Due to numerous obligations outside of this here blog for both contributors we simply have not been able to post nearly as much this year as last, so far anyway. But I would be remiss to not stop in on the day the presumed Republican nominee has finally stepped out from the fog of primary war to claim his title as the official presumed Republican nominee for the 2012 presidential election. Congratulations Mitt Romney! You are wiener! Thanks largely to the frothy-fecal one finally "suspending" his campaign today so there is nobody left (Gingrich and Ron Paul are figments of your imagination!).
The Republicans will now join hands across America and declare that it is now time for the GOP, and all her fine supporters, to unite and "get behind Mitt Romney" so that they can defeat that bad, bad man Barack Obama. Again, due to a fore mentioned obligations current and coming up, I am not sure just how much coverage you will see here at least until late summer but we will do our best to keep our usually dribbling low of a post or two a month. At least I will as I cannot speak for how many conspiracy theories Hamster Running on the Server Wheel will randomly vomit all over the blog as he's a busy guy too.
One cannot help but wonder if this will become a historically ugly election reflective of the circus that was the Republican nomination process these last several months. It is entirely possible that the election will simply be dull. Sure, there will be negative ads and those who are against Obama are really fucking against Obama and they will be salacious even if their nominee is Bert from Sesame street. Which, for all intensive purposes, Obama may as well be running against a muppet.
How are those numbers going anyhow? Welp, according to TPM's poll tracker, not too shabby if you like yourself some Obama. As of this writing their overall average is Obama 48% vs. Romney 43.2% but that will surely change over the course of the year...a lot. Not to mention that is an aggregation that is surely just filled with liberal bias, in the end, it could very likely be a pretty close election. Largely due to the hatred for Obama...which is also the problem, voting out of hate or spite isn't a positive and no one is really all that excited over Romney. Sure, anything can and does happen and while I am confident of a Romney loss it can't possibly be assured. Still ,said it before, say it again, I smell John Kerry all over this Romney fellow.
That said, when you talk to, or usually listen to (because there's usually no 'talking to' involved with your typical Obama hater) an Obama hater you really get a supreme sense of loathing and a nearly psychopathic longing to paint similar epithets to what was often ascribed to Bush II. It's as if these people were hurt by his failures and awful presidency so much that they have been waiting with bated breath from the second Obama cinched the Democrat nomination in 2008 to paint him a failure, the worst president in history, arrogant, liar, and on and on and on. They are the most amazing, hypocritical, insane people when it comes to this stuff and I honestly think I have seen and heard it all until some rube comes up from the murk and takes it to a whole new level. Not to pick on my co-contributor too much, but Hamster and his whole Agenda 21 piece from February just blew me away. It literally was a snake eating it's tail and truly demonstrated the mania these people seem to suffer from.
I do believe that when it comes time for Ahlblog to officially endorse a candidate this October it could be a little different than the, "please don't vote for anyone but Obama" endorsement I put up back in 2008. We may have to split our delegates though I will confess there is quite A LOT I don't like about President Obama, so many disappointments, so many perceived diversions from what I thought Candidate Obama was/said. Like a lot of people, I was taken with him too and while I was certain I wasn't going to get everything I was hoping for I did believe he was really going to put a real stop to so much of what was wrong about the Bush years. In particular, the state secrets, the Guantanamo closing, the end to all the spying and gross abuse of executive powers and instead he seemed to double down on all of that plus threw in citizen assassinations, increase in drone attacks, bizarre whistle-blower attacks, no transparency, and this is barely shaving the top of the ice berg. After reading a little about this "jobs bill" recently passed I start wondering just how different would a Romney presidency actually be? Probably different enough to just go with the devil you know rather than installing a different empty suit. That's a lot of money to spend on nothing. But who knows...Hopefully, it will be fun to watch!
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