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Unlike 1994, They Saw This Year Coming

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  September 28th, 2010 at 10:36 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

“When you are ten points down, you don’t take the A team off the field in the final quarter and replace them with the B team unless you know you are going to get clobbered anyway.”

Last night on CNN, Gloria Borger pointed out that the Democrats tell anyone who will listen that they were prepared for this year. Unlike 1994, the Democrats say they saw this year coming.

The spin the Democrats would have us take and run with is that they are prepared as in they have a game plan and are executing it to mitigate losses.

Really?

Seems to me that the Democrats saw this year coming too and that explains precisely why the rats are fleeing the ship early.

Rahm Emanuel is running home to Chicago to run for mayor.

Christina Romer is gone.

Larry Summers is gone.

David Axelrod wants everyone to know he is leaving.

When you are ten points down, you don’t take the A team off the field in the final quarter and replace them with the B team unless you know you are going to get clobbered anyway.

Likewise, Earl Pomeroy (D-ND) is campaigning with ads praising George Bush. Other Democrats are campaigning against Obamacare and Obama himself. Still more Democrats are saying they are opposed to Nancy Pelosi.

Yes, the Democrats see what is coming and have broken ranks a lot faster than in 1994.

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  • Bobcat51

    Valerie Jarrett still be there after November ?

  • rdelbov

    I don’t want to take anything for granted. I going to dig a little deeper and write a few more checks this week. I am going to a reception this week for our candidate taking on Steve Cohen. Talk about a longshot but we got a governor race and a few local legislative races that could go our way so lets keep pushing.

    Now that I said that and put the over confidence issue aside what happens in the White house on 11-03-2010? The old gang is leaving-or at least some are-and how does Obama react to the 2010 elections? Does his new team push to the middle or do they keep hard left?

  • redneck_hippie

    Also,

    Dick Morris is going to be fundraising for goal of 100 SEATS.

    http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/goal-100-house-seats/

  • redneck_hippie

    nt

  • sallyw

    He’s just repositioning to get busy working on the 2012 election for the turd.
    They always work at least 2 years in advance.

    After these midterm elections our work JUST begins. They should be the encouragement and end of boot camp training for us to get on the front lines and whip the hell out of them in 2012.

  • IJB
  • proudmarinemom

    that things are getting busier down at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in preparation for an October Surprise.

    What’s to stop this Administration from printing a trillion greenbacks, anyway?

  • VanishingNYRep

    I continually hear that the Dem-libs didn;t see 1994 and weren’t prepared for it. They saw it coming, they tried their bag of tricks with the lamestream media’s help and then they just refused to beleive it.

    Please look at the lamestream media’s coverage during 1994. Go to the Archives. The Media was taliking about a GOP takeover for months and how it wasn’t possible. Clinton would campaign for Dems, Kennedy would campaign. The House hasn’t had a GOP majority since the 1950s. The districts were too slanted to the Dems etc.

    In 1994, the GOP was leading in the polls, there were t-shirts that said: “I was one of the 57%” (that didn’t vote for Clinton.

    They saw it coming then and they see it coming now. Its just a myth that they know it now and can stop it. They couldn’t stop it in 1994 and the Dem-libs and the lamestream media can’t stop it now.

    The wave will wash them all of Congress.

  • http://www.twitter.com/RS_yoyo yoyo

    Post Nov-2, how many “pancakes” will we have in the House GOP Caucus? How many Ds are going to flop to R, then still vote D and enabling Obama to claim “BI PARTISANSHIP!!!” (I like to picture the clouds parting and a holy light descending on The Won, thus backlighting his ears….)

    Is there anyway to keep the pancakes from flipping? Or at least deny them the Caucus?

    Just wondering.

  • AceInTX

    I’ve read somewhere that no president has ever had approval ratings below 40% at any time in his first term and went on to win reelection.

    Can anyone confirm this?

  • earlgrey

    I only asked that I not have to walk them by myself. I am not actually in the 9th district. I am not sure when they start the precinct walks, but I am hoping to get some feedback from the campaign.

    Yeah it is a tough push for the 9th, but we can’t continue to walk away from these fights. We could reach voters that might be critical for other races, including the presidency itself in 2012. i have to admit I have definitely gotten some glances at my Charlotte Bergmann button when I wear it in the 9th. In a city as divided by race as Memphis, people notice a whilte woman with a campaign button featuring the picture of an African American candidate.

  • http://theminorityreportblog.com Repair_Man_Jack

    The extent of the disapproval is remarkably similar to what happened to GWB after Katrina. This won’t be good for anyone associated with his policies.

