At a town hall in Euclid, OH, a women prefaced her non-question by saying, "We've got a president who is acting outside the boundaries of our constitution." The many examples I'm sure she had of this were overwhelmed by spontaneous applause from the crowd. Beneath the din, a person standing next to the women must have said something about treason, because the woman next said, "I agree, we should try him for treason." She did mention whether it was light or high treason he should be charged with.
Romney said nothing to this exchange, going on to to answer the woman's complete bullsh*t question of "I want to know what you are going to do to restore balance between the three branches of government, and what you are going to do to restore the constitution of this country" with a bunch of pablum of his own.
Second, there are a lot of valid criticisms of Obama, including that he continued to expand the power of the executive branch in ways identical to Bush; but what specifically has he done to trample the distinctions between the branches of government? Let Congress write the ACA? The only example Romney can come up with was Obama's statement that it would be unprecedented for the Supreme Court to overturn the Affordable Care Act, a comment taken out of context (though it was a poorly worded one to begin with).
Third, the whole treason thing. It doesn't seem like Romney heard the treason part, as it was more muttered than spoken. He's going to pay for it, anyway. One of McCain's better moments during the 2008 campaign was correcting a woman in his audience who thought Obama was "an Arab;" the incident still made McCain's campaign look bad, as it was clearly hoping to ride such xenophobic notions to victory even as its candidate struck them down. The same thing might now be exposed about the Romney campaign, but without Romney appearing so magnanimous in the process. He and his staff will have to answer, at least by Sunday's talk shows and probably as early as right now, whether they think Obama's a traitor. They'll say "No," of course, but merely having to deny it will make their campaign look bad.
Before you do your victory dance, Obama supporters, remember that crazy can't be poured back into the bottle. Just as the crazy theories that helped make McCain's campaign seem out of its mind went gone on to torment Obama's presidency, so too will the theories voiced now plague him in his second term, and cost the rest of us decent policy victories.
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