Op-ed:

Democrats are jumping off the sinking Obama ship

By: Diane Sori

 

“I am a Democrat, and I plan to remain a Democrat. But, in this election, I will be voting for the candidate I see best fit to restore our nation to economic greatness. I’m voting for Mitt Romney.”        

Barney Bishop, lifelong Democrat and former Executive Director of the Florida Democratic Party.

“President Obama may think the private sector is ‘doing fine’ and able to handle one of the largest tax hikes in history – but he’s looking increasingly isolated. The President’s fellow Democrats have finally realized that tax hikes on job creators will only further harm the struggling economy...”                               

Amanda Henneberg, Romney campaign spokesperson.

From two different party notables...one common conclusion...the sinking Obama economic ship has Democrats jumping overboard en-masse.

Many Democratic leaders and elected officials, who this time out are no longer buying the ‘Hope and Change’ rhetoric, were once ardent Obama supporters but after four years of a tanking economy they have started putting their kool-ade cups down and now see that Barack Hussein Obama is nothing like their hero Bill Clinton.  These Democrats claim, and in some aspects they’re right, that Clinton promoted the growth of eight prosperous years and delivered balanced budgets and even surpluses that helped reduce the nation’s debt all while staying focused on the needs of middle class Americans.  But with Obama’s sole solution to America’s economic woes being to add yet more government-spending programs and business unfriendly regulations, these Democrats are fighting each other to see who can jump ship first.

And it’s starting to look like even those adoring Democrat ‘blind-to-the-truth’ groupies that heavily contributed to his campaign in 2008 aren’t doing so this time because Obama’s economic disasters have left them without money to spare or even in many cases without jobs to go to.  And all the while Mitt Romney continues to rake in more contributions than Obama, who has even sunk so low in desperation as to request that those buying wedding gifts contribute the money they would have spent on those gifts to his campaign instead. 

Arrogance thy name is Barack Hussein Obama.

Now add into the mix that even Obama’s once loyal Democratic Jewish supporters can no longer be counted on to support him this time out as the ratio of Democratic Jews to Republican Jews has fallen to less than 2 to 1, from a 2008 high of 3 to 1.  And all because of Obama’s lack of support for Israel and his sending millions and millions of dollars in economic aid to their enemies.

In addition, small business owners, the very people who generate most of the private-sector jobs, have started deserting Obama and the Democrat party, because while they’ve been working harder and longer hours than they were before Obama took office, they’re seeing less for their efforts...much, much less.  In fact, many are losing their businesses completely do to regulation after regulation Obama’s bad policies impose upon them, which is just the opposite of the Obama promised fewer regulations and a permanent cut in the personal income tax rate or at least no hike in that rate.

Liar thy name is Barack Hussein Obama.

Throughout the past years the one thing both Democrats and Republicans have agreed on is that they want a better economic future for their children than they had.  But with Obama’s constant campaign bloviation that economic investment is bad or should be punished, this has pushed many of the more moderate Democrats away.  Even if they don't outwardly say they will NOT vote for Obama, they have indicated that their voice against him will be heard in the privacy of the voting booth. 

But the bottom line for Republicans and now Democrats is that people have less money than they did four years ago; they pay more for gas and groceries than they did four years ago; they are still out of work in record numbers than they were four years ago; they will shortly be paying more taxes, many more taxes than they did four years ago, and you have some very unhappy voters in both parties.

Ex-president thy name is Barack Hussein Obama.