…to Red:
…some of the same unlikely states that Obama put in his party’s column 15 months ago feature Senate, House and governor’s races with Democratic candidates in grave danger of losing in what is quickly shaping up to be a toxic election cycle.
While off-year and down-ballot elections are inherently different than presidential contests, the rapid reversal in Democratic fortunes in the very places where Obama’s success brought so much attention suggests that predictions of a lasting realignment were premature.
And it’s raising the question of whether the president’s 2008 win was the result of a unique set of circumstances that will be difficult for him to replicate again and perhaps downright impossible for other Democrats on the ballot to reprise.
This is called hubris, and overreach. They really believed that we wanted this statism crammed down our throats. They’ll pay the piper for their brief dance, in November, and the bill will be appropriately high.
I think 2010 is going to be another overturning election like 2006 and 2008 were, each in their own ways, and the fact we’d then have had three of these in a row with each serving as a reaction to the last, I can see American politics going into a “death wobble” of sorts if pols on one side or the other don’t get the message pretty quick.
It remains to be seen whether the death wobble isn’t the better outcome.
They really believed that we wanted this
But at the same time they try to sell themselves as moderates. I agree they really believe which should qualify as a mental illness.
“But at the same time they try to sell themselves as moderates.”
Well, compared to Rev. Wright or Bill Ayers–or that dashing, bearded Cuban guerrilla whose visage graces the t-shirts they wear in their off-hours–I guess they are. At least in their heads. In the real world, they’re always being pulled further to the Left to keep up with the Really Cool Kids.