There is an essay written by Michael Oreskes, who is senior managing editor for U.S. news at The Associated Press that spells out the Republican fear of President Clinton. No big surprise here, the economy.
The Republicans are aiming at Biden because he has been a plus for Obama and is extremely well liked by those from both sides of the aisle where, from the lack of convention bounce, their choice of Ryan and his budget has been a complete fail. At their convention they had no former president to hold up as their shining example except for Reagan and even that did not go over very well:
Ronald Reagan, dead eight years, still managed to be a featured speaker at the Republican National Convention last week, appearing relentlessly in video after video. Mitt Romney sought to cloak himself in Reagan, to bask in the rays of an absent legend.
But when Barack Obama turns to his own party's political idol, he won't have to rely on digital smoke and big-screen mirrors. No tech will be required. The legend, Bill Clinton, will be standing right next to him.
The Republicans biggest fear is about to take the stage at the DNC and that is President Clinton. No one scares them more than Bill Clinton.
Enter Clinton, who, at a year older than Romney, can't really be the Comeback Kid anymore. But 12 years out of office, he is viewed favorably by 63 percent of white men, according to a Gallup Poll in July.
He took his party and his country on a roller-coaster ride, from Gennifer Flowers through impeachment. But looking back now, folks don't see scandal, said Richard Harpootlian, they see what happens to the economy when you give a Democratic president two terms.
Clinton may be credited with having the best political mind in the business but I would disagree. They went head-to-head in an election (when he was running Hillary's campaign) and good as the Big Dog is, look who won.
Clinton is often said to have the best political mind in the business. Obama's invite was in itself a kind of microtargeting at the biggest niche of voters, white guys. But Clinton's real strength is his ability to soar above the mechanics of politics, Lockman says, "dispensing with the microtargeting statistical approach and emphasizing the humanistic one."
Bring it on. There is no person in the Republican party that they can bring forward to counter Biden or Clinton.
I love the smell of Republican fear any time of the day or night. We must fight on until it becomes a stench that surrounds them and flushes out the rot and gives President Obama four more years.
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