I Can Guarantee Re-election for President Obama


[This was written in November of 2009.  Although directed at President Obama for effect, it's really (mostly) a menu for conservatives and Republicans to follow in their campaigns to defeat him.  Several more excellent ideas were provided by readers in the comments.  There were plenty more specific suggestions that went unsaid.

The key to it all is that Fiscal Conservatism Gets Votes! And so far, that's been validated in New Jersey, Virginia and Massachusetts. Even Obama has tried to salute both nuclear power and a budget freeze, but not in a believable way.]

He only needs to take a few simple steps.  It’s easier than cutting out cigarettes.

  • Make an immediate decision on General McChrystal’s request for at least 40,000 more troops for Afghanistan.  For re-election purposes it almost doesn’t matter what the decision is, because his dithering is the obvious problem.
  • Announce that he will veto any health-related bill that will increase government spending AT ALL.  That is, not just “paid for,” but it may not have ANY cost.
  • Immediately terminate disbursements from the stimulus package.  If it hasn’t been promised, don’t promise it.  If it can remain unspent, don’t spend it.
  • Order his “czars” to wind up their work within six weeks, without spending any money.  (No need to drag things out to Christmas.)
  • Set up a schedule for the recipients of TARP money to repay their loans.
  • Set up a schedule to dispose of all government owned stock in GM, Chrysler, and any other “private” companies (not including retirement plans, of course).
  • Instruct Congress to make the Bush tax cuts permanent.  Include a reduction in business taxes.  Keep capital gains taxes at current rates.  Announce that he intends to make it all permanent.
  • Scrap the latest budget.  Cut spending.  Cut the deficit.  Cut deficit projections as a result.  Create a new budget with a much lower spending total.
  • Most important, he must announce that he recognizes the economic danger posed by expansion of government and expansion of deficits and national debt.  He must unequivocally state that he will veto any attempt to increase non-Constitutionally required budget items during his term in office and that he will turn down spending programs of any kind, including stimulus plans, even those that are directed at propping up state governments.  If he institutes a budget “freeze,” so much the better.

If he takes these steps, the economy will turn on a dime, we’ll be booming by 2012, and he’ll easily achieve re-election.


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That was easy!

Bill S (Diary) Monday, November 2nd at 7:27PM EST (link)

“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins

GC also highly reccos - the staff of flag flies high - nt

Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Tuesday, November 3rd at 1:30PM EST (link)

Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

Heck, if he did this I'd vote for him myself... twice!

roscopico (Diary) Tuesday, November 3rd at 9:39PM EST (link)

Where’s the nearest ACORN office?

But does that mean no money from the “Obama Stash?”

Im Himmel gibt’s kein Bier…

 
 

So in other words...

farstar99 (Diary) Tuesday, November 3rd at 4:53PM EST (link)

…if he does all the stuff he “promised” during the campaign?

Too late.

According to the latest polls, at least a quarter of the idiots who voted for him now get who he really is.

Let's hope those polls are right

Flagstaff (Diary) Tuesday, November 3rd at 6:08PM EST (link)

and those people are still awake in 2012.

“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964

 
 
 

If he did all that...

itrytobenice (Diary) Monday, November 2nd at 7:29PM EST (link)

*I’d* probably vote for him.

But don’t you know some Code Pink Wacko sorts would swallow their tongues.

Proper grammar saves lives.

Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.


Activists Taking Action: Unified Patriots

 

Or better yet...

regent2009 (Diary) Monday, November 2nd at 7:29PM EST (link)

1. Keep using the Federal budget as a personal checking account to bribe voters and the leaders of identity based politics.

2. Treat political opponents as criminals while threatening to prosecute members of the Bush administration for defending America.

It may work for another few years. But be it 2012 or 2016, the Christian and CONSERVATIVE voters will see through the nonsense.

“I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won’t have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them. What a happy day that will be!,” Jerry Falwell

 

Thats all well and good,

gekster (Diary) Monday, November 2nd at 7:36PM EST (link)

but that would make him a conservative.
Wouldn’t it?

They say Republicans are for the rich, Democrats are for the poor.
If they need more voters,
then they have to make more of who they are for.

We are there in the various Tea Party groups, leaderless, but not rudderless.
We steer always toward the Constitutional principles this nation was founded upon.
Erick Brockway

Ok folks, 2012 is here. Get involved

We'd have a dilemma then, gekster.

penguin2 (Diary) Monday, November 2nd at 7:54PM EST (link)

An interesting one. Only problem, the social conservative issues are not addressed. Though if he took the above actions it would keep us from losing any further ground.

Good one Flag. Did you see my remark for you to write up your moderate comment into a diary. I think it could go just as is! :)

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. – Benjamin Franklin
When Good stands up to Evil, Evil blinks. – Vassar Bushmills

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Activists Taking Action: Unified Patriots

Yes it is.

gekster (Diary) Monday, November 2nd at 8:03PM EST (link)

I’m wondering if his heart would rip itself out of his body if he did those things.
Surly his head would spin around, and then spew Pea soup

They say Republicans are for the rich, Democrats are for the poor.
If they need more voters,
then they have to make more of who they are for.

We are there in the various Tea Party groups, leaderless, but not rudderless.
We steer always toward the Constitutional principles this nation was founded upon.
Erick Brockway

Ok folks, 2012 is here. Get involved

 
 
 

I'll change from R to D, vote for Obama, and proclaim that D's Big tent is American Dream come true.

Rod_Patrick (Diary) Monday, November 2nd at 8:43PM EST (link)

But it’s a far-fetched Dream, don’t you think?

Entonces … Obama’s reelection is IFFY.