  • earlgrey

    To me I have to believe that some of his voters are permanently turned off by him, but there is also the historic nature of his presidency to consider which will make a lot of people vote for him despite the issues. Mitt Romney has concluded that “Obama will be very tough to beat”, which is another reason why I won’t be supporting Mitt.

  • The_Rebel

    Borger always seems to get things backwards. Recently she was comparing Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater, saying that Reagan was probably the most secular president we’ve known in our lifetime. Yet he was against abortion, against governmental endorsement of homosexuality, and always spoke of this nation as being created under God. Goldwater loved abortion and gay marriage, and looked down on Christian conservatives.

    Reagan may not have been a big church goer, but as Paul Kengor said in his book, “God and Ronald Reagan: A Spiritual Life”, prayer was central to his life and he prayed often, both in public and in private.

    No offense to Erick, but I haven’t watched anything on CNN for years and I have no plans to now, either.

  • cactusjack

    and start undoing some of the damage. But remember, we are all waiting for the other shoe to drop – foreign policy. The chickens will soon be coming home to roost from 0s misdeeds and grievous errors in that field these first two years, it always has a little bit of a delayed reaction. There is not one thing he has done right – he has offended or abandoned ancient allies, encouraged tinhorn dictators and shown weakness to hostile great powers. Each and every one of these is a cardinal sin in national security, with grievous consequences. So hang on, if you can believe it, the next two years may actually (I’m saying a quick prayer for the USA it doesnt happen) get *worse*. Bascially we’ve seen this before with Carter, he screwed up the economy but good the first two years and set off roaring inflation first, then moved on to destroy and damage the US overseas the last two years. Believe it or not I am just trying to encourage you a little earlgrey there was after all a Reagan at the end of Carter’s nightmare.

  • davesinsanantonio

    Otherwise, we could become complacent and cocky, like we seem to have done in ’96, and we will then be stuck with him for four more years.
    It is alright to hope he is easy to beat, but we better work as if he has a lock. The voters will turn on us in a New York minute if we act like we did the last time we were in power. That is the main reason for the huge Dem victories. If we follow our principles, we will win every time. If we abandon our principles again, we will lose again.
    “Work will win when wishy-washy wishing won’t.” –Benjamin Franklin

  • nepanyrush

    Obama still spins (lies) with the best of them. When he speaks, he sounds so convincing and the media never take him to task, so the casual voters believe him. Obama has not lost any of his speaking ability. And two years from now, he will run against a Republican Congress. And if the economy improves…. Yes, Obama will be very hard to beat

  • AceInTX

    Bob Dole was the worse Republican Presidential Candidate that I know of and the way his campaign was run made the McCain campaign look brilliant by comparison…

    Dole said in the Primaries as he was begging for the nomination that “If you want me to be Reagan, I’ll be Reagan”….that set the tone…Dole never stood for anything and it was like he’d take a different policy position every other day…some times contradicting a position he’d taken two days previous….

    His stumble and fall off that stage was an “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up moment that was a perfect symbol for the incompetent way the 1996 campaign was run.

    I’ll believe to my dying day that Clinton was beatable in 1996 if we’d have had a competent candidate that knew what he believed….Dole wasn’t it…Just shows that out top down next in line way of choosing candidates is flawed and must be changed

    I agree we need to work our butts off…and the leadership had better govern on our principles or we’re toast as we were in 2006….it’ll be up to us to hold them accountable

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    …and ends up on an interception course with Earth, well, we’re undoubtedly going to see it coming, too.

    Won’t make a lick of difference that we did if we don’t do anything about it, of course.

  • http://www.plumbbobblog.com Plumb_Bob

    Winning control of the House is just the beginning. If we win and then celebrate, we lose.

    The task is to undo ALL the damage Barack Obama has done to constitutional government, and then to turn the ship of state toward sanity. This means inventorying every bill that has been passed by the Pelosi-Reid Congress, finding the mischief, and deliberately and systematically rescinding every bit of it. It also means inventorying every Executive Order of both the Bush and Obama administrations (George Bush was no friend to small government), and rescinding them. It also means examining every appointment, removing closet Marxists and radicals, and replacing them with honest public servants.

    And then, it means maintaining vigilance not only to proceed in the direction of reducing the size and reach of government by two orders of magnitude, until the federal government basically does only what is named in the Constitution — no government charity AT ALL, no bullying the states, no education policy AT ALL, and so forth — but also to expose the corruption in the “progressive” political machine, to oversee the demise of the Democrats’ lying press machine, to rescue education from the progressives and purge every bit of Marxist-Leninist indoctrination from it, and so forth.

