Snatching Defeat From the Jaws of… Defeat, Actually
April 28th, 2010 - 12:11 pm
Wow, Republicans love to lose. Just love love love it. There’s no other explanation for Charlie Crist’s decision to run as an Independent for the Senate.
That giant sucking sound you hear is the vast majority of his donors putting their checkbooks away.
Oh, and while Marco Rubio will probably win even in a three-way race, the Republicans’ expected eight-seat Senate gain just got tougher to achieve.
Because Republicans love to lose. Just ask Charlie Crist.
Gone are the days when we elected grownups.
I don’t find it that surprising in the slightest. Politicians (Crist included) typically put themselves first, their party second, district/state third, and the Country a distant fourth. Crist is just making the right decision based on his distorted priorities.
Charlie is just horrified at the thought of having to get a real job and actually work for a living.
Doesn’t this make Crist objectively a Democrat?
An eight seat pickup? Yeesh, let it never be said there aren’t optimists on the right.
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RCP, using an average of pollsters leaning from left to right, pegs the Republican pickup at eight. That’s up from seven just three weeks ago.
Is that what will happen? Who knows. And I tend not to trust polls taken this early.
That said, click on the RCP link, and look at the numbers yourself. Even when you go to the RCP’s page that include toss-ups (rather than calling each race), it’s obvious that the Democrats are on the defensive.
There’s nothing shocking about that. And there’s nothing there for the GOP to get all hoo-ah about, either. It’s just that when a slightly center-right country has 59% of its Senators from the left/center-left party, there’s going to be a correction. And quite possibly a major correction.
Right now, there looks to be a major correction — but not an epic one, where the GOP gains enough seats to hold a majority in the Senate. In fact, it’s difficult — just *this* short of impossible — to imagine that happening in this cycle.
Taking all that into account, I must ask you: Who’s the real optimist here?
While there are countless reasons to beat up on the GOP, please don’t blame Christ on them. He’s just a pathetic excuse of a power-addicted jackass; a common variety puke politician found in both parties.
The military folks have a slang term for such cretins: Blue Falcon. I leave the actual translation to the more energetic students out there.
Crist started out with an exaggerated sense of his own importance. He has one of these inflatable egos and actually thought that when he embraced Obama it would set a good example for the tone many wanted to set for a new post-Bush era. Now that his former support and popularity have leaked away due to his own self-inflicted puncture, he’s just living in denial, out there floating around somewhere in the ozone and gradually getting farther and farther away from mother earth. His only chance is drawing enough polling support to qualify for a chair in the debates for the general election, and even then more than likely the best he can manage is to play the spoiler. Ironically, he is likely to draw as many or more votes from the Democrats as the Republicans. His recent veto of the education bill that ties teachers raises to performance was the last straw. Because of that, he will probably lose most of even the moderate Republicans, who might otherwise have been tempted to support him over Rubio.