coachisright.com ^ | June 27, 2012 | Kevin "Coach" Collins
Last Friday Rush read …. Real Clear Politics article called “Obama’s White Support Is Too Low to Win.” The message …… should have been clear enough, but some choose to nuance its message.
Saying Barack Obama doesn’t have enough White support to win doesn’t need a “Yeah but” attached to it, but of course it did. In this case unfortunately the “Yeah but” was, “electoral data indicates Mitt Romney has not yet attracted enough of these white voters to capitalize on Obama’s weakness.”
Although this line was probably necessary to gain approval from a cautious editor, there isn’t much “there” there.
It deliberately overlooks a huge White rhino in Mitt Romney’s campaign war room: of those who intend to pull a lever for Romney probably more than half will be voting AGAINST Barack Obama not FOR Mitt Romney.
There are few commenters who will say the truth about what is happening on our street corners and “meeting places” on line.
Nevertheless, what they are ducking is that, put bluntly, most people who want to get rid of Obama see Mitt Romney as the name on a commode handle they MUST pull down to flush Obama away and not much more.
Enthusiasm on the Right far out strips that of the Left. Barack Obama has brought about the return of the “broken glass conservative” – people who would swim through alligators then crawl through broken glass to vote against him.
These voters don’t really care whose name is on the Republican line.
Yes White people will vote against Obama and yes the Left will call that racism Blacks voting 95% for Obama in 2008 was NOT racist? but none of that means anything. Whites will vote against Obama for the same reasons 20% of Blacks….
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