Noonan: President’s own party doesn’t like him

December 30, 2011 06:16


This continues as one of the most amazing and underappreciated facts of 2012—the sitting president’s own party doesn’t like him. The party’s constituent pieces will stick with him, having no choice, but with a feeling of dissatisfaction. – Wall Street Journal

 

Peggy Noonan at The Wall Street Journal


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There’s a lot of 1980 in the 2012 presidential election, which doesn’t mean it will end the same way, but still. The incumbent looks smaller than previous sitting presidents, as did Jimmy Carter. His efforts in the Oval Office have not been generally understood as successful. There’s a broad sense it hasn’t worked. And Democrats don’t like him, as they didn’t Jimmy Carter.

 

In the past, state issues were important, but now only one issue—the nation’s economy—is important.

 

But America is in crisis. The world is in crisis. Everywhere you look establishments and old arrangements are falling, toppling to the ground.

 

A number of the Republicans on the debate stage could beat Mr. Obama. But if there is a serious third-party challenger the president will likely be reelected.

 

“In a second Obama administration he will be operating without any of the constraints that limited his actions in the first. He will never have to face the voters again. Obama unbound, with interest groups to reward. America, you don’t want to go there.”

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