Watch the Throne.

2012: VOTE OR DIE!


Words.

"Forget hope and change. President Obama’s reelection campaign is going to be based on fear and loathing: fear of what a Republican takeover would mean, and loathing of whomever the Republican nominee turns out to be.

...as much as Obama presented himself as above the regular partisan fray during the 2008 campaign, he was not averse to taking the lower road when it appeared the advisable route.

But running for a second term accompanied by the albatross of 9 percent unemployment inevitably requires an even more brutal technique. In that sense, Obama’s reelection campaign is more reminiscent of George W. Bush vs. John Kerry in 2004, an embattled president managing to win reelection by relentlessly painting his opponent as an out-of-touch flip-flopper.

...Obama’s advisers believe that any Republican nominee is going to enter the race guaranteed of 47 percent of the vote and that Romney, more disciplined and experienced in presidential politics than is Texas Gov. Rick Perry, would probably be the harder candidate to beat.

...This is not going to be an uplifting campaign. It’s going to be a slugfest, and the slugging is only getting started."

THE WASHINGTON POST: Campaign 2012: Welcome to the slugfest