A primary challenge against Obama – too good to be true?
Before President George H.W. Bush lost to Bill Clinton in 1992, he had to beat back Pat Buchanan in the GOP primaries. Before Jimmy Carter lost to Ronald Reagan in 1980, he faced Ted Kennedy in the Democrat primaries. And just four years before that, Carter defeated Gerald Ford – but not before Ford had to face Ronald Reagan in the primaries.
Since the adoption of direct Presidential primaries, every incumbent President who has lost his re-election bid first faced a primary challenge. Despite skyrocketing unemployment, ballooning national debt, outrageous energy prices, and more broken promises than we can count, the defeat of Barack Obama in 2012 has been made more daunting by his seemingly unchallenged walk to his party’s nomination.
But it’s starting to look that might not be the case. A group of liberals, including Ralph Nader and Cornel West, has said that they are dedicated to fielding a primary challenge to Barack Obama. Their stated goal is to get Obama to swing left on issues from labor to foreign policy.
Don’t tell Ralph Nader, but if he can make Obama take positions outside of the mainstream in order to appeal to crazy, liberal primary voters, he’ll be doing the rest of America a HUGE favor in November 2012.
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We had better pray they don’t run a candidate against Obama. The uber leftists/communists/socialists LOVE Dennis Kucinich, Alan Grayson (running again in Fl), Hillary Clinton (further left than Obama, part of the Shadow Party with Soros/Harold Ickes). The Democratic Socialists wanted candidates in this order: 1. Dennis Kucinich 2. Bill Richardson (suprised?) 3. Barack Obama. The ONLY reason they fully backed him was Obama is from the New Party (communists) and was an eloquent speaker that was able to “draw the masses”
Good thinking. Good writing. Thanks.
While we’re talking, see if you can find a way to banish the little tri-colored insignia in the upper left hand corner of the frame that’s supposed to show a picture and show the picture.
Your exellent writing on “green” power was set back a little by not having the pictures of the boiler or heat exchanger shown. Whoever is causing that should please stop it.