Scandalous!
Deborah Venable
11/27/11
This
article starts out a little “dated” but we’ll get to the real meat and potatoes
soon enough. I started writing it a
couple weeks ago during the height of the Cain scandal and last week we got
into the Gingrich surge and ultimate media pile on – they haven’t even brought
up the things that worry me most about Gingrich – so who does that leave to
gain the temporary moment in the sun when Gingrich is finished off? Don’t answer that, I don’t want to
know! The problem is that I cannot for
the life of me visualize anyone from the current republican field making it to
the White House. I could be very wrong
and hope to goodness that I am, but I have to tell it like it is. Of course someone will win the nomination,
but that is less than half the battle at this point. It shouldn’t be if Obama was operating under the same rules as
anybody else, but he has the same media and public padding that Bill Clinton
did when he won a reelection he shouldn’t have won. Nobody cares enough!
Have
we finally decided in this country that character actually does matter? What I really mean is, have the media and
all political pundits finally come to the same conclusion? That would be a real first, but since we are
well into the most intense media sexual scrutiny of any candidate I can
remember in such a short period of time, it must be so. It’s almost as if we can hear those occupy
idiots chanting one of their catchy little numbers, “hey, hey, ho, ho, Herman
Cain has got to go!”
This
is not the first time the guy has run for political office since these alleged
incidents of sexual harassment and/or predatory sexual behavior are supposed to
have taken place. They came out now
probably only because somebody got nervous that he was doing too well in this
run. Up until the last couple of weeks,
the worst that could be said about Herman Cain is that he had at one time been
chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank in Kansas. That has a lot of folks on the right nervous, and I completely
understand that. Even a small defense
of the Federal Reserve at this point in time is enough to make any
well-informed conservative nervous. But
that alone was failing to knock him off that ladder to the top, so enter the
accusations of sexual pervert. That should
work, huh?
Okay,
time for a little full disclosure from yours truly here before I go on. I have not decided whom to support yet in
the presidential election next year.
Cain is under consideration as are most of the others at this
point. Also, like everyone else
commenting on this subject, I have no idea if Herman Cain is guilty of ever
making a woman or multiple women somewhere feel uncomfortable with sexual
innuendo or advances. I do know that
the charges will probably be enough to knock him off the top tier even if he is
completely innocent. That’s how things
work nowadays. (I was right about that
one, huh?)
As
I pointed out in one of my last articles, the number one consideration for a potential
republican nominee will be conceived electability. I didn’t expect Cain supporters to desert him immediately, but
trust me they will eventually fall off his bandwagon. I would love to tell you that this doesn’t matter, that any one
of the other candidates could easily beat Obama next year, but I can’t. No matter how optimistic I try to be, I do
not see any of them having a chance at this point. The Obama machine is in place to do the most damage it can to
this country, and that requires four more years.
Everyone knew every negative thing they needed to know about Obama before he was elected the first time and still he won. It would be insane, (expecting a different result) if we didn’t expect him to be elected again! If he wasn’t fairly elected the first time, what makes anyone thing fairness will be a component in this election?
(To
answer your question, no, I do NOT believe he was fairly elected the first
time.)
Now
that I’ve said all that, let me say this:
I hope to hell I am wrong!
I
could live with that very easily! I
still think the only person who had a reasonable chance against Obama
chose not to run, and I cannot fault her for that. I also know that my view is not openly and widely shared, but so
be it. The problem is that the
republican field, just as last time, will be under a much higher scrutiny than
will the incumbent, Obama. I could lay
that all at the media’s doorstep, but that would be unfair of me, so I
won’t. It has been too long since we
had a true conservative republican in the White House, so republicans are being
scrutinized under a Bush lens instead of a comparative lens of liberal
scrutiny. After all, Obama’s tag line
is still that all his problems were initially Bush’s, so he needs even more
time to straighten everything out.
Right?
Why
wouldn’t he be a shoe-in then?
I hate writing these commentaries about an
election that is still the better part of a whole year away, and I hate that I
cannot find a positive note to sing on the subject, but we are all about truth
here. Anything could happen over the
next year, but I fear that most of it will probably not be good. Therefore, it is almost enough to make me
wish the next year away quickly – and believe me, that is dangerous for someone
my age!
Now,
this is by no means a hopeless situation.
Within the next year, Obama could shoot himself in the foot, or the
media could miraculously decide to start doing their job and shame enough other
politicians into doing theirs. (Did I
mention that I am a dreamer?)
His
behavior and the way he has run the country have certainly been scandalous
enough to warrant such scrutiny from media and other politicians.
Bottom
line is this: next year’s election is
Obama’s to lose – pure and simple. Once
we have finished demeaning, degrading, and ruining the character of every
republican running against him, I hope enough folks decide to start taking a
good look at the real character of the current occupant of the White
House. Then we’ll just see if character
matters or not.