This is why Obama won’t be on the ballot in 2012:
A year after President Barack Obama’s political honeymoon ended, his job approval rating has dropped to a negative 44 – 48 percent, his worst net score ever, and American voters say by a narrow 39 – 36 percent margin that they would vote for an unnamed Republican rather than President Obama in 2012, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.
Of course, if the pollsters had asked about any Disney cartoon character, Obama would have fared even worse. While I have no doubt that the Republicans would like to do their utmost to throw the election by nominating a RINO in the Dole/McCain vein, they’re going to be far too busy attempting to discredit Ron Paul and co-opting the Tea Party to pay much attention to laying down for Obama. The real threat to Obama comes from within the Democratic Party; the Lizard Queen has been remarkably quiet for the last eighteen months and I don’t believe for a second that she has abandoned any of her presidential ambitions.
She’s reinvented herself as a moderate in comparison with Obama, and now that the first black president is a failure, she can still hope to break new ground as the first female president. And she won’t be the only Democrat to challenge Obama, in fact, she probably won’t even be the first. Once a fringe challenger begins to look capable of upsetting Obama’s primary nomination, the party elders will begin putting pressure on him to stand down in favor of a more popular, more moderate Democrat, like the Secretary of State.
One more thing. If you look at Obama, does he look like a man who enjoys being president? I think he knows he’s in way over his head and might even welcome the chance to get off the hot seat.