Tabloid style stories about Cain, Perry and other Republicans provide cover for Obama screwups

Fact is President Barack Obama should be thanking the Republican presidential candidates. Here's why.

At the moment GOP frontrunner Herman Cain is battling allegations that he stepped out of line with some female coworkers more than a decade ago.  Cain has been top of the fold for weeks now because of his rise in the polls, a campaign ad featuring his chief staffer smoking (OMG!) and the aforesaid females.

Cain shouldn’t feel lonely. He’s getting the same treatment the former frontrunner Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas) got because of the not-Rick-Perry’s rock story and other matters like the creative editing of a video to reflect poorly on the governor.

The initial frontrunner whose numbers refuse to edge up, former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.) has been pretty quiet.

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is seeing his numbers improve and there’s chatter on social media because people are taking a second (third?) look at the master debater and budgetmeister during former President Bill Clinton’s administration.

Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) is still Ron Paul. His supporters remain in attack mode, vilifying those who opt for a different candidate—there’s a similarity there with the Cain campaign.

The Cain campaign actually appears to have flipped out, with Cain’s campaign manager blaming Perry (and more recently, the mayor of Chicago-Land who is a Democrat).

Media is vetting these candidates like the neighbor’s cat vets the Cardinals chirping in the shrubbery in my front yard. Media have yet to vet President Barack Obama whose kinship with Teflon is indisputable. I'd bet even bubble gum doesn't stick to the president's shoes.

Democrats should be dancing in the streets because all the media coverage provides cover for what can only be viewed as a disastrous year.

The economy is still in the tank but that’s not the worst of it. If all eyes weren’t trained on the tabloid style coverage of the GOP candidates, media and perhaps the handful of open-minded Democrats left in the land would be thinking about these and other matters:

• After Obama’s National Labor Relations Board went after Boeing because the company decided to expand a production line in the non-FORCED-unionism state of South Carolina, former Speaker of the House (D-Calif.) Nancy Pelosi suggested the plant should be shut down or do the Democrat thing and become unionized.
• Questions are being asked about an official with the Dept. of Homeland Security who may have had Republican candidate Perry in mind as a smear target.
• Obama-Not-Care’s reputation (also called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) suffered once more when a story about Massachusetts residents who have a similar plan paid a fine—49,000 of the blue state’s residents. Many of them got fined, not because they lacked health insurance, but because they didn’t have the right coverage. Permit me a told-you-so because I deserve it.
• Obama’s Energy Dept. inspector general announced $466.5 million in Recovery Act funds are at stake because of grants/loans gone awry. ‘Accountability’ is a foreign word to the Obama administration.
• The Government Accountability Office announced Obama’s Science and Tech Policy Office broke the law. It involved China. What is it with Democrats and the Chinese government?
• The president’s press secretary, previously known for his pushing the prog agenda for various left leaning corporate media, made up a Bible verse. My younger daughter did that. She was about 7 years old. Her fabrication was more sophisticated, by the way.

I’ll stop now. This is the Web and I am constantly told to stop writing long. This thing could go on and on for—let’s see. Three years of blunders, missteps and cataclysmic spending. Three years basically of campaigning rather than ‘presidenting.’

Point being: Obama should be thanking the GOP presidential candidates for the cover they’ve provided as he stumps on the campaign trail, explaining how God wants us to help people get jobs and justifying his request for more money to pay for largely union jobs.

If I was a terrorist, though, I’d be looking over my shoulder. Next time there’s another Democrat disaster and there’s no juicy tale for leftwing media to drop about Republicans, the president will probably send the drones out to hunt.  

Or maybe Obama will just decide to pull another military coup in a foreign country and his secretary of state (and the US Congress) can learn about it in the newspapers the next day.

(Commentary by Kay B. Day/Nov. 3, 2011)