{"id":6765,"date":"2009-11-30T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T14:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6765"},"modified":"2009-11-29T22:20:22","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T03:20:22","slug":"i-dont-have-to-outrun-the-bear-just-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6765","title":{"rendered":"I Don’t Have to Outrun the Bear. Just You."},"content":{"rendered":"

While Democrats and Republicans battle it out, most Americans have lost no love for either party and may be lining up behind…neither.<\/p>\n

Main Street America has entered an era of populism<\/a> that embraces neither party. People are tired of government bailouts, spending and unchecked corruption, as well as the media’s perceived lack of curiosity or investigation into all three.<\/p>\n

They are really tired of being told their values and way of life are not politically correct.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

America is pissed off. Unless an independent candidate can connect with enough Americans to garner a majority, Republicans probably have a chance to end Obama’s Reign of Pain. But, thanks to George W. Bush’s invention of the modern liberal Republican<\/em>, there are no guarantees.<\/p>\n

Americans lost faith in Republicans as evidenced by their willingness to vote a charismatic, well-spoken but otherwise completely unqualified decoy into the White House.<\/p>\n

While President Obama enjoyed a brief honeymoon, since about June<\/a> more Americans think we’re moving in the wrong direction; less Americans believe we are moving in the right direction. Obama’s popularity is sinking like a lead zeppelin. Clearly the honeymoon is over for the Democrats.<\/p>\n

But Republican’s don’t have to outrun the bear as the saying goes, they just have to outrun the other guy the bear is chasing. Thanks to Obama, Reid, Pelosi and their ilk, Democrats have a lot more ground to cover when it comes to the issues America will soon hold most high.<\/p>\n

“Elites like President Obama see government as a force for protecting the little guy,” explains University of Arkansas political scientist Robert Maranto. “But regular folks on Main Street see government as incomprehensible and unpredictable.”<\/p>\n

Even with the best of intentions, government almost always does more harm than good.<\/p>\n

When President Obama orders corporate bailouts, a stimulus plan that costs a quarter-million-dollars a job, or talks more about expanding government than reducing unemployment, folks are naturally skeptical, Maranto says.<\/p>\n

Most Americans are Jeffersonians: They want limited government – totally at odds with Obama, who wants government without limits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let the footrace begin. The first party to fiscal sanity wins. Unfortunately for them, the Democrats don’t even know where the starting line is, and with unemployment above ten, a series of failed bailouts and stimuli, dithering on defense, and foreign policy gaffes, they’re wearing concrete boots.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the bear smells blood. Blue blood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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