Obama’s Lead Is Driving The Right (Even More) Crazy

When you start out with delusional notions that President Barack Obama is a socialist Muslim from Kenya who hates America, it doesn’t leave very much of a preserve of sanity to fall back on.

However, the recent crop of polls showing that Obama is ahead, and widening his lead, is testing the limits of the Batshit Crazy faction of the GOP, which these days seems to be most of it. With the help of Fox News, the right is feverishly scrubbing from their consciousness any polls delivering what they regard as bad news. Most recently, the GOP polling firm Rasmussen Reports published their latest daily tracking poll showing Obama ahead by three points. For some reason, that poll was not reported by Fox News who regularly post Rasmussen’s results when Romney is in the lead.

RealClearPolitics Polls

In addition to exhibiting acute denial when it comes to polling, the right’s patron paranoid schizophrenic, Glenn Beck, has come up with a unique explanation for why Romney is running behind:

Beck: I am to the point to where I think that God is trying to make this so clear to us that if it happens, it’s his finger. Because, boy, nothing looks good. And yet, everybody I know who I consider a spiritual giant feels good. And it bothers me that I feel good because, I’m like, there’s no reason that I should feel good on this.

See? God is responsible for Romney’s dismal polling. But He’s doing it so that his eventual victory will be an unmistakable miracle. And Beck is backed up by all the “spiritual giants” he knows. It sort of makes you wonder what it will mean if Romney ends up losing.

As for Beck’s reference to God’s finger, that is something he has discussed before. Last year he told his disciples that “I believe I have seen the finger of God. I believe that in the coming days you will see the entire of arm of God.”

Glenn Beck and the Finger of God

As I said last year, “Somehow I think it’s more likely that God is going to reveal his foot to Beck’s ass. However, I do believe that God has given Beck the finger.” And the preponderance of the evidence is that God is mightily pissed at Beck as revealed in Scripture.

Mitt Romney’s Opponent In Wednesday’s Debate Is Not Pres. Obama

When Mitt Romney takes the stage on Wednesday he will be facing President Obama for the first debate of the 2012 presidential election. However, Obama will only be a subordinate target in the encounter. The real audience Romney will be addressing is the club of wealthy donors who have been propping up his campaign.

Mitt Romney

The real reason that this first debate has taken on such importance is that Romney needs an unambiguous victory in order to keep contributions flowing into his coffers. A loss, or even a draw, will result in donors fleeing his campaign in the crucial final weeks.

This analysis is not the product of Obama partisans seeking to stir panic within the Romney camp. It was published by conservative pundit Charlie Gasparino on the Fox Business Channel’s web site:

Romney Losing Donors to GOP House, Senate Candidates
The Romney campaign is experiencing what some officials believe could be the beginning of a mass exodus of big money donors diverting their cash away from the Republican presidential hopeful and toward Republican candidates for the House and Senate races more likely to win in November, the FOX Business Network has learned.

Romney’s political neck will be on the line Wednesday. If he fails to throw a knockout punch, folks like Sheldon Adelson and Karl Rove will abandon him. The RNC will will have to concentrate on the real prospect of losing control of the House and reducing their numbers in the Senate. And as Romney’s electoral odds decline, even other Republican candidates will seek to distance themselves from the stench of a loser.

The problem for Romney is that if he attempts to strike a more aggressive posture, as many GOP strategists are advising, he is likely to come off as mean-spirited and even less likeable than he currently is. But if he doesn’t show his teeth during the debate he will appear weak and lose anyway. It’s a built in formula for failure, and no matter how the Romney spinmeisters twirl the post-debate PR, the public will see through it.