Ask the DNC
One of President Obama's major legacies when he leaves office will be having left his successor with the right to assassinate anybody he or she chooses. This next President of the United States will be able to murder anyone, whether foreign or American, without the burden of judicial review. Indeed, the target does not need to have even been charged with a crime. Do Democratic lawmakers and talking heads believe Mitt Romney is ready to be handed the presidential kill list? A camera crew in Charlotte last week sought out a collection of the furry little rodents and asked the question. Only Bill Press gets the answer correct.---
These Romney hypotheticals are only that. The presidential race is effectively over. The Democrats just had to avoid a major misstep. The tax cheat unpatriot, Mitt Romney, unpopular even with conservatives, and having received no statistical bump following the Republican National Commercial, is now about to be swallowed whole by the vanquisher of Osama bin Laden. The Republican super-PACs have pulled out of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. Romney is campaigning in eight states that tally 100 electoral votes between them. Obama has a lock already on 201 of the 270 electoral votes he needs to commence George W. Bush's fourth term, and if we add the three states listed above, that puts him at 247. He would only need to add Florida, or Ohio plus a small state, or... hell, just look at the map.
Point is, the race was really over before it started. Romney will soon get to return home to Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and San Diego, to his car elevators, and to his conscience. Don't expect to hear this unfortunate news from the national media, though. The election cycle feeds the ratings, which fuel the stock price. The television networks and their affiliates are the prime beneficiaries of all the money spent and the eyeballs lent to the story. Two more months of "campaign" coverage promises 24-hour-a-day debate on the cable networks, "Saturday Night Live" specials in prime time, and campaign expenditures funneled towards media companies now with no Constitutional upper limit.
Your time is precious though. Spend it on what matters.
posted by CM @ 12:26 PM
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