Super Conservative ( Obama Hater ) Charles Krauthammer : "Obama has a friend in self-destroying GOP" : "The president is a very smart man. But if he wins in November, that won’t be the reason. It will be luck. He could not have chosen more self-destructive adversari"

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I always read Charles Krauthammer with Great Pleasure and Delight, even if his ideas are totally 100% opposite to mine. You learn something with Charles Krauthammer. With some other conservatives I learn very little.

National Post
Obama has a friend in self-destroying GOP
By Charles Krauthammer
Jan 20, 2012


Obama has a friend in self-destroying GOP


Some excerpts :

Suddenly Romney’s wealth, practices and taxes take centre stage. And why not? If leading Republicans are denouncing rapacious capitalism that enriches the 1 percent while impoverishing everyone else, should this not be the paramount issue in a campaign occurring at a time of economic distress?

Now, economic inequality is an important issue, but the idea that it is the cause of America’s current economic troubles is absurd. Yet, in a stroke, the Republicans have succeeded in turning a Democratic talking point — a last-ditch attempt to salvage re-election by distracting from their record — into a central focus of the nation’s political discourse.

How quickly has the zeitgeist changed? Wednesday, the Republican House reconvened to reject Obama’s planned $1.2 trillion debt-ceiling increase. (Lacking Senate concurrence, the debt ceiling will be raised nonetheless.) No one noticed. It made page A16 of The New York Times. All eyes are on South Carolina and Romney’s taxes.

This is no mainstream media conspiracy. This is the GOP maneuvering itself right onto Obama terrain.

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