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Dems Might As Well Pack It In
By Greg L | 5 September 2009 | Virginia Politics | 13 Comments
Liberal bloggers are aghast at the polling numbers for Bob McDonnell, Bill Bolling and Ken Cuccinelli which continue to command double-digit leads ahead of their Democrat opponents. The grumbling is already turning into sniping, with consistent complaints that the campaigns of Chreigh Deeds, Jody Wagner and Steve Shannon have done nothing to enamor themselves to the independent voters they feel are crucial to victory. Liberals still haven’t figured out that much of this tremendous momentum is the result of Democrats controlling all three branches of the federal government which has allowed voters to get a really sobering look at what Democrats do when they have power. If Democrats are thoroughly trashing the federal budget, hammering the national economy, and destroying jobs across America, who in their right mind would want them to control Virginia?
Virginia Republicans have nominated the most conservative ticket in modern state history. Barring a dramatic Democratic resurgence or some other unforeseen longball strategy kicking in, it looks like a sweep. So what say you Virginia Democrats? Are you ready to be governed by Cuccinelli, Bolling, and McDonnell? Creigh, anything? Mark, anything? Tim, anything? Jim, anything?
Liberals simply cannot fathom that voters would increasingly become disgusted with the way Obama has been running this country into the ground. It’s beyond their comprehension that anyone could oppose killing economic performance with “Cap & Tax”, favoring illegal aliens over American citizens with “healthcare reform”, tripling the national debt in just a few months, or dismantling free enterprise is anything but destroying the American Dream for everyone. They seem utterly incoherent when trying to figure out why broad swaths of the electorate are nearly rebellious when they see what this administration is doing. They just haven’t the intellectual ability to comprehend that socialism simply is bad policy, and that when confronted with it many react as if they discovered a rattlesnake in their bed.
There simply is no state-wide strategy that can convince voters that despite what the Obama administration is doing, Democrats should be elected to office. It’s too politically overwhelming to address at the state or local level, and Virginia Democrats aren’t even trying. While Mark Warner and Jim Webb continue to toe the administration’s line on nationalized health care, cap and trade, and bailouts, and Tim Kaine (the head of the DNC) is spouting Obamination talking points across the country when he should be dealing with matters in the Commonwealth, voters cannot but conclude that there’s no difference whatsoever between the increasingly unpopular policies of President Urkel and the platform of Creigh Deeds. Sure, they can try to have friendly mainstream media outlets like the Washington Post try to tear down Bob McDonnell, but they can’t convince voters that Democrats are right.
“Hope and Change” has turned to “Fear and Desperation.”
Looking at the long term, prospects for Democrats only get worse. A Republican sweep of the top three races in Virginia will only set the stage for a further sweep of many of the Congressional races in the 2010 elections. Gerry Connolly is in deep trouble, Glen Nye, Bobby Scott, and Tom Perriello are all vulnerable, and even Jim Moran is showing weakness. With the three top elected officials in Virginia lending their voices to campaigns opposing these Congressmen who are at the same time being dragged down by Obama’s cratering approval numbers, the prospects for Virginia Democrats are utterly bleak.
At this point all Democrats can, and should do, is hunker down, accept defeat, and try not to further tarnish the image of their party with the type of desperate gambles that backfire with the electorate such as the Post’s attempted takedown of Bob McDonnell recently. There can be honor in defeat, as outlandish a concept as that might be to Democrats, as losing nobly is a far better alternative for them than to desperately try to come from behind by over-reaching. Voters tend to have long memories about things like that, and ill-advised efforts to grasp at improbable short-term victories deliver the kind of long-term liabilities that are very difficult to overcome.
Liberals don’t get that, at all. They seem to think there’s always some creative trick they can employ that will rescue them from defeat, even if flailing about in desperation searching for that right trick ends up being counter-productive. Desperation got Michael Dukakis in that tank, and since that’s the only thing voters remember him for now. Desperation got Jeanette Rishell claiming in 2007 that Delegate Jackson Miller tried to raise his own pay which was ridiculously false, and instead of going down to a seven point loss in 2007, she got crushed by more than twenty as a result. Fortunately for our team, when liberals start getting pushed back towards their end zone they spend more time dodging from sideline to sideline than trying to get the ball downfield, taking a loss on every play that leads to a long-term shift of momentum.
It’s time to simply punt, Dems.
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I wanted to offer the Democrats a time-tested strategy that is sure to win over many votes. Continue to characterize any opposition to the liberal and socialist take-over of the nation as racism. Anyone who dares to disagree with Obama is racist…be sure to point it out again and again. If you just keep calling people racists, they’ll eventually agree with you and vote the way you want. So remember Dems….racist, racist, racist!! (oh, throw in a “hate” or two in there too).
While I wish it were so, I seriously doubt that Bobby Scott has anything to worry about.
I honestly don’t think it matters who gets elected. Elected officials in Richmond don’t call the shots, the lobbyists do.
NO.
Do not, under any circumstances, take your foot off the throat of any piece of Deeds & Co. campaign on which you may be standing. The election happens in NOVEMBER. Do not, I repeat DO NOT! allow them any daylight. Don’t tell them to punt on second down, even Democrats aren’t that bleedin’ stupid.
Beat them until they don’t want to play anymore. Beat them until election day, until they lose all will to try. Beat them until their party is so much electoral dust, that none can dispute the fact that their statist ideology is anything but the evil dead.
I don’t just want to win. I want to win by 70%. In Arlington. After being outspent three-to-one. I want such a demoralizing electoral arsekicking, the Democrats will punt their leaders back to Moscow where they belong. I don’t want a majority-red congressional delegation. I want an ONLY red congressional delegation.
Do not be satisfied with mere victory. Perfection is the only thing worth striving for.
Mike is right. All well and good at present, the dems are faltering but not gasping for air yet. It is foot on the throat thinking that needs to remain constant to turn the ship around. Thinking that the dems may as well pack it in will not happen. There will be brain dead persons going door to door and registering voters followed with multiple voting to win. They only have egg on their face right now. Not a lot of persons thought we would have Obamination as a president, many are still scratching their heads.
Mr. Sargent….
I like the way you think!! And I really like the way you put things!!
Thanks for this insightful analysis. Please consider doing a follow up post on how conservatives and independents might effectively communicate with liberals (especially the young ones who voted so overwhelmingly for Obama) about the likely consequences of implementing their agenda.
I love the reversal of reality the republinuts would like people to believe. If it were true
john you are a RACIST!!!! See how well it works pinko commies. Go drink the koolaid loser.
The real problem is the Democrats are running a campaign based on trying to bother to convince “undecideds” which is a shrinking member of the electorate. Its the business adage, “whats cheaper? keeping an existing customer or finding a new one?” The Dems should have been playing a field game. Because of the primary, the Creigh got into the game late, but the Democratic Delegates and Senators (even though they aren’t up for re-election) should have been focused on turnout. What Kaine and Obama taught everyone is turnout matters. Thats how they win.
The Dems real problem is every Delegate and Senator thinks they are the next Napoleon and don’t realize that their party activists did more to elect them then they ever did. So they are off trying to win Republican votes (Republicans aren’t going anywhere) instead of making sure their voters vote.
Maybe that’s why they’re closing their office in PWC.
Mike Sargent is right - do not let up, do not give up, do not stop campaigning until the polls close on Nov. 3. Never underestimate the opposition - read SunTzu’s Art of War.
Now back to work!
All 3 branches of the Federal government? Last I checked the Supreme Court still tilted to the right.