Obama’s primary challenge will be from the competent — not the left

Contrary to the popular notion that voters today are causing a tremendous upheaval,
an electoral tsunami, an election earthquake and every other description imaginable
to articulate the huge midterm election event, the truth is something else altogether.
It’s a mystery, actually, why anyone should be dismayed.
 
In fact, Americans have been dismayed and then alarmed at the tremendous upheaval,
tsunami and earthquake Barack Obama has instituted with unprecedented spending,
government overreach and thumbing his nose at the wishes of the people of this democracy.

 
Today, voters are merely forcing a course correction. They are constructing an emergency
“speed bump” of sorts, as a means to stop that which has been causing
said dismay — President Obama.
 
Americans may have initially decided they disagreed with some of Obama’s policies.
But as the months wore on, alarm and even fear set in as it was beginning to appear
that perhaps this man in whom so many hopes had been placed quite simply may not
really know how to do the big job he was elected to do.
 
While there have been some pundit murmurings that Obama could be challenged in the
2012 Democratic presidential primary from the ideological left, I think it is far
more likely the challenge will not be based on ideology. No — Obama may be challenged
by one (or more) of his own Democrat brethren from the Competency wing of the party.
 
Too many Democrats forced to walk the plank in support of policies that had not
been properly “sold” to the American people stand to lose their jobs today.
They may have agreed with Obama ideologically, but had not acted on those measures
prior to Obama since they knew they had an uphill climb convincing voters to support
the policies.
 
Obama didn’t get it, or didn’t care. High-profile Democrats may induce a course
correction of their own and throw Obama under his own bus in the primary.

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