President Obama likes to tell us that the Republicans are offering no new ideas to help solve the problems of the country. I offer two points in response:
First, a look at this campaign of Obama’s and that of the failed presidency and re-election campaign of Jimmy Carter offers a lot of parallels….
Consider for example, Jimmy Carter on Energy:
Tonight I want to have an unpleasant talk with you about a problem unprecedented in our history. With the exception of preventing war, this is the greatest challenge our country will face during our lifetimes. The energy crisis has not yet overwhelmed us, but it will if we do not act quickly.
It is a problem we will not solve in the next few years, and it is likely to get progressively worse through the rest of this century.
We must not be selfish or timid if we hope to have a decent world for our children and grandchildren.
We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now, we can control our future instead of letting the future control us.
Two days from now, I will present my energy proposals to the Congress. Its members will be my partners and they have already given me a great deal of valuable advice. Many of these proposals will be unpopular. Some will cause you to put up with inconveniences and to make sacrifices.
The most important thing about these proposals is that the alternative may be a national catastrophe. Further delay can affect our strength and our power as a nation.
Carter went on to say it was a crisis, that we were running out of oil and gas. Of course, it wasn’t true. We’re sitting on more energy here in these United states than the rest of the world combined. Trouble was, and is, that governmental controls prevented us from accessing them.
And of course Carter told us it was a crisis… one that only additionally draconian governmental controls could solve…a clear and infantile attempt to stop us from objecting.
The result of Carter’s energy policy, and of course his redistribution tax policies, was a stalled economy, the likes of which hadn’t been seen since FDR… who also was a redistributionist. You see, Carter doesn’t believe in the free market and individualism any more than FDR or Obama.
Secondly, Ben Franklin used to say that the definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over and hoping for a diff
erent result. So, with that in mind, consider; one data point, doesn’t make a trend. Two data points ought to get anyone with a brain to sit up and take notice. Three data points, should have had us as a nation howling… and should have left a sour taste in the mouths of the American voter for the likes of Bill Clinton and LBJ, as well. The fact is, every time the left has had it’s way and attempted to inflict it’s nonsense on the American people, it’s resulted in a failing economy. It failed every time. And yet they keep trying.
So, now, we find ourselves in a situation not unlike that of 1980, where we have a failed liberal President, who, like Carter did back in the day, is telling us that the opposition doesn’t have any new ideas. Irony of course is, that the “New Ideas” are taken directly from FDR’s New Deal, which in turn, is from Marx. As with Carter, gas prices are skyrocketing.
Bonus point; Does anybody remember the 2008 campaign were Obama was constantly hammering on bush to the gas prices? The claim that the time was that bush and Cheney were profiting from overly large prices. funny how that claim is disappeared.
These price spikes of course are independent of the fact that whereas the oil companies are making on the order of the nickel a gallon, the government is making on the order of a $1.75/gal. The prices are a direct result of governmental intervention into the free market, and are a major sticking point to our economic recovery. But Obama won’t deal with that. Like Carter and FDR before him, he doesn’t believe in freedom, 
Doesn’t believe in the free market, and certainly will never cut taxes. Nor will he releases stranglehold on the energy companies. He’s declared war on coal nd oil and natural gas, and has dumed billions into companies like Solyndra under the guise of “Green Energy”, when in fact these expenditures are no more than thinly disguised political payoffs.
If there’s anything that surprises and angers me about all of this it’s that anyone considers he has a serious chance of being reelected after this degree of failure. Then again, I suppose they considered that Carter had a reasonable chance of being reelected, as well. I suspect the anger of the American people over all of this, and their observation of this trend I’ve spoken of will provide Obama with a rather Carteresque exit from the political scene… a totally discredited figure, with totally discredited ideas.
It’s at the very least going to be a hard sell for Obama to tell us that we as individuals are better off than we were four years ago. It’s certainly a question that they’re trying to avoid lately.
The trouble is, these leftist ideas keep popping up even after having been so completely exposed as the fraud they are. You’d think after Carter, we’d have figured that out, but I suppose that’s why Thomas Jefferson told us to be forever vigilant. (It’s a constant wonder to me that the Democrats hold Jefferson an icon of the party to this day, when their positions on issues run so very much afoul of everything Jefferson stood for.)
All that said, I suppose us to be heading for a landslide of Reaganesque proportion, come November. I’d have been happier about it had we had an acual Regan conservative in the top spot… and I would include Ryan in this. But if I judge the mood of the majority of the country correctly I suspect that the big mouse down in Florida with the high voice is perceived by most as having better capabilities of running this country that our current president.
You see, the American people know we’re not better off than we were when Obama assumed office. Not at home, and not in the world. They see clearly, given the polling we’re seeing, that we’re teetering on the edge. Further, it’s quite clear that without a change in policies, our situation is only going to get worse.
See, that’s the real issue… what happens now. Certainly, the question of where we are now, in relationship to where we were is a huge question… and one the Obama people don’t want asked. But the larger question is what of the future, if the current trends are not reversed?
The Democrat’s big problem is that the American people already know the answer to that question.that an exciting and among the left is palpable.
There seems little doubt with way this one’s going to go to come November.