    Winning an election, as nice as it is, it nowhere near the goal. It just gets us to the starting blocks of a long and arduous race.

  • robmull

    All of the “rats” that are leaving Mr. Obama’s sinking ship are just going to a more important position, out of the “limelite,” and will further “MoveOn” their “progressive” movement. The’re like old fishermen; “they never die, they just smell that way”!!!
    Van Jones is a perfect example of where a “fired” government liberal-progressive “Green-Czar” goes; he “heads” the taxpayer financed/subsidized “green” movement where he can do much more financial damage to “capitalism” than an actual “czar,” because [he's] now below the “radar”.

  • chbroussard

    Hopefully Republicans have learned that senority isn’t the way to choose the best candidate to run for President. I think we also need to be very wary of the liberal media. They fell all over themselves with their John McCain lovefest, and Republicans fell for it. He’s such a maverick. He’s such a statesman. Blah, blah, blah. The media had a big hand in choosing the Republican candidate which would be the easiest to defeat. And he was. I will admit that any Republican candidate would have had an uphill battle because of anger against Bush and a “rock star” Democratic candidate, but Republicans failed to offer a candidate that could at least compete. So if the liberal media starts falling all over one of the Republican candidates…beware.

    And as for holding their feet to the fire, definitely. Like white on rice.

  • zollistar

    …continue to act like RINOs, albeit slightly more frightened.

    Our Constitution should be protecting us — and it isn’t because there are too many in power who ignore it AND can ignore it with impunity.

    How do we restore respect for our Constitution? That’s the real question.

    If we can restore respect and acceptance of it, then we’re solidly on our way.

    And not until.

  • robmull

    Our economy is bound to “ebb,” just before elections. Just like Hugo Chavez gives everybody in his “camp” lots of expensive gifts just before elections, Mr. Obama will “spread” a good portion of the billion$ of American taxpayer dollar$ [ that he conveniently saved] to labor unions and liberal “special” interest groups and organizations to make everything seem like America is “finally back on track”. Unfortunately, that will fool many of the woeful recipient liberal voters who will receive another small but “hopeful” dose of a very short-lived “fairy-dust”. It seems to have worked pretty well for Hugo; so far!!!

  • qixlqatl

    I’m not planning any Nov. 3 celebrations, no matter how big the republican gains. The political battles will never end; it’s the nature of humanity. In the context of human political endeavor, there is no final victory. The moment we relax our vigilance, any gains will begin to be lost.

  • bus2dc

    If those of us who have awakened and responded can do what we’ve done so far – — actually beginning to counter-attack and defeat the radical libs, Communists, Marxists, illegals and terrorists that have been working IN UNITY for the last decade to overthrow this country — don’t you think we can now smell a weeny rino a mile away and we will destroy him in short order?

    The fight won’t end with regaining some semblance of control this November – - it only begins. We will have no choice now but to stay on the frontlines for years to come, and do boot camp in our homes with our children, training our own constitutional soldiers for when we’re gone. THAT’S how.

  • http://www.periodictablet.com superamerican

    It is not over until the Fat Dem sings. So send checks, support who you want, but don’t think the liberals are going to sit and take this loss. They will (are) fight tooth, nail, gums, fingers whatever, to keep the monopoly they have and have used to ruin this country. The Unions will keep pouring men and money until November 3.

    DONATE

    http://www.periodictablet.com

  • Kyle-MI

    We will definitely shift the GOP Senate caucus to the right, but only 1/3 of the senate seats are up for election this year. Some of those seats will be won by Dems. Even those seats won by the GOP will not all be conservative. We will be putting some good conservatives in the Senate, but there will also be some entrenched old-guard hacks. It will take a few elections to clear out the garbage. We will probably see some poor policies and poor laws in the mean time. We need to be prepared for these things, not be discouraged, but keep our focus on the long term. The 2010 election is a battle, not the war.

  • soljerblue

    while it may have taken the Dems awhile to wise up, they HAVE seen the signs for many months — even if they read them wrong at the start.

    Elections ALWAYS tighten up in the last few weeks, and what we today see as toss-up districts, like NC-7, AL-2, or FL-22, could suddenly slide to the left on November 2nd. The polls suggest that tightening is happening, and black and hispanic voters are starting to wake up.

    Every available tombstone will be wheeled up to the polls, and every nasty, underhanded, intimidating, outright criminal stunt the left can think of will be on display.

    Oh, and I understand Axelrod — while he may be leaving the WH — is going to work on Obamao’s 2012 campaign.

    Clobbered? Maybe, but I’m not ready to buy it just yet.