I'm still amazed how many conservatives seem surprised by Obama the politician, and by politician I mean shameless liar, self promoter, schemer, manipulator, fantasist, whatever - I've called him a horrible president, atrocious leader, but a superb confidence man willing to say or do anything in order to promote the thing he loves most, himself - well, truth is I've never quite figured out where the lines are drawn - is he a true believer in the leftist agenda or is the agenda just a convenient prop servicing his ego? Dunno - I suspect some combination of the two but leaning more to the latter than the former - I suspect he figured out quite early in life that he had the skill set and inherent attributes needed to inspire white uber liberals to fervently jump through hoops for him, and he's exploited this talent to its fullest. I mean, the guy wrote two god awful books about himself before he'd actually even done anything - why would a person do something like that? Personality disorder? Ego run wild? Or was it that he knew exactly how to manipulate the pathetic naivety of the white uber liberal? Read 'Dreams of My Father' - left wing screed spewing hatred for Western civilization or cleverly crafted manipulation of the effete white liberals he needed to promote his career? I'm tellin' ya, absolute disaster of a president, superb con man.
And Romney will not beat him unless he and his team fully understand how ruthless and cunning the man is when it comes to protecting his own political fortunes [remember how he cynically used and then callously cast aside the abominable Rev Wright when it suited his needs] - I've always said the only thing he's ever shown himself to be any good at is getting elected - governing he sucks at, but selling his brand to the naive and foolish? Easy. The race is gonna come down to a relatively few votes in a handful of swing states because we know that 90% of the electoral college is already settled and it favors Obama - add to that him having the power of the Oval Office to influence events, his absolute willingness to lie and shamelessly manipulate things to his advantage and the fact he can count on the press to play along and you can see how Romney is gonna have to run a very smart and aggressive campaign and then probably hope for a bit of luck. I mean, hell, just look at the NY Times this morning - complete fuck up in China over the blind dissident and bam! they roll out the race card - an entirely bull shit story on how some whites still reluctant to vote for a black guy [and this when many conservatives are calling for Condi Rice as the VP choice] - this just a farce of a story, meaningless aside from it's true purpose of pulling out the race card to divert attention from the fiasco in China. For the liberal press Obama is an ideal they will not relinquish or stray far from, no matter what - close to meaningless for them his performance as president, especially now that the fight is on - they deny him, they deny themselves.
Which is why more and more I think Christie has to be the VP choice - to defeat Obama and the media confederacy aligned behind him you're gonna need someone who the media cannot ignore, and just as important, someone who, when the media misrepresents something he or Romney says, can fight back in a way Americans will appreciate and find appealing, be drawn to - bad Palin memories seem to be pushing people towards a safe choice, increasingly I'm feeling that would be a mistake. I still have to hear more from Ayotte and Nikki Haley because, all things being equal, I'd prefer to see a woman on the ticket - but right now I'm leaning to Christie.
