Republicans Best Ally Against President Obama Is ... President Obama (ContributorNetwork)

COMMENTARY | It seems that in about six months, should the economy not pick up as many suspect that it won't, the Republicans will have a powerful ally arguing against the re-election of President Barack Obama. That person is President Barack Obama.

Hot Air's Allahpundit has found a video of an interview done by MSNBC on Feb. 1, 2009, around the time that the stimulus package was being passed. The newly inaugurated president is heard to opine that should the economy not turn around within three years, he will be a one-term president.

On Feb. 1, 2012, time will be up.

One should expect to see the clip of the president musing about his reelection chances in a bad economy on a million Republican campaign ads. The clip is devastating not only because it is the president in his own words, but it also tends to preempt the narrative, which will no doubt be tried by the president and his people, that the bad economy is all the fault of his predecessor, President George W. Bush, and was worse than he had thought.

Obama also condemned himself out of his own mouth recently when, at a Jobs and Competitive Council meeting in Durham, N.C., he was asked about the permitting process delayed projects under the stimulus bill. He actually joked, according to Karl Rove writing at Fox News, "Shovel-ready was not as shovel-ready as we expected."

Expect that clip to play on a million Republican ads as well, no doubt with clips of unemployed people who do not get the humor in it.

It is hard to see, under the circumstances, how President Obama can argue with President Obama on his economic record. He will try, no doubt, to suggest that the Republicans would be worse, that we cannot go back to the "failed policies of the past", and so on. The Republicans will no doubt remind people what the unemployment rate and GDP growth were when those "failed policies" were extant.

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