Empty Suit in a Vacant Oval Office
If Mitt Romney actually gets the Republican nomination, out of default or disgust with the rest of the field, Americans will have the chance to reprise 1976 when they, in effect, voted to leave the White House unoccupied by electing Jimmy Carter to take a breather from Watergate and its aftereffects.
Still in shock from Nixon and offended by Gerald Ford’s pardon of him, Americans turned to a former governor whose chief appeal was “I will never lie to you,” but who was otherwise clueless about dealing with a failing economy and a dispirited nation.
What Romney’s candidacy would offer next year is not Hope but Respite. For those who blame Obama for everything but the weather, an Empty Suit in the Oval Office would offer transitory relief from hate and rage but little else, as Carter proved by responding to higher oil prices and inflation with a fireside chat wearing a sweater and complaining about a “national malaise.”
With Sarah Palin and Donald Trump sharing bad pizza to make Jon Stewart apoplectic and Herman Cain, who had marketed bad pizza, rising in the polls, traditional Republicans and Independents might be willing to settle for Mitt’s white-bread persona.
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6 Responses to “Empty Suit in a Vacant Oval Office”
But I thought that we already had a Carter-like empty suit in the White House. Certainly, I’ve seen Obama equated with Carter more than a few times. And doesn’t Obama seem pretty clueless about “dealing with a failing economy and a dispirited nation.” Or did the economy start to hum along vigorously while I was sleeping last night, did the unemployment rate drop to Bush-era levels, and has general optimism been restored to the American people? The topic of an empty suit in the White House is perfectly relevant right now, but because of who is there right now.
At least Carter proposed a National health Care Plan- but it got thwarted by Teddy K.
Empty suit? Are you friggin kidding me? Obama was handed the biggest turd sandwich since FDR when he was sworn in. Bush got handed a peaceful nation with a budget surplus and thru gross negligence and the application of conservative policies tanked this country. The fact we didnt slip into a worse recession is due largely to Obama’s policies and leadership. But frankly after the Bush years I’d settle for treading water instead of sinking like a stone.
Let me spell this out for you, Bush was handed a healthy nation and made it unhealthy. Obama was handed a sick nation and is slowly fixing it. In spite of a GOP that has done literally everything in its power to derail even the smallest of Obama’s agendas. The recession ended shortly into Obama’s term, and we are getting better. Is it like it was in the 90′s, no. But only idiots and self entitled fools think that the economy is going magically rebound from the total screwing it received at the hand of deregulated and unsupervised megabanks and Wall Street.
Still got the pixie dust in your eyes, Slam.
And you have a plank in yours.
Stein posts some really wildly out-of-touch stuff, but this one was a true laugher.
Never mind that Obama is seen by many as a contemporary Carter and more out-of-touch and playing at the position than Carter was.
I don’t like Romney, but as I said elsewhere, the RomneyCare problem is hyped (exploiting the easily led who would vote for Obama probably, anyway), and it conceals (maybe intentionally) a much more serious candidate than Obama. Not that I predict Romney will win; I believe Obama will, but at least I understand what is happening in the world, unlike … certain contributors.