Sarah Palin on Obama's Heels

A poll by McClatchy-Marist found that the inept and floundering Barack Obama is losing ground against every Republican candidate vying for the nomination to be the next person to run against Obama for President, including Sarah Palin.

While some in the media are attempting to do the "even Sarah Palin" is gaining on Obama, that's because they have done so much to try to destroy her. It has to be spun that way in order to hide the fact the general public hasn't bought into it.

In other words, they're trying to point the blame on Barack Obama for Palin's rise in popularity, rather than it being because of her attraction as a candidate.

That of course doesn't excuse Obama, who may be the worst president in American history. But the point is people, for the first time really, are starting to seriously look at the upcoming election for president, and their preferences are beginning to come out. For Palin, that would have happened no matter how Obama performed, although his performance does make it quicker and easier to embrace her for some that were on the fence line.

Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, which conducted the national survey, said this about Obama's prospects, "This will require him to find ways to either win back the middle or energize his base in ways that hasn't happened so far."

The problem for Obama is he has completely lost the middle, and the major reason he lost the middle is because he refused to quit pandering to his base, which is the lunatic fringe of the controversial and despotic progressive/socialist/liberal element of the party.

Choose whatever name you like, the progressives are so out of touch with mainstream America that it is surprising that Obama continues to forward their agenda, further distancing himself from the reality of who we are as a people.

He should have stopped after throwing them a few bones, and in the case of Obamacare, a full course meal. But his outrageous behavior and obedience to these types of people have resulted in his extraordinary loss of popularity.

Think of the ridiculous and evil rescinding of barriers to homosexuals in the armed forces, as the most recent attack on the morality of the country reveals. Like that's some issue we're all worried about: the inclusion of homosexuals in the military in order to fight our wars. That's a priority all right.

Even with the majority of the population opposing higher taxes, he still is attempting to force that down our throats as well, even when the numbers don't add up and it takes even more away from productive people.

In other words, Obama refuses to make real spending cuts, so his only other gambit is to impose more "stimulus," print more money, or raise taxes. Since the rest have been a disaster and opposed by most, he now is attempting to do the class warfare thing, again missing the winds of the mood of the country, which is tired of it all.

The only answer of course is smaller government through cuts in spending and taxes. And it needs to be done across the board.

Obama is so unpopular through these misguided efforts and others like it, that the majority of voters see him losing no matter who the candidate is opposing him in the election.

But they're also saying they're going to put their vote where their mouths are, as 49 percent say they'll definitely vote against Obama in the next election, while only 36 percent say they'll vote for him. It's highly likely it'll get worse as the election nears, and the vote is actually cast.

Obama is losing everyone now, even his base, because he simply stands for absolutely nothing. He is so enslaved to the issue flavor of the day, he can't seem to realistically comprehend or discern which ones really are important to the country and which aren't.

For example, you know with Michelle Bachmann where she stands with Obamacare if she were to be elected president. She has repeatedly said she'll work to have it repealed. She is also very clear on where she stands on abortion and spending.

Obama on the other hand, continues to flip flop on just about everything. He's backed off his promise to stand up for marriage being between a man and a woman, and has aggressively expanded the forced acceptance of homosexuals in many areas of American life, even though the majority of the country opposed homosexual marriage.

His attempts to appease his base by the nonsensical push for so-called "green" energy while attacking the energy foundation we now use, making it much more expensive to extract from the earth, has been a disaster, and now, as we're finding out with Solyndra scandal, there is apparently a lot of questions that need to be answered for wasting so much of the taxpayers' dollars on these failed boondoggles.

As for Sarah Palin, she's only behind Obama by 49 to 44, and she hasn't even decided whether she's going to enter the race or not.

Michelle Bachmann is also gaining on Obama in August, jumping from 17 percent down in July to 13 percent now. In all fairness, she has been the brunt of some of the more brutal and dishonest attacks from the media, similar to what Sarah Palin has went through in the past, and could have had a much better showing if that wasn't the case.

As for the gains for all Republican candidates, all of this is because Obama has lost ground with the independent vote, which is the key to anyone winning an election.

Interestingly, the majority of her supporters don't want her to run in this election cycle. It seems the reason is people are in the midst of making up their minds on their candidates, and if Palin enters the race, the process and weighing and balancing would have to be begin all over again.

And the truth is, Palin, this time around, may be better playing a supporting role, while prepping for her own opportunity in the future, if she decides to take it.