Will Joe Scarborough please shut up? The guy has been in office three weeks and he and his cronies have already declared Obama Jimmy Carter the Second. ANd Scarborough does this by comparing Obama's performance to his performance as some podunk congressman 15 years ago.
Unlike many of his brothers and sisters, Scarborough after the Gallup and other polls revealed public support for both the President and the Stimulus did admit that
"Maybe we overanalyzed this." Compare that with the GOP who thinks they've won from becoming irrelevant.*
Anyway, Obama aint Carter II because:
(1) Obama didn't get his ass own by the Congressional Liberals of his party like Carter did.
(2) That whole epic "bi-partisanship" game that Obama played has, if polling is to be believed, put him above the fray of both parties in Congress, which the public despise (though more GOP than Dems, but not by much). Carter had a problem of being dragged through the D.C. Game, which Obama was able to escape.
(3) The GOP has no Reagan-giant waiting in the shadows for the next election. Dubya has really left conservatism (especially social conservative-fueld NeoCons) tainted in both economics and foreign affairs, and really if GOP picks Sarah Palin in 2012 to give that same speech again of Reagan/Dubya...
Then I see Palin 2012 being Mondale 1984.
*=Its nice that GOP Moderates, that each of their votes is more powerful than 20 GOP Conservative ballots COMBINED.
