The thing that really stinks is that ‘things would suck worse without Obama’ is all she has to work with.  God forbid a Democratic POTUS have the backing of his party, with one half denouncing his jobs plan as insufficiently progressive while the other half bitches about how mean the plan is to hedge fund managers and ‘job creators’.

‘Things would suck worse without Obama’ may be the only message that Dems have to work with next year, but I have a feeling it will work a lot better than expected, even against Whitey’s Savior Candidate, the Magic Mormon Millionaire Who Calls Himself Middle Class Mitt.

No, Dear Readers, we haven’t absconded with the Rumproast Google ad fortune—we’re all just really busy at the moment because we are PRODUCTIVE JOB CREATORS

Strange got roaringly drunk again and spilled whisky all over the servers, didn’t he?

@ HG—I agree about the messaging, but I’m hoping the president (and DWS and other non-suck Dems) frame it as more of a Trumanesque “Do-Nothing Congress” and Dems against Wall Street greed dealio rather than “the economy has turned the corner” or anything that can be remotely construed that way.

You know, I’ve been torn between hoping the Repubs nominate some hard-right, god-bothering fetus fetishist (in hopes that he or she can’t get elected) or Multiple Choice Mittens, who is just pretending to be a batshit insane SoCon and fooling nobody (in hopes that if, god forbid, he wins, he won’t be as bad as someone like Palin, Perry, Bachmann, et al). But I take your point about Faux-Middle Class Mittens If it’s to be a 1% vs 99% theme, you really couldn’t find a better specimen to represent Corporate Greed than Romney. He lacks only a monocle…

@ HB—Busted!

“things would suck worse without Obama”

It depends on how much worse you are talking about.

For example: Things would suck a lot worse if the little Dutch boy didn’t have his thumb in the dike.

But: My toothache would suck a lot worse if I didn’t have this broken arm.

I figure my job is to let people know how much worse things will suck if we lose Obama.

Whenever I even THINK about getting disappointed about the lack of updates here (while refreshing my browser 3 times an hour to get my Rumproast fix) I simply imagine how fucking HORRIBLE the typical paid political blogger is and I am appeased.

Carry on, you socialist neohippies/capitalist hippie punchers!

in hopes that if, god forbid, he wins, he won’t be as bad as someone like Palin, Perry, Bachmann, et al

Don’t be fooled by his so-called ‘moderation. Willard is more dangerous than the whole lot of them put together.  He’ll bend over backwards seven times over just to secure the vote of the most craven, knuckle-dragging Congressional bigot, invade Iran using the Social Security fund just to prove his Christian bonafides and will do anything the TeaBaggers tell him to do.  Palin, Perry and their ilk are limited in the damage that they can do because of their limited capacity for policy and because there are things that they will just not do (Palin is many things, but you can bet your ass that she’ll never sign off on an HPV vaccination scheme, no matter how fat her coffers would be filled by Big Pharma cash), even if the reason for inaction is batshit crazy.  Mittens is so craven, so desperate to be loved by the Conservative Movement that he will do anything, up to and including skull fucking a hispanic child on national television while announcing that only white male land owners may vote while taking a shit on MLK’s grave just to prove he’s not going to cut those lazy, thieving niggers any slack anymore.

This man wants to be POTUS so badly, to right the wrong done to his Father by Nixon back in ‘68, that there is nothing he won’t do to placate the Glen Beck’s and Bobo Brooks’s of this world.

But you want to know what the kicker is?  No matter what he does, no matter how many brown skinned non-Christians he has murdered, not even if he re-instituted slavery and made taxing the upper 1% a crime punishable by death by catapult, the Conservative Movement will never love him.  For he once tried to help people who didn’t have health insurance in Massachusetts, and they find his particular strand of Christianity icky. 

Jeebus help us if White Anger and Progressive Passivity put that man in the WH.

I am Jack’s utter lack of surprise.

Betty, I…I think I love you…

DWS is in an impossible position. As head of the DNC, she has to weave a path between the Democrats who are Democrats, and the Democrats who are Republicans.

It’s not easy.