Fortunate favors the bold, especially when you’re placing bets in the 2012 presidential sweepstakes.
Fortunate favors the bold, especially when you’re placing bets in the 2012 presidential sweepstakes. While Obama has had to lay out all of his policy cards on the table, Republican governors have been holding their aces close to the vest in the hopes that down the road, Obama’s economic policies will go bust. GOP governors across the nation are balking at money from the stimulus package in the hopes that making a principled gamble on policy today will net them a big payoff in the next election cycle. The problem is Obama has shown himself to be a pretty good betting man himself, and if these governors are not careful, they just might end up belly-up at the polls before the presidential election is even around the corner.
A whole bevy of Republican governors have decided that they don’t want any federal stimulus money, or don’t want parts of it, and they won’t let President Obama’s socialist agenda force it down their throats. Head of the Republican governor’s association Mark Sanford of South Carolina, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Rick Perry of Texas, Haley Barbour of Mississippi and most recently Sarah Palin of Alaska have all taken principled stands by turning down or attempting to amend how they take the money from the economic stimulus package that Obama pushed through congress.
If these names seem eerily familiar don’t worry, you’re not experiencing political Groundhog Day. These are roughly the top five names to be contenders for the Republican’s sacrificial lamb against Barack Obama in 2012. While on the one hand they are taking a principled stand, the stimulus package isn’t paid for; the nation is going into a tremendous amount of debt to China, Europe and to banks of unknown origin. On the other hand, they’re all gambling that the Obama administration will ‘fail’ in their attempts to improve the economy within two years (since the 2012 election begins in December of 2010) and they’ll have a fiscally conservative feather in their caps to wave at the voters. Good plan, risky gamble and here’s why.
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