Does the Right Really Want to Beat Obama? Maybe Not

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AlterNet / By Adele M. Stan

Does the Right Really Want to Beat Obama? Maybe Not
With the outcome of Super Tuesday a jumbled mess, why haven't the sugar daddies of the right come together to anoint an opponent to Obama?

March 6, 2012 |


How badly do the sugar daddies of the right wing want to beat Barack Obama in November? Apparently, not enough. How else to explain the jumble of conflicting results emerging from the 10-state Super Tuesday Republican presidential primary/caucus slalom, in which former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney won at least five states, former U.S. senator Rick Santorum took three, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich won a major prize -- his home state of Georgia?

Surely, if the moneybags of the right -- say, the Kochs and the DeVoses and the Adelsons -- really wanted to defeat Barack Obama, they'd get together in a war room somewhere, and vow to coalesce around a single candidate and do everything possible to make him win. But that is not what we see happening. Instead, it appears that Mitt Romney, who couldn't beat Santorum in Tennessee despite outspending him 3 to 1 one in that state, will likely limp to the nomination as a gravely wounded candidate.

And that, perhaps, is just as the leaders of the right want it.

Incumbents are never easy to beat, even in an election that is predicted to be as close as the pundits say 2012 will be. But more than that, the right wing is at its strongest as an opposition movement, and for fomenting opposition, Barack Obama -- at least the fictional, radical leftist, Mau-Mau, crypto-Muslim Obama crafted by the right -- is the perfect foil for right-wing fundraising and hackles-raising. Another four years of Obama will allow the right to build its resources and hone a candidate for 2016 who will not face an incumbent -- and as long as Joe Biden remains vice president through the end of a second Obama term, the Republican presidential candidate in 2016 won't even face the neo-incumbency of one who has served just a heartbeat away. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/election2012/154444/does_the_right_really_want_to_beat_obama_maybe_not/

[cindyperry2010]

1. that would take actual brains and

they are so filled with racism and hatred that they will never use their brain cells

[INdemo]

2. So.....with this analogy..Elizabeth Warren would be a perfect

VP choice? Then she would be a favorite right out of the gate....correct?

[xchrom]

3. Interesting.

I'm not a believer in the sugar daddies racism - that's a Thing they flog the masses with.