He's So Good At His Job He Should Just Quit

This is the mind-boggling, bizarro world conclusion that Centrist Daleks Doug Schoen and Pat Caddell come up with: for Obama to be a great President, he must refuse to run in 2012.

No, really.   Behold their Centrist Dalek logic.

We do not come to this conclusion lightly. But it is clear, we believe, that the president has largely lost the consent of the governed. The midterm elections were effectively a referendum on the Obama presidency. And even if it was not an endorsement of a Republican vision for America, the drubbing the Democrats took was certainly a vote of no confidence in Obama and his party. The president has almost no credibility left with Republicans and little with independents.

The best way for him to address both our national challenges and the serious threats to his credibility and stature is to make clear that, for the next two years, he will focus exclusively on the problems we face as Americans, rather than the politics of the moment - or of the 2012 campaign.

Quite simply, given our political divisions and economic problems, governing and campaigning have become incompatible. Obama can and should dispense with the pollsters, the advisers, the consultants and the strategists who dissect all decisions and judgments in terms of their impact on the president's political prospects.

Obama himself once said to Diane Sawyer: "I'd rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president." He now has the chance to deliver on that idea.

In the 2008 presidential campaign, Obama spoke repeatedly of his desire to end the red-state-blue-state divisions in America and to change the way Washington works. This was a central reason he was elected; such aspirations struck a deep chord with the polarized electorate.

Obama can restore the promise of the election by forging a government of national unity, welcoming business leaders, Republicans and independents into the fold. But if he is to bring Democrats and Republicans together, the president cannot be seen as an advocate of a particular party, but as somebody who stands above politics, seeking to forge consensus. And yes, the United States will need nothing short of consensus if we are to reduce the deficit and get spending under control, to name but one issue. 

I really wish Prop 19 had passed in California, because these two could have made an absolute fortune in cultivating and selling whatever primo weed these two clowns were smoking when they came up with the theory that Obama announcing he wouldn't run would magically make the Republicans compromise.  The visions of mythological beasts that accompanied this revelatory nonsense would give Hieronymous Bosch night terrors.

Let me explain to you what would happen if Obama said "I'm not running again in 2012."

It would be the same thing that would happen if Obama did run in 2012, which is that the Republicans will do everything they can to dismantle every law and executive order he passed, still insist he is a danger to the country, still insist that he gives them 100% of what they want right now and will attack him anyway.  There will be no grand magical compromise.  There will be no national unity.  The Republicans will get what they want, every single piece of legislation they introduce from January 2011 on, or they will attempt to destroy the country through petulant refusal to govern the country, and they will still blame Obama for it.

Of course the last paragraph there is the key to what these two knuckleheads really mean:

And yes, the United States will need nothing short of consensus if we are to reduce the deficit and get spending under control, to name but one issue. 

Because loosely translated from Centrist Dalek, it means "Obama needs to capitulate completely to the Tea Party-controlled Republicans and ignore his base, and dismantle the last 80 years of social programs so that we can finish the transfer of the remaining 18% of the country's wealth to the richest 20% of Americans because 82% is just unacceptable."

Triangulate nothing.  Only full and complete surrender as a stating point is acceptable to these two, and the completion of America as a banana republic in status as well as in name.

If Obama surrenders the country now, it will be much appreciated by our new lords.  Slimy little Vichy bastards, these two.  But this is of course serious thinking, followed by "Of course the Catfood Commission's recommendations are a good starting point towards a national unity government..."

These men are souless, even for Centrist Daleks.  Oh, and the Centrists called Reaganism dead after 1982 midterms too just like Clinton was "irrelevant" after 1994.  Villagers:  still clueless after all these years.