A few months ago, Dr. Walter Williams wrote a column saying that Obama cannot be defeated in 2012, regardless of who the Republican challenger is. Unfortunately, I have to agree. Williams noted the economy won’t matter because Obama will simply spend $1B in campaign money to convince us that it’s not his fault, since things were much worse than we understood when he took office. The majority of liberals, Democrats, Independents, union members, minorities, women, and special interest groups will vote for him simply based either upon his race, charm, inspiration, and convincing speeches, or upon the fact that they won’t vote for a Republican. Not only that, but his coattails will reach far enough to retain the Senate, and perhaps to regain the House.
Well, due to the events of the past few months, a few other factors can be added to this argument:
– Obama brought the troops home from Iraq (even though he had little choice), fulfilling a campaign promise.
– Obama got Osama Bin Laden, something they’ll say that Bush couldn’t do in eight years.
However, I believe that there are even more compelling (and ironic) arguments why Obama will be reelected. We now have 46 million people on Food Stamps, 50 million collecting Social Security benefits, 13 million collecting unemployment, and millions more receiving Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, Disability, government pensions, and farm subsidies; and, nearly half of us pay no federal income tax. The vast majority of these people support for Obama, just so he’ll keep those monthly checks coming in. That’s well over half of the people in the country–over 150 million people, and it takes only 50 million to win. In other words, the people collecting money from the government now outnumber the ones paying for all of this with their taxes.
Obama has us so dependent upon the government that we don’t want to rock the boat. We assume that our national debt doesn’t matter, and that the government will always find a way to write us that monthly check. We’ve decided that unemployment is a good thing, since the government pays us when we’re unemployed. So, who cares how high unemployment is? We pay no taxes, but we get money from the government, so who wouldn’t want this system to continue?
I believe that we have reached the point of no return. Our debt is out of control because there are too many of us collecting money from the government, and too few of us paying taxes. I now truly believe that we will reelect Obama, and then decline into being a bankrupt third-rate nation in just a few short years.
How can Obama be defeated? I see only two ways, but I don’t think they will happen: 1) We could have a low voter turnout because His supporters will be complacent enough not to vote (while Tea Party folks do vote). 2) The money that he spends on ads will backfire, causing people to get tired of him.