The GOP Hierarchy Goes for Win in 2010 and 2012--
Obama to Get One Term

Losing elections really ticks off those in the GOP hierarchy, and
after all major parties in this country have always been about
winning elections and running the country. To move the ball
their way, two very crucial elements, this writer predicts, will
assert themselves rather strongly after this last election debacle
which handed the Democrats control of the presidency and increased
control over the congress. The big boys at the GOP, here referred to
are the Wall Street types and the Southwest oil and gas gang, who
really live to dominate this whole world and make the maximum
amount of money off same, but they can't do that when the Middle
East/Central Asia are so unstable as it is today, thus they will
be looking to get change they "can believe in" in official control of the
GOP to accomplish their "wonderful" goals. This will, include, for
the longterm recruiting another Dwight D Eisenhower to take on
Barak Obama in 2012, as Obama won't give these GOP bigwigs
the stability in this critical region they so desperately need to accomplish
their already stated objectives. Obama will pretty much continue what
W has started in that region, maybe switching troops more over to
Afghanistan after a long time, but the region will continue to be way
too unstable to suit these GOP bigwigs, who in large numbers in the
last election had their money going both ways to cover their bets. Money
talks, and BS walks.

But that really gets so expensive, and these "good old boys and girls"
will have their Terry Bradshaw moment of "Why you save money" by
only having to buy out one party instead of two. When that moment
comes, and it won't be long as these super rich types are really tight
with their money, then they will get busy doing what they know how to
do best, buy friends and influence politics and policy.

The AIPAC crowd will be upset, but these Wall Street and Southwest
oil and gas types have done without their help throughout much of their
history, and couldn't really give a damn less about such.

Harry Truman in 1948 was to win the presidency by four points, with his
party getting back control of the congress that party had lost in 1946, but
Truman was a real fighter and would stand his ground when he was convinced
he was right come hell or high water. Obama isn't that sort of fellow by a long
shot. Truman many could agree was wrong about the Cold War, he got the
country into the Korean War. That war carried great weight in 1952, and
along with phony garbage of about ''communists" taking over was enough to
take the GOP to victory both for the presidency and the congress that year.

Truman had in fact won his presidential victory despite the fact that his party
had controlled the White House for about 16 years by then and the congress
for 14 of those years. His party, likewise did well down the ticket taking back
the congress it lost in the previous 1946 midterm election. This was a significant
victory, given the fact that Truman trailed his GOP opponent in 1948 after both
major party conventions by 15 points in the polls. Obama hasn't exactly shown
himself as having this ability despite his vaunted charisma.

Furthermore, Obama will likely take his direction from those who have provided
the piles of money for his campaign and go against his base when the big money
types go a different direction. Money talks! This will mean he won't be about to
go ahead with any New Deal style pump priming, public works projects which
would rebuild the country's infrastructure, schools, health care, et al and provide
so many with needed and constructive employment. The base thus being abandoned
won't have much patience with their pied piper and will either opt for not voting or
maybe even vote for the GOP in the midterm. Come 2012 though, the GOP hierarchy
will have the Ike ready and be training their big guns on Obama and the Democrats
for failing to end two wars or doing so so belatedly as to be outrageous and not
getting the domestic economy back on its feet that the Republican bigwigs will
be ready to take back the presidency and the congress to again get back to to
getting a stabler world to make their piles of money off of. The upside for the country
is another Ike will be a move in the direction of peacenik oriented politics. Hey, the
folks on Wall Street and the Southwest oil and gas gang can go that direction if
the situation calls for it and it means more money they can make as a result and
they can come closer at least to dominating this world, if not actually doing it, which
probably isn't in the cards as things stand and the trend is now.

If this scenario seem so improbable, it's well to remember that back in the 1950s
I F Stone was calling for people to vote "Ike for peace." This writer finds it simply
fits with the desire of those with big money to get and stay in control, at least indirectly
through the party they back and to keep making a killing. It also fits with their willingness
to go along with a war now and then, but to see that too much war is bad for business,
as it makes this world too unstable.