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OK: so the GOP clown car has people that most GOP do not want. Their best shot is either a Mormon from Massachusetts, a Black Man that sells Bad Pizza, or another insane former Texas governor that cannot keep his mouth shut. Even the reserve troops, like Bachmann and Christie, are full of holes.
So why should we worry that we are the underdogs?
1) Vote Suppression laws; As Rachel Maddow has talked about, many states have written their laws to reduce turnout among seniors, students and minorities. They do not need to steal the vote as blatantly as 2000, all they need to do is make it feasible; the MSM will do the rest.
2) Money. Frankly, Obama could raise a billion. Sadly, a billion is chump change. The Koches and waltons alone are planning to dump as much money as possible, and sadly, Citizens United means the GOP do not even have to pretend to make an excuse, or even be honest about where the money COMES FROM. Ad of right now, there is nothing stopping China, Israel, Iran, Chavez, The Vatican, or anyone else from pissing billions into a war chest.
3) Churches: All Churches will be in full swing, as they want to crush Abortion and gay Rights, and they will also smell the chances of crushing public education to boot. Again, they have an audience and funding, and are experts and making people swallow BS.
4) The MSM. Let's be honest, even MSNBC appeals to a bottom line. The MSM knows that they get paid by making the left look bad, and they will continue to do everything they can to make anyone left of Nixon look unelectable.
5) US. Look, I do NOT want to the lockstep GOP. I also know that Obama, and the entire Democratic party, need to be slapped out of this false moderate crap that leans rightward. That being said, we are very often, our own worst enemy, because we allow ourselves to be manipulated into either starting civil wars, or simply staying home. Remember how in 2004, we allowed ourselves to get discouraged because Dean and Kerry fought. Because of that, Bush got his second term, something that we should NEVER have allowed to happen. We also need to realize that the Right has paid and manipulated people on the left to be divisive. Sorry Jame Hamsher, but when you take a paycheck from a company to help get GOP elected, you are part of the problem. You may think that when the GOP stinks up the show, them the world will finally submit to the left. Got news for you, that did not work in 2000, nor 2004. The right has been playing the left against itself since the days when Hitler bragged about how ex-communists made the best Nazis. If the right wing wins in 2012, because they manipulated the left, again, that is not going to help the country turn leftward, it will onyl make us easy to manipulate, period.
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