I'm sorry, but if getting the conservative base to vote for a Republican to defeat Obama is dependent on calling Obama names, then our cause is lost already. Romney has not been shy about attacking Obama on his policies and that is what really counts.
There is a reflexive desire among a certain species of moderate Republicans to be perceived as "civil" by liberal opponents who believe that the mere existence of free-market, limited-government conservatism is an indecent affront to humankind. All aboard the U.S.S. Lost Cause.
This disastrous, bend-over bipartisanship is a hard habit to break. In 2008, Arizona Sen. John McCain rode the "Barack Obama is a nice guy, but vote for me" wave to crashing defeat. In 2012, McCain's endorsee, Mitt Romney, has made "Barack Obama is a nice guy but in over his head" a standard stump-speech talking point.
Conservatives of good will who've...
A video is available where he is ranting about how Bush brought debt, and how it was so unpatriotic. Compare that to the debt he encouraged since gaining office.
Use his own words, actions and policies.
I do think, though, that it is amazing how all the Media have really circled the wagons around this product of Chicago corruption.