Friday, May 04, 2012

Romney Is Going to Lose Virginia

President Obama is going to visit my high school alma matter today. I'll be out hunting, so I'll miss the traffic, but let me take this opportunity to say what everyone else in this state already knows: Mitt Romney is going to lose Virginia.

For all the palaver in the press (all of it written simply to sell newspapers), it's clear to everyone that Romney has very little to offer that Obama cannot provide better.

Obama is Rat Pack cool with a dash of fairly-conservative middle class American principles.

Whatever Mitt Romney is, a cool hand he is not, nor does he seem to have too many principles.

You're going to vote for Romney? Which one?

As for middle class values, Romney cannot do a single interview without savaging them.

No one is going to trust a man to run a country when he cannot even run his mouth without hitting every well-mapped reef.

The worst news for Romney is that Obama beats him 51 percent to 44 percent among registered voters, and Romney's numbers have not improved over the last year, despite the fact that he is now the only still-standing GOP standard-bearer, and Obama has yet to run a single ad.

The bottom line appears to be that a lot of Republicans are simply not going to vote this election.

And why should they? After all, the calmest, most fiscally conservative, most principled, and most family-first candidate running on any ticket is Barack Obama.

Not only is Osama Bin Laden dead, and all of our troops are out of Iraq, but The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week that Barack Obama almost single-handedly saved the American auto industry (Romney was against it). As the first two paragraphs of their front page article noted:

So robust is the recovery in the U.S. auto industry that virtually all the union workers who were laid off by Detroit auto makers during the crisis years can have their jobs back, if they want them.

Even General Motors Co.'s Lordstown, Ohio, complex, long known for its money-losing small cars and its bad labor climate, is running 24 hours a day, with more than 4,000 workers churning out hot-selling Chevy Cruze compacts....Almost every factory worker laid off by GM during the recession has their job back if they want it.

Yep. General Motors is now the largest car company in the world. Hard to do better than that!


3 comments:

Pet (petpisces) said...

Awesome. Just awesome :)

Barb Young said...

I am coming to the conclusion we may be sister and brother from different mothers! raised in NOVA, living in the UK and have yet to find something that we can argue about!

Mailey E. McLaughlin, M.Ed. said...

My feeling is that the apathy towards Romney will be overcome by the hatred of Obama. This scares me; that the GOP faithful will vote for a man they do not like just to get some red blood in the WH and oust a man they patently despise.