I'm not kidding. I always knew that Douglas Schoen and Patrick Caddell were phony democrats but I didn't expect them to make me laugh that loud this morning.
As you know, Schoen and Caddell are on Fox News' payroll where they pretend to be democratic strategists on various shows from Hannity to the O'Reilly Factor. Patrick Caddell was a pollster and senior adviser to President Jimmy Carter while Douglas Schoen was a pollster who worked for President Bill Clinton. Don't forget that Dick Morris was also a Clinton's advisor (I think Clinton was depressed when he hired them).
You should never expect much from those 2 idiots. But today they reached a new level. In the Washington Post Editorial Page, Ruppert Murdoch's goons have a friendly advice to President Obama : Don't run for re-election if you want GOP to work with you.
It's not a joke. I'm dead serious. In fact, in their joint opinion piece, Douglas Schoen and Patrick Caddell begin by stating that "President Obama must decide now how he wants to govern in the two years leading up to the 2012 presidential election".
Then they went on to blast Obama for referring to Republicans as "Enemies" on the Campaign trail weeks ago. They didn't stop there cause they have to develop their point:
This is a critical moment for the country. From the faltering economy to the burdensome deficit to our foreign policy struggles, America is suffering a widespread sense of crisis and anxiety about the future. Under these circumstances, Obama has the opportunity to seize the high ground and the imagination of the nation once again, and to galvanize the public for the hard decisions that must be made. The only way he can do so, though, is by putting national interests ahead of personal or political ones.
To that end, we believe Obama should announce immediately that he will not be a candidate for reelection in 2012.
Did you follow the logic here ? For the good of the country and in order for him to get Republicans in Congress to work with him, President Obama should just quit and renounce to run for his re-election in 2012. I wonder if Douglas Schoen and Patrick Caddell gave the same advice to President Bill Clinton when in 1994 his party lost both the congress and the senate?
Or maybe, as Huffington Post's Jason Linkins suggested with irony " Yes. What a fine idea! Quitting on America, in the manner of a Sarah Palin, is sure to send a powerful message of leadership and responsibility. When the going gets hard, politically, go home. I'm stirred! Are you stirred?".
Yep look like Quitting is the new Leadership. You betcha.
If the president goes down the reelection road, we are guaranteed two years of political gridlock at a time when we can ill afford it. But by explicitly saying he will be a one-term president, Obama can deliver on his central campaign promise of 2008, draining the poison from our culture of polarization and ending the resentment and division that have eroded our national identity and common purpose.
I wonder of Eric Cantor helped those 2 idiot to write this. Cause this part reminds me of what Eric Cantor said last sunday. He said that Obama will be to blame if they shut down the government.
They aren't done yet.
We do not come to this conclusion lightly. But it is clear, we believe, that the president has largely lost the consent of the governed. The midterm elections were effectively a referendum on the Obama presidency. And even if it was not an endorsement of a Republican vision for America, the drubbing the Democrats took was certainly a vote of no confidence in Obama and his party. The president has almost no credibility left with Republicans and little with independents.
See democrats and their votes don't count. Only Republicans and independents.
Obama can restore the promise of the election by forging a government of national unity, welcoming business leaders, Republicans and independents into the fold. But if he is to bring Democrats and Republicans together, the president cannot be seen as an advocate of a particular party, but as somebody who stands above politics, seeking to forge consensus. And yes, the United States will need nothing short of consensus if we are to reduce the deficit and get spending under control, to name but one issue.
But the hilarious part of this amazing piece of crap remains this part, where Dumb and Dumber suggest that Mitch McConnell might be opened to work with President Obama if he doesn't run in 2012.
Forgoing another term would not render Obama a lame duck. Paradoxically, it would grant him much greater leverage with Republicans and would make it harder for opponents such as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) - who has flatly asserted that his highest priority is to make Obama a one-term president - to be uncooperative.
Of course !
I guess the compromise made on HCR, Financial Reform...etc, weren't enough for Douglas Schoen and Patrick Caddell.
Moreover, if the president were to demonstrate a clear degree of bipartisanship, it would force the Republicans to meet him halfway. If they didn't, they would look intransigent, as the GOP did in 1995 and 1996, when Bill Clinton first advocated a balanced budget. Obama could then go to the Democrats for tough cuts to entitlements and look to the Republicans for difficult cuts on defense.
Don't forget that Obama should start a new war to get Republicans to support his agenda :
On foreign policy, Obama could better make hard decisions about Iran, North Korea and Afghanistan based on what is reasonable and responsible for the United States, without the political constraints of a looming election. He would be able to deal with a Democratic constituency that wants to get out of Afghanistan immediately and a Republican constituency that is committed to the war, forging a course that responds not to the electoral calendar but to the facts on the ground.
Concerned trolls never give up :
If the president adopts our suggestion, both sides will be forced to compromise. The alternative, we fear, will put the nation at greater risk.
Yeah, we believe you.
Of course, they let us know that they believe that President Barack Obama can get re-elected in 2012 but that's not the most important for the country :
While we believe that Obama can be reelected, to do so he will have to embark on a scorched-earth campaign of the type that President George W. Bush ran in the 2002 midterms and the 2004 presidential election, which divided Americans in ways that still plague us.
Obama owes his election in large measure to the fact that he rejected this approach during his historic campaign. Indeed, we were among those millions of Democrats, Republicans and independents who were genuinely moved by his rhetoric and purpose. Now, the only way he can make real progress is to return to those values and to say that for the good of the country, he will not be a candidate in 2012.
At the end, they expose their doomed scenario if Obama run for re-election in 2012 :
Should the president do that, he - and the country - would face virtually no bad outcomes. The worst-case scenario for Obama? In January 2013, he walks away from the White House having been transformative in two ways: as the first black president, yes, but also as a man who governed in a manner unmatched by any modern leader. He will have reconciled the nation, continued the economic recovery, gained a measure of control over the fiscal problems that threaten our future, and forged critical solutions to our international challenges. He will, at last, be the figure globally he has sought to be, and will almost certainly leave a better regarded president than he is today. History will look upon him kindly - and so will the public.
See, the world would be saved if President Obama just decides to pull a Palin.