It All Comes Down to the Candidates [ by Michael T] [News You Can Abuse]
January 17, 2010Martha Coakley has turned assured victory into potential disaster. Add in Jon Corzine and Creigh Deeds and you have the makings of a media narrative that will spin for months until the Dem majority in the House is toast. Too bad it will once again be the wrong narrative.
Candidates win elections - good ones, that is. The Democrats have unfortunately had the crap triumvirate this year - rich, out of touch Corzine, hapless Deeds trying to occupy left, middle and right at the same time and Martha Coakley, the lamest of all. Coakley was the only candidate known statewide even two months ago yet there seems to be no love for her. Liberals are suspicious because of her law & order background while Republicans don’t vote for Democratic women no matter how tough they act. Independents swing back and forth between the parties and this time they have swung angrily to the right. Of course they won’t be happy with Scot Brown aka the latest emperor with no clothes candidate. Angry people act stupid and we are about to see the height of stupidity.
In the meantime, media pundits will say that the Dems are doomed come November. They may be, for various historical reasons not to mention a blundering, ineffective, poorly sold “agenda,” but they are not doomed because Republicans are resurgent or even popular. Angry people may act stupidly but they are not stupid. They know Republicans can’t run the government for more than five minutes without piling on the debt and blowing up fourth world countries. So they will protest and vote for people that are no more likely to turn things around then Democrats. (Actually these people are so retarded in their thinking presently that they feel stopping any action at all will be positive. That is not rational thinking by any stretch.)
So what are we left with? It’s the candidate stupid and this year Dems have tons of bad ones. Some we’ve seen, others are yet to rear their heads. OK, Harry Reid and Blanche Lincoln have. But that’s the true narrative folks - bad candidates lose, especially when the political winds have shifted. And one year into Obama’s destined to be disappointing tenure, the gale is fully in our faces.
All we can say is Chuck Schumer better blow up the filibuster next year. Because Harry Reid ain’t gonna be around and the Dem majority will likely be only a few seats.
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