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RUSH: Obama\u2019s approval rating numbers are down. Everybody in Obama\u2019s team is floundering. The stories are out there — and I don\u2019t like these the stories, by the way — the stories are out there about Obama being a one-termer and how this is all bad — (interruption) well, because it\u2019s too soon for these stories. Too much can happen. It\u2019s too soon to write the guy off. And if we get stories from the left about how they\u2019re writing him off, then, you know, I don\u2019t know what kind of reverberation effect that has on everybody else, but it\u2019s too soon to write the guy off. We are 14 months away.<\/p>\n
Victor Davis Hanson had a piece in which he postulates a possibility, and it is this: “Anatomy of Democrat Angst Over Obama.” This ran yesterday at National Review Online. Three questions for the Democrats to answer. “Strange indeed is the sudden Democratic furor at Barack Obama.” Strange indeed, and it is. Almost in unison everybody on the left has turned against the guy, right.<\/p>\n
And we all know this is true. Many in the left wing believe that Obama\u2019s timid. He didn\u2019t spend enough; he hasn\u2019t been radical enough; he didn\u2019t get out of Gitmo; he didn\u2019t get out of Iraq; he ramped up in Afghanistan and he took us into Libya. This is not what they elected him to do.<\/p>\n
“In other words, the furor comes not so much because he has embarrassed them on national security and seems increasingly detached from the job, but because that he nearly destroyed the congressional Democrats in 2010, often hovers below 40 percent in popularity, and has the potential to really do some big-time damage to the party in 2012. But again, why is that? Rather than suddenly blaming Obama, self-introspection seems in order.”<\/p>\n
Here are the three questions. “One: Why and how did an obviously inexperienced senator, with no record of past achievement, soar past a gritty and hard-working Hillary Clinton, who, with her husband, would have brought years of political savvy and success to the presidency? Two: Why did Barack Obama for years embrace and then as president reject the liberal critique of the War on Terror? Is there some chance that he, and millions of his adherents, saw it as politically opportune to embrace it when running for president, but essential to national security to abandon it when invested with the responsibilities of the presidency?” It\u2019s exactly what I said. When they\u2019re out of power they\u2019ll guarantee the loss of every military entanglement we get in, but when they\u2019re in power they are not gonna saddle that defeat around their own necks. That\u2019s what his base didn\u2019t understand, and I tried to warn \u2019em. You think Obama\u2019s gonna lose all these wars when he\u2019s president? Do you think Hillary\u2019s gonna lose? It ain\u2019t gonna happen.<\/p>\n
And number three: “Isn\u2019t it possible that both the 2010 midterm disaster and the president\u2019s current dismal polling are precisely because of his Keynesian policies, which delighted many at their inception but have since disappointed most after their enactment?” Again, as I, El Rushbo, pointed out, the left is faced with the failures of their own beliefs and policies, so they\u2019re depressed and downhearted. “Blaming too much on not enough is an old logical fallacy.” So Victor Davis Hanson has a big question at the end of all this. I gotta take a break here. I\u2019ll come back and I\u2019ll tell you what the question is or the observation in terms of his reelection. If it were today he\u2019d lose in a landslide, there\u2019s no question, but it\u2019s too soon to write him off 14 months from now.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Okay, so here\u2019s the point. I think Victor Davis Hanson is over-thinking this. When I first saw this, I thought that, but I\u2019m gonna mention it to you anyway. “Were Obama to show the same flexibility on the economy as he has on the War on Terror he still might revitalize the economy a bit.” For example, if he would “junk the Keynesian model, radically revise and simplify the tax code, address entitlements, talk up employers, prune regulations, and compromise on spending cuts, he still might revitalize the economy a bit. It\u2019s hard to destroy the greatest economy in history in three years,” Victor Davis Hanson writes, although I\u2019d say Obama has done better at it than anybody would have thought. “Then, when his numbers improved, he would win Democratic adulation for his Clinton-like savvy.”<\/p>\n
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