Elephant Rehash

With a sitting president with an approval rating just above Penn State's football coaching staff how did the Republican party manage to reelect him? To liberals Obama was a traitor, to conservatives a liar and to moderates he seemed out to lunch. 

Romney wasted his soundbites explaining that Obama was an honorable man just not up to the job and did nothing but convince unaligned voters that he himself had little integrity and would say anything to win. Romney wanted to be in front of the American people 24/7 and he wanted to hide. When asked about his taxes he asked about Obama's. When asked about Romney Care he criticized Obama Care. When asked about his defense policy he pointed to Obama's. 

Hey, we know Obama. Who are you?

His choice of unambiguous Representative Paul Ryan for VP only made Romney seem more suspect by contrast. He claimed that the government can't create jobs and that he would create 12 million jobs as president. He explained his 47 percent remark about as well as Clinton explained lying about the blow jobs. And finally, he wanted to put the nation's car manufacturers in the hands of lawyers and firms like Bain Capital.

Romney ran to the center after the primaries but he couldn't outrun the statements he made to win them. Most Americans don't make enough to owe the IRS. The word "taxes" only sends elephants screaming into the night. The Big Brother Government he lambasted was rescuing the northeast from the most powerful Atlantic storm ever recorded while his biggest supporter Governor Christie was praising the president for his interference and tyranny.

Almost everyone elected to Washington is part of the top 1% in terms of wealth and they like most Americans look out for their own. That's natural, that's democracy and that's American. But to listen to Romney and his wife recount how they struggled with only a million dollar stock portfolio while he attended Harvard seemed to most Americans a little out of touch. It's like he saying we only had a silver shovel to start out with but we turned it into a gold bulldozer.

Most Americans don't follow politics. Most vote with their gut. Both candidates put a microscope on their opponent and a magnifying glass on themselves. Since we knew Obama it appeared to be a contest between a flawed man and a slick ham. Didn't pass the mustard.

Don Arrup

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