David Karki

As insane as Obama’s insistence on trillions of dollars of tax hikes on top of tax hikes on top of tax hikes is – his just-announced plan on top of Obamacare’s implementation starting and the Bush tax rates expiring on January 1, 2013 – there is also a usefulness to it all. And it can help to substantially change the political universe for the better come November 2012.

Not only has Obama pulled a Walter Mondale 1984 and set up himself up for a massive defeat on the same scale as the 49-state landslide wipeout loss that Mondale had to Ronald Reagan, but he might also just have created an electoral tsunami that will have down-ballot carryover.  Instead of following the Clinton rule of being as liberal as you want so long as you sound as conservative as possible while doing it (which admittedly requires being a very smooth liar, as Clinton was) and triangulating when necessary, Obama has been the hardcore far-left ideologue many of us knew he was while the media worshipped their phony messiah in 2008 and bamboozled far too many voters into falling for his bulls**t.

It’s not just a matter of Obama having already lost the independents and trying to keep his base from leaving him while there’s still time for them to find a primary opponent to rally around, combined with offering non-existent bills that he knows the GOP House won’t consider so he can run against a “do-nothing Congress”. (And if trillion-dollar tax hikes are the only thing that can be done, then “do nothing” is a badge that the GOP House should wear with pride and honor. Lord knows that Democrat Senators up in 2012 are fleeing from this the fastest of all, since you can’t gerrymander a state.)

Obama really believes this demagogic class warfare garbage. He’s a full-blown Marxist Don Quixote, tilting at “rich” windmills. And that makes him far more dangerous than a mere liberal opportunist like Clinton was, since he’s willing to throw away a second term in order to implement policies that will destroy America. (Though, to be fair, even Clinton tried to pass Hillarycare and took until the third chance to sign welfare reform, so even he was cut from the same far-left cloth. He simply wasn’t willing to part with four more years.)  That should tell us how critical it is to defeat Obama, for once he’s unshackled from re-election concerns, he will unleash the works upon us all.

And don’t tell me a newly-elected heavily GOP Congress will stop anything; just today, Obama appointed two more “czars” to do who knows what with who knows how much unaccountable power. I don’t even know what the total number is now, nor who they are and what they’re doing in this veritable shadow cabinet or, if you prefer, “American Politburo.”

He’s also openly wished for the ability to ignore and go around Congress and any other limits on the dictatorial power he craves. He’ll just use executive orders and regulations, and dare that Congress to stop him. Between the race card and the propagandist media, I’m sure he figures they haven’t the guts.

This tax hike lunacy of Obama’s, therefore, tells us what sort of candidate the GOP must field and what kind of tactics he or she must use.

First of all, the GOP candidate must be someone fully committed to fighting the partisan war and doing the hard work of completely repealing everything Obama has done, from Obamacare down to the very last regulation and executive order. That alone will provide $4 trillion in debt relief, since Obama has run that much up in his 3 years in office. (That the media reports supposed debt relief from his tax hikes with a straight face tells you just how in the tank for Obama they still are.)

But beyond that, it will provide much more in freedom and liberty relief for individuals and companies, and a power loss for government. And don’t think the left doesn’t know this. The GOP presidential candidate must understand that the reaction to reversing Obama’s presidency will be even more militant than that which we saw in Wisconsin when Governor Scott Walker did what was necessary to eliminate a huge deficit there. He or she must be willing to accept paying the personal price of being called every name in the book, held responsible for supposed death and destruction, and perhaps even have personal safety threatened.

Simply put, anybody willing to go to the lengths Obama has to accumulate nearly unlimited power is not going to meekly countenance the loss of that power. We should expect to see them do whatever it takes to cling to it. The GOP candidate therefore cannot be anybody who would go wobbly in the face of stiff opposition. The bureaucracy is already there, entrenched, and will be difficult and costly to remove. If that’s not something you’re willing to endure, don’t bother running.

Once that sort of character is established, then there must also be a savvy in tactics. As tempting as it is to want to fire back at Obama for this, and to get mad at Speaker Boehner for not doing so, the old political saying holds true here:  when your opponent is committing suicide, get out of the way and let him. Even though there is more than ample reason to distrust Boehner’s courage and commitment to the cause, the last thing he should do is anything to get the left to wake up and throw Obama off the ticket while they still have time to do so.

We WANT the Democrats to run a hopelessly crippled incumbent who’s just pulled a Mondale ’84 and whose weakness will hurt Democrats all the way down the ballot! (Though if they gin up an equally hopeless primary challenge that keeps their primary voters from crossing over to stick us with Romney while angering the black voters they desperately need to turn out in November, that’s just fine.)

Second, we should not expose the GOP candidate to the rapid assault fire of Obama’s billion bucks of smear ads – since he can’t run on his own awful record – and his media allies’ propaganda machine any sooner than absolutely necessary. The contested primary with 8 candidates is a good thing, helping ensure whoever emerges is well-tested and well-vetted with all closeted skeletons long since revealed; I’d even be fine with a brokered GOP convention so Obama only has 2 months to slander his finally-known opponent.  (And to that end, undeclared candidate #9, Sarah Palin, is ideally positioned – late entry, and vetted beyond comprehension to the point of becoming a martyr.)

Finally, the GOP candidate needs to be someone who has no pre-existing ties to Washington, no sacred cows in mind, no buddies who can schmooze him or her out of fighting the fight and completing the hard work, or even simply sparing this or that department as a personal favor. Simply put, someone who can’t be bought at any price, for that’s the flip side of the coin from intimidation and threats. If the bad cop doesn’t work, the good cop just might.

So, be patient and let Obama keep insanely ranting for now. Lie low, keep your powder dry, don’t give him a target any sooner than absolutely necessary, and don’t fire until you see the white of his eyes (or the commie red of his heart, as the case may be). Make sure to tie Obama to every Democrat candidate down to dog catcher. And be sure that the candidate who is ultimately exposed is one willing and able to absorb the body blows, not be corrupted and go the distance.

The focus must be kept entirely on offense – Obama’s awful record and what it would portend for a second term – and not allowing it to be shifted to playing defense.  If Obama’s only chance in 2012 is to play the “better the devil you know” card, then make that devil as known as he can possibly be.

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