If Jimmy Carter is the "national hemmorrhoid," what malfunction does Barack Obama represent?

"Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney reflects conservatives' growing confidence when he taunts Democrats, saying "I'll bet you never dreamed you'd look back at Jimmy Carter as the good old days."


Republicans at the Values Voter Summit Saturday talked of a growing political rebellion in the country, even as they acknowledged Democrats currently have the upper hand.

Romney recalled the euphoria among Democrats at the time President Barack Obama was elected.

'A year ago, there were quite a few people who were ready to write off this movement. They were enthralled by Barack Obama's promise of near-Biblical transformations,' Romney said in comments prepared for Saturday's meeting. 'Well, he can still spin a speech, but he can't spin his record.'"

My take: I think ridicule should play a prominent role in the effort to take down Barack Obama and the Democrats. After all, when have we seen such madcap power grabbing? Such outlandish overreaching,? Such relentless lying? Such buffoons pretending to restore order to a country that actually was going pretty well before dim-witted polticians like themselves screwed things up.

Rush Limbaugh showed the way with his takedown of Jimmy Carter, referring to the hapless former president as "the national hemmorrhoid," an insult befitting Carter's multi-layered incompetence.

There have been a few stabs at mockery of Obama - the "half-black prince" was one I liked - but nothing has stuck so far.

This is a great and noble cause. It deserves memorable mockery. Not to mention that mockery has a long and storied history as a tactic in American politics. Let the arrows fly.