{"id":2658,"date":"2014-04-17T17:29:42","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T00:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=2658"},"modified":"2014-04-17T17:29:42","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T00:29:42","slug":"the-case-for-optimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=2658","title":{"rendered":"THE CASE FOR OPTIMISM!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans historically are really skilled at losing elections they should win.\u00a0 This year that may be difficult to achieve.\u00a0 The Democratic Party is self-destructing before our very eyes.\u00a0 They can\u2019t run on the economy because the economy sucks.\u00a0 They can\u2019t run on ObamaCare because ObamaCare sucks.\u00a0 They can\u2019t run on foreign affairs, because our foreign policy sucks.\u00a0 \u00a0None of the traditional Democratic scare tactics are working this time. \u00a0\u00a0In addition this administration seems to develop some new scandal on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p>Things would really look grim for Democrats, if it wasn\u2019t for Republicans.\u00a0 Republicans have a track record of self-destructiing at a rate too rapid for any Democrat to match.\u00a0 The latest example is the born-again Christian who got caught smooching with a married staff member.\u00a0 While the media just giggles hysterically at a Democratic good ole boy doing this kind of crap it is usually a fatal blow for a Republican.\u00a0 So I think we are in for a race to the bottom.\u00a0 The question is who Americans will hate more in November.\u00a0 So far, Democrats are ahead but Republicans have time to catch up.<\/p>\n<p>Then there is the wild card.\u00a0 That would be Barack Obama.\u00a0 Democrats might have a chance if Obama just sat down and shut up for six months.\u00a0 That, of course, assumes that Biden remains under lock and key somewhere.\u00a0 A lot of Americans are really stupid and they might forget all about Obama if he could just disappear for a while.\u00a0 But instead Obama is doubling down on stupidity.\u00a0 The latest example was the Press Conference today where he bragged about the success of ObamaCare.\u00a0 This is so far over the top that even the main stream media has trouble reporting this with a straight face.<\/p>\n<p>I have given this a lot of thought and suddenly the reality struck home.\u00a0 For a long time I thought Obama was on a course to destroy the country.\u00a0 I was not sure this was intentional, because Obama is so na\u00efve and incompetent that if he actually was trying to destroy the country he would probably be doing less harm.\u00a0 Now I am beginning to think that Obama is on a course to destroy the Democratic Party.\u00a0 That is what makes Obama so dangerous, for Democrats.\u00a0 The more he tries to help Democrats in the 2014 election the better chance Republicans have at victory.<\/p>\n<p>Obama is likely to provide the same brilliant leadership for the Democratic Party that he has provided on everything else.\u00a0 The pattern is clear.\u00a0 <strong>Anything<\/strong> Obama touches gets worse.\u00a0 The more he does the worse it gets.\u00a0 With Obama determined to provide the leadership necessary to help Democrats win this election, Republicans have good reason to be optimistic.<\/p>\n<p>TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans historically are really skilled at losing elections they should win.\u00a0 This year that may be difficult to achieve.\u00a0 The Democratic Party is self-destructing before our very eyes.\u00a0 They can\u2019t run on the economy because the economy sucks.\u00a0 They can\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=2658\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-headlines"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>THE CASE FOR OPTIMISM! 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