The nightmare ahead

Its now apparent to most that the president and the Congress are indeed fundamentally changing the country. Some think ths overreach will result in the control of Congress changing hands come the November elections. Even if it doesn't, it seems probable that The Stupid Party will at least increase their numbers.

And strange as it may seem, there are musings that Obama might even face a primary fight, come 2012. I suspect this is already in the works and I'm having nightmares about what may happen.

Let me attempt to explain my thinking. Absent a whole bunch of Al Franken-like election fraud, I question whether Obama can be re-elected. Far too many of us now recognize how far left he really leans and even though he's still campaigning, most folks simply no longer believe a word he says. Unless Democrats don't actually lose seats this fall, they will see how much the public dislikes all the new laws, executive orders and regulations. And if they lose control, they will scurry much like cockroaches exposed to light to find someone to oppose him in the primaries.

The Stupid Party will, unless hell freezes over, nominate some old white guy who's spent the last thirty years toeing the party line, or else another RINO like last time. But with the economy seeking new lows and unemployment new highs, I think he'd win. I shudder to imagine a President Romney, Huckabee or Gingrich, but they'd still be less dangerous than Obama (I don't think Palin has a chance to get the nomination).

But if Obama gets challenged in the primaries, and I believe he will be, it will be by Hillary. Unless Obamanomics suddenly sprouts wings and soars, the fight will be on. No one can know who would win, but, barring some big surprise, I'd bet on her. In the general election, she will crush a standard Republican candidate.

In the past few months, I've read three different books about her. If one-tenth of what I've read is true, nightmare doesn't begin to cover it. Apparently she is smart, tough, conceited and ruthless, but none of those terms can explain how deeply she feels that she deserves to be President, nor what she's willing to do to achieve that prize. She is also, from what I've read, at least as left leaning as Obama, simply more pragmatic.

Now that she's spent several years as a Senator, and time as Secretary of State, she has greatly expanded her knowledge about how to achieve power, and far more importantly, how to exercise it. It should go without saying that, whether she's responsible for them or not, she knows where the bodies are buried and is more than willing to dig up whichever ones she needs. And bury more. For the rest of this decade. Freddie Krueger doesn't scare me anymore.

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