Back to reality: OPPOSE CAP n’ TRADE, Another Stimulus, Obamacare, Abandoning Afghanistan, tsk tsk tsk …. and DoubleSpeak in Middle East.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOBAMA!

I meant to include Cap and Tax specifically.

Flagstaff (Diary) Monday, November 2nd at 11:01PM EST (link)

I was working without a net and it got left out, even though it’s covered in general by the final bullet point.

“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964

 
 

No good Marxist would/could do all that

izoneguy (Diary) Monday, November 2nd at 9:48PM EST (link)

and that is the problem for our Marxist in chief…..

I think that Obama would give up breathing before he would be forced to give up his Marxist Merit Badges.

The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.

 

I'd be happy if we got a REPUB to committ to all that

E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Monday, November 2nd at 10:38PM EST (link)

We’re pretty safe here. I doubt the Bambster will do a single one of those. I doubt if Bush or McCain would bat better than .500 either.

Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO

5^5

The_Gadfly (Diary) Thursday, November 5th at 6:44AM EST (link)

I was thinking the exact same thing for a title.

 
 

You are right, of course, all of you.

Flagstaff (Diary) Monday, November 2nd at 11:09PM EST (link)

But if he DID those things, I think he’d be a pretty sure bet for re-election, because he’d be more conservative than W was, and he’d still get half his liberal voters. Change his direction on those nine points and Cap and Tax, and he could carry 50 states in 2012.

What an effing waste of charisma.

Goes to show you that looks aren’t everything, no matter what Billy Crystal has Fernando Montalban say.

“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964

If he would also reduce government regulations esp incl those related to oil drilling, nat gas exploration,

Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Tuesday, November 3rd at 8:51AM EST (link)

and those inhibiting the building of nuclear power plants maybe he could get my … nah, I still wouldn’t trust him.

I see no charisma. I see a slick oil salesman, that is transparently arogant to me, i.e. a liar. The only way he redeemd himself in my eyes is a mea culpa in which he denounces his past and the democratic party, resigns and runs for state senator as a republican!

Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

Also true.

Flagstaff (Diary) Tuesday, November 3rd at 2:09PM EST (link)

If I’d thought of it, I’d have added a “fantasy island” tag to the piece.

The truly impossible thing he’d have to do is to become a different person. It’s possible for some, on some level, but not for him as President.

Yet my diary stands, because if he DID all those things, the economy would be healed and it would be obvious to all. New slogan: Barack “The Healer” Obama. Wait a minute–wasn’t he supposed to heal the div-eye-siveness in the country?

Hope and Change just isn’t working for me.

“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964

 

I should have added

Flagstaff (Diary) Tuesday, November 3rd at 2:11PM EST (link)

Drill, Baby, Drill!

and

Nuclear Power for Everybody (not just the Iranians)!

“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964

 
 
 

I'd turn blue holding my breath

redpens (Diary) Tuesday, November 3rd at 11:23AM EST (link)

before the Community Organizer-in-Chief would do that kind of 180

 

Obama steps down after righting all wrongs!

njre Tuesday, November 3rd at 1:05PM EST (link)

If obama does all that, he will probably humbly step down because he is not constitutionally eligible! Remember he is a consititution law professor? A constitution law professor cannot possibly violate the constitutional provision to usurp the presidency, right?
Wow, Obama does all the right things! Even if we beg him to stay as the prersident he won’t because he is too honorable! Heeeeehau!

njre check this out
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h ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpQlTN9kgfo

That is the logical consequence of

Flagstaff (Diary) Tuesday, November 3rd at 6:12PM EST (link)

what he’d have gone through.

And we’d have had our first Buddhist President, I think.

“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964

 
 

What a lovely common-sense fantasy, Flagstaff.

janis (Diary) Wednesday, November 4th at 9:37AM EST (link)

And OH! how I’d love to see the tingle that would positively electrocute Chrissy Matthews should Obama do even half of those things. And as for Olbermann, Keef would cry all his pancake makeup off and be left looking like the clown he is.

And let’s not even imagine what Madame Botox would look like at the news that the POTUS was going to do all this stuff. On second thought, let’s imagine exactly that for grins and giggles.

If I do say so,

Flagstaff (Diary) Wednesday, November 4th at 9:03PM EST (link)

Fred Barnes said something very similar to this diary on Special Report this afternoon.

President Obama knows how he can win back independents. I’ts very simple. All he has to do is change his policies completely on spending, on the deficit, on taxes, and on health care. If he did that… It’s a simple solution.

Then he smiled.

“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964

 
 

This wouldn't get him re-elected.

jeffreywturner (Diary) Wednesday, November 4th at 10:26PM EST (link)

Remember, he would have to win the nomination of his party first, and the above actions would make that impossible.

“Life is too short, can’t we all just eat pork and kill some terrorists?”

 

while he is at it he could morph into Ronald Reagan

kyle8 (Diary) Thursday, November 5th at 6:52AM EST (link)

You see, it is metaphysically impossible for him to do those things. Just as soon expect the lion to lay down with the lamb or the leopard to change his spots.

“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle

 

On Obama becoming a Conservative? Time to break out my favorite Ghostbusters quote:

H (Diary) Thursday, November 5th at 5:13PM EST (link)

[Ray Stantz]: “What he means, sir, is Old Testament situations. Real Wrath-of-God-type stuff! Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies… Rivers and seas boiling…”

[Egon Spengler]: “Forty years of darkness, earthquakes, volcanoes…”

[Winston Zeddemore]: “The dead rising from the grave!”

[Peter Venkman]: “Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!”

 

LOL-Then it's safe to assume that Obama...

Dave Friday, November 6th at 11:52PM EST (link)

…will be in deep dog-squeeze come 2012, cause there ain’t no way he is going to do any of that.

-Dave

Our elected representatives have failed us.