By Selwyn Duke

According to the script, Barack Obama’s campaign should be leaking
some serious oil. The economy is listing badly, with an anemic growth
rate and a record 88 million Americans no longer in the labor force. The
Middle East is spinning out of control, with anti-American riots and
Islamists gaining power. Obama has exacerbated the racial divide at home
with irresponsible rhetoric and policies, and diminished the United
States abroad with apology tours and bows before potentates. His
administration is ridden with scandal, from Fast and Furious to Solyndra
to the rape of GM bondholders to Benghazi. He has stifled domestic job
creation by opposing the Keystone Pipeline and prohibiting Gulf drilling
while shipping jobs overseas by financing oil exploration in Brazil. He
has increasingly acted undemocratically in ruling by executive decree
and has trampled our long-held understanding of religious freedom with
his contraception mandate. And this is a mere sampling of the
transgressions of the most incompetent and corrupt presidency in
American history.

So Republicans are befuddled when they see Obama leading among
voters. One common explanation is that the polls are rigged. And while
they’re no doubt flawed and the race likely closer than they indicate,
it’s unreasonable to think Obama isn’t at least slightly ahead of Mitt
Romney; moreover, if Romney’s internal polls told a different story,
he’d certainly trumpet them.

The other common explanation is that Romney is a poor candidate, too
ideologically weak, too stiff, too blue-blooded, and too hard to connect
with. But to whom are we comparing him?

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