Are Republicans Making Re-Election Too Easy for President Obama?

Our political system is broke. Too many (I didn't say all) of our politicians only think about themselves. Conservatives and liberals practically hate each other. We can no longer call ourselves "The United States of America." The last time we were somewhat united was on 9/11 and a few days that followed.

Who's asking the questions to the candidates and how are the questions phrased... is the bigger issue we should discuss.

The GOP is definitely in a quandry this year. Gingrich's past makes him unelectable, but he can easily connect with the common man as evidenced by the largely middle class crowds which attend his speaking engagements. Romney has a fairly clean past, but cannot connect with the common man because he's a 0.1th of 1%'er and making lots of money when most Americans are scraping to get by.

First the GOP candidates have to convince the conservatives in the GOP base to win the GOP nomination by appealing to conservative social issues (abortion, gay marriage, immigration etc) Then he will have to take a more centrist stance on these issues to appeal to independents in the general election.

Even if the GOP wins this year I am fine with that. Anyone but GWB. I am liberal but not a Dem nor anti Republican. But GWB was a miserable failure and to those of you who claim "obama blames bush" Obama is not the only one. And yes, GWB does carry a majority of the blame for our current situation. Again, I am not anti-republican. I served proudly under Bush Sr in the 1st Gulf War aka Operation Desert Shield/Storm. Reagan was a good president and even Nixon did some good things before resigning. But the lies to lead us into an unnecessary war is unforgivable. As soon as Obama does something as bad as lie about a country having WMD's and spending trillions of taxpayer dollars and sending 4500+ US troops to their deaths over this lie then I will join you republicans in your calls for impeachment. Until then you have nothing on Obama.

I bet you $10K that Obama will beat Romney.

Vincent Poupard must be new in Politics and election. This is the primary and this is how it is, Hillary and Barrack were gunning each other before as well during the primary.

When Obama wins again and this time in a Landslide, Republicans will riot and burn down their trailer parks!

Obama has made it VERY EASY for ANY Republican Candidate these last 3 years . . .

I hope Obama is feeling good. When he least expects it, he may not know what hit him.

2012 will be a easy victory for the current POTUS.. the reps have duds... continue to beat up each other, we are loving it... 2012, pass the word, cant by any means allow this group to be in charge. your kids will be at war, your wages we be frozen, your jobs outsourced.. then the govt led by reps will not care how you feed your kids.. as Romney says, not concerned about the poor........

"It is not like there is nothing to talk about over President Obama's term. Solyndra and "Fast and Furious" are easy targets for the Republican candidates to hit upon. Unemployment is still very high and there are still concerns floating around about a double-dip recession. Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, the Occupy Movement and many other points could also be focused on by the Republicans."

Dodd-Frank, printing money 3x more money in 3 years than the combined total of every other president in history, debt ceiling hypocrisy, deficit spending, bailouts, worst home sales ever, insurance mandate, can't get his congress to work together, Keystone, blames everybody but himself, no budget in 3 years...take your pick

My dog can do a better job than this idiot what's his name

The dumb dem voters don't understand that Obama has set the Democratic Party back for a generations

If the Republican Party keeps Romney as the frontrunner, than yes...Neither has a vision for America and both are rich elitist snoobs with Obama having his status as a sitting President as an advantage over one in the same mold as him!

uh...YES.

Clifton, let's talk national debt.

For the 20 years prior to Reagan, revenue ran about 18% of GDP. At the end of Reagan's 8 years, revenue ran about 18-1/2% of GDP. So Reagan had a net INCREASE in taxes.

Revenue now runs about 14-1/2% of GDP, about 4% less than when Reagan left office. What does that 4% add up to?

The GDP as of the 3rd quarter was 15,198.6, listed in billions of dollars, so $15.1986 trillion. 4% of that is just under $608 billion. That is a sizable chunk of the deficit.

Applying that 4% to the GDP from 2004:

.........................GDP...................................4% of GDP
2004.....$11,788,900,000,000.00...........$471,556,000,000.00
2005.....$12,554,500,000,000.00...........$502,180,000,000.00
2006.....$13,310,900,000,000.00...........$532,436,000,000.00
2007.....$13,969,300,000,000.00...........$558,772,000,000.00
2008.....$14,270,500,000,000.00...........$570,820,000,000.00
2009.....$14,014,800,000,000.00...........$560,592,000,000.00
2010.....$14,551,800,000,000.00...........$582,072,000,000.00
2011.....$15,198,600,000,000.00….…...$607,944,000,000.00 through 3rd quarter
Total................................................$4,386,372,000,000.00

That’s roughly $4.386 trillion of the national debt due to the tax cuts. That is 29% of the national debt that you can lay at GWBs feet for his irresponsible tax cuts.

Also note that about $1.75 TRILLION of Obama's deficits are attributable to the tax cuts.
......................GDP..........................................4% of GDP
2009.....$14,014,800,000,000.00...........$560,592,000,000.00
2010.....$14,551,800,000,000.00...........$582,072,000,000.00
2011….$15,198,600,000,000.00............$607,944,000,000.00
Total.................................................$1,750,608,000,000.00

By the way - as of 12/15/11, INCLUDING Obama's deficits, STILL 65% of the debt was run up during only 20 years of Republican administration policies - Reagan, Bush and Bush. If you include the portion of Obama's deficits due to the Bush tax cuts, that makes it 76% of the debt due to Republican policies.

But all of our problems are SOLELY the Dems fault, right?

Sure, we have to cut spending - a LOT. But we also have to raise taxes. As a starting point, go back to Clinton-era tax rates.

Where is there a qualified republican candidate? The republicans entered a thoroughbred race with donkeys. Easy? BWaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAA

Funny how the media is ALL about the normal sifting process of Republicans.

WHERE OH WHERE is the coverage of Obama's RECORD in office?

Oh, that's right. The lamestream media will give Obama another hall pass this time too.

yup they sure are.... GOP has a bunch of loser candidates and they are just throwing it all away like they did when they nominated that old losing geezer McCain!!