"Is the Republican Party Helping Barack Obama?"

I wanted to wait a few days after the debate to post my next entry, to see if President Obama got a bump from his last debate performance.  I think that we are starting to see a slight bump, but more important, more of a solidification of the president’s standing in the polls.  Yesterday, a Time poll of early voters and those yet to vote in Ohio, has President Obama up +5.  He is also inching up in the national polls.  The last debate may not have given him that much of a bump in the polls, but the self-inflicted wounds of the Republicans today may have.  Richard Mourdock’s outrageous comments about children of rape being a “gift from God”, Donald Trump’s totally ridiculous “big announcement”, another publicity stunt that continues to feed into his racist, narcissistic egotistical self, and which has finally made him begin to look like he could have some mental issues going on, and the Romney campaign’s ridiculous decision to use Clint Eastwood in a campaign ad have all served to put the Republican Party's poor judgement on display.  Why would you want to use someone in an ad that virtually destroyed the credibility of the Republican National Convention and that reminds your base of that most embarrassing moment?

The judgment of the Romney campaign is something that makes one scratch their head.  That’s a story for a different day.  We are now 13 days from the election, and when I think of the Republican Party, I think of the quote, “Desperate Times, Call For Desperate Measures”.  In my experience, acting out of desperation never did anyone any good.  The president’s solid standing in the battleground/swing states, and the Republican effort at pushing their out-of-touch agenda may be just what the president needs to push him over the finish line.