil companies that they are in control. After all, Bill already tried to stop Obama from attacking Bain, or the pipeline that will pour swill into the Mississippi. The left will bulldozed out.

The only hope of progressives is to force America to realize that,no the sky does not fall when there is not a GOP in the Oval Office; then, as the banks continue being themselves, we can feed them the more progressive types, as they will have nothing else to eat. The GOP will also be forced to tamp down it's image, as a MITT collapse would be a complete fiasco for them.

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