http://bigthink.com/ideas/41076Hilarious GOP Debates Revive Obama Reelection Chances
Kris Broughton on November 12, 2011, 12:42 AM
The Republican presidential debates have accomplished the impossible. President Obama, despite the terrible economy, now looks like a strong contender for re-election. This year’s Republican debates have all the essential elements—talent, torment and sex—to become this season’s hottest reality show. I had already steeled myself for a likely inauguration of President Romney in January 2013, and for the final farewell of President Obama and his family before being whisked away by Marine Force One. But if I were Michelle Obama, I wouldn’t start ordering those change of address cards just yet. snip
The icing on the cake for the president, who faces an uphill battle for re-election next year, is the spectacle the Republican presidential primary process has become this year. Every day the Republicans spend worrying about Herman Cain is one less day they can spend marshalling their forces against President Obama. I have not read one of the 59 points in Mitt Romney’s economic plan, but I am intimately familiar with the lives of Sharon Bialek and Karen Kraushaar. Even worse, in trying to continue along this vein of pairing up a salient platform position of one of the other candidates with a factoid from the never ending Cain controversy, nothing else besides “repeal Obamacare” and “9-9-9” comes to mind.