Hugh Hewitt‘s latest column ponders the question of whether President Obama will follow the lead of Republican presidential contenders Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich on the national policy toward Iran.
The question is whether the president will now change his dangerous policy of appeasement towards Iran and do the right thing for the wrong reasons, whether that be assisting Israel in destroying Iran’s nuclear threat or ordering the American military to act unilaterally to do so.
The president’s approval rating dropped to 43 percent in the most recent CBS poll, and his disapproval number hit 47 percent in the same survey. These are the sort of numbers which foreshadow a blowout next November, especially as economists reach a consensus that it is practically impossible for the unemployment rate to drop as low as 8 percent, the very rate the president promised it would never pass.
A president this politically imperiled — a president from Chicago, where you do what you have to do to win — must surely be noting that the GOP is all but united in demanding actions to stop Iran, and that such action would produce great support across the United States.
He will also be weighing his shattered support among American Jewish voters, the product of four years of at best simmering but often overt hostility to Israel and its leaders.
So it is very possible that this weak, dithering, incredibly feckless president will find himself ordering the American military action discussed so much on the GOP debate stage Saturday night.
