I’ve been thinking about how the Democrats have to worry about over confidence this election cycle while Republicans have to worry about everything else. How is it that this election can seem so one sided to me?
I meditated up at the DL survival-plex & gas fracking a go-go on that question, and it came to me. The GOP messed up when they FAILED to nominate Rick Perry.
The only way to sell the whacked out “grow the economy by shrinking it” economic orthodoxy of the current Republican Party is to make presidential elections about personalities. By that measure Perry was the best choice and the Republicans screwed up by chickening out on the man from Niggerhead.
Republican policies can’t withstand the slightest scrutiny, so whenever the press is reporting on the “issues” and not on the quirky eccentricities of the GOP’s candidate – they lose. (GHWB, the exception to this rule, was a fluke enabled by Dana Carvey’s ability to turn his core banality and dryness into quirky eccentricities.)
So, based on this rigorous analysis, I think we can all agree that the election is in the bag. The press doesn’t like Romney enough to try and make him likable in the eyes of the voters and Obama is very well liked.
Case closed? Perhaps, but Democrats still have to get out and vote.